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The extraordinary New York Times bestselling masterpiece from "one of the most eloquent yet earthbound spiritual writers of our time" (San Francisco Chronicle). Kathleen Norris had written several much loved books, yet she couldn't drag herself out of bed in the morning, couldn't summon the...

En este audiolibro, Sheridan arma los fragmentos de una autobiografía que escribió sin proyecto, pero sin titubeos. Un autorretrato que se teje casualmente con los materiales de la infancia, el árbol genealógico, las sosegadas aventuras de la edad adulta, los libros, y todas esas experiencias que se asientan en el cuerpo y el espíritu, conformando así al individuo. Toda una vida estaría conmigo es un recorrido por la azarosa, entrañable galería de la memoria que vuelve y da sentido y orden al caos del presente.

A canceled bestselling author’s highly personal account of his public scandal—a scandal that was reported on the front page of the New York Times and throughout the world.

This is the story of James Ellroy, one of the most provocative and singular figures in American literature. The so-called “Demon Dog of Crime Fiction,” Ellroy enjoys a celebrity status and notoriety that few authors can match. However, traumas from the past have shadowed his literary success. Informed by interviews with friends, family, peers, and literary and Hollywood collaborators, as well as extensive conversations with Ellroy himself, Love Me Fierce in Danger pulls back the curtain on an enigmatic figure who has courted acclaim and controversy with equal zealotry.

Bestselling author Cassandra King Conroy considers her life and the man she shared it with, paying tribute to her husband, Pat Conroy, the legendary figures of modern Southern literature. Cassandra King was leading a quiet life as a professor, divorced “Sunday wife” of a preacher, and debut...