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Oblivion: Stories , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 856min

In the stories that make up Oblivion, David Foster Wallace joins the rawest, most naked humanity with the infinite involutions of self-consciousness - a combination that is dazzlingly, uniquely his. These are worlds undreamt-of by any other mind. Only David Foster Wallace could convey a father's desperate loneliness by way of his son's daydreaming through a teacher's homicidal breakdown ("The Soul Is Not a Smithy"). Or could explore the deepest and most hilarious aspects of creativity by delineating the office politics surrounding a magazine profile of an artist who produces miniature sculptures in an anatomically inconceivable way ("The Suffering Channel"). Or capture the ache of love's breakdown in the painfully polite apologies of a man who believes his wife is hallucinating the sound of his snoring ("Oblivion"). Each of these stories is a complete world, as fully imagined as most entire novels, at once preposterously surreal and painfully immediate. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robert Petkoff. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hach/000999/bk_hach_000999_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Topsail Accord , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 636min

Wealthy divorcee Dr. Shannon Patrick meets a local, Joe, while walking on North Topsail Beach. Shannon, a geologist, has recently discovered oil and natural gas in the Marcellus Shale under Ohio. While the newfound wealth has provided her undreamt of new opportunities, including her new beach house in North Carolina, Shannon is still trying to understand her divorce. She feels alone, even though she has the love and support of her very close family. Joe is a North Topsail local who has walked and run on North Topsail Beach nearly every morning for the past two decades, ever since the loss of his only child to leukemia, and his wife's subsequent grief-propelled suicide. Shannon and Joe meet and carefully work towards a relationship that they can define and survive. The rules they implement come to be known as "The Topsail Accord". Follow along as Shannon discovers how, if at all, she can let someone love her again, and as Joe reawakens to the possibility that there is someone he can love. Set on North Topsail Beach, North Carolina; in Playa Jaco, Costa Rica; and in Cleveland, Ohio, The Topsail Accord examines whether bounded lives defined by agreed-upon intersections can be complete lives, or whether the rules they hope will protect them block perhaps their last chance at love. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Scott O'Neill, Dawn Harvey. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/006872/bk_acx0_006872_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Hitler and Stalin

This compelling book on Hitler and Stalin - the culmination of thirty years' work - examines the two tyrants during the Second World War, when Germany and the Soviet Union fought the biggest and bloodiest war in history. Yet despite the fact they were bitter opponents, Laurence Rees shows that Hitler and Stalin were, to a large extent, different sides of the same coin.Hitler's charismatic leadership may contrast with Stalin's regimented rule by fear; and his intransigence later in the war may contrast with Stalin's change in behaviour in response to events. But at a macro level, both were prepared to create undreamt of suffering, destroy individual liberty and twist facts in order to build the Utopia they wanted, and while Hitler's creation of the Holocaust remains a singular crime, Rees shows why we must not forget that Stalin committed a series of atrocities at the same time. Using previously unpublished, startling eyewitness testimony from soldiers of the Red Army and Wehrmacht, civilians who suffered during the conflict, and those who knew both men personally, bestselling historian Laurence Rees - probably the only person alive who has met Germans who worked for Hitler and Russians who worked for Stalin - challenges long-held popular misconceptions about two of the most important figures in history. This is a masterwork from one of our finest historians.

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JEFF SONHOUSE

Mysteriose Charaktere für ein neues Bewusstsein von Hautfarbe und Identitat Jeff Sonhouse (geb. 1968 in New York; lebt und arbeitet ebenda) bringt in seiner Malerei disparate Materialien in Einklang und formt aus ihnen neue Identitaten und Biografien. Zu Sonhouses unverwechselbarem Vokabular gehort die Verwendung von collagierten Bildern aus Zeitschriften, sorgfaltig in Mustern angeordneten Streichholzern sowie Stahlwolle und Metall, die er in seine gemalten Illusionen integriert. Seine ausschließlich mannlichen Figuren sind mythisch, ohne sich an bekannte Mythen anzulehnen. Sie konnen Harlekine, Gaukler, Seher oder Schamanen sein. Ihre Gesichter sind meist hinter Masken verborgen oder stecken tief in überdimensionierten Hüten, ihre Mimik ist ratselhaft und undurchsichtig, ihr Blick richtet sich oft in die Ferne. Ihre Gewander sind in grellen Volltonen gehalten. Sonhouses Figuren entkommen der Identitatsfalle unserer gegenwartigen Politik und Gesellschaft, die darin endet, dass Schwarzsein eine Reihe von kommerzialisierbaren Eigenschaften ist. Sie zeigen uns, was Afroamerikaner*innen, Menschen aus der Karibik und andere Personen aus der afrikanischen Diaspora sein konnten, wenn unsere Vorstellungskraft nicht an die Dialektik von Unterdrückung, Degradierung und heroischer Transzendenz gebunden ware. Sie bieten eine Vision jenseits alter Identitatsmodelle vom Schwarzen Mann an. In Sonhouses Portrats stellt Schwarzsein einen Schlüsselsatz dar, der uns auf eine ganz andere Spielwiese der Identitatsfindung führt. Die Monografie zeigt einen umfangreichen Einblick in das uvre des Künstlers anhand von Arbeiten der letzten 20 Jahre. Die zahlreich bebilderte Auseinandersetzung mit Sonhouses Schaffen wird begleitet von einem Essay von Erin Dziedzic. Mysterious Protagonists of a New Consciousness of Skin Color and Identity Jeff Sonhouse's (b. New York, 1968; lives and works in ibid.) painterly practice melds disparate materials to envision novel identities and biographies. Sonhouse's distinctive vocabulary includes the use of cut and collaged magazine images, carefully patterned matchsticks, steel wool and soldered metal, set against his carefully rendered painted illusions. His figures-always men-are mystic, though without reprising familiar myths. They could be harlequins, artistes, seers, or shamans. Their faces usually hidden by masks or oversized hats, their expressions enigmatic and inscrutable, they often gaze into the distance, attired in flamboyant solid colors. Sonhouse's characters escape the identity trap of our contemporary politics and society, which ultimately turns Blackness into a series of commercially manufactured attributes. They show us what African Americans, people from the Caribbean, and other members of the African diaspora might be if our imagination were unshackled from the dialectics of oppression, degradation, and heroic transcendence. They propose a vision beyond old paradigms of the Black man's identity. In Sonhouse's portraits, Blackness emerges as a set of keys that open the doors to a hitherto undreamt-of freedom to forge new identities. The monograph offers comprehensive insight into the artist's oeuvre, surveying his output of the past 20 years. An essay by Erin Dziedzic accompanies the richly illustrated study of Sonhouse's art.

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Price: 45.30 EUR excl. shipping