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- Vintage UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 896 páginas
PVP: 13,00 €
ISBN 978-0-09-943734-5
EAN 9780099437345
Judge Oliver Garland has just died in suspicious circumstances. Conservative and controversial, Garland had many enemies. Many years ago, he'd earned a judge's highest prize: a Supreme Court nomination. But in a scene of bitter humiliation in front of a televised audience and before the eyes of his family, he had to withdraw his nomination. ...
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- Vintage UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 16,15 €
ISBN 978-0-09-942222-8
EAN 9780099422228
Like John Updike, Martin Amis is the pre-eminent novelist-critic of his generation. The War Against Clich- is a selection of his reviews and essays over the past quarter-century. It contains pieces on Cervantes, Milton, Donne, Coleridge, Jane Austen, Dickens, Kafka, Philip Larkin, Joyce, Waugh, Lowry, Nabokov, F. R. Leavis, V. S. Pritchett, William Burroughs, Anthony ...
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- Vintage UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 13,45 €
ISBN 978-0-09-944856-3
EAN 9780099448563
The economy was booming. People had more money than they knew what to do with. And then the earthquake struck. For the characters in After the Quake, the Kobe earthquake is an echo from a past they buried long ago. Satsuki has spent thirty years hating one man: a lover who destroyed her chances of ...
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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: 11,60 €
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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- Vintage UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-09-944367-4
EAN 9780099443674
So Virginia Woolf described the 'common reader' for whom she wrote. This is her second series of essays, first published in 1932. Here she turns her brilliant eye on Lord Chesterfield's letters, the novels of George Gissing, the poetry of Donne: we meet Dr Burney and Beau Brummell, Christina Rossetti, Geraldine Jewsbury, Jane Carlyle, Mary ...
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- Vintage UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-0-09-944366-7
EAN 9780099443667
What she produced is an eccentric and unofficial literary and social history from the fourteenth to the twentieth century, with an excursion to ancient Greece thrown in. she investigates medieval England, tsarist Russia, Elizabethan playwrights, Victorian novelists and modern essayists. When she published this book Woolf's fame as a novelist was already established: now she ...
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- Vintage UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 10,00 €
ISBN 978-0-09-943674-4
EAN 9780099436744
The Gangs of New York is a tour through a now unrecognisable city of abysmal poverty and habitual violence centred around the infamous slum of Five Points, with its rival Irish and American gangs. Cobbled from legend, memory, police records, the self-aggrandizements of aging crooks, popular journalism, and solid historical research, this is a powerful ...
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- Vintage UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 720 páginas
PVP: 18,50 €
ISBN 978-0-09-944854-9
EAN 9780099448549
In 1787, the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III, the British Government sent a fleet to colonize Australia. An epic description of the brutal transportation of men, women and children out of Georgian Britain into a horrific penal system which was to be the precursor to the Gulag and was the origin ...
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- Vintage UK, 2002
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 672 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-09-954143-1
EAN 9780099541431
Enderby - poet, social critic, comrade and Catholic - is endlessly hounded by women. He may be found hiding in the lavatory where much of his best work is composed, or perhaps in Rome, brainwashed into respectability by a glamorous wife, aftershave and the dolce vita. But whether he is pursuing revenge and inspiration in ...
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- Vintage UK, 2002
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-09-944888-4
EAN 9780099448884
At first The Emigrants appears simply to document the lives of four Jewish émigrés in the twentieth century. But gradually, as Sebald's precise, almost dreamlike prose begins to work its magic, the four narrations merge into one overwhelming evocation of exile and loss.
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By the bestselling author of THE COMMITMENTS and THE SNAPPER,THE VAN is a tender tale of male friendship, swimming in grease and stained with ketchup.
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- Vintage UK, 2002
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 592 páginas
PVP: 14,55 €
ISBN 978-0-09-943747-5
EAN 9780099437475
The Reckoning is the first full-length investigation of the killing, tracing Marlowe's shadowy political dealings, his involvement in covert intelligence work, and the charges of heresy and homosexuality against him. Critical new evidence is uncovered about his three companions on that last day in Deptford, and about the sinister role of the informer Richard Baines. ...
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- Vintage UK, 2002
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 16,65 €
ISBN 978-0-09-943706-2
EAN 9780099437062
Between the years chronicled Anthony Burgess, initially believing he has only a year to live, begins to write - novels, film scripts, television series, articles. It is the life of a man desperate to earn a living through the written word. He finds at first that writing brings little success, and the obligations it brings, ...
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- Vintage UK, 2002
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 7,66 €
ISBN 978-0-09-944847-1
EAN 9780099448471
Sputnik Sweetheart finds Haruki Murakami in his minimalist mode. Shorter than the sweeping Wind-up Bird Chronicle, less playfully bizarre than A Wild Sheep Chase, the author's seventh novel distills his signature themes into a powerful story about the loneliness of the human condition. "There was nothing solid we could depend on," the reader is told. ...
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- Vintage UK, 2002
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 17,85 €
ISBN 978-0-09-986190-4
EAN 9780099861904
In today's world, women have more power, legal recognition, and professional success than ever before. Alongside the evident progress of the women's movement, however, writer and journalist Naomi Wolf is troubled by a different kind of social control, which, she argues, may prove just as restrictive as the traditional image of homemaker and wife. It's ...
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