Título: Come to the Edge: A Memoir
Autor: Christina Haag
Sinopse: The Love Story of JFK Jr. and Christina Haag An elegy to first love, a lost New York, and a young man who led his life with surprising and abundant grace When Christina Haag was growing up on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, John F. Kennedy, Jr., was just one of the boys in her circle of prep school friends, a skinny kid who lived with his mother and sister on Fifth Avenue and who happened to have a Secret Service detail following him at a discreet distance at all times. A decade later, after they had both graduated from Brown University and were living in New York City, Christina and John were cast in an off-Broadway play together. It was then that John confessed his long-standing crush on her, and they embarked on a five-year love affair. Glamorous and often in the public eye, but also passionate and deeply intimate, their relationship was transformative for both of them. With exquisite prose, Haag paints a portrait of a young man with an enormous capacity for love, and an adventurous spirit that drove him to live life to its fullest. A haunting book, Come to the Edge is a lasting evocation of a time and a place--of the indelible sting of the loss of young love, and of the people who shape you and remain with you, whether in person or in spirit. It is about being young and full of hope, with all the potential of your life as yet unfulfilled, and of coming of age at a moment in New York's history when the city at once held danger, magic, and endless possibilities for self-discovery. Rarely has a love story been told so beautifully.
Contexto da obra
Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “Come to the Edge: A Memoir”, de Christina Haag, publicado pela editora Spiegel & Grau, em 2011 e com 304 páginas, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.
Editora: Spiegel & Grau
Páginas: 304
Ano: 2011
Edição: First Edition
Linguagem: pt_BR
ISBN: 9780385523172
ISBN13: 9780385523172
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Spiegel & Grau costumam oferecer uma experiência de leitura que combina narrativas densas e reflexivas com temas contemporâneos e históricos. O catálogo traz obras que exploram desde dramas pessoais e sociais profundos, como histórias de superação e conflitos internos, até análises sobre questões ambientais e políticas globais. Muitas obras apresentam um tom sóbrio e envolvente, com ritmo que varia entre o investigativo e o intimista, convidando o leitor a refletir sobre a condição humana e as estruturas sociais. Há também espaço para relatos de experiências extraordinárias, seja em ambientes inusitados ou em contextos históricos marcantes, o que sugere uma preferência editorial por textos que mesclam rigor documental e narrativa acessível.
