Nothing Lasts Forever Anymore
2nd Edition
Published on 15. March 2013
Book
122 pages
978-3-941524-33-0 (ISBN)
Description
"Using Spain of the booming 1980s ashis example, Lederer describes a world,and a pace of life, fast disappearing.Globalization, interconnectivity,modernization and financial pressures arebringing to an end that slower rhythm towhich men and women have moved.forever. In "Nothing Lasts ForeverAnymore", a small family is faced withnew choices as expanding communitiesencircle the little seaside farm on whichthey have lived for generations. Whateverthey decide to do, even having thosechoices means that things will never be thesame."
Reviews / Votes
". Michael Lederer is among the great American writers."- Die Welt "No one as yet has been able, like Michael Lederer, to engender thecalmness of our life and dreams on the shores of the frail yet powerfulMediterranean Sea." - David Marti, Catalan writerMore details
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Michael Lederer was born in 1956 in Princeton, NewJersey. He wrote this book in 1984-85 while livingon the coast of southern Spain. The Great Game, acollection of 18 of his short stories, was published byPalmArtPress in Berlin in 2012. Lederer is the founderand Artistic Director of the Dubrovnik ShakespeareFestival in Dubrovnik, Croatia. He lives inBerlin, and in Cadaqués, Spain.
Content
"From the bottom of the hill, as always, came the constant sound ofthe surf, as each wave wore away at the rocks along the shore, grain bygrain by grain of sand, as if the sea was little more than a mighty hourglass."