Motherland by Paula Ramn
(Omnibus Press). From his Beatles-sponsored debut in 1968 to his Grammy-winning Hourglass in 1997 and beyond, James Taylor has been universally acclaimed as a songwriter of effortless eloquence and emotional power. In this major biography, Timothy White explores both the career and the troubled personal journey of the singer-songwriter. Rich with insights from Paul McCartney, Carly Simon, Sting, Danny Kootch Kortchmar, the entire Taylor family, and many other key figures around James Taylor and his music, this is an explorations of the real stories behind the man and his songs.
“A Venezuelan reporter who left her home country in 2010 chronicles the traumatic fate of her family and her broken nation…Throughout, the author vividly portrays the unfolding tragedy shared by all VenezuelansThe collapse of a nation told through the poignant story of one family.” —Kirkus Reviews “The author writes wrenchingly of her mother’s struggles to provide for her and her siblings while their neighborhood deteriorated around them, and catalogs Venezuela’s political troubles with rigor and concision. It’s a fascinating and devastating account of one family’s fate amid a national crisis.” —Publishers Weekly “Terrific Venezuelan journalist Paula Ramon’s Motherland is a joint study of a nation dying under authoritarianism, and a family pulling away, leaving their aging matriarch alone in “a concrete bunker” of a home, a hotbox when the mismanaged electrical grids fail. Rarely are South American upheavals explained with such intimacy.” —Chicago Tribune “Motherland is a deeply personal account of the writer’s experience of this precipitous descent into insecurity, poverty and despair through that of her own, disintegrating family…an important account of where such experiments go wrong and the lived reality of those who occupy the laboratory.” —Latin American Review of Books
Paula Ramón is a Venezuelan journalist who has lived and worked in China, the United States, Brazil, and Uruguay. She is currently a correspondent for Agence France-Presse, based in Los Angeles. She has written and reported for the New York Times, National Geographic, Columbia Journalism Review, and Piauí magazine, among other outlets.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781542036917 |
| ISBN 10 | 1542036917 |
| Title | Motherland |
| Author | Paula Ramón |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Amazon Publishing |
| Year published | 2023-10-31 |
| Number of pages | 251 |
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