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Sunday Times/Faber Literary Quiz
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Are we all ready? At first glance it looks a stinker! Blondes 4: Bruce Gold? Drinks 3 is Alice Picture 1 is Michael Palin
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Suggestion for Births 1(haven't checked it out yet)
found at:
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-16328152.h tml
suggests that:
"Gorky's remarkable memoir are made uncomfortably intimate ... The opening scene, with its rude life-and-death juxtaposition of a father's corpse and a mother in labor"
Will be looking at it more closely, but would appreciate confirmation/views?
found at:
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-16328152.h tml
suggests that:
"Gorky's remarkable memoir are made uncomfortably intimate ... The opening scene, with its rude life-and-death juxtaposition of a father's corpse and a mother in labor"
Will be looking at it more closely, but would appreciate confirmation/views?
Fantastic - Gorky seems to fit the bill from what I have now searched- will try and get hold of a library copy of Childhood - if no one has one on their book shelf. The violinist one looks straightforward yet we are stumped! I have thought of alternatives for violin and snow- ie fiddle and blizzard but no luck and tried thinking of an author to fit the bill. No Dickens or Hardy this year.? I even thought along fairy tales - ie Hans Andersen. Any ideas on chinese or russian novels - rather more violinists and snow than the UK I believe.
Births 3.
I, too, have google'd, dogpile'd etc until my eyes are wonky; with check on blizzards, snow, fiddles etc.
Some ideas - but cannot lay my hands on (sufficient) internet texts, so will need a visit to the library at some stage!
Ideas are: Elizabeth Mansfield, Bulgakov (Notes of a Young Doctor), John Lawrence Peterson (The Littles to the Rescue), Grace Cheval, Jane Abbott (Red Robin)
If anyone else can check...
Notice someone has posted on a violin site. No joy as yet.
I've tried asking the Internet Public Library, but they refused the question due to too much traffic.
I, too, have google'd, dogpile'd etc until my eyes are wonky; with check on blizzards, snow, fiddles etc.
Some ideas - but cannot lay my hands on (sufficient) internet texts, so will need a visit to the library at some stage!
Ideas are: Elizabeth Mansfield, Bulgakov (Notes of a Young Doctor), John Lawrence Peterson (The Littles to the Rescue), Grace Cheval, Jane Abbott (Red Robin)
If anyone else can check...
Notice someone has posted on a violin site. No joy as yet.
I've tried asking the Internet Public Library, but they refused the question due to too much traffic.
Can you let me know which answers you are still missing and I can post any I have - I have tried to go through all of the thread but there seem to be more not mentioned on here than people post still needing!
I amlooking for departures 4 today - In which 1930s novel are holidaymakers unable to depart from a railway station because of fog?
Hi everyone btw - sorryto join so late and not be able to contribute up till now - just had a baby and only just got my head above water! Enjoying the quiz as it is forcing me to think about something else other than nappies, vomit and the unmentionable!
I amlooking for departures 4 today - In which 1930s novel are holidaymakers unable to depart from a railway station because of fog?
Hi everyone btw - sorryto join so late and not be able to contribute up till now - just had a baby and only just got my head above water! Enjoying the quiz as it is forcing me to think about something else other than nappies, vomit and the unmentionable!
I haven't read it, but I seem to remember it was an Oprah's book choice a while ago.
I had a quick search and it seems that the midwife character performs a caesarian on a mother to deliver a baby in a blizzard - it doesn't say anything about the mother being a violinist, and it looks like she performed the caesarian thinking the mother was dead.
I don't think this is a hopeful direction sadly. :(
I had a quick search and it seems that the midwife character performs a caesarian on a mother to deliver a baby in a blizzard - it doesn't say anything about the mother being a violinist, and it looks like she performed the caesarian thinking the mother was dead.
I don't think this is a hopeful direction sadly. :(
Have tried the librarians at my local library (to no avail). Am now ploughing through Chambers Dictionary of Literary Characters (hope to finish over the weekend). Foolishly picked up The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield - but will check through this one anyway. There's no reason why it all has to be highbrow - I suspect itsbecause it isn't, this is why we are all finding it so difficult to track our final answer down. Perhaps its a more modern sci-fi?