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Author | : Ann Patchett |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2021-11-23 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0063092808 |
Download These Precious Days Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The beloved New York Times bestselling author reflects on home, family, friendships and writing in this deeply personal collection of essays. "The elegance of Patchett’s prose is seductive and inviting: with Patchett as a guide, readers will really get to grips with the power of struggles, failures, and triumphs alike." —Publisher's Weekly “Any story that starts will also end.” As a writer, Ann Patchett knows what the outcome of her fiction will be. Life, however, often takes turns we do not see coming. Patchett ponders this truth in these wise essays that afford a fresh and intimate look into her mind and heart. At the center of These Precious Days is the title essay, a surprising and moving meditation on an unexpected friendship that explores “what it means to be seen, to find someone with whom you can be your best and most complete self.” When Patchett chose an early galley of actor and producer Tom Hanks’ short story collection to read one night before bed, she had no idea that this single choice would be life changing. It would introduce her to a remarkable woman—Tom’s brilliant assistant Sooki—with whom she would form a profound bond that held monumental consequences for them both. A literary alchemist, Patchett plumbs the depths of her experiences to create gold: engaging and moving pieces that are both self-portrait and landscape, each vibrant with emotion and rich in insight. Turning her writer’s eye on her own experiences, she transforms the private into the universal, providing us all a way to look at our own worlds anew, and reminds how fleeting and enigmatic life can be. From the enchantments of Kate DiCamillo’s children’s books (author of The Beatryce Prophecy) to youthful memories of Paris; the cherished life gifts given by her three fathers to the unexpected influence of Charles Schultz’s Snoopy; the expansive vision of Eudora Welty to the importance of knitting, Patchett connects life and art as she illuminates what matters most. Infused with the author’s grace, wit, and warmth, the pieces in These Precious Days resonate deep in the soul, leaving an indelible mark—and demonstrate why Ann Patchett is one of the most celebrated writers of our time.
Author | : Ann Plato |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780195052473 |
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"Ann Plato was the first black to publish a collection of essays, in 1841."--Newsweek
Author | : Anne Carson |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2015-03-18 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1101911271 |
Download Plainwater Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The poetry and prose collected in Plainwater are a testament to the extraordinary imagination of Anne Carson, a writer described by Michael Ondaatje as "the most exciting poet writing in English today." Succinct and astonishingly beautiful, these pieces stretch the boundaries of language and literary form, while juxtaposing classical and modern traditions. Carson envisions a present-day interview with a seventh-century BC poet, and offers miniature lectures on topics as varied as orchids and Ovid. She imagines the muse of a fifteenth-century painter attending a phenomenology conference in Italy. She constructs verbal photographs of a series of mysterious towns, and takes us on a pilgrimage in pursuit of the elusive and intimate anthropology of water. Blending the rhythm and vivid metaphor of poetry with the discursive nature of the essay, the writings in Plainwater dazzle us with their invention and enlighten us with their erudition.
Author | : Ann Patchett |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 2013-11-07 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1408842408 |
Download This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
'So compellingly personal you feel you're looking over her shoulder as she sits down to write' New York Times 'Electrically entertaining ... Funny, generous, spirited and kind' The Times This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage is an irresistible blend of literature and memoir revealing the big experiences and little moments that shaped Ann Patchett as a daughter, wife, friend and writer. Here, Ann Patchett shares entertaining and moving stories about her tumultuous childhood, her painful early divorce, the excitement of selling her first book, driving a Winnebago from Montana to Yellowstone Park, her joyous discovery of opera, scaling a six-foot wall in order to join the Los Angeles Police Department, the gradual loss of her beloved grandmother, starting her own bookshop in Nashville, her love for her very special dog and, of course, her eventual happy marriage. This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage is a memoir both wide ranging and deeply personal, overflowing with close observation and emotional wisdom, told with wit, honesty and irresistible warmth.
Author | : Ilan Stavans |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 536 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Download The Oxford Book of Latin American Essays Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An intriguing collection of more than 70 Latin American essays, some never before translated into English, gives us the whole spectrum of concerns that have animated some of the greatest writers of our time--from Andres Bello, Pablo Neruda, and Alfonso Reyes to Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Rosario Ferre--an assembly confident, ingenious, aware.
Author | : Ann Patchett |
Publisher | : Byliner Originals |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2011-08-29 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9781614520665 |
Download The Getaway Car Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"The journey from the head to the hand is perilous and lined with bodies. It is the road on which nearly everyone who wants to write-and many of the people who do write-get lost."So writes Ann Patchett in "The Getaway Car", a wry, wisdom-packed memoir of her life as a writer. Here, for the first time, one of America's most celebrated authors ("State of Wonder", "Bel Canto", "Truth and Beauty"), talks at length about her literary career-the highs and the lows-and shares advice on the craft and art of writing. In this fascinating look at the development of a novelist, we meet Patchett's mentors (Allan Gurganas, Grace Paley, Russell Banks), see where she made wrong turns (poetry), and learn how she gets the pages written (an unromantic process of pure hard work). Woven through engaging anecdotes from Patchett's life are lessons about writing that offer an inside peek into the storytelling process and provide a blueprint for anyone wanting to give writing a serious try. The bestselling author gives pointers on everything from finding ideas to constructing a plot to combating writer's block. More than that, she conveys the joys and rewards of a life spent reading and writing. "What I like about the job of being a novelist, and at the same time what I find so exhausting about it, is that it's the closest thing to being God that you're ever going to get," she writes. "All of the decisions are yours. You decide when the sun comes up. You decide who gets to fall in love..."In this Byliner Original by the new digital publisher Byliner, "The Getaway Car" is a delightful autobiography-cum-user's guide that appeals to both inspiring writers and anyone who loves a great story.
Author | : Anne Bogart |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2014-04-16 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1317703685 |
Download What's the Story Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Anne Bogart is an award-winning theatre maker, and a best-selling writer of books about theatre, art, and cultural politics. In this her latest collection of essays she explores the story-telling impulse, and asks how she, as a ‘product of postmodernism’, can reconnect to the primal act of making meaning and telling stories. She also asks how theatre practitioners can think of themselves not as stagers of plays but ‘orchestrators of social interactions’ and participants in an on-going dialogue about the future. We dream. And then occasionally we attempt to share our dreams with others. In recounting our dreams we try to construct a narrative... We also make stories out of our daytime existence. The human brain is a narrative creating machine that takes whatever happens and imposes chronology, meaning, cause and effect... We choose. We can choose to relate to our circumstances with bitterness or with openness. The stories that we tell determine nothing less than personal destiny. (From the introduction) This compelling new book is characteristically made up of chapters with one-word titles: Spaciousness, Narrative, Heat, Limits, Error, Politics, Arrest, Empathy, Opposition, Collaboration and Sustenance. In addition to dipping into neuroscience, performance theory and sociology, Bogart also recounts vivid stories from her own life. But as neuroscience indicates, the event of remembering what happened is in fact the creation of something new.
Author | : Anne Carson |
Publisher | : New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9780811213028 |
Download Glass, Irony, and God Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Anne Carson's poetry - characterized by various reviewers as "short talks", "essays", or "verse narratives" - combines the confessional and the critical in a voice all her own. Known as a remarkable classicist, Anne Carson in Glass, Irony and God weaves contemporary and ancient poetic strands with stunning style. This collection includes: "The Glass Essay", a powerful poem about the end of a love affair, told in the context of Carson's reading of the Bronte sisters; "Book of Isaiah", a poem evoking the deeply primitive feel of ancient Judaism; and "The Fall of Rome", about her trip to "find" Rome and her struggle to overcome feelings of a terrible alienation there.
Author | : Ezra Pound |
Publisher | : New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1960 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780811201513 |
Download ABC of Reading Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Ezra Pound's classic book about the meaning of literature.
Author | : Joan Russell |
Publisher | : Bauhan Pub |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : 9780872333000 |
Download Someday this Will Fit Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"An original memoir-in-stories, Someday This Will Fit muses on issues that are instantly familiar - from privacy in the digital age to racism at the dinner table, to a friend's suicide; from Post-Its and Kindles, to head colds and home repairs. In the age of Twitter, these bite-size narratives evoke the richness and humor of daily life in a brief, compact form. For fans of Anna Quindlen and Elinor Lipman, the book's wry midlife observations offer an insightful, no-nonsense take on modern living. Joan Silverman began her career as a Boston-based features writer, with a specialty in horticulture. Over time, she developed her niche as a writer of op-eds, essays, and slice-of-life stories. Her work has appeared in newspapers around the country, including The Chicago Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, and Dallas Morning News. The author lives in the Boston area and coastal Maine, where she reviews books for The Portland Press Herald / Maine Sunday Telegram"--