books about: melancholy     books:     Melancholy      The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy: and Other Stories Tim Burton HarperEntertainment, 1997 Dark and funny. There isn't a whole lot to not like about this book. While it is short, sometimes brevity is key to good storytelling. Tim Burton's little comic strip style book perfectly captures readers with it's dark wit and laughable illustrations. While this is and never could ...             The Blue Day Book Bradley Trevor Greive Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2000 Fabulous photos If you've got photographer friends, this book will be an inspiration for them. But the black and white photos also provide a great pick-me-up for anyone you know who's down in the dumps. The volume describes myriad ways in which we all may feel under the weather ...             Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness Joshua Wolf Shenk Mariner Books, 2006 A sensitive exploration of Lincoln's emotional life Lincoln's Melancholy is one of the best studies of the mental depression that troubled Lincoln throughout his life. Author Joshua Wolf Shenk draws on both scholarship and personal experience with depression to produce a sensitive and insightful account of Lincoln's ...             Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life Kathleen Norris Riverhead Hardcover, 2008 Kathleen Norris’s masterpiece: a personal and moving memoir that resurrects the ancient term acedia , or soul-weariness, and brilliantly explores its relevancy to the modern individual and culture. Kathleen Norris had written several much loved books, yet she couldn’t drag herself out of bed in the morning, couldn’t summon the energy for daily ...             Memories of My Melancholy Whores Gabriel Garcia Marquez Vintage, 2006 The stranger at home The pitfalls of consumerism: I had bought expensive tickets for uncomfortable seats in a concert of Lorin Maazel and his NY big band. They gave me Rossini, Mozart, and Brahms, and all was nice and as expected, and that was highly unsatisfactory, because we want to have ...             Melancholy Baby (Sunny Randall Novels) Robert B. Parker Berkley, 2005 Robert Parker Sunny Randall series Love the Sunny Randall series. Easy and fun to read. This is the fourth book in the series.             The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove Christopher Moore Harper Paperbacks, 2004 Classic Moore If you are a fan of Moore's other books, you will recognize some common characters. Set a little earlier than his "The Stupidest Angel", the book never disappoints. Outrageous characters, great story, and unbelievable laughter on each page. No one makes me laugh out ...             The Anatomy of Melancholy (New York Review Books Classics) Robert Burton NYRB Classics, 2001 Vivisect your mind Where to begin discussing this book? How about again and again? For it begs never to be put down, and if finished (as if that's even possible) to be picked up again and pored over. Again. And again. And again . . . It got Samuel Jonson out of bed earlier than he ...             Against Happiness: In Praise of Melancholy Eric G. Wilson Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008 buy it...or not. If you look at this book, read an excerpt, and _still_ scratch your head about it...this book is, quite simply, not for you. If, however, you heard about it on NPR or read an article or read an excerpt and it immediately called to you on a fundamental level, this book ...             The Freedom Manifesto: How to Free Yourself from Anxiety, Fear, Mortgages, Money, Guilt, Debt, Government, ... Tom Hodgkinson Harper Perennial, 2007 Great follow-up to "Idle" After reading "How to be Idle" in the summer of 2007 and finding out that Hodgkinson had a new release in late 2007, I quickly reserved a copy at my bookstore. As much as I loved "How to be Idle", I enjoyed this one even more. Once again, Hodgkinson's insights prove ...             'Tis Pity She's a Whore and Other Plays: The Lover's Melancholy; The Broken Heart; 'Tis Pity She's a Whore; ... John Ford Oxford University Press, USA, 1999 Great books All of these in the Oxford English Drama series are well worth the money. Thank heavens (and Oxford) that they are in print at this price. I am collecting them all. I've got a shelf of them now. Jane Smiley, writing on something else, said one doesn't need ...             Modigliani: The Melancholy Angel Marc Restellini Skira, 2003 Best book out there on Modigliani For those who love the sensuous work of this early 20th century master, this text is the best on the market. The pictures span the entire short career (he died at age 36) of this artistic genius. There are stunning images throughout. The colour reproduction is superb, ...             On Creaturely Life: Rilke, Benjamin, Sebald Eric L. Santner University Of Chicago Press, 2006 another psychotheology For readers acquainted with Santner's works, they will still find this work interesting,illuminating, well-documented, and a little bit repetitious. However, the important theoretical insights in Lacanian perspectives have already appeared in Santner's classics on ...             The Blue Day Book for Kids: A Lesson in Cheering Yourself Up Bradley Trevor Greive Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2005 A Family Favorite! My children (ages 7 and 4) stumbled across this book at our favorite bookstore recently, and I can't say enough about the smiles and cheer it has brought them. I now plan to buy this book as a gift for every child I know (and even a few adults). Adorable black and ...             The Melancholy of Race: Psychoanalysis, Assimilation, and Hidden Grief (Race and American Culture) Anne Anlin Cheng Oxford University Press, USA, 2001 In this groundbreaking, interdisciplinary study Anne Anlin Cheng argues that we have to understand racial grief not only as the result of racism but also as a foundation for racial identity. The Melancholy of Race proposes that racial identification is itself already a melancholic act--a social category that is imaginatively supported through a ...          products you might be interested in search for books assimilation, challenged, depression, modigliani, psychoanalysis, supermarkets we recommend Dark and funny. randomly chosen book: Tusculanae disputationes / Gespräche in Tusculum. Lateinisch / deutsch ...