Author: Nicole ChaisonPublisher: Villard Books
ISBN: 0345507959
Category : Motherhood
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
The author documents her heroic journeys through the mundane world of motherhood in illustrated essays.
The Passion of the Hausfrau
Author: Nicole ChaisonPublisher: Villard Books
ISBN: 0345507959
Category : Motherhood
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
The author documents her heroic journeys through the mundane world of motherhood in illustrated essays.
Hausfrau
Author: Jill Alexander EssbaumPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 0812997549
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, THE HUFFINGTON POST, AND SHELF AWARENESS • “In Hausfrau, Anna Karenina goes Fifty Shades with a side of Madame Bovary.”—Time “A debut novel about Anna, a bored housewife who, like her Tolstoyan namesake, throws herself into a psychosexual journey of self-discovery and tragedy.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “Sexy and insightful, this gorgeously written novel opens a window into one woman’s desperate soul.”—People Anna was a good wife, mostly. For readers of The Girl on the Train and The Woman Upstairs comes a striking debut novel of marriage, fidelity, sex, and morality, featuring a fascinating heroine who struggles to live a life with meaning. Anna Benz, an American in her late thirties, lives with her Swiss husband, Bruno—a banker—and their three young children in a postcard-perfect suburb of Zürich. Though she leads a comfortable, well-appointed life, Anna is falling apart inside. Adrift and increasingly unable to connect with the emotionally unavailable Bruno or even with her own thoughts and feelings, Anna tries to rouse herself with new experiences: German language classes, Jungian analysis, and a series of sexual affairs she enters with an ease that surprises even her. But Anna can’t easily extract herself from these affairs. When she wants to end them, she finds it’s difficult. Tensions escalate, and her lies start to spin out of control. Having crossed a moral threshold, Anna will discover where a woman goes when there is no going back. Intimate, intense, and written with the precision of a Swiss Army knife, Jill Alexander Essbaum’s debut novel is an unforgettable story of marriage, fidelity, sex, morality, and most especially self. Navigating the lines between lust and love, guilt and shame, excuses and reasons, Anna Benz is an electrifying heroine whose passions and choices readers will debate with recognition and fury. Her story reveals, with honesty and great beauty, how we create ourselves and how we lose ourselves and the sometimes disastrous choices we make to find ourselves. Praise for Hausfrau “Elegant . . . There is much to admire in Essbaum’s intricately constructed, meticulously composed novel, including its virtuosic intercutting of past and present.”—Chicago Tribune “For a first novelist, Essbaum is extraordinary because she is a poet. Her language is meticulous and resonant and daring.”—NPR’s Weekend Edition “We’re in literary territory as familiar as Anna’s name, but Essbaum makes it fresh with sharp prose and psychological insight.”—San Francisco Chronicle “This marvelously quiet book is psychologically complex and deeply intimate. . . . One of the smartest novels in recent memory.”—The Dallas Morning News “Essbaum’s poignant, shocking debut novel rivets.”—Us Weekly “A powerful, lyrical novel . . . Hausfrau boasts taut pacing and melodrama, but also a fully realized heroine as love-hateable as Emma Bovary.”—The Huffington Post “Imagine Tom Perrotta’s American nowheresvilles swapped out for a tidy Zürich suburb, sprinkled liberally with sharp riffs on Swiss-German grammar and European hypocrisy.”—New York
Around the House and in the Garden
Author: Dominique BrowningPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 9780743226936
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Presents a collection of essays about home life, covering home decoration, gardening, domestic life, and the intimate relationship between self and home.
One-year Course in German
Author: Oscar FaulhaberPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : German language
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Theatre World 2008-2009
Author: Ben HodgesPublisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9781423473695
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Scenes from the plays and portraits of leading actors accompany a statistical record of the current season
The Publishers Weekly
Author: American Theatre
Author: Our World
Author: American Women Stage Directors of the Twentieth Century
Author: Anne FliotsosPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252032268
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
The first reference tool to focus on American women directors
Author: