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Les mots de mon père: correspondances entre Marcel et Louise Portal
Par Louise Portal. 2005
"Lauteure et comédienne nous offre ici un livre tout spécial, né dune lecture préparée pour lévénement des correspondances dEastman durant…
lété 2004. Ayant soigneusement choisi les lettres les plus marquantes que lui a rédigées son père à différentes époques de sa vie, entre 1965 et 1980, elle se livre au jeu dun nouvel échange en y répondant à nouveau aujourdhui, en 2005, avec toute la sensibilité et lémotion dune femme qui parle à un guide tendrement aimé. Joies et malheurs partagés entre un père et sa fille, conversation qui brave le temps et la mort entre deux artistes passionnés Un très bel hommage au père." -- 4e de couvLes 5 années qui ont marqué la fin du siècle dernier et les 20 premières années de notre siècle sont…
la plus belle illustration de la modernité du genre qu'est la nouvelle. Michel Lord a constitué un fort volume où il recense pas moins de 160 recueils écrits par 71 auteurs et autrices québécois. Et ce livre, cette somme, se lit comme un romanSelf-care
Par Nicholas Dawson. 2021
Self-care réunit les voix de 11 écrivain.es qui, à partir de leur situation de personnes minorisées, se penchent sur différents…
aspects du soin de soi. Résolument politique, cet ouvrage collectif de textes de fiction (poésie, récits, nouvelles et textes hybrides) pense laffect, les troubles, les mécanismes de défense, les obsessions, les impulsions, la mélancolie, la douleur chronique, le deuil et lanxiété comme des voies privilégiées pour aborder toutes les manières de prendre soin de soi, qu'elles soient new age , ancestrales, individualistes, solidaires ou (anti)capitalistes"This is the only book for writers that: 1) Motivates readers to change their writing habits by telling the truth…
about how submissions are screened. 2) Analyzes 150 extracts to show how published authors handle the same problems facing all writers of fiction. 3) Reinforces readers' learning by presenting more solutions in greater depth than other books do and exposing issues not mentioned in any other book. 4) Highlights the techniques of 140 published mystery authors, many of whom have never before been reviewed in book form. 5) Helps readers identify with authors at the beginning of their writing careers by using examples from many first novels. 6) Stimulates readers' imaginations by demonstrating the infinite variety of alternatives for presenting content. 7) Offers 24 Find & Fix summaries for revising, plus resources and little-known tips and tip-offs. 8) Boosts the odds that a manuscript will pass the first screening so its characters and plot can be read in full and evaluated on merit." -- Provided by publisherVuelos vespertinos (Colección Argumentos (Editorial Anagrama) #564)
Par Helen Macdonald. 2021
"In Vesper Flights Helen Macdonald brings together a collection of her best loved essays, along with new pieces on topics…
ranging from nostalgia for a vanishing countryside to the tribulations of farming ostriches to her own private vespers while trying to fall asleep. Meditating on notions of captivity and freedom, immigration and flight, Helen invites us into her most intimate experiences: observing songbirds from the Empire State Building as they migrate through the Tribute of Light, watching tens of thousands of cranes in Hungary, seeking the last golden orioles in Suffolk's poplar forests. She writes with heart-tugging clarity about wild boar, swifts, mushroom hunting, migraines, the strangeness of birds' nests, and the unexpected guidance and comfort we find when watching wildlife. By one of this century's most important and insightful nature writers, Vesper Flights is a captivating and foundational book about observation, fascination, time, memory, love and loss and how we make sense of the world around us." -- GoodreadsThe figure of the detective: a literary history and analysis
Par Charles Brownson. 2014
"This book begins with a history of the detective genre, coextensive with the novel itself, identifying the attitudes and institutions…
needed for the genre to emerge in its mature form around 1880. The theory of the genre is laid out along with its central theme of the getting and deployment of knowledge. Sherlock Holmes, the English Classic stories and their inheritors are examined in light of this theme and the balance of two forms of knowledge used in fictional detection--cool or rational, and warm or emotional. The evolution of the genre formula is driven by changes in the social climate in which it is embedded. These changes explain the decay of the English Classic and its replacement by noir, hardboiled and spy stories, to end in the cul-de-sac of the thriller and the nostalgic Neo-Classic. Possible new forms of the detective story are suggested." -- Provided by publisherThe letters of Thom Gunn
Par Thom Gunn. 2022
"|The Letters of Thom Gunn| presents the first complete portrait of the private life, reflections, and relationships of a maverick…
figure in the history of British and American poetry. "I write about love, I write about friendship," remarked Thom Gunn: "I find that they are absolutely intertwined." These core values permeate his correspondence with friends, family, lovers, and fellow poets, and shed new light on "one of the most singular and compelling poets in English during the past half-century" (Hugh Haughton, The Times Literary Supplement). |The Letters of Thom Gunn|, edited by August Kleinzahler, Michael Nott, and Clive Wilmer, reveals the evolution of Gunn's work and illuminates the fascinating life that informed his poems: his struggle to come to terms with his mother's suicide; his changing relationship with his life partner, Mike Kitay; the LSD trips that led to his celebrated collection Moly (1971); and the deaths of friends from AIDS that inspired the powerful, unsparing elegies of The Man with Night Sweats (1992)." -- Provided by publisherThe Great War and modern memory
Par Paul Fussell. 2013
Fussell, a professor of English literature and winner of the 1976 National Book Award for Arts and Letters, explores how…
historical events and society's record of those events interact. He looks at the British experience during World War I through the eyes of the writers Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves, and Edmund Blunden; through the poetry of David Jones, Isaac Rosenberg, and Wilfred Owen; and through amateur memoirs of the men in the trenchesPatches of Godlight: Father Tim's favorite quotes
Par Jan Karon. 2001
Collection of favorite quotes and passages that have a special meaning for fictional Father Tim. They are drawn from the…
works of poets, humorists, clerics, philosophers, and others. Companion to A Continual Feast (DB 62403). 2001I begin with spring: the life and seasons of Henry David Thoreau
Par Julie Dunlap. 2022
"Formatted like a nature notebook, this exploration of seasonal changes in Thoreau's day is also a visual story of his…
life and times and a gentle introduction to climate change." -- Provided by publisherL'homme des tavernes
Par Louis Champagne. 2002
Monsieur Coco, vénérable propriétaire de taverne country depuis 42 ans, se lève un matin et apprend que ce sera son…
dernier jour sur terre. Il le sait, une abeille le lui a dit. Cette abeille c'est la mort. Monsieur Coco amorce donc sa dernière journée avec l'envie d'ouvrir son débit de boisson aux femmes..."Writers Workshop of Horror 2 is a collection of essays and interviews focusing on the art and craft of writing…
horror and dark fantasy. From bestselling authors like Stephen King, Anne Rice, and R.L. Stine, to up-and-coming writers just making their mark, this anthology is chock-full of advice and information writers of any level will find valuable and useful." -- Provided by publisherNueve lunas
Par Gabriela Wiener. 2021
"From the daring Peruvian essayist and provocateur behind Sexographies comes a fierce and funny exploration of sex, pregnancy, and motherhood…
that delves headlong into our fraught fascination with human reproduction." -- Amazon.comNuestra hambre en la Habana: memorias del Período Especial en la Cuba de los 90
Par Enrique Del Risco. 2022
"|Our Hunger in Havana| is a book of personal memories of the 90s Cuban postwar period of peace that received…
the curious euphemism of "Special Period." In a tragicomic tone, the author describes and explains the debacle that brought cats and banana skins to the status of delicacies, pigs to that of urban pets raised in bathtubs, and the practical disappearance of public transportation, gastronomy, and alcoholic beverages. A national catastrophe told through the personal experiences of one who worked in a school, a museum, and a cemetery while trying to be young, free, and happy at the worst time in Cuba's history." -- Translation provided by NLSJuan de Juanes: escritores, editores, agentes literarios y otras glorias y calamidades
Par Sergio Ramírez. 2014
"Memory is also a sort of homage to the friends who have accompanied us throughout life, those with whom we…
share a table, books, travels and, in the case of Sergio Ramirez, revolution. In Juan de Juanes' vast map of memories, Ramirez traces the route that takes us from his beginnings as a writer, the triumph of the Sandinista revolution in his native Nicaragua, the Alfaguara Prize in 1998, to the awarding of the 2011 José Donoso Ibero-American Literature Prize, a few days before the suicide of the Chilean writer's only heir, Pilar Donoso. In the pages of Juan de Juanes, Sergio Ramírez tells us about memorable characters in his life, to whom he remained indebted, among others Carlos Fuentes, Julio Cortázar, Augusto Monterroso, Gabriel García Márquez, Jorge Luis Borges, Ernesto Cardenal and Juan Cruz, his first editor and the starting point of this journey through Latin America." -- Translation provided by NLSEl hombre que movía las nubes: memorias
Par Ingrid Rojas Contreras. 2022
"For Ingrid Rojas Contreras, magic runs in the family. Raised amid the political violence of 1980s and '90s Colombia, in…
a house bustling with her mother's fortune-telling clients, she was a hard child to surprise. Her maternal grandfather, Nono, was a renowned curandero, a community healer gifted with what the family called "the secrets": the power to talk to the dead, tell the future, treat the sick, and move the clouds. And as the first woman to inherit "the secrets," Rojas Contreras' mother was just as powerful. Mami delighted in her ability to appear in two places at once, and she could cast out even the most persistent spirits with nothing more than a glass of water. This legacy had always felt like it belonged to her mother and grandfather, until, while living in the U.S. in her twenties, Rojas Contreras suffered a head injury that left her with amnesia. As she regained partial memory, her family was excited to tell her that this had happened before: Decades ago Mami had taken a fall that left her with amnesia, too. And when she recovered, she had gained access to "the secrets." In 2012, spurred by a shared dream among Mami and her sisters, and her own powerful urge to relearn her family history in the aftermath of her memory loss, Rojas Contreras joins her mother on a journey to Colombia to disinter Nono's remains. With Mami as her unpredictable, stubborn, and often amusing guide, Rojas Contreras traces her lineage back to her Indigenous and Spanish roots, uncovering the violent and rigid colonial narrative that would eventually break her mestizo family into two camps: those who believe "the secrets" are a gift, and those who are convinced they are a curse." -- Amazon.comReina
Par Elizabeth Duval. 2020
"As a student of Modern Philosophy and Literature in Paris, the writer and activist Elizabeth Duval (Alcalá de Henares, 2000)…
starts a diary that inevitably ends up transforming her reality, mediated by a kind of fictional conception of her own existence. With an exceptional talent to make her prose converse with the history of ideas, thus proposing an interesting device for intellectual stimulation, throughout Queen numerous issues circulate that zigzag between public and private spheres. Among its themes, the following stand out: university life as an initiation to maturity, politics under late capitalism, and post-adolescent love from a perspective that goes beyond all our expectations on the subject and sublimates it in a reflection on affections and desire as universal as radically new." -- Provided by publisherMy Mark Twain: reminiscences and criticisms
Par William Dean Howells. 1997
First published in 1910, this memoir by American novelist William Dean Howells draws on his intimate 40-year friendship with Mark…
Twain. Long periods of time spent in the company of the celebrated humorist gave him an unparalleled opportunity to observe Twain and to offer perceptive insights into the spirit and style of Twain's writing. Brimming with affection and humor, the book not only captures Twain's genial spirit but also presents a vivd picture of a rare friendship between two gifted writersThe dictionary of misinformation
Par Tom Burnam. 1975
Collectors of information are numerous, but collectors of misinformation are rare. Tom Burnam, an unusual professor of English, a man…
who delights in error has brought together some of the mistaken beliefs many of us have confidently expounded in speech and writing. Join the author as he seeks the truth in matter large and smallLo que trajo el mar: crónicas
Par Frank Báez. 2020
"This collection of texts navigates between autobiography and chronicle. With cultural references such as Bob Dylan, Wilfrido Vargas, Karate Kid…
and Dylan Thomas, Frank Báez narrates episodes that go from his childhood to the present and reconstructs, with the fresh look that characterizes him, the paths along which literature has taken him." -- Translation provided by NLS