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Freedom
The idyllic lives of civic-minded environmentalists Patty and Walter Berglund come into question when their son moves in with aggressive Republican neighbors, green lawyer Walter takes a job in the coal industry, and go-getter Patty becomes increasingly unstable and enraged.
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The Best American Essays 2016
The National Book Award–winning author compiles a \"thought-provoking volume\" of essays by Joyce Carol Oates, Oliver Sacks, Jaquira Diaz and others ( Publishers Weekly).
As Jonathan Franzen writes in his introduction, his main criterion for selecting The Best American Essays 2016 \"was whether an author had taken a risk.\" The resulting volume showcases authorial risk in a variety of forms, from championing an unpopular opinion to the possibility of ruining a professional career, or irrevocably alienating one's family. What's gained are essential insights into aspects of the human condition that would otherwise remain concealed—from questions of queer identity, to the experience of a sibling's autism and relationships between students and college professors.
The Best American Essays 2016 includes entries by Alexander Chee, Paul Crenshaw, Jaquira Diaz, Laura Kipnis, Amitava Kaumar, Sebastian Junger, Joyce Carol Oates, Oliver Sacks, George Steiner, Thomas Chatterton Williams, and others.
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My Bird Problem
February 2005, South Texas: I’d checked into a roadside motel in Brownsville and was getting up in the dark every morning, making coffee for my old friend Manley, who wouldn’t talk to me or leave his bed until he’d had some, and then bolting the motel’s free breakfast and running to our rental car and birding nonstop for twelve hours. I waited until nightfall to buy lunch food and fill the car with gas, to avoid wasting even a minute of birdable daylight. The only way not to question what I was doing, and why I was doing it, was
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Crossroads
It's December 23, 1971, and the Hildebrandt family is at a crossroads. The patriarch, Russ, the associate pastor of a suburban Chicago church, is poised to break free of a marriage he finds joyless -- unless his brilliant and unstable wife, Marion, breaks free of it first. Their eldest child, Clem, is coming home from college afire with moral absolutism, having taken an action that will shatter his father. Clem's sister, Becky, long the social queen of her high school class, has veered into the era's counterculture, while their younger brother Perry, fed up with selling pot to support his drug habit, has firmly resolved to be a better person. Each of the Hildebrandts seeks a freedom that each of the others threatens to complicate. By turns comic and harrowing, a tour de force of interwoven perspectives and sustained suspense which is complete in itself, Crossroads is the first volume of a trilogy that will span three generations and trace the inner life of our culture through the present day.
التصحيحات : رواية
وضعت هذه الرواية علي قائمة أفضل مائة رواية صدرت باللغة الإنجليزية بين عامي 1923 و2005 التي أعدتها مجلة تايم الأمريكية، وفي عام 2006 قال عنها الكاتب الأمريكي بريت إيستون إليس إنها \"واحدة من أعظم ثلاث روايات كتبها جيلي\"، وفي عام 2009 كلفت مجلة أدبية أمريكية مجموعة نقاد وكتاب وصحفيين بالتصويت علي أفضل رواية صدرت في العقد الأول من الألفية، فاستقر قرارهم علي \"التصحيحات\" بفارق كبير عن باقي الأعمال. هذه الرواية - أو هي خمس روايات متشابكة - تمثل ما يسمي أحيانا في الولايات المتحدة: \"الرواية الأمريكية الكبري\"، أي الرواية التي تعبر لحظة كتابتها عن \"روح العصر\" في الولايات المتحدة بقدر كاف من التفصيل، فتقدم صورة واضحة عن أحوال المجتمع ولغته وأهتماماته وثقافته ورؤية المواطن الأمريكي العادي للحياة بشكل عام، كما توصف بهذا المصطلح كل رواية معبرة أفضل التعبير عن حالة الأدب الأمريكي في أي عصر من العصور، ما أقرب هذه الحالة الأدبية إذن إلي ثلاثية نجيب محفوظ مثلا في تعبيرها عن أحوال المجتمع المصري في النصف الأول من القرن العشرين.
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When Birds Are Near
In this dazzling literary collection, writers explore and
celebrate their lives with and love for birds-detailing experiences
from Alaska to Bermuda, South Dakota to Panama. In When Birds
Are Near , fresh new voices as well as seasoned authors offer
tales of adventure, perseverance, and fun, whether taking us on a
journey down Highway 1 to see a rare California Condor, fighting
the destruction of our grasslands, or simply watching the feeder
from a kitchen window.
But these essays are more than just field notes. The authors
reflect on love, loss, and family, engaging a broad array of
emotions, from wonder to amusement. As Rob Nixon writes, \"Sometimes
the best bird experiences are defined less by a rare sighting than
by a quality of presence, some sense of overall occasion that sets
in motion memories of a particular landscape, a particular light, a
particular choral effect, a particular hiking partner.\" Or, as the
poet Elizabeth Bradfield remarks, \"We resonate with certain
animals, I believe, because they are a physical embodiment of an
answer we are seeking. A sense of ourselves in the world that is
nearly inexpressible.\"
When Birds Are Near gives us the chance to walk
alongside these avid appreciators of birds and reflect on our own
interactions with our winged companions.
Contributors: Christina Baal, Thomas Bancroft, K. Bannerman, R.
A. Behrstock, Richard Bohannon, Elizabeth Bradfield, Christine Byl,
Susan Cerulean, Sara Crosby, Jenn Dean, Rachel Dickinson, Katie
Fallon, Jonathan Franzen, Andrew Furman, Tim Gallagher, David
Gessner, Renata Golden, Ursula Murray Husted, Eli J. Knapp, Donald
Kroodsma, J. Drew Lanham, John R. Nelson, Rob Nixon, Jonathan
Rosen, Alison Townsend, Alison Világ
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