Showing results for "The Hare" in Literature & Fiction

Dr. Edith Vane, scholar of English literature, is contentedly ensconced at the University of Inivea. Her dissertation on pioneer housewife memoirist Beulah Crump-Withers is about to be published, and her job's finally safe, if she only can fill out her AAO properly. She's a little anxious, but a new floral blouse and her therapist's repeated assurance that she is the architect of her own life should fix that. All should be well, really. Except for her broken washing machine, her fickle new girlfriend, her missing friend Coral.

Treten mein Exfreund und meine beste Freundin vor den Altar, um zu heiraten ... Klingt wie der Anfang eines blöden Witzes? Ist es aber nicht. Der Witz ist, ich will meinen Ex zurück. Notfalls mit schmutzigen Tricks! Zum Glück hat meine Lieblingskundin Kontakt zu einer Escort Agentur und gibt mir den perfekten Mann an die Hand, um meinen Ex eifersüchtig zu machen. Zu dumm nur, dass sich mein fake Lover als unglaublich heiß und verboten sympathisch herausstellt. Und ich schon bald nicht mehr weiß, wo mir der Kopf steht.

Four clergymen seek to make sense of their mission while being torn in all directions by the Church of England. After a critically-lauded debut in 1990 at London’s National Theatre, Racing Demon went on to earn universal acclaim. More than 20 years later, David Hare’s bold and moving revelations on gay ordination and the doctrine of the priesthood ring more resoundingly than ever.