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Author : Corinne Michaels
Release : 2017-10-07
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 250/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Consolation by : Corinne Michaels
Download or read book Consolation written by Corinne Michaels. This book was released on 2017-10-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fans of JoJo Moyes will love this heartfelt, emotional read about a woman who loses everything and the man who helped her heal.
Author : Michael Ignatieff
Release : 2021-11-09
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Rating : 086/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis On Consolation by : Michael Ignatieff
Download or read book On Consolation written by Michael Ignatieff. This book was released on 2021-11-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Timely and profound philosophical meditations on how great figures in history, literature, music, and art searched for solace while facing tragedies and crises, from the internationally renowned historian of ideas and Booker Prize finalist Michael Ignatieff When we lose someone we love, when we suffer loss or defeat, when catastrophe strikes—war, famine, pandemic—we go in search of consolation. Once the province of priests and philosophers, the language of consolation has largely vanished from our modern vocabulary, and the places where it was offered, houses of religion, are often empty. Rejecting the solace of ancient religious texts, humanity since the sixteenth century has increasingly placed its faith in science, ideology, and the therapeutic. How do we console each other and ourselves in an age of unbelief? In a series of lapidary meditations on writers, artists, musicians, and their works—from the books of Job and Psalms to Albert Camus, Anna Akhmatova, and Primo Levi—esteemed writer and historian Michael Ignatieff shows how men and women in extremity have looked to each other across time to recover hope and resilience. Recreating the moments when great figures found the courage to confront their fate and the determination to continue unafraid, On Consolation takes those stories into the present, movingly contending that we can revive these traditions of consolation to meet the anguish and uncertainties of our precarious twenty-first century.
Author : Helen Garner
Release : 2007-11-10
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 875/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Joe Cinque's Consolation by : Helen Garner
Download or read book Joe Cinque's Consolation written by Helen Garner. This book was released on 2007-11-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE A true story of death, grief and the law from the 2019 winner of the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature. In October 1997 a clever young law student at ANU made a bizarre plan to murder her devoted boyfriend after a dinner party at their house. Some of the dinner guests-most of them university students-had heard rumours of the plan. Nobody warned Joe Cinque. He died one Sunday, in his own bed, of a massive dose of rohypnol and heroin. His girlfriend and her best friend were charged with murder. Helen Garner followed the trials in the ACT Supreme Court. Compassionate but unflinching, this is a book about how and why Joe Cinque died. It probes the gap between ethics and the law; examines the helplessness of the courts in the face of what we think of as 'evil'; and explores conscience, culpability, and the battered ideal of duty of care. It is a masterwork from one of Australia's greatest writers. Winner of the Ned Kelly Award for Best True Crime 2005 Winner of the ABIA Book of the Year 2004 PRAISE FOR JOE CINQUE'S CONSOLATION "Garner's book is a writer's profound response to a tragedy and to questions about human responsibility over time as well as at precise moments" The Age "This is a work of great passion and of countervailing humanity - a book of witness..." Australian Book Review
Author : Corinne Michaels
Release : 2015-07-01
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Book Rating : 106/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Consolation Duet by : Corinne Michaels
Download or read book The Consolation Duet written by Corinne Michaels. This book was released on 2015-07-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liam wasn't supposed to be my happily ever after. He wasn't even on my radar. He was my husband's best friend-forbidden. But my husband died and I fell in love with Liam only to be left shattered into a million pieces. Again. I want him. I need him. I yearn for him, but he's gone. Now I have to decide if it's him I love or if he was just the consolation prize all along.
Author : David Whyte
Release : 2019-11-07
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Rating : 644/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Consolations by : David Whyte
Download or read book Consolations written by David Whyte. This book was released on 2019-11-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Consolations David Whyte unpacks aspects of being human that many of us spend our lives trying vainly to avoid - loss, heartbreak, vulnerability, fear - boldly reinterpreting them, fully embracing their complexity, never shying away from paradox in his relentless search for meaning. Beginning with 'Alone' and closing with 'Withdrawal', each piece in this life-affirming book is a meditation on meaning and context, an invitation to shift and broaden our perspectives on life: pain and joy, honesty and anger, confession and vulnerability, the experience of feeling overwhelmed and the desire to run away from it all. Through this lens, procrastination may be a necessary ripening; hiding an act of freedom; and shyness something that accompanies the first stage of revelation. Consolations invites readers into a poetic and thoughtful consideration of words whose meaning and interpretation influence the paths we choose and the way we traverse them throughout our lives.
