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- Vintage UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 12,50 €
ISBN 978-0-09-928963-0
EAN 9780099289630
Uma, the plain, spinster daughter of a close-knit Indian family, is trapped at home, smothered by her overbearing parents and their traditions, unlike her ambitious younger sister Aruna, who brings off a good' marriage and brother Arun, the disappointing son and heir who is studying in America. Across the world in Massachusetts, life with the ...
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- Vintage UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-09-928284-6
EAN 9780099282846
FAR EASTERN TALES is a collection of short stories which have never before appeared together. They are all born of his experience in Malaya, Singapore and other outposts of the former British Empire. Whether portraying a ship-borne flight from a lover's curse, murder in the jungle or the remembered East of a repatriate's suburban home, ...
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- Vintage UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 12,30 €
ISBN 978-0-09-944877-8
EAN 9780099448778
His life was like his recurring nightmare: a train to nowhere. But an ordinary life has a way of taking an extraordinary turn. Add a girl whose ears are so exquisite that, when uncovered, they improve sex a thousand-fold, a runaway friend, a right-wing politico, an ovine-obsessed professor and a manic-depressive in a sheep outfit, ...
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- Vintage UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 12,25 €
ISBN 978-0-09-927472-8
EAN 9780099274728
From the beginning Oliver Walzer is a natural - at ping-pong. Even with his improvised bat (the Collins Classic edition of DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE) he can chop, flick, half-volley like a champion. At sex he isnot a natural, being shy and frightened of women, but with tuition from Sheeny Waxman, fellow member of ...
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- Vintage UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 337 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-09-923862-1
EAN 9780099238621
Pamela Vale, aged 34, had died in the house fire. She had been beautiful, and had been heavily insured, and her husband showed little grief. Her children seemed terrified. Insurance investigator Jack Wade is sure he knows what happened. All he has to do is to gather the evidence.
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- Vintage UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-09-928952-4
EAN 9780099289524
After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry. Willing to admit his guilt, but refusing to yield to pressure to repent publicly, he resigns and ...
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- Vintage UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-09-928786-5
EAN 9780099287865
Unruly, ungovernable, unpredictable, unexpected, funny, sexy and completely recognisable these are the women that Alice Munro exposes in this brilliant new collection that confirms her genius for entering the lives of ordinary people and capturing the passions and contradictions that lie just below the surface. The Love of a Good Woman is not as pure ...
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- Vintage UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-0-09-928486-4
EAN 9780099284864
Written during World War II, this novel takes as its theme the Zen Buddhist phrase describing the narrow, painful path to enlightenment. The book describes an over-populated, materialistic society, in which people increasingly turn inwards to the spiritual life in their search for freedom.
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- Vintage UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-09-928277-8
EAN 9780099282778
When CAKES AND ALE was first published in 1930, it roused a storm of controversy, since many people imagined they saw in its pages recognisable portraits of literary figures now no more. The tumult and the shouting soon died down, leaving the story to take its place as one of the finest of Maugham's novels. ...
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- Vintage UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-09-927377-6
EAN 9780099273776
Alice Munro's territory is the farms and semi-rural towns of south- western Ontario. Described by one of her peers as going around with a 'delicate, rueful smile and a wicked pen', she says of herself: 'I guess that maybe as a writer I'm kind of an anachronism...because I write about places where your roots are ...
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- Vintage UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 699 páginas
PVP: 14,70 €
ISBN 978-0-09-928496-3
EAN 9780099284963
A powerful evocation of a young man's progress to maturity in the years before World War I; a semi-autobiographical novel of love and the obsession of Philip Carey for the waitress Mildred Rogers.
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- Vintage UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 576 páginas
PVP: 16,40 €
ISBN 978-0-09-928359-1
EAN 9780099283591
In the English town of Ennistone hot springs bubble up from deep beneath the earth. In these healing waters the townspeople seek health and regeneration, rightousness and ritual cleansing. To this town steeped in ancient lore and subterranean inspiration the Philosopher returns. He exerts an almost magical influence over a host of Ennistonians, and especially ...
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- Vintage UK, 1999
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 12,90 €
ISBN 978-0-09-944862-4
EAN 9780099448624
Fencing is not a game but a science. The outcome is invariably the same: triumph or disaster, life or death. Jaime Astarloa is a master-fencer of the old school, priding himself on the precision, dignity and honour of his ancient art. It is 1868; Spain teeters on the brink of revolution, his friends spend their ...
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Paddy Clarke, ha ha ha
Booker Prize 1993
- Vintage UK, 1999
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 8,75 €
ISBN 978-0-7493-9735-7
EAN 9780749397357
The 1993 Booker Prizewinner. Paddy Clarke, a ten-year-old Dubliner, describes his world, a place full of warmth, cruelty, love, sardines and slaps across the face. He's confused; he sees everything but he understands less and less.
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- Vintage UK, 1999
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 13,45 €
ISBN 978-0-09-928476-5
EAN 9780099284765
Inspired by the life of Paul Gauguin, THE MOON AND SIXPENCE tells the story of Charles Strickland, a conventional stockbroker who abandons his wife and children for Prais and Tahiti, to live his life as a painter. Whilst his betrayal of family, duty and honour gives him the freedom to achieve greatness, his decision leads ...
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- Vintage UK, 1999
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 12,25 €
ISBN 978-0-09-928259-4
EAN 9780099282594
With superb skill and feeling, Graham greene retraces the experiences and encounters of a long and extraordinary life. His restlessness is legendary; he has travelled like an explorer seeking our people and political situations. 'at the dangerous edge of things' - Haiti during the nightmare rule of Papa Doc, Vietnam in the last days - ...
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- Vintage UK, 1999
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 12,85 €
ISBN 978-0-09-928257-0
EAN 9780099282570
Graham Green was born into a veritable tribe of Greenes - six children, eventually, and sic cousins - based in Berkhamstead at the public school where his father was headmaster. In A SORT OF LIFE Greene recalls schooldays and Oxford, adolescent encounters with psychoanalysis and Russian roulette, his marriage and conversion to Catholicism, and how ...
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- Vintage UK, 1999
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 15,25 €
ISBN 978-0-09-928307-2
EAN 9780099283072
From the moment that he constructs a perfect alibi, Guy Haines is trapped in a nightmare of shared guilt and an insidious merging of his personality with that of his conspirator.
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- Vintage UK, 1999
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 12,50 €
ISBN 978-0-09-959111-5
EAN 9780099591115
With the festive season almost upon him, Detective Sergeant Bruce Robertson is winding down at work and gearing up socially - kicking off Christmas with a week of sex and drugs in Amsterdam. There are irritating flies in the ointment, though, including a missing wife, a nagging cocaine habit, a dramatic deterioration in his genital ...
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- Vintage UK, 1999
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-09-928287-7
EAN 9780099282877
Ripley wanted out. He wanted money, success, the good life - and he was willing to kill for it. This is the first novel to feature Patricia Highsmith's anti-hero, Tom Ripley.
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