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- Vintage UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 12,10 €
ISBN 978-0-09-928482-6
EAN 9780099284826
A divorced, middle-aged English professor finds himself increasingly unable to resist affairs with his female students. When discovered by the college authorities, he is expected to apologise and repent in an effort to save his job, but he refuses to become a scapegoat in what he see as as a show trial designed to reinforce ...
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- Vintage UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 11,95 €
ISBN 978-0-09-980190-0
EAN 9780099801900
He is a middle-aged American writer called Philip; she is an articulate, well-educated Englishwoman trapped in a loveless and humiliating marriage. In Philip's London studio, this play of voices - sharp, tender and inquiring - reveals both their past lives with startling clarity. Deception is fiendishly clever, as it dances with the conventions of the ...
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- Vintage UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-09-977111-1
EAN 9780099771111
This is the account of a journey to the dazzling Tibetan plateau of Dolpo in the high Himalayas.In 1973 Matthiessen made the 250-mile trek to Dolpo, as part of an expedition to study wild blue sheep. It was an arduous, sometimes dangerous, physical endeavour: exertion, blisters, blizzards, endless negotiations with sherpas, quaking cold. But it ...
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- Vintage UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 13,05 €
ISBN 978-0-09-947651-1
EAN 9780099476511
In search of the unpublished manuscript of a martyred Yiddish writer, American novelist Nathan Zuckerman travels to Soviet-occupied Prague in the mid-1970s. There, in a nation straightjacketed by totalitarian Communism, he discovers a literary predicament marked by an institutionalised oppression that is rather different from his own. He also discovers, among the subjugated writers with ...
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- Vintage UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 14,30 €
ISBN 978-0-09-943996-7
EAN 9780099439967
The racism, brutality and hatred launched upon the head of her young Indian lover echo the dreadful violence perpetrated on Daphne and reveal the desperate state of Anglo-Indian relations. The rift that will eventually prise India - the jewel in the Imperial Crown - from colonial rule is beginning to gape wide. 'A major work, ...
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- Vintage UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 12,90 €
ISBN 978-0-09-947691-7
EAN 9780099476917
Edward Manners - thirty three and disaffected - escapes to a Flemish city in search of a new life. Almost at once he falls in love with seventeen-year-old Luc, and is introduced to the twilight world of the 1890s Belgian painter Edgard Orst.
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Chomsky, Noam; Herman, Edward S.
Manufacturing Consent
The Political Economy of the Mass Media
- Vintage UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 342 páginas
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-0-09-953311-5
EAN 9780099533115
Contrary to the usual image of the press as cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitous in its search for truth, Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky depict how an underlying elite consensus largely structures all facets of the news. They skilfully dissect the way in which the marketplace and the economics of publishing significantly shape the news. They ...
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- Vintage UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-09-947225-4
EAN 9780099472254
The matchless Munro makes art out of everyday lives in this dazzling new collection. At its centre are three stories connected into one marvellously rich narrative about Juliet - who escapes from teaching at a girls' school and throws herself into a wild and passionate love match. Here are men and women of wildly different ...
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- Vintage UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1136 páginas
PVP: 44,50 €
ISBN 978-0-09-944068-0
EAN 9780099440680
The Road to Reality is the most important and ambitious work of science for a generation. It provides nothing less than a comprehensive account of the physical universe and the essentials of its underlying mathematical theory. It assumes no particular specialist knowledge on the part of the reader, so that, for example, the early chapters ...
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- Vintage UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 576 páginas
PVP: 13,45 €
ISBN 978-0-09-928592-2
EAN 9780099285922
Glue is the story of four boys growing up in the Edinburgh schemes, and about the loyalties, the experiences - and the secrets - that hold them together into their thirties. Four boys becoming men: Juice Terry, the work-shy fanny-merchant, with corkscrew curls and sticky fingers; Billy the boxer: driven, controlled, playing to his strengths; ...
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- Vintage UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 13,95 €
ISBN 978-0-09-975501-2
EAN 9780099755012
The Child in Time opens with a harrowing event. Stephen Lewis,a successful author of children's books, takes his three-year-old daughter on a routine Saturday morning trip to the supermarket. While waiting in line, his attention is distracted and his daughter is kidnapped. Just like that. From there, Lewis spirals into bereavement that has effects on ...
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Dulce Chacón's book has had an immense success in Spain, no doubt because the novelist speaks with a just and powerful voice, and because she has allowed women - the most anonymous, the most suppressed, the most silenced - to speak out' Le MondeIt is 1939. In the Ventas prison in Madrid a group of ...
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- Vintage UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 15,25 €
ISBN 978-0-09-946968-1
EAN 9780099469681
Saturday, February 15, 2003. Henry Perowne is a contented man a successful neurosurgeon, the devoted husband of Rosalind and proud father of two grown-up children. Unusually, he wakes before dawn, drawn to the window of his bedroom and filled with a growing unease. What troubles him as he looks out at the night sky is ...
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- Vintage UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 15,20 €
ISBN 978-0-09-927658-6
EAN 9780099276586
One windy spring day in the Chilterns Joe Rose's calm, organized life is shattered by a ballooning accident. The afternoon, Rose reflects, could have ended in mere tragedy, but for his brief meeting with Jed Parry. Unknown to Rose, something passes between them - something that gives birth in Parry to an obsession so powerful ...
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- Vintage UK, 2005
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 7,66 €
ISBN 978-0-09-945832-6
EAN 9780099458326
Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father's dark prophesy. The aging Nakata, tracker of lost cats, who never recovered from a bizarre childhood affliction, finds his pleasantly simplified life suddenly turned upside down. This book follows the fortunes of two remarkable characters.
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- Vintage UK, 2005
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-09-927709-5
EAN 9780099277095
The setting is Berlin. Into this divided city, wrenched between East and West, between past and present; comes twenty-five-year-old Leonard Marnham, assigned to a British-American surveillance team.Though only a pawn in an international plot that is never fully revealed to him,Leonard uses his secret work to escape thebonds of his ordinarylife -and to lose his ...
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- Vintage UK, 2005
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 14,70 €
ISBN 978-0-09-927277-9
EAN 9780099272779
On a chilly February day two old friends meet in the throng outside acrematorium to pay their last respects to Molly Lane. Both Clive Linleyand Vernon Halliday had been Molly's lovers in the days before theyreached their current eminence, Clive as Britain's most successfulmodern composer, Vernon as editor of the quality broadsheet, The Judge.Gorgeous, feisty ...
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- Vintage UK, 2005
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 12,50 €
ISBN 978-0-09-948201-7
EAN 9780099482017
First published in 1967, this work has become a benchmark of popular anthropology and psychology. Morris considers humans as being simply another animal species.
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- Vintage UK, 2005
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-0-09-949409-6
EAN 9780099494096
Kafka on the Shore follows the fortunes of two remarkable characters. Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father's dark prophesy. The aging Nakata, tracker of lost cats, who never recovered from a bizarre childhood affliction, finds his pleasantly simplified life suddenly turned upside down. Their parallel odysseys are ...
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