Risultati per "Baumgartner" in Letteratura e narrativa

Professore di filosofia, vedovo da dieci anni, Seymour Baumgartner non si è mai rassegnato alla perdita dell'amata moglie Anna, traduttrice e poetessa, e affronta la vita con un senso di straniamento e una certa goffaggine. Nonostante le malinconie e gli acciacchi dell'età, però, Baumgartner è una persona affabile e generosa. Possiede la saggezza di chi ha vissuto e sa quanto sono importanti i rapporti umani, che vanno coltivati con cure continue e una buona dose di ironia e di umorismo.

Vivir con miedo a perder es negarse a vivir. El esperado regreso a la novela de Paul Auster. «El retrato de este hombre reflexivo que abraza la pérdida y el amor es una revelación magnífica y llena de suspense de los dramas encubiertos de cualquier vida.» Booklist «Una emocionante...

Baumgartner’s life had been defined by his deep, abiding love for his wife, Anna, who was killed in a swimming accident nine years earlier. Now 71, Baumgartner continues to struggle to live in her absence as the novel sinuously unfolds into spirals of memory and reminiscence, delineated in episodes spanning from 1968, when Sy and Anna meet as broke students working and writing in New York, through their passionate relationship over the next 40 years, and back to Baumgartner’s youth in Newark and his Polish-born father’s life as a dress-shop owner and failed revolutionary.

It's 1976. Dr. Colin Sanford, a brilliant, ambitious obstetrician in the Pacific Northwest city of Emerald, has a plan to create the first in vitro baby. He recruits Dr. Giselle Hearn, an experienced laboratory geneticist/embryologist at the university who’s frustrated by the ultraconservative policies of her department chairman. Drs. Sanford and Hearn, working secretly, set out to put their names in the history books. Unfortunately, a secret that big is hard to keep....

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Ich liebe nur dich! Ein Satz, der Gänsehaut bereitet. Valerie führt eine glückliche Beziehung, in der Manuel ihr Mittelpunkt ist. Zumindest sieht es ihr Umfeld so. Doch schon bald kann sie die blauen Flecken nicht mehr verbergen. Allerdings ist die größte Bedrohung nicht das, was sich hinter den geschlossenen Türen ihrer Wohnung abspielt. Ihr Albtraum beginnt, als sie sich am sichersten fühlt. Ist ihr gesamtes Leben eine Lüge? Der Kampf um die Wahrheit beginnt.

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