In Doing More with a Life, best-selling author Piasecki welcomes the reader into his home, revealing the heart-breaking early death of his father, and his deep respect and love for the women in his life, especially his mother, who devoted her life to...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 13-Oct-2023, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Rutgers University Press, ISBN-13: 9781978837133)
Michele Campo is living the bourgeois Italian dream. Now a speech pathologist in his forties, he resides in an expensive Naples home with his partner, Costanza, daughter of an upper-class family. Michele s own family origins, however, are murkier. Wh...Lasīt vairāk
LONGLISTED FOR THE HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZEIn frantic flight from the Vietnam War, Jay Parini leaves the United States for Scotland. There, through unlikely circumstances, he meets famed Argentinian author Jorge Luis Borges. The pair embark on a trip to t...Lasīt vairāk
There is no such thing as history, you see. Its a dream, perhaps even a dream of a dream . . .Walter Benjamin is dead. One of the most radiant minds of the twentieth century has been snatched away by death in a small town on the border between Spai...Lasīt vairāk
Brought to you by Penguin. In 1960, John Steinbeck set out in his pick-up truck with his dog Charley to rediscover and chronicle his native USA, from Maine to California.He felt that he might have lost touch with its sights, sounds and the essence of...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 03-Dec-2015, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Virginia Press, ISBN-13: 9780813937465)
Robert Frost observed in his wife, Elinor, a desire to live "e;a life that goes rather poetically."e; The same could be said of many members of the Frost family, over several generations. In You Come Too, Frosts granddaughter, Lesley Lee Fra...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 03-Dec-2015, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Virginia Press, ISBN-13: 9780813937465)
Robert Frost observed in his wife, Elinor, a desire to live "e;a life that goes rather poetically."e; The same could be said of many members of the Frost family, over several generations. In You Come Too, Frosts granddaughter, Lesley Lee Fra...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 27-Aug-2015, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Little, Brown Book Group, ISBN-13: 9781405525367)
An intimate yet frank biography of Gore Vidal, one of the most accomplished, visible and controversial American novelists and cultural figures of the past century. The product of thirty years of friendship and conversation, Jay Parinis biography pro...Lasīt vairāk
Fifteen-year-old Sammy di Cantini, resident of a mining region of Pennsylvania, is determined to rise above his class, falls disastrously in love with a Protestant, and visits his Mafia brother in New York where he becomes involved in impossible stru...Lasīt vairāk
In House of Days, his fourth collection of poems, Jay Parini moves beyond his earlier work to address the environmental and spiritual crises that afflict us in the late twentieth century. The book moves from "e;Nature Revisited,"e; an elegiac...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 13-May-2013, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Massachusetts Press, ISBN-13: 9781941088524)
Jay Parinis biography of the poet, Theodore Roethke. Parini views Roethke through the lens of a Romantic poet. With this incredibly researched and well written work, Parini reaffirms Roethkes reputation as a poet that came into his own after the p...Lasīt vairāk
