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Author
Publisher
Regnery Gateway
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Alone among the creatures of the world, man suffers a pang both bitter and sweet. It is an ache for the homecoming. The Greeks called it nostalgia. Post-modern man, homeless almost by definition, cannot understand nostalgia. If he is a progressive, dreaming of a utopia to come, he dismisses it contemptuously, eager to bury a past he despises. If he is a reactionary, he sentimentalizes it, dreaming of a lost golden age. In this profound reflection,...
Publisher
Maverick Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
After losing his wife and father on the same day, Brandon Moore felt there was nothing left to live for. His dream of finding a cure for cancer to save his wife and win approval for his father was gone. When he decides to take his brother's suggestion and spend the night at the family old ranch, the twelve-year-old version of him walks out of the bathroom and spends three days trying to convince him to live again regardless of his losses.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Book Group
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Acclaimed historian Stephanie Coontz provides a myth-shattering examination of two centuries of the American family, sweeping away misconceptions about the past that cloud current debates about domestic life.
Author
Series
Maddalena novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's been 50 years since Antonio Grasso married Maddalena and brought her to America from her small Italian village and her family. Now, with children and grandchildren, she sees no need to open the door for the past spill out. But her daughter hatches the idea to take the entire family back to Italy--hoping to reunite Maddalena with her family.
Author
Language
English
Description
BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A novel that follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he never much thought about—until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance: one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present.
A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single setting, The Sense of an Ending has the psychological and emotional depth and sophistication of Henry James...
A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single setting, The Sense of an Ending has the psychological and emotional depth and sophistication of Henry James...
Author
Publisher
Vintage International/Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"Tony Webster, a middle-aged man, ... contends with a past he never thought much about--until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance: one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present"--Flap p. 1 of cover.
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