Difficult Loves

Difficult Loves
Author: Italo Calvino
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 304
Release: 1984
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780156260558

In a collection of stories written during the 1940s and 1950s, the author captures moments of revelation in the lives of ordinary people, instants blending recognition and alarm as deceptions and illusions are laid bare.

Difficult Loves

Difficult Loves
Author: Italo Calvino
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2017-08-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0544133412

The author of Invisible Cities explores love and war “with enormous realist dignity” in this collection of “wondrous work from [his] early career” (Kirkus, starred review). In this short story collection, one of Italy’s greatest storytellers explores the interior lives of characters just as their most cherished illusions of love are suddenly swept away. A soldier is reduced to quivering fear by the presence of a full-figured woman in his train compartment; a young clerk leaves a lady’s bed at dawn; a young woman is isolated from bathers on a beach by the loss of her bikini bottom. Confronted with a jarring moment of recognition, each of these characters discovers hidden truths beneath the surface of everyday life. This is the first edition in English to present these fifteen short stories together as Calvino originally envisioned them. It also includes two stories newly translated by Ann Goldstein.

How to Love Difficult People

How to Love Difficult People
Author: William P. Smith
Publisher: New Growth Press
Total Pages: 10
Release: 2008-10-31
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1935273450

Prickly, defensive, nasty, volatile, withdrawn, miserable . . . aren't there days when you feel surrounded by difficult people? How do you cope? You can try avoiding them, gossiping about them, or giving them a piece of your mind. But wait! Don't your reactions make you hard to love too? William P. Smith explains that learning how to deal ...

Toughest People to Love

Toughest People to Love
Author: Chuck DeGroat
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2014-05-29
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 146744040X

People -- frustrating, confusing, disappointing, complicated -- are the most difficult part of leadership, and they challenge leaders everywhere, from leaders of many to managers of a few. In this book Chuck DeGroat addresses the flawed nature of people and offers wisdom for leaders of all types in dealing with just about anyone who is difficult to lead and to love. Toughest People to Love explores the basics of how people "tick," encouraging leaders to examine and take care of themselves so that they can better understand and care for others. Based on DeGroat's wealth of experience as a pastor, professor, and therapist, this book -- both wise and practical -- is one that countless leaders will go back to time and again for valuable insights and renewed vision.

Difficult Games

Difficult Games
Author: Franco Ricci
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2006-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0889206341

Examining Calvino's literary experiments as a young artist in search of his narrative voice, Ricci explores the psychological and existential motivations intrinsically linked to the writer's need for textual and systemic patterning. I racconti contains some of Calvino's least-read works, yet these early stories address issues, present scenarios and generate a growing variation of themes that form the heart of Calvino's narrative discourse. Ricci points out that melancholy permeates Calvino's works—even at his most playful. He suggests that if Calvino's highest merit was his sense of wonder and his urge to transform and defeat obscurantism with all the joy he could muster, one must remember that his work expressed, often painfully, the limits of human rationalism. I racconti can thus be read as a catalogue of the anxieties of both the young author and postwar Italian society.

Adam, One Afternoon

Adam, One Afternoon
Author: Italo Calvino
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2011-01-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1446414396

An acclaimed collection of enchanting, comic and clever tales from the Italian master This collection of playful, deadly febles is populated with waifs and strays, a gluttonous thief and a mischievous gardener. The grimly comic story The Argentine Ant moved Gore Vidal to declare 'if this is not a masterpiece of twentieth-century prose writing, I cannot think of anything better'.

The Difficult Loves of Maria Makiling

The Difficult Loves of Maria Makiling
Author: Wayne Santos
Publisher: Rebellion Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 142
Release: 2021-03-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1786184508

Maria is, in no particular order: a concept artist at a videogame studio, the goddess of Mount Makiling in the Philippines, and in love. And when Maria falls in love, tragedy and death follow. It’s going to take everything a goddess, her newly-befriended demon-horse, and Canadian national treasure Margaret Atwood have to break the cycle.

A Difficult Love

A Difficult Love
Author: Irma Kurti
Publisher: Ukiyoto Publishing
Total Pages: 72
Release:
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9364945816

“Irma Kurti, Italian-Albanian poet and writer, with her beautiful and sincere verses that go straight to the reader’s heart, answers the question of whether it is possible to write and poetize in a language other than one’s mother tongue. This is a sensitive question, as also it encompasses the poetic attempt itself, but it is a successful endeavor in Kurti’s case. Kurti’s poetry travels poetically on two main tracks: on the first, it displays the theme of loneliness and, consequently, human alienation as seen through the poetic kaleidoscope of the poet’s own lonely soul. The second poetic track of the collection, the most sensitive and the most touching one with which Kurti’s entire opus is permeated, is the strand of a soul dripping with grief describing her great personal sadness and loss. In fact, the entire sylloge is dedicated to the memory of her parents, now her guardian angels, who departed for another dimension from which they yet inspire deep and unique tones and feelings; they are always watching over the poet’s every lyrical step.” - Vesna Andrejević

Everybody, Always

Everybody, Always
Author: Bob Goff
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2018-04-17
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0718078179

What if we stopped avoiding the difficult people in our lives and committed to simply loving everybody? What happens when we give away love like we're made of it? In Everybody, Always, Bob Goff's joyful New York Times bestselling follow-up to Love Does, you'll discover the secret to living without fear, constraint, or worry. Bob teaches us that the path toward the outsized, unfettered, liberated existence we all long for is found in one simple truth: love people, even the difficult ones, without distinction and without limits. In Everybody, Always, Bob shows us the simple truths about life that have the power to shift our mindset forever: Jesus uses our blind spots to reveal himself to us It's easy to love kind, lovely, humble people, but you have to tackle fear in order to love people who are difficult What we do with our love will become the conversations we have with God Dark and scary places are filled with beautiful people who need our unconditional love Extravagant love has extraordinary power to change lives, including our own Driven by Bob's trademark storytelling, this book reveals the wisdom Bob learned--often the hard way--about what it means to love without inhibition, insecurity, or restriction. From finding the right friends to discovering the upside of failure, Everybody, Always points the way to embodying love by doing the unexpected, the intimidating, the seemingly impossible. Whether losing his shoes while skydiving solo or befriending a Ugandan witch doctor, Bob steps into life with a no-limits embrace of others that is as infectious as it is extraordinarily ordinary. Everybody, Always reveals how we can do the same.