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Alice Steinbach

    Alice Steinbach schafft Erzählungen, die sich mit der tiefen Bedeutung befassen, die im Alltäglichen verborgen liegt, angetrieben von einer persönlichen Verbindung zu ihren Themen. Ihr Schreiben zeichnet sich durch einen lyrischen Prosa-Stil und scharfe Einblicke in die menschliche Psyche aus. Mit ihrer Arbeit möchte sie die Leser mit der Universalität menschlicher Erfahrungen verbinden und die Komplexität von Beziehungen und die Suche nach Sinn erforschen. Ihre Prosa lädt zur Reflexion darüber ein, wie wir Schönheit und Verständnis in der Welt um uns herum finden können.

    Educating Alice
    Without reservations: the travels of an independent woman
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    • American journalist Alice Steinbach took a year off to live in five cities - Paris, Venice, Milan, London and Oxford - when she realized she had entered a new phase of life. Her sons had graduated from college; she had been divorced for a long time; she was a successful journalist. While there was nothing really wrong with her life, she felt restless. Could she live independently of her family, her friends, her career? Steinbach searches for the answer to this provocative question firstly in Paris, where she finds a soul mate in a Japanese man; in Milan, where she befriends a young woman about to marry, and in the evocative cities of Oxford and Venice. Her trip is peppered with accounts of the exotic strangers she meets, her reflections on life and the observational postcards she wrote to herself during her year away.

      Without reservations: the travels of an independent woman
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    • Educating Alice

      • 289 Seiten
      • 11 Lesestunden

      A few years ago, Alice Steinbach, a Pulitzer prize winning journalist decided to take a break from her life. And studying side by side with people preparing for careers in these various fields gives Steinbach a second chance at some roads not taken - a chance to reconnect with her past, when so many options were still open to her.

      Educating Alice
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