Bücher von Andrea Barrett

Focusing on developing states, this book captures and deliberates on best models to build their capacity and capability to become innovative. It emphasizes the organic links among economic growth, innovation, and wealth creation through entrepreneurship. In addition, it identifies and discusses some of the key factors that are required for the development of national systems to support an innovation-centric culture that is essential for the sustained socioeconomic transformation of developing states.

Der eigenbrötlerische Naturforscher Erasmus Wells verbringt seine Tage zwischen verstaubten Exponaten. Als ihm aber die Teilnahme an einer Arktisexpedition angeboten wird, wagt er sich aus seinem Kokon.Stolz werden große Ziele verkündet, doch je tiefer sie in den Norden vordringen, desto bedrohlicher wird die Umgebung. Unaufhaltsam schließt sich der arktische Winter um das Schiff. Die undurchdringliche Polarnacht, die krachende Kälte, die bläulich graue Kargheit des Eises. Wissenschaftliche Neugier weicht der Angst, eine falsche Entscheidung zu treffen und das Leben aller in Gefahr zu bringen.Barrett erzählt vom Forschen und Scheitern, vom Verstehen und Missverstehen einer anderen Kultur und nicht zuletzt von der Bedeutung der Frauen im Schatten der gefeierten Entdecker.

Von den Balkonen des Sanatoriums fällt der Blick auf die nebelumschlungenen Flüsse und Berge, einen einsamen Fuchs und die gewundene Straße zum Dorf. Während Europa im Ersten Weltkrieg versinkt, führen die Patienten der Tuberkuloseklinik hier am Tamarack Lake ihren eigenen Kampf ums Überleben.Als ein Neuankömmling vorschlägt, einmal die Woche für einen Vortrag zusammenzukommen, gerät der Alltag im Hospital aus den Fugen. Leidenschaftlich stürzen sich die Bewohner in ihre Studien, teilen ihr Wissen und erobern - neben der Welt Einsteins und Madame Curies - auch die längst verloren geglaubte Schönheit des Lebens zurück.Barrett erzählt von einer Schicksalsgemeinschaft, in der Erkenntnis zum Lebenselixier gereicht und Wissenschaft zu Poesie wird.

"Luminous...Each [story] is rich and independent and beautiful and should draw Barrett many new admirers."-Publishers Weekly, starred review

At the age of eighty, Brendan Auberon—formerly of the Order of Our Lady of the Valley, now confined to a nursing home—has one last wish: to see his 200 acres overlooking what used to be Paradise Valley, before the villages were drowned to provide water for the city of Boston. Now, Brendan’s memories drift beneath the surface of the Stillwater Reservoir. When Brendan dupes his nephew, Henry, into hijacking the nursing home van for the journey, what begins as a lark becomes an adventure infinitely more complex.

For Grace, the ardent yet puzzled heroine of Andrea Barrett’s third novel, this trip has been planned as a three-week stay: she’s to play dutiful wife to Walter, her prominent scientist husband, at the 1986 Beijing International Conference on the Effects of Acid Rain. Walter is twelve years older than Grace, and as sour as the rain he studies; he and Grace are at a particularly troubled point in their marriage. Their tightly circumscribed visit, however, becomes a journey infinitely less tidy and more complex as Grace falls forever out of love with her husband and very much in love with this country and its culture. In the chaos of the Beijing streets and in the home of her new friends Dr. Yu and her son Zaofan, Grace finds the web of life she’s been too lost to perceive. “Time you spend in the past and future is time you spend alone,” Dr. Yu tells her. “But between them there is a middle kingdom, both feet planted here.”

Andrea Barrett’s novels have received resounding critical acclaim, inspiring comparisons to Gail Godwin and Anne Tyler. In Secret Harmonies, she creates a wonderful portrait of a family struggling to make sense of their lives in the rural hills of western Massachusetts. When childhood sweethearts Reba Dwyer and Luke Wyatt marry, they expect no surprises. But now that Luke—friend of Reba’s childhood, friend of her heart—is her husband, discord enters their lives. Secret Harmonies is the utterly absorbing, moving story of what happens to this couple and to the eccentric constellation of loved ones swirling around them.