The Illusionist

Literature & Fiction

MASON, Anita

United States

Holt; Rinehart; Winston

The Racket

A gripping and beautifully executed story which memorably evokes the landscape of Brazil- the shanty towns, the dusty highways, the filthy, moon-dappled rive with the dense rim of the jungle on its. further shore. More importantly, it deals with questions of high moral seriousness-questions of individual integrity in a society based on the greed and plunder of the present and the past.

The racket

Contemporary

Dutton

Hamish Hamilton

Rosa, a small-town Brazilian teacher, begins to lead a life of danger when she stands up to a vicious politician and also harbors her cousin, who is hiding from the Rio underworld

Literary

The Right Hand of the Sun

John Murray Publishers, Ltd.

A detailed reference book dealing with all aspects of jewellery including tools and techniques, types and history. Fully illustrated. 390pp.

An illustrated dictionary of jewellery

Reference

Osprey_Publishing

A moral thriller of the first order, The Racket is set in the darkly shadowed Latin American landscape of modern-day Brazil, a vast country on the brink of anarchic lawlessness on every level and bankruptcy both material and spiritual. Against the background of urban decay and the rape of nature, social disintegration, and private despair, two people find themselves at dangerous odds with the institutional savagery around them.One is an idealistic young teacher, Rosa Van Meurs, whose innocently written letter of protest against a corporate violation of native tribal land makes her the target of retribution. The other is her cousin Fabio, a poet and dreamer, who has drifted into the underworld to become an instrument of an evil, with no escape short of death. Inevitably these two opposites are drawn together, their fates intertwined in a tale taut with suspense as it moves toward moments of decision and final reckoning.

Bloomsbury Reader

Angel

An incisive analysis of a woman caught up in evil, this viscerally realistic novel about a Nazi test pilot is loosely based on the life of Third Reich heroine Hanna Reitsch (1912-1979). Obsessed with flying since childhood, blonde, blue-eyed Frederika Kurtz defies her disapproving physician father and becomes a glider pilot, rising to chief test pilot for Hitler's air force. Boldly making her way in a man's world, Frederika, because of her gender, as well as her exceptional abilities, becomes something of a celebrity, and meets many of the leading figures in the Nazi party, including Hitler and Himmler. He is repelled by the Nazis' brutality, yet captivated by what she perceives as their idealistic commitment to Germany's regeneration. She tests a piloted version of the V-1 rocket and consorts with top Nazi officials, including a general who commits suicide after his tendered resignation is refused. Visiting the Russian front, Frederika witnesses civilian women stripped naked and gassed to death in an SS van. Realizing she has made a pact with the devil, she takes sick leave and becomes an ambulance worker in Germany. Her live-in lesbian love affair with a divorced neighbor ends when the woman, whose Communist father was killed in a Nazi prison camp, walks out, fearful of endangering Frederika. As the novel closes, Frederika, whisked away to Hitler's bunker, watches the Fuhrer and Eva Braun during their final, madness-filled days, then narrowly escapes.

Fredrika is accomplished, privileged and utterly committed to becoming a pilot. To achieve this goal she must defy her family and the provincial middle-class society into which she was born. She becomes an Olympic glider pilot, a national heroine. Driven by ambition, she learns to fly propeller planes and dreams of jets and rockets. Volunteering daily for the most hazardous flights, Freddy forces the Luftwaffe to accept her. The only woman flyer in military service, she becomes Germany's top test pilot. Her courage and daring belie the Nazi prescription for German womanhood: kinder, kuche, kirche. But she has put her talents at the service of evil, a fact brought home to her when she falls in love with a woman, putting them both in peril.

Reich Angel: A Novel

Soho Pr Inc

Reich Angel (The Hera Series)

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The Illusionist

The racket

The Illusionist

The Racket

The Right Hand of the Sun

An illustrated dictionary of jewellery

The Racket

Angel

Reich Angel: A Novel

Reich Angel (The Hera Series)