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"A chronicle of clinical depression from a bestselling novelist."
"The nationally bestselling author of Good Hair and The Itch pens her first book of nonfiction, a "momoir" about her own journey caring for aging parents, raising children, being married, plunging to the depths of depression, and climbing her way out. My mother was gone. I never…
"The nationally bestselling author of Good Hair and The Itch pens her first book of nonfiction, a "momoir" about her own journey caring for aging parents, raising children, being married, plunging to the depths of depression, and climbing her way out. My mother was gone. I never…
Clyde Edgerton explains his love of flying and its fundamentals and how combat flying during the Vietnam war has changed him.
Clyde Edgerton explains his love of flying and its fundamentals and how combat flying during the Vietnam war has changed him.
Aldous Huxley's lifelong concern with the dichotomy between passion and reason finds its fullest expression both thematically and formally in his masterpiece Point Counter Point. By presenting a vision of life in which diverse aspects of experience are observed simultaneously, H…
Nine people gather at a remote health resort. Some are here to lose weight, some are here to get a reboot on life, some are here for reasons they can't even admit to themselves. Amid all the luxury and pampering, the mindfulness and meditation, they know these ten days might inv…
Nine people gather at a remote health resort. Some are here to lose weight, some are here to get a reboot on life, some are here for reasons they can't even admit to themselves. Amid all the luxury and pampering, the mindfulness and meditation, they know these ten days might inv…
At the outbreak of the Second World War Vladimir Nabokov stood on the brink of losing everything all over again. The reputation he had built as the pre-eminent Russian novelist in exile was imperilled . In Nabokov and his Books, Duncan White shows how Nabokov went to America and…
Duncan White draws on previously unpublished and neglected material to tell the story of Nabokov the professional writer; to explore how he balanced his late modernist aesthetics with the demands of a booming American literary marketplace; and to reconceptualise the way we think…
For young writers of a certain temperament--if they haven't had such notions beaten out of them by MFA programs and the Internet--the delusion persists that great writing must be sought in what W. B. Yeats once called the "foul rag and bone shop of the heart." That's where Peter…
"For young writers of a certain temperament ... the delusion persists that great writing must be sought in what W. B. Yeats once called the 'foul rag and bone shop of the heart.' That's where Peter Cunningham has been looking for inspiration for his novel--that is, when he isn't…
"What a debut! Early Work is one of the wittiest, wisest (sometimes silliest, in the best sense), and bravest novels about wrestling with the early stages of life and love, of creative and destructive urges, I've read in a while. The angst of the young and reasonably comfortable…
"What a debut! Early Work is one of the wittiest, wisest (sometimes silliest, in the best sense), and bravest novels about wrestling with the early stages of life and love, of creative and destructive urges, I've read in a while. The angst of the young and reasonably comfortable…
Crossing to safety
by Williams, Terry Tempest, Stegner, Wallace, Watkins, T. H., (Tom H.)
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Type: Book
A story of a lifelong friendship between two couples evokes the dense web of feeling and experience that binds these people together--joy, sorrow, fulfillment, frustration, anger, forgiveness, suffering and survival.