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Download or read book A Month in Siena written by Hisham Matar and published by Random House. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Return comes a profoundly moving contemplation of the relationship between art and life. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND EVENING STANDARD After finishing his powerful memoir The Return, Hisham Matar, seeking solace and pleasure, traveled to Siena, Italy. Always finding comfort and clarity in great art, Matar immersed himself in eight significant works from the Sienese School of painting, which flourished from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries. Artists he had admired throughout his life, including Duccio and Ambrogio Lorenzetti, evoke earlier engagements he’d had with works by Caravaggio and Poussin, and the personal experiences that surrounded those moments. Including beautiful full-color reproductions of the artworks, A Month in Siena is about what occurred between Matar, those paintings, and the city. That month would be an extraordinary period in the writer’s life: an exploration of how art can console and disturb in equal measure, as well as an intimate encounter with a city and its inhabitants. This is a gorgeous meditation on how centuries-old art can illuminate our own inner landscape—current relationships, long-lasting love, grief, intimacy, and solitude—and shed further light on the present world around us. Praise for A Month in Siena “As exquisitely structured as The Return, driven by desire, yearning, loss, illuminated by the kindness of strangers. A Month in Siena is a triumph.”—Peter Carey
Book Synopsis A month in the country by : Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
Download or read book A month in the country written by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bored wife living in the Russian countryside falls in love with her little boy's handsome new tutor, just like all of the women in the household. The wife's chief rival turns out to be her 17 year old ward; they make a wonderful portrait of two different women in love.
Book Synopsis How to Live in the Country by : Tom Hodgkinson
Download or read book How to Live in the Country written by Tom Hodgkinson and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-28 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'One of those enthusiasts whose enthusiasm is hard to resist . . . Always beguiling' Daily Mail 'Hugely inspiring even when it is most bonkers' Sarah Bakewell, New Statesman 'A combination of almanac, commonplace book and diary, this is a tasty oddity . . . Richly entertaining' Independent As the pandemic has caused us all to re-evaluate our lives, becoming more self-reliant and dwelling in closer harmony with nature have emerged as important priorities. Many of us have decided to up sticks and leave the city behind for a less frenetic existence in the country. Whether you've already made your move, or are dreaming of doing so one day, this is the book for you. Covering beekeeping, poultry rearing, pig farming, bread-making, wood-chopping, fire-laying, bartering and much more, How to Live in the Country is the perfect source of inspiration for old hand and beginners alike: useful, informative but also refreshingly honest and realistic. Tom Hodgkinson draws on the wisdom of an eclectic range of thinkers and writers as he guides us through each month of the year, giving lists of tasks for both garden and animal husbandry, offering tips and shortcuts, and weaving in stories about his own experience of raising a young family in rural Devon.
Download or read book Follow the Money written by Steve Boggan and published by Union Books. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIV ‘Fantastic debut’ Time Out 5-Star Review 'Its randomness is its joy' The Independent 'A picaresque travelogue about chasing an idea through down-home modern America.' The Times What do you do if you want to get underneath the skin of a country, to understand its people and feel its heartbeat? You can follow the rest of the tourists, or you can take the advice of Watergate reporter Bob Woodward’s source, ‘Deep Throat’, and ‘follow the money.’ Starting out in Lebanon, Kansas – the geographical centre of America – journalist Steve Boggan did just that by setting free a ten-dollar-bill and accompanying it on an epic journey for thirty days and thirty nights through six states across 3,000 miles armed only with a sense of humour and a small, and increasingly grubby, set of clothes. As he cuts crops with farmers in Kansas, pursues a repo-woman from Colorado, gets wasted with a blues band in Arkansas and hangs out at a quarterback’s mansion in St Louis, Boggan enters the lives of ordinary people as they receive – and pass on – the bill. What emerges is a chaotic, affectionate and funny portrait of a modern-day America that tourists rarely see. /div
Book Synopsis Three Days in the Country by : Patrick Marber
Download or read book Three Days in the Country written by Patrick Marber and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In rural nineteenth-century Russia, a tangle of hopeless romances brings chaos to a country estate. Natalya, the wife of the wealthy estate-owner, is in love with her son’s tutor; a neighbor has taken a liking to Natalya’s ward, who has her eyes set elsewhere; and Natalya’s long-time friend Rakitin may crave more from their platonic relationship. A tale of young love, old love, and everything in between, THREE DAYS IN THE COUNTRY is a riveting update on Turgenev’s heartbreaking classic.
Download or read book Sixpence House written by Paul Collins and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-12-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sixpence House is the bookworm's answer to A Year in Provence." -Boston Globe Paul Collins and his family abandoned the hills of San Francisco to move to the Welsh countryside-to move, in fact, to the village of Hay-on-Wye, the "Town of Books" that boasts fifteen hundred inhabitants-and forty bookstores. Taking readers into a secluded sanctuary for book lovers, and guiding us through the creation of the author's own first book, Sixpence House becomes a heartfelt and often hilarious meditation on what books mean to us. A #1 BookSense Pick "A delightful book."-Los Angeles Times "Collins' gift is that you don't care where you end up. The journey is enough."-Readerville "The real, engaging heart of the tale is Collins' love of books and other people who love them...Collins muses on antiquarian books the way the rest of us remember lost loves."-San Francisco Chronicle "Funny, informative, somewhat chaotic and full of interesting references...there are numerous meanders into peripheral subjects, seen through the astute eyes of an Anglophile American."-Washington Post
Book Synopsis Boots on the Ground by : Karl Zinsmeister
Download or read book Boots on the Ground written by Karl Zinsmeister and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-10-05 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, a correspondent for "The National Review," describes his experiences as an embedded reporter with the 82nd Airborne Division.
Book Synopsis At Home in the World by : Tsh Oxenreider
Download or read book At Home in the World written by Tsh Oxenreider and published by Nelson Books. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Tsh Oxenreider, author of Notes From a Blue Bike, chronicles her family's adventure around the world--seeing, smelling, and tasting the widely varying cultures along the way--she discovers what it truly means to be at home. The wide world is calling. Americans Tsh and Kyle met and married in Kosovo. They lived as expats for most of a decade. They've been back in the States--now with three kids under ten--for four years, and while home is nice, they are filled with wanderlust and long to answer the call. Why not? The kids are all old enough to carry their own backpacks but still young enough to be uprooted, so a trip--a nine-months-long trip--is planned. At Home in the World follows their journey from China to New Zealand, Ethiopia to England, and more. They traverse bumpy roads, stand in awe before a waterfall that feels like the edge of the earth, and chase each other through three-foot-wide passageways in Venice. And all the while Tsh grapples with the concept of home, as she learns what it means to be lost--yet at home--in the world. "In this candid, funny, thought-provoking account, Tsh shows that it's possible to combine a love for adventure with a love for home." --Gretchen Rubin, New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness Project and Better Than Before
Book Synopsis A Month in the Country by : J.L. Carr
Download or read book A Month in the Country written by J.L. Carr and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2000-10-31 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A short, spellbinding novel about a WWI veteran finding a way to re-enter—and fully embrace—normal life while spending the summer in an idyllic English village. In J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken marriage, arrives in the remote Yorkshire village of Oxgodby where he is to restore a recently discovered medieval mural in the local church. Living in the bell tower, surrounded by the resplendent countryside of high summer, and laboring each day to uncover an anonymous painter's depiction of the apocalypse, Birkin finds that he himself has been restored to a new, and hopeful, attachment to life. But summer ends, and with the work done, Birkin must leave. Now, long after, as he reflects on the passage of time and the power of art, he finds in his memories some consolation for all that has been lost.
Book Synopsis A Month in the Country by : Brian Friel
Download or read book A Month in the Country written by Brian Friel and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1993 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Natalya Petrovna, once wooed and won over by the rich landowner Arkady Sergeyevich, has now suffered a long and frustrating marriage. She has taken comfort in the love of Michel, a family friend, but even he has come to represent the sam
Book Synopsis A Month in the Country by : Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
Download or read book A Month in the Country written by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1980-10 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: The place is the country estate of the Islayevs, a wealth Russian family, the time the middle of the nineteenth century. It is summer, and the lives of the family and their entourage reflect the bored indolence so characteristic of the a
Book Synopsis A Month in the Country by : J. L. Carr
Download or read book A Month in the Country written by J. L. Carr and published by St Martins Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two World War I survivors--the one living in the village church carefully planning the restoration of its medieval paintings, the other, camping in a nearby field, in search of a lost grave--meet in the summer of 1920
Book Synopsis A Month in the Country by : J.L. Carr
Download or read book A Month in the Country written by J.L. Carr and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2012-08-29 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In J. L. Carr’s deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken marriage, arrives in the remote Yorkshire village of Oxgodby where he is to restore a recently discovered medieval mural in the local church. Living in the bell tower, surrounded by the resplendent countryside of high summer, and laboring each day to uncover an anonymous painter’s depiction of the apocalypse, Birkin finds that he himself has been restored to a new, and hopeful, attachment to life. But summer ends, and with the work done, Birkin must leave. Now, long after, as he reflects on the passage of time and the power of art, he finds in his memories some consolation for all that has been lost.
Book Synopsis A Month in the Country by : Ivan Turgenev
Download or read book A Month in the Country written by Ivan Turgenev and published by Theatre Communications Group. This book was released on 2015-01-12 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh interpretation of Turgenev's comedy about the calamitous effects of love.
Book Synopsis A Study Guide for Ivan Turgenev's "A Month in the Country" by : Gale, Cengage Learning
Download or read book A Study Guide for Ivan Turgenev's "A Month in the Country" written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Guide for Ivan Turgenev's "A Month in the Country," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.
Book Synopsis A Month in the Country by : Ivan S. Toergénew
Download or read book A Month in the Country written by Ivan S. Toergénew and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Month in the Country written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
