Maryanne Vollers Livres

La Prison de glace est un témoignage authentique et fort. Le banal y cède la place à l'extraordinaire et le commun à l'insolite. Ce parcours vers la découverte d'une autre dimension de l'humanité, c'est le Dr Jerri Nielsen qui le raconte à travers son expérience personnelle. Jerri est issue d'un milieu paisible et cultivé. Jerri fait des études brillantes. Elle devient médecin urgentiste dans l'Ohio, se marie, a trois enfants. La vie est un long fleuve tranquille. Et puis, au fur et à mesure, son couple prend l'eau. Bientôt le bateau coule et Jerri sombre dans la dépression. 40 ans passés. Sentiment d'inutilité. Divorce. Impasse. Et pourtant, Jerri va vivre une autre vie grâce à la lecture providentielle d'une petite annonce dans une revue médicale. On recherche des médecins pour une expédition au Pôle Sud, la région la plus dure à vivre de la terre. Jerri comprend que son destin est scellé. Pas d'hésitation. Elle part. Elle ne sait pas encore qu'elle est malade, atteinte d'un cancer du sein. La Prison de glace fait partie de ces récits d'initiation unique. L'histoire du Dr Jerri Nielsen est la preuve que le courage, la volonté et les liens fraternels peuvent venir à bout de la solitude et de la maladie. Un beau récit pour un bel exemple d'humanité. Denis Gombert

AUTOBIOGRAPHY: GENERAL. 'I am most grateful for two things: that I was born in North Korea, and that I escaped from North Korea.' Yeonmi Park was not dreaming of freedom when she escaped from North Korea. She didn't even know what it meant to be free. All she knew was that she was running for her life, that if she and her family stayed behind they would die - from starvation, or disease, or even execution. This book is the story of Park's struggle to survive in the darkest, most repressive country on earth; her harrowing escape through China's underworld of smugglers and human traffickers; and then her escape from China across the Gobi desert to Mongolia, with only the stars to guide her way, and from there to South Korea and at last to freedom; and finally her emergence as a leading human rights activist - all before her 21st birthday.

An intimate self-portrait encompassing the life, times, and career of one of the most transformative individuals--let alone athletes--of recent times. Journeying from a blue-collar childhood to shatter tennis's exclusive country-club culture, Billie Jean King paved the way for a more open, inclusive, and equal sports environment. In her memoir, she takes us behind the scenes of the pro tennis tour, through her five years as the top-ranked woman in the world, her twenty Wimbledon championships, her thirty-nine grand-slam titles, and her watershed defeat of Bobby Riggs in the famous "Battle of the Sexes." With her ever-present candour, King also describes the high personal price of public greatness. We see how she struggled to live authentically and the challenges she grappled with beneath the mask of fame, including entrenched sexism, an eating disorder and struggles with her sexual identity until her "outing" by a former lover led her to embrace her true self. We come to understand how, through it all, her unshakeable integrity, resilience, and sense of purpose allowed her time and again to overcome her obstacles, and, at a few dire moments, to rebound from near ruin. Hers is the story of a pathbreaking fighter for equality, world-class athlete, and an indomitable spirit.