Showing results for "I" in Absurdist

Qui, nascosta tra condomìni anonimi e vicoli bui, c'è una clinica speciale. Il trattamento che offre, infatti, è unico nel suo genere: a ciascuno, secondo il caso, si prescrive un gatto. Ad affidarsi con un po' di sorpresa e di iniziale scetticismo alle cure feline saranno un impiegato stufo delle sopraffazioni, un uomo che si sente sempre fuori posto, una ragazzina immalinconita dal rapporto conflittuale con la madre, una stilista di borse alla ricerca di un nuovo equilibrio emotivo e un'apprendista geisha oppressa dal senso di colpa.

Margot is the child of renowned musicians and the product of a particularly punky upbringing. Burnt-out from the burden of expectation and the bad end of the worst relationship yet, she leaves New York and heads to to the Pacific Northwest. She's seeking to escape both the eyes of the world and the echoing voice of that last bad man. But a chance encounter with a dubious doctor in a graveyard, and the discovery of a dozen old film reels, opens the door to a study of both the peculiarities of her body and the absurdities of her famous family.

Ne "I pensionati della memoria" Pirandello offre all'ascoltatore una soluzione all'inevitabile vertigine che colpisce chi raggiunge la consapevolezza dell'assurdità della vita. La morte infatti rappresenta la fine delle illusioni che costruiamo per poter andare avanti, per questo piangiamo i morti.

Damned If I Do is a set of brilliantly postmodern short stories from the twice Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Trees, James and Erasure. An artist, a cop, a cowboy, several fly fishermen and even a reluctant romance novelist inhabit these revealing and often hilarious stories. An old man...

Damned If I Do is a set of brilliantly postmodern short stories from Percival Everett, author of The Trees, Dr No and Erasure, now an Oscar-nominated film. An artist, a cop, a cowboy, several fly fishermen and even a reluctant romance novelist inhabit these revealing and often hilarious stories...

The Veronas have a quaint little household in Trenton. Throughout the whole city, people are just trying to make it. Aldo leads the family in trying to get the most for his work in the underground. Aldo’s family continually tries to help him, he feels the stress began to eat at his mind. Aldo soon meets a muse that picks him up to where he never expected he could go. Every family has its ups and downs, embarrassing moments. Not to mention, feeling like they aren’t living up to the household’s imaginative standards. When it comes to getting into odd work, the family is at their best.

La clinica è sempre lì : su per la Fuyachodori, ovest sulla Rokkakudori, giù per la Tomikojidori, est per la Takoyakushidori. Anche il trattamento che offre è lo stesso, unico e speciale: a ciascuno, secondo il caso, si prescrive un gatto. In questo secondo capitolo della trilogia bestseller di Ishida Syou incontriamo Moe, una giovane ragazza che ha paura di lasciare il fidanzato e ritrovarsi da sola; Tatsuya, alle prese con la morte della moglie e la distanza con il nipote Hayato; Reona, che dovrà prendersi cura del fratello tornato a casa dopo tanto tempo.

Este gran libro fue publicado por primera vez hace más de 400 años, y Oyelo.com lo invita a disfrutar de la obra más grande de Miguel de Cervantes. Es una obra que sigue cautivando a la gente con las proezas de Don Quijote y las sinrazones de Sancho Panza. Ésta obra ha inspirado a grandes personajes como al Che Guevara por la gran búsqueda de ideales a los que nuestro héroe, Don Quijote, se esfuerza por alcanzar. Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.

From the first bite to the final crumb, this is the saga of that biscuit, told with the seriousness it never asked for and the depth it could never deserve. Along the way, hunger wrestles with hesitation, distractions arrive in the form of a knock at the door and phantom phone calls, and the great philosophical questions of our time are asked—such as whether regret tastes different when it is edible, and why the fridge is always worth checking at least three times.

Several years after being plunked back down to Earth, Derek Christian (mediocre music journalist and reluctant space adventurer) finds himself being swept up again by the mysterious Kent to (once again) save the universe, this time from Clone Kent who is assembling an army to invade Zongoland and steal the Creator's secret recipe for doughnuts which contains the secret to all creation. Some things have changed in that time, Clone Derek (who took his place on Earth while he was away) has made Derek a rich and successful writer, but, he harbors a grudge.

March 1954 in the booming economy of the United States. Kids and houses are becoming the newest necessities for everyone. Women are obsessed with having children and husbands. Men are obsessed with women and working. Love is in the air and so is wonder. We will focus on Richard Dick Rourke, a decorated war veteran turned highly touted stage actor in San Francisco, California. He enjoys a nice drink and a tiny bit of gambling on his favorite baseball team. Not to mention he loves screwing random women, usually married.

The legal system was broken. So they replaced it with AI. That made it worse. When the world’s first artificial intelligence judge takes the bench, justice becomes faster, cheaper… and deeply unpredictable. Judge Gort Daylek doesn’t rely on precedent. He cites Wikipedia.