Damage: INSPIRATION FOR THE NETFLIX SERIES OBSESSION

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Stephen's affair is exposed and becomes a media frenzy. An anguished Ingrid questions whether he had ever loved her and tells him she wishes they had never met. Stephen resigns his government position. Meeting Anna's mother, he discovers Anna is staying with her, but he and Anna are silent in their last meeting. Stephen, leaving his wife and daughter, retires to a rented room in a southern European town. In narration, he reveals that he saw Anna only once more, in passing at an airport, and that she has a child with Peter. Stephen stares at a huge blowup on his wall of a photo Martyn gave him of Stephen, Anna and Martyn together. He ends with a calm note: "She was no different from anyone else." There is much more at work here than mere lust, or even mere love. No, it is sexual obsession that dominates this story, an obsession so pervasive that it propels the narrator to unspeakable lows. It propels the narrative toward its tragic conclusion. Damage is a 1992 Psychological Thriller film directed by Louis Malle, starring Jeremy Irons, Juliette Binoche, Miranda Richardson and Rupert Graves. Damage is very smartly-written and effective in arousing curiosity in readers, leading us to question the characters’ self-destructive actions.

Dr. Stephen Fleming, a physician who has entered politics and become a minister, lives in London with wife Ingrid and daughter Sally. Their adult son, Martyn, a young journalist, lives elsewhere in London. At a reception, Stephen meets a young woman, Anna Barton, the daughter of a British diplomat and a four-times-married Frenchwoman. Anna introduces herself as a close friend of Martyn's; she and Stephen are instantly attracted to each other. Some time later, Martyn brings Anna to meet his parents at their elegant townhouse and reveals they are romantically involved. The sexual tension between Stephen and Anna is apparent, although Martyn and Ingrid seem unaware. But I did not die in my fiftieth year. There are few who know me now who do not regard that as a tragedy.” This book was made into a good film in 1992, starring Jeremy Irons, and it's probably his presence in that which reminded me of Lolita, as he appeared in the excellent remake of that film as well. After Damage, which told the story of a politician's obsession with his son's girlfriend, she went on to write another five novels: Sin (1992), Oblivion (1995), The Stillest Day (1998), The Reconstructionist (2001) and The Truth About Love (2009). Damage and Sin are to be reissued as Virago Modern Classics later this year, and Josephine felt that was a thrilling tribute. She loved the cover we at Virago proposed for Damage – a red rose bristling with thorns – and immediately I received a large bouquet of red roses from her, with a line from Marianne Moore: "Your thorns are the best part of you." Downer Ending: Martyn dies. Stephen is devastated and he subsequently loses his wife, his job, his reputation, and even his lover who dumps him immediately.Following the presentation from the three executives, director SJ Clarkson and lead actress Sienna Miller presented the trailer for UK series Anatomy Of A Scandal, about a sexual consent scandal among the UK elite and the women caught in its wake. La passione divorante che irrompe - non cercata, eppure inconsciamente attesa da sempre - nell’esistenza impeccabile e banalmente perfetta del protagonista, ne sconvolge dalle fondamenta l'edificio costruito sul terreno friabile di un'abile dissimulazione. Perché non si tratta soltanto dell’attrazione, sia pure ossessiva e irrefrenabile, nei confronti di una persona “proibita” e avvolta nel mistero, ma di un "ritorno a casa", del riconoscimento di un essere simile a sé con cui liberare, finalmente, pulsioni e desideri mai confessati e sempre ingabbiati nel carcere della mistificazione. Having been gripped by the British Library poetry performances – not least those from Josephine herself – Virago first published the edited poetry collections Catching Life By the Throat and Words that Burn (2008). The Truth About Love, the first novel of hers that I published at Virago, was the only one that Josephine set in Ireland. Like all her books, it is about passion, but this time, misplaced passion, she believed, for a mythology that asks its people to keep dying for country and cause. my life would have been lost in contemplation of the emerging skeleton beneath my skin. It was as though a man’s bones broke through the face of the werewolf. Shining with humanity he stalked through his midnight life towards the first day.’

When art imitates life, it’s exciting,” said Miller of the series’ similarity to ongoing UK political scandals. “We do live in a country – it’s not really a meritocracy a lot of the time. We live in a place where if you’ve had access to education of a certain standard and calibre, and if you go through the motions, you probably have aspirations of being in…” In my life, I have travelled far, acquiring loved and unfamiliar companions; a wife, an son, and a daughter. I have lived with them, an loving alien in surrounds of unsatisfying beauty. An efficient dissembler, I gently and silently smoothed the rough edges of my being. I hid the awkwardness and pain which I inclined towards my chosen outline, and tried to be what those loved expected me to be- a good husband, a good father, and a good son." Friends" Rent Control: Anna, a young woman who works in an antique shop, lives in a luxuous flat in London. Moreover, she rents another flat where she secretly meets her lover, Stephen.

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urn:lcp:damagehart00hart:epub:b8ad0a49-1cbd-4577-8263-5f7ac0349bf7 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier damagehart00hart Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t5x643n3b Isbn 0804108412 To me, Josephine's belief that literature can make a difference was inspiring. Though she was hugely sophisticated and glamorous, and no stranger to the benefits of working a room and making connections, the fact that so many of us were willingly beguiled by her was because of her passionate belief in art. There was something elemental about her. A copula conclusa ella svanisce, chiude quel segmento di esistenza e passa ad altri "casi": il figlio di lui, l'amico d'infanzia, vari ed eventuali. Donna viziosa? Femmina oltremodo generosa? In passato si era trovata a un niente dal "donarsi" al fratello (che, non potendola avere tutta per sé, si suicida tagliandosi polsi e gola, porello).