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Artists in Exile
. How Refugees from Twentieth-Century War and Revolution Transformed the American Performing Arts
- Harper Perennial, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 16,35 €
ISBN 978-0-06-074850-0
EAN 9780060748500
Decades of war and revolution in Europe forced an "intellectual migration" during the last century, relocating thousands of artists and thinkers to the United States. For many of Europe's premier performing artists, America proved to be a destination both strange and opportune. Featuring the stories of George Balanchine, Kurt Weill, Fritz Lang, Billy Wilder, Greta ...
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- Harper Perennial, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 210 páginas
PVP: 14,24 €
ISBN 978-0-06-165092-5
EAN 9780061650925
Michael Chabon's sparkling first book of nonfiction is a love song in 16 parts -- a series of linked essays in praise of reading and writing, with subjects running from ghost stories to comic books, Sherlock Holmes to Cormac McCarthy. Throughout, Chabon energetically argues for a return to the thrilling, chilling origins of storytelling, rejecting ...
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My Mistress's Sparrow is Dead
Great Love Stories from Chekhov to Munro
- Harper Perennial, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 576 páginas
PVP: 15,19 €
ISBN 978-0-06-124038-6
EAN 9780061240386
"When it comes to love, there are a million theories to explain it. But when it comes to love stories, things are simpler. A love story can never be about full possession. Love stories depend on disappointment, on unequal births and feuding families, on matrimonial boredom and at least one cold heart. Love stories, nearly ...
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- Harper Perennial, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 13,60 €
ISBN 978-0-06-125676-9
EAN 9780061256769
For Riding Toward Everywhere, Vollmann himself takes to the rails. His main accomplice is Steve, a captivating fellow trainhopper who expertly accompanies him through the secretive waters of this particular way of life. Vollmann describes the thrill and terror of lying in a trainyard in the dark, avoiding the flickering flashlights of the railroad bulls; ...
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- Harper Perennial, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
ISBN 978-0-06-153725-7
EAN 9780061537257
Rakesh Ahuja, a Government Minister in New Delhi, is beset by problems: thirteen children and another on the way; a wife who mourns the loss of her favorite TV star; and a teenaged son with some really strong opinions about family planning. To make matters worse, looming over this comical farrago are secrets both personal ...
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- Harper Perennial, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 688 páginas
PVP: 23,50 €
ISBN 978-0-06-158248-6
EAN 9780061582486
Anna is a writer, author of one very successful novel, who now keeps four notebooks. In one, with a black cover, she reviews the African experience of her earlier years. In a red one she records her political life, her disillusionment with communism. In a yellow one she writes a novel in which the heroine ...
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Life is very different now in the rambling Gilbreth house.When the youngest was two and the oldest eighteen, Dad died and Mother bravely took over his business. Now, to keep the family together, everyone has to pitch in and pinch pennies. The resourceful clan rises to every crisis with a marvelous sense of fun -- ...
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- Harper Perennial, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 19,75 €
ISBN 978-0-06-113704-4
EAN 9780061137044
An American cult figure, Bowles has fascinated such disparate talents as Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, Truman Capote, William S. Burroughs, Gore Vidal, and Tobias Wolff. From "The Delicate Prey" to "Too Far from Home, " this definitive collection celebrates Bowles' masterful artistry in short fiction.
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Ike
An American Hero
- Harper Perennial, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,36 €
ISBN 978-0-06-075666-6
EAN 9780060756666
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- Harper Perennial, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 12,56 €
ISBN 978-0-06-145134-8
EAN 9780061451348
Daniel Fischer has a secret. He knows he's a character in a book that's being written. He's the only one who knows, the only one who's aware of the author's presence but what good does it do Daniel? He's just a minor character. The author seems much more interested in other people's lives. Now Daniel ...
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- Harper Perennial, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 650 páginas
PVP: 16,00 €
ISBN 978-0-06-156489-5
EAN 9780061564895
On 8 March 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China. The ships, some nearly five hundred feet long, were under the command of Emperor Zhu Di's loyal eunuch admirals. Their mission was to proceed all the way to the end of the earth to collect tribute from the barbarians ...
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- Harper Perennial, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 356 páginas
PVP: 10,00 €
ISBN 978-0-00-727076-7
EAN 9780007270767
A beautiful, compelling, utterly original new novel from one of the most important American writers of our time, and winner of the National Book Award for Fiction, 2012Pluto, North Dakota, is a town on the verge of extinction. Here, everybody is connected - by love or friendship, by blood, and, most importantly, by the burden ...
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- Harper Perennial, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-0-00-715093-9
EAN 9780007150939
For sixty years Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a 'temporary' safe haven created in the wake of revelations of the Holocaust and the shocking 1948 collapse of the fledgling state of Israel. Proud, grateful and longing to be American, the Jews of the Sitka District have created ...
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- Harper Perennial, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,45 €
ISBN 978-0-06-087884-9
EAN 9780060878849
National Book Award-winning author travels the globe and meets with impoverished individuals where they live to document firsthand the causes and effects of poverty. Two 16-page photo inserts.
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- Harper Perennial, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 15,20 €
ISBN 978-0-06-125202-0
EAN 9780061252020
A mysterious circus terrifies an audience for one extraordinary performance before disappearing into the night. . . . In a Hugo Award winning story, a great detective must solve a most unsettling royal murder in a strangely altered Victorian England. . . . Two teenage boys crash a party and meet the girls of their ...
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Robert Carver, journalist and author of the acclaimed 'Among the Mountains', searches for high adventure and intense experiences as he follows the trail of a family mystery . Once upon a time when Buenos Aires was still a tiny village, there existed an almost magical sub-tropical paradise in the lost heart of South America - ...
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The Gulag Archipelago
1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation
- Harper Perennial, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 470 páginas
PVP: 19,95 €
ISBN 978-0-06-125380-5
EAN 9780061253805
Solzhenitsyn's gripping epic masterpiece, the searing record of four decades of Soviet terror and oppression, in one abridged volume, authorized by the author
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- Harper Perennial, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 12,15 €
ISBN 978-0-00-725560-3
EAN 9780007255603
The title story in this classic collection tells of Smith, a defiant young rebel, inhabiting the no-man's land of institutionalised Borstal. As his steady jog-trot rhythm transports him over an unrelenting, frost-bitten earth, he wonders why, for whom and for what he is running. A groundbreaking work, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner' captured ...
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