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Several months into his recovery from a near-fatal illness, thirty-four-year-old novelist Sidney Orr enters a stationery shop in the Cobble Hill section of Brooklyn and buys a blue notebook. It is September 18, 1982, and for the next nine days Orr will live under the spell of this blank book, trapped inside a world of ...
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- Faber, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-571-27663-9
EAN 9780571276639
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- Faber, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-571-27665-3
EAN 9780571276653
The New York Trilogy is an astonishing and original book: three cleverly interconnected novels that exploit the elements of standard detective fiction and achieve a new genre that is all the more gripping for its starkness. In each story the search for clues leads to remarkable coincidences in the universe as the simple act of ...
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The Soviet Union was founded on a fairytale. It was built on 20th-century magic called 'the planned economy', which was going to gush forth an abundance of good things that the penny-pinching lands of capitalism could never match. And just for a little while, in the heady years of the late 1950s, the magic seemed ...
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- Faber, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-571-27508-3
EAN 9780571275083
"The Story of English" is the extraordinary tale of the origins and development of the English language. Two thousand years ago English was confined to a handful of savage tribes on the shores of north-west Europe; today, in one form or another, it is spoken by a billion people around the world. More widely scattered, ...
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May 24th 2011 is Bob Dylan's 70th Birthday. The dozens of pieces collected here follow not only recordings, but performances, books and movies. Together they comprise a portrait of just how Bob Dylan reinvented the landscape of American song.
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abriel Brockwell, aesthete, poet, philosopher, disaffected twenty-something decadent, is thinking terminal. His philosophical enquiries, the abstractions he indulges, and how these relate to a life lived, all point in the same direction. His destination is Wonderland. The nature and style of the journey is all that's to be decided. Taking in London, Tokyo, Berlin and ...
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I stare at the photo. I try to read his gaze, each fold on his face, the slight frown. I study the photo in the same way that a spy might study the face of a counterpart in a rival organisation. I am calm as I make this promise: I am going to find out ...
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- Faber, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 16,55 €
ISBN 978-0-571-23512-4
EAN 9780571235124
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- Faber, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-0-571-25474-3
EAN 9780571254743
In White Egrets, Derek Walcott treats his characteristic subjects - the Caribbean's complex colonial legacy, the Western artistic tradition, the blessings and withholdings of old Europe (Andalucia, the Mezzogiorno, Amsterdam), the unaccomodating sublime of the new world, time's cunning passages, the poet's place in all of this - with a passionate intensity and drive that ...
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- Faber, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 13,05 €
ISBN 978-0-571-27015-6
EAN 9780571270156
'I lost my own father at 12 yrs of age and know what it is to be raised on lies and silences my dear daughter you are presently too young to understand a word I write but this history is for you and will contain no single lie may I burn in hell if I ...
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- Faber, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
PVP: 7,66 €
ISBN 978-0-571-27016-3
EAN 9780571270163
Set onboard an ocean liner travelling to Australia in 1864, this novel is both a love story and an historical tour-de-force that relates the developing romance between Oscar Hopkins, an Oxford seminarian, and Lucinda Leplastrier, a Sydney heiress with a fascination for glass.
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- Faber, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 13,00 €
ISBN 978-0-571-23286-4
EAN 9780571232864
Pitched somewhere between Almost Famous and Withnail x{0026} I, "Apathy for the Devil" is a unique document of this most fascinating and troubling of decades - a story of inspiration, success and serious burn out. As a 20-something college dropout Nick Kent's first five interviews as a young writer were with the MC5, Captain Beefheart, ...
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Jack Maggs, raised and deported as a criminal, has returned from Australia, in secret and at great risk. What does he want after all these years, and why is he so interested in the comings and goings at a plush town house in Great Queen Street? And why is Jack himself an object of such ...
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- Faber, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 8,15 €
ISBN 978-0-571-23577-3
EAN 9780571235773
For two hundred years after Shakespeare's death, no one thought to argue that somebody else had written his plays. Since then dozens of rival candidates - including Sir Francis Bacon and the Earl of Oxford - have been proposed as their true author. Contested Will unravels the mystery of when and why so many people ...
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- Faber, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 11,25 €
ISBN 978-0-571-25336-4
EAN 9780571253364
The young women of Nightingale House are there to learn to nurse and comfort the suffering. But when one of the students plays patient in a demonstration of nursing skills, she is horribly, brutally killed. Another student dies equally mysteriously and it is up to Adam Dalgliesh to unmask a killer who has decided to ...
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Krapp's "Last Tape" was first performed by Patrick Magee at the Royal Court Theatre in October 1958. This volume brings together Krapp's "Last Tape" and Beckett's other shorter works or 'dramaticules' written for the stage. It is arranged in chronological order of composition.
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Explores ideas of love, music and the passing of time. From the piazzas of Italy to the Malvern Hills, a London flat to the 'hush-hush floor' of an exclusive Hollywood hotel, this book features characters that range from young dreamers to cafe musicians to faded stars, all of them at some moment of reckoning.
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The year is 2021. No child has been born for twenty-five years. The human race faces extinction.Under the despotic rule of Xan Lyppiat, the Warden of England, the old are despairing and the young cruel. Theo Faren, a cousin of the Warden, lives a solitary life in this ominous atmosphere. That is until a chance ...
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