Showing results for "Still" in Literary Fiction

In Lisa Genova’s extraordinary New York Times bestselling novel, an accomplished woman slowly loses her thoughts and memories to Alzheimer’s disease—only to discover that each day brings a new way of living and loving. Now a major motion picture starring Julianne Moore, Alec Baldwin, Kate...

When Juliet moves into her late mother's house, making friends with the neighbouring families is the last thing on her mind. Grief and guilt are weighing her down, and working motherhood is a juggle. But for her husband Liam, the morning coffees and after-school gatherings soon reveal the secret struggles, fears and rivalries playing out behind closed doors—all of which are perfect inspiration for his new novel . . . When the rupture of a marriage sends ripples through the group, painful home truths are brought to light.

Inspired by the novels of D.H. Lawrence, particularly The Rainbow and Women in Love, this ambitious quartet from Booker Prize-winning novelist A.S. Byatt charts the lives of the Potter family between 1953 and 1970. Set against the changing social and political landscape of England in the '50s and '60s, it follows the heroine, Frederica, from precocious teenager to TV talk-show host and from her Yorkshire home to the heart of swinging London.

Until John Wilson met the warm, wise woman who became his fourth wife, the object of his most intense devotion had always been the work of William Shakespeare. From his feat of memorizing Romeo and Juliet and half a dozen other plays as a student to his evangelical zeal as a professor, John's faith in the Bard has shaped his life. But now his mental powers have been diminished by dementia, and his wife has reluctantly moved him to a residential care facility.

Still Life with Bread Crumbs begins with an imagined gunshot and ends with a new tin roof. Between the two is a wry and knowing portrait of Rebecca Winter, a photographer whose work made her an unlikely heroine for many women. Her career is now descendent, her bank balance shaky, and she has fled the city for the middle of nowhere. There she discovers, in a tree stand with a roofer named Jim Bates, that what she sees through a camera lens is not all there is to life.

Von den Wagnissen des Aufbruchs und der Heimkehr. Die 33-jährige Silvia Borowski fährt in einem geklauten Polo aus Westberlin in Richtung Süden. Immer wieder lauscht sie auf das leise unregelmäßige Atmen neben sich: Auf dem Beifahrersitz, in einem Wäschekorb, liegt ihre kleine Tochter Hannah. Sie ist erst wenige Wochen alt. Silvia hat genug von ihrem Leben in einer Kreuzberger Hausbesetzer-WG, und der Vater ihres Kindes will nichts von ihr wissen.

Um sich von der Trennung von ihrem Freund abzulenken, krempelt Amber ihr Leben völlig um: Sie stürzt sich gemeinsam mit ihren Pflegegeschwistern in die Renovierung des alten Hotels und sucht sich dazu noch einen weiteren Job. Dort läuft sie bereits an ihrem ersten Tag ausgerechnet Brian in die Arme.

Everything in Edith’s life is approaching disaster. Her writing career is stagnant. Her love life is a mess. Her ex, Tessa, is marrying a man. Her teeth are rotting in her skull. And her best friend, Val, is dead. Still Life volleys between the present and recent past, chronicling the lives of three women—one cis, two trans, all forever entwined.

Was wäre, wenn alle Frauen sich verweigern und in einen Care-Streik treten würden? Ein großer feministischer Gesellschaftsroman über Widerspruchsgeist und Solidarität. Elin ist Anfang zwanzig und lebt mit ihrer Mutter in einem Wellnesshotel. Während des Lockdowns ist sie Influencerin geworden. Seither sieht sie sich mit misogynem Hass im Netz konfrontiert. Nuri stammt aus prekären Verhältnissen, einen Schulabschluss hat er nicht. Nun versucht er, sich als Fahrradkurier, Bettenschubser und Essenslieferant über Wasser zu halten. Der Spätkapitalismus hat ihn fest im Griff.

Alice ist zufrieden mit sich und ihrem Leben. Sie ist glücklich verheiratet, ihre drei Kinder sind bereits aus dem Gröbsten raus, und auch beruflich hat sie ihren Traum verwirklichen können. Als Professorin für kognitive Psychologie ist sie eine anerkannte Größe in Harvard. Doch plötzlich beginnt sie, die immer so zuverlässig war, Termine zu vergessen, sie verlegt ihre Sachen, und beim Joggen weiß sie auf einmal nicht mehr, wie sie nach Hause kommt. Obwohl sie nur wenige Blocks weit gelaufen ist.

When childhood friend Victoria rejects his love, Jeremy takes his life on his 20th birthday.

On his 21st birthday, he wakes to find Victoria holding his hand, blissfully in love with him. Jeremy can’t remember the previous year, but he savors the miracle of waking up alongside the woman he loves. The next time he wakes, two years have passed and Jeremy is now a spectator of his own life. Victoria has given him a child, but the man alongside her is a cruel, egotistical, seemingly unknowable Jeremy. Is it amnesia? Insanity? Or has Jeremy been cursed for his selfish, destructive act?

When Maya Taylor, an English professor with a tendency to hide in her books, sends her daughter to Florida to look after a friend's child, she does so with the best of intentions; it's a chance for Ellie, 20 and spiraling, to rebuild her life. But Ellie fears she'll only disappoint again, and in the sprawling hours of one humid afternoon, she makes a mistake that she can't take back.

Still Time tells the journey of Keith Mason, a middle-aged computer programmer preparing for the millennium at a medium size company in corporate America. Keith is resigned to a life where his coworkers, wife, and two daughters show him little respect. His only escape is writing one failed science fiction story after another. That is until a phone call from a voice Keith last heard 25 years ago forces him to remember his troubled past and understand what is needed to reclaim his future.

Still the Night Call is about Calem Dewayne Honeycutt, a 32-year-old Missouri dairy farmer of few words. But just because he's quiet doesn't mean he's simple. In fact, Calem's internal voice eloquently leads us through his wondrous yet tortured past, his fears for the future of his beleaguered rural world, and his carefully laid plans to remedy the vicious Night Call that haunts his present. All he has to do is get through one last day on the farm, then he can free himself of being a straight, white, middle-aged man with nothing in his possession but a gun and a prayer.

Mark Sternum, whom listeners first met in Perfect Agreement, is a veteran teacher. Twenty years older, separated for six months from his lover, and desperate to duck the overtures of double-dealing deans above him and disgruntled adjunct faculty below him, Mark has one ambition every day he is on campus - to close the classroom door and leave the world behind. His escape, however, is complicated by his contentious, complicated wrestling match of a relationship with the Professor, the tenured faculty member with whom Mark has co-taught this creative-writing workshop for ten years.

In this keenly observant dissection of a love affair in limbo, award-winning author Inês Pedrosa masterfully draws readers into the feverish, unsparing dual confessions of a man and a woman who are finally baring their hearts, souls, fury, and grief over a relationship that was abruptly shattered and never forgotten. Until now, there was so much between them left unspoken. With each new unguarded, darkly funny, and emotional disclosure, they’re brought back together—though impossibly so.

After the death of her art dealer father, 40-year-old Gaby Greenwood's unmoored grief drives her to Paris alone, leaving her American husband behind. Where better for an existential crisis than the city so many artists have loved? Walking through the streets, she sees a man with white hair and a worn corduroy jacket - a dead ringer for her late father. A ghost? Or has mourning driven her mad?

A body is found on the side of a highway. Naked, throat slashed, no identification. It disappears from the back of a police van and begins a strange odyssey, making its way, over the course of one early winter night, all around the northern town of Sudbury and through the lives and dreams of eleven very different people.

One woman, an impossible dream, and the faith it took to see it through, inspired by the life of Hulda Klager German immigrant and farm wife Hulda Klager possesses only an eighth-grade education—and a burning desire to create something beautiful. What begins as a hobby to create an...

For Conrad Burrell — husband, father, and successful attorney in the autumn of his life — the world has come apart. Having long ago lost his first wife, the mother of his grown daughter and a widow herself, to youth and pride, he’s now lost his second to a violent accident. “You think you’re finished, that you have no more stories in you,” his ex-wife warns, and he fears she’s right. After a lifetime of meeting the expectations of others, none are left but his own, and he must discover whether love survives death as well as divorce.