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by Marco MissiroliUn relato sobre la educación sentimental de Libero Marsell, el protagonista, desde el día en que, con doce años, sorprende a su madre con el mejor amigo de la familia, hasta pasada media vida, cuando encuentra por fin el amor duradero. A contracorriente del desapego y la indiferencia que reivindica la literatura contemporánea, Marco Missiroli -laureado con innumerables premios en Italia, entre ellos el Campiello Opera Prima 2006 y el Mondello 2015 con esta obra- ha volcado toda su intimidad en este impúdico y pormenorizado libro. Tras el nacimiento de su hijo, Libero comienza a escribir sus memorias. A partir de aquel imborrable instante de su niñez en el que descubrió con toda crudeza que la pasión no sabe de ataduras y convenciones, la historia recorre las últimas décadas del siglo pasado entre París y Milán. Así, echando la vista atrás, Libero rememora las numerosas experiencias sexuales y repasa el sinuoso proceso de madurez que lo lleva, finalmente, a percatarse del generoso y acogedor mundo de las mujeres. Primero Marie, la bibliotecaria, dispensadora de sabiduría, enamorada de los libros y de su soledad; más tarde Lunette, que le enseña el poder devastador de los celos y de la que huye, dejando atrás su existencia bohemia en París. Y por último, el frenesí de Milán, donde, entre los compañeros de la infancia, los textos de Buzzati y la taberna de Giorgio, se embarca en un sinfín de aventuras amorosas hasta que el encuentro fortuito con una persona lo conduce a alcanzar la insospechada plenitud. Reseña:«Una novela de una absoluta belleza, que ha traspasado todos los niveles de jerarquía de la literatura italiana contemporánea. A los treinta y cuatro años, Marco Missiroli se ha convertido en un escritor de referencia, el único al que no queremos renunciar. [...] Una maravilla del cosmos.»Il Corriere della Sera
The Actress (The Martha Beale Mysteries #4)
by Cordelia Frances BiddleA nineteenth-century Philadelphia heiress must rescue a friend from a criminal underworld in a series that &“wonderfully evokes the color and culture of the time&” (Publishers Weekly). Becky Grey Taitt is not the sort of woman who would typically infiltrate a gang of counterfeiters, but she is desperate for a powerful judge&’s help in preventing her abusive husband from taking custody of her child—and that&’ss the price the judge set in exchange for his aid. But the plan goes awry, and now Becky is trapped among criminals and killers. Her only hope is her friend Martha Beale, who, along with her beau, Thomas Kelman, will do everything possible to rescue Becky, in this tale of political machinations, revenge, and murder. &“Fresh and believable. Biddle knows her manner and her city, and shows both to great advantage.&” —The Plain Dealer &“An intricately orchestrated narrative that implicates the Brahmin class and the corruption that comes with their absolute power.&” —Publishers Weekly Praise for the Martha Beale Mysteries &“The setting is unfolded as vividly as the characters, from the &‘commoners&’ working the textile mills to the unseemly criminal types of the upper-crust elite. . . . A fine mix of history and mystery.&” —Booklist &“A first-rate mystery.&” —Julia Spencer-Fleming, New York Times–bestselling author of Hid from Our Eyes &“A good read . . . skillfully evokes the elegant society salons and grubby streets of 1842 Philadelphia.&” —Philadelphia Magazine
The Actress
by Agatha ChristiePreviously published in the print anthology The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories. Jake Levitt can't believe his luck when, one evening at the theatre, he recognizes the lead actress as Nancy Taylor, a girl he knows a lot about. A story of blackmail and murder ensues
Actress: A Novel
by Anne EnrightMan Booker Prize-winner and bestselling author Anne Enright's latest--a brilliant and moving novel about fame, sexual power, and a daughter's search to understand her mother's hidden truths.This is the story of Irish theatre legend, Katherine O'Dell, as written by her daughter Norah. It tells of early stardom in Hollywood, of highs and lows on the stages of Dublin and London's West End. Katherine's life is a grand performance, with young Norah watching from the wings. But this romance between mother and daughter cannot survive Katherine's past, or the world's damage. As Norah uncovers her mother's secrets, she acquires a few of her own. Then, fame turns to infamy when Katherine decides to commit a bizarre crime. Actress is about a daughter's search for the truth: the dark secret in the bright star, and what drove Katherine finally mad. Brilliantly capturing the glamour of post-war America and the shabbiness of 1970s Dublin, Actress is an intensely moving, disturbing novel about mothers and daughters and the men in their lives. A scintillating examination of the corrosive nature of celebrity, it is also a sad and triumphant tale of freedom from bad love, and from the avid gaze of the crowd.
Actress: A Novel
by Anne EnrightLonglisted for the 2020 Women's Prize for Fiction One of Time's 100 Must-Read Books of 2020 “A critique, a confession, a love letter—and another brilliant novel from Anne Enright.” —Ron Charles, Washington PostKatherine O’Dell is an Irish theater legend. Every moment of her life is a performance, with her daughter, Norah, standing in the wings. With age, alcohol, and dimming stardom, however, Katherine’s grip on reality grows fitful. Fueled by a proud and long-simmering rage, she commits a bizarre crime.As Norah’s role gradually changes to Katherine’s protector, caregiver, and finally legacy-keeper, she revisits her mother’s life of fiercely kept secrets; and Norah confronts in turn the secrets of her own sexual and emotional coming-of-age. With virtuosic storytelling, Actress weaves together two generations of women with difficult sexual histories, touching a raw and timely nerve.
The Actress: A Novel
by Amy SohnA talented young actress. A leading man. A sexy secret. The role of a lifetime. In this big, juicy literary novel from bestselling author Amy Sohn, an ambitious young actress discovers that every marriage is a mystery, and that sometimes the greatest performances don't take place on screen.When Hollywood heartthrob Steven Weller pulls Maddy Freed out of obscurity for a starring part in his newest, Oscar-worthy film, she feels her career roaring onto the express track. Steven's professional attention soon turns personal as they are thrown together amid Europe's Old World charm, and Maddy allows herself to tumble headlong into a fairytale romance with the world's most eligible bachelor. She knows there's no truth to the gay rumors that have followed him for years. Yet what is it that Steven sees in Maddy that he has not seen in his string of past girlfriends? Steven tells her he is drawn to her stunning gift as an actress--her ability to inhabit a character so seamlessly, so convincingly, that it is nearly impossible to tell she is playing a role--a compliment that becomes more ominous as their marriage progresses. Ultimately, as Maddy's own happiness and success grow intertwined with her new husband's, she cannot afford to ask too many questions about Steven's complicated past. But can she ignore her inner voice, and her instincts about her own worth? Set in a tantalizing world of glamour and scandal, of red carpets and ruthless competition, of scheming agents and the prying eye of the press, The Actress is a romantic, sophisticated page-turner about the price of ambition, the treachery of love, and the roles we all play.
Actress Becomes Brothel Master: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
by Li YouAs a formidable figure in the 21st century, she had actually transmigrated into the body of such a good-for-nothing? Aiyo, aiyo, this was truly taking her life. With her character, how could she possibly endure this humiliation?If anyone dared to bully her, they would definitely slap them in the face one by one! In addition to her cool acting, who would believe that she was merciless?She was secretly laughing in her heart, but was bewitched by this handsome prince.So there was actually such a good-looking person in ancient times!
Actress Becomes Brothel Master: Volume 2 (Volume 2 #2)
by Li YouAs a formidable figure in the 21st century, she had actually transmigrated into the body of such a good-for-nothing? Aiyo, aiyo, this was truly taking her life. With her character, how could she possibly endure this humiliation?If anyone dared to bully her, they would definitely slap them in the face one by one! In addition to her cool acting, who would believe that she was merciless?She was secretly laughing in her heart, but was bewitched by this handsome prince.So there was actually such a good-looking person in ancient times!
Actress Becomes Brothel Master: Volume 3 (Volume 3 #3)
by Li YouAs a formidable figure in the 21st century, she had actually transmigrated into the body of such a good-for-nothing? Aiyo, aiyo, this was truly taking her life. With her character, how could she possibly endure this humiliation?If anyone dared to bully her, they would definitely slap them in the face one by one! In addition to her cool acting, who would believe that she was merciless?She was secretly laughing in her heart, but was bewitched by this handsome prince.So there was actually such a good-looking person in ancient times!
Actress Becomes Brothel Master: Volume 4 (Volume 4 #4)
by Li YouAs a formidable figure in the 21st century, she had actually transmigrated into the body of such a good-for-nothing? Aiyo, aiyo, this was truly taking her life. With her character, how could she possibly endure this humiliation?If anyone dared to bully her, they would definitely slap them in the face one by one! In addition to her cool acting, who would believe that she was merciless?She was secretly laughing in her heart, but was bewitched by this handsome prince.So there was actually such a good-looking person in ancient times!
Actress Becomes Brothel Master: Volume 5 (Volume 5 #5)
by Li YouAs a formidable figure in the 21st century, she had actually transmigrated into the body of such a good-for-nothing? Aiyo, aiyo, this was truly taking her life. With her character, how could she possibly endure this humiliation?If anyone dared to bully her, they would definitely slap them in the face one by one! In addition to her cool acting, who would believe that she was merciless?She was secretly laughing in her heart, but was bewitched by this handsome prince.So there was actually such a good-looking person in ancient times!
Actress Becomes Brothel Master: Volume 6 (Volume 6 #6)
by Li YouAs a formidable figure in the 21st century, she had actually transmigrated into the body of such a good-for-nothing? Aiyo, aiyo, this was truly taking her life. With her character, how could she possibly endure this humiliation?If anyone dared to bully her, they would definitely slap them in the face one by one! In addition to her cool acting, who would believe that she was merciless?She was secretly laughing in her heart, but was bewitched by this handsome prince.So there was actually such a good-looking person in ancient times!
An Actress Prepares: Women and "the Method"
by Rosemary Malague'Every day, thousands of women enter acting classes where most of them will receive some variation on the Stanislavsky-based training that has now been taught in the U.S. for nearly ninety years. Yet relatively little feminist consideration has been given to the experience of the student actress: What happens to women in Method actor training?' An Actress Prepares is the first book to interrogate Method acting from a specifically feminist perspective. Rose Malague addresses "the Method" not only with much-needed critical distance, but also the crucial insider's view of a trained actor. Case studies examine the preeminent American teachers who popularized and transformed elements of Stanislavsky’s System within the U.S.—Strasberg, Adler, Meisner, and Hagen— by analyzing and comparing their related but distinctly different approaches. This book confronts the sexism that still exists in actor training and exposes the gender biases embedded within the Method itself. Its in-depth examination of these Stanislavskian techniques seeks to reclaim Method acting from its patriarchal practices and to empower women who act. 'I've been waiting for someone to write this book for years: a thorough-going analysis and reconsideration of American approaches to Stanislavsky from a feminist perspective ... lively, intelligent, and engaging.' – Phillip Zarrilli, University of Exeter 'Theatre people of any gender will be transformed by Rose Malague’s eye-opening study An Actress Prepares... This book will be useful to all scholars and practitioners determined to make gender equity central to how they hone their craft and their thinking.' – Jill Dolan, Princeton University
Actriz
by Keith Dixon Carolina OrihuelaComo joven actriz en una serie de televisión de éxito, la trayectoria profesional de Mai Rose parecía estar clara. Pero ella quiere más. «Excelente ficción contemporánea» -- Tahlia Newland, fundadora de Awesome Indies. Como joven actriz en una serie de televisión de éxito, la trayectoria profesional de Mai Rose parecía estar clara. Pero ella quiere más. Ya ha abandonado la serie y logrado un papel en una obra de teatro seria, con actores serios y un director más-que-serio. Y ahora se presenta otra oportunidad: una gran producción cinematográfica de fantasía con un papel protagonista que parece hecho a su medida. El único problema es que para lograr el papel ha de competir con otras cuatro taimadas actrices. ¿Puede conseguir el papel? ¿Quiere conseguirlo? Mai debe hallar su camino entre las exigencias de la prensa, el billonario ruso propietario del periódico que organiza la competición, novios pasados y presentes, su hermano militar y una contrincante particularmente ambiciosa (léase «desagradable»). Y todos ellos la subestiman. Avanzando hacia un apasionante desenlace, Actriz examina la lucha de una persona para aceptar quién es, qué es importante para ella y --crucialmente-- qué es lo que realmente desea.
Acts: Poems
by Spencer ReeceA book of poems that reckons with love in all its forms, by the priest and poet Spencer Reece—his first collection in ten years.. . . My old love, my love who gave me language that I love, when there are no words, there are only acts.Spencer Reece, a poet and an Episcopal priest, suffuses his poetry with tenderness, humanity, and a wonderous alchemy of beauty and sorrow. As the Nobel laureate Louise Glück wrote, “emanating from Spencer Reece’s work [is] a sense of immanence that belongs more commonly to religious passion; it is a great thing to have it again in art.” Acts, the third book of poetry by Reece, is the product of a decade of work and of a life acutely lived. In it, he celebrates the language and literature of Spain and tracks his tenure at the Spanish Episcopal Church. At times, the collection is a love letter to Madrid; at other moments, to Old Lyme, Connecticut, where the speaker’s parents lived until the death of his father, and to Little Compton, Rhode Island. The poems are also an homage to the letter itself, to its art and its waning means of connection across distance. In Acts, Reece confronts grief and love, loneliness and self-acceptance, with honesty, artful lyricism, and, above all, a true and luminous grace.
Acts of Allegiance: A Novel
by Peter CunninghamFor readers of The Goldfinch and classic le Carré, a propulsive tale of espionage, betrayal, loyalty, and love, set during the Troubles in Northern Ireland.Marty Ransom, son of the Captain and heir to a hilltop estate near Waterford in independent Ireland, lives a comfortable, boring life with his tennis-playing, Anglican wife, Sugar, and a job in the Department of External Affairs. Among their closest friends are an Anglo-Irish couple, a banker who was Sugar's childhood flame and his alluring diplomat wife, Alison. But Marty is a man divided. While his father fought with the British Army and found respectability in marriage, Marty's closest childhood friend was his cousin Iggy, the rebel son of a working-class Irish patriot whose gift for tinkering with radio parts has grown into a bomb maker’s skill.When Marty is lured into keeping tabs on the growing IRA activities in support of the Catholic North, he finds himself walking a tightrope of conflicting yearnings and loyalties, balancing between nations, lovers, and parts of his own past, never knowing whom he can trust. But after Bloody Sunday escalates the violence and the British mount a desperate operation to take out a notorious IRA bomber, he must choose, and risk putting everything he loves most-his wife and young son-as well as his own life, at risk.
Acts of Betrayal
by Tracie Loveless-HillMichael and Lorece, young high school sweethearts, have a promising future ahead of them when Michael is offered a basketball scholarship to a junior college. He turns it down when Lorece becomes pregnant, taking a job at a local meat packing plant. Working himself up to supervisor within five years, he is devastated when the plant shuts down and he loses his job. When suggestions of better opportunities in another city comes along, he packs up his family and leaves the only life that they have known, only to find that life isn't as promising as they thought.Lorece is fighting depression when the family meets the bishop of a prominent church with high standing in the community. The bishop and his wife promise the couple that they will take care of their children until they can get back on their feet. Michael and Lorece soon find out that they are in a fight for their lives--and a battle to get their children back. When God sends someone to deliver them their blessings, secrets come out about the bishop and his wife. There will be many lessons to be learned amidst acts of betrayal.
Acts of Betrayal
by John TrenhaileTwo friends who had taken the bar together end up taking very different paths... one is about to crown his ambition with a judgeship - the other stands accused of high treason in a plot to kill the Queen. Successful attorney Frank Thornton stands accused of taking part in an IRA plot to assassinate the Queen. He is shocked when the chief witness against him turns out to be Alistair Scrutton, his law school chum. Frank calls on Roz Forbes, the deputy editor of The Times, to save him from certain execution for treason. But it is the shadowy figure of Krait, an international terrorist and assassin, who hold the key to the mystery of Thornton's plight...
Acts of Contrition
by William HeffernanTaut and grittily realistic, this explosive novel of deceit and revenge weaves a suspenseful tale of a man who built his career on his ability to cover up the past, and of the woman who made it her business to expose it.
Acts Of Courage: Laura Secord And The War Of 1812
by Connie Brummel CrookIn Acts of Courage, Connie Brummel Crook dramatizes the life of one of Canada's most enduring heroines, Laura Secord. From young Laura Ingersoll's early days in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, amidst the turmoil that followed the American Revolutionary War, the story outlines her father's difficult decision to move his family to Upper Canada. Laura's subsequent meeting and courtship with James Secord is described against the backdrop of homesteading in the Niagara Peninsula and of enduring the imminent threat of American invasion. These first sections of the book provide the background for Laura's courageous rescue of her husband from the battlefield at Queenston Heights, and her even more amazing trek to warn Col. FitzGibbon of the American's secret plans to attack the British outpost at Beaver Dams. Laura's extraordinary life, peopled with characters like Joseph Brant and Col. Fitzgibbon, is given even more poignancy and interest by the author's inventive and surprising characterization of the young FitzGibbon, by her acute eye for historical detail, and through her insights into the character of a young woman whose acts of courage have captured the imagination of generations of young Canadians.
Acts of Desperation
by Megan NolanHeralding the arrival of &“a huge literary talent&” (Karl Ove Knausgaard), Megan Nolan&’s riveting debut is &“a blistering anti-romance&” (Catherine Lacey) about love addiction and what it does to us.Wouldn&’t I do anything to reverse my loss, the absence of him?In the first scene of this provocative gut-punch of a novel, our unnamed narrator meets a magnetic writer named Ciaran and falls, against her better judgment, completely in his power. After a brief, all-consuming romance he abruptly rejects her, sending her into a tailspin of jealous obsession and longing. If he ever comes back to her, she resolves to hang onto him and his love at all costs, even if it destroys her… Part breathless confession, part lucid critique, Acts of Desperation renders a consciousness split between rebellion and submission, between escaping degradation and eroticizing it, between loving and being lovable. With unsettling, electric precision, Nolan dissects one of life&’s most elusive mysteries: Why do we want what we want, and how do we want it? Combining the intellectual excitement of Rachel Cusk with the emotional rawness of Elena Ferrante, Acts of Desperation interrogates the nature of desire, power, and toxic relationships, challenging us to reckon honestly with our own insatiability.
Acts of Faith
by Philip CaputoThirty years ago, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist Philip Caputo crossed the deserts of Sudan and Eritrea on foot and camelback, a journey that inspired his first novel, Horn of Africa,and awakened a lifelong fascination with Africa. His travels have since taken him back to Sudan, as well as to Kenya, Somalia, and Tanzania, and from those experiences he has fashioned Acts of Faith, his most ambitious novel. A stunning and timely epic, it tells the stories of pilots, aid workers, missionaries, and renegades struggling to relieve the misery wrought by the civil war in Sudan. The hearts of these men and women are in the right place, but as they plunge into a well of moral corruption for which they are ill-prepared, their hidden flaws conspire with circumstances to turn their strengths-bravery, compassion, daring, and empathy-into weaknesses. In pursuit of noble ends, they make ethical compromises; their altruism curdles into self-righteous zealotry and greed, entangling them in a web of conspiracies that leads, finally, to murder. A few, however, escape the moral trap and find redemption in the discovery that firm convictions can blind the best-intentioned man or woman to the difference between right and wrong. Douglas Braithwaite, an American aviator who flies food and medicine to Sudan's ravaged south, is torn between his altruism and powerful personal ambitions. His partners are Fitzhugh Martin, a multiracial Kenyan who sees Sudan as a cause that can give purpose to his directionless life, and Wesley Dare, a hard-bitten bush pilot who is not as cynical as he thinks he is and sacrifices all for the woman he loves. They are joined by two strong women: Quinette Hardin, an evangelical Christian from Iowa who liberates slaves captured by Arab raiders and who falls in love with a Sudanese rebel; and Diana Briggs, the daughter of a family with colonial roots in Africa, who believes that her love for her adopted continent might be enough to save it. Pitted against them is Ibrahim Idris ibn Nur-el-Din, a fierce Arab warlord whose obsessive quest for an escaped concubine undermines his faith in the holy war he is waging against Sudan's southern blacks. In a harsh yet alluring landscape, these and other vividly realized characters act out a drama of modern-day Africa. Grounded in the reality of today's headlines,Acts of Faith is a captivating novel of human complexity that combines seriousness with all the seductive pleasure of a masterly thriller.
Acts of Faith: A Novel
by Erich SegalThey met as children, innocents from two different worlds. And from that moment their lives were fated to be forever entwined. Timothy : Abandoned at birth, he finds a home--and a dazzling career--within the Catholic Church. But the vows he takes cannot protect him from one soul-igniting passion. Daniel : The scholarly son of a great rabbi, he is destined to follow in his father's footsteps. And destined to break his father's heart. Deborah : She was raised to be docile and dutiful--the perfect rabbi's wife--but love will lead her to rebellion. And into world's the patriarch would never dare imagine.Reaching across more than a quarter of a century, from the tough streets of Brooklyn to ultramodern Brasilia to an Israeli kibbutz, and radiating the splendor of two holy cities, Rome and Jerusalem, here is Erich Segal's most provocative and ambitious novel to date--the unforgettable story of three extraordinary lives...and one forbidden love.
Acts of Faith
by Erich SegalThey met as children, innocents from two different worlds. And from that moment their lives were fated to be forever entwined.Timothy: abandoned at birth, he finds a home and a dazzling career within the Catholic church. But the vows he takes cannot protect him from one soul-igniting passion.Daniel: the scholarly son of a great rabbi, he is destined to follow in his father's footsteps. And destined to break his father's heart.Deborah: she was raised to be docile and dutiful - the perfect rabbi's wife - but love will lead her to rebellion. And into worlds the patriarch would never dare imagine.Reaching across more than a quarter of a century, from the tough streets of Brooklyn to ultramodern Brasilia to an Israeli kibbutz, this is an unforgettable story of three extraordinary lives . . . and one forbidden love.
Acts of Faith
by Erich SegalThey met as children, innocents from two different worlds. And from that moment their lives were fated to be forever entwined. Timothy: Abandoned at birth, he finds a home--and a dazzling career--within the Catholic Church. But the vows he takes cannot protect him from one soul-igniting passion. Daniel: The scholarly son of a great rabbi, he is destined to follow in his father's footsteps. And destined to break his father's heart. Deborah: She was raised to be docile and dutiful--the perfect rabbi's wife--but love will lead her to rebellion. And into worlds the patriarch would never dare imagine.<P> Reaching across more than a quarter of a century, from the tough streets of Brooklyn to ultramodern Brasilia to an Israeli kibbutz, and radiating the splendor of two holy cities, Rome and Jerusalem, here is Erich Segal's most provocative and ambitious novel to date--the unforgettable story of three extraordinary lives... and one forbidden love.