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Quicksand : what it means to be a human being
Record details
- ISBN: 0525432159
- ISBN: 9780525432159
- ISBN: 0525432159 : PAP
- ISBN: 9780525432159 : PAP
- ISBN: 9780525432159
- ISBN: 0525432159
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Physical Description:
303 pages ; 21 cm
print - Publisher: New York : Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2017
- Copyright: ©2016
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "Originally published in Sweden as Kvicksand by Leopard förlag, Stockholm, in 2014"--title-page verso. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Part I: The crooked finger -- The car accident -- People reluctantly on their way into the shadows -- The great discovery -- Quicksand -- the future is hidden underground -- the bubble in the glass -- Last will and testament -- The man in the window -- Hagar Qim -- The lion man -- Ice -- Turning time in a different direction -- A journey into the nether regions -- The young medical student -- A magician and an imposter -- A dream about a muddy trench in Flanders -- The caves -- The floating rubbish dump -- Signs -- The raft of death -- All this forgotten love -- Timbuktu -- A different archive -- The courage to be afraid -- Paris -- The hippos -- A cathedral and a cloud of dust -- Part II: The road to Salamanca -- Shadows -- Luminous teeth -- Photographs -- The way out -- Paris in flames, 1348 -- How long is eternity? -- Room number 1 -- The road to Salamanca, part 1 -- the man who dismounted from his horse -- While the child plays -- Elena -- the awakening according to Plato -- Winter night -- Relief -- Getting lost -- The road to Salamanca, part 2 -- Part III: The puppet on a string -- The earth floor -- Moving silently from darkness to darkness -- Mantova and Buenos Aires -- The stupid bird -- Who will be there in the end to listen? -- Salt water -- The buffalo with eight legs -- The secret of cave painters revealed -- The happiness brought by a rickety lorry in the spring -- The war invalid in Budapest -- A visit when something both begins and ends -- The woman with the sack of cement -- A winter in Heraklion -- Catastrophe on a German motorway -- Jealousy and shame -- The twenty-eighth day -- Meeting in a amphitheatre -- A thief and a policeman -- Youth -- The dead body on the bench for the accused -- A violent north-westerly storm -- A fictitious meeting in a park in Vienna, 1913 -- The puppet on a string -- Never being robbed of one's happiness. |
| Summary, etc.: | "In January 2014, Henning Mankell received a diagnosis of lung cancer. Quicksand is a response to this shattering news--but it is not a memoir of destruction. Instead, it is a testament to a life fully lived, a tribute to the extraordinary but fleeting human journey that delivers both boundless opportunity and crucial responsibility. In a series of intimate vignettes, Mankell ranges over rich and varied reflections: of growing up in a small Swedish town, where he experiences a startling revelation on a winter morning as a young boy; of living hand-to-mouth during a summer in Paris as an ambitious young writer; of his work at a theater in Mozambique, where Lysistrata is staged in the midst of civil war; of chance encounters with men and women who changed his understanding of the world. Along the way, Mankell ponders the meaning of a good life, and the critically important ways we can shape the future of humanity if we are fortunate enough to have the choice. Vivid, clear-eyed, and breathtakingly beautiful, Quicksand is an invaluable parting gift from a great man." |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Life Well-being Quality of life Self-actualization (Psychology) Authors, Swedish 20th century Biography Mankell, Henning 1948-2015 |
| Genre: | Autobiographies. |
Available copies
- 8 of 8 copies available at Bibliomation.
Holds
- 1 current hold with 8 total copies.
Show Only Available Copies
| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Bethel Public Library | 839.7 MANKELL (Text) | 34030137412166 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| C.H. Booth Library - Newtown | 839.73 MAN (Text) | 34014139731500 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Janet Carlson Calvert Library - Franklin | 839.7 MAN (Text) | 33345000271163 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Milford Public Library | 839.73 M (Text) | 34013138340545 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Oliver Wolcott Library - Litchfield | 839.73 MAN (Text) | 36123138415748 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Plumb Memorial Library - Shelton | 839.73 MAN (Text) | 34025139994161 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Seymour Public Library | 839.73 MANKELL (Text) | 34043138583257 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Woodbury Public Library | B MANKELL (Text) | 34018141414328 | Adult New Nonfiction | Available | - |
