Kate christensen (747 resultados)

Paperback. Condición: Good. The New York Times bestselling memoir about growing up in small-town Indiana, from the author of The Solace of Leaving Early. When Haven Kimmel was born in 1965, Mooreland, Indiana, was a sleepy little hamlet of three hundred people. Nicknamed Zippy for the way she would bolt around the house, this small girl was possessed of big eyes and even bigger ears. In this witty and lovingly told memoir, Kimmel takes readers back to a time when small-town America was caught in the amber of the innocent postwar period-people helped their neighbors, went to church on Sunday, and kept barnyard animals in their backyards. Laced with fine storytelling, sharp wit, dead-on observations, and moments of sheer joy, Haven Kimmel's straight-shooting portrait of her childhood gives us a heroine who is wonderfully sweet and sly as she navigates the quirky adult world that surrounds Zippy.…

Paperback. Condición: Good. National Bestseller and Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Oscar Feldman, the renowned figurative painter, has passed away. As his obituary notes, Oscar is survived by his wife, Abigail, their son, Ethan, and his sister, the well-known abstract painter Maxine Feldman. What the obituary does not note, however, is that Oscar is also survived by his longtime mistress, Teddy St. Cloud, and their daughters. As two biographers interview the women in an attempt to set the record straight, the open secret of his affair reaches a boiling point and a devastating skeleton threatens to come to light. From the acclaimed author of The Epicure's Lament, a scintillating novel of secrets, love, and legacy in the New York art world. "Mischievous.funny, astute.As unexpectedly generous as it is entertaining. Christensen is a witty observer of the art universe." --The New York Times.…

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Paperback. Condición: Fair. Hugo Whittier failed poet and former kept man is a wily misanthrope with a taste for whiskey, women, and his own cooking. Afflicted with a rare disease that will be fatal unless he quits smoking, Hugo retreats to his once aristocratic family s dilapidated mansion, determined to smoke himself to death without forfeiting any of his pleasures. To his chagrin, the world that he has forsaken is not quite finished with him. First, his sanctimonious older brother moves in, closely followed by his estranged wife, their alleged daughter, and his gay uncle. Infuriated at the violation of his sanctum, Hugo devises hilariously perverse ploys to send the intruders packing. Yet the unexpected consequences of his schemes keep forcing him to reconsider, however fleetingly, the more wholesome ingredients of love, and life itself. …

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Hardback. Condición: Good. ?Kate Christensen?s new novel, Welcome Home, Stranger, is a revelation, offering characters as real as your family and friends, a rich, vividly drawn setting, grab-you-by-the-throat drama and always, lurking in the shadows, a fierce authorial intelligence. What more could you ask???Richard Russo, author of Somebody?s Fool?To the great literature of going home again we can now add Kate Christensen?s superb new novel Welcome Home, Stranger, a triumph of intelligence and wit (which will surprise none of her many fans). The prodigal here is a brilliant journalist grieving the loss of a very difficult mother while attempting peace with those she left behind: a resentful sister and an ex-lover who can be neither trusted nor forgotten. A spellbinding book from one of our best chroniclers of the very American struggle to strive for excellence while still living in community with others.??Ann Packer, author of The Children?s Crusade?A deeply endearing story about confronting one?s past and constructing a new future?under extreme duress. . . . Welcome Home, Stranger . . . arrives at the most lovely ending of a novel I?ve read all year."?Washington PostFrom the PEN-Faulkner Award-winning author of The Great Man comes a poignant family drama about grief, love, growing older, and the complications of family that is the story of a fifty-something woman who goes home?reluctantly?to Maine after the death of her mother.Can you ever truly go home again?An environmental journalist in Washington, DC, Rachel has shunned her New England working-class family for years. Divorced and childless in her middle age, she?s a true independent spirit with the pain and experience to prove it. Coping with challenges large and small, she thinks her life is in free fall?until she?s summoned home to deal with the aftermath of her mother?s death.Then things really fall apart.Surrounded by a cast of sometimes comic, sometimes heartbreakingly serious characters?an arriviste sister, an alcoholic brother-in-law and, most importantly, the love of her life recently married to the sister?s best friend?Rachel must come to terms with her past, the sorrow she has long buried, and the ghost of the mother who, for better and worse, made her the woman she is.Lively, witty, and painfully familiar, this sophisticated and emotionally resonant women's fiction novel from the author of The Great Man holds a mirror up to modern life as it considers the way some of us must carry on now in this compelling homecoming story.…

Hardback. Condición: Fair. ?Kate Christensen?s new novel, Welcome Home, Stranger, is a revelation, offering characters as real as your family and friends, a rich, vividly drawn setting, grab-you-by-the-throat drama and always, lurking in the shadows, a fierce authorial intelligence. What more could you ask???Richard Russo, author of Somebody?s Fool?To the great literature of going home again we can now add Kate Christensen?s superb new novel Welcome Home, Stranger, a triumph of intelligence and wit (which will surprise none of her many fans). The prodigal here is a brilliant journalist grieving the loss of a very difficult mother while attempting peace with those she left behind: a resentful sister and an ex-lover who can be neither trusted nor forgotten. A spellbinding book from one of our best chroniclers of the very American struggle to strive for excellence while still living in community with others.??Ann Packer, author of The Children?s Crusade?A deeply endearing story about confronting one?s past and constructing a new future?under extreme duress. . . . Welcome Home, Stranger . . . arrives at the most lovely ending of a novel I?ve read all year."?Washington PostFrom the PEN-Faulkner Award-winning author of The Great Man comes a poignant family drama about grief, love, growing older, and the complications of family that is the story of a fifty-something woman who goes home?reluctantly?to Maine after the death of her mother.Can you ever truly go home again?An environmental journalist in Washington, DC, Rachel has shunned her New England working-class family for years. Divorced and childless in her middle age, she?s a true independent spirit with the pain and experience to prove it. Coping with challenges large and small, she thinks her life is in free fall?until she?s summoned home to deal with the aftermath of her mother?s death.Then things really fall apart.Surrounded by a cast of sometimes comic, sometimes heartbreakingly serious characters?an arriviste sister, an alcoholic brother-in-law and, most importantly, the love of her life recently married to the sister?s best friend?Rachel must come to terms with her past, the sorrow she has long buried, and the ghost of the mother who, for better and worse, made her the woman she is.Lively, witty, and painfully familiar, this sophisticated and emotionally resonant women's fiction novel from the author of The Great Man holds a mirror up to modern life as it considers the way some of us must carry on now in this compelling homecoming story.…

Hardback. Condición: Very Good. ?Kate Christensen?s new novel, Welcome Home, Stranger, is a revelation, offering characters as real as your family and friends, a rich, vividly drawn setting, grab-you-by-the-throat drama and always, lurking in the shadows, a fierce authorial intelligence. What more could you ask???Richard Russo, author of Somebody?s Fool?To the great literature of going home again we can now add Kate Christensen?s superb new novel Welcome Home, Stranger, a triumph of intelligence and wit (which will surprise none of her many fans). The prodigal here is a brilliant journalist grieving the loss of a very difficult mother while attempting peace with those she left behind: a resentful sister and an ex-lover who can be neither trusted nor forgotten. A spellbinding book from one of our best chroniclers of the very American struggle to strive for excellence while still living in community with others.??Ann Packer, author of The Children?s Crusade?A deeply endearing story about confronting one?s past and constructing a new future?under extreme duress. . . . Welcome Home, Stranger . . . arrives at the most lovely ending of a novel I?ve read all year."?Washington PostFrom the PEN-Faulkner Award-winning author of The Great Man comes a poignant family drama about grief, love, growing older, and the complications of family that is the story of a fifty-something woman who goes home?reluctantly?to Maine after the death of her mother.Can you ever truly go home again?An environmental journalist in Washington, DC, Rachel has shunned her New England working-class family for years. Divorced and childless in her middle age, she?s a true independent spirit with the pain and experience to prove it. Coping with challenges large and small, she thinks her life is in free fall?until she?s summoned home to deal with the aftermath of her mother?s death.Then things really fall apart.Surrounded by a cast of sometimes comic, sometimes heartbreakingly serious characters?an arriviste sister, an alcoholic brother-in-law and, most importantly, the love of her life recently married to the sister?s best friend?Rachel must come to terms with her past, the sorrow she has long buried, and the ghost of the mother who, for better and worse, made her the woman she is.Lively, witty, and painfully familiar, this sophisticated and emotionally resonant women's fiction novel from the author of The Great Man holds a mirror up to modern life as it considers the way some of us must carry on now in this compelling homecoming story.…

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Paperback. Condición: Good. In this compassionate, wise, and comical debut, Kate Christensen gives an engaging and authentic voice to a new generation of single urban women. Claudia Steiner never intended for her life to become such a disaster.  At the age of twenty-nine she finds herself serving as secretary to an insane, aging socialite who barks orders from her toilet, specializes in devastating backhanded remarks, and expects Claudia to ghostwrite her best-selling novels. Her job pays enough to keep her in overpriced cocktails, cabs, and take-out but doesn't cover the rent on her roach-infested apartment or keep her creditors at bay. Her romantic prospects are no better. She's hopelessly in love with her best friend, a corporate lawyer who may or may not be gay, and she's still relentlessly pursued by her ex-lover, a married unpublished epic poet. All Claudia can rely on--aside from her wry sense of humor and her faith in the medicinal properties of whiskey--is a persistent little flame of belief in herself, which gives her the glimmer of a chance for a happy ending.…

Paperback. Condición: Good. A delectable memoir about the transformative power of food, Blue Plate Special is a deeply personal narrative in which food becomes the vehicle for exploring a life. Here, novelist Kate Christensen tells her own story, from her unorthodox childhood in 1960s Berkeley as the daughter of a legal activist who ruled the house with his fists to her extraordinary success as a PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author. Hungry not just for food, but for love and a sense of belonging, Christensen writes honestly about her struggle to find the contentment she has always yearned for. A beautifully written account of a knockabout life, full of sorrows, pleasures--and, of course, food--Blue Plate Special is a delicious reading experience.…

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Paperback. Condición: Good. ?Kate Christensen?s new novel, Welcome Home, Stranger, is a revelation, offering characters as real as your family and friends, a rich, vividly drawn setting, grab-you-by-the-throat drama and always, lurking in the shadows, a fierce authorial intelligence. What more could you ask???Richard Russo, author of Somebody?s Fool?To the great literature of going home again we can now add Kate Christensen?s superb new novel Welcome Home, Stranger, a triumph of intelligence and wit (which will surprise none of her many fans). The prodigal here is a brilliant journalist grieving the loss of a very difficult mother while attempting peace with those she left behind: a resentful sister and an ex-lover who can be neither trusted nor forgotten. A spellbinding book from one of our best chroniclers of the very American struggle to strive for excellence while still living in community with others.??Ann Packer, author of The Children?s Crusade?A deeply endearing story about confronting one?s past and constructing a new future?under extreme duress. . . . Welcome Home, Stranger . . . arrives at the most lovely ending of a novel I?ve read all year."?Washington PostFrom the PEN-Faulkner Award-winning author of The Great Man comes a poignant family drama about grief, love, growing older, and the complications of family that is the story of a fifty-something woman who goes home?reluctantly?to Maine after the death of her mother.Can you ever truly go home again?An environmental journalist in Washington, DC, Rachel has shunned her New England working-class family for years. Divorced and childless in her middle age, she?s a true independent spirit with the pain and experience to prove it. Coping with challenges large and small, she thinks her life is in free fall?until she?s summoned home to deal with the aftermath of her mother?s death.Then things really fall apart.Surrounded by a cast of sometimes comic, sometimes heartbreakingly serious characters?an arriviste sister, an alcoholic brother-in-law and, most importantly, the love of her life recently married to the sister?s best friend?Rachel must come to terms with her past, the sorrow she has long buried, and the ghost of the mother who, for better and worse, made her the woman she is.Lively, witty, and painfully familiar, this sophisticated and emotionally resonant women's fiction novel from the author of The Great Man holds a mirror up to modern life as it considers the way some of us must carry on now in this compelling homecoming story.…

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Hardback. Condición: Very Good. From the acclaimed PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author of The Great Man comes a riveting high-seas adventure that combines Christensen's signature wit, irony, and humanity to create a striking and unforgettable vision of our times. The 1950s vintage ocean liner Queen Isabella is making her final voyage before heading to the scrapyard. For the guests on board, among them Christine Thorne, a former journalist turned Maine farmer, it's a chance to experience the bygone mid-twentieth century era of decadent luxury cruising, complete with fine dining, classic highballs, string quartets, and sophisticated jazz. Smoking is allowed but not cell phones--or children, for that matter. The Isabella sets sail from Long Beach, California into calm seas on a two-week retro cruise to Hawaii and back. But this is the second decade of an uncertain new millennium, not the sunny, heedless '50s, and certain disquieting signs of strife and malfunction above and below decks intrude on the festivities. Down in the main galley, Mick Szabo, a battle-weary Hungarian executive sous-chef, watches escalating tensions among the crew. Meanwhile, Miriam Koslow, an elderly Israeli violinist with the Sabra Quartet, becomes increasingly aware of the age-related vulnerabilities of the ship herself and the cynical corners cut by the cruise ship company, Cabaret. When a time of crisis begins, Christine, Mick, and Miriam find themselves facing the unknown together in an unexpected and startling test of their characters.…

Hardback. Condición: Good. From the acclaimed PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author of The Great Man comes a riveting high-seas adventure that combines Christensen's signature wit, irony, and humanity to create a striking and unforgettable vision of our times. The 1950s vintage ocean liner Queen Isabella is making her final voyage before heading to the scrapyard. For the guests on board, among them Christine Thorne, a former journalist turned Maine farmer, it's a chance to experience the bygone mid-twentieth century era of decadent luxury cruising, complete with fine dining, classic highballs, string quartets, and sophisticated jazz. Smoking is allowed but not cell phones--or children, for that matter. The Isabella sets sail from Long Beach, California into calm seas on a two-week retro cruise to Hawaii and back. But this is the second decade of an uncertain new millennium, not the sunny, heedless '50s, and certain disquieting signs of strife and malfunction above and below decks intrude on the festivities. Down in the main galley, Mick Szabo, a battle-weary Hungarian executive sous-chef, watches escalating tensions among the crew. Meanwhile, Miriam Koslow, an elderly Israeli violinist with the Sabra Quartet, becomes increasingly aware of the age-related vulnerabilities of the ship herself and the cynical corners cut by the cruise ship company, Cabaret. When a time of crisis begins, Christine, Mick, and Miriam find themselves facing the unknown together in an unexpected and startling test of their characters.…

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. In the gentrifying neighborhood of Greenpoint, Brooklyn, rests a huge rose-colored apartment building called The Astral. For decades it was the happy home of the poet Harry Quirk, his wife, Luz, and their two children: Karina, now a fervent freegan, and Hector, now in the clutches of a cultish Christian community. But when Luz finds poems that ignite her long-simmering suspicions of infidelity, Harry is summarily kicked out, leaving him to reckon with the consequence of his literary, marital, and parental failures. With tremendous grace and acute perception, Kate Christensen details Harry's floundering attempts to find his way back into Luz's arms--and back to his better self--in a novel that is funny, bittersweet, and terrifically moving.…

Paperback. Condición: Good. In the gentrifying neighborhood of Greenpoint, Brooklyn, rests a huge rose-colored apartment building called The Astral. For decades it was the happy home of the poet Harry Quirk, his wife, Luz, and their two children: Karina, now a fervent freegan, and Hector, now in the clutches of a cultish Christian community. But when Luz finds poems that ignite her long-simmering suspicions of infidelity, Harry is summarily kicked out, leaving him to reckon with the consequence of his literary, marital, and parental failures. With tremendous grace and acute perception, Kate Christensen details Harry's floundering attempts to find his way back into Luz's arms--and back to his better self--in a novel that is funny, bittersweet, and terrifically moving.…