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Author | : Gabriela Adamesteanu |
Publisher | : Northwestern University Press |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 2011-05-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0810126370 |
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Upon its original publication in 1983, Wasted Morning catapulted Gabriela Adamesteanu to the first rank of Romanian novelists. She has since been translated into many languages, and now her most famous novel is available in English for the first time. At the center of Wasted Morning is Vica Delca, a simple, poor woman in her seventies who has endured the endless series of trials and tribulations that was Romanian history from WWI to the end of the twentieth century. She's a born storyteller, chatting and gossiping tirelessly. But she also listens, so it is through her that Adamesteanu is able to show us a panoramic portrait of Romanian society as the fortunes of its various strata shift violently. Rich or poor, honest (more or less) or deceitful, all of the characters in this polyphonic novel are brought vividly to life. From Bucharest's aspirations to be the Paris of Eastern Europe to the darkest days of dictatorship, the novel presents a sweeping vision of the personal and collective costs of a turbulent century.
Author | : Patricia Hampl |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2018-04-17 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0698407490 |
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“A sharp and unconventional book — a swirl of memoir, travelogue and biography of some of history's champion day-dreamers.” —Maureen Corrigan, "Fresh Air" A spirited inquiry into the lost value of leisure and daydream The Art of the Wasted Day is a picaresque travelogue of leisure written from a lifelong enchantment with solitude. Patricia Hampl visits the homes of historic exemplars of ease who made repose a goal, even an art form. She begins with two celebrated eighteenth-century Irish ladies who ran off to live a life of "retirement" in rural Wales. Her search then leads to Moravia to consider the monk-geneticist, Gregor Mendel, and finally to Bordeaux for Michel Montaigne--the hero of this book--who retreated from court life to sit in his chateau tower and write about whatever passed through his mind, thus inventing the personal essay. Hampl's own life winds through these pilgrimages, from childhood days lazing under a neighbor's beechnut tree, to a fascination with monastic life, and then to love--and the loss of that love which forms this book's silver thread of inquiry. Finally, a remembered journey down the Mississippi near home in an old cabin cruiser with her husband turns out, after all her international quests, to be the great adventure of her life. The real job of being human, Hampl finds, is getting lost in thought, something only leisure can provide. The Art of the Wasted Day is a compelling celebration of the purpose and appeal of letting go.
Author | : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 862 |
Release | : 1916 |
Genre | : Bills, Legislative |
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Total Pages | : 2144 |
Release | : 1902 |
Genre | : Methodist Church |
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Author | : Rudyard Kipling |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 818 |
Release | : 1907 |
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Total Pages | : 922 |
Release | : 1911 |
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Author | : Mark Johnson |
Publisher | : Sphere |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2009-11-05 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0748114033 |
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Mark Johnson's father had 'LOVE' tattooed across his left hand, but that didn't stop the beatings. The Johnson children would turn up to school with broken fingers and chipped teeth, but no one ever thought of investigating their home life. Mark just slipped through the cracks, and kept on falling. For years. Constantly in trouble at school, Mark began stealing at the age of seven, was drinking by the age of eight, and took his first hit of heroin aged eleven. A sensitive, intelligent boy, he could never stay on the right path, and though Art College beckoned, he ended up in Portland prison instead. With searing honesty, WASTED documents Mark's descent into the depths of addiction and criminality. Homeless, hooked on heroin and crack, no one - least of all Mark - believed he would survive. And yet - astonishingly - he somehow pulled himself through, and now runs his own thriving tree surgery business, employing and helping other recovering addicts. His story is at once shocking and inspiring - a compelling account of his struggle to save himself, and help save others in the process.
Author | : Alan Alexander Milne |
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Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1905 |
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Total Pages | : 454 |
Release | : 1920 |
Genre | : Insurance |
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Author | : Percy Clough Ainsworth |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1915 |
Genre | : Methodist Church |
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