How to Stay Married is a shockingly candid, hilarious, voyeuristic, and inspiring account of one man's personal journey through hell and back when his wife's infidelity threatens their marriage. Written by Harrison Scott Key, winner of the 2016 Thurber Prize for American Humor, this memoir dives into the complexities of love and the challenges of maintaining a marriage.
Malibu Rising is a story about one unforgettable night in the life of a family: the night they each have to choose what they will keep from the people who made them... and what they will leave behind.
Malibu: August, 1983. It鈥檚 the day of Nina Riva鈥檚 annual end-of-summer party, and anticipation is at a fever pitch. Everyone wants to be around the famous Rivas: Nina, the talented surfer and supermodel; brothers Jay and Hud, one a championship surfer, the other a renowned photographer; and their adored baby sister, Kit. Together, the siblings are a source of fascination in Malibu and the world over鈥攅specially as the offspring of the legendary singer, Mick Riva.
The only person not looking forward to the party of the year is Nina herself, who never wanted to be the center of attention, and who has also just been very publicly abandoned by her pro tennis player husband. Oh, and maybe Hud鈥攂ecause it is long past time to confess something to the brother from whom he鈥檚 been inseparable since birth. Jay, on the other hand, is counting the minutes until nightfall, when the girl he can鈥檛 stop thinking about promised she鈥檒l be there. And Kit has a couple secrets of her own鈥攊ncluding a guest she invited without consulting anyone.
By midnight the party will be completely out of control. By morning, the Riva mansion will have gone up in flames. But before that first spark in the early hours before dawn, the alcohol will flow, the music will play, and the loves and secrets that shaped this family鈥檚 generations will all come bubbling to the surface.
Sussex, England. A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. Although the house he lived in is long gone, he is drawn to the farm at the end of the road, where, when he was seven, he encountered a most remarkable girl, Lettie Hempstock, and her mother and grandmother. He hasn't thought of Lettie in decades, and yet as he sits by the pond (a pond that she'd claimed was an ocean) behind the ramshackle old farmhouse, the unremembered past comes flooding back. And it is a past too strange, too frightening, too dangerous to have happened to anyone, let alone a small boy.
Forty years earlier, a man committed suicide in a stolen car at this farm at the end of the road. Like a fuse on a firework, his death lit a touchpaper and resonated in unimaginable ways. The darkness was unleashed, something scary and thoroughly incomprehensible to a little boy. And Lettie鈥攎agical, comforting, wise beyond her years鈥攑romised to protect him, no matter what.
芦脡ste es un libro sobre la vida... apasionado y alegre, sentimental y burl贸n.禄 ROSA MONTERO.
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Vivo, lib茅rrimo y original, este libro inclasificable incluye fotos, remembranzas, amistades y an茅cdotas que transmiten el primitivo placer de escuchar buenas historias. Un texto aut茅ntico, emocionante y c贸mplice que te atrapar谩 desde sus primeras p谩ginas.
A funny, poignant and revealing novel that鈥檚 become a huge word-of-mouth hit in the USA.
Hildy Good has reached that dangerous time in a woman's life - middle-aged and divorced, she is an oddity in her small but privileged town. But Hildy isn't one for self-pity and instead meets the world with a wry smile, a dark wit and a glass or two of Pinot Noir. When her two earnest grown-up children stage 'an intervention' and pack Hildy off to an addiction centre, she thinks all this fuss is ridiculous. After all, why shouldn't Hildy enjoy a drink now and then?