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Original publication and copyright date: 2005.
subject:"Biography & Autobiography Literary Figures" from books.google.com
"Exhilarating…Profoundly moving, occasionally angry, and often hilarious...A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is, finally, a finite book of jest, which is why it succeeds so brilliantly" (The New York Times Book Review).
subject:"Biography & Autobiography Literary Figures" from books.google.com
In this dramatic adaptation of her award-winning, bestselling memoir, Joan Didion transforms the story of the sudden and unexpected loss of her husband and their only daughter into a stunning and powerful one-woman play. “This happened on ...
subject:"Biography & Autobiography Literary Figures" from books.google.com
The Confessions recreates the world in which he progressed from incompetent engraver to grand success; his enthusiasm for experience, his love of nature, and his uncompromising character make him an ideal guide to eighteenth-century Europe, ...
subject:"Biography & Autobiography Literary Figures" from books.google.com
In no other work does Franz Kafka reveal himself as in Letters to Milena, which begins as a business correspondence but soon develops into a passionate but doomed epistolary love affair.
subject:"Biography & Autobiography Literary Figures" from books.google.com
A work by the Italian-Jewish writer, Primo Levi.
subject:"Biography & Autobiography Literary Figures" from books.google.com
Funny, heartbreaking, and lyrical, The Distance Between Us poignantly captures the confusion and contradictions of childhood, reminding us that the joys and sorrows we experience are imprinted on the heart forever, calling out to us of ...
subject:"Biography & Autobiography Literary Figures" from books.google.com
“Wickedly funny and always movingly illuminating, thanks to kick-ass storytelling and a poet's ear.” –Oprah.com The New York Times bestselling, hilarious tale of Mary Karr’s hardscrabble Texas childhood that Oprah.com calls the best ...
subject:"Biography & Autobiography Literary Figures" from books.google.com
"In the Book of Dreams I just continue the same story but in the dreams I had of the real-life characters I always write about.
subject:"Biography & Autobiography Literary Figures" from books.google.com
C.S. Lewis tells the story of how he passed from atheism to Christianity, giving information on his childhood and adolescence as background to understanding his spiritual life.