Editorial Virago
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- Virago, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 22,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84408-540-8
EAN 9781844085408
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, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84408-449-4
EAN 9781844084494
'The setting of this very funny novel, one of Barbara Pym's earliest, is an English village where Jane's husband is the newly appointed vicar, and where Prudence will pay Jane a visit and find herself courted by a fatuous young widower. Prudence, at twenty-nine, has achieved nothing in life but a dull research job in ...
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- Virago, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 14,86 €
ISBN 978-1-84408-471-5
EAN 9781844084715
Go out and get Carter. Get all her fiction, all her fact.' Ali Smith This distinguished volume of essays commemorates the work of Angela Carter. Here her fellow writers, along with an impressive company of critics, disuss the novels, stories and polemics that make her one of the most spellbinding authors of her generation.They trace ...
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- Virago, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84408-033-5
EAN 9781844080335
A moving new book of fiction which could be seen as a collection of eleven stories that is almost a novel or a novel broken up into eleven interrelated stories. It resembles a photograph album a series of clearly observed moments that trace the course of a life, and also of the other lives intertwined ...
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- Virago, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-1-86049-282-2
EAN 9781860492822
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Kay, who drove an ambulance during the war and lived life at full throttle, now dresses in mannish clothes and wanders the streets with a restless hunger, searching... Helen, clever, sweet, much-loved, harbours a painful secret ... Viv, glamour girl, is stubbornly, even foolishly loyal, to her soldier lover. This is the story of four ...
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Curious Pursuits
Occasional Writing
' Whenever I resolve to write less and do something healthful instead, like ice dancing - some honey-tongued editor is sure to call me up and make me an offer I can't refuse. So in some ways this book is simply the result of an under-developed ability to say no.' Collected and published in the ...
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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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A tale of a girl's rite of passage into adult life. With insight and subtlety, the author explores the trepidation of a young girl's entry into the adult world and the shadows lurking at even the most innocent of social events
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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
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84408-296-4
EAN 9781844082964
'I want to be alone for a whole summer, and get to the very dregs of life. I want to be as idle as I can, so that my soul may have time to grow. Nobody shall be invited to stay with me, and if anyone calls they will be told that I am out, ...
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- Virago, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 13,80 €
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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With their Backs to the World
Portraits from Serbia
- Virago, 2005
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
ISBN 978-1-8440-8214-8
EAN 9781844082148
From the award-winning author of The Bookseller of Kabul comes a fascinating insight into the lives of ordinary Serbs under Milosevic and the dramatic events leading up to his fall. sne Seierstad's first book, which some consider to be her best, follows fourteen Serbs whose lives were transformed over the course of sixteen months. With ...
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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 · 320 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-8440-8069-4
EAN 9781844080694
'The iron of the bridge felt hot under my hand. The sun had been upon it all day. Gripping hard with my hands I lifted myself on to the bar and gazed down steadily on the water passing under...I thought of places I would never see, and women I should never love. A white sea ...
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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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