Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Playback by Tom Petty

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Playback by Tom Petty

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELER - A symphonic oral history about the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new Russia, from Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND PUBLISHERS WEKLY - LOS ANGELES TIMES BOK PRIZE WINER

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOKS OF THE YEAR BY
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When the Swedish Academy awarded Svetlana Alexievich the Nobel Prize, it cited her for inventing a new kind of literary genre, describing her work as a history of emotions--a history of the soul. Alexievich's distinctive documentary style, combining extended individual monologues with a collage of voices, records the stories of ordinary women and men who are rarely given the opportunity to speak, whose experiences are often lost in the official histories of the nation.

In Secondhand Time, Alexievich chronicles the demise of communism. Everyday Russian citizens recount the past thirty years, showing us what life was like during the fall of the Soviet Union and what it's like to live in the new Russia left in its wake. Through interviews spanning 1991 to 2012, Alexievich takes us behind the propaganda and contrived media accounts, giving us a panoramic portrait of contemporary Russia and Russians who still carry memories of oppression, terror, famine, massacres--but also of pride in their country, hope for the future, and a belief that everyone was working and fighting together to bring about a utopia. Here is an account of life in the aftermath of an idea so powerful it once dominated a third of the world.

A magnificent tapestry of the sorrows and triumphs of the human spirit woven by a master, Secondhand Time tells the stories that together make up the true history of a nation. Through the voices of those who confided in her, The Nation writes, Alexievich tells us about human nature, about our dreams, our choices, about good and evil--in a word, about ourselves.

Praise for Svetlana Alexievich and Secondhand Time

The nonfiction volume that has done the most to deepen the emotional understanding of Russia during and after the collapse of the Soviet Union of late is Svetlana Alexievich's oral history Secondhand Time.--David Remnick, The New Yorker

SKU	Nicht verfügbar
EAN	0008811136796
Titel	Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Playback
Veröffentlichungsdatum	2001-07-23
Format	Colour DVD-Video Full Screen PAL
Regionscode	2
Laufzeit	74 minutes
Studio	Universal Island
Zuschauerbewertung	Exempt
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar

Actor	Johnny Depp
Director	Julien Temple
Actor	Gabrielle Anwar
Primary Contributor	Tom Petty
Director	John Goodhue
Director	Doug Dowdle
Actor	Tom Petty
Actor	Matt LeBlanc
Actor	Jeff Lynne
Director	Jim Lenahan
Primary Contributor	Gabrielle Anwar
Actor	Stevie Nicks
Director	Cameron Crowe
Actor	Kim Basinger
Director	Jesse Dylan
Actor	Louise Foley
Director	Jeff Stein
Actor	Faye Dunaway
Actor	George Harrison
Director	David Leland