Loud and Clear

Zusatztext “Quindlen is an astonishingly graceful writer.” — San Francisco Examiner ! about Living Out Loud “Quindlen...has earned her [Pulitzer] Prize and even sounds like somebody who would be fun to have to dinner.” — Boston Sunday Herald ! about Thinking Out Loud “Quindlen displays...an easy! elegant prose style and a canny eye for small details that reveal larger truths about people and society.” — Newsday ! about Living Out Loud “Anna Quindlen is America’s Resident Sane Person. She has what Joyce called the common touch! the ability to speak to many people about what’s on their minds before they have the vaguest idea what’s on their minds.” —Patricia Volk! The New York Times ! about Blessings From the Hardcover edition. Informationen zum Autor Anna Quindlen Klappentext In this remarkable book! Anna Quindlen! one of America's favorite novelists and a Pulitzer Prize- winning columnist! once again gives us wisdom! opinions! insights! and reflections about current events and modern life. "Always insightful! rooted in everyday experience and common sense...Quindlen is so good that even when you disagree with what she says! you still love the way she says it!” said People magazine about her number one New York Times bestseller Thinking Out Loud! and the same can be said about Loud and Clear. With her trademark insight and her special ability to convey the impact public events have on ordinary lives! Quindlen here combines commentary on American society and the world at large with reflections on being a woman! a writer! and a mother. In these pieces! first written for Newsweek and The New York Times! Loud and Clear takes on topics ranging from social change to raising children! from the political and emotional aftermath of September 11 to personal values! from the impact on individuals of global events to the growth that can be gained by spending summer days staring into the middle distance. Grounding the public in the private! connecting people to each other and to the greater world! Quindlen encourages us to develop authentic lives! even as she serves as a catalyst for political and social change. "Anna Quindlen's beat is life! and she's one hell of a terrific reporter!” said Susan Isaacs! and Quindlen's unique qualities of understanding and discernment! everywhere evident in her previous bestsellers! including A Short Guide to a Happy Life and Living Out Loud! can be found on every page of this provocative and inspiring book. Preface ON THE MORNING OF SEPTEMBER 11, 2001, I was doing what I do as well as anyone I know: that is, not writing. This is an enduring part of my daily routine, something like the unbirth- day party in Through the Looking-Glass. Unlike some of my colleagues—mainly the ones I don’t really care for—I do not fly to my desk each morning with a full heart and a ready hand. I skirt the perimeters of my home office with a sense of dread, eyes averted from an empty computer screen. Instead of creation there is always procrastination: the call to my closest friend to chew over the morning paper and to gossip, which sometimes comes to the same thing; the power walk in Central Park and the interlude at Starbucks—my husband calls it Four-bucks—and the triple venti no-foam latte. Luckily the laundry room is five stories below my office, or I could surely eke out another half hour folding sheets and T-shirts. Several years ago my daughter downloaded a computer game called Snood onto my laptop and for months, before I had used up all the demonstration games, I played over and over in single-minded pursuit of nothing more than a position on a scoreboard that only I ever saw and on which I was known as Big Mama. Eventually I deleted the program. I had developed a terrible Tetris problem a decade earlier that had enabled me to put off writing until well ...

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Anna Quindlen
• Editore: Ballantine
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 29.03.2005
• EAN: 9780812970272
• ISBN: 978-0-8129-7027-2
• Pagine: 336
• Dimensioni: 132 mm x 203 mm x 18 mm
• Categorie: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata