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Roiphe, Anne: Epilogue
Erscheinungsdatum: 22.02.2016, Medium: Taschenbuch, Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert, Titel: Epilogue, Autor: Roiphe, Anne, Verlag: Harper Perennial, Sprache: Englisch, Schlagworte: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY // Personal Memoirs, Rubrik: Belletristik // Biographien, Erinnerungen, Seiten: 224, Informationen: Paperback, Gewicht: 273 gr, Verkäufer: averdo- Shop: averdo
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Roiphe, Anne: Water from the Well
Erscheinungsdatum: 13.11.2007, Medium: Taschenbuch, Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert, Titel: Water from the Well, Autor: Roiphe, Anne, Verlag: Harper Perennial, Sprache: Englisch, Schlagworte: RELIGION // Biblical Studies // Old Testament // Jüdische Texte: Tanach // Tora // Nevi¿im // Ketuvim // Kritik und Exegese heiliger Texte, Rubrik: Religion // Theologie, Christentum, Seiten: 306, Informationen: Paperback, Gewicht: 367 gr, Verkäufer: averdo- Shop: averdo
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Epilogue: A Memoir , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 463min
Weaving between heartbreaking memories of her marriage and the pressing needs of her new day-to-day routine, Roiphe constructs an elegant literary pastiche, not of grief but of renewal. She begins her memoir just as the shock of her husband's death has begun to wear off and writes her way into the then unknown world of life after love. In beautifully wrought vignettes, Roiphe captures the infinite number of "firsts" that lie ahead, from hailing a cab to locking and unlocking the door, to answering responses to a singles ad placed by her daughter. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lorna Raver. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/003291/bk_blak_003291_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Violet Hour: Great Writers at the End , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 469min
From one of our most perceptive and provocative voices comes a deeply researched account of the last days of Susan Sontag, Sigmund Freud, John Updike, Dylan Thomas, Maurice Sendak, and James Salter - an arresting and wholly original meditation on mortality. In The Violet Hour, Katie Roiphe takes an unexpected and liberating approach to the most unavoidable of subjects. She investigates the last days of six great thinkers, writers, and artists as they come to terms with the reality of approaching death, or what T. S. Eliot called "the evening hour that strives Homeward, and brings the sailor home from sea". Roiphe draws on her own extraordinary research and access to the family, friends, and caretakers of her subjects. Here is Susan Sontag, the consummate public intellectual, who finds her commitment to rational thinking tested during her third bout with cancer. Roiphe takes us to the hospital room where, after receiving the worst possible diagnosis, 76-year-old John Updike begins writing a poem. She vividly re-creates the fortnight of almost suicidal excess that culminated in Dylan Thomas' fatal collapse at the Chelsea Hotel. She gives us a bracing portrait of Sigmund Freud fleeing Nazi-occupied Vienna only to continue in his London exile the compulsive cigar smoking that he knows will hasten his decline. And she shows us how Maurice Sendak's beloved books for children are infused with his lifelong obsession with death, if you know where to look. The Violet Hour is a book filled with intimate and surprising revelations. In the final acts of each of these creative geniuses are examples of courage, passion, self-delusion, pointless suffering, and superb devotion. There are also moments of sublime insight and understanding where the mind creates its own comfort. As the author writes, "If it's nearly impossible to capture the approach of death in words, who would have the most hope of doing it?" By bringing these great writers' ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Carolyn Cook. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/027409/bk_adbl_027409_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Consumed: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 769min
The exhilarating debut novel by iconic filmmaker David Cronenberg: the story of two journalists whose entanglement in a French philosopher's death becomes a surreal journey into global conspiracy. Stylish and camera-obsessed, Naomi and Nathan thrive on the yellow journalism of the social-media age. They are lovers and competitors - nomadic freelancers in pursuit of sensation and depravity, encountering each other only in airport hotels and browser windows. Naomi finds herself drawn to the headlines surrounding Célestine and Aristide Arosteguy, Marxist philosophers and sexual libertines. Célestine has been found dead and mutilated in her Paris apartment. Aristide has disappeared. Police suspect him of killing her and consuming parts of her body. With the help of an eccentric graduate student named Hervé Blomqvist, Naomi sets off in pursuit of Aristide. As she delves deeper into Célestine and Aristide's lives, disturbing details emerge about their sex life - which included trysts with Hervé and others. Can Naomi trust Hervé to help her? Nathan, meanwhile, is in Budapest photographing the controversial work of an unlicensed surgeon named Zoltán Molnár, once sought by Interpol for organ trafficking. After sleeping with one of Molnár's patients, Nathan contracts a rare STD called Roiphe's. Nathan then travels to Toronto, determined to meet the man who discovered the syndrome. Dr. Barry Roiphe, Nathan learns, now studies his own adult daughter, whose bizarre behavior masks a devastating secret. These parallel narratives become entwined in a gripping, dreamlike plot that involves geopolitics, 3-D printing, North Korea, the Cannes Film Festival, cancer, and, in an incredible number of varieties, sex. Consumed is an exuberant, provocative debut novel from one of the world’s leading film directors. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: William Hurt. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/006827/bk_sans_006827_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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