Tara Isabella Burton Libros

A sparklingly strange odyssey through the kaleidoscope of America's new spirituality: the cults, practices, high priests and prophets of our supposedly post-religion age.

"When the shy, sensitive Laura Stearns arrives at St. Dunstan's Academy in Maine, she dreams that life there will echo her favorite novel, All Before Them, the sole surviving piece of writing by Byronic "prep school prophet" (and St. Dunstan's alum) Sebastian Webster, who died at 19, fighting in the Spanish Civil War. She soon finds the intensity she is looking for among the insular, Webster-worshipping members of the school's cultic chapel choir: presided over by the charismatic, neurotic, overachiever Virginia Strauss, who is as fanatical about her newfound Christian faith as she is about the miles she runs every morning before dawn. Virginia inducts the besotted Laura into a world of transcendent music and arcane ritual, illicit cliff-diving and midnight crypt visits: a world that, like Webster's novels, finally seems to Laura to be full of meaning. But when a new, reformist school chaplain challenges Virginia's hold on the "family" she has created, and Virginia's efforts to hold onto her power become increasingly destructive, Laura must decide how far she will let her devotion to Virginia go. THE WORLD CANNOT GIVE is a meditation on the power, and danger, of wanting more than the world can give"--

'A Ripleyesque exploration of female insecurity set among the socialites of Manhattan' Guardian, Books of the Year 'An irresistible novel about a toxic friendship taken to the extreme' Elle Louise is struggling to survive in New York; juggling a series of poorly paid jobs, renting a shabby flat, being catcalled by her creepy neighbour, she dreams of being a writer. And then one day she meets Lavinia. Lavinia who has everything - looks, money, clothes, friends, an amazing apartment... Lavinia invites Louise into her charmed circle, takes her to the best underground speakeasies, the opera, shares her clothes, her drugs, her Uber account. Louise knows that this can't last for ever, but just how far is she prepared to go to have this life? Or rather, to have Lavinia's life?

"Rose investigates the disappearance of her irresponsible and impetuous sister who fell followed a cult-like cabaret troupe that only appears at night on a mysterious red boat that sails around New York and is blamed for several disappearances"--

An exceptional history of ideas and a contemporary critique on the story of self-making: from the Renaissance to the present day

V dnešní technologiemi prosycené době, kdy je možné bez námahy a digitálně reprodukovat téměř cokoliv, všichni dychtíme vytvořit si svou vlastní jedinečnou osobnost, svou vlastní na míru padnoucí personu, abychom vynikli a byli viděni. Ve světě stále většího individualismu se stává normou „branding“ neboli aktivní definování sebe sama. Tento fenomén však není nový. Na stránkách knihy Self–Made nám Tara Isabella Burton ukazuje, jak jsme dospěli až k tomuto okamžiku urputného osobního brandingu. V řadě chronologických životopisných esejů o slavných (a neslavných) „sebetvůrcích“ v moderním západním světě, od osvícenství přes renesanci až k modernímu kapitalismu a nynějšímu věku masových médií, Burton zkoumá teorie a síly, které stojí za naší nekonečnou potřebou vytvářet sebe samé. Prostřednictvím barvitě vykreslených osobností a poutavé směsi kulturních a historických komentářů se dozvídáme, jak taková osobní značka vlastně přišla na svět – od da Vinciho po Kardashianky.