Leaving Home: A Novel

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In her exquisite new novel, acclaimed author Anita Brookner deals with one of the great dramas of our lives: growing up and leaving home. At twenty-six, Emma Roberts comes to the painful realization that if she is ever to become truly independent, she must leave her comfortable London flat and venture out into the wider world. This entails not only breaking free from a claustrophobic relationship with her reclusive, widowed mother but also shedding her inherited tendency toward melancholy. Emma yearns to make friends, attend parties, and have love affairs like other women, but to her these things seem forever out of reach–that is, until her college tutors find her a scholarship to study seventeenth-century garden design in Paris.
Once settled in a small Paris hotel, Emma befriends Françoise Desnoyers, a vibrant young woman who is as confident as Emma is tentative, as provocative as Emma is reserved, and as worldly as Emma is naïve. On a weekend visit to Françoise’s beautiful country château, L’Ermitage, Emma is drawn into Françoise’s problematic relationship with her imperious mother, who demands that Françoise marry a rich family friend to secure their future.
For Emma, the glimpse into Françoise’s turbulent life affords her a newfound and welcome respect for her own. But as she begins to date and to feel at home in her new city, Emma must make a decision: settle for a life of comfortable relationships and familiar routines, or hold out for “that evanescent hope of a good outcome which never deserts one, and which should never be abandoned.”

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If you love Brookner, here's another one........2007-06-13

Since her Booker Prize for Hotel du Lac, Brookner has simply repeated her winning formula: lonely single Brit woman lives out her wretchedly monastic bookish life, in minute detail, page after page, making all the wrong, lonely sad choices (staying with the demanding mother; never leaving the family apartment, rejecting the suitor) so that you, the reader, can feel better by comparison. Read this on a rainy day. Or after you've been laid off. Or your boyfriend's left you. Brookner always makes you feel better, because you couldn't possibly be as miserable as her sad, lonely protagonists. When you're miserable, reading Brookner is like eating an entire bag of Mallomars. In bed. Alone. Except with, maybe, a cat.

To Be Swallowed.......2007-04-24

I don't always rely on an author's pedigree to suggest whether or not I should read a book, but marketers definitely know what they're doing when they put "Best Selling Author of..." or "Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author of...", etc, on the front cover of a non-award-winning book by the same author. While perusing the New Books sections at my library with crooked neck, surveying the titles, the name Anita Brookner caught my eye. "Didn't she...?" I thought to myself, unable to finish the thought confidently. And then I saw it on the front cover, confirmation that I had indeed likely heard of her (though I had never read another book): "Booker Prize-Winning Author of Hotel du Lac." It could have been that recommendation, plus the personally attractive title Leaving Home, plus the prim and proper Portrait of a Young Woman in a Red Dress (Imre Goth, 1931) as the jacket art that all combined to convince me to spend a little time with Ms. Brookner. Overall, I'm glad I did.

The book is deceivingly thin, the text quite dense. Leaving Home is about Emma Roberts, a young twenty-something struggling less to to "leave" than to truly define "home." She lives in London with her lymphatic, widowed mother, whom she describes as "a woman so inactive, her days reserved for reading and thinking. I soon learned not to disturb either process." Emma herself is contrained to live a reserved and thoughtful life, always desiring to break through that shell, but never fully motivated to do so. She does defy the wishes of her mother and unlikeable uncle by leaving London to study in France. Her major of choice? Classical garden design. She explains, "I was in search of a symmetry, a place of excellence that I should recognize and somehow make my own. I had no way of attaining this condition myself, but I felt that here was a concept that inspired a standard of behavior far removed from the tame and unambitious customs that were my true inheritance."

While in France, Emma meets Francoise, a bright and energetic friend to contrast her own subdued demeanor. Their friendship, on the surface, is an unlikely one. Francoise frequently regales Emma with stories of her male conquests and displays little in the way of genuine concern for Emma's own inability to make intimate connections. Francoise is more curious than anything about Emma's remote personality. I enjoyed the many interactions between these two women, particularly the way in which Emma identifies their different roles in the friendship. She understands that she is to be patient and longsuffering with Francoise, that she is "safe," uncomplicated, no threat to the exuberant French woman (who, understandably, does not get on well with other women). Francoise, for her part, is meant to supply the adventures and irrepresible joie de vive that Emma herself can't muster. Emma becomes more aware of herself through this friendship, and though there is ultimately no significant change to her outlook on life, she make some interesting observations. "I deduced that my inclinations were fraternal rather than romantic, that I preferred this kind of stasis to the rapid conquests practised by those young women who had been liberated into behaving like men, and of whom Francoise was the perhaps the ideal representative."

I think Brookner does a wonderful job of creating a place in this book, or two places really - London and Paris. I know nothing of either of these two cities, but Emma make plenty of interesting connections between the two. "[In Paris] there was an almost palpable air of renewed enthusiasm in the steps of the passersby, in greetings to neighbours, to cafe owners, to waiters who appeared on the doorsteps of restaurants to sniff the air and extend the city's hospitality to their regular patrons. It was impossible to contemplate leaving all this for London, which I perceived as apocalyptic terms, grey, lowering, morose...." Not all is dandy in Paris, however. I enjoyed two of Emma's many reflections on the difficulty of French living: "But this was somehow part of living in France, doing the infinitesimal wrong thing. It was part of the bararism of being English" ~and~ "It's an eternal apprenticeship, trying to be like the French."

It is difficult to say if Emma really ever succeeds in "leaving home." She spends much of the book back and forth between London and Paris, each populated by an untraditional (yet completely fitting with her reality) version of a lover. It seems that the moment she's in Paris, she longs for London, but the moment she's in London, all she can think of is Paris. She concedes, "I was now rootless in two places." I think the least satisfying part of the book is that she doesn't undergo the kind of change I was hoping to see. It's Francoise, ironically, who undergoes the greatest transformation. Emma more or less excuses her lack of epiphany by closing the book with "Not everyone is born to fulfil a heroic role." While I had to raise a brow at that, I do like how the thought continues, "The only realistic ambition is to live in the present. And sometimes, quite often in fact, this is more than enough to keep one busy."

The Seattle Times wrote of Brookner's novel, The Rules of Engagement: "Every page has a felicity of wording that makes you want to...underline passages that you don't want to forget." I found that to be true of Leaving Home as well. Since it's a library copy, I kept with my post-its, but even then they littered the pages. If I had been more diligent, I would have placed different colored sticky notes at all the words I didn't know, and then looked them up in a dictionary. But I'm a mom, and sometimes it's a miracle that I find time to read books like this at all. I would like to go back through this some day, though, for I am certain to improve my vocabulary by leaps and bounds if I looked up all the words that were new to me.

Hopefully as a benefit to you, here are just a few passages I did mark:

*"Our minds, our feelings can be altered by the most random circumstance, symmetry and order reduced to a dull pattern by the display of the alternative, after which hard work will be needed to put the original values back in place."

*(regarding the book she is writing): "He probably regarded my work as the equivalent of embroidering a sampler...."

*(in reference to Paris): "...I arrived, smelt the coffee and the cigarettes, sidestepped the water thrown in an arc to sluice the morning pavements, bought my newspaper, and appreciated once more a lack of obligations...."

*"It takes a kind of genius to save one's own life."

*"We were as one, perhaps, in the knowledge that the future had failed us, that life had not proceeded in the straight line on which we had once relied. Such knowledge is not diserable, and is moreover impossible to impart to those untouched by it."

I'm not placing this novel in the "Chewed and Digested" category, because as I said, I was disappointed by the ending. I understand that in real life it's true that people rarely change as much as we'd like them to, but in fiction I demand a little more than that. Still, this is a fabulous book and an interesting tour through a tale of one woman and two cities.

And Going Nowhere.......2007-03-22

Classic Brookner. A reclusive, bookish, widowed mother. An introspective, timid, sheltered daughter. The little lives they lead enabled by lack of monetary worries and no real need to "do" much of anything save remain intropective. Emma wanders between Paris and London and falls into whatever situations / lodgings / friendships present themselves most conveniently to her. She's working on a book about classical garden design but remains oddly apart from anything lively and flourishing. She exists in a sort of gray vacuum. Boredom / ennui / lack of motivation is the theme. Even April in Paris can't jog Emma fully awake. Whatever. Reading Brookner is ultimately therapeutic. One's own little life always appears ever so much "more" after doing so. Thank you, Anita.

A Tale of Two Cities.......2007-03-06

The title and back cover of Anita Brookner's novel suggest that this is about the perennial adolescent drama of breaking away from parental influences and leaving the nest. But this is only a small part of it. Emma Roberts, though younger than most of Brookner's protagonists, is already in her mid-twenties, and her quest is more a search for home than the leaving of it. She begins by moving to Paris as a graduate student of landscape architecture, staying first of all in a horrible student hostel, then taking a room in a small hotel. Later, she buys her own flat in London, and alternates between the two cities, discovering more about herself, even if only by coming to accept what she is not. The one home that she really envies is a country house belonging to the mother of her vivacious friend Françoise -- although the world of the French haute bourgeoisie makes her feel unworthy by comparison.

I suspect that this novel is more autobiographical than most; it also has personal resonances for me, since I was working on my own art history thesis in Paris at a similar age. Although I am a man, while Brookner writes so tellingly about women, I treasure her insight into the female mind. It is true that she confines herself to women of a certain class and mental disposition but, for me, that only increases the sense of authenticity.

Not for nothing is Brookner's scholarly field the late 18th-century watershed between French classicism and romanticism. Her characters always brush shoulders with romance, but opt instead for the comfort and predictability of classic balance, a quality which is also reflected in the cool elegance of the author's prose. This novel is, in effect, an ANTI-romance, a book in which few things actually happen -- or sometimes happen only to be reversed a few chapters later. There is a situation late in the book in which Emma, who has left her own maternal home, suddenly finds herself in charge of Françoise's home and ailing mother, while the daughter appears to have broken away entirely. But a few pages further, the situation has been stood on its head once more.

Such delightful realignments within a basically static universe give me the same fascination as a Calder mobile: a limited range of elements moving in relation to each other, seen now in this configuration, now in that, but always maintaining an essential balance. This applies as much to the delicate rhythm of Brookner's prose as to the subtle push and pull of her emotional plotting. For those who, like me, take pleasure in her quiet aesthetic, her novels create a unique atmosphere: a closed world, perhaps, but one that is totally absorbing and not the least depressing. The title of this book notwithstanding, there is a special satisfaction in completing the emotional circle: coming home again.

Prescription for Sleep.......2006-12-06

Next time you have difficulty falling asleep don't reach for your dose of Ambien; instead read ten pages of Brookner's new novel. This soporific and tedious novel is guaranteed to give you a good night's sleep. Our heroine, Emma Roberts sets forth into the adult world leaving behind her reclusive mother in order to study the classical garden in Paris. Emma is about as interesting as her thesis topic. Not much happens in this novel. She gathers several acquaintences, Francoise a hip French girl whose mother wants to marry her off to a well to do fellow in order to keep their palatial home in the family; Michael a fellow student incapable of carrying on a conversation and Philip Hudson a successful doctor twice her age who can't get his act together several years after having been left by his wife. Emma bounces back and forth between her small London flat and her small Paris hotel room seemingly indecisive about what city she wishes to live in. Every character in this book is emotionally stilted and incapable of having a relationship with another human being. This is Brookner's point - to explore what goes on inside such people. But this is exactly what is the problem with the book. Such people don't make interesting characters. Emma cultivates the art of solitariness. She does everything possible to maintain emotional distance from people and push away those who attempt to get close. She prefers those acquaintances with whom she can retain an emotional chilliness. She does a lot of walking and thinking in this novel in an obsessive contemplation of her life and in how not to communicate with those she knows. She is disgustingly weak willed. Phillip muses, 'most of the people I meet are unconscious, properly anaesthetized, saves a lot of idle chatter'. Although Ms. Brookner can fashion beautiful sentences (thus the two stars) they lead nowhere. Please Ms. Brookner, next time you feel like putting your anaesthetized characters on the page, refrain and save some trees.

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From Large Leaving Home Royal Tomb Degree - 1 (Graphic/Cartoon Novel in Korean)
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From Large Leaving Home Royal Tomb Degree - 2 (Graphic/Cartoon Novel in Korean)

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From Large Leaving Home Royal Tomb Degree - 2 (Graphic/Cartoon Novel in Korean)
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Leaving Home, A Novel
Elizabeth Janeway
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I'm sad this is out of print!

Leaving home,: A novel
Arthur Cavanaugh
Manufacturer: Simon and Schuster
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I'm sad this is out of print!.......2003-07-18

I read this book many years ago after I found it in a garage sale. What a surprisingly touching book...the author tells the story with enough detail to picture the scene but in simple enough description that it doesn't take away from the characters. I laughed and cried and didn't want it to end. I highly recommend this read.

Leaving home: Novels about adventurous females making their way in the world and why we should teach them

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Leaving home: Novels about adventurous females making their way in the world and why we should teach them
Jacqueline Arnold
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When a powerful government official turns up dead, the great Nero Wolfe takes notice. On the edge of financial ruin, the orchid-loving detective grudgingly accepts the case. Soon another victim is found, a stenographer's tape disappears, and the dead man speaks — after a fashion. As the business world clamors for a solution, Wolfe patiently lays a trap.

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Triumphant Postwar Return.......2006-12-14

This was a wonderful book.

During World War II, Rex Stout devoted a lot of time to war-related writing. As a result, not one novel-length Nero Wolfe story was produced (although he wrote a number of short stories, released during the war individually and in little collections).

Here, the murder victim is Cheney Boone, who is a liberal dream: a government official who regulates prices. When he ends up murdered during a speaking engagement before the (preumably greedy and corrupt) Natinal Industrial Association, the business moguls hire Wolfe to spare them the adverse public limelight.

A&E did this one up well during the lamented series. And the reading is especially good, as always, by Michael Prichard. I hope they produce this one on audio CD; I cannot play cassettes in rented cars any more...

Sorry, but not for me.......2006-07-21

This is the first Nero Wolfe book I've read, and it bored the heck out of me. Perhaps I should have started with something lighter, but I didn't and years from now, after having a few more NW reads under my belt, may have to return to it. I just couldn't keep track of everyone -- who was a part of this organization and who was a part of that -- and I really didn't give a rip about any of the characters. So, after plodding through exactly half of it, I skipped to the last chapter and called it a day. With so many Nero Wolfe fanatics out there, though, I'm convinced that I shouldn't give up. There must be something about him. The book I'm currently reading ("Might As Well Be Dead") is a much easier read and may actually turn me into a fan.

A firm favorite.......2005-08-19

Stout's work is reminiscent of P.G. Woodhouse: they are domestic comedies with either Jeeves and Wooster or Goodwin and Wolfe. (They are also both compulsively re-readable.) THE SILENT SPEAKER has all our beloved characters at full blast, including a wonderful, joyous final scene with Inspector Cramer.

Operation Payroll, a.k.a. the Cheney Boone case.......2005-06-14

"Our literature needs some revision. For example, 'dead men tell no tales.' Mr. Boone is dead. Mr. Boone is silent. But he speaks."
- Wolfe to Archie, herein

As with all of Stout's Wolfe mysteries, the setting is contemporary with the time of its writing - in this case, 26 March - 6 April 1946, making it a period piece today. This was the first new Wolfe novel since 1939, all the war years cases having been told as short stories. Archie's wartime stint in Army intelligence (which assigned him right back to Wolfe) has been over for months, and Wolfe is just getting back into private practice.

Operation Payroll is about to begin: the first case in which Wolfe actively seeks new business. (The next, in AND BE A VILLAIN, soured him on the tactic for years to come.)

Cheney Boone, head of the Bureau of Price Regulation, was scheduled as guest speaker at a bash thrown by the National Industrial Association, but for him, the bash featured a monkey wrench to the head (a prop brought along for his talk). Since the BPR and the NIA are arch-enemies, and the NIA have a reputation as rich creeps, the NIA's members have been condemned as murderers at the bar of public opinion.

They're *eager* to hire Wolfe to clean up the mess.

As usual when Wolfe's client is a corporate entity - initially, at least, the NIA, who are worth billions *and* suffering the worst PR in history - are not interested in catching a killer, but in getting bad publicity under control, resulting in a certain conflict of interest. The employees of the BPR, on the other hand, are convinced that Wolfe's been hired to clean up the mess, not uncover the truth about their chief's death.

The case soon narrows to a hunt for a set of recordings of dictation given by Boone to his confidential assistant, Phoebe Gunther, who made them disappear. Far from being crooked, she's actually very much like Archie; she's determined to see her boss' arch-enemies publicly ruined by his death, and is willing to run the risk of concealing the location of the crucial cylinder revealing the key information identifying Boone's killer.

This is a very cool case.
- Archie's very much attracted to Phoebe, who turns the tables by treating *him* with the same kind of humour that serves as his best defence mechanism in conversation.
- In the public hue-and-cry over the Boone murder, Cramer is relieved of command in favour of an unspeakably obnoxious replacement from Queens.
- Wolfe fakes a nervous breakdown, with Doc Vollmer's cooperation.

The A&E adaptation with Maury Chaykin as Wolfe is faithful to the story. The corresponding Bantam paperback edition has an afterword consisting of an exchange of letters between Stout and his publisher about recycling the metal of the printing plates used for three of his earlier books due to the wartime shortage of metal.

AN EXUBERANT READING.......2002-04-24

Nero Wolfe is surely one of the most beloved and fully imagined fictional detectives to be found. So, it is with great enthusiasm that I can now turn to a favorite story in audio book form. Michael Prichard, who was named one of Smart Money's Top Ten Golden Voices, gives an exuberant reading, adding another dimension to Archie Goodwin, Wolfe's aide.

Fans will remember that with "The Silent Speaker" Wolfe is, to say the least, in need of cash. Therefore, when a government honcho doesn't show up for a scheduled speech but instead shows up dead Wolfe is soon on the prowl. With the sometimes able assistance of the fey Archie the pair uncover a feud and a murderer. How they do it is a reminder of the narrative skills of Rex Stout.

- Gail Cooke

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The White Dress, The Silent Speaker, The Hollow
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Jay Earle Thomson
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The land of the Pilgrims,: Silent reading, and the poem, The courtship of Miles Standish,
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NERO WOLFE - THE SILENT SPEAKER
Rex Stout
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NERO WOLFE - THE SILENT SPEAKER

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Nero Wolfe The Silent Speaker
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parasite menace.......2007-08-25

This book is excellent abot how paraties find their way into our body and clearly explains how to avoid them and get rid of them/ Great book indeed
very educational. after reading it we surely changed our way of handling food and hygeine and prevention in our daily lives.Highly recommend it to those who want to live healthy and learn about the world of parasites that live in our body.

good information, but..........2006-05-23

Skye Weintraub has definitely put together a great book. At first when she's identifying each parasite, she tells you the "conventional" way of treating each one--which upset me because she's an N.D. But I suppose the pharmaceuticals must be listed as well. Thankfully, later in the book she gives prevention advice as well as herbal remedies. I've learned a lot just researching the internet, but this book taught me even more. I am very glad I bought this book. I started treating myself before I got a hold of this and I wish I had read this first. I've made several mistakes, but hey--I'm still alive! Parasites-and getting rid of them-can be very dangerous. The problem is much more wide-spread than people realize. All these people with unspecified problems (fibromyalgia, CFS, IBS, colitis, etc.) would do well to purchase this book and find out the REAL cause of their ailments. I have been misdiagnosed for years and finally I had to diagnos and treat myself (obviously without using those horrible pharmaceutical drugs). I almost died because of parasites (don't know which ones) and the treatment. It is highly advised to find a good alternative care doctor (one that doesn't use drugs or surgery) before embarking on a cleanse, if in fact you are heavily infested as I am. As far as the reviewer who asked "where's the facts"--the book is not riddled with footnotes (which I appreciate). However, if you look in the back, Skye lists the books that she has used as reference. The only problem I have with the book is the fact that she recommends Grapefruit Seed Extract as a useful antimicrobial. Commercial GSE has been shown to contain methylparabens, triclosan, and benzethonium chloride. These chemicals make the GSE antimicrobial. DO NOT use commercially prepared GSE!!! In Dr. Weintraub's defense, the book was published (in 2000) about the same time as the study by von Woedtke (1999) which showed what the extract really contains; and before the study in 2001 by Gary Takeoka and his group, which confirmed the findings. If these studies were available to her, I don't think she would have recommended the use of GSE in her book. Thankfully, I am intelligent enough to do tons of research, not just trusting one book or source. All in all: a very good book, priced just right, and VERY much worth buying!!

Where's the research?.......2004-05-05

Where's the research? A lot of generalities and information
that has been tossed around by everyone. Not much substance here!

Must reading for the health-conscious.......2000-04-01

Dr. Weintraub does an excellent job in discussing, in layman's terms, the diseases caused by parasites, as well as their prevention and treatment. Although not publicized, most people in the world have at least one parasite, either of the worm or microscopic variety, and it is much more prevalent in the US than most people realize. Included are numerous statistics on incidences of parasite infestation around the world. Particularly, anyone who travels out of the country needs to read this book. Treatments are listed for each which include both conventional treatments as well as a large variety of alternative treatments. You cannot rely on your physician to automatically 'think' the possibility of parasites if you have a medical complaint, especially, if the symptoms are diffuse. And, even if testing is done, most laboratory tests do not show 'positive' the first time tested, even though the patient may have the parasite. Arm yourself with this book!

Mealybugs may have met their match: insect predators and parasites home in on this growing menace.: An article from: Agricultural Research

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Mealybugs may have met their match: insect predators and parasites home in on this growing menace.: An article from: Agricultural Research
Alfredo Flores
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This digital document is an article from Agricultural Research, published by U.S. Government Printing Office on April 1, 2005. The length of the article is 969 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Mealybugs may have met their match: insect predators and parasites home in on this growing menace.
Author: Alfredo Flores
Publication: Agricultural Research (Refereed)
Date: April 1, 2005
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Volume: 53 Issue: 4 Page: 16(2)

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