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Books narrated by Ted Conover

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  • The Sparkling-Eyed Boy

    A Memoir of Love, Grown Up

    by 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 ... Read more

    10,17 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Immersion

    A Writer's Guide to Going Deep

    by Ted Conover ...
    Series 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 ... Read more

    12,29 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cheap Land Colorado

    Bellezza e squallore ai margini dell'America

    by Ted Conover ...
    Series Book 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 ... Read more

    9,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • El guàrdia de Sing Sing

    by Ted Conover ...
    Translated by Octavi Gil Pujol ...
    Series Book 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 ... Read more

    9,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cheap Land Colorado

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

    by Ted Conover ...
    Translated by 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 ... Read more

    21,99 €

  • Cheap Land Colorado

    Off-Gridders at America's Edge

    by 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 ... Read more

    10,38 €

  • Levez le pied

    La vie ne se perd qu'une fois

    by 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. ... Read more

    3,00 €

  • Là où la terre ne vaut rien

    by Ted Conover ...
    Series 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 ... Read more

    16,99 €

  • Fifty Years in Sing Sing

    A Personal Account, 1879-1929

    by Alfred Conyes ...
    Series series Excelsior Editions
    A fascinating personal account of life at this infamous prison during a bygone era.Written more than eighty years ago, Fifty Years in Sing Sing is the personal account of Alfred Conyes (1852–1931), who worked as a prison guard and then keeper at Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, New York, from 1879 to 1929. This unpublished memoir, dated 1930, was found among his granddaughter's estate by his great ... Read more

    16,42 €

  • Au fil du rail - L'Amérique des hobos

    L'Amérique des hobos

    by Ted Conover ...
    Series series Feuilleton non Fiction
    Ted Conover est un jeune étudiant en anthropologie de vingt-deux ans lorsqu'il se décide à partager la vie des "hobos", ces sans-domicile itinérants américains. En leur compagnie, il avale des milliers de kilomètres de rail dans des trains de fret, avec pour seul bagage un sac de surplus de l'armée en bandoulière lesté d'un bidon d'eau. Fuyant une vie de confort, il va ainsi parcourir les États ... Read more

    15,99 €

  • Newjack - Dans la peau d'un gardien de prison

    Dans la peau d'un gardien de prison

    by Ted Conover ...
    Series series Feuilleton non Fiction
    Dans un pays où la population carcérale est la plus importante au monde, l'accès à Sing Sing, célèbre prison de l'État de New York, est interdit aux curieux, quasiment impossible d'accès aux reporters. Ted Conover, écrivain et journaliste de profession, raconte : "Je voulais entendre la voix de ceux que l'on n'entend jamais, la voix des gardiens, des personnes qui sont en première ligne de notre ... Read more

    16,99 €

  • Newjack

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

    by 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 ... Read more

    12,99 €