Dana Spiotta
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Stone Arabia is about family, obsession, memory, and the urge to create—in isolation, at the margins of our winner-take-all culture.
In the sibling relationship, "there are no first impressions, no seductions, no getting to know each other," says Denise Kranis. For her and her brother Nik, now in their forties, no relationship is more significant. They grew up in Los Angeles in the late seventies and early eighties. Nik was always
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Sin duda la mejor novela hasta el momento de la "inmensamente talentosa Dana Spiotta" (Michiko Kakutani), autora finalista del National Book Award estadounidense y premio del Círculo de la Crítica del mismo país, Inocentes y otros es la historia de tres mujeres que buscan sentido en la amistad, el trabajo y el amor. Meadow y Carrie siempre han sido amigas. Crecieron juntas en Los Ángeles y con el mismo amor obsesivo por el cine. Ahora Meadow hace...
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Language
English
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In the heyday of the 1970s underground, Bobby DeSoto and Mary Whittaker-passionate, idealistic, and in love-design a series of radical protests against the Vietnam War. When one action goes wrong, the course of their lives is forever changed. The two must erase their past, forge new identities, and never see each other again. Now it is the 1990s. Mary lives in the suburbs with her fifteen-year-old son, who spends hours immersed in the music of his...
Author
Language
English
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Innocents and Others is about two women who grow up in LA in the 80s and become filmmakers. Meadow and Carrie have everything in common-except their views on sex, power, movie-making, and morality. Their friendship is complicated, but their devotion to each other trumps their wildly different approaches to film and to life. Meadow was always the more idealistic and brainy of the two; Carrie was more pragmatic. Into their lives comes Jelly, a master...
5) Wayward
Author
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Description
"A moving, funny, engrossing novel about mothers and daughters, and one woman's midlife reckoning, from the renowned author of Stone Arabia and Eat the Document On the heels of the election of 2016, Samantha Raymond's life begins to come apart: her mother is ill, her teenage daughter is increasingly remote, and at 52, she finds herself staring into "the Mids"--that hour of supreme wakefulness between three and four in the morning in which women of...