In Graham Greene's comic novel a staid middle-aged bank manager, newly retired, has his life rearranged by his eccentric, freewheeling elderly aunt Augusta. Henry Pulling has very modest expectations when he agrees to a holiday on the Continent with Aunt Augusta, but the trip turns into something he is, to say the least, not prepared for. Augusta, ...
For the first time, the women who are legends in the world of journalism talk about professional and personal experiences as young reporters who lived, worked, and loved surrounded by war. These stories not only introduce a remarkable group; they give an entirely new perspective on the most controversial war in our history.
A woman named Molly Benson becomes obsessed with the writer Graham Greene after a brief meeting with him in Antibes. Gradually, she begins to take Greene's moral concerns for her own, and gives up her job and her comfortable life to travel to Algeria to agitate for the freedom of a writer being held as a political prisoner. A New York Times ...
This book is an American National Book Award winner. After covering the Vietnam war for the "New York Times", Gloria Emerson travelled across America for four years, interviewing people who fought in the war or who fought against it, those who paid little attention and others whose lives were changed by it. Her reporting on a small town in ...
An intimate and telling portrayal of being male in America, capturing men in face-to-face interviews, revealing their thoughts about their own lives and loves, manhood, failure, courage, self-respect, and secrets. From Gloria Emerson, winner of the National Book Award for Winners and Losers.
Educated in the creative and enduring traditions of her Navajo kinspeople and at Harvard University, Gloria Emerson has a special interest in the field of American Indian aesthetics and in how landscape translates into art among native peoples. .,."I know there are many seats of wisdom within our culture, a culture that is rapidly changing. For me ...
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