Editorial Faber
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- Faber, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-0-571-22421-0
EAN 9780571224210
This is an anthology to delight, inform and amuse all enthusiasts of the horticultural pursuit.Gardening is both the most democratic of the arts and the most elitist. Gardens are strange confections of human desire and vegetable life - highly managed, yet remaining subject to forces more powerful than human agency. They can range from a ...
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2008
- Faber, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 13,05 €
ISBN 978-0-571-23973-3
EAN 9780571239733
Things have never been easy for Oscar. A ghetto nerd living with his Dominican family in New Jersey, he's sweet but disastrously overweight. He dreams of becoming the next J. R. R. Tolkien and he keeps falling hopelessly in love. Poor Oscar may never get what he wants, thanks to the Fukú - the ancient ...
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Two Cures for Love
Selected Poems 1979-2006
- Faber, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 112 páginas
PVP: 13,00 €
ISBN 978-0-571-24079-1
EAN 9780571240791
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- Faber, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 64 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-571-24538-3
EAN 9780571245383
With their tidal imagination, the poems in this debut collection sweep between old worlds and new, seeking the lost and recovering the found among shipwrecks, underwater zoos and transitory lands.Emma Jones brings her inventive worlds dramatically to life in a series of vividly distilled meetings: of settlers and indigenous peoples, of seawaters and shore, of ...
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When the corpse of the shady industrialist, who owns the local football team, is found both shot and stabbed with a Parmesan knife, Italian police inspector Aurelio Zen is called to Bologna to oversee the investigation. Recovering slowly from surgery, and fleeing an equally painful crisis in his personal life, Zen is only too happy ...
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Written between August and December 1938, Autumn Journal is still considered one of the most valuable and moving testaments of living through the thirties by a young writer. It is a record of the author's emotional and intellectual experience during those months, the trivia of everyday living set against the events of the world outside, ...
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The Sunday Sessions consists of twenty-six poems, the contents of two tapes recorded by Philip Larkin in Hull in February 1980 - reportedly, each on a Sunday, after lunch with John Weeks, a sound engineer and colleague of the poet. The tapes, which contain work from Larkin's first major collection, The North Ship, as well ...
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- Faber, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 11,80 €
ISBN 978-0-571-23955-9
EAN 9780571239559
A Vengeful Longing is the sequel to R. N. Morris's highly acclaimed A Gentle Axe, once again featuring the brilliant detective Porfiry Petrovich from Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment in another gripping, atmospheric murder story. It is the middle of a hot, dusty St Petersburg summer in the late 1860s. A doctor's wife and son die ...
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- Faber, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 418 páginas
PVP: 13,00 €
ISBN 978-0-571-23876-7
EAN 9780571238767
Something to Tell You follows the fortunes of a successful psychoanalyst who, as the book opens, is reflecting on his coming-of-age in 1970s suburbia, on his first love (a relationship that continues to haunt him), and on a brutal act of violence from which he can never escape.
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Nineteen-year old Annabella Milbanke, visiting London for the swirl of parties and engagements of the season, is introduced to Byron at a waltz. He has just published Childe Harold, and is surrounded by a crowd of admirers, one of whom is his half-sister Augusta Leigh. Annabella and Byron fall in love, but Augusta's unwelcome presence ...
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- Faber, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-0-571-24579-6
EAN 9780571245796
A national holiday in Lake Wobegon is always gaudy and joyful. But what is going on between Clint Bunsen and Miss Liberty? Clint is one of the old reliables in Lake Wobegon - the treasurer of the Lutheran church and the auto mechanic who starts your car on below-zero mornings. For six years he has ...
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- Faber, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-571-24529-1
EAN 9780571245291
Nothing is more important to a modern political party than fund-raising. But the values of the donors can't always coincide with the professed beliefs of the party. And family scandal within the cabinet has the potential to throw both the money-raisers and the money-spenders into chaos.This richly imagined ensemble play about British public life looks ...
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At the start of a summer's day, Ward is waiting on the beach. His friend, Alex, wants him to come to a party at Alison's where there'll be girls and drinks and the possibilities of fun. But Ward is shy and self-conscious and struggling to move from under the weight of his powerful father.He'd rather ...
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- Faber, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 176 páginas
PVP: 21,00 €
ISBN 978-0-571-24250-4
EAN 9780571242504
As children, learning to read, we look first at the illustrations - but how do these tell their stories differently to the words? Words x{0026} Pictures explores this question through three encounters. It looks at how artists have responded to two great, contrasting works - Paradise Lost and Pilgrim's Progress; at Hogarth and Fielding, great ...
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The Scandalous Life of the Lawless Sisters
Criminally Illustrated with what was to hand
- Faber, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 144 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-0-571-23904-7
EAN 9780571239047
In The Not-So-Very-Nice Goings-On at Victoria Lodge, Philip Ardagh uncovered skulduggery of the murkiest kind lurking within the seemingly innocent illustrations of The Girls' Own Paper. In The Silly Side of Sherlock Holmes he created A Brand New Adventure Using A Bunch of Old Pictures' from the Strand Magazine. Now, in The Scandalous Life of ...
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- Faber, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 112 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-0-571-24094-4
EAN 9780571240944
In the sweltering heat of Louisiana, Oya dreams of competing alongside star athletes. She never feels so right as when she's burning up the track. As a girl, she must choose between her dream and caring for her mother. As a woman, she's torn between the man she lives with and the man she can't ...
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- Faber, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-571-23687-9
EAN 9780571236879
From Orhan Pamuk, winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature, comes a personal selection of the best from twenty-five years' work.His original pieces have been sympathetically revisited by the author, and the result is a new work of great narrative richness and intensity. Other Colours ranges from lyrical autobiography to essays on literature and ...
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