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Karen Dukess

    Karen Dukess gestaltet Erzählungen, die von einem bemerkenswert vielfältigen beruflichen Hintergrund geprägt sind. Ihr Debütroman, THE LAST BOOK PARTY, zeigt eine einzigartige Perspektive, die durch Erfahrungen so unterschiedlich wie die Führung von Touren in der ehemaligen Sowjetunion und das Verfassen von Reden zur Gleichstellung der Geschlechter für die Vereinten Nationen geprägt wurde. Diese eklektische Geschichte befeuert ihre Auseinandersetzung mit fesselnden Themen und verleiht ihrer Prosa eine ausgeprägte Tiefe und Authentizität. Dukess' Werk spricht zeitgenössische Leser durch sein nachdenkliches Engagement mit der Welt an.

    650 - Lessons Learned: True Stories of Work, Warmth, and Wonder
    The Last Book Party
    • 2019

      The Last Book Party

      • 256 Seiten
      • 9 Lesestunden
      3,3(7802)Abgeben

      A propulsive tale of ambition and romance, set in the publishing world of 1980’s New York and the timeless beaches of Cape Cod. In the summer of 1987, 25-year-old Eve Rosen is an aspiring writer languishing in a low-level assistant job, unable to shake the shadow of growing up with her brilliant brother. With her professional ambitions floundering, Eve jumps at the chance to attend an early summer gathering at the Cape Cod home of famed New Yorker writer Henry Grey and his poet wife, Tillie. Dazzled by the guests and her burgeoning crush on the hosts’ artistic son, Eve lands a new job as Henry Grey’s research assistant and an invitation to Henry and Tillie’s exclusive and famed "Book Party"— where attendees dress as literary characters. But by the night of the party, Eve discovers uncomfortable truths about her summer entanglements and understands that the literary world she so desperately wanted to be a part of is not at all what it seems. A page-turning, coming-of-age story, written with a lyrical sense of place and a profound appreciation for the sustaining power of books, The Last Book Party shows what happens when youth and experience collide and what it takes to find your own voice.

      The Last Book Party
    • 2018

      Learning never stops, from first steps and arithmetic through being hired and fired and falling in and out of love. This volume celebrates rites of passage-life lessons-with stories first performed for a live audience at Vassar College.

      650 - Lessons Learned: True Stories of Work, Warmth, and Wonder