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  • The Sparkling-Eyed Boy

    A Memoir of Love, Grown Up

    door Amy Benson ...
    A creative memoir reflecting on a long-ago summer love and the choices we make—"built on dreams and memories of what never happened, but could have" ( USA Today).Exploring the fault lines of adult nostalgia and desire, this work of creative nonfiction—a Bakeless Prize winner—re-creates the achingly intense adolescent summer days that Amy Benson and the sparkling-eyed boy spent together on the ... Meer lezen

    10,17 € of Gratis met Kobo Plus

  • Immersion

    A Writer's Guide to Going Deep

    door Ted Conover ...
    Serie series Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
    Over three and a half decades, Ted Conover has ridden the rails with hoboes, crossed the border with Mexican immigrants, guarded prisoners in Sing Sing, and inspected meat for the USDA. His books and articles chronicling these experiences, including the award-winning Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing, have made him one of the premier practitioners of immersion reporting.In immersion reporting—a literary ... Meer lezen

    12,29 € of Gratis met Kobo Plus

  • Cheap Land Colorado

    Bellezza e squallore ai margini dell'America

    door Ted Conover ...
    Serie Boek 1 - This Land
    A maggio del 2017 Ted Conover, vincitore del National Book Critics Circle Award per la non-fiction e finalista al premio Pulitzer, si dirige in Colorado per abbracciare uno stile di vita rurale imperniato su due princìpi: vivere con poco e farlo sulla propria terra. Del resto, nella San Luis Valley tutto questo è ancora possibile: un lotto da cinque acri si può acquistare ad appena cinquemila ... Meer lezen

    9,99 € of Gratis met Kobo Plus

  • El guàrdia de Sing Sing

    door Ted Conover ...
    Vertaald door Octavi Gil Pujol ...
    Serie Boek 7 - Contrastos
    La famosa presó de Sing Sing havia estat un centre modèlic, però s'ha convertit en un dels més problemàtics de l'estat de Nova York. El periodista Ted Conover s'hi infiltra per treballar-hi d'agent de galeria. Ara podrà conèixer de prop la vida de desenes i desenes de delinqüents violents, extremament perillosos. Aviat constata la impossibilitat de fer la seva feina seguint el manual, i a poc a ... Meer lezen

    9,99 € of Gratis met Kobo Plus

  • Rolling Nowhere

    door Ted Conover ...
    Hopping a freight in the St. Louis rail yards, Ted Conover—winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award—embarks on his dream trip, traveling the rails with "the knights of the road." Equipped with rummage store clothing, a bedroll, and his notebooks, Conover immerses himself in the peculiar culture of the hobo, where handshakes and intoductions are foreign, but where everyone knows where the ... Meer lezen

    6,99 € of Gratis met Kobo Plus

  • Cheap Land Colorado

    Überleben am Rand der USA | Eine brilliante Reportage der Journalisten-Legende aus Amerika

    door Ted Conover ...
    Vertaald door Christiane Bernhardt ...
    Zwischen Zivilisation und Niemandsland – eine herausragende Reportage von der letzten Frontier der USADie meisten Amerikanerinnen und Amerikaner haben noch nie vom San Luis Valley gehört: einer flachen, weiten Prärielandschaft mitten im Nirgendwo. Das riesige Gebiet ist nicht erschlossen, trotzdem leben hier Menschen ihren Traum vom eigenen Landbesitz – und von einem besseren Leben. Wer sind die ... Meer lezen

    21,99 €

  • Newjack

    A Year as a Prison Guard in New York's Most Infamous Maximum Security Jail

    door Ted Conover ...
    After he was denied access to report on Sing Sing, one of America's most notorious high security jails, journalist Ted Conover applied to become a prison guard. As a rookie officer, or 'newjack', Conover spent a year in the unpredictable, intimidating and often violent world of America's penal system.Unarmed and outnumbered, prison officers at one of America's toughest maximum security jails ... Meer lezen

    12,99 €

  • Coyotes: A Journey Across Borders with America's Mexican Migrants

    door Ted Conover ...
    In this classic tale of life among undocumented migrants, Ted Conover, author of Newjack, immerses himself in a world few Americans ever see and fewer still come to know. He gets himself smuggled across the border, works on citrus ranches, accompanies workers to industrial L.A., Phoenix, Florida, and Idaho, and travels deep into Mexico to understand the poverty that begins the whole cycle. He ... Meer lezen

    6,99 € of Gratis met Kobo Plus

  • Whiteout: Lost In Aspen

    door Ted Conover ...
    WHITEOUT is Ted Conover's classic report on life among the wealthy and the narcissistic–as well as some real people–in Aspen, Colorado. Former Hugh Hefner paramour and Playboy executive Barbi Benton holds her annual pajama party. Celebrity photographer Annie Liebovitz actually finds someone who doesn't want his picture taken: Hunter Thompson. New Agers claim UFO sightings and seek eternal life. ... Meer lezen

    6,99 € of Gratis met Kobo Plus

  • Cheap Land Colorado

    Off-Gridders at America's Edge

    door Ted Conover ...
    **From Pulitzer Prize finalist and National Book Critics Circle Award–winning author of Newjack, a passage through an America lived wild and off the grid, where along with independence and stunning views come fierce winds, neighbors with criminal pasts, and minimal government and medical services.“In these dispatches, [Conover] invites readers to ride shotgun along an unraveling edge of the ... Meer lezen

    10,38 €

  • Levez le pied

    La vie ne se perd qu'une fois

    door Ted Conover ...
    Ted Conover fait le récit des quelques semaines qu'il a passées à Lagos avec une équipe d'ambulanciers. De ce poste d'observation privilégié, il essaie de comprendre ce qui se joue sur les grands axes de communication qui traversent la mégalopole. La route concentre tous les enjeux : petits business, luttes de pouvoir, violence, précarité. ... Meer lezen

    3,00 €

  • Là où la terre ne vaut rien

    door Ted Conover ...
    Serie series Feuilleton non Fiction
    En mai 2017, Ted Conover se rend dans la vallée de San Luis (Colorado) afin d'étudier un mode de vie particulier qui consiste à vivre de peu, et à se tenir à l'écart des courants dominants. Les lotissements de l'énorme vallée rendent cela possible. Des terrains de cinq hectares dans la plaine peuvent être achetés pour cinq mille dollars, parfois moins.Après une première exploration l'auteur ... Meer lezen

    16,99 €