Joyce Carol Oates chronicles her hardscrabble childhood in rural western New York State.
Authors, American
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Auteur:Oates, Joyce CarolSommaire: -
Auteur:Jackson, ShirleySommaire:A bewitchingly brilliant collection of never-before-published letters from the renowned author of "The Lottery" and The Haunting of Hill House. i must stop writing letters and get to writing a novel. Shirley Jackson is one of the most...
- Auteur:Smith, LeeSommaire:
Recounts the last summer of innocence for nine-year-old Susan, who witnesses the disintegration of her parent's marriage, and learns of people's cruelty from the visiting nephew of a neighbor.
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Auteur:Crary, DuncanSommaire:James Howard Kunstler is best known for his unflinching commentary on the collapse of the American dream in the face of the reality of Peak Oil. Written as a long-form conversational interview, The KunstlerCast explores urban planning,...
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Auteur:HARRISON, KathrynSommaire:In this extraordinary memoir, one of the best young writers in America today transforms into a work of art the darkest passage imaginable in a young woman's life: an obsessive love affair between father and daughter that began when...
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Auteur:Bernstein, HarrySommaire:An invisible wall ran down the center of the street, dividing the Jewish families from the Christians. This is the enchanting true story of a forbidden love affair that would break down those social walls.
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Auteur:Bush, Harold K.Sommaire:The allure of literary letters and rare first editions captures the imaginations of three professors of English literature and leads to tragedy in the wake of the Great Kobe Earthquake of 1995.
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Auteur:McCullough, David G.Sommaire:Through this inspiring history, McCullough offers an account of ambitious Americans who traveled to Paris between 1830 and 1900 to make their greatest accomplishments.
- Auteur:Sanderson, BrandonSommaire:
Now with over 10 million copies sold, The Mistborn Series has the thrills of a heist story, the twistiness of political intrigue, and the epic scale of a landmark fantasy saga. For a thousand years the ash fell and no flowers bloomed....
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Auteur:Solnit, RebeccaSommaire:A companion to "A Field Guide for Getting Lost." Rebecca Solnit explores the ways we make our lives out of stories, and how we are connected by empathy, by narrative, by imagination. In the course of unpacking some of her own stories--...
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Auteur:Hautzig, Esther RudominSommaire:During World War II, when she was eleven years old, the author and her family were arrested in Poland by the Russians as political enemies and exiled to Siberia. She recounts here the trials of the following five years spent on the...
- Auteur:Min, AncheeSommaire:
Traces the author's journey from the painful deprivations of her homeland to the sudden bounty of the United States, where she endured five jobs, crime, and a painful marriage before the birth of a daughter inspired her writing career...
- Auteur:Walker, AliceSommaire:
Recounts the author's experiences caring for a flock of chickens on a farm north of San Francisco, documenting her personal discovery, political commitment, and the joys of relating to animals.
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Auteur:Zandri, VincentSommaire:When ex-con and novelist JA Kingsley loses everything he's ever cared about, including his wife and teenage daughter, he abandons his home in order to start anew, write a new book, and, most of all, restart his fractured life. Traveling...
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Auteur:Moody, RickSommaire:In this searing, brilliantly acclaimed memoir, one of the most admired writers of his generation reveals how a decade of alcohol, drugs, and other indulgences led him not to the palace of wisdom but to a psychiatric hospital in one of...
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Auteur:Wachtel, EleanorSommaire:Eleanor Wachtel is one of the English-speaking world's most respected and sought-after interviewers. This book, celebrating her show's 25 year anniversary, presents many of her best conversations from the show with authors including...
- Auteur:Pickett, RexSommaire:
A November Book Pick from The New York Times When archivist Nadia Fontaine is found dead of an apparent drowning, Emily Snow is hired by Regents University to finish the job she started-to organize and process the papers of Raymond West...
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Auteur:Skyhorse, BrandoSommaire:When he was three, Brando Kelly Ulloa was abandoned by his Mexican father. His mother saw no reason for her son to live his life as a Mexican just because he started out as one. The life of "Brando Skyhorse," American Indian son of an...
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Auteur:Crawford, ChristinaSommaire:Beyond Mommie Dearest-the inspiring and shattering sequel to the groundbreaking #1 New York Times bestseller. At publication the world as I knew it blew up in my face. Christina Crawford's Mommie Dearest cast a spotlight on the unspoken...
- Auteur:Danler, StephanieSommaire:
From the bestselling author of Sweetbitter , a memoir of growing up in a family shattered by lies and addiction, and of one woman's attempts to find a life beyond the limits of her past. Stray is a moving, sometimes devastating...
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