Resultados para "Life" en Ficción biográfica

Lady Be Good transports us to the glittering, sumptuous era of 1920s New York to follow the life of aspiring actress Dorothy Hale as she comes of age. Breaking societal rules imposed on women, “Peck’s Bad Girl of Pittsburgh Society” leaves behind her privileged world for the bright lights of Broadway to chase her dream.

A former inmate, who is now an assistant stock broker and a part-time gang counselor, details his life on the inner city streets of Atlanta as a notorious drug dealer, vividly recreating the his struggle to break the cycle and walk the straight and narrow.

We take many things for granted, but having a heart isn't one of them. Paul Cardall is an internationally acclaimed pianist whose career has been an inspiration to millions. But before the awards and success, he was just a little boy with half a functioning heart.

After twelve years of marriage to English explorer James Cook, Elizabeth has yet to spend an entire year with her husband. In their house by the Thames, she moves to the rhythms of her life as a society wife, but there is so much more to her than meets the eye. She has the fortitude to manage the house and garden, raise their children, and face unbearable sorrow by herself - in fact, she is sometimes in thrall to her own independence.

Una vida regalada dibuixa un territori, la Barcelona més confusa i opaca del barri de la Ribera. La matèria primera d'aquesta història és la relació, contradictòria i variada, que el narrador i protagonista ha mantingut amb les dones amb qui ha compartit la vida. És una autobiografia literària, una introspecció sense contemplacions i una mirada fresca i poc respectuosa projectada sobre el carrer. La novel·la explora un triangle impúdic entre un Diògenes modern reciclat per la psicoanàlisi, les dones i la literatura.

From humble beginnings in rural Tennessee to his heroic death defending the Alamo, frontiersman, adventurer, and politician David Davy Crockett embodies the spirit and ideals of the national character. Even during his lifetime, tales of the sharpshooting, skilled woodsman were - to his delight - told, retold, and elaborated on. As a US congressman, the former Creek War militiaman steadfastly opposed President Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal Act.

This is a story all about my friends and I from Glasgow and Scotland and about the rock and roll world. It is a rags-to-riches story.  

Based on Melville's real-life experiences after having jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands, his first novel was extremely popular, provoking public skepticism until the events within were corroborated by a fellow castaway. Typee is properly considered a work of fiction, as the three weeks stay on which the author based his story is here extended to four months, and the book is supplemented with imaginative reconstruction and adaptation of material from other Pacific exploration books of the time. The title refers to the province of Tai Pi Vai.

Paquito D'Rivera nacio en La Habana el 4 de Junio de 1948, y fue eso que suelen llamar un "nino prodigo", pues empezo su carrera musical a los seis anos, gracias a la intuicion ayuda de un padre musico. Desde entonces, ya en plena madurez artistica, ha sido reconocido y aclamado, actuado en muchos escenarios del mundo, junto a grandes figuras del Jazz, la musica popular y clasica.