Resultados Editorial "Audible Studios" en Ficción biográfica

It’s early spring 1959, and the word desire is synonymous with America’s most famous blonde: Marilyn Monroe. Being desired is her drug, her kryptonite, the very definition of who she is. It’s so much a part of her identity that her own wants and needs have become fleeting at best, as if she’s seen herself through others’ eyes so often that she’s forgotten what she looks like through her own. But the deepest needs always surface, and there is one thing Marilyn wishes for beyond all else: to meet her real father.

When Jon and Ray form a tight friendship, they find in each other everything they lack at home, but it’s not until Ray falls in love with beautiful, headstrong Karen Dorsey that the three friends begin to dream of breaking away from Brewster for good. Freedom, however, has its price. As forces beyond their control begin to bear down on them, Jon sets off on the race of his life - a race to redeem his past and save them all.

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A heartbreaking and darkly funny depiction of the intricacies of family, Unquiet is an elegy of memory and loss, identity and art, growing up and growing old. Linn Ullmann nimbly blends memoir and fiction in her most inventive novel yet, weaving a luminous meditation on language, mourning, and the many narratives that make up a life.

Suena el teléfono y el mundo es para siempre un lugar distinto. Las cosas suceden sin que nadie sepa por qué y uno no vuelve a ser el que era ni a sentir lo que sentía. Ésta es la historia de una ausencia, el relato de una búsqueda. Un descenso a los infiernos para rescatar al ser amado. Porque ésta es una historia de amor, aunque sea la historia de un amor diferente. Sobre el gran tabú de nuestro tiempo se abre la exploración literaria del amor, el dolor y la vida.

En 1940, Olivier, l'enfant des Allumettes suédoises fête ses dix-sept ans. Pour la traversée des épreuves, il a des armes : sa gouaille, sa malice, les trésors d'une vie libre et populaire. Comment vivre ces années, décider de soi-même ? Son entourage : famille adoptive, compagnons de travail, amis d'Auvergne, Parisiens effarés, ne lui apporte pas de réponse. Sur un fond de bruit de bottes, de sirènes, de vacarme guerrier, d'étendards ennemis, le grouillement des êtres.

"Je m'appelle France, j'ai neuf ans et je viens d'entrer en CM1. Dans ma classe, il y a les trois sortes de familles : les vraies, les monoparentales et les recomposées. Depuis le divorce, j'habite juste avec maman, alors moi, c'est la monoparentale. J'aime pas. J'ai deux grands-mères qui s'entendent moyen et un seul grand-père. Personne ne sait où est passé celui qui manque et ça me fait comme un trou au cœur. Heureusement, il y a l'école, où Mme la Directrice a dit qu'on était tous frères.

Lieutenant Mike Galway takes command of his first platoon, and it is not at all what he bargained for. What he anticipated was the challenge of training a unit of disciplined Marine infantrymen to go to war. Instead he finds himself responsible for a group of unruly American teenagers, for whom he has to become a combination of surrogate father, psychologist, high school principal, marriage counselor, financial advisor, conflict mediator, and drug and alcohol therapist.

The first novel to appear in English by one of the most talked-about and critically acclaimed writers of new Mexican fiction. From a psychoanalyst's couch, the narrator looks back on her bizarre childhood - in which she was born with an abnormality in her eye into a family intent on fixing it. In a world without the time and space for innocence, the narrator intimately recalls her younger self - a fierce and discerning girl open to life's pleasures and keen to its ruthless cycle of tragedy.

M. F. K. Fisher's first novel tells of a late-summer idyll at the Swiss farmhouse of Tim and Sara, where guests have gathered at ease on the terrace next to the burbling fountain in which baby lettuces are being washed, there to enjoy the food and wine served them by this stylish American couple. But all around these seemingly fortunate people, the forces of darkness are gathering: The year is 1939; World War II approaches.

The mansion is called Illyria, but for the writers and artists who flock there each summer, it may as well be paradise. Away from family, friends, and ordinary responsibilities, the creative spirit can flower, nurtured by the company of other artistic souls. Janet Belle Smith's husband doesn't understand why she can't write at home - or really, for that matter, why she must write at all - but for Janet, the reason is clear. Only in Illyria can she be herself.

It is 1556 and the queen's astrologer, the prophet Nostradamus has uncovered a secret that could destroy the kingdom of France. The queen, Catherine de Medicis, a dabbler in black magic, has decided to get rid of the king's mistress by seeking out the legendary Undying Head of Menander the Magus, known as the Master of All Desires. But she does not know that evil befalls all those who wish upon this accursed object. And the head, in its coffer, has fallen into the possession of a charming, wryly perceptive but stubborn young woman: Sybille Artaud de la Roche.

Chi c'è dietro la maschera di Anne Sexton, la poetessa bellissima e dannata, straordinaria figura letteraria del Novecento? Come superarne lo stereotipo di donna volubile, egoista, dolce, furiosa ed erotica, per arrivare al nocciolo della sua identità e ricostruire la complessità di una vita così estrema e contraddittoria? Attraverso sottrazioni e tentativi, costeggiando nel romanzo una nuova forma di verità.

Una piovosa sera di novembre, un colpo di pistola. Una donna, ancora bella, ferita dal suo giovane amante. È Evelina Cattermole, una delle personalità più affascinanti e discusse dell'Italia unita di fine Ottocento. "Un'anima furiosa sotto le spoglie di una seducente signora bionda", dicevano di lei. Circondata da un alone di scandalo, dal giorno in cui suo marito uccise un uomo in duello per difendere il suo onore. Odiata o ammirata perché, giornalista e scrittrice in una società dominata dai maschi, era riuscita ad affermarsi con lo pseudonimo di Contessa Lara.

In 410 CE, arrogant 16-year-old Magonus Sucatus Patricius denounces Christianity as a religion for cowards when the Roman legions withdraw, leaving Britain vulnerable to raiders from the west. Determined to wield a sword despite being the grandson of a priest, the affluent young man is taken captive by barbarians and sold into slavery to a cruel Irish king. On a mountaintop in Eire, a shepherd strips him of his grand Roman name and calls him Padraic, marking him a man of no consequence.

In late summer of 1562, within a bedchamber at Whitehall Palace, Elizabeth Tudor prays for the recovery of the delirious, fever-racked friend who has served her for twenty-six of her twenty-nine years. Ten days later, with loyal, handsome Lord Robert Dudley by her side, the queen leads her retinue to London’s Royal College of Physicians to enlist two learned doctors in the raging battle against disease and pestilence.

Tutto comincia alle sei di mattina, in radio, dove due giornalisti assonnati si danno il turno. Lui è appena arrivato e cerca di svegliarsi con un caffè, lei sta correndo a casa dopo aver lavorato tutta la notte. E succede che nella fretta i due si scambiano per errore i cellulari. Si rivedono qualche ora più tardi, e da un dialogo surreale nasce un invito al cinema, poi una mostra, un aperitivo, una gita in montagna.

1970, in una villa sul lago di Como la vedova Falconi amministra una residenza di vacanza frequentata da potenti, generali, magistrati, grandi avvocati. Come in un moderno Decameron, tra vini d'annata e chiacchiere, la compagnia affronta ogni sera, a turno, un diverso argomento. Il protagonista - dietro i cui tratti ammicca l'ombra dell'autore - ascolta e divertito racconta, intrecciando ricordi personali e vita pubblica, temi scottanti e goliardia.

La storia di un'amicizia e di una passione. L'amicizia è quella fra due scrittrici, una già affermata e idolatrata dal pubblico e l'altra geniale ma esordiente all'inizio della narrazione: Amélie Nothomb e Pétronille Fanto. Il racconto scandisce i momenti più bizzarri di questo inusuale legame che prende forma e consistenza fra libri, librerie, letteratura e indimenticabili bevute. A unire le due donne infatti, oltre alla scrittura, c'è anche la comune passione per lo champagne.

Quante volte si può scomparire? O quante volte si può tornare a esistere prima di essere veramente scomparsi al mondo fisico? Il protagonista di questo romanzo ci parla da un dopo morte (una morte accidentale) che ha ancora legami con la vita.