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Tiziana Lo Porto

    Radical chic. Il fascino irresistibile dei rivoluzionari da salotto
    Verso la dolcezza
    Anna O
    In a Country of Mothers
    Acts of desperation
    Superzelda
    • Superzelda

      La vita disegnata di Zelda Fitzgerald

      • 200 pages
      • 7 hours of reading

      Ballerina, pittrice e scrittrice, Zelda Sayre (1900-1948), moglie dello scrittore Francis Scott Fitzgerald, ha incarnato più di ogni altra sua contemporanea il prototipo della "maschietta", creando un modello di femminilità alternativa e ribelle che è sopravvissuto ben oltre gli Anni Ruggenti - grazie anche alle opere del marito, che a lei si è ispirato nel costruire le eroine più riuscite dei suoi romanzi. Questo graphic novel ne racconta le vicende, dall'infanzia in Alabama, passando per l'incontro con Scott, il matrimonio e la scandalosa luna di miele a New York, e poi i viaggi in Europa e in Africa, le frequentazioni con Ernest Hemingway, Dorothy Parker, John Dos Passos e molti altri protagonisti della scena intellettuale e artistica dell'epoca, fino alla malattia, il ricovero per schizofrenia e il drammatico epilogo. Sceneggiato a partire dai romanzi del marito, e disegnato utilizzando l'iconografìa dell'epoca e le foto di famiglia di casa Fitzgerald, Superzelda è il ritratto a fumetti della coppia più spericolata e romantica di quella che Gertrude Stein definì "generazione perduta".

      Superzelda
      3.7
    • Love was the final consolation, would set ablaze the fields of my life in one go, leaving nothing behind. I thought of it as a force which would clean me and by its presence make me worthy of it. There was no religion in my life after early childhood, and a great faith in love was what I had cultivated instead. Oh, don't laugh at me for this, for being a woman who says this to you. I hear myself speak.Even now, even after all that took place between us, I can still feel how moved I am by him. Ciaran was that downy, darkening blond of a baby just leaving its infancy. He was the most beautiful man I had ever seen. None of it mattered in the end; what he looked like, who he was, the things he would do to me. To make a beautiful man love and live with me had seemed - obviously, intuitively - the entire point of life. My need was greater than reality, stronger than the truth, more savage than either of us would eventually bear. How could it be true that a woman like me could need a man's love to feel like a person, to feel that I was worthy of life? And what would happen when I finally wore him down and took it?

      Acts of desperation
      3.7
    • In a Country of Mothers

      • 288 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      For Claire Roth, an established psychotherapist with an adoring husband and children, the lines between friendship and family, between love and compulsion, begin to lose their focus when she meets a new patient.

      In a Country of Mothers
      3.5
    • Anna Ogilvy hasn’t opened her eyes for four years. Not since that night at The Farm when she was found asleep with a kitchen knife in her hand, her clothes bloodstained, the bodies of her two best friends lying close. She’d committed the crime of the century – but nothing and no-one could wake her from the nightmare. Believers in her innocence call her Anna O. Believers in her guilt call her Sleeping Beauty. But no-one can take their eyes off the story . . .

      Anna O
      3.4
    • Verso la dolcezza

      • 152 pages
      • 6 hours of reading

      Jules, trent'anni passati, non ha ancora deciso se prendere la patente. Figuriamoci metter su famiglia, o anche solo impegnarsi in un rapporto stabile con una donna. Le sue storie di «single intermittente» sono le cronache di regolari disastri sentimentali. Tra partite di rugby e molte notti di sesso senza amore, l'(auto)ritratto di una generazione di trentenni del tutto impreparati a qualunque responsabilità: indecisi a tutto. Tranne che a restare indecisi.

      Verso la dolcezza
      2.4