Böcker av Maryann D'Agincourt

How does your family's history define you?Jenny considers herself American, independent, and in control of her own destiny, yet she struggles to escape her European parents' experience in Trieste during World War II, a time when painful choices were necessary and deep trauma occurred--trauma they have always avoided speaking of to their daughter. As she moves into an unsettling marriage, she finds herself challenged by the lines between past and present, family and self, until a tragic accident forces her to reevaluate her own identity. Years later, as Jenny travels to the Riviera with a new love, echoes of the past return to blur the present, casting shadows on some memories and illuminating others. She must finally come to terms with her place in her family's history and decide whether it will define her. Marriage of the Smila-Hoffmans brings together Maryann D'Agincourt's insightful novels Shade and Light and August. Now finally available together in a single volume with a new prologue and interlude by the author, they present a sweeping story of love, history, trauma, and art that readers will not want to miss.

In August 1984, Jenny and her second husband Jonas take a belated honeymoon on the Ligurian coast. They stay in the same hotel her late first husband Eric had frequented for business where she unexpectedly discovers clues to Eric's boyhood trauma during the war. This knowledge jolts her view of Eric, her view of herself, and her relationship with Jonas. August is a novel about the power of secrets to transform lives. A sequel to Maryann D'Agincourt evocative novel Shade and Light.

From the author of National Book Award-nominated Journal of Eva Morelli, this insightful collection of short stories takes the reader on a journey through a diverse array of lives and relationships, from a journalist finding new love after the death of her husband to a schoolgirl shocked to discover her mothers secrets. DAgincourt delves deep into the emotional lives of her characters and sheds light on the mysteries of human decisions and the significance of art and music in our lives. Inspired by Oscar Kokoschkas masterpiece Two Nudes (Lovers), 1913, DAgincourt writes in the unique literary genre of art fiction. All MOST, is the second work of fiction in Maryann D'Agincourt's Art Fiction series. What is Art Fiction? Maryann D'Agincourt has merged her passions for art and literature into a unique and powerful form of storytelling. Art Fiction is a literary genre in which art is not solely an object, but is a reflection of what is human in all of us. Other examples are:Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy ChevalierTo the Lighthouse by Virginia WoolfMay Name is Asher Lev by Chaim PotokMoon and Sixpence by Somerset MaughamThe Shadow Catcher by Marianne WigginsThe Real Thing by Henry JamesThe Gold Finch by Donna TarttThe Art Forger by B.A. ShapiroThe Birth of Venus by Sarah DunantThe Passion of Artemisia by Susan Vreeland

Recognized as a finalist in the William Faulkner-William Wisdom Competition by the Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society, Journal of Eva Morelli is psychologically astute and compelling. Psychiatrist Stephen Forester and his wife Brea left the frenzy of New York City ten years before in search of a quiet life in a tranquil seaside community in New Hampshire. But when the elusive Eva Hathaway steps into Stephen's office and begins to reveal the story of her own tragic past, his convictions start to crumble. Over the sweltering summer that follows, Stephen becomes more and more haunted by obscure memories of his childhood as he wonders what secret could be so terrible that Eva can only reveal it in her journal.