Linda Gray Sexton Book order
Linda Gray Sexton's work delves into the intricate dynamics of family, trauma, and the search for self through the lens of literature. Her prose is incisive and introspective, often exploring profound psychological landscapes and the inheritance of the past. She is dedicated to portraying the human experience with authenticity, focusing on themes of mental health, coping with loss, and the complexities of motherhood. Sexton's writing reveals a deep-seated need for understanding and reconciliation, both with oneself and with family history.







- 2024
- 1997
Was es bedeutet hat, als Tochter der amerikanischen Lyrikerin Anne Sexton aufgewachsen zu sein, einer psychisch hochkomplizierten, manisch-depressiven Frau und Künstlerin, die exaltiert, extrovertiert, unberechenbar und alles andere als eine Mutter war, das schildert Linda Gray Sexton in ihrem Erinnerungsbuch. Bereits als kleines Mädchen fühlt Linda die Gefährdung der Mutter, die ihr Leben lang von Suizidgedanken verfolgt wird. Schon früh verkehren sich die Rollen und das Kind wird zur Beschützerin der Mutter. Als Anne Sexton der Selbstmord 1974 schließlich gelingt, ist Linda 21 und gerade dabei, sich aus der Verstrickung in die Probleme der Mutter zu lösen. In einem mühevollen Prozeß der Erinnerung gelingt es ihr, mit ihrer Kindheit und ihren Gefühlen für ihre Mutter ins reine zu kommen.
- 1996
Searching for Mercy Street
- 340 pages
- 12 hours of reading
Linda Gray Sexton's critically acclaimed memoir is an honest, unsparing account of the anguish and fierce love that bound a brilliant, difficult mother and the daughter she left behind. Linda Sexton was twenty-one when her mother killed herself, and now she looks back, remembers, and tries to come to terms with her mother's life.Life with Anne was a wild mixture of suicidal depression and manic happiness, inappropriate behavior, and midnight trips to the psychiatric ward. Anne taught Linda how to write, how to see, how to imagine--and only Linda could have written a book that captures so vividly the intimate details and lingering emotions of their life together. "Searching for Mercy Street" speaks to everyone who admires Anne Sexton and to every daughter or son who knows the pain of an imperfect childhood. This beautiful new trade paperback edition includes a new introduction by the author.
- 1995
Návrat z tmy
- 232 pages
- 9 hours of reading
- 1995
Čo sa deje v súkromí
- 253 pages
- 9 hours of reading
Maggie, dcéra bohémskej hudobníčky, redaktorka v známom vydavateľstve, ostáva po uzavretí manželstva doma pri deťoch. Maggie sa zblíži s manželovým priateľom a po prvý raz v živote s ním objavuje zázrak ľúbostnej extázy. Je to však dosť na to, aby opustila manžela a rozbila svoj namáhavo vybudovaný domov?
- 1991
Im Tal der dunklen Träume - bk1259; Bastei Lübbe; Linda Gray Sexton; pocket_book; 1990
- 1989
Spiegelbilder Roman
- 347 pages
- 13 hours of reading
Vivian Webster, the aging star of a popular TV soap opera, turns to her teenaged daughter Mira to allay her insecurities and, in effect, run her life, but this role reversal proves too much for Mira to bear.
