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  • The Art of the Wasted Day

    par Patricia Hampl ...
    **“A sharp and unconventional book — a swirl of memoir, travelogue and biography of some of history's champion day-dreamers.” —Maureen Corrigan, "Fresh Air"A spirited inquiry into the lost value of leisure and daydream**The Art of the Wasted Day is a picaresque travelogue of leisure written from a lifelong enchantment with solitude. Patricia Hampl visits the homes of historic exemplars of ease who ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $13.99 CAD Maintenant $10.99 CAD

  • The Florist's Daughter

    par Patricia Hampl ...
    This New York Times Notable memoir of a middle-class, middle-America family is a "beautiful bouquet of a book" ( Entertainment Weekly).They say "a daughter is a daughter all her life," and no statement could be truer for Patricia Hampl. Born to a Czech father—an artistic florist—and a wary Irish mother, Hampl experienced a childhood in St. Paul, Minnesota, that couldn't have been more normal, the ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Blue Arabesque

    A Search for the Sublime

    par Patricia Hampl ...
    These meditations inspired by a Matisse painting are "a paean to the act of seeing, celebrating our capacity to be transformed by the truths art holds." — The New York Times Book ReviewNamed a Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year and a Los Angeles Times Favorite Nonfiction of the YearJust out of college, Patricia Hampl was mesmerized by a Matisse painting in the Art Institute of Chicago: an aloof ... En savoir plus

    $14.39 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Ploughshares Fall 2012 Guest-Edited by Patricia Hampl

    Collections series Ploughshares
    The Fall 2012 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Patricia Hampl. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different and personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles.Award-winning memoirist and author Patricia Hampl (The Florist's Daughter, I Could Tell You Stories) compiles this all-essay issue of Ploughshares. Showcasing the ... En savoir plus

    $9.61 CAD

  • Tell Me True

    Memoir, History, and Writing A Life

    Modifié par Patricia Hampl, Elaine Tyler May ...
    In this landmark collection, Patricia Hampl and Elaine Tyler May have gathered fourteen original essays from award-winning memoirists and historians. They are all storytellers, wrestling with a fascinating gray area where memory intersects with history and where the necessities of narrative collide with mundane facts. and whether the record emerges from archival sources or from personal memory, ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

  • Mother Tongue

    An American Life in Italy

    A probing and poetic examination of language, food, faith, and family attachment in Italian life through the eyes of an American who moved to Parma with her husband and family.In the 1980s, the American writer Wallis Wilde-Menozzi moved permanently with her Italian husband and her daughter to Parma, a sophisticated city in northern Italy, where he became a professor of biology. Her search for ... En savoir plus

    $15.19 CAD

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    The Art of the Wasted Day

    par Patricia Hampl ...
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    9 heure 9 min

    A spirited inquiry into the lost value of leisure and daydreamThe Art of the Wasted Day is a picaresque travelogue of leisure written from a lifelong enchantment with solitude. Patricia Hampl visits the homes of historic exemplars of ease who made repose a goal, even an art form. She begins with two celebrated eighteenth-century Irish ladies who ran off to live a life of "retirement" in rural ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD

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  • All My Puny Sorrows

    par Miriam Toews ...
    The multi-award winning, #1 national bestselling novel about two unforgettable sisters and a love that illuminates life—from the author of Women Talking and A Complicated KindnessElf and Yoli are two smart, loving sisters leading very different lives. Elfreida is a renowned pianist, wealthy, and happily married. Her younger sister Yolandi is a writer, divorced, broke, and forever chasing after the ... En savoir plus

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    A Gentleman in Moscow

    A Novel

    par Amor Towles ...
    Lu par Nicholas Guy Smith ...

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    17 heure 52 min

    **The mega-bestseller with more than 2 million readers • A New York Times “Readers’ Choice: Best Books of the 21st Century” PickFrom the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway and Table for Two, a beautifully transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel**In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by ... En savoir plus

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    A Promised Land

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    A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making—from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy**#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAACP IMAGE AWARD NOMINEE • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND PEOPLENAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times • NPR • The ... En savoir plus

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  • Being Dead

    A Novel

    par Jim Crace ...
    A National Book Critics Circle Award–winning novel and "a narrative of dazzling virtuosity" about love, death and the afterlife ( Publishers Weekly).Baritone Bay, mid-afternoon. A couple, naked, married almost thirty years, are lying murdered in the dunes."Their bodies had expired, but anyone could tell—just look at them—that Joseph and Celice were still devoted. For while his hand was touching ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD