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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
PVP: 15,30 €
ISBN 978-0-312-42773-3
EAN 9780312427733
"I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974. . . My birth certificate lists my name as Calliope Helen Stephanides. My most recent driver's license...records my first ...
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From the bestselling author of The Hours and Specimen Days comes a generous, masterfully crafted novel with all the power of a Greek tragedy. The epic tale of an American family, Flesh and Blood follows three generations of the Stassos clan as it is transformed by ambition, love, and history. Constantine Stassos, a Greek immigrant, ...
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The Interpretation of Murder opens on a hot summer night in 1909 as Sigmund Freud disembarks in New York from a steamship. With Freud is his rival Carl Jung; waiting for him on the docks is a young physician named Stratham Younger, one of Freud's most devoted Americansupporters. So begins this story of what will ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 16,65 €
ISBN 978-0-312-42652-1
EAN 9780312426521
They died in vast numbers, eight million men and women driven forward in suicidal charges, shattered by German shells and tanks. They were the soldiers of the Red Army, an exhausted mass of recruits who confronted Europe's most lethal fighting force and by 1945 had defeated it. For sixty years, their experiences were suppressed, replaced ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 624 páginas
PVP: 15,20 €
ISBN 978-0-312-42774-0
EAN 9780312427740
Once upon a time there was a war . . . and a young American who thought of himself as the Quiet American and the Ugly American, and who wished to be neither, who wanted instead to be the Wise American, or the Good American, but who eventually came to witness himself as the Real ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 13,30 €
ISBN 978-0-312-42638-5
EAN 9780312426385
When a lonely old man is found dead in his Reykjavík flat, the only clues are a cryptic note left by the killer and a photograph of a young girl's grave. Inspector Erlendur discovers that many years ago the victim was accused, but not convicted, of an unsolved crime, a rape. Did the old man's ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 14,80 €
ISBN 978-0-312-42502-9
EAN 9780312425029
In each section of Michael Cunningham's bold new novel, his first since The Hours, we encounter the same group of characters: a young boy, a man, and a woman. "In the Machine" is a ghost story that takes place at the height of the industrial revolution as human beings confront the alienating realities of the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 13,30 €
ISBN 978-0-312-42590-6
EAN 9780312425906
It is 1946, and Adam Miller has come to Venice to visit his widowed mother and try to forget the horrors he has witnessed as a U.S. Army war crimes investigator in Germany. But when he falls in love with Claudia, a Jewish woman scarred by her devastating experiences during World War II, he is ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 247 páginas
PVP: 16,75 €
ISBN 978-0-312-42440-4
EAN 9780312424404
Twenty-four years after her first novel, "Housekeeping," Marilynne Robinson returns with an intimate tale of three generations from the Civil War to the twentieth century: a story about fathers and sons and the spiritual battles that still rage at America's heart. Writing in the tradition of Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman, Marilynne Robinson's beautiful, spare, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 17,25 €
ISBN 978-0-312-42493-0
EAN 9780312424930
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 19,45 €
ISBN 978-0-312-42528-9
EAN 9780312425289
The sprawling, swampy, cacophonous city of Lagos, Nigeria, provides the backdrop to the story of Elvis, a teenage Elvis impersonator hoping to make his way out of the ghetto. Nuanced, lyrical, and pitch perfect, this is a remarkable story of a son and his father, and an examination of postcolonial Nigeria, where the trappings of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 13,90 €
ISBN 978-0-312-42007-9
EAN 9780312420079
Set in 18th century Naples, based on the lives of Sir William Hamilton, his celebrated wife Emma, and Lord Nelson, and peopled with many of the great figures of the day, this unconventional, bestselling historical romance from the National Book Award-winning author of In America touches on themes of sex and revolution, the fate of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 15,20 €
ISBN 978-0-312-42240-0
EAN 9780312422400
The Paris Review Book for Planes, Trains, Elevators, and Waiting Rooms is the ultimate, and perfect, theme-anthology. It's theme is the reader. Everyday we must live through moments of waiting--to get from one place to the next, from one appointment to another, for something to happen. This ingeniously useful compendium offers reading material to fill ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 16,00 €
ISBN 978-0-312-42403-9
EAN 9780312424039
ANew York Times Notable BookFlora Tristán, the illegitimate child of a wealthy Peruvian father and French mother, grows up in poverty and journeys to Peru to demand her inheritance. On her return in 1844, she makes her name as a champion of the downtrodden, touring the French countryside to recruit members for her Workers' Union. ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 688 páginas
PVP: 19,00 €
ISBN 978-0-312-42375-9
EAN 9780312423759
Celebrated in his prime, forgotten in his final years, only to be championed anew by our greatest contemporary authors, Richard Yates has always exposed readers to the unsettling hypocrisies of our modern age. In Blake Bailey's masterful and entertaining biography, Yates himself serves as the fascinating lens into mid-century America, a world of would-be artists, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 20,90 €
ISBN 978-0-312-42119-9
EAN 9780312421199
"What I Loved "begins in New York in 1975, when art historian Leo Hertzberg discovers an extraordinary painting by an unknown artist in a SoHo gallery. He buys the work; tracks down the artist, Bill Wechsler; and the two men embark on a life-long friendship. Leo's story, which spans twenty-five years, follows the growing involvement ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-312-42227-1
EAN 9780312422271
Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her unorthodox psychiatrist who bore a striking resemblance to Santa Claus. So at the age of twelve, Burroughs found himself amidst Victorian squalor living with the doctor's bizarre family, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 12,10 €
ISBN 978-0-312-42170-0
EAN 9780312421700
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 13,30 €
ISBN 978-0-312-42167-0
EAN 9780312421670
Narcissus and Goldmund is the story of a passionate yet uneasy friendship between two men of opposite character. Narcissus, an ascetic instructor at a cloister school, has devoted himself solely to scholarly and spiritual pursuits. One of his students is the sensual, restless Goldmund, who is immediately drawn to his teacher's fierce intellect and sense ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 16,00 €
ISBN 978-0-312-42131-1
EAN 9780312421311
Thirty-five years after her first collection, the now classic Against Interpretation, America's most important essayist has chosen more than forty longer and shorter pieces from the last twenty years. Divided into three sections, the first "Reading" includes ardent pieces on writers from her own private canon - Machado de Assis, Barthes, W. G. Sebald, Borges, ...
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