Deprecated: Array and string offset access syntax with curly braces is deprecated in /www/libraryLand/subs/anthologies/engine/classes/templates.class.php on line 232 Call Stack: 0.0005 407576 1. {main}() /www/libraryLand/subs/anthologies/engine/rss.php:0 Wendy MacIntyre - Free Library Land Online - Anthologies https://anthologies.library.land/ ru Wendy MacIntyre - Free Library Land Online - Anthologies DataLife Engine Lucia's Masks https://anthologies.library.land/wendy-macintyre/198829-lucias_masks.html https://anthologies.library.land/wendy-macintyre/198829-lucias_masks.html Lucia's Masks
Lucia's Masks follows the journey of six strangers who meet by chance after fleeing the psychic defilement of a barbaric totalitarian state and travel North to where they can create a free and humane society. The novel interweaves their personal histories with their experience and encounters as they journey together. The principal voice belongs to Lucia; the group's forager, an aspiring sculptress, who once cleaned office buildings for a living. Sickened by the moral decay and the dominant culture's obsession with pornography, she has chosen to seek spiritual renewal and has chosen to remain a virgin. When she leaves the city, she takes with her a ball of clay and a copy of the death mask of John Keats. Her companions in flight from the city are the Outpacer, a former extreme hedonist and philanderer, who now hides his face and identity behind a monk's cowl; Bird Girl, a young woman constantly searching for books from the past because the libraries have been razed and all...]]> Fri, 15 Nov 2013 15:52:04 +0200 Hunting Piero https://anthologies.library.land/wendy-macintyre/197596-hunting_piero.html https://anthologies.library.land/wendy-macintyre/197596-hunting_piero.html Hunting Piero
This novel interweaves Renaissance artist Piero di Cosimo's fifteenth-century viewpoint with the twenty-first-century reality of two young Canadian students: Agnes Vane, an art history major fascinated by di Cosimo's multi-layered imagery, and Peter (Pinto) Dervaig, a student of philosophy passionate about preventing cruelty to animals. Both Agnes and Pinto were marginalized in their adolescence because of their unusual appearance. Agnes has slightly simian features. Pinto is a huge man with a multihued skin pigmentation. When Agnes, as a lonely and alienated child, discovers di Cosimo's empathetic paintings of animals and human-animal hybrids, she feels she is looked upon gently for the first time in her life. That moment influences her decision to become an animal rights activist, a commitment that ultimately brings her both anguish and insight. Her story is echoed by chapters from di Cosimo's perspective as he pits his solitary vision, of a golden age when animals did indeed...]]> Wed, 15 Nov 2017 14:12:33 +0200 The Applecross Spell https://anthologies.library.land/wendy-macintyre/204493-the_applecross_spell.html https://anthologies.library.land/wendy-macintyre/204493-the_applecross_spell.html The Applecross Spell
In the legend-steeped Borders region of Scotland, a writer discovers the hidden past of the man she loves and the truth of her mother’s teachings.]]> Sat, 16 Nov 2002 01:35:07 +0200