Ergebnis für "road, The" in Romanbiografien

If you loved Landscape of a Marriage by Gail Ward Olmsted, you'll absolutely adore Katharine's Remarkable Road Trip. In the fall of 1907, Katharine decides to drive from Newport, Rhode Island to her new home in Jackson, New Hampshire. Despite the concerns of her family and friends that at the age of 77 she lacks the stamina for the nearly 300-mile journey, Katharine sets out alone.

A poignant masterpiece of wrenching personal expression from the author of On the Road and The Dharma Bums In this 1962 novel, Kerouac's alter ego Jack Duluoz, overwhelmed by success and excess, gravitates back and forth between wild binges in San Francisco and an isolated cabin on the...

Do you long to chase your dreams but fear to take the first step? In this contemporary spiritual odyssey, an ordinary man recovers from a traumatic ordeal and returns to normal life only to toss and turn at night because of a prophetic dream and a newfound desire to better the world. With a family to provide for, he ignores the dream and his aspirations until he makes an incredible discovery: he is not alone. A handful of others share the same uplifting dream and powerful calling. As the puzzle pieces miraculously fall into place, he joins them to change the world.

In The Last Great Road Bum, Héctor Tobar turns the peripatetic true story of a naive son of Urbana, Illinois, who died fighting with guerrillas in El Salvador into the great American novel for our times. Joe Sanderson died in pursuit of a life worth writing about. He was, in his words, a "road bum", an adventurer and a storyteller, belonging to no place, people, or set of ideas. He was born into a childhood of middle-class contentment in Urbana, Illinois, and died fighting with guerillas in Central America.

The third novel in the New York Times bestselling Walk series about an advertising executive who loses everything and embarks on a walk across America: “definitely a journey worth taking” (Booklist). Reeling from the sudden loss of his wife, his home, and his business, Alan Christoffersen, a...

Arjuna, a young man from India, comes to the USA to study, falls in love with an American girl and marries her against the wishes of his conservative parents, thereby alienating them. He blames his wife for his rift with his parents.

From the best-selling author of Longbourn, a haunting new novel of spies and artists, passion and danger, hope in the face of despair Paris, 1939. The pavement rumbles with the footfall of Nazi soldiers marching along the Champs-Élysées. A young, unknown writer—Samuel Beckett—recently...

Third-year Harvard student William Price takes an absence from his studies when an opportunity arises to accompany Charles Dickens on his American tour as his personal assistant. Leaving the love of his life, Rebecca, behind in Cambridge and traveling along the East Coast with Dickens and his lively crew, Price discovers the incomparable joys, follies, temptations, and opportunities of life on the road. As Price gets to know Dickens in a series of settings, from somber one-on-one chats to his flamboyant performances and raucous after-parties, they develop a complicated friendship.

In Green Bay, Wisconsin - here vividly realized and imagined - Bea Maxwell comes of age in the 50s, and Off Keck Road follows her extended circle along the arc of their lives, through their frustrations and occasional successes, well toward old age. A story of family and friends, of change and many generations, it gathers itself around this remarkable woman, who discovers much about the world from her experience in the one place she has always belonged. Mesmerizing, compact, and intense, Off Keck Road reflects fully half a century of American life.

The first book in the inspiring New York Times bestselling series about an executive who loses everything he holds dear and embarks on a walk across America that changes his life forever. What would you do if you lost everything—your job, your home, and the love of your life—all at the same...

This is the fictional memoir of an 18-year-old hitchhiking across the country in 1972. But it is inspired by the humorous, bizarre, and scary experiences Jeff Rasley actually had hitchhiking from Goshen, Indiana to Key West and then to New Orleans for Mardi Gras. Jeff dropped out of Goshen College after one semester, worked in a factory for six weeks, saved up $65, and began thumbing south.

No ritmo das pedaladas de uma bicicleta, a estrada passa sob os pés do protagonista André, enquanto este percorre o sul do Brasil, o Uruguai, a Argentina, até chegar a Sucre, na Bolívia, cidade onde desaparece. Através de seu diário, enviado ao amigo Jean pouco depois da última nota, é que temos acesso aos lugares onde passou, as pessoas com quem conviveu e os fantasmas que o perseguiram durante a jornada.

Me gustaría que los médicos acepten cuando no saben como manejar mi depresión. Con el tiempo aprendí a detectar cuando los médicos simplemente improvisan e intentan conservarme como paciente el mayor tiempo posible sin importar que mi situación empeore. La mayoría de los médicos que han tratado mi depresión así como otros problemas de salud suelen tomarse mi caso muy a la ligera. Casi siempre muestran un nocivo exceso de confianza que me resulta desagradable. Y peor aun, cuando manejan la situación con un peculiar sentido del humor que me resulta impertinente.

It's the dawn of the 1970s, and everything is changing. Enter "The Kid", a panic-prone, hyper-imaginative boy whose life changes drastically when his father brings home an astronaut white El Camino. His birthday arms him with a pair of novelty X-Ray Specs - and as the Camino muscles them through a decade of economic and cultural turmoil, the Kid comes to believe he can see through metal, clothing, skin - to the center of the universe itself, where he imagines something monstrous.