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Автор: Zimmerman Eilene Название: Smacked: A Story of White-Collar Ambition, Addiction, and Tragedy ISBN: 0525511008 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780525511007 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 16550.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: A journalist pieces together the mysteries surrounding her ex-husband's unexpected death from drug abuse. Something was wrong with Peter. Eilene Zimmerman noticed that her ex-husband looked thin, seemed distracted, and was frequently absent from activities with their children. She thought he looked sick and needed to see a doctor, and indeed, he told her he had been diagnosed with an autoimmune disorder. Yet in many ways, Peter also seemed to have it all: a beautiful house by the beach purchased after their divorce, expensive cars, and other luxuries that came with an affluent life. Eilene assumed his odd behavior was due to stress and overwork--he was a senior partner at a prominent law firm and had been working more than 60 hours a week for the last 20 years. Although they were divorced, Eilene and Peter had been partners and friends for decades, so, when her calls to Peter were not returned for several days, Eilene went to his house to see if he was OK. So begins Smacked, a brilliant, moving memoir of Eilene's shocking discovery, one that sets her on a journey to find out how a man she knew for nearly 30 years became a drug addict, and hid it so well that neither she nor anyone else in his life suspected what was happening. Eilene discovers that Peter led a secret life, one that started with pills and ended with opioids, cocaine and methamphetamine. Peter was also addicted to work; the last call he ever made was to dial into a conference call. Eilene is determined to learn all she can about Peter's hidden life, and also about drug addiction among ambitious and high achieving professionals like him. Through extensive research and interviews, she presents a picture of drug dependence today in that moneyed, upwardly mobile world. She also embarks on a journey to recreate her life in the wake of loss, both of the person--and the relationship--that profoundly defined the woman she had become. Smacked takes readers on an intimate journey into a little-known part of the drug epidemic, through the story of one man, one woman and one family.
Автор: Elizabeth Berglund Hall, Frederique Chevillot, Eilene Hoft-March, Maribel Penalver Vicea Название: Cixous after / depuis 2000 ISBN: 9004349421 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789004349421 Издательство: Brill Цена: 131500.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: The essays in Cixous after/depuis 2000, edited by Hall, Chevillot, Hoft-March, and Penalver Vicea, center on the events from 2000 to 2015 that mark Helene Cixous’s life and writing: the donation of her archives to the Bibliotheque Nationale de France, her return to Algeria, the death of her friend Jacques Derrida, the 40th anniversary of her essay “Le Rire de la Meduse,” and finally, of greatest import in her work of the 21st-century, the last years and death of her mother Eve. The essays explore an important movement in Helene Cixous’s oeuvre as it shifts its focus not away from questions of the body, language, difference, and sexuality, but to include a broader engagement with mourning, suffering, aging, and death. Les essais dans Cixous after/depuis 2000, reunis sous la direction de Hall, Chevillot, Hoft-March et Penalver Vicea, portent sur les evenements des annees 2000 a 2015 qui ont marque la vie et l’ecriture d’Helene Cixous : le don de ses archives a la Bibliotheque Nationale de France, son retour en Algerie, la mort de son ami Jacques Derrida, le 40e> anniversaire de la publication du « Rire de la Meduse » et enfin, les dernieres annees et la mort de sa mere Eve. Les essais explorent un mouvement important de l’?uvre d’Helene Cixous qui comprend une interrogation incessante sur le corps, le langage, la difference et la sexualite mais qui se tourne egalement vers le deuil, la souffrance, la vieillesse et la mort.
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