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- Virago, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 13,45 €
ISBN 978-1-84408-550-7
EAN 9781844085507
Hundreds of thousands of readers were enthralled and delighted by the luminous, tender voice of John Ames in Gilead, Marilynne Robinson's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Now comes HOME, a deeply affecting novel that takes place in the same period and same Iowa town of Gilead. This is Jack's story. Jack - prodigal son of the Boughton ...
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- Virago, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 13,45 €
ISBN 978-1-84408-386-2
EAN 9781844083862
Marie de Gournay was eighteen when she read, and was overwhelmed by, the essays of the French philosopher Montaigne. She had to be revived with hellebore. When she finally met Montaigne, she stabbed herself with a hairpin until the blood ran in order to show her devotion. He made her his adopted daughter for the ...
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- Virago, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 12,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84408-488-3
EAN 9781844084883
From her lookout on the first floor, Ginny watches and waits for her younger sister to return to the crumbling mansion that was once their idyllic childhood home. Vivien has not set foot in the house since she left, forty-seven years ago; Ginny, the reclusive moth expert, has rarely ventured outside it. But with Vivien's ...
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- Virago, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 11,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84408-509-5
EAN 9781844085095
This is a novel of exile and return, which Janet Frame felt too autobiographical to be published in her lifetime. It is an exquisite work shot through with tenderness and Frame's characteristic self-deprecating humour.
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A Jury of her Peers
. American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx
- Virago, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 608 páginas
PVP: 24,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84408-078-6
EAN 9781844080786
Fascinating, incisive, intelligent and never afraid of being controversial, Elaine Showalter introduces us to more than 250 writers. Here are the famous and expected names, including Harriet Beecher Stowe, Willa Cather, Dorothy Parker, Flannery O'Connor, Gwendolyn Brooks, Grace Paley, Toni Morrison, and Jodi Picoult. And also many successful and acclaimed yet little-known writers, from the ...
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- Virago, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 10,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84408-575-0
EAN 9781844085750
The apathy of Sunday lay upon the streets. Houses were closed, withdrawn. They don't know, he thought, those people inside, how one gesture of mine, now, at this minute, might alter their world. A knock on the door, and someone answers - a woman yawning, an old man in carpet slippers, a child sent by ...
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The Clothes on Their Back
Booker Shortlist 2008
- Virago, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 10,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84408-542-2
EAN 9781844085422
In a red brick mansion block off the Marylebone Road, Vivien, a sensitive, bookish girl grows up sealed off from both past and present by her timid refugee parents. Then one morning a glamorous uncle appears, dressed in a mohair suit, with a diamond watch on his wrist and a girl in a leopard-skin hat ...
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- Virago, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84408-572-9
EAN 9781844085729
Life is not quite a fairytale for poor Viola. Left penniless, the young widow is forced to live with her late husband's family in a joyless old house. There's Mr Wither, a tyrannical old miser, Mrs Wither, who thinks Viola is just a common shop girl, and two unlovely sisters-in-law, one of whom is in ...
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- Virago, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 10,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84408-579-8
EAN 9781844085798
Harriet and Belinda Bede are serene in their comfortable home in a small English village. Both in their fifties and unmarried, they share not only their home, but also their love for each other and an unexpressed love for the objects of their affections. Harriet, stylish, plump, and coquette, dotes on young curates. Belinda, more ...
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- Virago, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 7,66 €
ISBN 978-1-84408-461-6
EAN 9781844084616
I was now an established citizen with little hope of returning across the frontier; I was in the crazy world, separated now by more than locked doors and barred windows from the people who called themselves sane.' When Janet Frame's doctor suggested that she write about her traumatic experiences in mental institutions in order to ...
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The Bolter
. The woman who scandalised 1920s Society and became White Mischief's infamous seductress
- Virago, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84408-480-7
EAN 9781844084807
On Friday 25th May, 1934, a forty-one-year-old woman walked into the lobby of Claridge's Hotel to meet the nineteen-year-old son whose face she did not know. Fifteen years earlier, as the First World War ended, Idina Sackville shocked high society by leaving his multimillionaire father to run off to Africa with a near penniless man. ...
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- Virago, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 13,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84408-450-0
EAN 9781844084500
Dulcie Mainwearing is always helping others, but never looks out for herself - especially in the realm of love. Her friend Viola is besotted by the alluring Dr Aylwin Forbes, so surely it isn't prying if Dulcie helps things along? Aylwin, however, is smitten by Dulcie's pretty young niece. And perhaps Dulcie herself, however ridiculous ...
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- Virago, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 13,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84408-580-4
EAN 9781844085804
Well dressed and looked after, Wilmet, the novel's heroine, is married to Rodney, a handsome army major, who works nine thirty to six at the Ministry. Wilmet's interest wanders to the nearby Anglo-Catholic church, where at last she can neglect her comfortable household in the company of a cast of characters, including three priests. Set ...
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On her husband's choice of neckwear: Did you buy that tie?' 'Of course I did - how do you think I got it?' 'I assumed it had been given away free with something.' Katharine Whitehorn pioneered the first of the personal columns. She told us how it really was. She was funny - and smart.The ...
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- Virago, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84408-504-0
EAN 9781844085040
The fourth title in Maya Angelou's bestselling five-volume autobiography is reissued in a new look to coincide with the publication of her new book
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- Virago, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 21,70 €
ISBN 978-1-84408-526-2
EAN 9781844085262
Mildred Lathbury is one of those excellent women' who is often taken for granted. She is a godsend, capable of dealing with most of the stock situations of life birth, marriage, death, the successful jumble sales, the garden fete spoilt by bad weather'. As such, though, she often gets herself embroiled in other people's lives ...
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- Virago, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 240 páginas
PVP: 17,60 €
ISBN 978-1-84408-523-1
EAN 9781844085231
One night Melanie walks through the garden in her mother's wedding dress. The next morning her world is shattered. Forced to leave her rural home, she is sent to London to live with relatives she has never met: gentle Aunt Margaret, mute since her wedding day; and her brothers, Francie, whose graceful music belies his ...
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- Virago, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 240 páginas
PVP: 17,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84408-529-3
EAN 9781844085293
During summer games of hide-and-seek Harriet falls in love with Vesey and his elusive, teasing ways. When he goes to Oxford she cherishes his photograph and waits for the letter that never comes. Then Charles enters her life, and Harriet stifles her imaginings. With a husband and daughter, she excels at respectability: ornaments on the ...
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- Virago, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 13,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84408-551-4
EAN 9781844085514
When Mrs Hawkins tells Hector Bartlett he is a 'pisseur de copie', that he 'urinates frightful prose', little does she realise the repercussions. Holding that 'no life can be carried on satisfactorily unless people are honest' Mrs Hawkins refuses to retract her judgement, and as a consequence, loses not one, but two much-sought-after jobs in ...
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