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Paul Auster's most intimate autobiographical work to date
In the beginning, everything was alive. The smallest objects were endowed with beating hearts ...
Having recalled his life through the story of his physical self in Winter Journal, internationally acclaimed novelist Paul Auster now remembers the experience of his development from within through the encounters of his interior self with the outer world in Report from the Interior.
From his...
2) Angeline
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Quinn follows up The Night Child with a melodramatic account of a miracle-worker nun who must adjust to a new convent. In 2015, after 24-year-old Sister Angeline's cloistered Chicago convent shuts down, she finds a place at the Light of the Sea, on an island off the coast of Washington State. There, the radical sisters run their own services in defiance of the local parish. Angeline, who hopes her monastic life will atone for the guilt she harbors...
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"Today, society embraces sharing like never before. Fueled by our dependence on mobile devices and social media, we have created an ecosystem of obsessive connection. Many of us now lead lives of strangely crowded isolation: we are always linked, but only shallowly so. The capacity to be alone, properly alone, is one of life's subtlest skills. Real solitude is a powerful resource we can call upon?a crucial ingredient for a rich interior life. It inspires...
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Five months after the end of the Civil War, Acting Navy Lieutenant Everett Townsend is awaiting discharge in Key West. The end of the war has left him uncertain about his future and full of regret about the end of his relationship with Emma, the Cuban American daughter of a Havana boarding house owner. His Spanish grandmother--a slave owner who runs a prosperous sugar plantation in the Cuban countryside--is dreaming that Everett will return and take...