Group Portrait With Lady

Author : Heinrich Boll
Publisher : Melville House
ISBN 13 : 1935554964
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Group Portrait with Lady written by Heinrich Boll and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2011-04-05 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cited by the Nobel Prize committee as the “crown” of Heinrich Böll’s work, the gripping story of Group Portrait With Lady unspools like a suspenseful documentary. Via a series of tense interviews, an unnamed narrator uncovers the story—past and present—of one of Böll’s most intriguing characters, the enigmatic Leni Pfeiffer, a struggling war widow. At the center of her struggle is her effort to prevent the demolition of her Cologne apartment building, a fight in which she is joined by a motley group of neighbors. Along with her illegitimate son, Lev, she becomes the nexus of a countercultural group rebelling against Germany’s dehumanizing past under the Nazis ... and what looks to be an equally dehumanizing future under capitalism.

Author : Heinrich Böll
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780140041231
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Author : Heinrich Boll
Publisher : Melville House
ISBN 13 : 1935554336
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Group Portrait with Lady written by Heinrich Boll and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2011-03-18 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cited by the Nobel Prize committee as the “crown” of Heinrich Böll’s work, the gripping story of Group Portrait With Lady unspools like a suspenseful documentary. Via a series of tense interviews, an unnamed narrator uncovers the story—past and present—of one of Böll’s most intriguing characters, the enigmatic Leni Pfeiffer, a struggling war widow. At the center of her struggle is her effort to prevent the demolition of her Cologne apartment building, a fight in which she is joined by a motley group of neighbors. Along with her illegitimate son, Lev, she becomes the nexus of a countercultural group rebelling against Germany’s dehumanizing past under the Nazis ... and what looks to be an equally dehumanizing future under capitalism.

Author : Maria Gainza
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1646221753
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Portrait of an Unknown Lady written by Maria Gainza and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2023-03-21 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice New York Times Notable author María Gainza, who dazzled critics with Optic Nerve, returns with the captivating story of an auction house employee on the trail of an enigmatic master forger In the Buenos Aires art world, a master forger has achieved legendary status. Rumored to be a woman, she specializes in canvases by the painter Mariette Lydis, a portraitist of Argentinean high society. But who is this absurdly gifted creator of counterfeits? What motivates her? And what is her link to the community of artists who congregate, night after night, in a strange establishment called the Hotel Melancólico? On the trail of this mysterious forger is our narrator, an art critic and auction house employee through whose hands counterfeit works have passed. As she begins to take on the role of art-world detective, adopting her own methods of deception and manipulation, she warns us “not to proceed in expectation of names, numbers or dates . . . My techniques are those of the impressionist.” Driven by obsession and full of subtle surprise, Portrait of an Unknown Lady is a highly seductive and enveloping meditation on what we mean by "authenticity" in art, and a captivating exploration of the gap between what is lived and what is told.

Author : Margaret Truman
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 030742054X
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book First Ladies written by Margaret Truman and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2009-09-30 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Fascinating . . . First Ladies is a wonderfully generous look at the women who, often against their wishes, took on what Truman calls ‘the world's second toughest job.’”—The Christian Science Monitor Whether they envision their role as protector, partner, advisor, or scold, First Ladies find themselves in a job that is impossible to define, and just as difficult to perform. Now Margaret Truman, daughter of President Harry Truman and an acclaimed novelist and biographer in her own right, explores the fascinating position of First Lady throughout history and up to the present day. With her unique perspective as the daughter of a First Lady, Ms. Truman reveals the truth behind some of the most misunderstood and forgotten First Ladies of our history, as well as the most famous and beloved. In recounting the charm and courage of Dolley Madison, the brazen ambition of Florence Harding, the calm, good sense of Grace Coolidge, the genius of Eleanor Roosevelt, the mysterious femininity of Jackie Kennedy, and the fierce protectiveness of Nancy Reagan, among others, Margaret Truman has assembled an honest yet affectionate portrait of our nation’s First Ladies—one that freely acknowledges their virtues and their flaws.

Author : John Banville
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101972890
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mrs. Osmond written by John Banville and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea continues the story of Isabel Archer, the young protagonist of Henry James’s beloved The Portrait of a Lady—in this masterful novel of betrayal, corruption, and moral ambiguity. Eager but naïve, in James’s novel Isabel comes into a large, unforeseen inheritance and marries the charming, penniless, and—as Isabel finds out too late—cruel and deceitful Gilbert Osmond. Here Banville imagines Isabel’s second chapter telling the story of a woman reawakened by grief and the knowledge that she has been grievously wronged, and determined to resume her quest for freedom and independence.

Author : Heinrich Böll
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780140187243
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Billiards at Half-past Nine written by Heinrich Böll and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1994 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Faehmel finds his structured life threatened by an old schoolmate and former Nazi

Author : Heinrich Böll
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810111776
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Missing Persons and Other Essays written by Heinrich Böll and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only collection of Boll's nonfiction prose to be published in English spans over two decades of social, political, literary, and cultural commentary. These twenty-nine essays, reviews, and speeches reflect the same moral passion and deep wisdom that resonate through his fiction. Here is Boll the Nobel laureate and Boll the private man: his compassion for ordinary people, his unblinking view of the tragedies of war, his satiric portrait of modern urban life, and his deeply personal reflections on life and literature.

Author : Heinrich Böll
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum written by Heinrich Böll and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 1975 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young woman's association with a hunted man makes her the target of a journalist determined to grab headlines by portraying her as an evil woman. As the attacks on her escalate and she becomes the victim of anonymous threats, Katharina sees only one way out of her nightmare.

Author : Heinrich Böll
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393305999
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Casualty written by Heinrich Böll and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1989 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These stories, written between 1946 and 1952 are stunning accounts of German soldiers in a war they did not want and the bleak aftermath of Germany in ruins. This Nobel Prize-winner's other works include Billiards at Half-Past Nine, The Clown, Group Portrait with Lady, and The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum.