The couple’s notoriously tempestuous relationship, dramatised in Wakamatsu’s 1995 film, Endless Waltz, ended in divorce in 1977, and Abe died from an overdose of Bromisoval the following year. In 1973 she married the free-jazz saxophonist Kaoru Abe, with whom she had a daughter. After high school she worked briefly as a keypunch operator at Itō city hall, but soon quit to pursue writing, acting and modelling, working with the controversial photographer Nobuyoshi Araki as well as maverick directors Shūji Terayama and Kōji Wakamatsu. Izumi Suzuki was born in 1949 under the Allied occupation and came of age during the 1960s, an era of drugs, rock and roll, and nationwide protests in Japan as it was elsewhere. I had never heard of Suzuki before I bought her book on a whim at the Verso sale (not surprising, given the lack of translations), but she was apparently a pretty influential figure for science fiction writers, especially female sci-fi writers, in Japan. From what I can tell, it’s only posthumously that her stories ever appeared together in a collection-they were originally published in Japanese magazines. 1 Published thirty-five years after her death, Terminal Boredom is the first time Suzuki has been translated in English.
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Vampire Academy follows Dhampir Rosemarie "Rose" Hathaway and her best friend, Moroi princess Vasilissa "Lissa" Dragomir, who after two years on the run, have been brought back to their school, St.A reboot television series, co-developed by Julie Plec, debuted on Septemon Peacock. The film was a financial and critical failure. The first book in the series was adapted into a film directed by Mark Waters, starring Zoey Deutch, Lucy Fry, Danila Kozlovsky and Dominic Sherwood, released by The Weinstein Company on February 7, 2014. As of 2013, the series had sold 8 million copies in 35 countries. The fifth book, Spirit Bound, and the sixth book, Last Sacrifice, were released in 2010. The third book in the series, Shadow Kiss was also published in 2008, and the fourth book, Blood Promise, was published in 2009. The first book in the series, Vampire Academy, was published in 2007 it was followed by Frostbite in 2008. 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Lyrical, deeply personal, and rigorously researched, these three classics of American science and nature writing are now collected in this deluxe Library of America volume. Before her landmark 1962 book Silent Spring catalyzed the environmental movement by alerting the world to the devastating effects of chemical pesticides, Rachel Carson achieved an international reputation as a “poet of the sea,” author of a trilogy of celebrated books about the world’s oceans. 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