The Springs of Affection
10 best books like The Springs of Affection (Maeve Brennan): The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir, Everything Inside, Address Unknown, The Last September, The Death of the Heart, Collected Stories, The Spinning Heart, La morte indifferente. Proust nel gulag, Maeve Brennan: Homesick at The New Yorker, Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss
The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir
| Author | Samantha Power |
| ISBN | 0062820710 |
Pulitzer Prize winner Samantha Power, widely known as a relentless advocate for promoting human rights, has been heralded by President Barack Obama as one of America's "foremost thinkers on foreign policy."
In her memoir, Power offers an urgent response to the question "What can one person...
| Author | Edwidge Danticat |
| ISBN | 0525521275 |
From the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of Brother, I'm Dying, a collection of vividly imagined stories about community, family, and love.
Rich with hard-won wisdom and humanity, set in locales from Miami and Port-au-Prince to a small unnamed country in the Caribbean...
| Author | Kathrine Kressmann Taylor |
| ISBN | 0743412710 |
A rediscovered classic, originally published in 1938 and now an international bestseller.When it first appeared in Story magazine in 1938, Address Unknown became an immediate social phenomenon and literary sensation. Published in book form a year later and banned in Nazi Germany, it garnered high...
| Author | Elizabeth Bowen |
| ISBN | 0385720149 |
The Last September is Elizabeth Bowen's portrait of a young woman's coming of age in a brutalized time and place, where the ordinariness of life floats like music over the impending doom of history.
In 1920, at their country home in County Cork, Sir Richard Naylor and his wife, Lady Myra, and...
| Author | Elizabeth Bowen |
| ISBN | 0385720173 |
The Death of the Heart is perhaps Elizabeth Bowen's best-known book. As she deftly and delicately exposes the cruelty that lurks behind the polished surfaces of conventional society, Bowen reveals herself as a masterful novelist who combines a sense of humor with a devastating gift for divining human...
| Author | Frank O'Connor |
| ISBN | 0394710487 |
The definitive collection of short stories by a master of the form and one of Ireland’s most celebrated authors
This indispensable volume contains the best of Frank O’Connor’s short fiction. From “Guests of the Nation” to “The Mad Lomasneys” to “First Confession” to...
| Author | Donal Ryan |
| ISBN | 1781620075 |
In the aftermath of Ireland's financial collapse, dangerous tensions surface in an Irish town. As violence flares, the characters face a battle between public persona and inner desires. Through a chorus of unique voices, each struggling to tell their own kind of truth, a single authentic tale unfolds....
La morte indifferente. Proust nel gulag
| Author | Józef Czapski |
| ISBN | 8883251520 |
Settembre 1939. La Polonia è invasa. Come migliaia di polacchi, Joseph Czapski è fatto prigioniero dai russi e rinchiuso nel gulag di Griazowietz. Per vincere la prostrazione e l'angoscia della loro condizione, alcuni prigionieri organizzano incontri dove "ognuno di noi parlava di ciò che meglio...
Maeve Brennan: Homesick at The New Yorker
| Author | Angela Bourke |
| ISBN | 1619027151 |
To be a staff writer at The New Yorker during its heyday of the 1950s and 1960s was to occupy one of the most coveted—and influential—seats in American culture. Witty, beautiful, and Irish-born Maeve Brennan was lured to such a position in 1948 and proceeded to dazzle everyone who met her, both in...
Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss
| Author | Rajeev Balasubramanyam |
| ISBN | 1784742546 |
Professor Chandra is an expert at complex problems. There's just one he can't crack: the secret of happiness.
In the moments after the bicycle accident, Professor Chandra doesn’t see his life flash before his eyes, but his life’s work.
He’s just narrowly missed out on the Nobel...
