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Ulla Danielsson

    M train
    Allergiebuch
    The Gravedigger's Daughter
    Crime from the Mind of a Woman
    In the Presence of the Enemy
    • M train

      • 288 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      National Best Seller  From the National Book Award–winning author of Just Kids: an unforgettable odyssey of a legendary artist, told through the prism of the cafés and haunts she has worked in around the world. It is a book Patti Smith has described as “a roadmap to my life.” M Train begins in the tiny Greenwich Village café where Smith goes every morning for black coffee, ruminates on the world as it is and the world as it was, and writes in her notebook. Through prose that shifts fluidly between dreams and reality, past and present, and across a landscape of creative aspirations and inspirations, we travel to Frida Kahlo’s Casa Azul in Mexico; to a meeting of an Arctic explorer’s society in Berlin; to a ramshackle seaside bungalow in New York’s Far Rockaway that Smith acquires just before Hurricane Sandy hits; and to the graves of Genet, Plath, Rimbaud, and Mishima. Woven throughout are reflections on the writer’s craft and on artistic creation. Here, too, are singular memories of Smith’s life in Michigan and the irremediable loss of her husband, Fred Sonic Smith. Braiding despair with hope and consolation, illustrated with her signature Polaroids, M Train is a meditation on travel, detective shows, literature, and coffee. It is a powerful, deeply moving book by one of the most remarkable multiplatform artists at work today.

      M train2016
      4.0
    • The Gravedigger's Daughter

      • 600 pages
      • 21 hours of reading

      From The Author Of 'Blonde', 'The Falls' And 'We Were The Mulvaneys', This New Novel Takes In The Themes Of Race, Immigration, Family And Social Mobility, And Is Joyce Carol Oates At Her Storytelling Best. 'The Gravedigger'S Daughter' Tells The Tale Of Rebecca Schwart, Born In The Late 1930S To An Immigrant Family From Nazi Germany, Just As They Are Arriving To America. The Family Settles In A Small, Bleak Town In Upstate New York, Where The Only Job The Father Can Get Is As The Town Gravedigger And Caretaker Of The Cemetery. Soon The Town'S Prejudice And The Family'S Own Emotional Frailty Results In Unspeakable Tragedy. In The Wake Of This Loss, And In An Attempt To Put Her Past Behind Her, Young Rebecca Schwart Moves On, Across America And Through A Series Of Listless Marriages, In Search Of Somewhere, And Someone, To Whom She Can Belong.

      The Gravedigger's Daughter2008
      3.4
    • Crime from the Mind of a Woman

      A Collection of Women Crime Writers of the Century

      • 548 pages
      • 20 hours of reading

      Elizabeth George has compiled a collection of 26 crime stories from some of the 20th-century's best women writers. All the stories share a desire to explore mankind in a moment on the edge.

      Crime from the Mind of a Woman2002
      3.5
    • In the Presence of the Enemy

      • 625 pages
      • 22 hours of reading

      In London, a woman parliamentarian's daughter is kidnaped and a newspaper editor with whom the parliamentarian had an affair receives a call, threatening the girl's life unless he admits paternity. Inspector Lynley suspects the girl is behind it.

      In the Presence of the Enemy2001
      4.1