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- Vintage UK, 2004
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 656 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-09-946864-6
EAN 9780099468646
Anthony Burgess' epic masterpiece follows the lives of two men who each represent different kinds of earthly power. Kenneth Toomey is an eminent novelist, world-famous homosexual, and a man who has outlived his contemporaries to survive into honoured, bitter, luxurious old age as a celebrity of dubious notoriety. Don Carlo Campanati is a man of ...
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- Vintage UK, 2004
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-09-945836-4
EAN 9780099458364
The characters who populate an Alice Munro story live and breathe. Passions hopelessly conceived, affections betrayed, marriages made and broken: the joys, fears, loves and awakenings of women echo throughout these twelve unforgettable stories, laying bare the unexceptional and yet inescapable pain of human contact.
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- Vintage UK, 2004
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-09-947776-1
EAN 9780099477761
In 1634 Urbain Grandier, a handsome and successful seducer of women and priest of the parish of Loudun, was tried, tortured and burnt at the stake. He had been found guilty of being in league with the devil and seducing an entire convent of nuns in what was the most sensational case of mass possession ...
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- Vintage UK, 2004
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 12,50 €
ISBN 978-0-09-947043-4
EAN 9780099470434
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a murder mystery novel like no other. The detective, and narrator, is Christopher Boone. Christopher is fifteen and has Asperger's, a form of autism. He knows a very great deal about maths and very little about human beings. He loves lists, patterns and the truth. ...
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- Vintage UK, 2004
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 13,40 €
ISBN 978-0-09-945025-2
EAN 9780099450252
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a murder mystery novel like no other. The detective, and narrator, is Christopher Boone. Christopher is fifteen and has Asperger's, a form of autism. He knows a very great deal about maths and very little about human beings. He loves lists, patterns and the truth. ...
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- Vintage UK, 2004
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-0-09-946095-4
EAN 9780099460954
Green Hills of Africa is Ernest Hemingway's lyrical journal of a month on safari in the great game country of East Africa, where he and his wife Pauline journeyed in December 1933. Hemingway's well-known interest in - and fascination with - big-game hunting is magnificently captured in this evocative account of his trip. It is ...
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- Vintage UK, 2004
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-09-947047-2
EAN 9780099470472
Withdrawn, uneducated and unloved, Frederick collects butterflies and takes photographs. A chance pools win enables his to capture the art student Miranda and keep her in the cellar of the Sussex house he has bought with the windfall. The situation is seen first from the collector's point of view: he thinks the chloroform pad no ...
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- Vintage UK, 2004
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 640 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-09-945383-3
EAN 9780099453833
Jonah, Joseph and Ruth are the children of mixed-race parents determined to protect them from the grinding effects of race. Hothouse children, they are all musically talented, but they cannot be protected from the world for long. Jonah becomes a successful young tenor, but the world of opera can only accept him as a 'brilliant ...
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- Vintage UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-0-09-951904-1
EAN 9780099519041
'A Scottish classic, a world classic' Ian Rankin, ObserverRobert is a difficult and disturbed young man. He comes from a troubled family background and turns to his Calvinist faith for solace but finds it hard to get along with other people, particularly his brother and his dissolute father. After he falls in with the mysterious ...
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- Vintage UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-0-09-943802-1
EAN 9780099438021
Koba the Dread is the successor to Amis's celebrated memoir, Experience. It addresses itself to the central lacuna of twentieth-century thought: the indulgence of communism by Western intellectuals. In between the personal beginning and the personal ending, Amis gives us perhaps the best one hundred pages ever written about Stalin: Koba the Dread, Iosif the ...
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Image for PlatformClick to enlargePlatformby Michel HouellebecqFormat:Paperback / softback 368 pagesPublisher:Vintage PublishingImprint:VintageISBN:9780099437888Published:1 Sep 2003Classifications:Modern x{0026} contemporary fiction (post c 1945)Readership:General (US: Trade)Weight:262gDimensions:199 x 127 x 25 (mm)Pub. Country:United KingdomLanguage:EnglishFor sale in: All countriesDescriptionMichel is a civil-servant at the Ministry of Culture. When his father is murdered, Michel takes a leave of absence to go on ...
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- Vintage UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-09-945535-6
EAN 9780099455356
Time's Arrow tells the story, backwards, of the life of Nazi war criminal, Doctor Tod T Friendly. He dies and then feels markedly better, breaks up with his lovers as a prelude to seducing them and mangles his patients before he sends them home-Escaping from the body of the dying doctor who had worked in ...
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- Vintage UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-09-945542-4
EAN 9780099455424
Charles Highway, a precociously intelligent and highly sexed teenager, is determined to sleep with an older woman before he turns twenty. Rachel fits the bill perfectly and Charles plans his seduction meticulously, sets the scene with infinite care - but it doesn't come off quite as Charles expects.
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- Vintage UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-09-953032-9
EAN 9780099530329
This powerful collection of stories, set in the mid-West among the lonely men and women who drink, fish and play cards to ease the passing of time, was the first by Raymond Carver to be published in the UK. With its spare, colloquial narration and razor-sharp sense of how people really communicate, the collection was ...
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Salt
A World History
- Vintage UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-0-09-928199-3
EAN 9780099281993
Homer called it a divine substance. Plato described it as especially dear to the gods. As Mark Kurlansky so brilliantly relates here, salt has shaped civilisation from the beginning, and its story is a glittering, often surprising part of the history of mankind. Wars have been fought over salt and, while salt taxes secured empires ...
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- Vintage UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 12,90 €
ISBN 978-0-09-944254-7
EAN 9780099442547
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- Vintage UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-09-943355-2
EAN 9780099433552
The decline of religion and ever increasing influence of science pose acute ethical issues for us all. Can we reject the literal truth of the Gospels yet still retain a Christian morality? Can we defence any 'moral values' against the constant encroachments of technology? Indeed, are we in danger of losing most of the qualities ...
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- Vintage UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 12,95 €
ISBN 978-0-09-943362-0
EAN 9780099433620
Youth's narrator, a student in 1950s South Africa, has long been plotting an escape from his native country. Studying mathematics, reading poetry, saving money, he tries to ensure that when he arrives in the real world he will be prepared to experience life to its full intensity, and transform it into art. Arriving at last ...
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- Vintage UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-09-947971-0
EAN 9780099479710
Andalusia is a passion - and fifteen years after his last visit Laurie Lee returned. He found a country broken by the Civil War, but the totems of indestructible Spain survive: the Christ in agony, the thrilling flamenco cry-the pride in poverty, the gypsy intensity in vivid whitewashed slums, the cult of the bullfight, the ...
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- Vintage UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-0-09-944846-4
EAN 9780099448464
It is the summer of 1936, the early months of the agonising civil war that engulfs Spain and shakes the rest of the world. In a prison in the pilgrim city of Santiago de Compostela, an artist sketches the famous porch of the cathedral, the Pórtico da Gloria. He uses a carpenter's pencil. But instead ...
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