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- Duración: 11 h y 12 m
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Isabel Allende reconstructs the painful reality of her own life in the wake of the tragic death of her daughter, Paula. Narrated with warmth, humor, exceptional candor, and wisdom, this remarkable memoir is as exuberant and as full of life as its creator. Allende bares her soul while sharing her thoughts on love, marriage, motherhood, spirituality and religion, infidelity, addiction, and memory - and recounts stories of the wildly eccentric, strong-minded, and eclectic tribe she gathers around her and lovingly embraces as a new kind of family.
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She does not disappoint
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De: Isabel Allende
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Reading My Father
- A Memoir
- De: Alexandra Styron
- Narrado por: Alexandra Styron
- Duración: 10 h y 27 m
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Alexandra Styron's parents—the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Sophie’s Choice and his political activist wife, Rose—were, for half a century, leading players on the world’s cultural stage. Alexandra was raised under both the halo of her father’s brilliance and the long shadow of his troubled mind. Reading My Father portrays the epic sweep of an American artist’s life. It is also a tale of filial love, beautifully written with humor, compassion, and grace.
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William Styron Ranks...
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De: Alexandra Styron
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Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed
- Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids
- De: Meghan Daum
- Narrado por: Johnny Heller, Jo Anna Perrin
- Duración: 7 h y 40 m
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One of the main topics of cultural conversation during the last decade was the supposed "fertility crisis" and whether modern women could figure out a way to have it all - a successful, demanding career and the required 2.3 children - before their biological clocks stopped ticking. Now, however, conversation has turned to whether it's necessary to have it all (see Anne-Marie Slaughter) or, perhaps more controversial, whether children are really a requirement for a fulfilling life.
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Am I the only sane childfree woman in here?
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De: Meghan Daum
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Crazy Time, Revised Edition
- Surviving Divorce and Building a New Life
- De: Abigail Trafford
- Narrado por: Coleen Marlo
- Duración: 9 h y 4 m
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In this intelligent and insightful book, Abigail Trafford charts the emotional journey of a breakup of a marriage, identifying the common phases in the evolution from marriage to separation to divorce, and eventually to a new life. This revised edition includes the most up-to-date research on the personal and economic effects of divorce in adults and children's lives, addresses the special challenges of becoming single again in the age of the Internet, and broadens the experience of divorce to the breakup of all committed relationships.
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Better as an additional book
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De: Abigail Trafford
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Sybil Exposed
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- De: Debbie Nathan
- Narrado por: Marguerite Gavin
- Duración: 9 h y 39 m
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Journalist Debbie Nathan reveals the true story behind the famous case of Sybil, the woman with sixteen different personalities.
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No definitive answer, just speculations all around
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De: Debbie Nathan
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How to Be Sad
- Everything I’ve Learned About Getting Happier by Being Sad
- De: Helen Russell
- Narrado por: Helen Russell
- Duración: 10 h y 28 m
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Helen Russell has researched sadness from the inside out for her entire life. Her earliest memory is of the day her sister died. Her parents divorced soon after, and her mother didn’t receive the help she needed to grieve. Coping with her own emotional turmoil — including struggles with body image and infertility — she’s endured professional and personal setbacks as well as relationships that have imploded in truly spectacular ways. Even the things that brought her the greatest joy — like eventually becoming a parent — are fraught with challenges.
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More an self biography
- De Jaime Murillo en 04-27-24
De: Helen Russell
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The Voice is All
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- De: Joyce Johnson
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- Duración: 16 h y 50 m
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In The Voice Is All, Joyce Johnson - coauthor of the classic memoir Door Wide Open, about her relationship with Jack Kerouac - brilliantly peels away layers of the Kerouac legend to show how, caught between two cultures and two languages, he forged a voice to contain his dualities. Looking more deeply than previous biographers into how Kerouac's French Canadian background enriched his prose and gave him a unique outsider's vision of America, she tracks his development from boyhood through the phenomenal breakthroughs of 1951 that resulted in the composition of On the Road.
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Kerouac's Voice
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De: Joyce Johnson
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Labyrinths
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Clever and ambitious, Emma Jung yearned to study the natural sciences at the University of Zurich. But the strict rules of proper Swiss society at the beginning of the 20th century dictated that a woman of Emma's stature - one of the richest heiresses in Switzerland - travel to Paris to "finish" her education, to prepare for marriage to a suitable man. Engaged to the son of one of her father's wealthy business colleagues, Emma's conventional and predictable life was upended when she met Carl Jung.
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Carl plays center stage
- De Sparrowhawk en 12-23-16
De: Catrine Clay
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Capture
- Unraveling the Mystery of Mental Suffering
- De: David A. Kessler MD
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt
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Why do we think, feel, and act in ways we wish we did not? For decades, New York Times best-selling author Dr. David A. Kessler has studied this question with regard to tobacco, food, and drugs. Over the course of these investigations, he identified one underlying mechanism common to a broad range of human suffering. This phenomenon - capture - is the process by which our attention is hijacked and our brains commandeered by forces outside our control.
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Confused
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Genius & Anxiety
- How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947
- De: Norman Lebrecht
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 18 h y 1 m
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Norman Lebrecht has devoted half of his life to pondering and researching the mindset of the Jewish intellectuals, writers, scientists, and thinkers who turned the tides of history and shaped the world today as we know it. In Genius & Anxiety, Lebrecht begins with the Communist Manifesto in 1847 and ends in 1947, when Israel was founded. This robust, magnificent volume, beautifully designed, is an urgent and necessary celebration of Jewish genius and contribution.
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Post-anxiety
- De Amaze en 03-27-20
De: Norman Lebrecht
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The Survivors
- A Story of War, Inheritance, and Healing
- De: Adam Frankel
- Narrado por: Adam Frankel, Rob Shapiro
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Adam Frankel’s maternal grandparents survived the Holocaust and built new lives, with new names, in Connecticut. Though they tried to leave the horrors of their past behind, the pain they suffered crossed generational lines - a fact most apparent in the mental health of Adam’s mother. When Adam sat down with her to examine their family history in detail, he learned another shocking secret, this time one that unraveled Adam’s entire understanding of who he is.
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Amazing story
- De Alissa en 12-26-19
De: Adam Frankel
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Manifesto
- On Never Giving Up
- De: Bernardine Evaristo
- Narrado por: Bernardine Evaristo
- Duración: 6 h y 7 m
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From the best-selling and Booker Prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other, Bernardine Evaristo’s memoir of her own life and writing, and her manifesto on unstoppability, creativity, and activism.
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Glorious performance and inspiring story
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With a wealth of never-before-accessed materials, Heather Clark brings to life the brilliant Sylvia Plath, who had precocious poetic ambition and was an accomplished published writer even before she became a star at Smith College. Refusing to read Plath’s work as if her every act was a harbinger of her tragic fate, Clark considers the sociopolitical context as she thoroughly explores Plath’s world.
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Because Plath drew so heavily on her own life in both her poetry and her fiction, the outlines of her life are familiar to listeners. Like most writers, Plath changed the facts of her life in her writing. In her determination to be both wife and mother, on the one hand, and teacher and writer on the other, Plath tried simultaneously to fulfill and to fight the conventions that bound women in the 1950s. In this biography, the first to draw on unpublished journals and letters recently made available, Wagner-Martin examines the ironies, contradictions, and achievements of Plath's life.
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The timely, never-before-told story of five brilliant, passionate women who, in the early 1960s, converged at the newly founded Radcliffe Institute for Independent Study and became friends as well as artistic collaborators, and who went on to shape the course of feminism in ways that are still felt today.
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Sylvia Plath is an object of enduring cultural fascination―the troubled patron saint of confessional poetry, a writer whose genius is buried under the weight of her status as the quintessential literary sad girl. Emily Van Duyne―a superfan and scholar―radically reimagines the last years of Plath’s life, confronts her suicide and the construction of her legacy.
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A Rare Recording of Sylvia Plath Reading Her Best Poems
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Sylvia Plath born on October 27, 1932, in Boston, MA, was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for two of her published collections, The Colossus and Other Poems (1960) and Ariel (1965), and also The Bell Jar, a semi-autobiographical novel published shortly before her suicide on February 11, 1963. In this recording, Plath reads "Tulips," "Poppies In October," "Daddy," "Ariel," "Lady Lazarus," and "The Applicant."
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The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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Published in their entirety, Sylvia Plath's journals provide an intimate portrait of the writer who was to produce in the last seven months of her life some of the most extraordinary poems of the 20th century. Faithfully transcribed from the 23 journals and journal fragments owned by Smith College, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath includes two journals that Plath's husband, Ted Hughes, unsealed just before his death in 1998.
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A Rare Recording of Sylvia Plath Reading Her Best Poems
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Sylvia Plath born on October 27, 1932, in Boston, MA, was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for two of her published collections, The Colossus and Other Poems (1960) and Ariel (1965), and also The Bell Jar, a semi-autobiographical novel published shortly before her suicide on February 11, 1963. In this recording, Plath reads "Tulips," "Poppies In October," "Daddy," "Ariel," "Lady Lazarus," and "The Applicant."
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- priscilla franco
- 08-12-22
eye opening
without reading a thousand page biography for each author. you completely understand how and what and so many questions get answered. you understand how the pressure of society okaysd into there lives. i kove this audiobook.
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- KHK
- 02-03-23
they would not be silenced
I enjoyed learning more about these amazing female poets. I wish more changes have been realized in the world of publishing and recognition of women authors. I am grateful for these women for persevering to let their voices be heard and part of our culture. I know it made a difference.
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- D. Man
- 01-26-23
Love platt & sexton
A dog walking book filling me with love and admiration of 2 exceptional women with little support. Here in 2023, having lived a similar lifestyle it gave me validation for the same struggles these beautiful women traversed💕❤️🙈🙊🙉🌵✌️
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- Jana Johnson
- 11-12-23
New details kept my interest
Beautifully written and narrated, this book gave me more insight on what shaped these women as writers and the demons they struggled with.
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- hikingchick
- 07-19-24
Amazingly sad
This was such an interesting and insightful look at the lives of Sylvia Plath and Ann Sexton. The writer really knows her stuff and it was arranged
interestingly, each chapter by subject. It just felt so overwhelmingly sad to me. The narrator did a really wonderful job with it.
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- Marisa Incelli
- 04-06-22
Great poets
An enjoyable book and men certainly deserve critique but to act as though male writers have not struggled with their career or that modern psychiatry has evolved to amazing solutions through medication is dishonest. Can you be a great poet in a harsh and compromised world without a touch of madness ? The individual and society must take responsibility for the soul of artists and poets.
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- Nakota
- 04-11-23
Wonderful
really loved this book, especially all the parts about Sylvia Plath. The narrator is great too.
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- J.
- 07-04-21
Good Dual Bio
The book itself was good. I have read a lot about Plath and a few books on Sexton, but as a dual biography, certain aspects of the shared, but different histories of both women were highlighted for me.
I was excited to start listening but the narration was consistently misguided. First off, it felt like every sentence was a performance, which did not fit the content. The good part of that was it was not monotone, so I continued listening. Mispronounced words and names were not frequent but the same ones were off each time. The most obvious was three pronunciation variations of Adrienne Rich’s first name.
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- Stephanie L Henning
- 01-23-23
Slow, text book style overview
I wasn’t expecting a contrast and comparison text book style story, so while this is full of interesting bits of information, it comes across incredibly dry. The narration sounds like its AI rather than actually voiced.
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- Nikki
- 12-13-23
Interesting but the narration...
If you love these two poets, it's definitely worth a listen. There were a couple of things I did not know, including that Ted Hughes was not just a womanizer but also just a generally horrible person who robbed us of some of Sylvia's greatest, most honest work in order to preserve his fragile ego. The narration is off-putting to me because it's so overly theatrical. Every single line is read as if she's on a stage or doing a commercial. Very strange and unnecessary. I had to speed it up just to get through it.
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