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The Decay of the Angel
The Sea of Fertility 4
- Vintage UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 13,10 €
ISBN 978-0-09-928457-4
EAN 9780099284574
The dramatic climax of "The Sea of Fertility" tetraology takes place in the late 1960s. Honda, now an aged and wealthy man, discovers and adopts a sixteen-year-old orphan, Toru, as his heir, identifying him with the tragic protagonists of the three previous novels, each of whom died at the age of twenty. Honda raises and ...
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- Vintage UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-09-928778-0
EAN 9780099287780
In 1914 they had been eleven years old - Dicey, Mumbo and Sheikie. Nearly fifty years have gone by since they met at St Agatha's, a day school on the South Coast. One of them, Dicey, a beauty to whom time has so far done little, deliberately convenes the other two - Clare, a successful ...
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Solzhenitsyn's celebrated novel describes the lives of people in the Soviet Union under Stalin who were condemned on health grounds to "internment" or death. It also give a psychological insight into the intensified experience of people under varying degrees of pressure and deprivation.
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Backlash
The Undeclared War Against Women
- Vintage UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 608 páginas
PVP: 21,70 €
ISBN 978-0-09-922271-2
EAN 9780099222712
An account of the "war" against women, the insidiously manipulated political and cultural backlash against the hard-won equality and independence which women achieved in the 1970s and 1980s. Using examples from all areas of public life, Faludi presents a picture of the erosion of women's status.
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- Vintage UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 11,60 €
ISBN 978-0-09-928998-2
EAN 9780099289982
Set in a remote fishing village in Japan, The Sound of Waves is a timeless story of first love. It tells of Shinji, a young fisherman and Hatsue, the beautiful daughter of the wealthiest man in the village. Shinji is entranced at the sight of Hatsue in the twilight on the beach and they fall ...
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- Vintage UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-0-09-942268-6
EAN 9780099422686
Victor Mancini has devised a complicated scam to pay for his mother's hospital care: pretend to be choking on a piece of food in a restaurant and the person who 'saves you' will feel responsible for you for the rest of their lives. Multiply that a couple of hundred times and you generate a healthy ...
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- Vintage UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-0-09-977101-2
EAN 9780099771012
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- Vintage UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 8,25 €
ISBN 978-0-09-188767-4
EAN 9780091887674
From first look and first date to first fight, breaking up and making up, the world of dating can be a minefield for the unprepared. International relationship guru, John Gray turns his expertise to the language and behaviour of dating couples. Asking questions such as:-How should you act on your first date?-How can you tell ...
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- Vintage UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-09-948135-5
EAN 9780099481355
Disponibilidad inmediata (en stock)
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- Vintage UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-09-938861-6
EAN 9780099388616
Is Sophie Fevvers, toast of Europe's capitals, part swan...or all fake?Courted by the Prince of Wales and painted by Toulouse-Lautrec, she is an aerialiste extraordinaire and star of Colonel Kearney's circus. She is also part woman, part swan. Jack Walser, an American journalist, is on a quest to discover the truth behind her identity.Dazzled by ...
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- Vintage UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 12,25 €
ISBN 978-0-09-928285-3
EAN 9780099282853
This is a seductive and evocative epic on an intimate scale, which tells the extraordinary story of a geisha girl. Summoning up more than twenty years of Japan's most dramatic history, it uncovers a hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degredation. From a small fishing village in 1929, the tale moves to the ...
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- Vintage UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 7,66 €
ISBN 978-0-09-951531-9
EAN 9780099515319
A fiction-within-a-fiction, My Life as a Man centres on the fraught marriage of Peter, a gifted young writer and Maureen Tarnopol, the woman who wants to be his muse but who instead becomes his nemesis. Their union is based on fraud and powered by moral blackmail. And yet, the the couple's relationship is so perversely ...
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- Vintage UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 13,45 €
ISBN 978-0-09-958201-4
EAN 9780099582014
A work of near heroic vitality and cunning' Sunday TelegraphAt sixty-four Mickey Sabbath is still defiantly antagonistic and exceedingly libidinous; sex is an obsession and a principle, an instrument of perpetual misrule in his daily existence. But after the death of his long-time mistress - an erotic free spirit whose great taste for the impermissible ...
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The Rings of Saturn begins as the record of a journey on foot through coastal East Anglia. From Lowestoft to Bungay, Sebald's own story becomes the conductor of evocations of people and cultures past and present: of Chateaubriand, Thomas Browne, Swinburne and Conrad, of fishing fleets, skulls and silkworms. The result is a rich meditation ...
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- Vintage UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-09-953301-6
EAN 9780099533016
This dazzling collection of short stories explores the allure and confusion of what happens when East meets West. Fantasy and realism collide as a rickshaw driver writes letters home describing his film star career in Bombay; a mispronunciation leads to romance and an unusual courtship in sixties London; two childhood friends turned diplomats live out ...
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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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