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- Picador, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 18,50 €
ISBN 978-0-330-52359-2
EAN 9780330523592
Oliver Sacks' compassionate tales of people struggling to adapt to different neurological conditions have fundamentally changed the way we think of our own minds. In Musicophilia, he examines the powers of music through the individual experiences of patients, musicians and everyday people those struck by affliction, unusual talent and even, in one case, by lightning ...
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- Picador, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 10,35 €
ISBN 978-0-330-51887-1
EAN 9780330518871
In the late 1860s, as America was recovering from Lincoln's assassination, a man named P. T. Barnum opened a museum in New York City. Filled with oddities from around the world, it also hosted a number of sideshow freaks including The Transformation of Bartholomew Fortuno's narrator, the Human Skeleton. This atmospheric and utterly original story ...
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- Picador, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 560 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-330-52370-7
EAN 9780330523707
WITH A NEW PREFACE BY THE AUTHOR V.S. Naipaul's legendary command of broad comedy and acute social observation is on abundant display in these classic works of fiction - two novels and a collection of stories - that capture the rhythms of life in the Caribbean and England with impressive subtlety and humour. The Suffrage ...
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- Picador, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 13,00 €
ISBN 978-0-312-61043-2
EAN 9780312610432
Peter and Rebecca Harris: mid-forties denizens of Manhattan's SoHo, nearing the apogee of committed careers in the arts he a dealer, she an editor. With a spacious loft, a college-age daughter in Boston, and lively friends, they are admirable, enviable contemporary urbanites with every reason, it seems, to be happy. Then Rebecca's much younger look-alike ...
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In a Free State
Man Booker Prize Winner of All Time Shortlist
- Picador, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 7,66 €
ISBN 978-0-330-52290-8
EAN 9780330522908
In a Free State was conceived in 1969 as a sequence about displacement. There was to be a central novel, set in Africa, with shorter surrounding matter from other places. The shorter pieces from these varied places were intended to throw a universal light on the African material.But then, as the years passed and the ...
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- Picador, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 12,15 €
ISBN 978-0-330-52291-5
EAN 9780330522915
Set on a troubled Caribbean island - where Asians, Africans, Americans and former British colonials co-exist in a state of suppressed hysteria - Guerrillas is a novel of colonialism and revolution. A white man arrives with his mistress, an Englishwoman influenced by fantasies of native power and sexuality, unaware of the consequences of her actions. ...
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- Picador, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-330-52300-4
EAN 9780330523004
Miguel Street, V. S. Naipaul's first written work of fiction, is set in a derelict corner of Port of Spain, Trinidad, during World War Two and is narrated by an unnamed, precociously observant neighbourhood boy.We are introduced to a galaxy of characters, from Popo the carpenter, who neglects his livelihood to build the wild thing ...
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- Picador, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-0-330-48712-2
EAN 9780330487122
The Mystic Masseur, V. S. Naipaul's first published novel, is the story of the rise and rise of Ganesh, from failed primary school teacher and struggling masseur to author, revered mystic and MBE - a journey equally memorable for its hilarity as its bewildering success.An unforgettable cast of characters witness this meteoric ascent: Ganesh's father-in-law, ...
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No country embodied the turbulence of twentieth-century European history more dramatically than East Prussia. A great power in the 1800 and 1900s which became a free state in the Weimar Republic post-1918, it was carved up between Poland and the USSR after World War II and passed abruptly into history. The scene of the final ...
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- Picador, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,80 €
ISBN 978-0-330-54373-6
EAN 9780330543736
A bold and richly imaginative new collection from the former US Poet Laureate However arresting, outlandish, or hilarious, the poems in Horoscopes for the Dead are typically prompted by the familiar things of the world: dogs, stars, food, love, and marriage as well as life's local triumphs and disappointments, joys and shames. Collins's gift is ...
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A Writer's People
Ways of Looking and Feeling
- Picador, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-0-330-52298-4
EAN 9780330522984
My purpose is not literary criticism or biography. I wish only to set out the writing and ways of seeing to which I was exposed.' For the serious traveller', one who is fully engaged with the world, there can be no single view. So here is colonial Trinidad (the early Derek Walcott and Naipaul's own ...
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- Picador, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 16,00 €
ISBN 978-0-330-52296-0
EAN 9780330522960
In 1950, V. S. Naipaul travelled from Trinidad to England to take up a place at Oxford University.Over the next few years letters passed back and forth between V. S. Naipaul and his family particularly his beloved father Seepersad, but also his mother and siblings.The result is a fascinating chronicle of Naipaul's time at university; ...
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- Picador, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 326 páginas
PVP: 13,45 €
ISBN 978-0-330-47204-3
EAN 9780330472043
Moving beyond travelogue, The Masque of Africa considers the effects of belief (in indigenous animisms, the foreign religions of Christianity and Islam, the cults of leaders and mythical history) upon the progress of African civilization. Beginning in Uganda, at the centre of the continent, Naipaul's journey takes in Ghana and Nigeria, the Ivory Coast and ...
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- Picador, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 18,40 €
ISBN 978-0-330-52369-1
EAN 9780330523691
During forty years of travel, V. S. Naipaul has created a wide-ranging body of work, an exceptional and sustained meditation on our world.Now his finest pieces of reflection and reportage -- many of which have been unavailable for some time -- are collected in one volume. With an abiding faith in modernity balanced by a ...
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- Picador, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-330-52294-6
EAN 9780330522946
A Turn in the South is a reflective journey by V. S. Naipaul in the late 1980s through the American South.Naipaul writes of his encounters with politicians, rednecks, farmers, writers and ordinary men and women, both black and white, with the insight and originality we expect from one of our best travel writers. Fascinating and ...
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- Picador, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 15,60 €
ISBN 978-0-330-53587-8
EAN 9780330535878
On an autumn day in 2006, on the Isle of Wight, Jack Luxton, former Devon farmer and now the proprietor of a seaside caravan park, receives the news that his soldier brother Tom, not seen for years, has been killed in Iraq. For Jack and his wife Ellie this will have a potentially catastrophic impact. ...
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- Picador, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 15,60 €
ISBN 978-0-330-53626-4
EAN 9780330536264
It's an ordinary afternoon in 1938 for the celebrated American novelist St John Fox, hard at work in the study of his suburban home until his long-absent muse wanders in. Mary Foxe (beautiful, British and 100% imaginary) is in a playfully combative mood. You're a villain, she tells him. A serial killer . . . ...
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- Picador, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 11,99 €
ISBN 978-0-330-51053-0
EAN 9780330510530
When Nuria Martí, the beautiful Spanish figure skater, is suddenly dropped from the Olympic team, a besotted admirer builds a secret ice rink for her in the ruins of an old mansion on the outskirts of their seaside town. What he doesn't tell her is that he paid for it using embezzled public funds. Such ...
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- Picador, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 10,40 €
ISBN 978-0-330-49026-9
EAN 9780330490269
Booker Prize nominee Tim Winton continues to astonish critics and captivate readers with this Australian love story about people stifled by grief and regret; a novel about the odds of breaking with the past. Annotation: Booker Prize nominee Tim Winton continues to astonish critics and captivate readers with this Australian love story about people stifled ...
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