Mausoleum of Lovers
Author: Hervé Guibert
Publisher:
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781937658229
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe long-awaited English-language translation of Hervé Guibert's arresting journals
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Whispers from the Tomb
Author: Roy Widing
Publisher:
Published: 2012-05-01
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9780615630564
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Whispers from the Tomb begins with the accidental discovery of an opulent mausoleum opened to the public just once a year. Inside are two enormous marble sarcophagi standing side-by-side for more than half a century. We learn the deceased man is a wealthy businessman who immigrates to the United States in his youth. But less is known about the mysterious woman next to him. Digging back in time yields tantalizing clues."--P. [4] of cover.
The Shadow of the Wind
Author: Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2005-01-25
Total Pages: 512
ISBN-13: 1101147067
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe New York Times bestseller “The Shadow of the Wind is ultimately a love letter to literature, intended for readers as passionate about storytelling as its young hero.” —Entertainment Weekly (Editor's Choice) “One gorgeous read.” —Stephen King Barcelona, 1945: A city slowly heals in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, and Daniel, an antiquarian book dealer’s son who mourns the loss of his mother, finds solace in a mysterious book entitled The Shadow of the Wind, by one Julián Carax. But when he sets out to find the author’s other works, he makes a shocking discovery: someone has been systematically destroying every copy of every book Carax has written. In fact, Daniel may have the last of Carax’s books in existence. Soon Daniel’s seemingly innocent quest opens a door into one of Barcelona’s darkest secrets--an epic story of murder, madness, and doomed love.
Undying Love
Author: Ben Harrison
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2001-02-15
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780312978020
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHe fell in love with her at first sight--but their romance didn't begin until after she died.
A Lover's Discourse
Author: Roland Barthes
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 0809066890
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Barthes's most popular and unusual performance as a writer is "A Lover's Discourse," a writing out of the discourse of love. This language primarily the complaints and reflections of the lover when alone, not exchanges of a lover with his or her partner is unfashionable. Thought it is spoken by millions of people, diffused in our popular romances and television programs as well as in serious literature, there is no institution that explores, maintains, modifies, judges, repeats, and otherwise assumes responsibility for this discourse . . . Writing out the figures of a neglected discourse, Barthes surprises us in "A Lover's Discourse" by making love, in its most absurd and sentimental forms, an object of interest." Jonathan Culler
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
Author: Caitlin Doughty
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2017-10-03
Total Pages: 215
ISBN-13: 0393249905
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA New York Times and Los Angeles Times Bestseller “Doughty chronicles [death] practices with tenderheartedness, a technician’s fascination, and an unsentimental respect for grief.” —Jill Lepore, The New Yorker Fascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty embarks on a global expedition to discover how other cultures care for the dead. From Zoroastrian sky burials to wish-granting Bolivian skulls, she investigates the world’s funerary customs and expands our sense of what it means to treat the dead with dignity. Her account questions the rituals of the American funeral industry—especially chemical embalming—and suggests that the most effective traditions are those that allow mourners to personally attend to the body of the deceased. Exquisitely illustrated by artist Landis Blair, From Here to Eternity is an adventure into the morbid unknown, a fascinating tour through the unique ways people everywhere confront mortality.
Crazy for Vincent
Author: Herve Guibert
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 2017-03-24
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 1584351993
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiary, memoir, poem, fiction? Autopsy, crime scene, hagiography, hymn? The chronicle of an obsessive love. In the middle of the night between the 25th and 26th of November, Vincent fell from the third floor playing parachute with a bathrobe. He drank a liter of tequila, smoked Congolese grass, snorted cocaine... —from Crazy for Vincent Crazy for Vincent begins with the death of the figure it fixates upon: Vincent, a skateboarding, drug-addled, delicate “monster” of a boy in whom the narrator finds a most sublime beauty. By turns tender and violent, Vincent drops in and out of French writer and photographer Hervé Guibert's life over the span of six years (from 1982, when he first met Vincent as a fifteen-year-old teenager, to 1988). After Vincent's senseless death, the narrator embarks on a reconnaissance writing mission to retrieve the Vincent that had entered, elevated, and emotionally eviscerated his life, working chronologically backward from the death that opens the text. Assembling Vincent's fragmentary appearances in his journal, the author seeks to understand what Vincent's presence in his life had been: a passion? a love? an erotic obsession? or an authorial invention? A parallel inquiry could be made into the book that results: Is it diary, memoir, poem, fiction? Autopsy, crime scene, hagiography, hymn? Crazy for Vincent is a text the very nature of which is as untethered as desire itself.
Mausoleum
Author: Abelina P. Kraus
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
Published: 2011-01-01
Total Pages: 195
ISBN-13: 1609761138
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Mausoleum, Baltimore Detective Max Bently and his partner race to capture a serial killer. Eight people have gone missing from the community of Dundalk, Maryland, and the latest victim is Max Bently's sister. Max has the handsome physique of a professional football player. He also has the sensitivity of a man coming to terms with the death of his infant son, and the more recent death of his father. Separated from his wife, Max struggles to find balance in his life, while dealing with the horrific crimes now engulfing the community where he grew up. For almost a year, young people have been disappearing from Dundalk, but no one has paid much attention until a prominent doctor's daughter goes missing. No bodies have ever been recovered, just bags containing the victim's belongings. Police discover that the killer is using a newly built Mausoleum to torture and kill his victims. From the blue-collar community of Dundalk to the blue-blooded world of northern Baltimore County, the killer is sought. When Max sustains a serious head injury, he ends up in a coma, during which he hears strange voices and awakens to shocking news. The surprise ending will shock everyone!
To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life
Author: Hervé Guibert
Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Published: 2021-08-05
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 1782838694
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith a foreword by Maggie Nelson, an introduction from Frieze editor Andrew Durbin and afterword from Edmund White 'Unforgettable, heartbreaking' New York Times 'Brilliant' - Dazed 'As brutal as it is elegant' - Neil Bartlett 'Electrifying' - Colm Tóibín 'Dazzling' - Katherine Angel After being diagnosed with AIDS, Hervé Guibert wrote this devastating, darkly humorous and personal novel, chronicling three months in the penultimate year of the narrator's life. In the wake of his friend Muzil's death, he goes from one quack doctor to another, from holidays to test centres, and charts the highs and lows of trying to cheat death. On publication in 1990, the novel scandalized French media, which quickly identified Muzil as Guibert's close friend Michel Foucault. The book became a bestseller, and Guibert a celebrity. The book has since attained a cult following for its tender, fragmented and beautifully written accounts of illness, friendship, sex, art and everyday life. It catapulted Guibert into notoriety and sealed his reputation as a writer of shocking precision and power.
Mausoleum of Flowers
Author: Daniel Summerhill
Publisher:
Published: 2022-04-05
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9781933880914
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA poetry collection that celebrates Black culture, creativity, and memory. From Kendrick to Kanye, to a Sunday in Oakland with Frank Ocean's falsetto in the foreground, Mausoleum of Flowers is still life set against the backdrop of demise. Daniel Summerhill's sophomore collection grabs fate by the throat and confronts it. What does it mean to continue living when your friends are dying beside you? This collection melds an exploration of spirituality and rebellion with Black tradition. Summerhill's poems invite the reader near in order to self-excavate and explore tones of loss, love, and light.
