Life Moves A Memoir
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Life Moves A Memoir
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Author : E. D. Clapham
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2017-11-29
Life Moves A Memoir written by E. D. Clapham and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-29 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This second memoir by E.D. Clapham begins where the first one, Life Happens, ended: after her marriage to Peter, her 'Mr Very Right', and covers the period between 1949 and 1985. Peter's work takes them to Australia, New Zealand, and America, before finally returning to Britain with their son Jeremy and daughter Tessa, experiencing all the ups and downs of moving, settling, and moving again, during changing times and attitudes. 'With her chatty and confiding manner, the author irresistibly draws the reader into her life which encompasses an incredible range of experience, of travels, of places, countries, coming to terms again and again with different environments, of sheer resourcefulness! What makes the book unique, however, is the integrity and cherished value of the author's marriage to, or her life with, her late husband Peter.' - Charles Muller, Diadem Books
All The Wrong Moves
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Author : Sasha Chapin
language : en
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date : 2019-08-13
All The Wrong Moves written by Sasha Chapin and has been published by Anchor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-13 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
An enthralling journey into the world of chess--a story of heartbreak, obsession, failure, and the hunger for greatness Sasha Chapin is a victim of chess. Like countless amateurs before him--Albert Einstein, Humphrey Bogart, Marcel Duchamp--the game has consumed his life and his mind. First captivated by it as a member of his high school chess club, his passion was rekindled during an accidental encounter with chess hustlers on the streets of Kathmandu. In its aftermath, he forgot how to care about anything else. He played at all hours, for weeks at a time. Like a spurned lover, he tried to move on, but he found the game more seductive the more he resisted it. And so, he thought, if he can't defeat his obsession, he had to succumb to it. All the Wrong Moves traces Chapin's rollicking two-year journey around the globe in search of glory. Along the way, he chronicles the highs and lows of his fixation, driven on this quest by lust, terror, and the elusive possibility of victory. Stylish, inventive, and laugh-out-loud funny, All the Wrong Moves is a celebration of the purity, violence, and beauty of the game.
Life Moves Pretty Fast
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Author : Hadley Freeman
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2016-06-14
Life Moves Pretty Fast written by Hadley Freeman and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-14 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"An earlier edition of this work was published in Great Britain in 2015."--Title page verso.
On The Move
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Author : Oliver Sacks
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2015-04-28
On The Move written by Oliver Sacks and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-28 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
When Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote in his report: “Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far.” It is now abundantly clear that Sacks has never stopped going. From its opening pages on his youthful obsession with motorcycles and speed, On the Move is infused with his restless energy. As he recounts his experiences as a young neurologist in the early 1960s, first in California, where he struggled with drug addiction, and then in New York, where he discovered a long-forgotten illness in the back wards of a chronic hospital, we see how his engagement with patients comes to define his life. With unbridled honesty and humor, Sacks shows us that the same energy that drives his physical passions—weight lifting and swimming—also drives his cerebral passions. He writes about his love affairs, both romantic and intellectual; his guilt over leaving his family to come to America; his bond with his schizophrenic brother; and the writers and scientists—Thom Gunn, A. R. Luria, W. H. Auden, Gerald M. Edelman, Francis Crick—who influenced him. On the Move is the story of a brilliantly unconventional physician and writer—and of the man who has illuminated the many ways that the brain makes us human.
All The Wrong Moves
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Author : Sasha Chapin
language : en
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Release Date : 2019-08-13
All The Wrong Moves written by Sasha Chapin and has been published by McClelland & Stewart this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-13 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
An enthralling journey into the world of chess--a story of heartbreak, obsession, failure, and the hunger for greatness. Sasha Chapin is a victim of chess. Like countless amateurs before him--Albert Einstein, Humphrey Bogart, and Marcel Duchamp among them--the game has consumed his life and his mind. First captivated by it as a member of his high school chess club, he found his passion rekindled during an accidental encounter with chess hustlers on the streets of Kathmandu. In its aftermath, he forgot to care about anything else. Like a spurned lover, he tried to move on, but he found the game more seductive the more he resisted it. And so, he reasons, if he can't defeat his addiction, he will try instead to master the game. All the Wrong Moves traces Chapin's rollicking two-year journey around the globe in search of glory. He travels to tournaments in Bangkok and Hyderabad. He seeks out a mentor in St. Louis, a grandmaster whose personality is half rabbi and half monk, and who offers cryptic wisdom and caustic insults ("you're the best player in your chair.") His story builds toward the Los Angeles Open, where Chapin is clearly outmatched and yet determined not to lose. Stylish, inventive, and laugh-out-loud funny, All the Wrong Moves is more than a work of history or autobiography. It is a chronicle of the highs and lows of obsession, of love pursued to its limits, and of a life driven by lust, terror, and the elusive possibility of victory.
The Moves That Matter
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Author : Jonathan Rowson
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2019-11-14
The Moves That Matter written by Jonathan Rowson and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-14 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
'A nuanced and witty meditation on confronting the challenges life throws at us all' Oliver Burkeman Jonathan Rowson's competitive success as a chess Grandmaster and work as an applied philosopher have given him a unique perspective on why the great game is more important than ever for understanding the conflicts and uncertainties of the modern world. In sixty-four witty and addictive vignettes, Rowson takes us on an exhilarating tour of the game of life, from the psychology of gang violence, to the aesthetics of cyborgs, the beauty of technical details, and the endgame of death. Chess emerges as a singularly powerful metaphor for the thrills and set-backs that invest our daily lives with meaning and complexity.
Night Moves
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Author : Jessica Hopper
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2018-09-18
Night Moves written by Jessica Hopper and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-18 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Written in taut, mesmerizing, often hilarious scenes, Night Moves captures the fierce friendships and small moments that form us all. Drawing on her personal journals from the aughts, Jessica Hopper chronicles her time as a DJ, living in decrepit punk houses, biking to bad loft parties with her friends, exploring Chicago deep into the night. And, along the way, she creates an homage to vibrant corners of the city that have been muted by sleek development. A book birthed in the amber glow of Chicago streetlamps, Night Moves is about a transformative moment of cultural history—and how a raw, rebellious writer found her voice.
In Love A Memoir Of Love And Loss
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Author : Amy Bloom
language : en
Publisher: Granta Books
Release Date : 2022-03-10
In Love A Memoir Of Love And Loss written by Amy Bloom and has been published by Granta Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-10 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In January 2020, Amy Bloom travelled with her husband Brian to Switzerland, where he was helped by Dignitas to end his life while Amy sat with him and held his hand. Brian was terminally ill and for the last year of his life Amy had struggled to find a way to support his wish to take control of his death, to not submerge 'into the darkness of an expiring existence'. Written with piercing insight and wit, In Love is Bloom's intimate, authentic and startling account of losing Brian, first slowly to the disease of Alzheimer's, and then on becoming a widow. It charts the anxiety and pain of the process that led them to Dignitas, while never avoiding the complex ethical problems that are raised by assisted death. A poignant love letter to Bloom's husband and a passionate outpouring of grief, In Love reaffirms the power and value of human relationships.
Still Moving
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Author : Linda Durham
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-11-15
Still Moving written by Linda Durham and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-15 with categories.
Still Moving is the memoir of a risk-taking, free-spirited woman whose curiosity and daring accompanied her through decades of successes and failures in her personal, family, business, and travel adventures at home and around the world. As a New York Playboy Bunny, an off-the-grid Hippie in the wilds of New Mexico, an internationally recognized contemporary art dealer for 33 years, and a solo world traveler over a lifetime, Linda Durham shares raw and humorous episodes of her courageous life in a storytelling manner that is both brave and disarming.
Sigh Gone
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Author : Phuc Tran
language : en
Publisher: Flatiron Books
Release Date : 2020-04-21
Sigh Gone written by Phuc Tran and has been published by Flatiron Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-21 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
For anyone who has ever felt like they don't belong, Sigh, Gone shares an irreverent, funny, and moving tale of displacement and assimilation woven together with poignant themes from beloved works of classic literature. In 1975, during the fall of Saigon, Phuc Tran immigrates to America along with his family. By sheer chance they land in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, a small town where the Trans struggle to assimilate into their new life. In this coming-of-age memoir told through the themes of great books such as The Metamorphosis, The Scarlet Letter, The Iliad, and more, Tran navigates the push and pull of finding and accepting himself despite the challenges of immigration, feelings of isolation, and teenage rebellion, all while attempting to meet the rigid expectations set by his immigrant parents. Appealing to fans of coming-of-age memoirs such as Fresh Off the Boat, Running with Scissors, or tales of assimilation like Viet Thanh Nguyen's The Displaced and The Refugees, Sigh, Gone explores one man’s bewildering experiences of abuse, racism, and tragedy and reveals redemption and connection in books and punk rock. Against the hairspray-and-synthesizer backdrop of the ‘80s, he finds solace and kinship in the wisdom of classic literature, and in the subculture of punk rock, he finds affirmation and echoes of his disaffection. In his journey for self-discovery Tran ultimately finds refuge and inspiration in the art that shapes—and ultimately saves—him.