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Anne Fadiman

    7. August 1953

    Anne Fadiman schafft fesselnde Erzählungen, die die tiefen Verbindungen zwischen Menschen und dem geschriebenen Wort erforschen. Ihre Essays tauchen in die Natur des Lesens und die komplexen Wege ein, wie Bücher unser Verständnis der Welt und voneinander prägen. Fadimans unverwechselbare Stimme bringt scharfen Intellekt und eine tiefe Empathie in ihre Erkundungen komplexer menschlicher Erfahrungen ein. Ihre Arbeit feiert die Kraft der Literatur und ihren anhaltenden Einfluss auf unser Leben.

    The Opposite of Loneliness (Essays and Stories)
    The Wine Lover's Daughter
    The spirit catches you and you fall down : a Hmong child, her American doctors, and the collision of two cultures
    Ex Libris. Aus dem Leben einer Bibliomanin
    Ex libris
    • "'Ex Libris begann' ich zu schreiben, als mir auffiel, wie befremdlich es ist, daß über Bücher oft so geschrieben wird, als handele es sich um Toaster", so die Autorin über die Entstehung dieses Buches. Anne Fadiman verbindet Anekdoten über Schriftsteller und Bücher mit Geschichten ihrer eigenen pathologisch bibliophilen Familie. Und ihre Themen sind dabei so bunt wie die Buchumschläge: Fadiman schreibt über Mischehen zwischen Bibliotheken, Bandwurmwörter, ihre familiär vererbte 'Korrektorenmentalität', den Charme von Versandkatalogen und die Unwiderstehlichkeit von Antiquariaten - und dies mit einer Leidenschaft, die für Toaster ganz sicher niemals aufzubringen wäre. Ein Liebhaberbuch für Bücherliebhaber.

      Ex libris
    • In "Ex Libris" teilt Anne Fadiman humorvolle Anekdoten über Schriftsteller*innen und persönliche Erlebnisse ihrer bibliophilen Familie. Sie reflektiert über das Zusammenziehen mit einem Partner, das Vererben von Leseleidenschaft und die Faszination für Antiquariate. Eine unterhaltsame Liebeserklärung an Bücher und das Lesen.

      Ex Libris. Aus dem Leben einer Bibliomanin
    • Lia Lee was born in 1982 to a family of recent Hmong immigrants, and soon developed symptoms of epilepsy. By 1988 she was living at home but was brain dead after a tragic cycle of misunderstanding, over-medication, and culture clash: "What the doctors viewed as clinical efficiency the Hmong viewed as frosty arrogance." The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down is a tragedy of Shakespearean dimensions, written with the deepest of human feeling. Sherwin Nuland said of the account, "There are no villains in Fadiman's tale, just as there are no heroes. People are presented as she saw them, in their humility and their frailty—and their nobility.

      The spirit catches you and you fall down : a Hmong child, her American doctors, and the collision of two cultures
    • The Wine Lover's Daughter

      • 272 Seiten
      • 10 Lesestunden
      3,9(690)Abgeben

      A new memoir by the celebrated essayist that explores her relationship with her father, a lover of wine

      The Wine Lover's Daughter
    • An affecting and hope-filled posthumous collection of essays and stories from the talented young Yale graduate whose title essay captured the world's attention in 2012 and turned her into an icon for her generation. Marina Keegan's star was on the rise when she graduated "magna cum laude" from Yale in May 2012. She had a play that was to be produced at the New York Fringe Festival and a job waiting for her at "The New Yorker." Tragically, five days after graduation, Marina died in a car crash. As her family, friends, and classmates, deep in grief, joined to create a memorial service for Marina, her deeply moving last essay for "The Yale Daily News," "The Opposite of Loneliness," went viral, receiving more than 1.4 million hits. Even though she was just twenty-two when she died, Marina left behind a rich, expansive trove of prose that, like her title essay, captures the hope, uncertainty, and possibility of her generation. Her short story "Cold Pastoral" was published by NewYorker.com just months after her death. "The Opposite of Loneliness "is an assemblage of Marina's essays and stories, which, like "The Last Lecture," articulate the universal struggle that all of us face as we figure out what we aspire to be, and how we can harness our talents to impact the world.

      The Opposite of Loneliness (Essays and Stories)