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Jonathan Franzen’s best seller Freedom was the most-discussed novel of 2010, an ambitious and searching engagement with life in America in the 21st century. The New York Times Book Review proclaimed it “a masterpiece of American fiction.” Now a new collection of Franzen’s non-fiction brings fresh evidence of that moral intelligence, confirming his status not only as a great American novelist but also as a keen observer, social critic and self-investigator.
In Farther Away, which gathers together essays and speeches written mostly in the past five years, the writer returns with renewed vigour to the themes, both human and literary, that have long preoccupied him. Whether recounting his violent encounter with bird poachers in Cyprus, examining his mixed feelings about the suicide of his friend and rival David Foster Wallace, or offering a moving and witty take on the ways that technology has changed how people express their love, these pieces deliver on Franzen’s implicit promise to conceal nothing from the reader. These essays trace the progress of a unique and mature mind wrestling with itself, with literature and with some of the most important issues of our day.
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 121
Shields and Salerno illuminate most brightly the last 56 years of Salinger’s life: a period that, until now, had remained completely dark to biographers. Provided unprecedented access to diaries, letters, legal records, and secret documents, listeners will feel they have, for the first time, gotten beyond Salinger’s meticulously built-up wall. The result is the definitive portrait of one of the most fascinating figures of the 20th century.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Ingenious novel or biography? Hard to tell....
- De Melinda en 09-05-13
De: David Shields, y otros
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The Voice is All
- The Lonely Victory of Jack Kerouac
- De: Joyce Johnson
- Narrado por: Carrington MacDuffie
- Duración: 16 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 24
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 24
In The Voice Is All, Joyce Johnson - coauthor of the classic memoir Door Wide Open, about her relationship with Jack Kerouac - brilliantly peels away layers of the Kerouac legend to show how, caught between two cultures and two languages, he forged a voice to contain his dualities. Looking more deeply than previous biographers into how Kerouac's French Canadian background enriched his prose and gave him a unique outsider's vision of America, she tracks his development from boyhood through the phenomenal breakthroughs of 1951 that resulted in the composition of On the Road.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Kerouac's Voice
- De Robert L. Stofel en 09-26-12
De: Joyce Johnson
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To See Every Bird on Earth
- A Father, A Son, and a Lifelong Obsession
- De: Dan Koeppel
- Narrado por: John McDonough
- Duración: 10 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 66
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 40
From well-known nature and adventure writer Dan Koeppel, whose work has appeared in Audubon and National Geographic Adventure, comes this true story of one bird watcher's incredible achievements.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Reader is Ancient
- De Caroline en 06-18-05
De: Dan Koeppel
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And So It Goes
- Kurt Vonnegut: A Life
- De: Charles J. Shields
- Narrado por: Fred Berman
- Duración: 17 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 83
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 77
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 79
New York Times best-selling author and biographer Charles J. Shields crafts this fascinating portrait of literary icon Kurt Vonnegut. The first authorized biography of the influential American writer, And So It Goes examines Vonnegut’s life, from his childhood to his death in 2007, and explores how the author changed the conversation of American literature.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Probably only for die hard Vonnegut fans
- De Watery M en 12-22-12
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Reading My Father
- A Memoir
- De: Alexandra Styron
- Narrado por: Alexandra Styron
- Duración: 10 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 67
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 43
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 41
Alexandra Styron's parents—the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Sophie’s Choice and his political activist wife, Rose—were, for half a century, leading players on the world’s cultural stage. Alexandra was raised under both the halo of her father’s brilliance and the long shadow of his troubled mind. Reading My Father portrays the epic sweep of an American artist’s life. It is also a tale of filial love, beautifully written with humor, compassion, and grace.
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5 out of 5 stars
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William Styron Ranks...
- De Douglas en 12-22-13
De: Alexandra Styron
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Manhood for Amateurs
- The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son
- De: Michael Chabon
- Narrado por: Michael Chabon
- Duración: 8 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 240
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 149
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 149
As a devoted son, as a passionate husband, and above all as a father, Chabon's memories of childhood, of his parents' marriage and divorce, of moments of painful adolescent comedy and giddy encounters with the popular art and literature of his own youth, are like a theme played by the mad quartet of which he now finds himself co-conductor. At once dazzling, hilarious, and moving, Manhood for Amateurs is destined to become a classic.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Terrible
- De Ken en 10-14-09
De: Michael Chabon
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Ted Hughes
- The Unauthorized Life
- De: Jonathan Bate
- Narrado por: Mike Grady
- Duración: 25 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 33
Ted Hughes, poet laureate, was one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. With an equal gift for poetry and prose, and with a soul as capacious as any poet in history, he was also a prolific children's writer and has been hailed as the greatest English letter writer since John Keats. His magnetic personality and insatiable appetite for friendship, love, and life also attracted more scandal than any poet since Lord Byron.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Phenomenal thanks to narrator!
- De equinox14 en 06-26-16
De: Jonathan Bate
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Life Beyond Measure
- Letters to My Great-Granddaughter
- De: Sidney Poitier
- Narrado por: Sidney Poitier
- Duración: 10 h y 2 m
- Versión resumida
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 110
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 79
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 79
Sidney Poitier is one of the most revered actors in the history of Hollywood. He has overcome enormous obstacles in extraordinary times and is a role model for many Americans because of his convictions, bravery, and grace. Poitier reflects on his amazing life in Life Beyond Measure, offering inspirational advice and personal stories in the form of extended letters to his great-granddaughter.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Mix of family history and life advice.
- De Adam Shields en 10-31-19
De: Sidney Poitier
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Known and Strange Things
- Essays
- De: Teju Cole
- Narrado por: Peter Jay Fernandez
- Duración: 12 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 40
With this collection of more than 50 pieces on politics, photography, travel, history, and literature, Teju Cole solidifies his place as one of today's most powerful and original voices. Minute after minute, deploying prose dense with beauty and ideas, he finds fresh and potent ways to interpret art, people, and historical moments, taking in subjects from Virginia Woolf, Shakespeare, and W. G. Sebald to Instagram, Barack Obama, and Boko Haram.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Book that Teaches and Shares
- De Carolyn J. en 10-08-17
De: Teju Cole
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The Republic of Imagination
- America in Three Books
- De: Azar Nafisi
- Narrado por: Mozhan Marnò
- Duración: 10 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 56
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 50
Blending memoir and polemic with close readings of her favorite novels, she describes the unexpected journey that led her to become an American citizen after first dreaming of America as a young girl in Tehran and coming to know the country through its fiction. She urges us to rediscover the America of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and challenges us to be truer to the words and spirit of the Founding Fathers, who understood that their democratic experiment would never thrive or survive unless they could foster a democratic imagination.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love
- De Rebecca en 05-29-16
De: Azar Nafisi
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The Fire This Time
- A New Generation Speaks About Race
- De: Jesmyn Ward
- Narrado por: Cherise Boothe, Michael Early, Kevin R. Free, y otros
- Duración: 5 h y 36 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 246
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 207
National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward takes James Baldwin's 1963 examination of race in America, The Fire Next Time, as a jumping-off point for this groundbreaking collection of essays and poems about race from the most important voices of her generation and our time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Delusion shattering
- De Matthew A. Burnett en 06-12-20
De: Jesmyn Ward
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Because Our Fathers Lied
- A Memoir of Truth and Family, from Vietnam to Today
- De: Craig McNamara
- Narrado por: Keith Sellon-Wright, Craig McNamara
- Duración: 7 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 66
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 56
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 57
Craig McNamara came of age in the political tumult and upheaval of the late '60s. While Craig McNamara would grow up to take part in anti-war demonstrations, his father, Robert McNamara, served as John F. Kennedy’s Secretary of Defense and the architect of the Vietnam War. This searching and revealing memoir offers an intimate picture of one father and son at pivotal periods in American history. Because Our Fathers Lied is more than a family story—it is a story about America.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Title Does Not Reflect Scope of the Book
- De Amazon Customer en 07-15-22
De: Craig McNamara
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Fury
- De: Salman Rushdie
- Narrado por: Salman Rushdie
- Duración: 9 h y 5 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 152
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 87
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The world renowned author of The Satanic Verses and The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Salman Rushdie is a Whitbread Award winner and recipient of the Booker Prize. His first truly American novel, Fury is a metaphorically rich black comedy that reflects the pressure-cooker of modern life. Malik Solanka, irascible doll-maker and retired historian of ideas, suffers the pain of wanting without knowing exactly what it is he wants.
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5 out of 5 stars
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surprisingly good
- De David en 11-21-07
De: Salman Rushdie
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Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story
- A Life of David Foster Wallace
- De: D. T. Max
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 12 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 385
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 343
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 342
David Foster Wallace was the leading literary light of his generation, a man who not only captivated readers with his prose but also mesmerized them with his brilliant mind. In this, the first biography of the writer, D. T. Max sets out to chart Wallace’s tormented, anguished, and often triumphant battle to succeed as a novelist as he fights off depression and addiction to emerge with his masterpiece, Infinite Jest.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Max avoids hagiography or a sycophant's biography
- De Darwin8u en 06-11-13
De: D. T. Max
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The Trip to Echo Spring
- On Writers and Drinking
- De: Olivia Laing
- Narrado por: Kate Reading
- Duración: 10 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 127
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 118
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 119
In The Trip to Echo Spring, Olivia Laing examines the link between creativity and alcohol through the work and lives of six of America's finest writers: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, John Berryman, John Cheever, and Raymond Carver. All six of these men were alcoholics, and the subject of drinking surfaces in some of their finest work, from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof to A Moveable Feast.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great Narration!!!!!! Great story about 20 Century make writer who suffer with alcoholism. If you like this topic and want more
- De Pamela Abbey en 04-25-21
De: Olivia Laing
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Outline
- The Outline Trilogy, Book 1
- De: Rachel Cusk
- Narrado por: Kate Lock
- Duración: 7 h y 17 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 63
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 58
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 58
A man and a woman are seated next to each other on a plane. They get to talking - about their destination, their careers, their families. Grievances are aired, family tragedies discussed, marriages and divorces analyzed. An intimacy is established as two strangers contrast their own fictions about their lives. Outline is a novel in 10 conversations. Spare and stark, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing during one oppressively hot summer in Athens.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Difficult and Better in Print
- De Nick O. en 07-18-23
De: Rachel Cusk
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Farther Away
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Total4 out of 5 stars
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Ejecución5 out of 5 stars
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Historia4 out of 5 stars
- Andreea Marin
- 03-05-17
Masafuera
If you could sum up Farther Away in three words, what would they be?
Heartbreaking. Inspiring. Isolating.
What other book might you compare Farther Away to and why?
Robinson Crusoe, mainly because he is reading Robinson Cruose in the first essay in Masafuera but also because several essays are on books and/or nature, respectively birds. It's very much about survival.
What about Jonathan Franzen and Scott Shepherd ’s performance did you like?
I liked the storytelling of the first essay Farther Away in particular, and the commencement address because it felt like sitting around the fireplace with a friend who is telling you about a real journey and the ups and downs of it all, as well as his reflections.
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
The first essay stays with me a lot. It did make me cry. It's about the loss of David Foster Wallace, experiencing extreme isolation on the island, finding oneself, and reading Crusoe...all amazing
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