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Jay Parini, the author of highly praised biographies of Robert Frost and John Steinbeck, has now written an engaging biography of one of the most significant American writers of the twentieth century.One Matchless Time is a sympathetic, sweeping evocation of William Faulkner's life and work. From his birth in 1897 in Mississippi to his death sixty-five years later, Faulkner spent almost his entire life on this one small patch of land, the "sig...

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Pek cok kisi icin siir bir sey ifade etmez diyor Jay Parini kitabinin basinda. Ama bu genellemeyi görmezden gelerek siir, dil, siirin anlami ve zihinler ile hayatlari degistirme gücü üzerine derin bir inceleme sunuyor.Kendisi de sair olan basarili egitmen Parini, Aristoteles, Horatius, Longinus gibi yüzyillar önce siiri savunmus insanlari ele alarak basliyor, sonra Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Eliot, Frost, Stevens ve daha pek cok basarili ...

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LONGLISTED FOR THE HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZEIn frantic flight from the Vietnam War, Jay Parini leaves the United States for Scotland. There, through unlikely circumstances, he meets famed Argentinian author Jorge Luis Borges. The pair embark on a trip to the Scottish Highlands, and on the way the charmingly garrulous Borges takes Parini on a grand tour of western literature and ideas while promising to teach him about love and poetry. Borges and Me ...

In this evocative work of what the author in his afterword calls "a kindof novelistic memoir, " Jay Parini takes us back fifty years, when he fled the United States for Scotland-in flight from the Vietnam War and desperately in search of his adult life. There, through unlikely circumstances, he meets the famed Argentinian author Jorge Luis Borges.Borges-visiting his translator in Scotland-is in his seventies, blind and frail. When Borges hears...

A powerful and moving novel recounting the life and death of Walter Benjamin from the award-winning author

Soon to be a motion picture starring Colin Firth and directed by Pat O'Connor.The acclaimed and now-classic biographical novel of Walter Benjamin's last days--adapted into screenplay by Jay Parini. It is 1940. For the past decade, Walter Benjamin--the German-Jewish critic and philosopher--has been writing his masterpiece in a library in Paris, a city he loves. Now Nazi tanks have overrun the suburbs, and Benjamin is forced to flee. With a batt...

A memoir of a remarkable road trip through Scotland with Borges, from award-winning author Jay Parini

An apprentice writer has an entirely unexpected encounter with literary genius Jorge Luis Borges that will profoundly alter his life and work. A poignant and comic literary coming-of-age memoir. In 1971 Jay Parini was an aspiring poet and graduate student of literature at University of St Andrews in Scotland, he was also in flight from being drafted into service in the Vietnam War. One day his friend and mentor, Alastair Reid, asked Jay if he ...

From the author of the international bestseller The Last Station, a superb historical novel of the Apostle Paul, whose tireless and epic preaching of the message of Jesus brought Christianity into existence and changed human history forever.In the years after Christ's crucifixion, Paul of Tarsus, a prosperous tentmaker and Jewish scholar, took it upon himself to persecute the small groups of his followers that sprung up. But on the road to Dam...

From the author of the international bestseller The Last Station, a superb historical novel of the Apostle Paul, whose tireless and epic preaching of the message of Jesus brought Christianity into existence and changed human history forever.In the years after Christ's crucifixion, Paul of Tarsus, a prosperous tentmaker and Jewish scholar, took it upon himself to persecute the small groups of his followers that sprung up. But on the road to Dam...

Renowned poet and novelist Jay Parini's The Way of Jesus is a book for progressive Christians and spiritual seekers who struggle, as Parini does, with some of the basic questions about human existence: its limits and sadnesses, and its possibilities for awareness and understanding.Part guide to Christian living, part spiritual autobiography, The Way of Jesus is Jay Parini's exploration of what Jesus really meant, his effort to put love first i...

1910. Tolstoj è ormai vecchio, circondato da tanti discepoli, oggetto di una vera e propria adorazione, assistito da sempre da sua moglie Sofja, dal suo medico, il suo segretario, la figlia Sasha... Pur avvolto da questa rete di presenze, la sua vecchiaia non è serena: avverte infatti intorno a lui i primi conflitti per il futuro del suo patrimonio e crescono le pressioni per controllare il suo testamento. A chi andranno i diritti della sua op...

Renowned poet and novelist Parini addresses progressive Christians and spiritual seekers who struggle, as he does, with some of the basic questions about human existence: its limits and sadness, and its possibilities for awareness and understanding.

Renowned poet and novelist Parini addresses progressive Christians and spiritual seekers who struggle, as he does, with some of the basic questions about human existence: its limits and sadness, and its possibilities for awareness and understanding.

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A reading by Jay Parini of 33 of his most celebrated poems.

Renowned poet and novelist Jay Parini's The Way of Jesus is a book for progressive Christians and spiritual seekers who struggle, as Parini does, with some of the basic questions about human existence: its limits and sadnesses, and its possibilities for awareness and understanding.Part guide to Christian living, part spiritual autobiography, The Way of Jesus is Jay Parini's exploration of what Jesus really meant, his effort to put love first i...