Norah Vincent

Un provocador y fascinante relato de una investigación de dieciocho meses realizada por una periodista que hará que cambiemos nuestra forma de pensar acerca de lo que significa ser un hombre. Norah Vincent queria saber como era en realidad la vida de los hombres. Muchas mujeres estan mas que convencidas de que, para los hombres, todo es mas facil. Eso fue lo que hizo Norah, tratar de descubrir por si misma si las cosas eran asi en realidad, y en que no casaban con nuestras ideas preconcebidas. Asi que, a lo largo de dieciocho meses, se hizo pasar por un hombre. Tras los pasos de John Howard Griffin (Black Like Me) y de Barbara Ehrenreich (Nickel and Dimed), Norah Vincent se sumergio en la experiencia de otra cultura para relatarnos lo que, de tapadillo, habia contemplado. Con ayuda de un maquillador, de un preparador y de un educador de la voz de la prestigiosa escuela de canto Juilliard de Nueva York, fue capaz de introducirse en lugares y situaciones vedados a las mujeres. Un viaje de ida y vuelta de una mujer al mundo masculino que constituye una proeza del periodismo de inmersion, un esfuerzo de comprension, sagacidad y emocion en el que Norah relata lo dificil que es ser hombre, incluso en un universo masculino. Una fascinante, original y, muchas veces, divertida cronica de un prolongado viaje por el mundo masculino. Comportandose como un hombre, infiltrada en esos lugares a los que no tienen acceso las mujeres y en los que se reunen solo hombres, Norah Vincent nos descubre un mundo en el que los hombres son mucho mejores, y tambien mucho peores, de lo que la mayoria de las mujeres se imagina. Christina Hoff Summers, autora de Who Stole Feminism? y de The War Against Boys.

On 18 April 1941, twenty-two days after Virginia Woolf went for a walk near her weekend house in Sussex and never returned, her body was reclaimed from the River Ouse. Norah Vincent's ADELINE reimagines the events that brought Woolf to the riverbank, offering us a denouement worthy of its protagonist. With poetic precision and psychological acuity, Vincent channels Virginia and Leonard Woolf, T. S. and Vivienne Eliot, Lytton Strachey and Dora Carrington, laying bare their genius and their blind spots, their achievements and their failings, from the inside out. And haunting every page is Adeline, the name given to Virginia Stephen at birth, which becomes the source of Virginia's greatest consolation, and her greatest torment. Intellectually and emotionally disarming, ADELINE - a vibrant portrait of Woolf and her social circle, the infamous Bloomsbury Group, and a window into the darkness that both inspired and doomed them all - is a masterpiece in its own right by one of our most brilliant and daring writers.

Norah Vincent became an instant media sensation with the publication of Self-Made Man, her take on just how hard it is to be a man, even in a mans world. Vincent spent a year and a half disguised as her male alter ego, Ned, exploring what men are like when women arent around. As Ned, she joined a bowling team, took a high-octane sales job, went on dates with women (and men), visited strip clubs, and even managed to infiltrate a monastery and a mens therapy group. At once thought-provoking and pure fun to read, Self-Made Man is a sympathetic and thrilling tour de force of immersion journalism.

On 18 April 1941, twenty-two days after Virginia Woolf went for a walk near her weekend house in Sussex and never returned, her body was reclaimed from the River Ouse. Norah Vincents ADELINE reimagines the events that brought Woolf to the riverbank, offering us a denouement worthy of its protagonist. With poetic precision and psychological acuity, Vincent channels Virginia and Leonard Woolf, T. S. and Vivienne Eliot, Lytton Strachey and Dora Carrington, laying bare their genius and their blind spots, their achievements and their failings, from the inside out. And haunting every page is Adeline, the name given to Virginia Stephen at birth, which becomes the source of Virginias greatest consolation, and her greatest torment. Intellectually and emotionally disarming, ADELINE - a vibrant portrait of Woolf and her social circle, the infamous Bloomsbury Group, and a window into the darkness that both inspired and doomed them all - is a masterpiece in its own right by one of our most brilliant and daring writers.

A journalists provocative and spellbinding account of her eighteen months spent disguised as a man.Norah Vincent became an instant media sensation with the publication of Self-Made Man, her take on just how hard it is to be a man, even in a mans world. Following in the tradition of John Howard Griffin (Black Like Me), Vincent spent a year and a half disguised as her male alter ego, Ned, exploring what men are like when women arent around. As Ned, she joined a bowling team, took a high-octane sales job, went on dates with women (and men), visited strip clubs, and even managed to infiltrate a monastery and a mens therapy group. At once thought-provoking and pure fun to read, Self-Made Man is a sympathetic and thrilling tour de force of immersion journalism.

From the New York Times bestselling author, a first novel as spellbinding as her acclaimed nonfictionAt thirty-four, Nick Walsh is a broken, deeply cynical man. Since the violent deaths of his parents thirteen years earlier, he has been living alone in his childhood home in the suburban Midwest, drinking, drugging, and debauching himself into oblivion. A measure of solace is provided by his newly found relationship with Monica, a mysterious woman who seems to harbor as many secrets as he does.Obsessed with understanding the circumstances surrounding his parents deaths and deranged by his relentless sorrow, Nick begins a campaign of spying on his neighbors via hidden cameras and microphones he has covertly installed in their houses. As he observes with amusement and disbelief all the strange, sad, and terrifying things that his neighbors do to themselves and to one another, and as he, in turn, learns that he is being stalked, he begins to slowly unravel the shocking truth about how and why his parents died.At once unsettling and moving, humorous and horrifying, Thy Neighbor explores the nature of grief, the potential isolation of suburban life, and who we really are when we think no one is watching. What readers and critics have admired in Norah Vincents nonfiction is completely unleashed in this vivid and provocative novel.

In Norah Vincents acclaimed first book she described how she spent eighteen months disguised as a man, an experience that ended on a locked ward in a psychiatric hospital. She left determined to learn more about the world of psychiatry and to examine whether different mental institutions would offer different solutions to their patients, but rather than researching it as a journalist she chose to experience it as a patient.Her journey begins in a huge inner-city hospital, before moving to the calming green carpet of St Lukes where patients are offered a room of their own and a regular jog in the park. From there she moves to Mobius, and a Buddhist-inspired brand of healing where she is forced to swim through West Coast psychobabble to some unexpected conclusions. The result is a fearless and unprecedented view of mental health care - from the inside out.

Daring . . . Vincents psychological approach is intriguing. USA Today Vincent is a sensitive recorder of a minds movements as it shifts in and out of inspiration, and as it fights before submitting to despair. New York Times Book Review With poetic precision and psychological acuity, Norah Vincents Adeline reimagines the events that brought Woolf to the banks of the River Ouse, offering us a denouement worthy of its protaganist. Channeling Virginia and Leonard Woolf, T. S. and Vivienne Eliot, Lytton Strachey, and Dora Carrington, Vincent lays bare their genius and their blind spots, their achievements and their failings, from the inside out. And haunting every page is Adeline, the name given to Virginia Stephen at birth, which becomes the source of Virginias greatest consolation, and her greatest torment. Intellectually and emotionally disarming, Adelinea vibrant portrait of Woolf and her social circle, the storied Bloomsbury group, and a window into the darkness that both inspired and doomed them allis a masterpiece in its own right by one of our most brilliant and daring writers.Skillfully rendered and emotionally insightful. Publishers Weekly [An] electrifyingly good novel . . . by a master of discomfort. New Statesman