
Parisian Lives
Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and Me: A Memoir
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Deirdre Bair
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A Pulitzer Prize Finalist
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year
National Book Award-winning biographer Deirdre Bair explores her 15 remarkable years in Paris with Samuel Beckett and Simone de Beauvoir, painting intimate new portraits of two literary giants and revealing secrets of the biographical art.
In 1971, Deirdre Bair was a journalist and a recently minted PhD who managed to secure access to Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett. He agreed that she could be his biographer despite her never having written a biography before. The next seven years of probing conversations, intercontinental research, singular encounters with Beckett's friends, and peculiar cat-and-mouse games resulted in Samuel Beckett: A Biography, which went on to win the National Book Award and propel Bair to her next subject: Simone de Beauvoir.
Where Beckett had been retiring and elusive, Beauvoir was domineering and all encompassing. Plus, there was a catch: Beauvoir and Beckett despised each other - and lived in the same neighborhood. Bair, who resorted to dodging one subject or the other by hiding out in the great cafés of Paris, learned that what works in terms of process for one biography rarely applies to the next. Her seven-year relationship with the forceful and difficult Beauvoir required a radical change in approach and yielded another groundbreaking literary profile while also awakening Bair to an era of burgeoning feminist consciousness.
Drawing on Bair's extensive notes from the period, including never-before-told anecdotes and details considered impossible to publish at the time, Parisian Lives gives us an entirely new perspective on the all-too-human side of these legendary thinkers. It is also a warmly personal reflection on the writing life - its compromises, its joys, and its rewards.
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Meet James Samuel Vincent, an affluent Manhattan attorney who shirks his modest Irish-American background but hews to his father’s meandering ways. James muddles through a topsy-turvy relationship with his son, Rufus, which is further complicated when Rufus marries Claudia Christie. Claudia’s mother - Agnes Miller Christie - is a beautiful African-American woman who survives a chance encounter on a Georgia road that propels her into a new life in the Bronx. Soon after, her husband, Eddie Christie, is called to duty on an air craft carrier in Vietnam.
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Each character is quite a character.
- De Anonymous User en 01-01-22
De: Regina Porter
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Sleeping with Strangers
- How the Movies Shaped Desire
- De: David Thomson
- Narrado por: David Thomson
- Duración: 17 h y 14 m
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In this wholly original work of film criticism, David Thomson, celebrated author of The Biographical Dictionary of Film, probes the many ways in which sexuality has shaped the movies - and the ways in which the movies have shaped sexuality.
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- De Boxing Fan en 07-23-23
De: David Thomson
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Sign My Name to Freedom
- A Memoir of a Pioneering Life
- De: Betty Reid Soskin
- Narrado por: Betty Reid Soskin
- Duración: 8 h y 47 m
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In Betty Reid Soskin’s 96 years of living, she has been a witness to a grand sweep of American history. When she was born in 1921, the lynching of African-Americans was a national epidemic, blackface minstrel shows were the most popular American form of entertainment, white women had only just won the right to vote, and most African-Americans in the Deep South could not vote at all. From her great-grandmother, who had been enslaved until her mid-20s, Betty heard stories of slavery and the times of terror and struggle for Black folk that followed.
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Betty Reid Soskin's life and career, in her own words
- De Betsy Fowler en 04-13-25
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The Beneficiary
- Fortune, Misfortune, and the Story of My Father
- De: Janny Scott
- Narrado por: Janny Scott
- Duración: 8 h y 53 m
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A parable for the new age of inequality: part family history, part detective story, part history of a vanishing class, and a vividly compelling exploration of the degree to which an inheritance - financial, cultural, genetic - conspired in one person's self-destruction.
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- De NFox en 06-08-19
De: Janny Scott
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The Secret Life of Dorothy Soames
- A Memoir
- De: Justine Cowan
- Narrado por: Lisa Flanagan
- Duración: 8 h y 12 m
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Justine had always been told that her mother came from royal blood. The proof could be found in her mother’s elegance, in the upper-crust London accent she had never shed - and in a cryptic letter hinting at her claim to a country estate. But beneath the polished veneer lay a fearsome, unpredictable temper that drove Justine from home the moment she was old enough to escape. Years later, when her mother sent her an envelope filled with secrets from a past that had never been spoken about, Justine buried it in the back of an old filing cabinet.
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Enlightening
- De May L. en 06-29-22
De: Justine Cowan
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Let Me Not Be Mad
- My Story of Unraveling Minds
- De: A. K. Benjamin
- Narrado por: Nicholas Guy Smith
- Duración: 9 h y 5 m
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What do doctors actually think about when you list your problems in the consulting room? Are they really listening to you? Is the connection all in your head? Every day for 10 years - even while his hospital became the set for a reality television series - clinical neuropsychologist A. K. Benjamin confronted these questions, and this book is his attempt to tell the truth about what happens in these rooms in hospitals the world over.
De: A. K. Benjamin
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The Gilded Edge
- Two Audacious Women and the Cyanide Love Triangle That Shook America
- De: Catherine Prendergast
- Narrado por: Rebecca Lowman
- Duración: 10 h y 36 m
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Nora May French and Carrie Sterling arrive at Carmel-by-the-Sea at the turn of the twentieth century with dramatically different ambitions. Nora, a stunning, brilliant, impulsive writer in her early twenties, seeks artistic recognition and Bohemian refuge among the most celebrated counter-culturalists of the era. Carrie, long-suffering wife of real estate developer George Sterling, wants the opposite: a semblance of the stability she thought her advantageous marriage would offer, threatened now that her philandering husband has taken to writing poetry.
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- De UMICHReader en 01-18-22
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See You in the Piazza
- New Places to Discover in Italy
- De: Frances Mayes
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell, Frances Mayes
- Duración: 14 h y 54 m
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Best-selling and beloved author Frances Mayes discovers the hidden pleasures of Italy in a sumptuous travel narrative that crisscrosses the country, with inventive new recipes celebrating Italian cuisine.
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Bravo Cassandra Campbell
- De John Genzale en 05-20-19
De: Frances Mayes
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Stronghold
- One Man's Quest to Save the World's Wild Salmon
- De: Tucker Malarkey
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 14 h y 7 m
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In the tradition of Mountains Beyond Mountains and The Orchid Thief, Stronghold is Tucker Malarkey’s eye-opening account of one of the world’s greatest fly fishermen and his crusade to protect the world’s last bastion of wild salmon. From a young age, Guido Rahr was a misfit among his family and classmates, preferring to spend his time in the natural world. When the salmon runs of the Pacific Northwest began to decline, Guido was one of the few who understood why.
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Breathtakingly Brilliant
- De Stephen Victor en 08-21-21
De: Tucker Malarkey
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Hungry
- Eating, Road-Tripping, and Risking It All with the Greatest Chef in the World
- De: Jeff Gordinier
- Narrado por: Jeff Gordinier
- Duración: 6 h y 47 m
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Feeling stuck in his work and home life, writer Jeff Gordinier happened into a fateful meeting with Danish chef René Redzepi, whose restaurant, Noma, has been called the best in the world. A restless perfectionist, Redzepi was at the top of his game but was looking to tear it all down, to shutter his restaurant and set out for new places, flavors, and recipes. This is the story of the subsequent four years of globe-trotting culinary adventure, with Gordinier joining Redzepi as his Sancho Panza.
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disappointing story and awkward narration
- De MBS en 08-16-19
De: Jeff Gordinier
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My Life as a Villainess
- Essays
- De: Laura Lippman
- Narrado por: Laura Lippman
- Duración: 5 h y 50 m
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New York Times best-selling author Laura Lippman, a journalist for many years, collects here her recent essays exploring motherhood as an older mom, her life as a reader, her relationships with her parents, friendship, and other topics that will resonate with a large audience. Her voice is wry and relatable, her takes often surprising. Meet the woman behind the books....
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I’m a villainess too.
- De Jason Carr en 03-12-25
De: Laura Lippman
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Always Home: A Daughter's Recipes & Stories
- Foreword by Alice Waters
- De: Fanny Singer, Alice Waters
- Narrado por: Fanny Singer, Alice Waters
- Duración: 8 h y 41 m
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In this extraordinarily intimate portrait of her mother - and herself - Fanny Singer, daughter of food icon and activist Alice Waters, chronicles a unique world of food, wine, and travel; a world filled with colorful characters, mouth-watering traditions, and sumptuous feasts. Across dozens of vignettes with accompanying recipes, she shares the story of her own culinary coming of age and reveals a side of her legendary mother that has never been seen before.
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- De mtparis en 06-04-20
De: Fanny Singer, y otros
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Eat Like a Fish
- My Adventures as a Fisherman Turned Restorative Ocean Farmer
- De: Bren Smith
- Narrado por: Bren Smith
- Duración: 7 h y 43 m
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Part memoir, part manifesto, in Eat Like a Fish Bren Smith - a former commercial fisherman turned restorative ocean farmer - shares a bold new vision for the future of food: seaweed. Through tales that span from his childhood in Newfoundland to his early years on the high seas aboard commercial fishing trawlers, from pioneering new forms of ocean farming to surfing the frontiers of the food movement, Smith introduces the world of sea-based agriculture and advocates getting ocean vegetables onto American plates (there are thousands of edible varieties in the sea!).
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We have hope for feeding the world thanks to ocean farming!
- De Jeanie Milliken en 03-23-25
De: Bren Smith
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Five Days
- The Fiery Reckoning of an American City
- De: Wes Moore, Erica L. Green
- Narrado por: Wes Moore
- Duración: 7 h y 3 m
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A kaleidoscopic account of five days in the life of a city on the edge, told through eight characters on the front lines of the uprising that overtook Baltimore and riveted the world, from the New York Times best-selling author of The Other Wes Moore.
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- De Ms Moni en 07-06-20
De: Wes Moore, y otros
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Once More We Saw Stars
- A Memoir
- De: Jayson Greene
- Narrado por: Jayson Greene
- Duración: 7 h y 1 m
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As the story opens: Two-year-old Greta Greene is sitting with her grandmother on a park bench on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. A brick crumbles from a windowsill overhead, striking her unconscious, and she is immediately rushed to the hospital. But although it begins with this event and with the anguish Jayson and his wife, Stacy, confront in the wake of their daughter's trauma and the hours leading up to her death, Once More We Saw Stars quickly becomes a narrative that is as much about hope and healing as it is about grief and loss.
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It will open your heart if you let it.
- De Rachel en 09-23-19
De: Jayson Greene
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Parisian Lives
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A beautiful & thrilling book!
I found this book charming, insightful, surprising, & wise! What a life! Filled with such fascinating encounters!
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- Jay Quintana
- 02-16-24
An American's Memoir Featuring Two Parisians
Is the more fitting title. This is much more about Bair's life, writing career, and adventures in academia than it is about Beckett and de Beavouir. I doubt we learn more about them then we would by reading their Wikipedia pages. It's written well enough and it breezes along, but read this only if you want to learn more about Bair than the other two.
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- Pennypie
- 03-21-20
A puzzle
I’ve enjoyed other books by the author, and other narrations by the voice actor, but somehow the combination of them here makes this text insufferable - self-pitying, arrogant, self-important, and difficult to enjoy . As noted, a puzzle with some fascinating content.
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- 03-03-22
exquisite
This was a moving story of wills, egos, talents and circumstances which, as the story unfolded, beckoned the reader to follow. Initially, I had no idea the sort of book this is. A “bio-memoir,” I later find out, is a very curious term indeed. Had I known the book’s self-proclaimed identity at the start, I’m not sure I’d even understand what that meant.
Yet, it is exactly that, a memoir of biography, and as a new experience for me, I jumped in wholly after wading in at my knees being first uncertain of the book’s point.
Anyone who does not finish this book will never know how truly moving it is.
The narration is the best I’ve heard.
The entire experience, text and narration are absolutely exquisite in every way.
Even the more formal prose style, which for me required some warming up to, suited the story to a “T.”
The author’s critics, as she describes them, may find her scholarly credentials lacking. But she sounded every bit the fully capable scholar and academic to me: intelligent & insightful, well-read & knowledgeable and able to maintain a keen eye on posterity.
Aware of Ms. Bair’s awards and high praise, her success is no secret.
Well done “Deaaayrdh!”
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- Dr Kevin O'Brien
- 06-03-24
excellent reader for engaging book
It was a great relief to find that the reader has an excellent command of French pronunciation—something essential for a book which continually references French names and places.
The most interesting aspect of the book is, naturally, Bair’s encounters with the two writers, Beckett and de Beauvoir. I learned a lot about the personalities of each. The other subject of the book is Bair’s own journey and development as a biographer, scholar, mother, wife…and particularly, her struggles to be heard and have agency as a professional in often hostile and sexist worlds and times. A fascinating book beautifully read.
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- Jordan
- 11-22-19
Portrait of the artist as a portraitist
A fascinating look at a life as the author looks at the lives of others she has portrayed. A must for anyone interested in modernism, feminism or french culture.
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- J. L. Andrist
- 10-01-22
Don't Normally make it my business to review
But this book was exceptionally disappointing. Not only does Bair lack any true depth of self reflection, she often is so entitled she somehow becomes convinced that the listener (reader) is going to be fascinated with petty academic squabbles. There is so little of the portraiture of either SBs, what most of us came for, that I would literally qualify the title as a lie.
She casually brings up her subjects for the biographies but only of their existence as props in her harried frenetic life where people are always trying to keep her down. This was nominated for a Pulitzer - my trust in accolades for anyone coming out of academia continues to drop exponentially.
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- Talb
- 06-26-20
Disappointing
This book is more about the author’s writing process than about the two subjects. Do not bother. The narrator is abrupt.
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