Intrication du réel et du fictif dans cette très libre biographie de Mary Olivier, cantatrice mancelle de l’Opéra de Paris sous la 3e République dont le somptueux mausolée, véritable espace onirique, a inspiré l’auteure.
A Lambda Literary Awards FinalistNamed one of the best books of 2017 by NPR's Book ConciergeA revelatory narrative of the intersecting lives and works of revered authors Virginia Woolf, T.
The author traces the Queen Mother's formative years, her family life in the palace environment, her growing adoration and ascension to the British throne, how she arranged aid to Stalingrad and was ultimately named an honorary citizen of that city, and other little-known details from the life of the Queen and her circle.
As he did in the Edgar®-nominated and Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity Awards–winning Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks, Christie expert and archivist John Curran once again examines the unpublished notebooks of the world's bestselling author to explore the techniques she used to surprise and entertain generations of readers.
This book will likely induce tears as it transports you through reflections on the connections and losses in your own life -a process at once painful and glorious.
The need to outgrow one's childhood influences and establish an individual identity is common to us all, but for Christopher Milne it was an especially difficult experience in view of the unique problems he faced as the son of A.
An "e;outstandingly dramatic and moving"e; memoir of fleeing a brutal girlhood in Somalia-and becoming a supermodel and UN special ambassador (Kirkus Reviews).
A fascinating exploration of the contents of Agatha Christie's seventy-three private notebooks, including illustrations and two unpublished Poirot storiesWhen Agatha Christie died in 1976, at age eighty-five, she had become the world's most popular author.
American Book Award Winner: A ';mesmerizing' memoir about identity from the daughter of an Irish-Catholic mother and a Sindhi-Indian father (Chandra Prasad, editor of Mixed).
I'll Tell Them I Remember You is New York Times bestselling author William Peter Blatty's memoir about being raised by his single Lebanese mother struggling to make ends meet in 1930s Manhattan.
Discover the extraordinary life of Shirley Hazzard, the acclaimed author of The Transit of Venus and a writer of "e;shocking wisdom"e; and "e;intellectual thrill"e; (The New Yorker), in this compelling biography.
Winner of the 1996 Gaspar Perez de Villegra Award from the Historical Society of New MexicoMabel Dodge Luhan, hostess and visionary, made Taos, New Mexico, a center for artists and utopians when she moved there in 1917 and began inviting friends to visit her.
In the last couple of decades there has been a surge of interest in Octavio Pazs life and work, and a number of important books have been published on Paz.
A contentious, deeply moving ode to friendship, love, and urban life in the spirit of Fierce AttachmentsA memoir of self-discovery and the dilemma of connection in our time, The Odd Woman and the City explores the rhythms, chance encounters, and ever-changing friendships of urban life that forge the sensibility of a fiercely independent woman who has lived out her conflicts, not her fantasies, in a city (New York) that has done the same.
A daring investigation of Primo Levi's brief career as a fighter with the Italian Resistance, and the grim secret that haunted his lifeNo other Auschwitz survivor has been as literarily powerful and historically influential as Primo Levi.
Oblivion is a heartbreaking, exquisitely written memorial to the author's father, Hector Abad Gomez, whose criticism of the Colombian regime led to his murder by paramilitaries in 1987.
This tender and personal memoir by the poet Joanna Ramsey of George Mackay Brown gives an account of some aspects of the last eight years of his life in Stromness, Orkney, and of the friendship between them.
The authorized and sweeping biography of one of America's most complex, influential, and enduring poetsIn the extraordinary generation of American poets who came of age in the middle of the twentieth century, James Wright (1927-1980) was frequently placed at the top of the list.
Cutty, One Rock takes the reader on a wild journey by airplane, bus, ferry, and foot from childhood to early manhood in the company of a New Jersey family in equal measures cultivated and deranged.
Here is a unique collection of fifty years of essays chosen to form an unconventional autobiography and capstone to his remarkable career as the conservative writer par excellence.
