Editorial Virago
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This is a startling memoir of a successful journalist s journey from the deserted and dusty mining towns of the American Southwest, to an antique filled apartment on Park Avenue. Jeanette Walls narrates her nomadic and adventurous childhood with her dreaming, brilliant but alcoholic parents. At the age of seventeen she escapes on a Greyhound ...
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- Virago, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84408-312-1
EAN 9781844083121
Two sisters: Madeleine and Dinah; one husband: Rickie. For many years, Dinah has conducted a clandestine affair with Rickie and Madeleine has accepted that her marriage has been of limited success. His sudden death makes widows of them both in this novel, which explores the pain of
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- Virago, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 15,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84408-148-6
EAN 9781844081486
.In 1956, toward the end of Reverend John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son, a kind of last testament to his remarkable forebears. 'It is a book of such meditative calm, such spiritual intensity that is seems miraculous that her silence was only for 23 years; such measure of wisdom is ...
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Once upon a time fairy tales weren't meant just for children, and neither is Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales. This stunning collection contains lyrical tales, bloody tales and hilariously funny and ripely bawdy stories from countries all around the world- from the Arctic to Asia - and no dippy princesses or soppy fairies. Instead, ...
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- Virago, 2005
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 12,15 €
ISBN 978-1-84408-072-4
EAN 9781844080724
'When people play the game: Name three or four persons whom you would choose to have with you on a desert island -- they never choose the Delaneys. They don't even choose us one by one as individuals. We have earned, not always fairly we consider, the reputation of being difficult guests .. .'Maria, Niall ...
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- Virago, 2004
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-1-8440-8087-8
EAN 9781844080878
How long he fought with them in the darkness he could not tell, but at last the beating of the wings about him lessened and then withdrew ...' A classic of alienation and horror, 'The Birds' was immortalised by Hitchcock in his celebrated film. The five other chilling stories in this collection echo a sense ...
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Two weeks after September 11th, award-winning journalist Asne Seierstad went to Afghanistan to report on the conflict. In the following spring she returned to live with a bookseller and his family for several months. The Bookseller of Kabul is the fascinating account of her time spent living with the family of thirteen in their four-roomed ...
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- Virago, 2004
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84408-068-7
EAN 9781844080687
'His first instinct was to stretch out his hands to the sky. The white clouds seemed so near to him, surely they were easy to hold and to caress, strange-moving things belonging to the wide blue space of heaven . .. 'Julius Levy grows up in a peasant family in a village on the banks ...
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Piercing the shadows of the naked stage was a single shaft of rosy limelight, and in the centre of this was a girl: the most marvellous girl - I knew it at once! - that I had ever seen. A saucy, sensuous and multi-layered historical romance, Tipping the Velvet follows the glittering career of Nan ...
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- Virago, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 560 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-86049-883-1
EAN 9781860498831
'We were all more or less thieves at Lant Street. But we were that kind of thief that rather eased the dodgy deed along, than did it . We could pass anything, anything at all, at speeds which would astonish you.There was only one thing, in fact, that had come and got stuck - one ...
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- Virago, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 13,80 €
ISBN 978-1-84408-038-0
EAN 9781844080380
Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again . . .Working as a lady's companion, the orphaned heroine of Rebecca learns her place. Life begins to look very bleak until, on a trip to the South of France, she meets Maxim de Winter, a handsome widower whose sudden proposal of marriage takes her by ...
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- Virago, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-86049-850-3
EAN 9781860498503
This book is the very simple story of the love affair between Miss Helene Hanff of New York and Messrs Marks and Co, sellers of rare and secondhand books, at 84 Charing Cross Road, London
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- Virago, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 14,85 €
ISBN 978-1-86049-873-2
EAN 9781860498732
When friends die, one's own credentials change: one becomes a survivor. Graham Greene has already had biographers, one of whom has served him mightily. Yet I hope that there is room for the remembrance of a friend who knew him - not wisely, perhaps, but fairly well - on an island that was ''not his ...
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- Virago, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84408-307-7
EAN 9781844083077
INTRODUCED BY HILARY MANTELElizabeth Taylor is finally being recognised as an important British author: an author of great subtlety, great compassion and great depth - Sarah WatersWriting stories that are extravagant and fanciful, fifteen-year old Angel retreats to a world of romance, escaping the drabness of provincial life. She knows she is different, that she ...
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- Virago, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-1-86049-804-6
EAN 9781860498046
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- Virago, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-86049-792-6
EAN 9781860497926
In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital to be treated for depression. She spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital renowned for its famous clientele - Sylvia ...
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On a rainy Sunday in January, the recently widowed Mrs Palfrey arrives at the Claremont Hotel where she will spend her remaining days. Her fellow residents are magnificently eccentric and endlessly curious, living off crumbs of affection and snippets of gossip. Together, upper lips stiffened, they fight off their twin enemies: boredom and the Grim ...
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- Virago, 1999
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-85381-722-9
EAN 9781853817229
This novel follows three women in Toronto whose lives are badly affected by the mischief of their former university friend. When she dies they assume that their troubles are over, but then she reappears, apparently more malevolent than ever.
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Marian is determined to be ordinary. She lays her head gently on the shoulder of her serious fiancee and quietly awaits marriage. But she didn't count on an inner rebellion that would rock her stable routine, and her digestion.Marriage a la mode, Marian discovers, is something she literally can't stomach ...The Edible Woman is a ...
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