Jennifer Kaufman Ordine dei libri (cronologico)

“A thrilling story of seduction, betrayal, and loss, Freud’s Mistress will titillate fans of Memoirs of a Geisha and The Other Boleyn Girl.”—Booklist In fin-de-siècle Vienna, it was not easy for a woman to find fulfillment both intellectually and sexually. But many believe that Minna Bernays was able to find both with one man—her brother-in-law, Sigmund Freud. At once a portrait of two sisters—the rebellious, independent Minna and her inhibited sister, Martha—and of the compelling and controversial doctor who would be revered as one of the twentieth century’s greatest thinkers, Freud’s Mistress is a novel rich with passion and historical detail and “a portrait of forbidden desire [with] a thought-provoking central question: How far are you willing to go to be happy?”* *Publishers Weekly

From the critically acclaimed authors of the #1 Los Angeles Times bestseller Literacy and Longing in L.A. comes the ultimate story for late bloomers of every exotic shade. And a quirky young heroine with a knack for reinvention and a flair for the unexpected no reader will ever forget. Thirty, newly single, and desperately in need of a paycheck, inveterate bird-watcher Cassie Shaw finds herself doing something that goes against all her principles. She lies on a résumé to land a job and finds herself employed at an elite university working for a pair of professors as unique as the rare birds she covets. One of them is the sexy, handsome, cheerfully aristocratic expert in animal behavior Professor William Conner. Under his charismatic tutelage, Cassie begins her personal transformation into the person she was meant to be while meeting the kinds of people she has never met before. But when your entire future and your unlikely new career teeter on an unbearable untruth, the masquerade can’t go on forever. And when Cassie steps out from behind her mask it will transform her life—and the lives of those around her—forever.

La protagonista, 35 anni, due divorzi alle spalle, single, vive a West Los Angeles. È una vera divoratrice di libri, maniacale e compulsiva: quando è in crisi sentimentale o è stressata dal lavoro, si chiude per giorni e giorni in casa senza mai uscire o rispondere al telefono e legge ininterrottamente. Quando analizza le ragioni della fine dei suoi matrimoni, quando cerca di decidere cosa fare della sua carriera di giornalista interrotta anni prima, insomma quando prova a dare un senso alla sua vita, Dora si ubriaca di letture. Durante una delle sue innumerevoli spedizioni in libreria si prende una cotta per un commesso. Fred è carino, spiritoso, brillante e romantico. E sembra quasi il protagonista di un romanzo oltre a essere, per Dora, la perfetta via di fuga da tutti i suoi problemi. In breve tempo tra i due sboccia l'amore, ma all'orizzonte si profilano delle complicazioni. Dora si trova costretta a fare scelte difficili. Deve decidere tra due uomini, entrambi affascinanti, tra una vita d'ozio e il lavoro, ma soprattutto tra la gioia delle parole scelte con cura di un libro e l'essenza caotica e disordinata delle persone reali e della vita vera.