Описание: Kurt Cobain and Ian Curtis. Through death, they became icons. However, the lead singers have been removed from their humanity, replaced by easily replicated and distributed commodities bearing their image. This book examines how the anglicised singers provide secular guidance to the modern consumer in an ever more uncertain world.
Set against the backdrop of the Civil Rights Movement, Redlined exposes the racist lending rules that refuse mortgages to anyone in areas with even one black resident. As blacks move deeper into Chicago's West Side during the 1960s, whites flee by the thousands. But Linda Gartz's parents, Fred and Lil choose to stay in their integrating neighborhood, overcoming previous prejudices as they meet and form friendships with their African American neighbors. The community sinks into increasing poverty and crime after two race riots destroy its once vibrant business district, but Fred and Lil continue to nurture their three apartment buildings and tenants for the next twenty years in a devastated landscape--even as their own relationship cracks and withers. After her parents' deaths, Gartz discovers long-hidden letters, diaries, documents, and photos stashed in the attic of her former home. Determined to learn what forces shattered her parents' marriage and undermined her community, she searches through the family archives and immerses herself in books on racial change in American neighborhoods. Told through the lens of Gartz's discoveries of the personal and political, Redlined delivers a riveting story of a community fractured by racial turmoil, an unraveling and conflicted marriage, a daughter's fight for sexual independence, and an up-close, intimate view of the racial and social upheavals of the 1960s.
Автор: Rosen Michael Название: So They Call You Pisher?: A Memoir ISBN: 1786633965 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781786633965 Издательство: Marston Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 3364.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The brilliant family memoir of the much-beloved poet and political campaigner
Автор: Blumenthal Michael Название: All My Mothers and Fathers: A Memoir ISBN: 1943665265 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781943665266 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 2131.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Shortly after his mother dies of breast cancer when he is ten years old, Michael Blumenthal discovers that she was not his biological mother, and that his aunt and uncle, immigrant chicken farmers living in Vineland, New Jersey, are really his parents.As fate would have it, his adoptive father, a German-Jewish refugee raised by a loveless and embittered stepmother after his own mother died in childbirth, has inflicted on his stepson a fate uncannily - and terrifyingly - similar to his own: Having first adopted Michael, in part, to help his dying wife, he then imposes on him the same sort of penurious and loveless stepmother whom he himself had had to survive. With these revelations, the ""mysteries"" that seem to have permeated Michael's childhood are laid bare, triggering a quest for belonging that will infiltrate the author's entire adult life.
Автор: Hansen Ron Название: Hotly in Pursuit of the Real: Notes Toward a Memoir ISBN: 1532692021 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781532692024 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2759.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Автор: Kephart Beth Название: Wife Daughter Self: A Memoir in Essays ISBN: 1942436440 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781942436447 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2207.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Wife - Daughter - Self is an exploration of the composite self--and the people we become in relationship to others. Married to a spectacular Salvadoran artist with fantastical stories of his youth, Kephart, in Wife, sets out to understand what makes love last. A near replica of her father--his face, his discipline, his crippling anxiety--Kephart, in Daughter, takes a journey with him into heartbreaking transitions--loss of spouse, loss of family home, loss of health--and emerges with deepened affection and respect. Finally, alone with a page and pen, Kephart, in Self, comes to terms with the person she wishes she had been and the person there might be room, still, to become. An interweave of deeply considered essays in which each piece speaks of and through the next for readers who enjoy the lyric truth telling of Margaret Renkl, Terry Tempest Williams, Patricia Hampl, Sonja Livingston, and others.
Описание: Katerina Bryant’s debut Hysteria is an astounding hybrid memoir exploring chronic mental illness and the treatment of women’s health throughout history.When Katerina Bryant suddenly began experiencing chronic seizures, she was plunged into a foreign world of doctors and psychiatrists, who understood her condition as little as she did. Reacting the only way she knew how, she immersed herself in books, reading her way through her own complicated diagnosis and finding a community of women who shared similar experiences.In the tradition of Siri Hustvedt’s The Shaking Woman, Bryant blends memoir with literary and historical analysis to explore women’s medical treatment. Hysteria retells the stories of silenced women, from the ‘Queen of Hysterics’ Blanche Wittmann to Mary Glover’s illness termed ‘hysterica passio’ – a panic attack caused by the movement of the uterus – in London in 1602 and more. By centring these stories of women who had no voice in their own diagnosis and treatment, Bryant finds her own voice: powerful, brave and resonant.
Автор: David Lehman Название: One Hundred Autobiographies: A Memoir ISBN: 1501746456 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501746451 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 2878.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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In One Hundred Autobiographies, poet and scholar David Lehman applies the full measure of his intellectual powers to cope with a frightening diagnosis and painful treatment for cancer. No matter how debilitating the medical procedures, Lehman wrote every day during chemotherapy and in the aftermath of radical surgery. With characteristic riffs of wit and imagination, he transmutes the details of his inner life into a prose narrative rich in incident and mental travel. The reader journeys with him from the first dreadful symptoms to the sunny days of recovery.
This "fake memoir," as he refers ironically to it, features one-hundred short vignettes that tell a life story. One Hundred Autobiographies is packed with insights and epiphanies that may prove as indispensable to aspiring writers as Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet.
Set against the backdrop of Manhattan, Lehman summons John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, Edward Said, and Lionel Trilling among his mentors. Dostoyevsky shows up, as does Graham Greene. Keith Richards and Patti Hansen put in an appearance, Edith Piaf sings, Clint Eastwood saves the neighborhood, and the Rat Pack comes along for the ride. These and other avatars of popular culture help Lehman to make sense of his own mortality and life story.
One Hundred Autobiographies reveals a stunning portrait of a mind against the ropes, facing its own extinction, surviving and enduring.
Автор: Al-Ghitani Gamal Название: Traces: A Memoir ISBN: 9774169530 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789774169533 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 3449.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: One of Egypt's greatest contemporary writers reflects on life and love. This haunting memoir, written ten years before Ghitani's death, weaves together a series of vignettes in a style that mimics the uneven, discontinuous nature of memory itself. These fragments are summoned from across the span of a singular lifetime. We read of his childhood adventures, his erotic awakenings, his time as a political prisoner, and his reports from the battlefront in Iraq and the corridors of power in Syria. Vivid passages capture fleeting glances of strangers through car windows, flavors and scents of delicacies savored, dreams and sorrows of neighbors in the apartment blocks of Cairo before Nasser, as well as chance conversations at points of transit, in caf s, on elegant streets, and with unnamed paramours. These memories, and Ghitani's musings on memory's own finitude and mutability, make Traces both a memoir and a meditation on memory itself, in all its inscrutable workings and inevitable betrayals.
Автор: Orr Gregory Название: The Blessing: A Memoir ISBN: 1571313869 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781571313867 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2069.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Hailed on its original publication as "eloquent testimony to the engaging power of art in a man`s life" (Washington Post), this deeply moving memoir, long out of print, is reissued with an illuminating new afterword.
