JU-ON and JU-ON THE CURSE
THE GRUDGE 1 and 2
This is a book about one of the great untold stories of modern cultural life: the remarkable ascendancy of prizes in literature and the arts. Such prizes and the competitions they crown are almost as old as the arts themselves, but their number and power–and their consequences for society and culture at large–have expanded to an unprecedented degree in our day. In a wide-ranging overview of this phenomenon, James F. English documents the dramatic rise of the awards industry and its complex role within what he describes as an economy of cultural prestige.
A ruthless assassin, trained to kill in the name of God by a corrupt Priest, reevaluates his life purpose after saving a little boy from one of his own assassination attempts.
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