Ergebnis für "A Piece of Elsewhere" in Belletristik

Else ist eine Frau, die wir von all ihren Seiten kennenlernen dürfen: als sudetendeutsches vertriebenes Kind, bei ihrem sozialen Aufstieg, der angeblich nur ihrem Ehemann Willy zu verdanken ist, und bei ihrer emotionalen Emanzipationsreise, als sie entscheidet, heim¬lich einen Taxischein zu machen. Sie fährt uns stolz, fein und modern durch die Frankfurter Nächte der Sechziger- bis Achtzigerjahre und parkt uns in einer berührenden Szenerie an der Côte d’Azur, wo sie mit ihrer Enkelin auf eine letzte große Reise geht.

Nisha Cantor and Sam Kemp are two very different women. Nisha, 45, lives the globetrotting life of the seriously wealthy, until her husband inexplicably cuts her off entirely. She doesn't even have the shoes she was, until a moment ago, standing in. That's because Sam—47, middle-aged, struggling to keep herself and her family afloat—has accidentally taken Nisha's gym bag. Now Nisha's got nothing. And Sam's walking tall with shoes that catch eyes—and give her a career an unexpected boost. Except Nisha wants her life back—and she'll start with her shoes....

Reggie Oliver is a stage actor and playwright. His biography of Stella Gibbons was praised as "a triumph" by Hilary Spurling in the Daily Telegraph, his play Winner Takes All, was described as "the funniest evening in London", by Michael Billington in The Guardian, and his adaptation of Hennequin and Delacour's Once Bitten opened at the Orange Tree Theatre in London in December 2010. A PIECE OF ELSEWHERE: Staying with Auntie Winnie was going to be a treat. That was what I was told, but no valid reason for why it should be had been supplied.

The author initially intended to call this novel The Lyrical Age. The lyrical age, according to Kundera, is youth, and this novel, above all, is an epic of adolescence; an ironic epic that tenderly erodes sacrosanct values: childhood, motherhood, revolution, and even poetry. Jaromil is in fact a poet. His mother made him a poet and accompanies him (figuratively) to his love bed and (literally) to his deathbed. A ridiculous and touching character, horrifying and totally innocent ("innocence with its bloody smile!"), Jaromil is at the same time a true poet. He's no creep, he's Rimbaud.