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From the bestselling author of The Hours and Specimen Days comes a generous, masterfully crafted novel with all the power of a Greek tragedy. The epic tale of an American family, Flesh and Blood follows three generations of the Stassos clan as it is transformed by ambition, love, and history. Constantine Stassos, a Greek immigrant, ...
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Ivan's War
Life and Death in the Red Army 1939-1945
- Picador USA, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 16,65 €
ISBN 978-0-312-42652-1
EAN 9780312426521
They died in vast numbers, eight million men and women driven forward in suicidal charges, shattered by German shells and tanks. They were the soldiers of the Red Army, an exhausted mass of recruits who confronted Europe's most lethal fighting force and by 1945 had defeated it. For sixty years, their experiences were suppressed, replaced ...
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- Picador USA, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 14,80 €
ISBN 978-0-312-42502-9
EAN 9780312425029
In each section of Michael Cunningham's bold new novel, his first since The Hours, we encounter the same group of characters: a young boy, a man, and a woman. "In the Machine" is a ghost story that takes place at the height of the industrial revolution as human beings confront the alienating realities of the ...
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- Picador USA, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 247 páginas
PVP: 16,75 €
ISBN 978-0-312-42440-4
EAN 9780312424404
Twenty-four years after her first novel, "Housekeeping," Marilynne Robinson returns with an intimate tale of three generations from the Civil War to the twentieth century: a story about fathers and sons and the spiritual battles that still rage at America's heart. Writing in the tradition of Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman, Marilynne Robinson's beautiful, spare, ...
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- Picador USA, 2005
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 17,25 €
ISBN 978-0-312-42493-0
EAN 9780312424930
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- Picador USA, 2005
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 19,45 €
ISBN 978-0-312-42528-9
EAN 9780312425289
The sprawling, swampy, cacophonous city of Lagos, Nigeria, provides the backdrop to the story of Elvis, a teenage Elvis impersonator hoping to make his way out of the ghetto. Nuanced, lyrical, and pitch perfect, this is a remarkable story of a son and his father, and an examination of postcolonial Nigeria, where the trappings of ...
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- Picador USA, 2004
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 20,90 €
ISBN 978-0-312-42119-9
EAN 9780312421199
"What I Loved "begins in New York in 1975, when art historian Leo Hertzberg discovers an extraordinary painting by an unknown artist in a SoHo gallery. He buys the work; tracks down the artist, Bill Wechsler; and the two men embark on a life-long friendship. Leo's story, which spans twenty-five years, follows the growing involvement ...
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- Picador USA, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-312-42227-1
EAN 9780312422271
Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her unorthodox psychiatrist who bore a striking resemblance to Santa Claus. So at the age of twelve, Burroughs found himself amidst Victorian squalor living with the doctor's bizarre family, ...
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- Picador USA, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 12,10 €
ISBN 978-0-312-42170-0
EAN 9780312421700
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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, 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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