Ergebnis für "Leslie Jamison" in Biografien & Erinnerungen

From personal loss to phantom diseases, The Empathy Exams is a bold and brilliant collection. A Publishers Weekly Top Ten Essay Collection of Spring 2014 Beginning with her experience as a medical actor who was paid to act out symptoms for medical students to diagnose, Leslie Jamison's visceral...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER with 5+ hours of bonus material not found in the print version and read by Leslie Jones. AudioFile Magazine awarded the recording an ‘Earphones Award’, saying: “No listener can leave this memoir unaffected as Jones laughs and sobs, sharing the highs and lows...

Mitreißend erzählt: Eine Familiengeschichte, generationenübergreifend geprägt von Alkoholabhängigkeit. Mia ist die jüngste Tochter in einer langen Dynastie von Trinkenden. Auch sie selbst liebt Rotwein, aber so schlimm wie bei ihrer verrückten Oma und ihrem rätselhaften Vater, die sich mit dem Trinken umgebracht haben, ist es bei ihr noch lange nicht, denkt sie. Sie ist eben ein Partygirl, eine Rebellin, eine Künstlerseele. Bei der Arbeit als Barkeeperin im Berliner Nachtleben lernt sie, zu trinken, von einem älteren Mann lernt sie Sex und Drama.

A raw, funny, and fiercely honest account of becoming a mother before feeling like a grown up. When Meaghan O'Connell got accidentally pregnant in her twenties and decided to keep the baby, she realized that the book she needed -- a brutally honest, agenda-free reckoning with the emotional and...

When Colleen Kinder put out a call for authors to write a letter to a stranger about an unforgettable encounter, she opened the floodgates. The responses—intimate and addictive, all written in the second person—began pouring in. These short, insightful essays by a remarkable cast of writers guide us both across the globe and through the mysteries of human connection. Moving and unforgettable, Letter to a Stranger is an irresistible listen for the literary traveler and the perfect gift for anyone who is haunted by a person they met once and will remember forever.

In the tradition of Blackout and Permanent Midnight, a darkly funny and revealing debut memoir of one woman's twenty-year battle with sex, drugs, and alcohol addiction, and what happens when she finally emerges on the other side. Growing up in Beverly Hills, Amy Dresner had it all: a top-notch...

The award-winning actress presents her literary debut. An unconventional memoir in letters, Dear Mr. You chronicles Parker's life through correspondence with men from her past and imagined future and reveals the complexity and power found in relationships both loving and fraught. In conversation with Leslie Jamison ( The Empathy Exams).