Darin Strauss est un auteur de renommée internationale dont les œuvres explorent les complexités des relations humaines et la vie intérieure de ses personnages. Sa prose se distingue par une perspicacité psychologique pénétrante et une capacité magistrale à saisir de subtiles nuances émotionnelles. Strauss aborde des thèmes tels que l'identité, la mémoire et la quête de sens dans un monde ambigu. Son écriture est célébrée pour sa profondeur et sa sophistication littéraire.
Josh and Dori Goldin seem like the perfect couple with their baby boy. However, their seemingly ideal life takes a dark turn when their eight-month-old son shows alarming signs, including losing consciousness and coughing up blood, leading to a critical moment when his heart stops.
A tragic car accident during high school profoundly impacts Darin Strauss's life, leading him to grapple with themes of loss, guilt, and accountability. Through vivid and emotional prose, he recounts his journey from adolescence to adulthood, including milestones like college, his writing career, and family life. This powerful memoir explores the long-lasting effects of a moment of tragedy, ultimately revealing a path toward hope and acceptance, making it a deeply personal and uplifting narrative.
"Chang and Eng Bunker were the Siamese twins for whom the term was coined, one of the nineteenth century's most fabled human oddities. Now Darin Strauss has rescued the twins from the sideshow of history, drawing from their extraordinary conjoined lives a first novel of exceptional beauty."--Jacket
Lucille Ball, renowned as Hollywood's first media mogul, is the central figure in this bold exploration of her life and career. The narrative delves into her groundbreaking contributions to television and film, highlighting her innovative spirit and relentless ambition. It captures her journey from a struggling actress to a powerful producer, illustrating her impact on the entertainment industry and her role in shaping modern comedy. Through personal anecdotes and historical context, the book celebrates Ball's legacy as a trailblazer and cultural icon.
From the award-winning, bestselling author of Chang & Eng and Half a Life, a new novel about Lucille Ball, a thrilling love story starring Hollywood’s first true media mogul, and an epic multi-layered look at America’s most fascinating era.This indelible romance begins with a daring conceit—that the author’s grandfather may have had an affair with Lucille Ball. Strauss offers a fresh view of a celebrity America loved more than any other.Lucille Ball—the most powerful woman in the history of Hollywood—starred in America’s first big-time interracial marriage. She owned more movie sets than did any movie studio. And she more or less single-handedly created the modern TV business. And yet Lucille’s off-camera life was in disarray. While acting out a happy marriage for millions, in private she suffered. Her partner couldn’t stay faithful. She struggled to manage her fame with the demands of being a mother, a creative genius, an entrepreneur, and, most of all, a symbol.The Queen of Tuesday—Strauss’s follow-up to the National Book Critics Circle Award winner Half a Life—mixes fact and fiction, memoir and novel, to imagine the provocative story of a woman we thought we knew.
The Dickens classic reimagined as a female-centric, dark futuristic fable. To save a boy she barely knows, teenage orphan Olivia Twist joins THE ESTHERS, a rag-tag girl gang of thieves running free in a dangerous future. Olivia's life in this London of internment camps and strange technology gets even more complicated when she discovers that she has more power and wealth than she's ever dreamed of. But it comes with a great cost. This volume collects issues #1-#4 of Darin Strauss, Adam Dalva, and Emma Vieceli's Olivia.
Talented emerging fiction writers find inspiration in one of the most famous paintings in New York s Frick Collection: Jean-August-Dominique Ingres s Comtesse d Haussonville from 1845.
Das Auftauchen eines dunkelblonden Haarschopfes, das Splittern der Windschutzscheibe, dann Stillstand. Es geht alles ganz schnell. Darin ist achtzehn, als er - unschuldig - eine Mitschülerin überfährt. Doch sein Gefühl sagt: Schuld. Die Blicke, die in der Highschool auf ihn gerichtet sind, kann er kaum aushalten. Die unbeschwerten Jahre im College, die erste Liebe - Darin bemüht sich um ein normales Leben. Doch wie kann man mit dieser Bürde erwachsen werden? Darin Strauss erzählt seine eigene Geschichte mit entwaffnender Offenheit. Ein großes, ein mutiges Bekenntnis.
Der Roman schildert das Leben der siamesischen Zwillinge Chang und Eng (1811-1874), die ihr Leben gemeinsam verbringen müssen und dennoch völlig unterschiedliche Interessen und Persönlichkeiten entwickeln.
