36 Results for : lacerating
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Queer , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 282min
Set in Mexico City during the early 50s, Queer follows William Lee's hopeless pursuit of desire from bar to bar in the American expatriate scene. As Lee breaks down, the trademark Burroughsian voice emerges; a maniacal mix of self-lacerating humor and the Ugly American at his ugliest. Burroughs' only realist love story, Queer is a haunting tale of possession and exorcism. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: T. Ryder Smith, Andrew Garman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/howe/001690/bk_howe_001690_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Bad Love: An Alex Delaware Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 708min
It came in a plain brown wrapper, no return address: an audiocassette of a soul-lacerating scream, followed by an enigmatic, haunting message delivered in a childlike voice: "Bad love. Bad love. Don't give me the bad love." For psychologist-detective Dr. Alex Delaware, the chant, repeated over and over like a twisted nursery rhyme, is the first intimation that he is about to enter a living nightmare. If Alex fails to discover the escalating pattern of violence and to decipher the twisted logic of the stalker's mind games, he will be the next to die. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alexander Adams. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bkot/000901/bk_bkot_000901_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Kid Stays in the Picture , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 382min
Robert Evans' The Kid Stays in the Picture is universally recognized as the greatest, most outrageous, and most unforgettable show business memoir ever written. The basis of an award-winning documentary film, it remains the gold standard of Hollywood storytelling. With a new introduction by the legendary actor, producer, and Hollywood studio chief Robert Evans, The Kid Stays in the Picture is driven by a voice as charming and irresistible as any great novel. An extraordinary raconteur, Evans spares no one, least of all himself. Filled with starring roles for everyone from Ava Gardner to Marlon Brando to Sharon Stone, The Kid Stays in the Picture is sharp, witty, self-aggrandizing, and self-lacerating in equal measure. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robert Evans. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/003456/bk_harp_003456_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Book of Drugs: A Memoir , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 438min
Mike Doughty first came to prominence as the leader of the band Soul Coughing, then did an abrupt sonic left turn, much to the surprise of his audience, transforming into a solo performer of stark, dusky, but strangely hopeful tunes. He battled addiction, gave up fame when his old band was at the height of its popularity, and drove thousands of miles, alone, across America, with just an acoustic guitar. His candid, hilarious, self-lacerating memoir, The Book of Drugs - featuring cameos by Redman, Ani DiFranco, the late Jeff Buckley, and others - is the story of his band’s rise and bitter collapse, the haunted and darkly comical life of addiction, and the perhaps even weirder world of recovery. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mike Doughty. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/004010/bk_adbl_004010_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Pagan Time: An American Childhood , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 293min
With little more than a run-down Jeep and their newborn baby in tow, author Micah Perks' parents set out in 1963 to build a school and a utopian community in the mountains. The school would become known as a place to send teens with drug addictions and emotional problems, children with whom Micah and her sister would grow up. This complex memoir mixes a moving celebration of the utopian spirit and its desire for community and freedom with a lacerating critique of the consequences of those desires - especially for the children involved. How could the campaign for a perfect home and family create such confusion and destruction? The '60s, for many, became a laboratory of hope and chaos, as young idealists tested the limits of possibility. Micah Perks has cast her unflinching and precise eye on her own history and has illuminated not only those years of her childhood, but a wide-open moment that marked our culture for all time. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Emily Rankin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/010053/bk_adbl_010053_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Eat the Apple: A Memoir , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 300min
A gut-wrenching, beautiful memoir which explores toxic masculinity and the devastating consequences of war on one impressionable young soldier Matt Young joined the Marine Corps aged 18, after a drunken night that culminated in him crashing his car into a fire hydrant. The teenage wasteland he fled followed him to the training bases of California. Young survived training and then three deployments to Iraq as an infantryman. Eat the Apple is the searing and honest response to those years. Visceral, ironic, self-lacerating and ultimately redemptive, Young's story drops us unarmed into Marine Corps culture and lays bare the vulnerability of those on the front lines and the true, if often misguided, motivations that drove a young man to a life at war. Tender and brilliantly written, Eat the Apple is a powerful coming-of-age story that explores toxic masculinity and maps the insane geography of our times. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Charlie Thurston. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/032459/bk_adbl_032459_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Sanctuary , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 475min
Haworth, West Yorkshire, 1848. Branwell Brontë - unexhibited artist, unacknowledged writer, sacked railwayman, disgraced tutor and spurned lover -finds himself unhappily back in Haworth Parsonage, to face the crushing disappointment of his father and his three sisters, whose own pseudonymous successes - allegedly kept secret from him – are only just becoming apparent. With his health failing rapidly, his literary aspirations abandoned and his once loyal circle of friends shrinking fast, Branwell lives in a world of secrets, conspiracies and seemingly endless betrayals. To restore himself to a creative and fulfilling existence in the face of an increasingly claustrophobic environment, he returns to the drugs, alcohol and the morbid self-delusion which have already played such a large part in his unhappy life. Sanctuary is a lacerating and moving portrait of self-destruction. In it, Robert Edric has reimagined the final months of one of the great bystanders of literary history, and, in so doing, has shone a penetrating light on one of the most celebrated and perennially fascinating families in our creative history. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mark Meadows. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rhuk/001927/bk_rhuk_001927_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Night in Question , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 696min
Young Dot Allbones is the runt of a large Midlands family. Blessed with none of her sisters' beauty, she'll be lucky even to find a man to marry her. Whatever shall be done with Dot? When Kate Eddowes comes up from London and moves in next door, no one expects the pretty and popular orphan to take any notice of the plain-faced and provincial Dot, five years her junior. But against the odds, the girls strike up an unlikely friendship. As the friends become young women, the bright lights of the capital lure them south, and Dot discovers a lucrative talent for making people laugh. But even as she shines on the music hall stage, Kate's own life begins to fall apart. And the shadowy streets of Whitechapel are no place for a desperate woman to wander.... Capturing the dark heart of Victorian London with her inimitable sharpness and wry wit, Laurie Graham brings to life the bustling pleasures and not-so-hidden dangers of life in a crowded city with its extremes of poverty and wealth. And all the while, in the shadows, lurks the lacerating threat of the Ripper. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Juanita McMahon. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/qpuk/000221/bk_qpuk_000221_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Bern Book (eBook, ePUB)
The Bern Book is a travelogue, a memoir, a "diary of an isolated soul" (Darryl Pinckney), and a meditation on the myth and reality of race in midcentury Europe and America.In 1953, having left the US and settled in Bern, Switzerland, Vincent O. Carter, a struggling writer, set about composing a "record of a voyage of the mind." The voyage begins with Carter's furiously good-humored description of how, every time he leaves the house, he must face the possibility of being asked "the hated question" (namely, Why did you, a black man born in America, come to Bern?). It continues with stories of travel, war, financial struggle, the pleasure of walking, the pain of self-loathing, and, through it all, various experiments in what Carter calls "lacerating subjective sociology." Now this long-neglected volume is back in print for the first time since 1973.- Shop: buecher
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The Familia Grande
THE LITERARY SENSATION THAT STORMED THE WORLD, THE PHENOMENAL FRENCH BESTSELLER HAS SOLD 350,000 COPIESTHE BOOK THAT SPARKED THE VIRAL #METOOINCEST MOVEMENTA family's secret weighs on everyone...THE FAMILIA GRANDE is a tender, groundbreaking and lacerating memoir written by a sister who could no longer remain silent...Set in amongst the French intellectual elite in Paris and their lavender scented estates in Provence, it tells a story of a corrosive secret that sits in a family for decades and ultimately razes it and the political, literary elite that enabled its silence, to the ground.Already an international bestseller, it has touched a nerve across the globe and has brought about a powerful reckoning of incest, and its far-reaching trauma.The Familia Grande is a book of a generation.'The courage of a sister who could no longer keep quiet.' - EMMANUEL MACRON 'Camille's battle to liberate herself from a painful family secret has touched a nerve across France' - THE NEW YORK TIMES- Shop: buecher
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