-Titulo Original : Designing Your New Work Life How To Thrive And Change And Find Happiness--and A New Freedom--at Work-Fabricante : Vintage-Descripcion Original: From the authors of the #1 New York Times bestseller Designing Your Life comes a revised, fully up-to-date edition of Designing Your New Work Life,a timely, urgently needed book that shows us how to transform our new uncharted work life into a meaningful dream job or company. With practical, useful tools, tips, and design ideas that show us how to navigate disruption (global, regional, or personal) and create new possibilities for our post-COVID work world and beyond.Bill Burnett and Dave Evans successfully taught graduate and undergraduate students at Stanford University and readers of their best-selling book, Designing Your Life (The prototype for a happy life. -Brian Lehrer, NPR), that designers dont analyze, worry, think, complain their way forward; they build their way forward. And now more than ever, we all need creative and adaptable tools to cope with the chaos caused by COVID-19. In Designing Your New Work Life, Burnett and Evans show us how design thinking can transform our present job, and how it can improve our experience of work in times of disruption. All disruption is personal, write Burnett and Evans, as with the life-altering global pandemic we are living through now. Designing Your New Work Life makes clear that disruption is the new normal, that it is here to stay and that it is accelerating. And in the books new chapters, Burnett and Evans show us step by step, how to design our way through disruption and how to stay ahead of it-and thrive. Burnett and Evanss Disruption Design offers us a radical new concept that makes use of the designer mindsets: Curiosity, Reframing, Radical collaboration, Awareness, Bias to action, Storytelling, to find our way through these unchartered times. In Designing Your New Work Life, Burnett and Evans show us, with tools, tips, and design ideas, how we can make new possibilities available even when our lives have been disrupted (be it globally, regionally, or personally), giving us the tools to enjoy the present moment and allowing us to begin to prototype our possible future. About the Author BILL BURNETT is the executive director of the Stanford Design Program, and was a product leader for Apples groundbreaking PowerBook business. He directs the undergraduate and graduate program in design at Stanford. DAVE EVANS is the Codirector of the Stanford Life Design Lab, and a cofounder of Electronic Arts, one of the worlds largest interactive entertainment companies. He holds a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford...

-Titulo Original : Simplicity Day Planner 2022-Fabricante : Vintage-Descripcion Original: A 2022 planner based on the writings of Paulo Coelho, one of the worlds most beloved and inspirational authors.World-renowned author Paulo Coelho has inspired millions with bestselling classics like The Alchemist, The Pilgrimage, Manuscript Found in Accra, Adultery, The Spy, Hippie and, most recently, The Archer. Now, with this 2022 day planner, the same wisdom that draws readers to his books time and time again can serve as a source of daily inspiration year round. Available in English and Spanish, Simplicity (Simplicidad) features moving and revealing quotes by internationally beloved author Paulo Coelho. More than your average planner, readers can begin each day with a word of wisdom, receive spiritual food-for-thought as they navigate through their everyday lives, and have Coelho be their guide as they plan and embark on their own travels and personal journeys. About the Author PAULO COELHO is the author of many international best sellers, including The Alchemist, Eleven Minutes, The Pilgrimage,The Fifth Mountain, and Adultery, among others. He has been a member of the Academy of Letters of Brazil since 2002 and in 2007 was named a Messenger of Peace by the United Nations. In 2003, he received the Guinness World Record for most translations of a single title (The Alchemist) signed by the author in one sitting and several years later, in 2009, he received a new Guinness World Record for most translated author for the same book (also for The Alchemist). Paulo Coelho’s books have been translated into 84 languages and have sold more than 320 million copies in more than 170 countries. His novel, The Alchemist, one of the most influential books of all time,has sold more than 85 million copies and has been cited as an inspiration by people as diverse as Malala Yousafzai and Pharrell Williams. He has received numerous prestigious international awards, including the Hans Christian Andersen Award and the Chevalier de l’Ordre National de la Legion d’Honneur, to name a few. paulocoelho paulocoelhoblog Connect with the author: /paulocoelho Twitter: @paulocoelh...

-Titulo Original : The Lady In Gold The Extraordinary Tale Of Gustav Klimts Masterpiece, Portrait Of Adele Bloch-bauer-Fabricante : Vintage-Descripcion Original: National BestsellerThe true story that inspired the movie Woman in Gold starring Helen Mirren and Ryan Reynolds.Contributor to the Washington Post Anne-Marie O’Connor brilliantly regales us with the galvanizing story of Gustav Klimt’s 1907 masterpiece-the breathtaking portrait of a Viennese Jewish socialite, Adele Bloch-Bauer. The celebrated painting, stolen by Nazis during World War II, subsequently became the subject of a decade-long dispute between her heirs and the Austrian government. When the U.S. Supreme Court became involved in the case, its decision had profound ramifications in the art world. Expertly researched, masterfully told, The Lady in Gold is at once a stunning depiction of fin-de siecle Vienna, a riveting tale of Nazi war crimes, and a fascinating glimpse into the high-stakes workings of the contemporary art world. One of the Best Books of the Year: The Huffington Post, The Christian Science Monitor. Winner of the Marfield National Award for Arts Writing. Winner of a California Book Award. Review “Fascinating. . . . A mesmerizing tale of art and the Holocaust.” - The Washington Post“A celebration of art and persistence. . . . O’Connor’s book brings Klimt’s exceptional portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer home, broadening the meaning of homeland at the same time.” - The Christian Science Monitor“Ms. O’Connor has told an important story.” - The Wall Street Journal “O’Connor skillfully filters Austria’s troubled twentieth century through the life of Klimt’s most beloved muse. . . . A nuanced view of a painting whose story transcends its own time.” - Bookforum “Captivating.” -MORE Magazine “Combines detailed reportage with passionate storytelling. . . . Unraveling the portrait’s journey also reveals how global norms of art and war have changed, and the powerful roles that art plays in politics, society, identity and memory.” - The Rumpus “A fascinating book.” - The Dallas Morning News “Richly drawn. . . . Part history and part mystery, The Lady in Gold is a striking tale.” - BookPage “The lusciously detailed story of Gustav Klimt’s most famous painting, detailing the relationship between the artist, the subject, their heirs and those who coveted the masterpiece. . . . Art-history fans will love the deep details of the painting, and history buffs will revel in the facts O’Connor includes as she exposes a deeper picture of World War II.” - Kirkus Reviews “Intriguing. . . . Poignant and convincing. . . . Vividly evokes the intellectually precocious and ambitious Adele’s rich cultural and social milieu in Vienna, and how she became entwined with the charismatic, sexually charged, and irreverent Klimt.” - Publishers Weekly “Writing with a novelist’s dynamism, O’Connor resurrects fascinating individuals and tells a many-faceted, intensely affecting, and profoundly revelatory tale of the inciting power of art and the unending need for justice.” - Booklist (starred review) About the Author Anne-Marie O’Connor attended Vassar College, studied painting at the San Francisco Art Institute, and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley. She was a foreign correspondent for Reuters and a staff writer for the Los Angeles Times for twelve years, and has written extensively on the Klimt painting and the Bloch-Bauer family’s efforts to recover its art collection. Her articles have appeared in Esquire, The Nation, and The Christian Science Monitor. She currently writes for The Washington Post from Jerusalem, where her husband, William Booth, is Post bureau chief. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Excerpted from the Hardcover edition Adeles ViennaPoems and Privilege It was 1898, and the devil himself seemed to dance in Vienna. The mistress of Emperor Franz Joseph was Viennas premier actress, Katharina Schratt, and she was threatening to retire from the stage unless the Imperial Burgtheater staged a scandalous Arthur Schn...

-Titulo Original : Hit Men Power Brokers And Fast Money Inside The Music Business-Fabricante : Vintage-Descripcion Original: Copiously researched and documented, Hit Men is the highly controversial portrait of the pop music industry in all its wild, ruthless glory: the insatiable greed and ambition; the enormous egos; the fierce struggles for profits and power; the vendettas, rivalries, shakedowns, and payoffs. Chronicling the evolution of Americas largest music labels from the Tin Pan Alley days to the present day, Fredric Dannen examines in depth the often venal, sometimes illegal dealings among the assorted hustlers and kingpins who rule over this multi-billion-dollar business. Review A nauseatingly honest and therefore controversial expose of the base beings that inhabit the higher levels of the music industry. Filled with horror stories that will confirm your worst suspicions about the toxicity of what my friends and I call Planet CD Wood. Review Praise for Fredric Dannens Hit Men: A sobering, blunt, and unusually well-observed depiction of the sometimes sordid inner workings of the music business. - Billboard Its a good book-read it! -Sinead OConnor An entertaining collection of anecdotes about an uproariously unsavory subculture of egomaniacs, sybarites, goniffs, and music lovers. . . . Mr. Dannen has a knack for the telling quote and a healthy appetite for the juicy story. - The New York Times Book Review Anyone with more than a passing interest in the inner workings of the [music] industry will be enthralled by the juicy tales [Dannen] has to tell. - The New York Times A knowing and unsentimental glimpse into the inner workings of the music business . . . Dannen got the inside story, and he got it right. - Los Angeles Times Book Review The most revealing look yet at the characters who run the rock-music business. - Entertainment Weekly, Top 10 Best Books of the Year No one, insider or outsider, has ever grasped the basic concept of power in the pop-music business better than Fredric Dannen in Hit Men. . . . Hit Men has enough dramatic juice to drive half a dozen fictional bestsellers. - Newsday The no-holds-barred tale of showbizs most flamboyant branch strips away the inpenetrable sheen of some of the industrys weightiest names. - Variety Hit Men brings to life the most compelling gang of thugs since The Godfather. The stories of this smarmy bunch are part delicious, part appalling. - USA Today Anyone who has even a passing interest in the music industry will be intrigued by Hit Men. The two basic themes are mob involvement and music executives dalliances. - Chicago Tribune A detailed profile of the handful of individuals who control the Top Forty. . . . Dannens triumph is his ability to reduce the complicated problems and issues of the music industry to precise, personal situations. - Rolling Stone Dannens thorough, sure-footed investigation . . . create[s] a lucid and understandable account of the modern music business. - Philadelphia Inquirer Dannen . . . mixes the skills of an investigative journalist with the gifts of an expert storyteller in an expose that will intrigue and appall readers with its disclosures. - Publishers Weekly Well researched and chock-full of juicy tidbits, [ Hit Men] imparts a vivid sense of the record industrys slimy side. - Business Week From the Inside Flap Hit Men is the shocking, highly controversial expose of the venality, greed, and corruption of many of the assorted kingpins and hustlers who rule over the music industry. A sobering, blunt, and unusually well-observed depiction of the sometimes sordid inner workings of the music business.--Billboard. 4 pages of photographs. From the Back Cover Hit Men is the shocking, highly controversial expose of the venality, greed, and corruption of many of the assorted kingpins and hustlers who rule over the music industry. A sobering, blunt, and unusually well-observed depiction of the sometimes sordid inner worki...

-Titulo Original : The Star Machine-Fabricante : Vintage-Descripcion Original: From one of our most distinguished film scholars, comes a rich, penetrating, amusing book about the golden age of movies and how the studios worked to manufacture stars. With revelatory insights and delightful asides, Jeanine Basinger shows us how the studio “star machine” worked when it worked, how it failed when it didnt, and how irrelevant it could sometimes be. She gives us case studies focusing on big stars groomed into the system: the “awesomely beautiful” (and disillusioned) Tyrone Power; the seductive, disobedient Lana Turner; and a dazzling cast of others. She anatomizes their careers, showing how their fame happened, and what happened to them as a result. Deeply engrossing, full of energy, wit, and wisdom, The Star Machine is destined to become an classic of the film canon. Review “Startling. . . . An enormous new book of star lore . . . Basinger nestles with almost delicious comfort into the intimate procedures of star manufacture.” - The New Yorker “Luxurious, often delicious. . . . Ms. Basinger tells her story with her customary verve and sass-shes the Rosalind Russell of film historians.” - The New York Observer “Entertaining and informative. . . . [Basinger], whose enthusiasm for movies is reflected on every page, has a deft way of encapsulating the kernel of an actors attraction.” - Chicago Sun-Times “Engaging. . . . Smart, deeply researched but also chatty and fast-flowing. . . . Basingers study of the studios relentless spin control makes an instructive prism through which to view long skeins of Hollywood film history.” - Los Angeles Times About the Author Jeanine Basinger is the chair of film studies at Wesleyan University and the curator of the cinema archives there. She has written nine other books on film, including A Womans View: How Hollywood Spoke to Women 1930-1960; Silent Stars, winner of the William K. Everson Award for Film History; The World War II Combat Film: Anatomy of a Genre; and American Cinema: 100 Years of Filmmaking, the companion book for a ten-part PBS series. She lives with her husband in Middletown, Connecticut. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Part One: Stars and the Factory System It’s a crackpot business that sets out to manufacture a product it can’t even define, but that was old Hollywood. Thousands of people in the movie business made a Wizard-of-Oz living, working hidden levers to present an awe-inspiring display on theatre screens: Movie Stars! Hollywood made ’em and sold ’em daily, gamely producing a product for which its creators had no concrete explanation. Sometimes they made films that told the story of their own star-making business, and even then they couldn’t say what exactly a movie star was. They just trusted that the audience wouldn’t need an explanation because it would believe what it was seeing-star presence-could verify its own existence. “She’s got that little something extra,” muses James Mason in 1954’s A Star Is Born, quoting actress Ellen Terry for credibility. Since he’s talking about Judy Garland as he watches her sing “The Man That Got Away,” the point is made. (“She has something!” cries out Lowell Sherman when he spies waitress Constance Bennett in the earlier version of the story, What Price Hollywood?) Hollywood just told people that “he” or “she” or “it” (let’s not forget Rin Tin Tin and Trigger) had “that little something extra” and let it go at that. As a definition, it wasn’t much, but it was all anyone needed-and there’s no arguing with it. The truth is that nobody-either then or now-can define what a movie star is except by specific example,[1] but the workaday world of moviemaking never gave up trying to figure it out. As soon as the business realized that moviegoers wanted to see stars, they grappled with trying to find a useful definition for the phenomenon of movie stardom, which is really not like any other kind. Marlon Brando called all the...

-Titulo Original : Glittering Images A Journey Through Art From Egypt To Star Wars-Fabricante : Vintage-Descripcion Original: Modern life is a sea of images. With so much visual data bombarding us-from personal devices to mass media-our brains must rapidly adapt to make sense of it all. Here to guide us is Americas premier intellectual provocateur, Camille Paglia. In these pages, Paglia returns to the subject that made her famous, situating our current visual environment within the epic scope of all of art history. With trademark audacity, Paglia tours through more than two dozen seminal paintings, sculptures, architectural styles, performance pieces, and digital art works that have transformed our world. Combining close analysis with historical context, she trains our eye to each image-from an Egyptian tomb to Jackson Pollocks abstract Green Silver to Renee Coxs daring performance piece Chillin with Liberty. And in her stunning conclusion, she declares the avant-garde tradition dead and film director George Lucas the worlds greatest living artist. Written with energy, erudition, and wit, Glittering Images will profoundly change the way we see. Review “A magisterial, poetically composed, and masterly study. . . . Paglia writes rhapsodically of art’s power. . . . [She is] one of the most erudite public intellectuals in America.” -The Philadelphia Inquirer“Highlights Ms. Paglia’s impressive range and famously eclectic tastes. . . . [She is] a critic determined to teach the redemptive possibilities of patient, informed observation.” -The Wall Street Journal “Riveting. . . . Revelatory. . . . Subtle, penetrating and sometimes funny.” -The Globe and Mail (Toronto) “[Paglia is] an art-for-art’s-sake worshiper of art and literature whose close readings, influenced by Walter Pater and Sigmund Freud, are pyrotechnic and passionate.” -San Francisco Chronicle“Dazzling. . . . Compulsively readable. . . . Paglia at her best. . . . The lean precision of the book is a marvel. . . . Her choices range from the classic and expected to the obscure and the startling. . . . Even her explorations of the more familiar works will have you marveling anew.” -Salon “Paglia [is] an intellectual sensation. . . . Here we find Paglia’s bewitching eye, matched with her gift for language, at its best.” -City Journal“Artists, questing outsiders, are still with us, still finding their way, making their way. Perhaps some of them will be inspired by the glittering images Camille Paglia offers here.” -Los Angeles Times“An essential work by an essential public intellectual.” -Vice“Paglia is a lively, bracingly outspoken writer able to draw on her knowledge of both fine arts and popular culture.” -National Post“A fascinating, uncommonly accessible look at the history of images in Western art. . . . [Paglia is] an incisive cultural critic, a dedicated teacher and a nimble-minded writer.” -Cincinnati City Beat“An intelligently detailed examination of 29 works of art, ranging from a tomb painting of Egyptian Queen Nefertari to George Lucas’ film Revenge of the Sith. . . . Paglia is a wonderful popularizer of art history and art appreciation.” -Kirkus Reviews“Succinct, lively, and illuminating. . . . Paglia’s bold and rigorous, handsomely illustrated and welcoming art iconography will accomplish her mission to provoke, enlighten, and inspire..” -Booklist (starred)“A valuable cultural critique and an elucidating history. . . . [A] highly reflective and imaginative history of images in Western art. . . . Paglia writes with energetic lucidity, and her entries on the Laocoon and Donatello’s Mary Magdalene are standouts in this absorbing volume.” -Publishers Weekly“The ever-provocative Paglia returns. . . . She proclaims that the avant-garde is dead and that George Lucas is our greatest living artist. This will get the smart folks talking.” -Library Journal About the Author Camille Paglia is University Professor of Humanities and Media Studies at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. She is the author of four previous books: Break, Blo...

-Titulo Original : Haywire-Fabricante : Vintage-Descripcion Original: From the moment of its publication in 1977, Haywire was a national sensation and a #1 bestseller, a celebrated Hollywood memoir of a glittering family and the stunning darkness that lurked just beneath the surface. Brooke Hayward was born into the most enviable of circumstances. The daughter of a famous actress and a successful Hollywood agent, she was beautiful, wealthy, and living at the very center of the most privileged life America had to offer. Yet at twenty-three her family was ripped apart. Who could have imagined that this magical life could shatter, so conclusively, so destructively? Brooke Hayward tells the riveting story of how her family went haywire. Review “ Haywire is a Hollywood childhood memoir, a glowing tapestry spun with equal parts of gold and pain. . . . An absolute beauty.” - The New York Times Book Review “Moving and brave and beautifully written. . . . [Hayward] has told it as Fitzgerald might have-with the glow and the glamour, and finally, the heartbreak.” - Newsday “One of the most extraordinary personal memoirs Ive ever read. It has great honesty and charm and humor and beauty, and it is deeply moving.” -Truman Capote “Exquisite.” - Vanity Fair “[A] masterpiece in the genre of harrowing autobiographical tell-all.” - W “Elegant and moving.” -Gore Vidal “A sort of glorious fable from American mythology. . . . A gripping and eloquent memoir by a courageous and classy writer.” - St. Louis Post-Dispatch “She has modeled and acted and written: she writes, in fact, marvelously. Haywire mesmerizes. May it cauterize as well.” - The New York Times “An incredible achievement!” -Lauren Bacall “One of those rare books which seem to alter your perception of things. It is specific and true in dealing with lives that might have served as models for Fitzgerald’s fiction.” -Mike Nicols “Brave, honest, intelligent and greatly moving.” - Newsweek “Engrossing, intimate, moving. . . . Brooke Hayward writes like an angel.” - Cosmopolitan About the Author Brooke Hayward lives in New York. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. 1Endings She had called me late the night before. Looking back, I recall (or invent?) an urgency to her tone, but really all shed said was Can you have breakfast tomorrow? Hmm. What time? Do you have the proper ingredients? English muffins? Marmalade, et cetera? Wed never shaken the habit of testing one another. Of course, you spoiled brat. Come at ten, you shall have ginger marmalade from Bloomingdales, fresh orange juice I shall squeeze personally, boiled eggs-your customary five and a half minutes. And of course there will be fascinating conversation. Might I have a clue? Wed also become adept at approaching each other with oblique, occasionally fake, courtesy. Silence, as Id expected. Then: Okay, do you have a good gynecologist? My silence. Of course. What for? Brooke, listen. She was suddenly singing. I have never ever been so happy in my life-I think Im pregnant. What? I was predictably stunned, but less by that possibility than by her confiding in me. How the hell did you get pregnant? Oh, she said, giggling, probably from a toilet seat. Bridget. For Gods sake, have you gone mad? I mean, how can you possibly be twenty-one years old and reasonably, one hopes, reasonably intelligent and not have been to a- Brooke, listen. She was positively frenzied with elation. Listen, its entirely possible that I want to get married, Im so in love. Do you hear me? Married! This conversation was moving just out of my reach, like a smoke ring. All I could say was Yes. I see what you mean about breakfast-yes, indeed. Might one ask who the expectant father is? No, never mind. Ten oclock tomorrow. Whats he like, is he nice, does he hurt? I knew she meant the gynecologist. Yes, no, never mind. Actually hes from India-nice blend of exotic and...

-Titulo Original : The Baroness The Search For Nica, The Rebellious Rothschild And Jazzs Secret Muse-Fabricante : Vintage-Descripcion Original: Beautiful and spirited, Pannonica Rothschild, known as Nica, was born in 1913 to eccentric privilege and a storied family history. After marrying well, she settled into a French chateau to bear children and support her husband’s war career. But when Nica heard “Round Midnight” by jazz composer Thelonious Monk, everything changed. She abandoned her marriage, found Monk in New York, and devoted herself to him and to other musicians, becoming the unsung philanthropist of the city’s Jazz scene. Hannah Rothschild has given twenty years to the quest of revealing who her great-aunt really was. Drawing on unpublished archival material, private family records and her own interviews, she has produced a fascinating portrait-part musical odyssey, part love story-that showcases a woman ahead of her time who dared to live as she wanted. Review “Utterly absorbing.” - Elle, A Must-Read Book “Rothschild pushes aside the smoke, the scandal, and the pearls to present a fair portrait of her compulsive, elusive ancestress.” - The Daily Beast “Rothschild has fun evoking the fizz of Nica’s New York.” - The New Yorker “An eminently readable, well researched biography-one third a history of the Rothschild family, one third a portrait of Nica and one third a biography of Monk.” - The Sunday Times (London) “A more rounded portrait of Nica than any published before.” - The Week “Hannah tells this story with care, balancing narrative tension with a desire to lay out all the facts so readers can make up their own minds. . . . Wholly gripping.” - The Guardian “An enjoyable, madcap read about a woman who once raced Miles Davis in a car … and played a part in nurturing a generation of struggling musicians.” - The Herald-Sun (Durham, NC) “Smoky, seductive, smart, and full of both beautiful and sad family lore.” - Interview Magazine “Rothschild blends biography and personal history to uncover an enigma who had all but vanished from the family annals.” - Town and Country “At first glance Thelonious (Monk) and Pannonica (Rothschild) might seem to have nothing in common. Yet as Hannah Rothschild shows in this tender memoir, the symmetries of their lives ran far deeper.” - Mail on Sunday (London) “[A] remarkable . . . sophisticated recounting of [the Rothschilds’] riveting history.” - WWD “An eminently readable, well researched biography-one third a history of the Rothschild family, one third a portrait of Nica and one third a biography of Monk. Nica comes across as a remarkable woman, strong, feisty and rebellious.” - The Sunday Times (London) “This revelatory and unique biography feels long overdue. . . . A more rounded portrait of Nica than any published before.” - The Week “[An] honest, compassionate portrait. . . . Rothschild’s work covers the unique perspective of a family member whose quest to comprehend the essence of her fascinating yet controversial great-aunt is illuminating . . . . Provides thoughtful insight into Nica’s life, milieu, and cultural era, and will appeal to jazz enthusiasts as well as to musicians and popular historians.” - Library Journal “[A] fascinating history of the Rothschild dynasty.” - W Magazine “Charming. . . . Nica is an irresistible combination of British eccentricity and Rothschild sophistication. Readers will enjoy this intimate story of a lifetime of rule breaking, told with remarkable detail, tenderness, and true empathy.” - Publisher’s Weekly “The fascinating story of a member of Europe’s banking aristocracy who spent the second, half of her life swinging with New York’s jazz aristocracy. . . . An engaging mixture of well-researched biography and personal reminiscences about her formidable relatives.” - Kirkus Reviews About the Author Hannah Rothschild is a writer and director whose documentaries have appeared at film festivals including Telluride and Tribeca. She conceived and directed The Jazz Baroness, a film about her great-aunt and Thelonio...

-Titulo Original : Sticky Fingers The Life And Times Of Jann Wenner And Rolling Stone Magazine-Fabricante : Vintage-Descripcion Original: A New York Times Top 10 Book of the Year (Dwight Garner)A New York Times Top 10 Book of the Year (Janet Maslin)A New York Magazine Top 10 Book of the Year A USA Today Top 10 Book We Loved Reading in 2017An Amazon Top 100 Book of 2017 An Amazon Best Biography of 2017 An Amazon Best History Book of 2017 An Amazon Top 10 Best Book of the MonthA San Francisco Chronicle Books of 2017A delicious romp through the heyday of rock and roll and a revealing portrait of the man at the helm of the iconic magazine that made it all possible, with candid look backs at the era from Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Elton John, Bono, Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney, and others. The story of Jann Wenner, Rolling Stones founder, editor, and publisher, and the pioneering era he helped curate, is told here for the first time in glittering, glorious detail. Joe Hagan provides readers with a backstage pass to storied concert venues and rock-star hotel rooms; he tells never before heard stories about the lives of rock stars and their handlers; he details the daring journalism (Tom Wolfe, Hunter S. Thompson, P.J. O’Rourke) and internecine office politics that accompanied the start-up; he animates the drug and sexual appetites of the era; and he reports on the politics of the last fifty years that were often chronicled in the pages of Rolling Stone magazine. Supplemented by a cache of extraordinary documents and letters from Wenners personal archives, Sticky Fingers depicts an ambitious, mercurial, wide-eyed rock and roll fan of who exalts in youth and beauty and learns how to package it, marketing late sixties counterculture as a testament to the power of American youth. The result is a fascinating and complex portrait of man and era, and an irresistible biography of popular culture, celebrity, music, and politics in America. Review A New York Times Top 10 Book of the Year (Dwight Garner) A New York Times Top 10 Book of the Year (Janet Maslin) A New York Magazine Top 10 Book of the Year A USA Today Top 10 Book We Loved Reading in 2017 An Amazon Top 100 Book of 2017 An Amazon Best Biography of 2017 An Amazon Best History Book of 2017 An Amazon Top 10 Best Book of the Month“Hagan has delivered a supple, confident, dispassionately reported and deeply well-written biography. It’s a big book, one that no one will wish longer, but its chapters move past like a crunching collection of singles and not a thumb-sucking double album. It’s a joy to read and feels built to last. Hagan is among those relatively rare biographers who keeps macro and micro in yin-yang balance. He’s in command of the big picture. The critic and intellectual in him understands why a mere rock magazine editor - Wenner founded Rolling Stone in San Francisco in 1967 - matters to the history of the 20th century… Come for the essayist in Hagan, stay for the eye-popping details and artful gossip... Hagan could easily have named-dropped his way through this book, yet he doesn’t drop names so much as pick them up and coolly appraise them in a line or two… In scorning Hagan’s work, Wenner’s editorial antennae have failed him. He had the nerve to select a writer and not a hagiographer, ., and the decision, at the end of his long career, looks good on him.” -Dwight Garner, The New York Times “Hagan’s portrait of Wenner is crisp and cutting…Though Sticky Fingers is, at five hundred and forty-two pages, a formidable read, it’s also terrifically smart and full of anecdotes that anyone remotely interested in rock and roll, publishing, or the legacy of the nineteen-sixties will find engrossing.” -Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker “Hagan’s biography is a colossal achievement of reporting and synthesis, fast-paced, compulsively readable, and consistently insightful in its understanding of how and why Wenner was able to turn a modest fanboy tabloid into an iconic cultural force and, after its golden years were behind it, to convert its waning and increasing...

-Titulo Original : Robert Redford The Biography-Fabricante : Vintage-Descripcion Original: Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Robert Redford’s early life was dominated by women. They were not the women of New England, but women of the West. His mother, Martha Hart Redford, was, he says, the center of his universe. She taught him to drive when he was eight, taught him to draw, to role-play in games. She connected him with the past, introducing him to Native Americans on Navajo reservations in Arizona and to Yosemite. These conjunctions came naturally to her, because she was the stuff of the West, descended from Texans who were, in spirit, the polar opposite of the Redfords. A century before, the Harts and Greens of the maternal family line lived a frontier life along the Mississippi Valley, religiously random, indulgent, drifting. The Harts were Galway-Irish, the Greens Scots-Irish, and both families came to America through the southern colonies in the mid-eighteenth century. The Harts followed the frontier to Missouri; the Greens followed the money to Boston. While the Harts drifted, the Greens built one of the first large-scale printing presses in Boston in 1790. When a similarly ambitious undertaking in Arkansas failed, George Green set out with his family by wagon train in 1853 to settle lands near Austin, Texas. Along with three partners, he founded a new town called San Marcos. In no time George, a slave owner, had established mining interests and a loan company. His son, Edwin Jeremiah, known to all as Ed, was twelve when they set up in Texas. By the age of twenty he had expanded the family’s businesses into every variety of service provision for miners across the region. He also built Green’s Anglican Church next door to the family bank. During his service in the Confederate army, young Ed’s wife died and he married her sister, Eliza Jane, who bore him six children, including Eugene, Robert Redford’s maternal great-grandfather. As San Marcos’s fortunes grew during Reconstruction, Ed became a legendary figure, a titan of the local business world. Among his social circle was another celebrated ex-Confederate officer, Zachariah P. Bugg, the sheriff of a Tennessee township. Zach’s daughter Mattie married Eugene in 1891. Out of this union came Sallie Pate Green, Robert Redford’s grandmother. Sallie Pate’s childhood was one of privilege and tragedy. Eugene Green followed his father into mining and banking, but died suddenly at twenty, when his daughter was just months old. Shortly after, his teenage widow, Mattie, died of typhoid. Ed became de facto father to Sallie and rechristened her Mattie, in memory of her mother. She was the apple of his eye. In 1896, when Sallie was three, Ed’s wife passed away. Shortly afterward he married Alice Young Bohan, a recently widowed sister of his former wives. Alice was affectionate but not maternal, and Ed was sixty-five; it was Sallie’s good fortune that the black wet nurse, Nicey, a Green household fixture since her own childhood, became an affectionate substitute mother. In 1909, as Sallie turned sixteen, America’s fascination with the new automotive culture, started ten years before by Henry Ford, was peaking. That fall, Sallie attended a county fair advertising a race for custom roadsters, one of dozens held across the country. The race was won by the Bluebird, the handiwork of a shoe salesman turned inventor/mechanic, recently arrived from El Paso, named Tot Hart. Having won the attention of Sallie and the rest of the Green family, he was invited by them to dinner. Archibald “Tot” Hart was, like the Greens, of a western cut. His father, John Gabriel, was a traveling salesman from Spotsylvania, Virginia, who married an Ohioan, Ida Woodruff, in Missouri in 1885. In 1897, when Tot was eight, his father succumbed to cirrhosis, dying at the side of the road, and two years later his mother lay on her deathbed, urging her sons to pledges of temperance. Foster homes were found for Tot and his brother. Tot was small, but he had the energy of a terrier...

-Titulo Original : Plagued By Fire The Dreams And Furies Of Frank Lloyd Wright-Fabricante : Vintage-Descripcion Original: Review “A vast, sweeping book. . . . Wright’s life emerges with new clarity as a Shakespearean scale drama.” -The Wall Street Journal“Important, revelatory. . . . Hendrickson employs tremendously rigorous research to interrogate the myths that hang around his larger-than-life subject.” -The Washington Post“Hendrickson’s style is Faulknerian in its sweep, lyricism and detail.” -The Seattle Times“A whole new way of seeing an American icon.” -The National Book Review“Hendrickson is one of our great stylists.” -The Boston Globe“A wonderful addition to our understanding of Wright.” -St. Louis Magazine“The book’s most moving passages come from fresh insights from the architect’s archives. . . . Plagued by Fire aims not to examine the work of an architect but rather to render the architect with human character.” -Architectural Digest“The contradictory Wright who emerges, both hateful and human, is probably the truest portrait of the man we have yet.” -Evening Standard “Compelling. . . . Hendrickson gives us a sense of how the single-mindedness, drive, and sensibility that informed and enabled Wright’s work also affected his life.” -Architect Magazine“Dazzling. . . . Ingenious. . . . Plagued by Fire has . . . raw emotional power.” -The American Scholar“Beautifully written. . . . Absolutely riveting.” -Literary Hub“Attempts to shed new light on the architect. . . . [Hendricksons] book is not a straight biography. . . . Instead, he looks at the cracks in the facade (the sometimes insufferable Wright persona), reexamining the history, questioning it.” -Common Edge“As [Hendrickson] travels the arc of Wright’s life, his investigation into its deepest mysteries achieves a powerful momentum. . . . Hendrickson’s inspired storytelling is worthy of its subject.” -Booklist (starred review) Frank Lloyd Wright has long been known as a rank egotist who held in contempt almost everything aside from his own genius. Harder to detect, but no less real, is a Wright who fully understood, and suffered from, the choices he made.This is the Wright whom Paul Hendrickson reveals in this masterful biography: the Wright who was haunted by his father, about whom he told the greatest lie of his life. And this, we see, is the Wright of many other neglected aspects of his story: his close, and perhaps romantic, relationship with friend and early mentor Cecil Corwin; the eerie, unmistakable role of fires in his life; the connection between the 1921 Black Wall Street massacre in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and the murder of his mistress, her two children, and four others at his beloved Wisconsin home.In showing us Wright’s facades along with their cracks, Hendrickson helps us form a fresh, deep, and more human understanding of the man. With prodigious research, unique vision, and his ability to make sense of a life in ways at once unexpected, poetic, and undeniably brilliant, he has given us the defining book on Wright. About the Author Paul Hendrickson is the author of the New York Times bestseller and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, Hemingway’s Boat, and Sons of Mississippi, which won the 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award. Since 1998 he has been on the faculty of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Pennsylvania. For two decades before that, he was a staff writer at The Washington Post. Among his other books are Looking for the Light (1992 finalist for the NBCC award) and The Living and the Dead (1996 finalist for the National Book Award). He has been the recipient of writing fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Lyndhurst Foundation, and the Alicia Patterson Foundation. He is the father of two grown sons, both of whom work in media, and he lives with his wife, Cecilia, a retired nurse, in Washington, D.C., and outside Philadelphia. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Chatper 1The Enigma of ArrivalMother-fueled, father-g...

-Titulo Original : Broadsword Calling Danny Boy Watching Where Eagles Dare-Fabricante : Vintage-Descripcion Original: In Zona, Geoff Dyer-‘one of our most original writers’ (New York)-devoted a whole book to Andrei Tarkovsky’s cult masterpiece, Stalker. Now, in this warm and funny tribute to one of his favorite movies, he revisits the action classic Where Eagles Dare. A thrilling Alpine adventure headlined by a magnificent, bleary-eyed Richard Burton and a dynamically lethargic Clint Eastwood, Where Eagles Dare is the apex of 1960s war movies, by turns enjoyable and preposterous. ‘Broadsword Calling Danny Boy’ is Dyer’s hilarious tribute to a film he has loved since childhood: it’s a scene-by-scene analysis-or should that be send-up?-taking us from the movie’s snowy, Teutonic opening credits to its vertigo-inducing climax. Review “Dyer’s funniest book yet.” -Michael Ondaatje“Dyer can’t help writing brilliant sentences.” -The Guardian“The magpie eclecticism of Geoff Dyer is something to wonder at. His books are like party turns, each one different from the last while all bearing his distinctly puckish signature.” -Financial Times “A short, eccentric, hugely enjoyable work that succeeds admirably in capturing the daft exuberance of Where Eagles Dare.’ -The Literary Review“Dyer’s wry humour is everywhere evident. . . . ‘There is never a dull moment in WhereEagles Dare,’ [Dyer] writes, and nor is there in this book.” -The Sunday Times (London) “A witty gem of personally inflected film analysis. . . . Dyer lovingly and obsessively dissects a film that’s held a special place in his imagination ever since his first boyhood viewing. . . . [His] fleet work gives off a playful, often funny intellectual high.” -Publishers Weekly (starred review) “[Dyer is] funny and he’s a very good writer.” -The Times Literary Supplement “Moreishly entertaining. . . . A brilliant, intellectually sparkling critic.” -The Sunday Telegraph “An embarrassment of belly laughs. . . . It’s a sort of mash-up of mini-memoir and maxi-film-review. It is completely unjustifiable and delightfully apt. That’s its charm: it’s the strangest bird of a book you’re liable to take up anytime soon.” -Associated Press “An erudite and amusing love song to a loved one.” -Kirkus Reviews “Dyer is that rare breed of creative nonfiction writer who can take almost any topic (jazz, yoga, D. H. Lawrence) and make it his own. . . . This insightful, funny, and wildly enthusiastic book is essentially the literary version of live-tweeting a film.” -Booklist “[A] freewheeling, rule-breaking, wholly original, scene-by-scene sprint through the crazy action film Where Eagles Dare. . . . I defy anyone not to laugh at Dyer’s description of Clint Eastwood’s talent for squinting.” -Craig Brown, Daily Mail “A delightful celebration.” -The Irish Times “Dyer is one of the most stylish writers alive. . . . [He] loved [Where Eagles Dare] as a child, but he doesn’t make the fatal sentimental mistake of worrying over the gap between that affection and what it feels like to see the film today. Instead he just drops right in and begins describing it. Like all of Dyer’s genres, it’s a deceptively difficult stunt to pull off-recreating what it’s like to watch a film in front of you, frame by frame.” -LitHub “[A] funny and profound tribute . . . a book I wish I’d written myself.” -Aidan Scott, The Scotsman About the Author Geoff Dyer is the award-winning author of many books, including But Beautiful, Out of Sheer Rage, Zona (on Andrei Tarkovsky’s film Stalker), and the essay collection Otherwise Known as the Human Condition (winner of a National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism). A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Dyer lives in Los Angeles, where he is writer-in-residence at the University of Southern California. His books have been translated into twenty-four languages. geoffdyer Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Meanwhile, at dusk-even allowing for the fact that i...

-Titulo Original : Help-Fabricante : Vintage-Descripcion Original: About the Author Simon Amstell is a comedian, screenwriter and director. Simon Amstell did his first stand-up gig at the age of 13. His parents had just divorced and puberty was confusing. Trying to be funny solved everything. Help is the hilarious and heartbreaking account of Simon’s ongoing compulsion to reveal his entire self on stage. To tell the truth so it can’t hurt him any more. Loneliness, anxiety, depression-this book has it all. And more. From a complicated childhood in Essex to an Ayahuasca-led epiphany in the Amazon rainforest, this story will make you laugh, cry and then feel happier than you’ve ever been. Review A beautiful and clever book about being human. All the warmth of his comedy without the inconvenience of his face. -Russell BrandDisarmingly, almost alarmingly, honest. I laughed out loud 57 times - - Martin FreemanNo one makes loneliness and anxiety as funny as Simon Amstell. Every sentence in this book is simultaneously heartbreaking and hilarious - - Hadley FreemanEnrapturing. Touching, funny and sweet - - Alain de BottonPuts the fun in insanely honest introspection fun - - Adam Buxto...

-Titulo Original : This Is Shakespeare-Fabricante : Vintage-Descripcion Original: An electrifying new study that investigates the challenges of the Bard’s inconsistencies and flaws, and focuses on revealing-not resolving-the ambiguities of the plays and their changing topicality Was Shakespeare a timeless prophet, a verbal innovator, a technical genius, a man who encapsulated the human condition as no one else has? Well, sort of. But, according to Emma Smith, so much of what we are taught about Shakespeare is either not exactly true, or not important. She argues that it is precisely the Bard’s inconsistencies and ambiguities that fuel his enduring relevance and power. Smith brings us into the world Shakespeare inhabited as he emulated his blockbuster rivals and flirted with dangerous issues of succession politics, religious upheaval, and technological change. Time and again Shakespeare poses awkward questions rather than offering simple answers, always implicating us in working out their significance. Smith writes in strikingly modern ways about individual agency, privacy, politics, celebrity, and sex. She pulls the Bard down off his high pedestal and into the messy scuffle for meaning where he actually lived and where his words are still vibrant and vital for us now. Review “Brilliantly illuminating. . . . Perhaps the best book on Shakespeare, full stop. . . . Emma Smith’s voice is disarmingly frank, refreshingly irreverent, full of pop culture . . . Her reading of the plays is dazzling, her original research totally convincing.” - The Observer “Anyone who doesn’t understand what all the fuss is about should read This Is Shakespeare. Smith-who is no enemy of fun: her book fizzes with jokes-is celebrating a Shakespeare who talks to the present. She does it all with such a light touch you barely notice how much you’re learning.” - The Guardian “Cuts through the accumulated crust of ‘schoolroom platitudes,’ cant, and literary piety in order to dust Shakespeare off and see him as he is, was, and might be.” - The Daily Telegraph (London) “Quirky, brilliant. . . . [Smith] sees the plays as almost organic: not only contradictory but alive.” - Spectator “An exemplary job of restoring the greatest of English writers to his own time, and explaining why he then speaks to ours. . . . An invigorating examination.” - The Times (London) “Intriguing . . . Smith argues that the defining characteristic of Shakespeare’s plays is their ‘permissive gappiness.’ This must also surely be the first book on Shakespeare to use the slang term ‘woke.’” - Evening Standard (London) “I admire the freshness and attack of her writing, the passion and curiosity that light up the page.” -Hilary Mantel, author of Wolf Hall “If I were asked to recommend one guide for readers keen on discovering what’s at stake in Shakespeares plays, This Is Shakespeare would be it.” -James Shapiro, author of The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606 About the Author EMMA SMITH is professor of Shakespeare Studies at Oxford University. She has published widely on Shakespeare and other early dramatists. She lives in Oxford, England. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. INTRODUCTION Why should you read a book about Shakespeare? Because he is a literary genius and prophet whose works speak to-more, they encapsulate-the human condition. Because he presents timeless values of tolerance and humanity. Because his writing is technically brilliant and endlessly verbally inventive. Because he put it all so much better than anyone else. Nope. That’s not why; not at all. Sure, that’s what we always say about Shakespeare, but it doesn’t really get to the truth about the value of these works for the twenty-first century. The Shakespeare in this book is more questioning and ambiguous, more specific to the historical circumstances of his own time, more unexpectedly relevant to ours. Lots of what we trot out about Shakespeare and iambic pentameter and t...

-Titulo Original : Chinaberry Sidewalks A Memoir-Fabricante : Vintage-Descripcion Original: In a tender and uproarious memoir, singer-songwriter Rodney Crowell reveals the good, the bad, and the ugly of a dirt-poor southeast Texas boyhood. The only child of a hard-drinking father and a holy-roller mother, acclaimed musician Rodney Crowell was no stranger to bombast. But despite a home life always threatening to burst into violence, Rodney fiercely loved his mother and idolized his blustering father, a frustrated musician who took him to see Hank Williams, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash perform. Set in 1950s Houston, a frontier-rough town with icehouses selling beer by the gallon on payday, pest infestations right out of a horror film, and the kind of freedom mischievous kids dream of, Chinaberry Sidewalks is Rodneys tribute to his parents and his remarkable youth. Full of the most satisfying kind of nostalgia, it is hardly recognizable as a celebrity memoir. Rather, its a story of coming-of-age at a particular time, place, and station, crafted as well as the perfect song. Review “Personal and profound, an epic remembrance of his parents’ honky-tonk romance, delivered with the same hallmarks of Crowells best songwriting: expert pacing, gritty detail, and humor by the bottle.” -Austin Powell, The Austin Chronicle “Thoroughly readable, unblinkingly frank, laugh-out-loud funny and as profane as any Ship Channel longshoreman, its a literary triumph that will rank along with Mary Karr’s The Liars Club as one of the finest pieces of Gulf Coast nonfiction.” -William Michael Smith, Houston Press “[Crowell’s] childhood memories of Jacinto City outside of Houston vary from uproarious to heartwarming, all told with a sharp wit and a Lone Star flair [and] brought to life in a manner thats simple, eloquent, and endlessly entertaining.” -Jim Caligiuri, The Austin Chronicle “A loving, affectionate tribute…Crowells parents remain his heroes not in spite of their flaws, but because of them, and because of their sons proud refusal to sugarcoat the truth. Instead, this honest, forgiving, and self-assured memoir brings all the skeletons out of the closet and invites them to dance.” -Gina Webb, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution “Mysterious and wonderful…a rare and unaccountable instance of transcendence.” -Barbara Fisher, The Boston Globe “A great read.” -Billy Heller, New York Post “Humid, heavily atmospheric and often raucous…both horrific and hilarious [with] some of the most tender passages I have ever read.” -Chet Flippo, CMT “Rodney Crowell’s memoir of his boyhood in southeast Texas is a wonder: wistful and profane, heartbreaking and hilarious, loving and angry, proud and self-lacerating. Best known as a composer and performer of country and folk music, he emerges here as a prose stylist of energy and distinctiveness, a gifted storyteller who has, as it happens, an uncommonly interesting and deeply American story to tell….It’s a measure of the subtlety that Crowell brings to his portrait of his parents that he simultaneously is appalled by them and deeply loves them….Love, in the end, is what Chinaberry Sidewalks is really about [but] there is much more to it, much of it uproarious or moving in different ways: boisterous small-town boys making mischief, Tom Sawyers and Huck Finns with cuss words added; seeing and hearing Hank Williams two weeks before his death; a spectacular show by Jerry Lee Lewis, followed immediately by an unforgettable one by Johnny Cash, who ‘spoke the language of common people with uncommon eloquence.’ That, of course, is exactly what Rodney Crowell has done in this splendid book.” -Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post “This tribute to enduring love [is] rip-snorting...eloquent, movingly spiritual….[Crowell’s] hyperbole segues beautifully into the high-intensity details and events with which the book is studded, and the enthusiasm with which they are described.” -Janet Maslin, The New York Times “Crowell’s upbringing in Texas had all the pre...

-Titulo Original : The Glass Hotel: A Novel-Fabricante : Vintage-Descripcion Original: INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the award-winning author of Station Eleven, an exhilarating novel set at the glittering intersection of two seemingly disparate events—the exposure of a massive criminal enterprise and the mysterious disappearance of a woman from a ship at sea. “The perfect novel ... Freshly mysterious.” —The Washington Post Vincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star lodging on the northernmost tip of Vancouver Island. On the night she meets Jonathan Alkaitis, a hooded figure scrawls a message on the lobbys glass wall: Why don’t you swallow broken glass. High above Manhattan, a greater crime is committed: Alkaitiss billion-dollar business is really nothing more than a game of smoke and mirrors. When his scheme collapses, it obliterates countless fortunes and devastates lives. Vincent, who had been posing as Jonathan’s wife, walks away into the night. Years later, a victim of the fraud is hired to investigate a strange occurrence: a woman has seemingly vanished from the deck of a container ship between ports of call. In this captivating story of crisis and survival, Emily St. John Mandel takes readers through often hidden landscapes: campgrounds for the near-homeless, underground electronica clubs, service in luxury hotels, and life in a federal prison. Rife with unexpected beauty, The Glass Hotel is a captivating portrait of greed and guilt, love and delusion, ghosts and unintended consequences, and the infinite ways we search for meaning in our lives...

-Titulo Original : Station Eleven-Fabricante : Vintage-Descripcion Original: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilization’s collapse—the spellbinding story of a Hollywood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region, risking everything for art and humanity. Now an original series on HBO Max. Over one million copies sold! Kirsten Raymonde will never forget the night Arthur Leander, the famous Hollywood actor, had a heart attack on stage during a production of King Lear. That was the night when a devastating flu pandemic arrived in the city, and within weeks, civilization as we know it came to an end. Twenty years later, Kirsten moves between the settlements of the altered world with a small troupe of actors and musicians. They call themselves The Traveling Symphony, and they have dedicated themselves to keeping the remnants of art and humanity alive. But when they arrive in St. Deborah by the Water, they encounter a violent prophet who will threaten the tiny band’s existence. And as the story takes off, moving back and forth in time, and vividly depicting life before and after the pandemic, the strange twist of fate that connects them all will be revealed...

-Titulo Original : The Dog Stars (Vintage Contemporaries)-Fabricante : Vintage-Descripcion Original: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this end-of-the-world novel more like a rapturous beginning (San Francisco Chronicle), Hig somehow survived the flu pandemic that killed everyone he knows. His gripping story is an ode to friendship between two men ... the strong bond between a human and a dog, and a reminder of what is worth living for (Minneapolis Star-Tribune). Higs wife is gone, his friends are dead, and he lives in the hangar of a small abandoned airport with his dog, Jasper, and a mercurial, gun-toting misanthrope named Bangley. But when a random transmission beams through the radio of his 1956 Cessna, the voice ignites a hope deep inside him that a better life exists outside their tightly controlled perimeter. Risking everything, he flies past his point of no return and follows its static-broken trail, only to find something that is both better and worse than anything he could ever hope for...

-Titulo Original : Celine: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries)-Fabricante : Vintage-Descripcion Original: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the New York Times bestselling author of The Dog Stars comes another gorgeously wrought story—equal parts character study and mystery—a young woman asks Celine, a badass Brooklyn private eye, to investigate the death of her father, a nature photographer (Entertainment Weekly). Celine is not your typical private eye. With prep school pedigree and a pair of opera glasses for stakeouts, her methods are unconventional but extremely successful. Working out of her jewel box of an apartment nestled under the Brooklyn Bridge, Celine has made a career out of tracking down missing persons nobody else can find. But when a young woman named Gabriela employs her expertise, what was meant to be Celines last case becomes a scavenger hunt through her own memories, the secrets there and the surprising redemptions. Gabrielas father was a National Geographic photographer who went missing in Wyoming twenty years ago and while he was assumed to have been mauled by a grizzly his body was never found. Celine and her partner set out to Yellowstone National Park to follow a trail gone cold but soon realize that somebody desperately wants to keep this case closed. Combining ingenious plotting with crystalline prose and sweeping natural panoramas, Peter Heller gives us his finest work to date...

-Titulo Original : The Painter-Fabricante : Vintage-Descripcion Original: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the national bestselling author of The Dog Stars comes a carefully composed story about one man’s downward turning life in the American West” (The Boston Globe). After having shot a man in a Santa Fe bar, the famous artist Jim Stegner served his time and has since struggled to manage the dark impulses that sometimes overtake him. Now he lives a quiet life ... until the day that he comes across a hunting guide beating a small horse, and a brutal act of new violence rips his quiet life right open. Pursued by men dead set on retribution, Jim is left with no choice but to return to New Mexico and the high-profile life he left behind, where he’ll reckon with past deeds and the dark shadows in his own heart...

-Titulo Original : Norwegian Wood-Fabricante : Vintage-Descripcion Original: Stunning and elegiac, Norwegian Wood first propelled Haruki Murakami into the forefront of the literary scene. Toru, a serious young college student in Tokyo, is devoted to Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young woman, but their mutual passion is marked by the tragic death of their best friend years before. As Naoko retreats further into her own world, Toru finds himself drawn to a fiercely independent and sexually liberated young woman. A magnificent coming-of-age story steeped in nostalgia, Norwegian Wood blends the music, the mood, and the ethos that were the sixties with a young man’s hopeless and heroic first love...

-Titulo Original : Kafka On The Shore-Fabricante : Vintage-Descripcion Original: Kafka on the Shore displays one of the world’s great storytellers at the peak of his powers. Here we meet a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who is on the run, and Nakata, an aging simpleton who is drawn to Kafka for reasons that he cannot fathom. As their paths converge, acclaimed author Haruki Murakami enfolds readers in a world where cats talk, fish fall from the sky, and spirits slip out of their bodies to make love or commit murder, in what is a truly remarkable journey...

-Titulo Original : Men Without Women: Stories (Vintage International)-Fabricante : Vintage-Descripcion Original: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Including the story Drive My Car”—now an Academy Award–nominated film—this collection from the internationally acclaimed author examines what happens to characters without important women in their lives; itll move you and confuse you and sometimes leave you with more questions than answers (Barack Obama). Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on the lives of men who, in their own ways, find themselves alone. Here are lovesick doctors, students, ex-boyfriends, actors, bartenders, and even Kafka’s Gregor Samsa, brought together to tell stories that speak to us all. In Men Without Women Murakami has crafted another contemporary classic, marked by the same wry humor and pathos that have defined his entire body of work...

-Titulo Original : What I Talk About When I Talk About Running: A Memoir (Vintage International), Book Cover May Vary-Fabricante : Vintage-Descripcion Original: An intimate look at writing, running, and the incredible way they intersect, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running is an illuminating glimpse into the solitary passions of one of our greatest artists. While training for the New York City Marathon, Haruki Murakami decided to keep a journal of his progress. The result is a memoir about his intertwined obsessions with running and writing, full of vivid recollections and insights, including the eureka moment when he decided to become a writer. By turns funny and sobering, playful and philosophical, here is a rich and revelatory work that elevates the human need for motion to an art form...