![]() With their broad canvas and sprawling cast of fictional and historical characters, these novels present a panorama of American politics and imperialism, as interpreted by one of our most incisive and ironic observers. Together, they explore both Burr's past-and the continuing civic drama of their young nation.īurr is the first novel in Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire series, which spans the history of the United States from the Revolution to post-World War II. But he is determined to tell his own story, and he chooses to confide in a young New York City journalist named Charles Schermerhorn Schuyler. In 1833, Burr is newly married, an aging statesman considered a monster by many. In 1807, he was arrested, tried, and acquitted of treason. In 1804, while serving as vice president, Aaron Burr fought a duel with his political nemesis, Alexander Hamilton, and killed him. Here is an extraordinary portrait of one of the most complicated-and misunderstood-figures among the Founding Fathers. For readers who can't get enough of the hit Broadway musical Hamilton, Gore Vidal's stunning novel about Aaron Burr, the man who killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel-and who served as a successful, if often feared, statesman of our fledgling nation. Gore Vidal is one of the Greatest if not the Greatest Living Writer today, The book Burr is part of his American Historical Novel Series and is an updated and. ![]()
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![]() 246).ĭonelson arbeitet Blixens afrikanische Jahre fast zu akribisch ab und klingt gelegentlich zu protokollartig – zumal das ewige Löwen-Abknallen –, manchmal aber auch wie eine Livereportage ("As she walked up the gangway she struggled with the leash of a large Scottish deerhound…", S. 215 "like many women at age forty-one, Karen was at the height of her sexual interest", S. 102 "Denys… willing to satisfy her longings", S. 30 "Bror… satisfied her physical needs", S. Die Ärztin Donelson beschreibt Gesundheit und Medikamente ihrer Hauptfiguren so genau wie möglich und kümmert sich auch ums Sexuelle im übertragenden und wörtlichen Sinn ("the rifles were erotic symbols", S. Sie saß gern auf Blixens berühmtem Mühlstein auf der Terrasse. Blixens frühe Jahre, Vorfahren und ihre nachafrikanische Zeit (rund 31 Jahre) beschreibt Donelson nur sehr gerafft (Tania Blixen, 1885 – 1962, ist auch als Karen Blixen und Isak Dinesen bekannt sie lebte von 19 in Afrika).ĭonelson lebte um 1978 in Kenia und besuchte das Blixen-Haus öfter mit Freunden. Donelson schreibt weitgehend nur über Blixens afrikanische Jahre, jedes Kapitel ist mit einer Jahreszahl überschrieben. Donelson lebte ein gutes Jahr im kenianischen Ngong, also in der Gegend von Tania Blixen. ![]() ![]() Blog:īlixen-Biografin Linda Donelson (1943 – 2012) hat keine Wikipedia-Seite und schrieb offenbar nur dieses eine Buch. ![]() ![]() ![]() “I revelled in the intellectual pleasure and stimulation it gave me from beginning to end. “This is the most creative and comprehensive treatment of the history of Western thought I know.… The book is a real masterpiece.”Īuthor of Realms of the Human Unconscious and Beyond the Brain Pulitzer Prize–winning author of A Prince of Our Disorder and The Alchemy of Survival Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School ![]() It not only places the history of Western thought in perspective, but derives new insights concerning the evolution of our thinking and the future of the whole human enterprise.” “THE BEST HISTORY OF WESTERN THOUGHT I HAVE READ.… MASTERFUL.”īaruch College, City University of New York The writing is elegant and carries the reader with the momentum of a novel. "The most lucid and concise presentation I have read, of the grand lines of what every student should know about the history of Western thought. Ten years in the making and already hailed as a classic, The Passion of the Western Mind is truly a complete liberal education in a single volume." Richard Tarnas performs the near-miracle of describing profound philosophical concepts simply but without simplifying them. "Here are the great minds of Western civilization and their pivotal ideas, from Plato to Hegel, from Augustine to Nietzsche, from Copernicus to Freud. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() On top of this, I have to wrestle my way through the multitude of yellow, naked bodies that wander, compact and clammy, across the concrete courtyards and the tortuous, brightly lit corridors. I don’t come out, I emerge, I slide, I’m a long, rickety vapour there’s mist in my armpits, and my mouth is white, I’m a spatula of gelatin, I awaken to pain, splutter moans, I’m a roar, my foamy body fizzes with pins and needles, my eyes are stung red by the light, my eyes, desperate to make out the world, spin amid the hot fumes of the torches. When this happens, I must first wait for someone to leave the house then, I hear a dull thud on my door and the question: I yell, and they may bring me a bowl of soup if I’m lucky. There are even times when they forget about me, and I have to poke my head out and yell so they remember I exist. It’s a relatively uncomfortable dwelling that smells of mould but it’s not without its advantages because, over time, my nails have managed to bore a little hole that serves as a window, so I can watch everything happening outside, without anybody knowing what’s happening with me in here. In order for us all to fit, there must always be one, at least, inside the wardrobe.Īnd it’s usually me who lives in the wardrobe. It’s true that this house is enormous, but there are just too many of us. ![]() ![]() It’s a far future, hard science fiction adventure aimed at advanced middle school readers. Oh, and I should also mention my young adult novel, Skye Object 3270a. It’s a far-future, hard SF tale that feels like fantasy-a coming of age adventure set on a world where the underlying technology has begun running out of control. Everyone relies on Adam-but hes reached a breaking point. By: Toby Neal Narrated by: Sara Malia Hatfield Series: Paradise Crime Mysteries, Book 13 Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins Release date: 11-13-20 Language: English 12 ratings Regular price: 17. Trying to find her footing after a nasty divorce, Zoe finds herself in counseling. ![]() My last traditionally published book, Memory, goes in a different direction. Shes an independent journalist walking the beaches of paradise every day, but she never expected to be doing that alone, with only her dog for company. ![]() The next book, Limit of Vision, is a near-future thriller that explores the escape and evolution of an artificial life form, while touching on the theme of how the future always unfolds in unexpected, and unforeseeable ways. ![]() ![]() The first four books take place in the same story world, sharing a future drenched in nanotechnology, in which it sometimes seems like all things are possible, but in which things can, and do, go very wrong. This is a big reason that I gravitated to science fiction: it’s the perfect genre for telling tales of great adventures, and that’s what I’ve tried to do in my novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() That simultaneous sense of hovering between time periods hangs over this solid revival of How I Learned -also its overdue Broadway debut at Manhattan Theatre Club. Through the clarity of her art and the thorniness of her empathic vision, Vogel bridges the Naughty Nineties and our #MeToo present. ![]() There are countless examples of its present day relevance. The real life parallels continue with Take Back the Night, the Clarence Thomas hearings, #MeToo, and the Anchorage Daily News winning a Pulitzer Prize for covering the high rate of sexual assault in Alaska. A year after its extended run Off Broadway in 1997, the Clinton Administration would become embroiled in the Monica Lewinsky scandal : a President who took advantage of a twentyish intern, using the power of his office to deny it, his enemies trying to weaponize it. Conventional wisdom says that Paula Vogel’s How I Learned to Drive was ahead of its time, yet How I Learned was also absolutely of its time, riding a tide of identity politics and increasing awareness of sexual harassment. ![]() ![]() ![]() But instead Gone With the Wind was a massive bestseller when it was published in 1936, and topped the best-seller list in 1937, too.īut before you write this off as some old-timey fondness for long, sad stories, consider this: A 2014 poll found that Gone With the Wind was the second most popular book in the country still, second only to the Bible, and ahead of Harry Potter. War and Peace, for instance, isn't exactly standard beach reading. You'd think that as long and as tragic as Gone With the Wind is, no one would want to read it. It is, in short, a book in which everything goes terribly wrong. Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel is a great, sweeping tale about the tragedy of the Civil War, the end of civilization as the South's known it, and love turned to dust. Seriously: The only nutshell on the planet that can contain this beast of a book is probably the Coco de Mer. ![]() It is enormously-perhaps even ridiculously-long. You can't get Gone With the Wind into a nutshell. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s August and the sky is dark from the storm. ![]() The gym guy insists it’s not necessary, but Or calls. ![]() He looks like a pirate and says he’s going to call. He stands over me now in a tank top with a bandana tied low across his forehead. We’d planned to run together along the country roads that morning, but a crack of thunder had sent us to the gym instead. I’ve seen her at these conferences over the last couple of years, and we’ve shared meals, but that’s all. ![]() I’m at a graduate student conference in Stowe, Vermont, a town wedged deep in the valley between the Green Mountains and the Worcester Range. He bends at the waist and wags the bottle over my face for me to take it. “A banana,” I tell him, and he nods as though he suspected as much. He wants to know if I’ve had any breakfast. He is tall and waxy with a bird face and dark hair that’s more thin than thinning. The hotel gym guy comes with orange Gatorade. “Jessica, it’s Ilana.” She says it the Canadian way, with a flat first a. Someone is holding my head at the temples. My back is flat against the ground, and so are the soles of my feet, and my knees are up and swaying. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now, they are ready to take the next step with this vibrant and hilarious essay collection, which covers everything from X-Men to Breonna Taylor with “alternately hilarious, thought-provoking, and passionate” ( School Library Journal) insight and intelligence.Ī much needed and fresh pop culture critique from the perspective of people of color, “this hugely entertaining, eminently thoughtful collection is a master class in how powerful-and fun-cultural criticism can be” ( Publishers Weekly, starred review). In the years since, Evans and Holmon have built a large, dedicated fanbase eager for their brand of cultural critiques, whether in the form of a laugh-out-loud, raucous Game of Thrones episode recap or an eloquent essay on dealing with grief through stand-up comedy. But soon after launching, they were surprised to find out that there was a wide community of people who hungered for fresh perspectives on all things nerdy. When William Evans and Omar Holmon founded Black Nerd Problems, they had no idea whether anyone beyond their small circle of friends would be interested in their little corner of the internet. The creators of the popular website Black Nerd Problems bring their witty and unflinching insight to this engaging collection of pop culture essays-on everything from Mario Kart to issues of representation-that “will fill you with joy and give you hope for the future of geek culture” (Ernest Cline, #1 New York Times bestselling author). ![]() ![]() ![]() Many of those who helped with the first edition were of great assistance also with this revised version so, again, I owe a debt of gratitude to them. Inverting the Pyramid has been called the “Big Daddy” (Zonal Marking) of soccer tactics books it is essential for any coach, fan, player, or fantasy manager of the beautiful game. ![]() Inverting the Pyramid provides a definitive understanding of the tactical genius of modern-day Barcelona, for the first time showing how their style of play developed from Dutch “Total Football,” which itself was an evolution of the Scottish passing game invented by Queens Park in the 1870s and taken on by Tottenham Hotspur in the 1930s. Through Jonathan Wilson’s brilliant historical detective work we learn how the South Americans shrugged off the British colonial order to add their own finesse to the game how the Europeans harnessed individual technique and built it into a team structure how the game once featured five forwards up front, while now a lone striker is not uncommon. Inverting the Pyramid is a pioneering soccer book that chronicles the evolution of soccer tactics and the lives of the itinerant coaching geniuses who have spread their distinctive styles across the globe. “An outstanding work the book of the decade.” - Sunday Business Post ![]() |