Mothers, Fathers, and Others: Essays
By: Siri Hustvedt
3.84
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Feminist philosophy meets family memoir in this new essay collection from Siri Hustvedt, an explora…
Want to Read $ 13.99"We are all, to one degree or another, made of what we call “memory"-Siri Hustvedt, Mothers, Fathers, and Others: Essays
"We are all, to one degree or another, made of what we call “memory"-Siri Hustvedt, Mothers, Fathers, and Others: Essays
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Similar categories in Rachel Cusk's A Life's Work: On Becoming a Mother book and Siri Hustvedt's Mothers, Fathers, and Others: Essays
- parenting
- biography
- memoir
- feminism
- nonfiction
- essays
2. Things I Don't Want to Know
By: Deborah Levy
4.09
Format: 109 pages, Hardcover
'Perhaps when Orwell described sheer egoism as a necessary quality for a writer, he was not thinkin… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- feminism
- nonfiction
- essays
"Now that we were mothers we were all shadows of our former selves, chased by the women we used to be before we had children."-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know
"When happiness is happening it feels as if nothing else happened before it, it is a sensation that happens only in the present tense."-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know
"The fact that lipstick and mascara and eye shadow were called 'Make Up' thrilled me. Everywhere in the world there were made up people and most of them were women."-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know
"To become a WRITER I had to learn to INTERRUPT, to speak up, to speak a little louder, and then LOUDER, and then to just speak in my own voice which is NOT LOUD AT ALL."-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know
3. Il caso Bramard
By: Davide Longo
4.00
Format: 268 pages, Paperback
Corso Bramard e stato il commissario piu giovane d'Italia. Meditabondo, insondabile, introverso, ca… read more
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4. Baumgartner
By: Paul Auster
3.78
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A taut yet expansive novel of love, memory, and grief from Paul Auster, best-selling, award-winning… read more
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- literature
- contemporary
"Vivir es sentir dolor, y vivir con miedo al dolor es negarse a vivir"-Paul Auster, Baumgartner
"To live is to feel pain, he told himself, and to live in fear of pain is to refuse to live."-Paul Auster, Baumgartner
"at some point in the coming years, the two books should be combined and reconfigured into a large, one-volume collected poems—a monument of singing pages that will overwhelm the silence of Anna’s gra…"-Paul Auster, Baumgartner
"the story turns out to be so astounding and so powerful that your jaw drops open and you feel that it has changed or enhanced or deepened your understanding of the world, does it matter if the story …"-Paul Auster, Baumgartner
5. Leer mata
By: Luna Miguel
3.88
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
Leer hiere como una daga o una flecha que entra en el corazón. Los libros son peligrosos si se leen… read more
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- nonfiction
6. August Blue
By: Deborah Levy
3.68
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A new novel from the Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy, the celebrated author of The Man Who Saw E… read more
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- contemporary
"We agreed that whatever happened next in the world, we would still rub conditioner into our hair after we washed it and comb it through to the ends, we would soften our lips with rose-, strawberry-, …"-Deborah Levy, August Blue
7. The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
By: Deborah Levy
4.18
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
A searching examination of all the dimensions of love, marriage, mourning, and kinship from two-tim… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- feminism
- nonfiction
- essays
- contemporary
"Sometimes we want to unbelong as much as we want to belong."-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
"It was a big release from the terror of death to finally acknowledge that it is also always absurd."-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
"I might one day risk falling in love again, but I was not going to lose my heart to the cardiologist."-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
"To unfold any number of ideas through all the dimensions of time is the great adventure of the writing life."-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
8. La casa del mago
By: Emanuele Trevi
3.57
Format: 212 pages, Kindle Edition
L'attesissimo ritorno al romanzo di Emanuele Trevi. « Emanuele Trevi, il figlio del «mago», è an… read more
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9. Motherhood
By: Sheila Heti
3.66
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the author of How Should a Person Be? (“one of the most talked-about books of the year”—Time M… read more
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- feminism
- parenting
- contemporary
"Maybe motherhood means honoring one's mother."-Sheila Heti, Motherhood
"Alone, one feels the whole universe, and none of one's personality."-Sheila Heti, Motherhood
"To fit oneself into the smallest spaces in the hopes of being loved -that is entirely womanly"-Sheila Heti, Motherhood
"The Jewish religion says it's not a child until it's two-thirds out of the woman's body--until the head has completely emerged."-Sheila Heti, Motherhood
10. Parade
By: Rachel Cusk
3.70
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more
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- feminism
- contemporary
"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
11. Identitätskrise.
By: Alice Hasters
4.31
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Unsere Gesellschaft befindet sich in einer Identitätskrise. Alle Systeme, die Sicherheit, Zukunft u… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- contemporary
12. Our Strangers: Stories
By: Lydia Davis
3.92
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
Only available at independent bookstores and libraries, by request of the author. From one of the m… read more
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- 21st century
- short stories
- contemporary
13. Coventry: Essays
By: Rachel Cusk
3.73
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Rachel Cusk redrew the boundaries of fiction with the Outline Trilogy, three "literary masterpieces… read more
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- memoir
- literature
- feminism
- short stories
- nonfiction
- essays
- contemporary
"The rules of writing are mostly indistinguishable from the rules of living, but this tends to be the last place people look when searching for 'there'."-Rachel Cusk, Coventry: Essays
"Indeed, we believe everyone has a book in them - a book, not a symphony, and not even a poem. What is it, this book everyone has in them? It is, perhaps, that haunting entity, the 'true' self. The tr…"-Rachel Cusk, Coventry: Essays
"War is a narrative: it might almost be said to embody the narrative principle itself. It is the attempt to create a story of life, to create agreement. In war, there is no point of view; war is the e…"-Rachel Cusk, Coventry: Essays
"In marriage, the woman compensates for her lack of external power by commandeering the story. Isn't that right? She fills the silence, the mystery of her own acts and aims, with a structured account …"-Rachel Cusk, Coventry: Essays
14. Rue Duplessis: Ma petite noirceur
By: Jean-Philippe Pleau
4.36
Format: 323 pages, Paperback
«Juin 2018. J’effectue une entrevue sur les ondes de Radio-Canada avec l’écrivain Édouard Louis. On… read more
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- nonfiction
15. Freunde lieben. Die Revolte in unseren engsten Beziehungen
By: Ole Liebl
3.75
Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition
Eine radikale Neuverortung der Freundschaft Freundschaft und Sex passen nicht zusammen. So behau… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
16. Un amor español
By: Luna Miguel
4.09
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Leer a las poetas sáficas como si devorase ferozmente un pastel. Eso es lo que se impuso Luna Migue… read more
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17. Whose Story Is This? Old Conflicts, New Chapters
By: Rebecca Solnit
4.21
Format: 182 pages, Paperback
New feminist essays for the #MeToo era from the international best-selling author of Men Explain Th… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- essays
"Measured over too short a span, change becomes imperceptible; people mistake today's peculiarities for eternal verities."-Rebecca Solnit, Whose Story Is This? Old Conflicts, New Chapters
"As a girl, I would have liked to have my intelligence and intellectual labors regarded as an unmitigated good and as a source of pride, rather than something I had to handle delicately, lest I upset …"-Rebecca Solnit, Whose Story Is This? Old Conflicts, New Chapters
"Positive social change results mostly from connecting more deeply to the people around you than rising above them, from coordinated rather than solo action. Among the virtues that matter are those tr…"-Rebecca Solnit, Whose Story Is This? Old Conflicts, New Chapters
18. Mothers, Fathers, and Others: Essays
By: Siri Hustvedt
3.84
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Feminist philosophy meets family memoir in this new essay collection from Siri Hustvedt, an explora… read more
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- parenting
- biography
- memoir
- literature
- feminism
- short stories
- nonfiction
- essays
- contemporary
- 21st century
"We are all, to one degree or another, made of what we call “memory"-Siri Hustvedt, Mothers, Fathers, and Others: Essays
19. YO, VIEJA
By: Anna Freixas Farré
3.45
Format: 182 pages, PAPERBACK
Este es un recorrido por los derechos humanos en la vejez y, concretamente, por los derechos de las… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
20. The Story Game
By: Shze-Hui Tjoa
4.45
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
A transcendent, profoundly imaginative memoir that explores the complexities of sisterhood, the cos… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
21. Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage: The Selected Stories of Bette Howland
By: Bette Howland
3.84
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The acclaimed collection that restored to the literary canon "a long-overlooked artist of live-wire… read more
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- literature
- short stories
"If we're not lost—what are we doing here?"-Bette Howland, Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage: The Selected Stories of Bette Howland
"My grandmother had died the night before; the funeral was tomorrow. I was in New York when my mother called with the news. “No one expects you. You don't need to come."-Bette Howland, Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage: The Selected Stories of Bette Howland
