Category: Memoir

By Lewis Nordan

By David Benjamin

A “Best e-book of the 12 months” finalist of the nice Lakes Booksellers organization, here's a laugh-out-loud retelling of an American childhood.

Through the telling of his personal madcap formative years, David Benjamin will pay homage to the exuberance of numerous younger boys transforming into up in heart the United States within the Fifties. even if he’s stalking frogs during the toilets of Tomah, Wisconsin, enjoying four-kid baseball together with his bothersome little brother and favourite cousins, or sneaking into the theater to observe Saturday-afternoon Westerns, Benjamin is the type of little child who might have fallen in eagerly with the redoubtable Tom Sawyer.

Traversing the nooks and crannies of kidhood, from ballfields to swimming holes, The existence and occasions of the final child Picked captures a time and a spot in twentieth-century American existence and celebrates the adventures and wanderlust that after made formative years such a thrilling company.

Nikos and that i stay jointly as fanatics, as we all know, and we appear to be permitted simply because it truly is recognized that we're fans. actually, we're, in response to the legislations, criminals in our making love with one another, however it is as though the legislation do not follow. it's as though the entire conventions of intercourse and garments and artwork and song and drink and medication do not follow the following in London...Strangers to this new urban, from past lives in long island and Athens, David Plante and Nikos Stangos are embarking on a brand new lifestyles jointly, a partnership to be able to undergo for 40 years. London, at a second of 'absolute recognize for differences', bargains a freedom in love unimaginable of their past houses. From the King's highway to Bloomsbury, worlds inside worlds emerge: friendships with Stephen and Natasha Spender, Francis Bacon, Sonia Orwell, W. H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood, Steven Runciman, David Hockney and R. B. Kitaj; conferences with E. M. Forster and Duncan supply. Connections seem to criss-cross, invisibly, even though the air of London, interconnecting every body. David Plante has saved a diary of his lifestyles one of the inventive elite for over part a century. Spanning his first fifteen years in London, from the mid-sixties to the early eighties, this primary quantity of memoirs attracts on diary entries, notes, sketches and drawings to bare a stunning, intimate portrait of a courting and a luminous evocation of an international of writers, poets, artists and thinkers.

By Joan Didion

From one among America’s iconic writers, a beautiful booklet of electrical honesty and keenness. Joan Didion explores an intensely own but common adventure: a portrait of a marriage--and a lifestyles, in reliable occasions and bad--that will communicate to somebody who has ever enjoyed a husband or spouse or baby.

By Susan McCorkindale

The hilarious follow-up to the memoir, Confessions of a Counterfeit Farm Girl.

it has been 4 years due to the fact Susan's husband dragged her kicking and screaming from their cozy, massive urban East Coast existence to a farm in Virginia farm animals state. Susan's adjusting as most sensible she will be able to, which is not effortless contemplating she's been identified to put on Manolos in manure. She'll by no means be a true farm woman, yet as readers will see from her part- splitting confessions, she's faking it simply positive.

By Paul Auster

"That is the place the tale starts, on your physique and every little thing will lead to the physique as well."
On January three, 2011, precisely one month earlier than his sixty-fourth birthday, across the world acclaimed novelist Paul Auster sat down and wrote the 1st access of Winter Journal, his unorthodox, fantastically wrought exam of his personal lifestyles, as noticeable in the course of the background of his physique. Auster takes us from formative years to the threshold of previous age as he summons forth a universe of actual sensation, of pleasures and pains, relocating from the awakening of sexual hope as a teenager to the ever deepening bonds of married love, from meditations on consuming and dozing to the "scalding, epiphanic second of readability" in 1978 that set him on a brand new direction as a writer.

By Elizabeth Alexander

By Elizabeth Hardwick

In Sleepless Nights a girl seems to be again on her life—the parade of individuals, the transferring heritage of place—and assembles a scrapbook of stories, reflections, photos, letters, needs, and goals. An encouraged fusion of truth and invention, this fantastically discovered, hard-bitten, lyrical e-book is not just Elizabeth Hardwick's best fiction yet one of many notable contributions to American literature of the final fifty years.

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This can be the chinese language Translation of Solomon Volkov's Testimony: The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich

本书（原名《见证》）是肖斯塔科维奇生前口述，由其学生伏尔科夫记录整理，带到西方出版的。

肖式是享有世界声誉的作曲家。他在本书中回顾了自己一生的坎坷经历，对其音乐作品的创作背景作了深刻的说明，涉及到苏联文艺界的若干内情，并生动地叙述了文坛乃至政界的许多名人轶事。

本书可作为了解苏联现代史尤其文艺界情况的参考读物。

By Billy Romp, Wanda Urbanska

the nice and cozy, fabulous, real-life story of the relatives that brings the Christmas spirit to existence on a highway nook in new york.

Every vacation season for almost two decades, Billy Romp, his spouse, and their 3 little ones have spent approximately a month dwelling in a tiny camper and promoting Christmas bushes on Jane road in big apple urban. they come from Vermont the day after Thanksgiving and depart simply in time to make it domestic for Christmas morning—and for a couple of weeks they rework a nook of new york right into a Frank Capra-esque small city alive with heartwarming vacation spirit.

Christmas on Jane Street is set the transformative strength of love—love of mother or father and baby, of service provider and client, of stranger and neighbor. the appropriate Christmas tale, it really is concerning the lasting and profound distinction that one individual could make to a kinfolk and one kin could make to a community.

A wonderful, lovingly illustrated little gem of a ebook, this pleasant 10th anniversary version of a cherished Christmas vintage tells the poignant, inspiring tale of an unforgettable family members and the nice and cozy, broad circle of associates who've welcomed them to the neighborhood.