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mercoledì 7 aprile 2021
FACCE DA LECCE: 12 ritratti giallorossi dall'era Semeraro a oggi di Carmen Tommasi
Carla, giornalista sportiva innamorata del suo lavoro e appassionata di calcio, racconta dodici ritratti di vite vissute, di emozioni indimenticabili, di amore puro, di delusioni cocenti, di storie che si incrociano, che si perdono, che si distaccano con violenza e che, a volte, si rincontrano con più amore, o anche con più delusione, di prima. Tutti ritratti legati da due colori, il giallo e il rosso, quelli caldi e passionali della maglia del Lecce. Questi “personaggi” raccontati in chiave calcistica, umana e soprattutto giornalistica, hanno lasciato un segno nella storia dell’U.S. Lecce. Un segno indelebile tatuato, come l’inchiostro sulla pelle, anche nelle loro vite. Perché il calcio non è solo un gioco, ma può essere e diventare un percorso di vita. Partendo da Lecce, passando per Roma, con un pensiero a Perugia e con un piccolo passaggio per Bologna, per poi tornare ancora nel Salento, ma non solo.
Lecce style. Ediz. bilingue
Esiste un Lecce Style. Diverso dal Salento Style e dal Puglia Style. La
Lecce di chi ha cercato palazzi da troppo tempo assopiti nelle pieghe
del tempo e li ha risvegliati. Di chi ha scelto di “fare casa” in un
convento, in una vecchia fabbrica di saponi, in un giardino. O di chi ha
provato a salire dalla scala della servitù. Di chi si è innamorato di
un intonaco scrostato, di un fregio dorato che aveva smesso di brillare,
dello scorcio della statua di una Santa rubato da una finestra. Di chi
ha assecondato il genius loci, ma lo ha accompagnato per mano. Di chi ha
provato a capire cosa ci fosse sotto e attraverso e oltre. Un libro per
raccontare quello che Lecce, da qualche anno, è diventata.
Sogni divenuti realtà. Le promozioni del Lecce in serie A
Un viaggio nel tempo nella storia della squadra dell'U.S. Lecce. Nove vittorie, nove promozioni in Serie A raccontate dall'autore facendo vivere al lettore i sogni divenuti realtà della squadra salentina. Questo libro vuole ripercorrere nove momenti unici della vita dell'U.S. Lecce in un arco di tempo che va dalla metà degli Anni Ottanta sino all'ultima promozione del 2019. Un racconto che sprigiona i ricordi di quegli anni emozionanti e che fa conoscere meglio la storia giallorossa, attraverso i giocatori, le partite e gli aneddoti che hanno caratterizzato quelle stagioni. Prefazione Saverio Sticchi Damiani.
Il pasto silenzioso. Un sociologo alla mensa dei monaci di Lucio Meglio (Carocci)
Il volume mostra come il silenzio rappresenti, innanzi tutto, un potente
strumento di relazione sociale tra i membri di una comunità monastica,
che ritrova il momento dell’unione attorno alla tavola eucaristica e a
quella del refettorio; ma rivela anche che questa forma di vita suscita
sempre più curiosità nella società di oggi, dove il turismo
esperienziale è in continuo aumento. Il testo si compone di tre parti,
complementari tra di loro. La prima conduce il lettore in un viaggio
storico all’interno della sociologia dell’alimentazione monastica. La
seconda presenta i risultati di una ricerca compiuta nel monastero
certosino di Serra San Bruno (vv) assieme ad alcune interviste ai priori
di vari ordini monastici. Infine, nella terza si riportano le
interviste qualitative realizzate in occasione delle cene del silenzio
organizzate dalle clarisse eremite di Fara in Sabina. Il percorso di
riflessione proposto vuole tenere insieme i due aspetti analitici
attraverso cui studiare il silenzio nei suoi risvolti sociologici: sia
come modello relazionale, che ha origini specifiche nel mondo monastico,
sia come genere di discorso in cui rintracciare nuove forme di ricerca
della propria identità all’interno dell’iperconnesso mondo
contemporaneo.
Il silenzio di Don DeLillo (Einaudi)
Manhattan, 2022. Una coppia è in volo verso New York, di ritorno dalla
loro prima vacanza dopo la pandemia. In città, in un appartamento
nell'East Side, li aspettano tre loro amici per guardare tutti insieme
il Super Bowl: una professoressa di fisica in pensione, suo marito e un
suo ex studente geniale e visionario. Una scena come tante, un quadro di
ritrovata normalità. Poi, all'improvviso, non annunciato, misterioso:
il silenzio. Tutta la tecnologia digitale ammutolisce. Internet tace. I
tweet, i post, i bot spariscono. Gli schermi, tutti gli schermi, che
come fantasmi ci circondano ogni momento della nostra esistenza,
diventano neri. Le luci si spengono, un black-out avvolge nelle tenebre
la città (o il mondo intero? Del resto come fare a saperlo?) L'aereo è
costretto a un atterraggio di fortuna. E addio Super Bowl. Cosa sta
succedendo? È l'inizio di una guerra, o la prima ondata di un attacco
terroristico? Un incidente? O è il collasso della tecnologia su se
stessa, sotto il proprio tirannico peso? È l'apparizione di un buco
nero, l'aprirsi di una piega dello spazio e del tempo in cui le nostre
vite scivolano inesorabilmente? Di certo c'è questo: era dai tempi di
"Rumore bianco" che Don DeLillo non ci ricordava con tanta accecante
precisione che viviamo, disperati e felici, in un mondo delilliano.
The Other Emily by Dean Koontz
Number one New York Times bestselling master of suspense Dean Koontz takes readers on a twisting journey of lost love, impossible second chances, and terrifying promises.
A decade ago, Emily Carlino vanished after her car broke down on a California highway. She was presumed to be one of serial killer Ronny Lee Jessup’s victims whose remains were never found.
Writer David Thorne still hasn’t recovered from losing the love of his life, or from the guilt of not being there to save her. Since then, he’s sought closure any way he can. He even visits regularly with Jessup in prison, desperate for answers about Emily’s final hours so he may finally lay her body to rest. Then David meets Maddison Sutton, beguiling, playful, and keenly aware of all David has lost. But what really takes his breath away is that everything about Maddison, down to her kisses, is just like Emily. As the fantastic becomes credible, David’s obsession grows, Maddison’s mysterious past deepens―and terror escalates.
Is she Emily? Or an irresistible dead ringer? Either way, the ultimate question is the same: What game is she playing? Whatever the risk in finding out, David’s willing to take it for this precious second chance. It’s been ten years since he’s felt this inspired, this hopeful, this much in love…and he’s afraid.
Hummingbird Lane by Carolyn Brown
The healing powers of art and friendship work together in this inspiring and heartwarming novel by New York Times bestselling author Carolyn Brown.
Ever since childhood, Emma Merrill and Sophia Mason were bound by a passion for painting. Like all young best friends, they promised to never lose touch. But the girls came from different worlds, and their paths diverged when Emma went to an elite college and Sophie worked her way through state school.
After a decade they’ve reconnected, both in a time of need. Emma has been struggling with depression since her college years, and she’s lost herself under the suffocating influence of her controlling and manipulative mother. Sophie, under pressure to prepare for an upcoming gallery show, whisks the fragile Emma away to a small artists’ colony in south Texas. It’s a raw and beautiful landscape where wildflowers bloom―and perhaps Emma can bloom there, too. In the company of such nurturing and creative strangers―especially Josh Corlen, the openhearted manager of the commune―Emma allows herself to breathe again.
For Sophie and Emma, it’s the perfect place for reflection and to finally share the secret burdens each has carried. Most of all it’s a chance to rediscover their true selves and to make good on the old promise that their friendship would last forever.
The Venice Sketchbook: A Novel by Rhys Bowen
“Rhys Bowen crafts a propulsive, unexpected plot with characters who come vibrantly alive on the page.” ―Mark Sullivan, author of Beneath a Scarlet Sky
Love and secrets collide in Venice during WWII in an enthralling novel of brief encounters and lasting romance by the New York Times bestselling author of The Tuscan Child and Above the Bay of Angels.
Caroline Grant is struggling to accept the end of her marriage when she receives an unexpected bequest. Her beloved great-aunt Lettie leaves her a sketchbook, three keys, and a final whisper…Venice. Caroline’s quest: to scatter Juliet “Lettie” Browning’s ashes in the city she loved and to unlock the mysteries stored away for more than sixty years.
It’s 1938 when art teacher Juliet Browning arrives in romantic Venice. For her students, it’s a wealth of history, art, and beauty. For Juliet, it’s poignant memories and a chance to reconnect with Leonardo Da Rossi, the man she loves whose future is already determined by his noble family. However star-crossed, nothing can come between them. Until the threat of war closes in on Venice and they’re forced to fight, survive, and protect a secret that will bind them forever.
Key by key, Lettie’s life of impossible love, loss, and courage unfolds. It’s one that Caroline can now make right again as her own journey of self-discovery begins.
Malice by Heather Walter
“Walter’s spellbinding debut is for all the queer girls and women who’ve been told to keep their gifts hidden and for those yearning to defy gravity.”—O: The Oprah Magazine
Once upon a time, there was a wicked fairy who, in an act of vengeance, cursed a line of princesses to die. A curse that could only be broken by true love’s kiss.
You’ve heard this before, haven’t you? The handsome prince. The happily ever after.
Utter nonsense.
Let me tell you, no one in Briar actually cares about what happens to its princesses. Not the way they care about their jewels and elaborate parties and charm-granting elixirs. I thought I didn’t care, either.
Until I met her.
Princess Aurora. The last heir to Briar’s throne. Kind. Gracious. The future queen her realm needs. One who isn’t bothered that I am Alyce, the Dark Grace, abhorred and feared for the mysterious dark magic that runs in my veins. Humiliated and shamed by the same nobles who pay me to bottle hexes and then brand me a monster. Aurora says I should be proud of my gifts. That she . . . cares for me. Even though a power like mine was responsible for her curse.
But with less than a year until that curse will kill her, any future I might see with Aurora is swiftly disintegrating—and she can’t stand to kiss yet another insipid prince. I want to help her. If my power began her curse, perhaps it’s what can lift it. Perhaps together we could forge a new world.
Nonsense again. Because we all know how this story ends, don’t we? Aurora is the beautiful princess. And I—
I am the villain.
Book One of the Malice Duology
The Galaxy, and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers
Return to the sprawling, Hugo Award-winning universe of the
Galactic Commons to explore another corner of the cosmos—one often
mentioned, but not yet explored—in this absorbing entry in the Wayfarers
series, which blends heart-warming characters and imaginative
adventure.
With no water, no air, and no native life,
the planet Gora is unremarkable. The only thing it has going for it is a
chance proximity to more popular worlds, making it a decent stopover
for ships traveling between the wormholes that keep the Galactic Commons
connected. If deep space is a highway, Gora is just your average truck
stop.
At the Five-Hop One-Stop, long-haul spacers can stretch their legs (if they have legs, that is), and get fuel, transit permits, and assorted supplies. The Five-Hop is run by an enterprising alien and her sometimes helpful child, who work hard to provide a little piece of home to everyone passing through.
When a freak technological failure halts all traffic to and from Gora, three strangers—all different species with different aims—are thrown together at the Five-Hop. Grounded, with nothing to do but wait, the trio—an exiled artist with an appointment to keep, a cargo runner at a personal crossroads, and a mysterious individual doing her best to help those on the fringes—are compelled to confront where they’ve been, where they might go, and what they are, or could be, to each other.
The Girl and the Mountain by Mark Lawrence
The second novel in the thrilling and epic new fantasy series from the international bestselling author of Red Sister and Prince of Thorns.
On the planet Abeth there is only the ice. And the Black Rock.
For
generations the priests of the Black Rock have reached out from their
mountain to steer the fate of the ice tribes. With their Hidden God,
their magic and their iron, the priests’ rule has never been questioned.
But when ice triber Yaz challenged their authority, she was torn away
from the only life she had ever known, and forced to find a new path for
herself.
Yaz has lost her friends and found her enemies. She has
a mountain to climb, and even if she can break the Hidden God’s power,
her dream of a green world lies impossibly far to the south, across a
vast emptiness of ice. Before the journey can even start, she has to
find out what happened to the ones she loves and save those that can be
saved.
Abeth holds its secrets close, but the stars shine brighter for Yaz and she means to unlock the truth.
The Crown of Gilded Bones by Jennifer L. Armentrout
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer L. Armentrout comes book three in her Blood and Ash series.
She's been the victim and the survivor…
Poppy never dreamed she would find the love she’s found with Prince Casteel. She wants to revel in her happiness but first they must free his brother and find hers. It’s a dangerous mission and one with far-reaching consequences neither dreamed of. Because Poppy is the Chosen, the Blessed. The true ruler of Atlantia. She carries the blood of the King of Gods within her. By right the crown and the kingdom are hers.
The enemy and the warrior…
Poppy has only ever wanted to control her own life, not the lives of others, but now she must choose to either forsake her birthright or seize the gilded crown and become the Queen of Flesh and Fire. But as the kingdoms’ dark sins and blood-drenched secrets finally unravel, a long-forgotten power rises to pose a genuine threat. And they will stop at nothing to ensure that the crown never sits upon Poppy’s head.
A lover and heartmate…
But the greatest threat to them and to Atlantia is what awaits in the far west, where the Queen of Blood and Ash has her own plans, ones she has waited hundreds of years to carry out. Poppy and Casteel must consider the impossible—travel to the Lands of the Gods and wake the King himself. And as shocking secrets and the harshest betrayals come to light, and enemies emerge to threaten everything Poppy and Casteel have fought for, they will discover just how far they are willing to go for their people—and each other.
And now she will become Queen…
The Last Watch by J. S. Dewes
The Expanse meets Game of Thrones in J. S. Dewes's fast-paced, sci-fi adventure The Last Watch, where a handful of soldiers stand between humanity and annihilation.
The Divide.
It’s the edge of the universe.
Now it’s collapsing―and taking everyone and everything with it.
The only ones who can stop it are the Sentinels―the recruits, exiles, and court-martialed dregs of the military.
At
the Divide, Adequin Rake commands the Argus. She has no resources, no
comms―nothing, except for the soldiers that no one wanted. Her ace in
the hole could be Cavalon Mercer--genius, asshole, and exiled prince who
nuked his grandfather's genetic facility for “reasons.”
She knows they’re humanity's last chance.
The Young Hemingway by Michael Reynolds
A National Book Award Finalist
"The Young Hemingway will entertain and surprise…It should rank as one of the best nonfiction books of the year." ―Los Angeles Times
Michael Reynolds recreates the milieu that forged one of America's greatest and most influential writers. He reveals the fraught foundations of Hemingway's persona: his father's self-destructive battle with depression and his mother's fierce independence and spiritualism. He brings Hemingway through World War I, where he was frustrated by being too far away from the action and glory, despite his being wounded and nursed to health by Agnes Von Kurowsky―the older woman with whom he fell terribly in love.
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
His best. Time may show it to be the best single piece of any of us, I mean his and my contemporaries.” – William Faulkner.
The Old Man and the Sea, an apparently simple fable, represents the mature Hemingway at his best, and it is still one of his most read books. In 1954 Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature “for his mastery of the art of narrative, most recently demonstrated in The Old Man and the Sea, and for the influence that he has exerted on contemporary style.”
Hemingway’s style was famously simple. In responding to a critic, he said “Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.” Using these simpler and better words he tells the unforgettable story of Santiago, an old Cuban fisherman down on his luck, who goes out alone far from the shore in search of one last victory and catches a huge marlin longer than his boat. He is tested to the very limits of his skill and strength and returns “destroyed but not defeated.” This, of course, also refers to Hemingway, who, in his last years, was in constant pain from years of adventures and accidents but still able to do his best work. A classic novella that can be read in a single sitting.
Ernest Miller Hemingway (1899–1961) was an American journalist, novelist, short-story writer, and sportsman. He loved Cuba, where he had a home, and where he placed his Nobel Prize medal in the custody of the Catholic Church for the benefit of the local people. His economical and understated style—which he termed the iceberg theory—has had a strong influence on twentieth-century fiction. Many of his books are considered classics of American literature. Writer Richard Ford calls Fitzgerald, Hemingway and Faulkner “the Three Kings who set the measure for every writer since.”
Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir by A. E. Hotchner
An intimate, joy-filled portrait and New York Times bestseller, written by one of Hemingway’s closest friends: “It is hard to imagine a better biography” (Life).
In 1948, A. E. Hotchner went to Cuba to ask Ernest Hemingway to write an article on “The Future of Literature” for Cosmopolitan magazine.
The article never materialized, but from that first meeting at the El
Floridita bar in Havana until Hemingway’s death in 1961, Hotchner and
the Nobel and Pulitzer Prize–winning author developed a deep and abiding
friendship. They caroused in New York City and Rome, ran with the bulls
in Pamplona, hunted in Idaho, and fished the waters off Cuba. Every
time they got together, Hemingway held forth on an astonishing variety
of subjects, from the art of the perfect daiquiri to Paris in the 1920s
to his boyhood in Oak Park, Illinois. Thankfully, Hotchner took it all
down.
Papa Hemingway provides fascinating details about
Hemingway’s daily routine, including the German army belt he wore and
his habit of writing descriptive passages in longhand and dialogue on a
typewriter, and documents his memories of Gertrude Stein, F. Scott
Fitzgerald, Martha Gellhorn, Marlene Dietrich, and many of the twentieth
century’s most notable artists and celebrities. In the literary icon’s
final years, as his poor health began to affect his work, Hotchner
tenderly and honestly portrays Hemingway’s valiant attempts to beat back
the depression that would lead him to take his own life.
Deeply compassionate and highly entertaining, this “remarkable” New York Times bestseller “makes Hemingway live for us as nothing else has done” (The Wall Street Journal).
Ellie & The War On Powder Creek (The Dolan Girls Book 2) by S. R. Mallery
Another Rip Roaring, Heart Warming Story of Love, Fear, and Redemption in the Wild West It’s 1891 and The DOLAN GIRLS western romance saga continues. This time it stars the feisty Ellie Dolan Parker, who finds herself caught up in the middle of the Wyoming Cattle Wars. Filled with rich, greedy cattle barons thirsty for prime land, crooked politicians, a major kidnapping, local ranchers in life-threatening danger, Butch Cassidy’s Hole In The Wall hideout, hired ‘guns’ from Texas, a troubled marriage, and a blossoming romance, this story is a colorful portrayal of a forgotten time. A time when these well-known events and their players filled the newspapers.Will Ellie make her mark? Or will she simply become one of the victims?
martedì 6 aprile 2021
ATHANOR: The Secret Science of the Heart (I Quaderni del Bardo Edizioni di Stefano Donno)
The time of our civilisation, which is only one of the possible civilisations, can be transcribed synthetically through the categories of thought that specified axiologically its structure and continually remodelled it. Passages never clearly marked, if anything connoted, by that “barbarian residue” which, due to a certain instinctual pertinacity, were painstakingly exceeded. The border between reality and appearance is always very subtle, we find it so, even today in the persistence of certain scientifically anachronistic expressions; let us say, for example, that the sun rises and sets, instead of referring to the horizon. We need some time to get used to something that differs from the perception that we had of the world that is, we need time to change.This, for what it’s worth, is what we believe. In fact, however, it is only the persistences that weaken our conscious presence, which, in turn, manifests itself in a wealth of forms commensurate with the capacity we have to intuit them. Every achievement is as if a new mental being is produced, almost incapable of empathy with the past self. Ultimately, the shift over time determines a change of perspective, by regressing in the memory, we lose the sharpness of the state of mind that led to the choice or for which we risked that move. We simply change our mind and this has the effect of no longer permitting us to be that which we once were. It’s as if they slowly vanish, all the humours or moods that we have experienced converge here - there is no other time and if every shift creates a different vision of the world, everything can be changed in a single instant.
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Tempo. Il sogno di uccidere Chrónos di Guido Tonelli (Feltrinelli)
Esiste un tempo dell'esperienza, scandito dalla memoria e dal desiderio. Esiste un tempo delle grandi distanze cosmiche. Ed esiste un tempo dell'infinitamente piccolo. Chrónos è un mistero, e non solo per i fisici. Lo era per i primi uomini e continua a esserlo per noi oggi. Ma da sempre chi comprende le leggi dello scorrere del tempo domina il mondo. Da Newton ad Amleto, da Einstein a Dalí, il tempo è stato protagonista di metamorfosi vertiginose, affascinanti e mostruose. Esiste? Si può fermare? E se ne può invertire il corso? Guido Tonelli ci guida lungo la tortuosa via d'accesso alla comprensione di una realtà molto diversa da come crediamo che sia. In cui il ritmo regolare del nostro tempo, la sua periodicità quasi perfetta, nasce da un insieme intricato e complesso di zone turbolente, fenomeni caotici, immani catastrofi, interi sistemi solari sbriciolati da esplosioni di supernove, galassie devastate da nuclei galattici attivi. Quei mondi lontani sono una sfida alla nostra immaginazione, così come lo sono le particelle elementari, con le loro esistenze effimere e le loro vite eterne. Quando le distanze sono così vaste o guardiamo all'infinitamente piccolo, il concetto di "adesso" e l'idea della simultaneità perdono qualunque consistenza. Il tempo è uno strumento formidabile per sopravvivere nel nostro ambiente, ma ci inganna appena cerchiamo di capire come funziona il mondo al di fuori del nostro piccolo pianeta. E toccare con mano questa impossibilità ci turba profondamente. Ne nasce un viaggio che ci costringe ad abbandonare ogni certezza, e per il quale dovremo fare ricorso alla fantasia non meno che alla ragionevolezza. Un viaggio in cui il mito, l'arte e la filosofia ci soccorreranno dove la mente vacilla.
Arsenio Lupin. Ladro gentiluomo. Nuova edizione in occasione della serie Netflix Maurice Leblanc
Il romanzo originale di Maurice Leblanc in una nuova edizione ufficiale, in pelle simulata e con lamina dorata. Include le foto dal set della serie Netflix.
Kingdom of Shadow and Light: A Fever Novel by Karen Marie Moning
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • MacKayla Lane faces the ultimate
threat when war breaks out between the kingdoms of shadow and light, as
the Fever series races to an explosive revelation.
From the
moment MacKayla Lane arrived in Dublin to hunt her sister’s murderer,
she’s had to fight one dangerous battle after the next: to survive, to
secure power, to keep her city safe, to protect the people she loves.
The matter of who’s good and who’s evil can be decided by the answer to a single question: Whose side are you on?
Now, as High Queen of the Fae, Mac faces her greatest challenge yet:
ruling the very race she was born to hunt and kill—a race that wants her
dead yesterday, so they can put a pure-blooded Fae queen on the throne.
But challenges with her subjects are the least of her concerns when an
ancient, deadly foe resurfaces, changing not only the rules of the game
but the very game itself, initiating a catastrophic sequence of events
that have devastating consequences and leave Mac questioning everything
she’s ever learned and everyone she’s ever loved. Now begins an epic
battle between Mortal and Fae, Seelie and Unseelie, would-be kings and
would-be queens, with possession of the Unseelie King’s virtually
unlimited power and the fate of humanity at stake.
From the
exquisite, deadly gardens of the High Queen’s court, to long-forgotten
truths found in the Sacred Grove of Creation, from the erotic bed of her
enigmatic, powerful lover to the darkest, seductive reaches of the
Unseelie kingdom, Mac’s final journey takes her places no human has been
before, and only one human could possibly survive . . .
One who’s willing to sacrifice everything.
Smoke Bitten (A Mercy Thompson Novel) by Patricia Briggs
Mercy Thompson, car mechanic and shapeshifter, faces a threat unlike any other in this thrilling entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.
I am Mercedes Athena Thompson Hauptman.
My only “superpowers” are that I turn into a thirty-five pound coyote
and fix Volkswagens. But I have friends in odd places and a pack of
werewolves at my back. It looks like I'm going to need them.
Centuries
ago, the fae dwelt in Underhill—until she locked her doors against
them. They left behind their great castles and troves of magical
artifacts. They abandoned their prisoners and their pets. Without the
fae to mind them, those creatures who remained behind roamed freely
through Underhill wreaking havoc. Only the deadliest survived.
Now
one of those prisoners has escaped. It can look like anyone, any
creature it chooses. But if it bites you, it controls you. It lives for
chaos and destruction. It can make you do anything—even kill the person
you love the most. Now it is here, in the Tri-Cities. In my territory.
The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton
*** A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK! ***
An
electrifying novel about the meteoric rise of an iconic interracial rock
duo in the 1970s, their sensational breakup, and the dark secrets
unearthed when they try to reunite decades later for one last tour.
“Feels truer and more mesmerizing than some true stories. It’s a packed time capsule that doubles as a stick of dynamite.” —The New York Times Book Review
“One
of the most immersive novels I’ve ever read….This is a thrilling work
of polyphony—a first novel, that reads like the work of an old hand.”
—Ta-Nehisi Coates, New York Times bestselling author of The Water Dancer and Between the World and Me
* A Most Anticipated Selection By *
O, The Oprah Magazine * Vogue * Elle * Good Morning America *
Washington Post * Entertainment Weekly * Essence * PopSugar * BookRiot *
Goodreads * Literary Hub * Parade * Ms. Magazine * The Millions *
Opal
is a fiercely independent young woman pushing against the grain in her
style and attitude, Afro-punk before that term existed. Coming of age in
Detroit, she can’t imagine settling for a 9-to-5 job—despite her
unusual looks, Opal believes she can be a star. So when the aspiring
British singer/songwriter Neville Charles discovers her at a bar’s
amateur night, she takes him up on his offer to make rock music together
for the fledgling Rivington Records.
In early seventies New
York City, just as she’s finding her niche as part of a flamboyant and
funky creative scene, a rival band signed to her label brandishes a
Confederate flag at a promotional concert. Opal’s bold protest and the
violence that ensues set off a chain of events that will not only change
the lives of those she loves, but also be a deadly reminder that
repercussions are always harsher for women, especially black women, who
dare to speak their truth.
Decades later, as Opal considers a
2016 reunion with Nev, music journalist S. Sunny Shelton seizes the
chance to curate an oral history about her idols. Sunny thought she knew
most of the stories leading up to the cult duo’s most politicized
chapter. But as her interviews dig deeper, a nasty new allegation from
an unexpected source threatens to blow up everything.
Provocative and chilling, The Final Revival of Opal & Nev
features a backup chorus of unforgettable voices, a heroine the likes
of which we’ve not seen in storytelling, and a daring structure, and
introduces a bold new voice in contemporary fiction.
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E’ accaduto già con un altro caso letterario: il “Necronomicon” di Howard P. Lovecraft. Il dibattito ancora oggi tutt’altro che conclu...
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Di cosa siamo veramente responsabili? Qual è il margine di libertà delle nostre azioni, anche di quelle che crediamo dipenda...
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Il movimento MODERATI 2.0 PER LE LIBERTA’ trae le sue origini dalla rete e si riallaccia al movimento politico internazionale pirata...