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This bestseller covers a single momentous year during Nin's life in Paris, when she met Henry Miller and his wife, June. "Closer to what many sexually adventuresome women experience than almost anything I've ever read...I found it a very erotic book and profoundly liberating" (Alice Walker). The source of a major motion picture from Universal. Preface by Rupert Pole; Index.
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Lluís Pasqual narra su relación con Federico García Lorca y se nos revela un extraordinario narrador. Un ensayo delicioso, de una sensibilidad y una fuerza narrativa excepcionales.
"Al igual que cuando uno se enamora por primera vez se está enamorando de alguien y del amor al mismo tiempo, García Lorca era para mí "el autor" y la Literatura: el descubrimiento de la compañía espiritual y de la capacidad de aventura que encierra un libro. Aunque...
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When Albert Camus died in a car crash in January 1960 he was only 46 years old already a winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature and a world figure author of the enigmatic The Stranger, the fable called The Plague, but also of the combative The Rebel which attacked the 'politically correct' among his con-temporaries. Thanks to his early literary achievement, his work for the under-ground newspaper Combat and his editorship of that daily in its Post-Liberation...
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A former postman and long-term alcoholic who did not become a full-time writer until middle age, Charles Bukowski was the author of autobiographical novels that captured the low life-including Post Office, Factotum, and Women-and made him a literary celebrity, with a major Hollywood film (Barfly) based on his life. Drawing on new interviews with virtually all of Bukowski's friends, family, and many lovers; unprecedented access to his private letters...
85) Footsteps
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Richard Holmes's great work of biographical exploration, published alongside its sister volume 'Sidetracks'.
In 1985, Richard Holmes published a small book of essays called 'Footsteps' and the writing of biography was changed forever. A daring mix of travel, biographical sleuthing and personal memoir, it broke all the conventions of the genre and remains one of the most intoxicating, magical works of modern literary exploration ever published.
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Why do we mourn the passing of iconic figures such as Carrie Fisher, Prince or even an obscure regional horror movie host from our youth? Why do we mourn the passing of larger-than-life figures whom we never knew in life as if they were an old friend? Louder Than Goodbye: Reflections and Remembrances from Kurt Cobain to Mary Tyler Moore to the Most Sinister Man to Ever Walk the Earth is a collection of meditations on the passing of pop culture figures...
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Are we responsible for, and to, those forces that have formed us - our families, friends, and communities? Where do we leave off and others begin? In The Tribal Knot, Rebecca McClanahan looks for answers in the history of her family. Poring over letters, artifacts, and documents that span more than a century, she discovers a tribe of hardscrabble Midwest farmers, hunters, trappers, and laborers struggling to hold tight to the ties that bind them,...
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Raymond Chandler fue, junto con Dashiell Hammett, el renovador y el maestro indiscutido del género policiaco. Sus siete novelas tienen una categoría literaria sorprendente en un campo en el que nadie, hasta aquel momento, esperaba calidad. Y es que Chandler era, ante todo, un escritor inteligente.
Despedido de su empleo como ejecutivo de una compañía petrolera por su afición a la bebida, el hombre que reveló el lado oscuro de la opulenta sociedad...
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Widely considered the greatest American poet, Walt Whitman was initially deemed by the literary establishment an egomaniac, a charlatan, and a poet whose verse lacked any sense of rhyme or meter. James Thomson's engaging study of the author of “Leaves of Grass” is a vigorous defense of the poet, whom he admired and held in the same high regard as Shelley.
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Es un libro que acercará al lector a su propio poder de sanación, de volver al amor hacia sí mismo, por medio de un trabajo de consciencia interior, pero también del viaje que plantea la autora de autodescubrimiento, en un camino de magia pura a través de una serie de rituales, donde el don más importante de cada quien será la capacidad de trabajar en su ser. Así que a través del relato de su historia personal, Erika llevará al lector por...
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Antonio Linares Rodríguez, médico de profesión, nos presenta una obra autobiográfica donde combina la narración de algunos de los hechos concretos acaecidos a lo largo de su vida con reflexiones sobre cuestiones que importan o pueden importar a cualquiera, independientemente de dónde haya nacido y dónde resida: la fe, el amor, la vejez, la vida o la muerte. Y ambas cosas las hace con habilidad y maestría, con sutileza, como ofreciéndoselas...
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This is the fourth in a series of books expressing my observations about humankind, society, and the universe. The content of the books in the series is laid out in chronological sequence. The tidbits of wisdom, called 'blurbs,' (or vignettes, if you prefer) are headed with four items: a sequence number; the date on which the blurb was made; and a slashed number which indicates the blurb sequence for the day and the number of blurbs made on that day,...
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The fall of communism transformed the political and economic landscape in more than two dozen countries across Europe and Asia. In this volume published on the 25th anniversary of the fall, political leaders, scholars, and policymakers assess the lessons learned from the "great rebirth" of capitalism and highlight the policies that were most successful in helping countries make the transition to stable and prosperous market economies. Also discussed...
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William Donaldson reveals all in a frank and often scurrilous memoir where past and present collide in a hilarious vision of his extraordinary life. The author charts his course from his public school childhood, through production of the celebrated 1960s satire Beyond the Fringe, a riotous lifestyle in the company of pop stars, actors, models, and sundry celebs-sometimes in a brothel in which he lived for a time in Chelsea-literary success and on...
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«Si quieres escribir una novela, la primera norma es saber decir no, rechazar las invitaciones.» ¿Por qué aceptar entonces la propuesta de pasar una noche en el museo Punta della Dogana?
A través del arte sutil de la digresión en la noche veneciana, Leila Slimani se adentra en el proceso creativo de su escritura, aborda los problemas de identidad y del pasado colonial, de moverse entre dos mundos, Oriente y Occidente, donde ella navega y se...
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Authenticity is a Feeling: My Life in PME-ART is a compelling hybrid of history, memoir, and performance theory. It tells the story of the interdisciplinary performance group PME-ART and their ongoing endeavor to make a new kind of highly collaborative theatre dedicated to the fragile but essential act of "being yourself in a performance situation."
Written, among other things, to celebrate PME-ART's twentieth anniversary, the book begins when Jacob...
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Nada podía hacer prever a Danae, estudiante de primer curso de Filosofía, que su vida iba a dar un giro inesperado con la visita de un viejo amigo de su difunto padre. Un secreto oculto durante años removerá su pasado y embarcará a la protagonista hacia la emblemática Universidad La luz de Saint Etiel. ¿Qué hechos velados se esconden tras los muros de La luz? ¿Será capaz Danae de armar el rompecabezas y enfrentarse a su pasado? ¿En quién...
98) Burns
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Known in Scotland as simply "The Bard," Robert Burns (1759—1796) endured a childhood of hardship and poverty to become a celebrated poet who is today widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland. J. C. Shairp's biography of Burns is an insightful look at the life of this pioneer of the Romantic Movement.
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A young woman's heady encounter with the new Russia, as she and the country thrill to their first taste of freedom
It is September 1991 and the dismantling of the Soviet Union is under way. In Voronezh, a provincial town famous for its loamy black earth, a sense of lightheartedness-part fear, part exhilaration-pervades. The people conquer uncertainty, hunger, and -20 degree temperatures by drinking huge quantities of black-market vodka and reveling...