FRIENDSHIP IS LIKE LOVE WITH MORE LETTERS IN IT
Title | FRIENDSHIP IS LIKE LOVE WITH MORE LETTERS IN IT PDF eBook |
Author | David Heller and David Johns |
Publisher | Xlibris Corporation |
Pages | 86 |
Release | 2014-07-25 |
Genre | Humor |
ISBN | 1499052480 |
Always, Rachel
Title | Always, Rachel PDF eBook |
Author | Rachel Carson |
Publisher | Open Road Media |
Pages | 857 |
Release | 2022-03-08 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1504073886 |
These letters between the pioneering environmentalist and her beloved friend reveal “a vibrant, caring woman behind the scientist” (Los Angeles Times). “Rachel Carson, author of The Silent Spring, has been celebrated as the pioneer of the modern environmental movement. Although she wrote no autobiography, she did leave letters, and those she exchanged—sometimes daily—with Dorothy Freeman, some 750 of which are collected here, are perhaps more satisfying than an account of her own life. In 1953, Carson became Freeman's summer neighbor on Southport Island, ME. The two discovered a shared love for the natural world—their descriptions of the arrival of spring or the song of a hermit thrush are lyrical—but their friendship quickly blossomed, as each realized she had found in the other a kindred spirit. To read this collection is like eavesdropping on an extended conversation that mixes the mundane events of the two women's family lives with details of Carson’s research and writing and, later, her breast cancer. . . . Few who read these letters will forget these remarkable women and their even more remarkable bond.” —Publishers Weekly “Darting, fresh, sensuous, pleasingly elliptical at times, these letters also serve to tether the increasingly deified Carson firmly to earth—just where she’d want to be.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “It is not often that a collection of letters reveals character, emotional depth, personality, indeed intellect and talent, as well as a full biography might; these letters do all that.” —The New York Times Book Review “Provides insight into the creative process and a look into the daily lives of two intelligent, perceptive women whose family responsibilities were, at times, almost crushing.” —Library Journal “Dotted with vivid observations of the natural world and perceptive commentary on friendship, family, fame, and life itself, Always, Rachel will appeal to readers interested in biography and women’s studies as well as those drawn to nature writing and the history of the environmental movement.” —Booklist Online
Letters to Sartre
Title | Letters to Sartre PDF eBook |
Author | Simone de Beauvoir |
Publisher | Skyhorse Publishing Inc. |
Pages | 545 |
Release | 2012-06 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1611454980 |
In these letters, de Beauvoir tells Sartre everything, tracing the extraordinary complications of their triangular love life; they reveal her not only as manipulative and dependent, but also as vulnerable, passionate, jealous, and...
Letters from Max
Title | Letters from Max PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah Ruhl |
Publisher | Milkweed Editions |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 2018-09-18 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 157131976X |
A real professor and her student forge a friendship through correspondence as they discuss love, art, life, cancer, and death. In 2012, Sarah Ruhl was a distinguished author and playwright, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Max Ritvo, a student in her playwriting class at Yale University, was an exuberant, opinionated, and highly gifted poet. He was also in remission from pediatric cancer. Over the next four years—in which Ritvo’s illness returned and his health declined, even as his productivity bloomed—the two exchanged letters that spark with urgency, humor, and the desire for connection. Reincarnation, books, the afterlife as an Amtrak quiet car, good soup: in Ruhl and Ritvo’s exchanges, all ideas are fair, nourishing game, shared and debated in a spirit of generosity and love. “We’ll always know one another forever, however long ever is,” Ritvo writes. “And that’s all I want—is to know you forever.” Studded with poems and songs, Letters from Max is a deeply moving portrait of a friendship, and a shimmering exploration of love, art, mortality, and the afterlife. Praise for Letters from Max “An unusual, beautiful book about nothing less than the necessity of art in our lives. Two big-hearted, big-brained writers have allowed us to eavesdrop on their friendship: jokes and heartbreaks, admiration, hard work, tender work.” —Elizabeth McCracken, author of Bowlaway “Immediate comparisons will be made to Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters to a Young Artist . . . this book is a nuanced look at the evolution of an incredible talent facing mortality and the mentor, never condescending, who recognizes his gift. Their infectious letters shine with a love of words and beauty.” —The Observer “Deeply moving, often heartbreaking. . . . A captivating celebration of life and love.” —Kirkus Reviews “Moving and erudite . . . devastating and lyrical . . . Ruhl draws a comparison between their correspondence and that between poets Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop, and indeed, with the depth and intelligence displayed, one feels in the presence of literary titans.” —Publishers Weekly
Love & Salt
Title | Love & Salt PDF eBook |
Author | Amy Andrews |
Publisher | Loyola Press |
Pages | 360 |
Release | 2013-01-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0829438327 |
When Amy Andrews and Jessica Mesman Griffith met in a creative writing class in graduate school, they both confessed to writing about God. They bonded one night while reading the Book of Ruth and came to truly understand the unlikely friendship of Ruth and Naomi. In these two Old Testament women, they witnessed a beautiful spiritual friendship and a way of walking with one another toward God. But how could they travel this path together when they would be separated by distance and time and leading busy lives as they established marriages and careers? They decided to write letters to each other—at first, for each day of Lent, but those days extended into years. Their letters became a memoir in real time and reveal deeply personal and profound accounts of conversion, motherhood, and crushing tragedy; through it all, their faith and friendship sustained them. Told through the timeless medium of letters—in prose that is raw and intimate, humorous and poetic—Love & Salt is at its core the emotional struggle of how one spiritual friendship is formed and tested in tragedy, tempered and proven in hope.
Letters from Palmyra, by Lucius Manlius Piso, to His Friend Marcus Curtius, at Rome
Title | Letters from Palmyra, by Lucius Manlius Piso, to His Friend Marcus Curtius, at Rome PDF eBook |
Author | William Ware |
Publisher | |
Pages | 528 |
Release | 1851 |
Genre | American fiction |
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Letters from Palmyra by L. M. Piso to his friend Marcus Curtius, at Rome. By ... W. W.
Title | Letters from Palmyra by L. M. Piso to his friend Marcus Curtius, at Rome. By ... W. W. PDF eBook |
Author | William WARE (Unitarian Minister.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 270 |
Release | 1852 |
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