Editorial Faber & Faber
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- Faber & Faber, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 688 páginas
PVP: 24,00 €
ISBN 978-0-571-27461-1
EAN 9780571274611
The Revengers' ComediesA hugely entertaining pitch that recalls the old movies to which it frequently pays homage - Strangers on a Train, Rebecca, Kind Hearts and Coronets - and expands after intermission to reveal an immensely disturbing vision of contemporary middle-class England poisoned by the rise of economic ruthlessness and the collapse of ethics. New ...
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Er wurde der Mozart des 19 .Jahrhunderts genannt.Mendelssohn, Spross einer einzigartigen Familie, war eine Multibegabung, wurde gefeiert als Komponist, Pianist und Dirigent. Er imponierte zugleich als versierter Zeichner und Aquarellist und brillanter Briefeschreiber. Die Nachwelt ist bemüht, das ganze Ausma dieser Mehrfachbegabung, dieses Gestalters des Musiklebens und die Gefährdungen zu beschreiben, denen dieser genialische Geist ...
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Lipstick Traces
A Secret History of the Twentieth Century
- Faber & Faber, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 28,50 €
ISBN 978-0-571-27710-0
EAN 9780571277100
This book is about a single, serpentine fact: late in 1976 a record called "Anarchy in the UK" was issued in London, and this event launched a transformation of pop music all over the world. The song distilled, in crudely poetic form, a critique of modern society once set out by a small group of ...
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- Faber & Faber, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-571-25880-2
EAN 9780571258802
Paul Auster's Sunset Park is set in the sprawling flatlands of Florida, where twenty-eight-year-old Miles is photographing the last lingering traces of families who have abandoned their houses due to debt or foreclosure. Miles is haunted by guilt for having inadvertently caused the death of his step-brother, a situation that caused him to flee his ...
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- Faber & Faber, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-0-571-25343-2
EAN 9780571253432
We are the product of our evolutionary history and this history colours our everyday lives - from why we kiss to how religious we are. In "How Many Friends Does One Person Need?" Robin Dunbar explains how the distant past underpins our current behaviour, through the groundbreaking experiments that have changed the thinking of evolutionary ...
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- Faber & Faber, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 13,45 €
ISBN 978-0-571-26855-9
EAN 9780571268559
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- Faber & Faber, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 11,60 €
ISBN 978-0-571-24694-6
EAN 9780571246946
Winner of the Guardian First Book Award, and shortlisted for the Frank O'Connor Short Story Award, this is an unforgettable collection of powerful stories by a stunning young voice from Zimbabwe. A woman in a township is surrounded by dusty children but longs for a baby of her own; an old man finds that his ...
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- Faber & Faber, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-571-24375-4
EAN 9780571243754
This new edition brings together all of Beckett's dramatic writings for radio, television and film, offering works which range from eloquent comic naturalism to an eviscerated and pared-down symbolism. Above all, Beckett found his unique uses for the radio-play, a medium 'for voices not bodies', compacted of speech, sound and silence - and the plays ...
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- Faber & Faber, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 7,66 €
ISBN 978-0-571-22572-9
EAN 9780571225729
That They May Face the Rising Sun was the last novel from John McGahern, one of Ireland's greatest novelists. Joe and Kate Ruttledge have come to Ireland from London in search of a different life. In passages of beauty and truth, the drama of a year in their lives and those of the memorable characters ...
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- Faber & Faber, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 44,80 €
ISBN 978-0-571-14081-7
EAN 9780571140817
Volume Two covers the early years of his editorship of "The Criterion" (the periodical that Eliot launched with Lady Rothermere's backing in 1922), publication of "The Hollow Men" and the course of Eliot's thinking about poetry and poetics after "The Waste Land". The correspondence charts Eliot's intellectual journey towards conversion to the Anglican faith in ...
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God's Executioner
Oliver Cromwell and the Conquest of Ireland
- Faber & Faber, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 17,35 €
ISBN 978-0-571-21846-2
EAN 9780571218462
Cromwell spent only nine months of his eventful life in Ireland, yet he stands accused there of war crimes, religious persecution and ethnic cleansing. In a century of unrelenting, bloody warfare and religious persecution throughout Europe, Cromwell was, in many ways, a product of his times. As commander-in-chief of the army in Ireland, however, the ...
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- Faber & Faber, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 22,51 €
ISBN 978-0-571-25150-6
EAN 9780571251506
As an "Observer" correspondent in Vietnam before the American withdrawal in 1975, Gavin Young met many courageous Vietnamese people. He frequently stayed with one such person, Madame Bong, a woman who had lost her husband when she was only twenty-five, had recovered the mangled limbs of one son from a battlefield and watched as another ...
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This title offers a unique 15 CD box set of Seamus Heaney reading his 11 poetry collections in their entirety, produced by Radio Telefis Eireann, the Irish national broadcasting corporation. These include "Death of a Naturalist", "Door Into The Dark", "Wintering Out", "North", "Fieldwork", "Station Island", "The Haw Lantern", "Seeing Things", "The Spirit Level", "Electric ...
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- Faber & Faber, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 19,85 €
ISBN 978-0-571-24578-9
EAN 9780571245789
This is the complete collection of stories from one of the most original and powerful American writers of the twentieth-century. Including "A Good Man is Hard to Find" and "Everything That Rises Must Converge", this collection also contains several stories only available in this volume.
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- Faber & Faber, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 136 páginas
PVP: 19,00 €
ISBN 978-0-571-23342-7
EAN 9780571233427
Picking up from his earlier collection "Sleepwalk", and the precursor to his award-winning "Shortcomings", the four stories in "Summer Blonde" are quintessential Tomine. Memorably featuring characters such as Neil, Carlo and Hillary Chan, among others, these are beautiful and haunting tales that illustrate with great sympathy the loneliness and bleak humour of modern life.
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Cardiff East 'As scene melts into scene, onea?Ts appetite for knowing more and more about these people is constantly whetted, even for the ones one would avoid in real life. Each and every character rings true and resonates further. .. A play which is never less than gripping.' Mail on Sunday Certain Young Men 'The ...
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- Faber & Faber, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 7,50 €
ISBN 978-0-571-23380-9
EAN 9780571233809
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- Faber & Faber, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-0-571-23493-6
EAN 9780571234936
"Sulphuric Acid" tells the story of a reality TV death camp, which has become the nation's obsession - an amoral spectacle played out through the media. It is a blackly funny and shocking satire on the modern predilection for reality television and celebrity, in which the audience at home develops a taste for blood.
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Wise Blood
A Work of Strange Beauty
- Faber & Faber, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-571-24130-9
EAN 9780571241309
Wise Blood, Flannery O'Connor's first novel, is the story of Hazel Motes who, released from the armed services, returns to the evangelical Deep South. There he begins a private battle against the religiosity of the community and in particular against Asa Hawkes, the 'blind' preacher, and his degenerate fifteen-year-old daughter. In desperation Hazel founds his ...
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Trickster Travels
A Sixteenth-Century Muslim Between Worlds
- Faber & Faber, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-0-571-23479-0
EAN 9780571234790
Acclaimed historian Natalie Zemon Davis's accessible and dramatic biography was widely hailed as a masterpiece and tells the story of Leo Africanus, a sixteenth-century Moroccan who embodies the rich and complex exchanges between Europe and Africa during the Renaissance. Trickster Travels offers a virtuoso study of the fragmentary, partial and often contradictory traces that al-Hasan ...
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