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Asa, as I Knew Him

2010-05-12 Fiction
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Release : 2010-05-12
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 548/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Asa, as I Knew Him by : Susanna Kaysen

Download or read book Asa, as I Knew Him written by Susanna Kaysen. This book was released on 2010-05-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dinah Sachs and Asa Thayer have had a love affair, conducted in afternoons stolen from the office of the magazine where they work. But now that the affair is over, Dinah, in an act of lingering passion, invents a narrative of Asa's youth, imagining the events that shaped the "happy, handsome man" who, in her words, "was born to stomp on my heart." Witty and sexy, funny and immediate, Asa, As I Knew Him is a a seductive dialogue between love and memory, obsession and illusion.

Far Afield

2013-08-21 Fiction
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Release : 2013-08-21
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 075/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Far Afield by : Susanna Kaysen

Download or read book Far Afield written by Susanna Kaysen. This book was released on 2013-08-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compulsively readable novel of enormous charm swimming in the cuisine and culture of the Faroe Islands from the author of Girl, Interrupted. Jonathan Brand, a graduate student in anthropology, has decided to do his fieldwork in the remote Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic. But, despite his Harvard training, he can barely understand, let alone "study," the culture he encounters. From his struggles with the local cuisine to his affair with the Danish woman the locals want him to marry, Jonathan is both repelled by and drawn into the Faroese way of life. Wry and insightful, Far Afield reveals Susanna Kaysen's gifts of imagination, satire, and compassion.

Cambridge

2014 Art appreciation
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Release : 2014
Genre : Art appreciation
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Book Rating : 252/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Cambridge by : Susanna Kaysen

Download or read book Cambridge written by Susanna Kaysen. This book was released on 2014. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two family sabbaticals across the Atlantic and a brilliant orchestra conductor shape the perspectives of a young woman from 1950s Harvard Square, who develops new ways of thinking about music, love, and art while struggling with feelings of being a perpetual outsider.

Girl, Interrupted

2013-06-19 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2013-06-19
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 113/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Girl, Interrupted by : Susanna Kaysen

Download or read book Girl, Interrupted written by Susanna Kaysen. This book was released on 2013-06-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 30th ANNIVERSARY EDITION • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. Her memoir of the next two years is a "poignant, honest ... triumphantly funny ... and heartbreaking story" (The New York Times Book Review). WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR The ward for teenage girls in the McLean psychiatric hospital was as renowned for its famous clientele—Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, James Taylor, and Ray Charles—as for its progressive methods of treating those who could afford its sanctuary. Kaysen's memoir encompasses horror and razor-edged perception while providing vivid portraits of her fellow patients and their keepers. It is a brilliant evocation of a "parallel universe" set within the kaleidoscopically shifting landscape of the late sixties. Girl, Interrupted is a clear-sighted, unflinching document that gives lasting and specific dimension to our definitions of sane and insane, mental illness and recovery.

The Camera My Mother Gave Me

2002-10-08 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2002-10-08
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 430/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Camera My Mother Gave Me by : Susanna Kaysen

Download or read book The Camera My Mother Gave Me written by Susanna Kaysen. This book was released on 2002-10-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Susanna Kaysen, who wrote about her teenage depression in the bestseller Girl, Interrupted, now takes on another taboo: her vagina–which suddenly and inexplicably starts to hurt. And neither Kaysen’s cheery gynecologist, nor her internist, nor a laconic “vulvologist” has the cure. An alternative health nurse suggests direct application of tea, baking soda, and boric acid. Others recommend novocaine, oatmeal, “bio-feedback,” and anti-depressants. Nothing works. As sex becomes more and more painful, Kaysen’s relationship with her boyfriend disintegrates and she turns to her best friends, her wicked sense of humor, and finally wry self-reflection to get herself through. Using this unusual lens, Kaysen challenges us to think in new ways about the centrality and power of sexuality. The Camera My Mother Gave Me is an unexpected and revelatory book from one of our most candid, insightful and consistently surprising writers.

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