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Note Found in a Bottle: My Life as a Drinker
ISBN: 9780671040734 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Born into a world ruled and defined by the cocktail hour, in which the solution to any problem could be found in a dry martini or another glass of wine, Susan Cheever led a life both charmed and damned. She and her father, the celebrated writer John Cheever, were deeply affected and troubled by alcohol.
Addressing for the first time the profound effects that alcohol had on her life, in shaping of her relationships with men and in influencing her as a writer, Susan Cheever delivers an elegant memoir of clear-eyed candor and unsettling immediacy. She tells of her childhood obsession with... Born into a world ruled and defined by the cocktail hour, in which the solution to any problem could be found in a dry martini or another glass of win...
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76,31 zł |
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My Name Is Bill
ISBN: 9780743405911 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The definitive biography of Bill Wilson, the man who established Alcoholics Anonymous, and the first to be written with access to documents in that organization's archives, by a noted author who is herself a recovering alcoholic. In this definitive and groundbreaking biography, acclaimed author Susan Cheever offers a remarkably human portrait of a man whose life and work both influenced and saved the lives of millions of people. Drawing from personal letters, diaries, AA archives, interviews--and Cheever's own experiences with alcoholism--My Name Is Bill is the first fully...
The definitive biography of Bill Wilson, the man who established Alcoholics Anonymous, and the first to be written with access to documents in that or...
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72,11 zł |
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Home Before Dark: A Biographical Memoir of John Cheever by His Daughter
ISBN: 9780671028503 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In Home Before Dark, Susan Cheever, daughter of the famously talented writer John Cheever, uses previously unpublished letters, journals, and her own precious memories to create a candid and insightful tribute to her father. While producing some of the most beloved and celebrated American literature of this century, John Cheever wrestled with personal demons that deeply affected his family life as well as his career. In this poignant memoir of a man driven by boundless genius and ambition, Susan Cheever writes with heartwrenching honesty of family life with the father, the writer, and...
In Home Before Dark, Susan Cheever, daughter of the famously talented writer John Cheever, uses previously unpublished letters, journals, and ...
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84,63 zł |
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As Good as I Could Be: A Memoir about Raising Wonderful Children in Difficult Times
ISBN: 9780671034986 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Having children transforms us -- through the amazing power of our love for them and theirs for us, through the anger they can provoke, and because being good parents means we must accept that we are no longer children. In As Good as I Could Be, bestselling author Susan Cheever chronicles with passion and courage her own imperfect transformation, offering inspiration for other parents doing the best they can.
By relating the trials and triumphs of raising a daughter and a son Cheever illuminates some basic truths learned along the way: a family should not be a democracy; teaching... Having children transforms us -- through the amazing power of our love for them and theirs for us, through the anger they can provoke, and because bei...
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76,31 zł |
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Louisa May Alcott: A Personal Biography
ISBN: 9781416569923 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Louisa May Alcott never intended to write Little Women. She had dismissed her publisher's pleas for such a novel. Written out of necessity to support her family, the book had an astounding success that changed her life, a life which turned out very differently from that of her beloved heroine Jo March. In Louisa May Alcott, Susan Cheever, the acclaimed author of American Bloomsbury, returns to Concord, Massachusetts, to explore the life of one of its most iconic residents. Based on extensive research, journals, and correspondence, Cheever's...
Louisa May Alcott never intended to write Little Women. She had dismissed her publisher's pleas for such a novel. Written ...
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84,80 zł |
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Treetops: A Memoir About Raising Wonderful Children in an Imperfect World
ISBN: 9780671028510 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this compelling companion volume to her acclaimed memoir Home Before Dark, Susan Cheever once again gives readers a revealing look into her famous family, whose secrets and eccentricities parallel their genius and successes. Set against the backdrop of Treetops, the New Hampshire family retreat where the Cheevers still summer, and going back several generations, this powerful remembrance focuses on Susan Cheever's mother's family, and includes portraits of her great-grandfather, Thomas Watson, who invented the telephone with Alexander Graham Bell, and her grandfather Milton...
In this compelling companion volume to her acclaimed memoir Home Before Dark, Susan Cheever once again gives readers a revealing look into her...
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76,31 zł |
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American Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau: Their Lives, Their Loves, Their Work
ISBN: 9780743264624 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The 1850s were heady times in Concord, Massachusetts: in a town where a woman's petticoat drying on an outdoor line was enough to elicit scandal, some of the greatest minds of our nation's history were gathering in three of its wooden houses to establish a major American literary movement. The Transcendentalists, as these thinkers came to be called, challenged the norms of American society with essays, novels, and treatises whose beautifully rendered prose and groundbreaking assertions still resonate with readers today. Though noted contemporary author Susan Cheever stands in awe of the...
The 1850s were heady times in Concord, Massachusetts: in a town where a woman's petticoat drying on an outdoor line was enough to elicit scandal, some...
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72,07 zł |
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Desire: Where Sex Meets Addiction
ISBN: 9781416537939 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. We've all felt the giddy flutter of excitement when our new lover walks into the room. Waited by the phone, changed our plans...But are we in love, or is there something darker at work? In Desire: Where Sex Meets Addiction, Susan Cheever explores the shifting boundaries between the feelings of passion and addiction, desire and need, and she raises provocative and important questions about who we love and why. Elegantly written and thoughtfully composed, Cheever's book combines unsparing and intimate memoir, interviews and stories, hard science and psychology to explore the...
We've all felt the giddy flutter of excitement when our new lover walks into the room. Waited by the phone, changed our plans...But are we in love, or...
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59,35 zł |
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Little Women
ISBN: 9780375756726 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Introduction by Susan Cheever
Commentary by G. K. Chesterton, Katherine Fullerton Gerould, and Madeleine B. Stern It is no surprise that Little Women, the adored classic of four devoted sisters, was loosely based on Louisa May Alcott's own life. In fact, Alcott drew from her own personality to create a heroine unlike any seen before: Jo, willful, headstrong, and undoubtedly the backbone of the March family. Follow the sisters from innocent adolescence to sage adulthood, with all the joy and sorrow of life in between, and fall in love with them and... Introduction by Susan Cheever
Commentary by G. K. Chesterton, Katherine Fullerton Gerould, and Madeleine B. Stern I... |
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76,36 zł |
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The Enormous Room
ISBN: 9780871409287 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Illustrated with drawings Cummings made while imprisoned in France and featuring an illuminating new introduction by Susan Cheever, this reissued edition offers a unique and multifaceted lens onto the inner life of the poet in his youth and demands recognition by a twenty-first-century readership. Illustrated with drawings Cummings made while imprisoned in France and featuring an illuminating new introduction by Susan Cheever, this reissued e... |
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62,19 zł |
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Capital Ideas: 150 Classic Writers on the Death Penalty, from the Code of Hammurabi to Clarence Darrow
ISBN: 9781449511760 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. People have been thinking, writing, speaking, arguing and legislating about the death penalty since humans first recorded their ideas with chisel and stone. This anthology includes 151 classic writings about the death penalty, covering a span of almost 4,000 years. The entries were selected to illustrate the diversity of thought about capital punishment, to provide a resource for tracing its intellectual history, and to provide surprisingly fresh ideas that can inform our contemporary conversations.
People have been thinking, writing, speaking, arguing and legislating about the death penalty since humans first recorded their ideas with chisel and ...
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89,08 zł |
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Addicted: Notes from the Belly of the Beast
ISBN: 9781771641869 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Is addiction a disease, a sin, a sign of hypersensitivity, a personal failing, or a unique resource for the creative mind? However it is defined, addiction can have devastating consequences, often shattering lives, sundering families, causing impoverishment, and even triggering suicide. Yet it can also be a source of inspiration. In these frank essays, leading American and Canadian writers explore their surprisingly diverse personal experiences with this complex phenomenon, candidly recounting what happened when alcohol, heroin, smoking, food, gambling, or sex sometimes in combination took...
Is addiction a disease, a sin, a sign of hypersensitivity, a personal failing, or a unique resource for the creative mind? However it is defined, addi...
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80,39 zł |
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