Bill Clegg Kolejność książek (chronologicznie)

Jackie, emerytowana wdowa z Connecticut, niespodziewanie spotyka swoją najlepszą przyjaciółkę z dzieciństwa, Danę, która nie wie, dlaczego się pojawiła. W Pennsylwanii mężczyzna przybywa, by opowiedzieć ojcu o swoim ojcostwie, lecz znajduje go nieprzytomnego w hotelu. Na Hawajach taksówkarka Lupita odbiera telefon, który przywołuje traumatyczne wspomnienia. Te pozornie niepowiązane wątki łączą się w niezwykle przemyślany sposób, ujawniając sekrety sprzed ponad pół wieku. Autor podkreśla, jak nasze wybory wpływają na przyszłość i życie innych. Opowieść pełna jest dwuznaczności i tajemnic, koncentrując się na próbie naprawienia dawnych nieporozumień. Clegg z empatią opisuje subtelności relacji międzyludzkich, krytykując społeczne podziały bez moralizowania. Jego styl jest prosty i elegancki, a fabuła zaskakuje zwrotami akcji, co tworzy efekt poetyckiej niejednoznaczności. Powieść eksploruje temat żalu i prób naprawienia błędów przeszłości, ukazując niepewność życia. Starzejąca się dziedziczka wraca do rodzinnego domu, nie pamiętając powodu, a córka jej dawnej służącej prowadzi taksówkarską firmę na Hawajach. Clegg perfekcyjnie łączy te wątki, tworząc poruszającą narrację.

This book of dark secrets opens with a blaze. On the morning of her daughter's wedding, June Reid's house goes up in flames, destroying her entire family - her present, her past and her future. Fleeing from the carnage, stricken and alone, June finds herself in a motel room by the ocean, hundreds of miles from her Connecticut home, held captive by memories and the mistakes she has made with her only child, Lolly, and her partner, Luke. In the turbulence of grief and gossip left in June's wake we slowly make sense of the unimaginable. The novel is a gathering of voices, and each testimony has a new revelation about what led to the catastrophe - Luke's alienated mother Lydia, the watchful motel owners, their cleaner Cissy, the teenage pothead who lives nearby - everyone touched by the tragedy finds themselves caught in the undertow, as their secret histories finally come to light. Lit by the clarity of understanding that true sadness brings, Did You Ever Have a Family is an elegant, unforgettable story that reveals humanity at its worst and best, through loss and love, fracture and forgiveness. At the book's heart is the idea of family - the ones we are born with and the ones we create - and the desire, in the face of everything, to go on living.

The goal is ninety--just ninety clean and sober days to loosen the hold of the addiction that caused Bill Clegg to lose everything. Six weeks out of his most recent rehab, Clegg returns to New York and starts attending two or three meetings each day. It is in these refuges that he befriends essential new allies including Polly, who struggles daily with her own cycle of recovery and relapse, and the seemingly unshakably sober Asa. At first, the support is not enough: Clegg relapses with only three days left. That's when the battle to reclaim his life gets reignited. As any recovering addict knows, hitting rock bottom is just the beginning.

Bill Clegg had a thriving business as a literary agent, representing a growing list of writers. He had a supportive partner, trusting colleagues, and loving friends when he walked away from his world and embarked on a two-month crack binge. He had been released from rehab nine months earlier, and his relapse would cost him his home, his money, his career, and very nearly his life. What is it that leads an exceptional young mind to want to disappear? Clegg makes stunningly clear the attraction of the drug that had him in its thrall, capturing in scene after scene the drama, tension, and paranoiac nightmare of a secret life-and the exhilarating bliss that came again and again until it was eclipsed almost entirely by doom. PORTRAIT OF AN ADDICT AS A YOUNG MAN is an utterly compelling narrative-lyrical, irresistible, harsh, and honest-from which you simply cannot look away.