Editorial Picador USA
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- Picador USA, 2002
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 15,60 €
ISBN 978-0-312-42081-9
EAN 9780312420819
The Collected Stories of Richard Yates gathers the late author's powerful and peerless short fiction in one comprehensive volume. Praised by such authors as Michael Chabon, Stewart O'Nan, Robert Stone, and Richard Russo, and universally acclaimed in reviews across the country, The Collected Stories is the crowning jewel in what has been the rediscovery of ...
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- Picador USA, 2002
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 12,60 €
ISBN 978-0-312-42010-9
EAN 9780312420109
In eight stories, this singular collection of short fiction written over the course of ten years explores the terrain of modern urban life. In reflective, telegraphic prose, Susan Sontag confronts the reader with exposed workings of an impassioned intellect in narratives seamed with many of the themes of her essays the nature of knowing, our ...
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- Picador USA, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 9,75 €
ISBN 978-0-312-42033-8
EAN 9780312420338
In this hallucinatory novel, an automobile provides the hellish tableau in which Vaughan, a "TV scientist" turned "nightmare angel of the highways," experiments with erotic atrocities among auto crash victims, each more sinister than the last. James Ballard, his friend and fellow obsessive, tells the story of this twisted visionary as he careens rapidly toward ...
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- Picador USA, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 14,80 €
ISBN 978-0-312-42051-2
EAN 9780312420512
Louis Holland arrives in Boston in a spring of ecological upheaval (a rash of earthquakes on the North Shore) and odd luck: the first one kills his grandmother. Louis tries to maintain his independence, but falls in love with a Harvard seismologist whose discoveries about the earthquakes' cause complicate everything.
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- Picador USA, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 20,75 €
ISBN 978-0-312-42013-0
EAN 9780312420130
In 1978 Susan Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a classic work described by Newsweek as "one of the most liberating books of its time." A cancer patient herself when she was writing the book, Sontag shows how the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the suffering of patients and often ...
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- Picador USA, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-0-312-28086-4
EAN 9780312280864
First published in 1966, this celebrated book--Sontag's first collection of essays--quickly became a modern classic, and has had an enormous influence in America and abroad on thinking about the arts and contemporary culture. As well as the title essay and the famous "Notes on Camp," Against Interpretation includes original and provocative discussions of Sartre, Simone ...
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- Picador USA, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-0-312-42009-3
EAN 9780312420093
One of the most highly regarded books of its kind, On Photography first appeared in 1977 and is described by its author as a progress of essays about the meaning and career of photographs. It begins with the famous In Plato's Cave essay, then offers five other prose meditations on this topic, and concludes with ...
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- Picador USA, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 12,80 €
ISBN 978-0-312-27320-0
EAN 9780312273200
In America is a kaleidoscopic portrait of America on the cusp of modernity. As she did in her enormously popular novel The Volcano Lover, Susan Sontag casts a story located in the past in a fresh, provocative light to create a fictional world full of contemporary resonance. In 1876 a group of Poles led by ...
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- Picador USA, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 24,25 €
ISBN 978-0-312-42444-2
EAN 9780312424442
Wolfe masterfully chronicles college sports, fraternities, keggers, coeds, and sex--all through the eyes of Charlotte Simmons, a bright and beautiful freshman at the fictional Dupont University.
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- Picador USA, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 148 páginas
PVP: 16,85 €
ISBN 978-0-374-52764-8
EAN 9780374527648
Handke's novel tells the story of a quiet, organized classics teacher named Andreas Loser. One night, on the way to his regularly scheduled card game, he passes a tree that has been defaced by a swastika. Impulsively yet deliberately, he tracks down the defacer and kills him. With this act, Loser has crossed an invisble ...
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The Hours
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1999
- Picador USA, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 23,60 €
ISBN 978-0-312-24302-9
EAN 9780312243029
In The Hours, Michael Cunningham, widely praised as one of the most gifted writers of his generation, draws inventively on the life and work of Virginia Woolf to tell the story of a group of contemporary characters struggling with the conflicting claims of love and inheritance, hope and despair. The narrative of Woolf's last days ...
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