Resultados para "Salt" en Escritores

Auster narra sus primeras experiencias tras sentir la llamada de la escritura, una etapa de desarrollo, supervivencia y empeño por conseguir el dinero que le daría la libertad para dedicarse a lo que realmente quería. La narración llega hasta los 30 años de Auster y termina con la muerte de su padre, que marca el inicio de la obra más personal del escritor. Su "Crónica de un fracaso precoz" es la entrañable historia de formación y crecimiento de un joven que más tarde se convirtió en un reconocido autor.

While still a young boy, Robb White built his first boat, hewn from the tin roof of an abandoned chicken coop in the backyard. Today, without any formal training, White constructs some of the most sought-after wooden boats around. In How to Build a Tin Canoe, this Southern raconteur and self-taught expert wooden-boat builder recounts tall tales of a life lived on the water, from his childhood exploring the Gulf of Mexico to growing up - or not really growing up - to share his accrued wisdom with others.

Burning the Days captures a singular life, beginning with a Manhattan boyhood and then, satisfying his father's wishes, graduation from West Point, followed by service in the Air Force as a pilot. In some of the most evocative pages ever written about flying, Salter describes the exhilaration and terror of combat as a fighter pilot in the Korean War, scenes that are balanced by haunting pages of love and a young man's passion for women.