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How do you live your life when everything you do is meaningless and forgotten? What is a life worth? And what really is perfection? Claire’s first novel, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August, the extraordinary journey of one unforgettable character who lives his life over and over again, became a best seller and was selected for the Richard and Judy Book Club, the Waterstones Book Club and the Radio 2 Book Club.

Filled with fresh new research, this updated edition of the definitive biography of Coco Chanel deepens our understanding of the history and legacy of the incredible woman who shaped modern fashion and created an empire of haute couture. Coco Chanel was an extraordinary inventor, conjuring up...

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR New York Times Book Review The New Yorker Entertainment Weekly Time Washington Post San Francisco Chronicle Chicago Tribune Christian Science Monitor Slate St. Louise Post-Dispatch Cleveland Plain Dealer Seattle Times NBCC...

Hace unos años me rompí por completo. Tanto como para que tuvieran que atarme a la cama de un hospital psiquiátrico para evitar que pudiera hacerme daño. No tengo ni idea de cuándo empezó a formarse mi locura. A lo mejor nací genéticamente predispuesto. A lo mejor fui macerando una depresión al callarme ciertas cosas por no preocupar a los demás. O a lo mejor simplemente hay cerebros que de la noche a la mañana hacen crec y se acabó.

Ein Charakterbild des französischen Autors der „Comédie humaine" und vieler anderer Werke.

What is the role of the writer? Prophet? High priest of art? Court jester? Or witness to the real world? Looking back on her own childhood and writing career, Margaret Atwood examines the metaphors which writers of fiction and poetry have used to explain - or excuse! - their activities, looking at what costumes they have assumed, what roles they have chosen to play. In her final chapter she takes up the challenge of the title: if a writer is to be seen as "gifted", who is doing the giving and what are the terms of the gift?

Anton Tschechow (1860-1904) ist einer der größten Dramatiker der Weltliteratur. Seine Werke, darunter Die Möwe, Onkel Wanja und Der Kirschgarten, sind Tragikomödien über das lächerliche, fürchterliche Dasein, über Begehren und Enttäuschung. Ohne jede Sentimentalität blickte er auf das Leben, das, so schrieb er seiner Frau, nicht zu erklären sei, so wenig wie eine Mohrrübe.

In this incredible second book in a series of autobiographies, the poet, still in her teens, gives birth to a son, tries to keep a job, falls in love, dances, falls out of love, chases after her kidnapped baby, and goes to work in a house of prostitution thinking she is helping the man she loves...

From one of the most gifted writers of her generation comes the harrowing and exquisitely written true story of how a family tragedy saved her life. Dani Shapiro was a young girl from a deeply religious home who became the girlfriend of a famous and flamboyant married attorney—her best...

Pascale Hugues folgt in ihrem neuen Hörbuch den Spuren ihrer Mutter, die viel zu früh starb. Yvette wird im elsässischen Colmar geboren, 1929, im Jahr der Großen Depression. Yvettes Leben ist stets zwischen zwei Polen, ein Spiegel ihrer Krankheit. Bipolar. Pascale Hugues erfuhr als Kind nicht, warum ihre fürsorgliche Mutter wochenlang verschwand. Jetzt begibt sie sich auf die Suche. Sie zeichnet das Bild einer Zeit, in der psychische Krankheiten ein Tabu sind, die man hinter schützenden Lügen verbirgt.

The nonfiction debut from beloved international sensation and #1 New York Times bestselling author Tatiana de Rosnay: her bestselling biography of novelist Daphne du Maurier. “It's impressive how Tatiana was able to recreate the personality of my mother, including her sense of humor. It is...

""I fell in love with Maupin’s effervescent Tales of the City decades ago, and his genius turn at memoir is no less compelling. Logical Family is a must read.""—Mary Karr In this long-awaited memoir, the beloved author of the bestselling Tales of the City series chronicles his odyssey from...

Der Anruf kommt um kurz nach zwei. Ein junger, sterbenskranker Mann geht ans Telefon, und eine Stimme sagt: "Wir haben eine passendes Spenderorgan für Sie." Auf diesen Anruf hat er gewartet, diesen Anruf hat er gefürchtet. Soll er es wagen, damit er weiter da ist für sein Kind? Er nimmt seine Tasche und lässt sich ins Berliner Virchow-Klinikum fahren. David Wagner berichtet autobiografisch mit Imaginationen von langen Nächten im Kosmos Krankenhaus und von wechselnden Bettnachbarn mit ihren Schicksalen.

In her moving and insightful new book, Joan Didion reassesses parts of her life, her work, her history and ours. A native Californian, Didion applies her scalpel-like intelligence to the state’s ethic of ruthless self-sufficiency in order to examine that ethic’s often tenuous relationship to reality. Combining history and reportage, memoir and literary criticism, Where I Was From explores California’s romances with land and water; its unacknowledged debts to railroads, aerospace, and big government; the disjunction between its code of individualism and its fetish for prisons.

Stationen einer Jugend: Wenige Jahre vor Ausbruch des Ersten Weltkrieges unehelich geboren, wird der Junge in ein "Militär-Knaben-Erziehungs-Institut" gesteckt, dessen preußischer Militärgeist ihm tief zuwider ist. Auch die anschließende Schule verstärkt seine Außenseiter-Rolle. Erst als er die Literatur entdeckt, hat er seine Welt gefunden.

A stunning, tragic memoir about John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, and his cousin Anthony Radziwill, by Radziwill’s widow. What Remains is a vivid and haunting memoir about a girl from a working-class town who becomes an award-winning television producer and marries a...

Because Plath drew so heavily on her own life in both her poetry and her fiction, the outlines of her life are familiar to listeners. Like most writers, Plath changed the facts of her life in her writing. In her determination to be both wife and mother, on the one hand, and teacher and writer on the other, Plath tried simultaneously to fulfill and to fight the conventions that bound women in the 1950s. In this biography, the first to draw on unpublished journals and letters recently made available, Wagner-Martin examines the ironies, contradictions, and achievements of Plath's life.

Fueled by a powerful curiosity - and by a need to see, feel, and hear, firsthand and close-up - Michael Crichton's journeys have carried him into worlds diverse and compelling - swimming with mud sharks in Tahiti, tracking wild animals through the jungle of Rwanda. This is a record of those travels - an exhilarating quest across the familiar and exotic frontiers of the outer world, a determined odyssey into the unfathomable, spiritual depths of the inner world.

Discover the lives of remarkable women who shaped the world – from revolutionaries and rulers to scientists, artists, and pioneers. These short audio biographies highlight courage, brilliance, and vision in just five minutes each. Included: Queen Elizabeth II, Frida Kahlo, Marie Curie, Harriet Beecher-Stowe, Tsarina Catherine the Great, Queen Victoria, Golda Meir, Gertrude Stein, and many more!

Литературный дебют Вересаева. Автобиографическая книга, которая впервые увидела свет в 1901 году – и сразу принесла молодому автору широкую известность. Первые шаги свежеиспеченного эскулапа, начинающего свой путь на медицинской ниве. Удачи и неудачи. Мучительный страх ошибки, которая может погубить ни в чем неповинного пациента. Стрессы. Отчаяние. Гордость успехов. Опасные и морально сомнительные, но необходимые эксперименты на людях, в поисках новых методов лечения. Сенсация и скандал – появление врачей-женщин.