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The New York Times Bestseller. An Oprah's Book Club Pick. 'A hilarious and moving exploration of a modern marriage that astounds in its breadth and intimacy.' - Brit Bennett, author of The Mothers and The Vanishing Half A powerfully affecting novel about how we change, grow and age, Wellness is a story of marriage, middle age, our tech-obsessed health culture, and the bonds that keep people together. When Jack and Elizabeth meet as college stu...

When Jack and Elizabeth meet as college students in the '90s, the two quickly join forces and hold on tight, each eager to claim a place in Chicago's thriving underground art scene with an appreciative kindred spirit. Fast-forward twenty years to married life, and alongside the challenges of parenting, they encounter cults disguised as mindfulness support groups, polyamorous would-be suitors, Facebook wars, and something called Love Potion Num...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • The New York Times best-selling author of The Nix is back with a poignant and witty novel about a modern marriage and the bonds that keep people together. Mining the absurdities of contemporary society, Wellness reimagines the love story with a healthy dose of insight, irony, and heart. "A stunning novel about the stories that we tell about our lives and our loves, and how we sustain relatio...

The story of a marriage, a city and a society over twenty years, Wellness is a major novel of our times, in the tradition of Jonathan Franzen and Elizabeth Strout.

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Nix, a witty and poignant new novel about modern marriage, our tech-obsessed health culture, and the bonds that keep people togetherWhen Jack and Elizabeth meet as college students in the '90s, the two quickly join forces and hold on tight, each eager to claim a place in Chicago’s thriving underground art scene with an appreciative kindred spirit. Fast-forward twenty years to married life, and...

Lieben in modernen Zeiten - kühn, bewegend, klug Als Jack und Elizabeth 1993 ein Paar werden, spricht alles gegen sie. Doch der junge Fotograf mit den bäuerlichen Wurzeln und die Psychologiestudentin aus gutem Hause heiraten - und erleben in der vibrierenden Kunstszene Chicagos aufregende erste Jahre. Doch nicht alles läuft glatt. Inmitten von Achtsamkeitsseminaren, polyamourösen Bekanntschaften und schrillen Immobilienträumen droht ihre Eh...

Lieben in modernen Zeiten - kühn, bewegend, klug Als Jack and Elizabeth 1993 ein Paar werden, spricht alles gegen sie. Doch der junge Fotograf mit den bäuerlichen Wurzeln und die Psychologiestudentin aus gutem Hause heiraten - und erleben in der vibrierenden Kunstszene Chicagos aufregende erste Jahre. Doch nicht alles läuft glatt. Inmitten von Achtsamkeitsseminaren, polyamourösen Bekanntschaften und schrillen Immobilienträumen droht ihre Eh...

From the acclaimed author of The Nix, another hugely ambitious novel, about how we change, grow and age, a story of marriage, middle age, our tech-obsessed health culture, and the bonds that keep people together, for readers of Jonathan Franzen, Jennifer Egan and Elizabeth Strout.

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Nix, a witty and poignant new novel about modern marriage, our tech-obsessed health culture, and the bonds that keep people together.When Jack and Elizabeth meet as college students in the '90s, the two quickly join forces and hold on tight, each eager to claim a place in Chicago’s thriving underground art scene with an appreciative kindred spirit. Fast-forward twenty years to married life, an...

A systematic exploration of the shared history of Burmese, Chinese, and Tibetan languages. Tracing the history of their pronunciation, this book sheds light on the prehistoric language from which they descend. It will be welcomed by scholars and advanced students of phonology, language typology, and Asian languages and linguistics.

This edited volume brings together work on the evidential systems of Tibetan languages. This includes diachronic research, synchronic description of systems in individual Tibetan varieties and papers addressing broader theoretical or typological questions. Evidentiality in Tibetan languages interacts with other features of modality, interactional context and speaker knowledge states in ways that provide important perspectives for typologists ...

Quando aveva nove anni, a Samuel la madre raccontò la leggenda norvegese del Nix: uno spirito che può assumere forme diverse e che ogni tanto appare con le sembianze di un grande cavallo bianco per rapire i bambini. Chicago 2011. Samuel alla soglia dei quarant'anni non sa ancora dire quando lo spirito del Nix gli abbia rovinato l'esistenza. Insegna letteratura inglese al college, di notte è schiavo di un gioco di ruolo online ma i piani erano ...

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An original new perspective on the shared history of Burmese, Chinese, and Tibetan, with a particular focus on their phonological development.

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Ein Anruf der Anwaltskanzlei Rogers & Rogers verändert schlagartig das Leben des Literaturprofessors Samuel Anderson: Nach dem tätlichen Angriff auf den republikanischen Präsidentschaftskandidaten braucht seine Mutter dringend Samuels Hilfe - doch die beiden haben sich seit über zwanzig Jahren nicht gesehen. »Geister« ist ein allumfassender, mitreißender Roman über Liebe, Unabhängigkeit, Verrat und die lebenslange Hoffnung auf Erlösung, ein Fa...

Quando aveva nove anni, a Samuel la madre raccontò la leggenda norvegese del Nix: uno spirito che può assumere forme diverse e che ogni tanto appare con le sembianze di un grande cavallo bianco per rapire i bambini. Chicago 2011. Samuel alla soglia dei quarant'anni non sa ancora dire quando lo spirito del Nix gli abbia rovinato l'esistenza. Insegna letteratura inglese al college, di notte è schiavo di un gioco di ruolo online ma i piani erano ...

‘The best thing a reviewer can do when faced with a novel of this calibre and breadth is to urge you to read it for yourselves . . . Hill’s talents as a writer are so abundant . . . The Nix is ra novel about growing up . . . about the two childhoods of mother and son, about coming of age, awkward friendships and first loves, about the loneliness of intelligence, about loss and mishandled relationships’ Guardian‘This superb debut novel could we...

Highway to hell! Das unerbittliche Kräftemessen zwischen einem Trucker und einer verbrecherischen Motorradgang in der Wüste von Nevada - eine von "Duell" inspirierte Geschichte. "Duell", eine Erzählung von Richard Matheson aus dem Jahr 1971 über einen Autofahrer, der von einem verrückten Trucker verfolgt wird, wurde weltberühmt, nachdem der junge Steven Spielberg den Stoff verfilmte. Joe Hill - selbst Bestsellerautor - hat sich hier mit seine...