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Karen Mack

    Les entreprises littéraires de Karen Mack explorent les complexités des relations humaines et des passions. Son style est évocateur et captivant, entraînant les lecteurs dans les vies complexes de ses personnages. À travers ses récits, elle explore les motivations et désirs profondément ancrés qui façonnent les destins individuels. Mack écrit avec un sens aigu du détail et une profondeur psychologique.

    Emozioni: Libri e amori a Los Angeles
    Literacy and Longing in L.A.
    Freud's Mistress
    • Freud's Mistress

      • 372pages
      • 14 heures de lecture
      3,4(89)Évaluer

      “A thrilling story of seduction, betrayal, and loss, Freud’s Mistress will titillate fans of Memoirs of a Geisha and The Other Boleyn Girl.”—Booklist In fin-de-siècle Vienna, it was not easy for a woman to find fulfillment both intellectually and sexually. But many believe that Minna Bernays was able to find both with one man—her brother-in-law, Sigmund Freud. At once a portrait of two sisters—the rebellious, independent Minna and her inhibited sister, Martha—and of the compelling and controversial doctor who would be revered as one of the twentieth century’s greatest thinkers, Freud’s Mistress is a novel rich with passion and historical detail and “a portrait of forbidden desire [with] a thought-provoking central question: How far are you willing to go to be happy?”* *Publishers Weekly

      Freud's Mistress
    • Literacy and Longing in L.A.

      • 336pages
      • 12 heures de lecture
      3,1(74)Évaluer

      Some women shop. Some eat. Dora cures the blues by bingeing on books--reading one after another, from Flaubert to bodice rippers, for hours and days on end. Dora is an indiscriminate book junkie whose life has fallen apart--her career, her marriage, and finally her self-esteem. All she has left is her love of literature, and the book benders she relied on as a child. Ever since her larger-than-life father wandered away, Dora and her sister Virginia have clung to each other, enduring a childhood filled with literary pilgrimages instead of summer vacations. Somewhere along the way Virginia made the leap into the real world, but Dora isn't quite there yet. Along the way she faces some powerful choices--between two irresistible men; between idleness and work; and most of all between the joy of well-chosen words and the untidiness of real people and real life.--From publisher description

      Literacy and Longing in L.A.
    • Emozioni: Libri e amori a Los Angeles

      • 329pages
      • 12 heures de lecture

      La protagonista, 35 anni, due divorzi alle spalle, single, vive a West Los Angeles. È una vera divoratrice di libri, maniacale e compulsiva: quando è in crisi sentimentale o è stressata dal lavoro, si chiude per giorni e giorni in casa senza mai uscire o rispondere al telefono e legge ininterrottamente. Quando analizza le ragioni della fine dei suoi matrimoni, quando cerca di decidere cosa fare della sua carriera di giornalista interrotta anni prima, insomma quando prova a dare un senso alla sua vita, Dora si ubriaca di letture. Durante una delle sue innumerevoli spedizioni in libreria si prende una cotta per un commesso. Fred è carino, spiritoso, brillante e romantico. E sembra quasi il protagonista di un romanzo oltre a essere, per Dora, la perfetta via di fuga da tutti i suoi problemi. In breve tempo tra i due sboccia l'amore, ma all'orizzonte si profilano delle complicazioni. Dora si trova costretta a fare scelte difficili. Deve decidere tra due uomini, entrambi affascinanti, tra una vita d'ozio e il lavoro, ma soprattutto tra la gioia delle parole scelte con cura di un libro e l'essenza caotica e disordinata delle persone reali e della vita vera.

      Emozioni: Libri e amori a Los Angeles