Showing results for "The Dream" in Biographical Fiction

Así define el autor este volumen, en una brillante introducción que sirve también de puesta en perspectiva: los doce relatos que lo componen abarcan varias épocas, desde finales de la década de los sesenta hasta la actualidad, y en ellos se reflejan algunas de sus obsesiones más íntimas, además de su evolución como artista.

Brought to you by Penguin. A mischievous and genre-spanning story collection from legendary film director Pedro Almodóvar The Last Dream brings together for the first time twelve unpublished stories from Almodóvar’s personal archive, written between the late sixties and the present day...

Lucian Taylor dreams of becoming an author, but not just any author, the best of authors. Obsession with perfection drives him to extremes of self-deprivation, which leaves him in a state where reality and fantasy blend. FNH Audio presents an unabridged reading of the classic tale of writing and obsession that Lord Dunsany rightly admired. Indeed the text itself appears to almost reach the perfection sought by its protagonist in word choice and pacing.

Wayne Johnson’s epic portrait of passion and ambition, set against the beautiful, brutal landscape of Newfoundland. A mystery and a love story spanning five decades. In this widely acclaimed novel—hailed as a modern classic—Johnston (award-winning author of Jenny’s Boy and Custodian of...

A surreal and intimate novel about a disillusioned artist who, plagued by mysterious visions, must navigate a series of personal and existential crises that upend their way of life, by the award-winning author of Brown Girls. Fresh off the success of their first novel, a writer – intense...

In the vibrant streets of Lavapiés, Madrid, young Iker harbors an ambitious dream: to play for the iconic Real Madrid Football Club. However, a significant challenge stands in his way - his diagnosed scoliosis, which many believe makes the intense world of professional football an unattainable dream for him.

Hannah Bloom dreams of the day she’ll have chased away all those doubts and worries that plague her and be free to call herself a poet. In her everyday life, she works in the business she and her husband, Jake, founded together. While their two young daughters are away at summer camp for the first time, Hannah expects to have time for her poetry. But life has other ideas.

Models Stop Traffic is a powerful novel written by Airica D Kraehmer. It explores the world of the fashion industry from an aspiring model risking it all to be part of America's top models. The main character, Danielle, travels to New York City to live in the Big Apple with 20 other aspiring girls. None of them were expecting what happened next.

Alaska Dream is a true-life adventure love story born out of summer life in a salmon cannery. Mark, a naïve young college graduate from Hawaii, follows his dream to experience wild Alaska, where he encounters impossible odds and perseverance of the human spirit to survive the salmon season. It is one man’s raw account of working within a blended community of first-generation immigrants from all over the US and the unimaginable physical and mental hardships he endures while assigned to work under the strict Japanese salmon roe specialists.

In early 2021, the stock value of PwnShop—a dead to rights bricks-and-mortar retailer disrupted by the digital downloading of video games—inexplicably ballooned overnight. While much has been written about the mechanics of the meme stock short squeezes, no one has yet clarified the chaotic drama of what was happening inside such a company during its zeitgeist moment.

Audrey McKenna is a vibrant grandmother and mother of 13. When her granddaughter pursues a career onstage, Audrey is confronted with the unfulfilled dreams of her youth to perform at Carnegie Hall. With the help of her best friend and cousin Rose, they journey to the New York Theater scene of their past, exploring the choices, sacrifices, and experiences that shaped them.

अमरकलई सपनक दश दखर नपल छडनहर परकरनतरल नपललई न सवपनभम दखन थलछन भनन भवम सरजत य उपनयस चलयमन परवस नपलहरक मनसथतक सनदर चतरण ह य सपन खजन वदशन यव र तनक अभभवक तथ आफनतजनल पढनपरन कत बनक छ ड. रमज तमलसन

This critically acclaimed imaginary autobiography of Frédéric Chopin was given a privileged place in the Fryderyk Chopin Museum in Warsaw on his Bicentennial, "Since it's written by him," wrote the museum's director to the author. A work of lovely lyrical and musical accents written in Chopin's voice, Manuscript in Dreams brings to light the most meaningful moments and aspects of the composer’s life and work. Juana Rosa Pita threads together “manuscripts that appeared from dream to dream…” and the result is an ensemble of intimate pieces.

El 3 de octubre de 2022 inició un viaje inesperado. Algunos dirán que fue un largo sueño, pero yo estoy convencido de que en verdad estuve muy lejos de aquí. Durante 22 días, mientras mi cuerpo permaneció en una cama de hospital, otra parte de mí viajó a un sitio donde me enfrenté a verdades ineludibles que todavía sigo descifrando.

Gaudias Poulin is a pioneering Stampeder who has worked gold claims in Dawson all his adult life. Courage and insurmountable odds are all a normal part of life in the Yukon, a cruel country where every living thing wants to kill you. Although he always believed that the next pan would bring a huge strike, his hard-earned sweat has only brought sore bones and a niggling illness. Time has left him sick and friendless. His heart is filled with bitterness and regret. Perhaps it’s time to go back home.