Autumn Light

Author: Pico Iyer
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 045149394X
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description
Returning to his longtime home in Japan after his father-in-law’s sudden death, Pico Iyer picks up the steadying patterns of his everyday rites: going to the post office and engaging in furious games of ping-pong every evening. But in a country whose calendar is marked with occasions honoring the dead, he comes to reflect on changelessness in ways that anyone can relate to: parents age, children scatter, and Iyer and his wife turn to whatever can sustain them as everything falls away. As the maple leaves begin to turn and the heat begins to soften, Iyer shows us a Japan we have seldom seen before, where the transparent and the mysterious are held in a delicate balance, and where autumn reminds us to take nothing for granted.

Autumn's Light

Author: Aurora Rey
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books Inc
ISBN: 1635552737
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 285

Book Description
Fifth-generation lobster-woman Mat Pero loves her traditional Portuguese family and living in the lesbian hub of Provincetown, even if they feel like two different worlds. Or two different lives. Since she has no plans for them to collide, it’s not a problem. Graham Connor is a romantic at heart, but she hasn’t had a date in over a year. She vows to let loose and have a little fun, and the charming and confident Mat is more than happy to help. But casual hookups aren’t supposed to include romantic dinners and meeting the family. Can Mat see beyond the heartbreak that led her to keep her worlds so separate, and will Graham be waiting if she does?

Light in August

Author: William Faulkner
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 363

Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Light in August" by William Faulkner. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Autumn in the City of Lights

Author: Kirby Howell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780989036429
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 404

Book Description
The epic story of Autumn Winters and Grey Alexander concludes as an unexpected message comes from Paris, France that forces them to do something neither ever thought they could, cooperate with Karl and The Reconstruction Front. But when things overseas don't go as planned, they're once again faced with life and death decisions that will affect the course of mankind.

Autumn Light

Author: Helen Hills
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595205178
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 146

Book Description
AUTUMN LIGHT is the ideal bedside book for the thoughtful reader. It is inspirational without being shallow. Its insightful anecdotes, stories, and fables are sometimes poignant, often humorous, and always thought provoking. The author converses with the reader, sharing her often intimate musings and observations in a direct, frank, and engaging manner.

Autumn Light

Author: Edwina Norton
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0761872086
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 163

Book Description
Autumn Light: My Fifty Years in Zen is one woman’s witness to the half-century when Zen Buddhism took root in the West. Told in the intimate voice of a dharma friend, Autumn Light weaves Norton’s lifeexperiences with the Zen teachings and practice that sustained her through many life challenges.

Autumn Light

Author: Edwina Norton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780761872078
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 160

Book Description
Autumn Light: My Fifty Years in Zen is an artfully told memoir of one woman's lived experience of Zen Buddhism as it took root in America. The author weaves Zen teachings and practices into her personal story, recounting how they guided her through life's challenges into a peaceful old age.

Autumn

Author: Ali Smith
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143197886
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208

Book Description
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 MAN BOOKER PRIZE A NEW YORK TIMES AND GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF 2017 Autumn. Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness. That’s what it felt like for Keats in 1819. How about Autumn 2016? Daniel is a century old. Elisabeth, born in 1984, has her eye on the future. The United Kingdon is in pieces, divided by a historic, once-in-a-generation summer. Love is won, love is lost. Hope is hand-in-hand with hopelessness. The seasons roll round, as ever. Ali Smith’s new novel is a meditation on a world growing ever more bordered and exclusive, on what richness and worth are, on what harvest means. It is the first installment of her Seasonal quartet—four stand-alone books, seperate yet interconnected and cyclical (as the seasons are)—and it casts an eye over our own time. Who are we? What are we made of? Shakespearean jeu d’esprit, Keatsian melancholy, the sheer bright energy of 1960s pop art: the centuries cast their eyes over our own history making. Here’s where we’re living. Here’s time at its more contemporaneous and its most cyclic. From the imagination of the peerless Ali Smith comes a shape-shifting series, wide-ranging in time-scale and light-footed through histories, a story about aging and time and love and stories themselves.

The Lady and the Monk

Author: Pico Iyer
Publisher: Tauris Parke Paperbacks
ISBN: 9781845112035
Category : Kyoto (Japan)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
After meeting the well-educated wife of a Japanese "salaryman", Iyer fashions "a beautifully written book about someone looking for ancient dreams in a strange modern place" (LA Times Book Review)--one that is both a portrait of cross cultural infatuation--and misunderstanding--and a fresh way of seeing the old and the new Japan.

Autumn Light

Author: Catherine Wilson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781951188436
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description