His words did not disappoint, but the co-author's exercises and comments were so trite that I found them irritating. This is the most uncompromising science-fiction novel of all time. I would recommened this book to everyone, from those who are starting out in life; to Seniors who are looking to retirement.Thanks for helping me to better manage my finances!!Jim S.. This book
- Title : Bitter Lake: A Novel
- Author : Marika Deliyannides
- Rating : 4.84 (170 Vote)
- Publish : 2016-8-21
- Format : Paperback
- Pages : 176 Pages
- Asin : 0889843740
- Language : English
His words did not disappoint, but the co-author's exercises and comments were so trite that I found them irritating. This is the most uncompromising science-fiction novel of all time. I would recommened this book to everyone, from those who are starting out in life; to Seniors who are looking to retirement.Thanks for helping me to better manage my finances!!Jim S.. This book started with a bang (literally) and just kept going from there. What the author does not realize is fans loved the focus on the romance and what it took to secure it in the previous books, not unnecessary drama. His family was also killed by a car bomb, and he was accused of treason. I would recommend this book to any who enjoy old tales of heroism and powerful emotions. It is good history, with names and some of the stories that have made this part of Texas, but are today seldom remembered.FYI: I have a degree in history, and though I never have done anything with it other that to do reading to enrich my life and understanding of the world in which I live, I know when a work of history is well done. I think his unique perspective is a crucially important one, as far too many Christians still think that sexual orientation is something that can be chosen,Her family lived in a rural town that shares many similarities with the fictional town of Concord-including the nearby lake where teenagers cruised on summer nights. Bitter Lake is her literary debut. An excerpt of the book was awarded the Brenda Strathern Prize for most promising first fiction and was also published in Alberta Views Magazine as winner of its annual fiction contest.
Deliyannides is a graduate of the University of Alberta's English program, has published several short stories in literary magazines, and has been a business writer in Edmonton and Calgary, producing magazine articles, business copy and speeches.
She lives with her husband and two children, working from her home office overlooking the oil and gas towers of downtown Calgary.
.Born in Edmonton to immigrant parent
Past, present, and future collide when an unhappily pregnant, mid-thirties woman visits her childhood home near the shores of Bitter Lake.`Bitter Lake is a satisfying novel at every level, its complexity handled with skill. It is an unsettling, worthy read. (Karen Rigby Foreword Reviews)`The debut novel from Marika Deliyannides (short story writer and 2010 winner of the Brenda Strathern Prize) is a compelling account of one woman's journey into the past and into the self. The book is less rewarding when focusing on detailing moments of pettiness between Zoe and Dorothea; while this captures the strains in their relationship, Dorothea is left seeming merely distanced.Bitter Lake is an accomplished work on silence: what happens when families ignore a tragic moment, and what happens when individuals refuse to accept their own fortunate circumstances. The objects themselves, from eye-shaped charms to a lava lamp, reveal Zoe's life as the daughter of a Greek father and Canad
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