Robert N. Reincke
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Works"Death of a Past Life" (Click this link for a further discription and a VIDEO of Robert presenting this book to 100 year old Nina).
"Death of a Past Life" is a true story of an elite Russian family’s horrific travails from the burgeoning of the St. Petersburg Bloody Sunday Massacre of 1905 to impoverished immigration to Ellis Island in 1949. Through this time it follows the development of three generations as they manage their way through some of the most atrocious situations that man has created. The epic begins with Josephine and Leonid’s young family in idealistic Tsarist Russia, alternating between St. Petersburg and their dacha in Finland. During this time, families such as theirs, with German/Russian bloodlines similar to that of the Tsars, enjoyed wealth and exuberance in Russia’s great cities far superior to anything before or since... Falling Off the Catwalk
A man in deep spiritual crisis comes to terms with his identity during a dark period in his life in which he worked as an international male fashion model. In the mid-90s Robert has a seemingly ideal life: a secure corporate job, a string of pretty girlfriends, and a condo in a SoCal beach town. Conflict between this outward success and his inner turmoil prompts him, at 29, to run away to Europe. Set during a slip from sobriety that eventually becomes an eight-year fall, Falling Off the Catwalk recounts a year and a half of global debauchery. Robert repeatedly discovers and then forgets what the journey is all about. In the process the question of what he is running from becomes just as pronounced as what he thinks he is moving towards. All of this against a backdrop of runway shows for Hugo Boss and Fendi, appearances in GQ and French Cosmopolitan, partying with models in Milan, and clubbing in Paris and Madrid. Robert overcomes the memory loss associated with addiction and revolutionizes the contemporary memoir by emphasizing primary sources (his extensive journals, correspondences, audio and video tapes) in constructing the narrative. The text is accompanied by Robert’s fashion photographs. |
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