The Weil Conjectures: On Math, Writing, and the Unknown, Olsson Karen

Автор: Olsson Karen
Название: All the Houses
ISBN: 1250097436 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781250097439
Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS)
Цена: 12260.00 T
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A bittersweet, biting, sharply observed family drama from the author of "Waterloo"
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After her father has a heart attack and subsequent surgery, Helen Atherton returns to her hometown of Washington, D.C., to help take care of him and, perhaps more honestly, herself. She's been living in Los Angeles, trying to work in Hollywood, slowly spiraling into a depression fueled by hours spent watching C-SPAN-her obsession with politics a holdover from a childhood interrupted by her father's involvement in the Iran-Contra scandal. "I don't know whether to think of him as a coconspirator or a complicit bystander or just someone who was in the wrong place at the wrong time." Though the rest of the world has forgotten that scandal, the Atherton family never quite recovered. While living with her father in her childhood home, Helen tries to piece together the political moves that pulled her family apart.
"All the Houses" is, at its heart, a father-daughter story. With razor-sharp prose, an alluring objectivity, and a dry sense of humor, Karen Olsson writes about the shape-shifting of our family relationships when outside forces work their way in-how Washington turns people into unnatural versions of themselves, how problematic and overbearing sisters can be, and how familial nostalgia that sets in during early adulthood can prove counterproductive to actually becoming an adult.

Автор: Olsson, Ulf
Название: Listening for the secret
ISBN: 0520286650 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780520286658
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: With roots in popular music traditions, improvisation, and the avant-garde, this title helps to understand the meaning and creation of the counter-culture community. It examines the wider significance and impact of its politics of improvisation.