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You are a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the mail: your boyfriend of the past nine years is engaged to someone else. You can't say yes--it would be too awkward--and you can't say no--it would look like defeat. On your desk are a series of invitations to half-baked literary events around the world. Question: How do you arrange to skip town? Answer: You accept them all. What would possibly go wrong?"--Amazon...

Receiving an invitation to his ex-boyfriend's wedding, Arthur, a failed novelist on the eve of his fiftieth birthday, embarks on an international journey that finds him falling in love, risking his life, reinventing himself, and making connections with the past.

Max Tivoli nasce nel 1871, a settant'anni. Sa dunque che morirà nel 1941. Chi è, o meglio, cos'è Max Tivoli? Non c'è nome per chi, come lui, viene "dall'altro capo della vita". E che maledizione è diventare giovani col passare degli anni? Scoprire il sesso con il fisico di un cinquantatreenne e l'esperienza di un castissimo diciassettenne? La presunta simmetria della vita e l'ordine stesso delle cose risultano invertiti. E Max è destinato a qu...

Bedazzling, bewitching and be-wonderful' New York Times Book Review'A fast and rocketing read . . . a wonderful, wonderful book!' Karen Joy FowlerWHO SAYS YOU CAN'T RUN AWAY FROM YOUR PROBLEMS?Arthur Less is a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the post: it is from an ex-boyfriend of nine years who is engaged to someone else. Arthur can't say yes - it would be too awkward, he can't say no - it would look like ...

Pulitzer Preis 2018 für Andrew Sean Greer »Mister Weniger« »Mister Weniger« ist eine schreiend komische Liebeskomödie, die sich nicht um Konventionen schert, ein Wundermittel gegen Liebeskummer und Trost für alle, die schon gemerkt haben, dass die Liebe manchmal seltsame Wege geht. Der Schriftsteller Arthur Weniger hat von allem ein bisschen zu wenig. Wo anderen ein dickes Fell gewachsen ist, schmückt ihn bloß die zarte Schale eines Butterkr...

Problema: sei uno scrittore fallito sulla soglia dei cinquant'anni. Il tuo ex fidanzato, cui sei stato legato per nove anni, sta per sposare un altro. Non puoi andare al suo matrimonio, sarebbe troppo strano, e non puoi rifiutare, sembrerebbe una sconfitta. Sulla tua scrivania intanto languono una serie di improbabili inviti da festival ed editori di tutto il mondo. Domanda: come puoi risolvere entrambi i problemi? Soluzione: accetti tutti gli...

You are a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the mail: your boyfriend of the past nine years is engaged to someone else. You can't say yes--it would be too awkward. And you can't say no--it would look like defeat. On your desk are invitations to half-baked literary events around the world. Question: How do you arrange to skip town? Answer: You accept them all. What would possibly go wrong?"--]cProvided by publ...

Il racconto, fin qui inedito, da cui ha avuto origine "La storia di un matrimonio". In precedenza infatti il romanzo, pubblicato nel 2008, era stato un breve racconto: è presentato qui con una breve nota in cui l'autore ricostruisce i legami, le affinità e le differenze tra i due testi.

Einmal im Leben widerfährt jedem von uns das Unmögliche" - Greta Wells widerfährt es gleich mehrmals: Sie wird durch die Zeit katapultiert, in alternative Versionen ihres Lebens, die sich 1918, 1941 und 1985 zutragen. Überall trifft sie ihre Lieben wieder, den Zwillingsbruder, den Geliebten, die exzentrische Tante Ruth, aber jede Zeit kennt andere Träume und andere Tode, und jede Zeit macht Greta zu einer anderen. Welche dieser Frauen will sie...

»Dieser wunderbare Roman lehrt uns nicht weniger als Magie.« (John Irving) »Das Unmögliche passiert uns allen ein Mal« - Greta Wells widerfährt es gleich mehrmals: Sie wird durch die Zeit katapultiert, in alternative Versionen ihres Lebens, die sich 1918, 1941, 1985 zutragen. Überall trifft sie ihre Lieben wieder, den Zwillingsbruder, den Geliebten, die exzentrische Tante Ruth, aber jede Zeit kennt andere Träume und andere Tode, und jede Zeit...

After the death of her beloved twin brother, Felix, and the breakup with her longtime lover, Nathan, Greta Wells embarks on a radical psychiatric treatment to alleviate her suffocating depression. But the treatment has unexpected effects, and the Greta of 1985 finds herself transported to remarkably similar lives in different eras—as a bohemian and adulteress in 1918, and a devoted wife and mother in 1941—fraught with familiar tensions and dif...

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»Wir glauben, die zu kennen, die wir lieben.« Wir glauben, die zu kennen, die wir lieben. Unsere Ehemänner, Ehefrauen. Wir kennen sie , wir sind sie - etwa, wenn wir in der Gesellschaft einen Moment getrennt werden und plötzlich ihre Ansichten vertreten. Für ihr Lieblingsessen und ihre Lieblingsbücher schwärmen, Anekdoten aus ihrem Leben erzählen, nicht unserem. Wir kennen ihre Eigenheiten, wie sie reden, wie sie Auto fahren, wie sie sich klei...

1985. After the death of her beloved twin brother, Felix, and the breakup with her longtime lover, Nathan, Greta Wells embarks on a radical psychiatric treatment to alleviate her suffocating depression. But the treatment has unexpected effects, and Greta finds herself transported to the lives she might have had if she'd been born in different eras. During the course of her treatment, Greta cycles between her own time and alternate lives in 191...

»Jeder von uns ist die Liebe im Leben eines anderen«, beginnt Max Tivoli die unerhörte Geschichte seines Lebens, das sich in einem Detail von allem unterscheidet. Und dieses Detail hütet er wie ein Geheimnis: Alt geboren, wird er seinem Ende entgegen zum Kind. Als das Erdbeben San Francisco erschüttert, ist er Mitte dreißig, und gegen Ende seines Lebens werden die ersten Radios in die Autos eingebaut. Die Achse, um die sich sein Leben dreht,...

It's 1965, on a small island in the South Pacific, a group of astronomers gather to witness the passing of a comet, but when a young boy dies during a meteor shower, the lives of the scientists and their loved ones change in subtle yet profound ways.

Crediamo tutti di conoscere le persone che amiamo": così Pearlie Cook comincia a raccontarci gli incredibili sei mesi che sono stati, per il suo matrimonio, una sorta di inesorabile lastra ai raggi X. Siamo nel 1953, in un quartiere appartato e nebbioso di ex militari ai margini di San Francisco, e tutto nella vita dei Cook parla ancora della guerra: la salute cagionevole di Holland, i ricordi tormentati di lei, le loro abitudini mor...

You are a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the mail: your boyfriend of the past nine years is engaged to someone else. You can't say yes--it would be too awkward--and you can't say no--it would look like defeat. On your desk are a series of invitations to half-baked literary events around the world. Question: How do you arrange to skip town? Answer: You accept them all. What would possibly go wrong?"--Amazon...

«Todos creemos conocer a los que amamos. Pero lo que amamos resulta ser una mala traducción, una traducción hecha por nosotros mismos de un idioma que apenas dominamos.» Pearlie Cook inicia el relato de su vida con una sinuosa y devastadora exploración del misterio que encierra toda relación íntima. Estamos en 1953, y la joven Pearlie vive en San Francisco, donde cuida celosamente de su hijo y de su marido, Holland, de salud delicada desde que...