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Not That Kind of Girl (eBook, ePUB)



eBook, ePUB
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Includes two new essays! NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY MICHIKO KAKUTANI, THE NEW YORK TIMES • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY BUZZFEED, THE GLOBE AND MAIL, AND LIBRARY JOURNAL For readers of Nora Ephron, Tina Fey, and David Sedaris, this hilarious, wise, and fiercely candid collection of personal essays establishes Lena Dunham-the acclaimed creator, producer, and star of HBO's Girls-as one of the most original young talents writing today. In Not That Kind of Girl, Dunham illuminates the experiences that are part of making one's way in the world: falling in love, feeling alone, being ten pounds overweight despite eating only health food, having to prove yourself in a room full of men twice your age, finding true love, and most of all, having the guts to believe that your story is one that deserves to be told. "Take My Virginity (No Really, Take It)" is the account of Dunham's first time, and how her expectations of sex didn't quite live up to the actual event ("No floodgate had been opened, no vault of true womanhood unlocked"); "Girls & Jerks" explores her former attraction to less-than-nice guys-guys who had perfected the "dynamic of disrespect" she found so intriguing; "Is This Even Real?" is a meditation on her lifelong obsession with death and dying-what she calls her "genetically predestined morbidity." And in "I Didn't F*** Them, but They Yelled at Me," she imagines the tell-all she will write when she is eighty and past caring, able to reflect honestly on the sexism and condescension she has encountered in Hollywood, where women are "treated like the paper thingies that protect glasses in hotel bathrooms-necessary but infinitely disposable." Exuberant, moving, and keenly observed, Not That Kind of Girl is a series of dispatches from the frontlines of the struggle that is growing up. "I'm already predicting my future shame at thinking I had anything to offer you," Dunham writes. "But if I can take what I've learned and make one menial job easier for you, or prevent you from having the kind of sex where you feel you must keep your sneakers on in case you want to run away during the act, then every misstep of mine will have been worthwhile." Praise for Not That Kind of Girl "The gifted Ms. Dunham not only writes with observant precision, but also brings a measure of perspective, nostalgia and an older person's sort of wisdom to her portrait of her (not all that much) younger self and her world. . . . As acute and heartfelt as it is funny."-Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "It's not Lena Dunham's candor that makes me gasp. Rather, it's her writing-which is full of surprises where you least expect them. A fine, subversive book."-David Sedaris "This book should be required reading for anyone who thinks they understand the experience of being a young woman in our culture. I thought I knew the author rather well, and I found many (not altogether welcome) surprises."-Carroll Dunham "Witty, illuminating, maddening, bracingly bleak . . . [Dunham] is a genuine artist, and a disturber of the order."-The Atlantic…mehr

 

6,99 €

Famesick



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In this rowdy, frank reflection on illness, fame, sex, and everything in between, the remarkable mind behind the hit series Girlsand the bestselling author of Not That Kind of Girlasks whether fulfilling her creative ambitions has been worth the pain. For the last decade, as she's spent countless hours in doctor's waiting rooms searching for diagnoses, treatments, and relief, being the owner and operator of Lena Dunham's body has felt, as she puts it, 'like towing a wrecked car across town at midnight.' It's not easy dragging a wrecked car anywhere, much less to the Met Gala while sewn into a gold lamé corset. Or to the set of the hit show that you - as a twenty-five-year-old - are writing, directing, producing, and starring in. Or to the White House, the Golden Globes, or your publicist's office to discuss the latest internet disaster. But Dunham does it - even if it means interminable hospital stays, vomiting in the bathroom when she's meant to be meeting Oprah, or terrifying those closest to her - because she can no longer tell the difference between fighting to do what she loves and being a servant to her own ambition. All the while, she is holding out for a love that can withstand her personal and public challenges and, more than anything, yearning to feel like herself again - if only she could remember who that self was. As Dunham takes us through her journey, tracking her rise to fame - from selling the pilot of Girls to the present - in three acts, it becomes clear that the spotlight casts long shadows, distorting the relationships she once held dear and isolating everyone in its glare. When an endless supply of drugs can't protect you from pain - and begins to control your every move - being famous doesn't stand a chance against the darker corners of the human experience. In Famesick, Dunham asks herself what the cost of fulfilling her dreams has really been, and whether it was worth it. What she finds is deeper than physical relief, and more lasting, as she learns to live with what she can't change and turn her regrets into wisdom that can carry her forward, as she reconnects to what, and who, she loves.…mehr

 

20,99 €

Lena Dunham

Lena Dunham, 28, kommt aus einer New Yorker Künstlerfamilie. Mit 8 fing sie an zu schreiben. Anfang 20 drehte sie ihren ersten eigenen Spielfilm ›Tiny Furniture‹, und spätestens seit sie die Fernsehserie ›Girls‹ entwickelt hat, ist sie international bekannt. Dunham hat die Serie selbst geschrieben, produziert, Regie geführt und spielt darin die Hauptrolle. 2012 wurde sie für vier Emmys nominiert, 2013 erhielt sie zwei Golden Globes. 2012 wählte das "Time Magazine" Dunham zur "Coolest Person of the Year", 2013 unter die 100 einflussreichsten Menschen der Welt. ›Not That Kind of Girl‹ ist ihr erstes Buch. Sie lebt in Brooklyn.

Not That Kind of Girl

Lena Dunham: "Was ich im Leben so gelernt habe"



Das "Time Magazine" wählte Lena Dunham zur "coolest person of the year" und die Medien feiern die junge Autorin - sie hat u. a. die Fernsehserie "Girls" (HBO) entwickelt und produziert sowie die Regie dafür übernommen und eine der Hauptfiguren gespielt - als "Wundermädchen" und "Stimme einer ganzen Generation". "Girls" ist sozusagen das Anti-Sex-and-the-City - denn hier geht es zwar auch um Sex, das Leben, die Liebe und alles, was sonst noch so wichtig ist, aber die Figuren sind keine untergewichtigen New Yorkerinnen ohne Geldsorgen, sondern ganz normale Mittzwanzigerinnen mit ganz normalen Figuren und sehr überschaubarem Budget. Mit gerade einmal 28 Jahren hat Dunham schon zwei Golden Globes, 1,5 Millionen Follower auf Twitter und natürlich schreibt sie für das einflussreichste Magazin der USA, den "New Yorker". Sogar Barack Obama hat Lena Dunham gebeten, einen Film für seinen Wahlkampf zu drehen. Wow! Dunham scheint also alles richtig zu machen. Nun erscheint mit "Not That Kind of Girl" ihr erstes Buch - und natürlich wurde es mit Hochspannung erwartet.



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