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Dark harbor: building house and home on an enchanted island (Nation Bks.)
Par Ved Mehta. 2003
In this continuation of his Continents of Exile memoir series, Mehta, a blind writer, recounts his undertaking to build a…
house on a small Maine island in 1984 and the importance of this home in his marriage and family life. 2003An open book: coming of age in the heartland
Par Michael Dirda. 2003
Memoir recounting the childhood of Pulitzer Prize-winning literary journalist Michael Dirda. A steelworker's son, Dirda reminisces about growing up in…
the industrial town of Lorain, Ohio, during the 1950s and 1960s, working toward a degree in English at Oberlin College, and encountering various books that fueled his imagination along the way. 2003In the land of pain
Par Alphonse Daudet. 2002
A collection of autobiographical notes from a nineteenth-century French writer slowly dying of syphilis. In these candid reflections, Daudet (1840-1897)…
describes fellow patients, the treatments that brought little relief, the physical agony of his symptoms, and the profound suffering and fear that left him contemplating suicide. 1930The child that books built: a life in reading
Par Francis Spufford. 2002
British author of I May Be Some Time (BR 12612) explains the importance that reading has played in the formation…
of his character and views on life. Spufford conveys his passion for fiction, from a childhood love of Tolkien's stories to his adult enthusiasm for the classics. Some strong language. 2002City of the soul: a walk in Rome (Crown Journeys Ser.)
Par William Murray. 2002
Longtime resident presents an intimate walking tour of this ancient city. Murray's tour illuminates the history and legend behind famous…
sites like the Pantheon, the Colosseum, Trevi Fountain, and the Piazza di Spagna. The guide also connects past to present by revealing modern Rome's hotels, shopping areas, restaurants, and cafes. 2002De l'Argentine au Zimbabwe (Collection Vers L'inconnu)
Par Jacques Noël. 2001
L'auteur, journaliste et globe-trotter, a parcouru 104 pays. Des plaines de Mongolie aux déserts d'Australie, des cols de l'Himalaya à…
la jungle du Guatemala, l'auteur a choisi de voyager à la dure...Il en a tiré les histoires savoureuses qu'il nous propose, dans l'ordre alphabétique des pays qu'il a visitésCharles Dickens
Par Jane Smiley. 2002
Portrays the nineteenth-century English novelist from his contemporaries' viewpoint and through his literary works. Smiley's approach is "a friendly desire…
to get to know" Dickens and his Victorian world and to comment on the role of writing in his life. 2002L'Everest m'a conquis: récit d'aventure
Par Yves Laforest. 1994
The life of Samuel Johnson: Introduction By Claude Rawson (Everyman's Library Classics Ser.)
Par James Boswell. 1992
Classic biography of the eighteenth-century English man of letters, originally published in 1791. Based on detailed notes compiled by Boswell…
during their twenty-year friendship, the text for the most part comprises conversations and statements of Johnson's strong opinions. 1791The secret life of john le carre
Par Adam Sisman. 2023
The extraordinary secret life of a great novelist, which his biographer could not publish while le Carré was alive. Secrecy…
came naturally to John le Carré, and there were some secrets that he fought fiercely to keep. Adam Sisman's definitive biography, published in 2015, provided a revealing portrait of this fascinating man; yet some aspects of his subject remained hidden. Nowhere was this more so than in his private life. Apparently content in his marriage, the novelist conducted a string of love affairs over five decades. To these relationships he brought much of the tradecraft that he had learned as a spy - cover stories, cut-outs and dead letter boxes. These clandestine operations brought an element of danger to his life, but they also meant deceiving those closest to him. Small wonder that betrayal became a running theme in his work. In trying to manage his biography, the novelist engaged in a succession of skirmishes with his biographer. While he could control what Sisman wrote about him in his lifetime, he accepted that the truth would eventually become known. Following his death in 2020, what had been withheld can now be revealed. The Secret Life of John le Carré reveals a hitherto-hidden perspective on the life and work of the spy-turned-author and a fascinating meditation on the complex relationship between biographer and subject. "Now that he is dead," Sisman writes, "we can know him better."Suite indochinoise: récit de voyage au Vietnam
Par Jean-Luc Coatalem. 2004
Au début des années 1990, alors qu'il n'est encore qu'un jeune homme aventureux et passablement désargenté, Jean-Luc Coatalem part à…
la découverte du Vietnam communiste, qui commence seulement à s'ouvrir au tourisme. Il emporte dans ses bagages quelques livres, mais son premier compagnon de voyage n'est autre que l'ombre tutélaire de son grand-père, Camille Coatalem, un officier d'infanterie coloniale qui fut en poste en Indochine dans les années 1920. -- 4e de couvLa force du nombre: récit
Par Pauline Gélinas. 2003
Journal de voyage, autobiographie, reportage et pamphlet, un livre complexe et d'une rare richesse qui déborde d'émotions : colère, rage,…
mais aussi une empathie d'une rare qualité. L'auteure y rend compte à la fois des semaines où elle a séjourné dans la bande de Gaza, témoin indigné du sort réservé au peuple palestinien, et de la douloureuse histoire familiale qui l'avait finalement contrainte à ce voyage. L'essentiel du livre - "choses vues" à Gaza, rencontres et petits faits vécus - est d'une immédiateté et d'une force redoutables. Un bel amalgame de qualités littéraires et journalistiques. Les premières pages, par leur caractère elliptique, sont toutefois d'un accès difficile. [SDMGreen hills of Africa (Scribner classics)
Par Ernest Hemingway. 1998
La frousse autour du monde: 1
Par Bruno Blanchet. 2008
"Bruno Blanchet nous entraîne avec lui dans sa première année de périple de La Frousse autour du Monde (2004-2005). En…
plus des textes poétiques et drôles des 41 premières chroniques, Bruno a lui-même ajouté des commentaires inédits [...]. Retrouvez un Bruno absurde qui pose son regard original sur le monde et les gens qui l'entourent, qu'ils soient de Brossard ou du Myanmar!" -- 4e de couvPerdu en Afrique
Par Michel Arseneault. 2009
"Un recueil de reportages journalistiques sur l'Afrique, que Michel Arseneault a réalisés sur le terrain. L'auteur traite d'une manière intelligente…
et bien informée des problèmes sociaux, politiques et économiques que vit ce continent, mais aussi de toute l'humanité qu'on y trouve et qu'on oublie trop souvent. Ainsi, si ce recueil parle de problèmes déjà évoqués (guerres, génocides, coups d'État, famines, apartheid, enfants soldats, sida, etc.), il aborde également d'autres thèmes méconnus (les orphelins du sida, les travailleurs sociaux, les enfants accusés de sorcellerie, l'exploitation minière, le trafic d'enfants, la surpopulation, le rapport aux rois et aux chefs de tribus, l'excision, les prisonniers politiques, les maladies mentales, la richesse indécente de certains, le rapport à l'école et à la connaissance, etc.). Ce livre de Michel Arseneault se démarque cependant des autres ouvrages du même type par le regard avisé, bien informé et très humain qu'il pose sur l'Afrique, avec comme résultat de faire comprendre que l'Afrique, au fond, vit les mêmes problèmes que nous, tout comme elle rêve des mêmes idéaux [...]". -- 4e de couvPresents Wright's complete autobiography for the first time, combining his childhood in the South (Black Boy) with his life as…
an adult in the North (American Hunger). Also contains his 1953 novel (The Outsider), a literary chronology, and extensive notes. Sequel to Richard Wright: Early Works (DB 41552, BR 10299). Violence, some strong language, and some descriptions of sexTravels with Charley: in search of America
Par John Steinbeck. 1962
Feeling that as an American writer he has lost touch with his country, the author sets out on a swing…
around the United States to see what it is really like. He travels in a trailer with "an old French gentleman poodle." Here is the leisurely account of what he saw, whom he talked with, and his conclusions, hopeful and otherwiseGrumbles from the grave
Par Robert Heinlein. 1989
It was Heinlein's wish to have his letters published after his death. Virginia, his wife of forty years, has collected…
the letter, begun in 1939, to Heinlein's editors and to his longtime friend and agent Lurton Blassingame. The letters give us an insight into the psyche of the popular science fiction author. They show his thoughts on publishers, fan mail, writing material, travel, work habits, and even house buildingBio of an ogre: the autobiography of Piers Anthony to age 50
Par Piers Anthony. 1988
Fantasy writer Piers Anthony has, by his own admission, written a highly selective and subjective account of his first fifty…
years, attempting to write not only the "what" of his life but also the "why." Each of the five sections covers a decade of his lifeEducation of a wandering man
Par Louis L'Amour. 1989
A personal reflection by the prolific and beloved writer of westerns. At fifteen Louis L'Amour left school, trusting his education…
to his own curiosity and the world's vastness. Armed with books, he roamed the world, cow-punching, working as a circus roustabout, mining, prize-fighting, hoboing, and serving as a merchant seaman. He shares the richness and variety of his education with the reader