For Love Alone
Published on 23. October 2012
502 pages
978-1-4532-6521-5 (ISBN)
Description
One woman's obsession with love and fate leads her to unexpected truths about passion, sexuality, and power in mid-twentieth century LondonDriven by a belief in love above all else, Teresa Hawkins leaves her life in Australia and moves to London in search of her destiny. After years of emotional distance within her family, and despite her navete of the vagaries of heartache, Teresa dedicates her life to the commandment ',thou shalt love.' Affection-starved and painfully vulnerable, she immediately focuses her affections on Jonathan Crow, her egotistical and indifferent Latin tutor. But it's only through another man, an entirely unexpected influence on her life, that Teresa will gain a full consciousness of her own sexuality and identity as a woman. For Love Alone is a powerful novel written in an indelible, relatable voicea feat of literary narrative by one of the twentieth century's finest writers.
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Christina Stead (1902-1983) was an Australian writer regarded as one of the twentieth century's master novelists. Stead spent most of her writing life in Europe and the United States, and her varied residences acted as the settings for a number of her novels. She is best known for
The Man Who Loved Children (1940), which was praised by author Jonathan Franzen as a "crazy, gorgeous family novel" and "one of the great literary achievements of the twentieth century." Stead died in her native Australia in 1983.
Content
- Intro
- Cover
- Title Page
- Quote
- Table of Contents
- Sea People
- THE ISLAND CONTINENT
- 1. Brown Seaweed and Old Fish Nets
- 2. The Countless Flaming Eyes of the Flesh
- 3. Malfi's Wedding
- 4. She Had--
- 5. It Was High Tide at Nine-thirty
- 6. Lance with His Head in His Hand
- 7. Leo Was Lost in Roaring Slumber
- 8. It Was the Hot Intolerable Hour
- 9. The Deed Was Extreme
- 10. Mr Jonathan Crow Who Coached in Latin
- 11. Coming Along in the Blowy Dark
- 12. A Train for Narara, Fifty Miles North
- 13. Air of Pride, Fire, and Water
- 14. There Are Many Abandoned Orchards in the Valley
- 15. At No Cost to Himself
- 16. A Girl without a Coat and with Smooth Bare Head
- 17. This Embarkation for Life
- 18. Innuendoes of Love
- 19. Property Is Everything
- 20. The Infernal Compact with Herself
- 21. Love Is Feared: It Dissolves Society
- 22. Still Three Years to Go
- 23. A Photograph from the Tyrol
- 24. "So Haggard and So Woebegone
- PORT OF REGISTRY: LONDON
- 25. After Two Days of Yachting Weather
- 26. I Sit Around in Teashops
- 27. Five or Six Unopened Letters
- 28. You Do Not Stand Anywhere
- 29. Regular Nights
- 30. James Quick Lived in a Flat in Mayfair
- 31. Modern Is as Modern Does
- 32. Several Off-colour Stories
- 33. A Deserted Sawmill
- 34. Aurea Mediocritas
- 35. The Signs of the Misogynist
- 36. A Fury of Only Half-spent Words
- 37. At the Altars of Antique Churches
- 38. Down the Flowering Lanes
- 39. Many Men Came to See Them in Fleet Street
- 40. "Today Put on Perfection
- 41. I Am Thinking I Am Free
