Editorial Virago
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- Virago, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 13,05 €
ISBN 978-0-349-00455-6
EAN 9780349004556
Edith Howland's diary is her most precious possession, and as she is moving house she is making sure it's safe. A suburban housewife in fifties America, she is moving to Brunswick with her husband Brett and her beloved son, Cliffie, to start a new life for them all. She is optimistic, but most of all ...
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- Virago, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-349-00493-8
EAN 9780349004938
Little Tales of Misogyny is Highsmith's legendary, cultish short-story collection. With an eerie simplicity of style, Highsmith turns our next-door neighbours into sadistic psychopaths, lying in wait among white picket fences and manicured lawns. In these darkly satirical, often hilarious, sketches you'll meet seemingly familiar women with the power to destroy both themselves and the ...
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- Virago, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-349-00457-0
EAN 9780349004570
Sydney Bartleby has killed his wife. At least, he has thought about it, compulsively, repeatedly, plotting schemes, designing escapes, forging alibis. Of course he has; he's a thriller writer.He even knows how to dispose of her body. But when Alicia takes a long, unannounced holiday, Sydney descends into the treacherous world of his own fantasy.
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- Virago, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-0-349-00486-0
EAN 9780349004860
The honeymoon is over, as they say, the bride dead by her own hand. Ray Garrett, the grieving husband, convinces the police in Rome of his innocence, but not his thuggish father-in-law, an American painter named Ed Coleman, who shoots him at point-blank range and leaves him for dead. Ray survives, however, and follows Coleman ...
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- Virago, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 128 páginas
PVP: 14,15 €
ISBN 978-0-349-00568-3
EAN 9780349005683
Friends come in many guises. In these autobiographical stories, three characters - an eccentric great aunt, a Chinese cook and a foul-mouthed ex-jockey - assert a lifelong influence on the narrator, as she looks back over her childhood. Much like Mary Poppins, each comes into the child's life just when she needs them most.And each, ...
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- Virago, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 19,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84408-881-2
EAN 9781844088812
Lila, homeless and alone after years of roaming the countryside, steps inside a small-town Iowa church-the only available shelter from the rain-and ignites a romance and a debate that will reshape her life. She becomes the wife of a minister and widower, John Ames, and begins a new existence while trying to make sense of ...
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- Virago, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 576 páginas
PVP: 17,50 €
ISBN 978-0-349-00458-7
EAN 9780349004587
'There came the splash of water and the rub of heels as Mrs Barber stepped into the tub. After that there was a silence, broken only by the occasional echoey plink of drips from the tap...'Frances had been picturing her lodgers in purely mercenary terms - as something like two great waddling shillings. But this, ...
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Fire from Heaven
A Novel of Alexander the Great
- Virago, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 13,05 €
ISBN 978-1-84408-957-4
EAN 9781844089574
Alexander's beauty, strength and defiance were apparent from birth, but his boyhood honed those gifts into the makings of a king. His mother, Olympias, and his father, King Philip of Macedon, fought each other for their son's loyalty, teaching Alexander politics and vengeance from the cradle. His love for the youth Hephaistion taught him trust, ...
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Funeral Games
A Novel of Alexander the Great
- Virago, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 13,05 €
ISBN 978-1-84408-959-8
EAN 9781844089598
Alexander the Great died at the age of thirty-three, leaving behind an empire that stretched from Greece and Egypt to India. After Alexander's death in 323 B.C. his only direct heirs were two unborn sons and a simpleton half-brother.Every long-simmering faction exploded into the vacuum of power. Wives, distant relatives and generals all vied for ...
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The Persian Boy
A Novel of Alexander the Great
- Virago, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 13,05 €
ISBN 978-1-84408-958-1
EAN 9781844089581
The Persian Boy traces the last years of Alexander's life through the eyes of his lover, Bagoas. Abducted and gelded as a boy, Bagoas is sold as a courtesan to King Darius of Persia, but finds freedom with Alexander the Great after the Macedon army conquers his homeland. Their relationship sustains Alexander as he weathers ...
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Careless People
Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of the Great Gatsby
- Virago, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84408-768-6
EAN 9781844087686
Since its publication in 1925, The Great Gatsby has become one of the world's best-loved books. Careless People tells the true story behind F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece, exploring in newly rich detail its relation to the extravagant, scandalous, and chaotic world in which the author lived. With wit and insight, Sarah Churchwell traces the genesis ...
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- Virago, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 6,90 €
ISBN 978-1-84408-737-2
EAN 9781844087372
Barcelona, early 1930s: Natalia, a pretty shop-girl from the working-class quarter of Gracia, is hesitant when a stranger asks her to dance at the fiesta in Diamond Square. But Joe is charming and forceful, and she takes his hand. They marry and soon have two children; for Natalia it is an awakening, both good and ...
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- Virago, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84408-965-9
EAN 9781844089659
Robert wants nothing more than to become a serious art historian. But his hopes for an academic life are put on hold when he's driven from London to Venice to escape one lover and seek out another: the enigmatic Bulgarian refugee Lina Pancev. In Venice, Robert encounters a grand carnival of lust, lies, blackmail, cocktail ...
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- Virago, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 15,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84408-967-3
EAN 9781844089673
Annabel Christopher is every inch the star: a glamorous actress with a devoted, handsome husband. To keep the paparazzi and her adoring public under her spell, her perfect image must be carefully cultivated, whatever the cost. Beneath the facade, though, her husband cannot bear her or their vapid existence.Envious of her success, he plots his ...
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- Virago, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 12,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84408-733-4
EAN 9781844087334
Nora Eldridge has always been a good girl: a good daughter, colleague, friend, employee. She teaches at an elementary school where the children and the parents adore her; but her real passion is her art, which she makes alone, unseen. One day Reza Shahid appears in her classroom: eight years old, a perfect, beautiful boy.Reza's ...
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Oryx and Crake
The Maddaddam Trilogy
- Virago, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-349-00406-8
EAN 9780349004068
Pigs might not fly but they are strangely altered. So, for that matter, are wolves and racoons. A man, once named Jimmy, lives in a tree, wrapped in old bedsheets, now calls himself Snowman. The voice of Oryx, the woman he loved, teasingly haunts him. And the green-eyed Children of Crake are, for some reason, ...
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- Virago, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84408-684-9
EAN 9781844086849
Virago Press and the Asham Award, the foremost prize for stories by women, present a collection of tales to send you to places you've never been before ...Here are tales of people who travel far and those who stay at home and dream; of strange things in suitcases; of roads that should not have been ...
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- Virago, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84408-982-6
EAN 9781844089826
The girls - Rube, Lily and Sylvie - work at McCrindle's sweet factory during the week and on Saturday they go up the Junction in their clattering stilettos, think about new frocks on H.P., drink tea in the cafe, and talk about their boyfriends. In these uninhibited, spirited vignettes of young women's lives in the ...
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Careless People
Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby
- Virago, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 448 páginas
PVP: 25,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84408-766-2
EAN 9781844087662
Since its publication in the spring of 1925, The Great Gatsby has become one of the recognized masterpieces of the twentieth century, beloved by readers across the world and regularly named one of the greatest novels ever written in English. Now comes a book which tells the of the mayhem, and the surprising story behind ...
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- Virago, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
PVP: 21,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84408-744-0
EAN 9781844087440
Acclaimed novelist of the Italian Renaissance Sarah Dunant now takes on the era's most infamous family: the Borgias. By the end of the fifteenth century, the beauty and creativity of Italy is matched by its brutality and corruption, nowhere more than in Rome and in the Church. When Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia buys his way into ...
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