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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 12,90 €
ISBN 978-0-374-53698-5
EAN 9780374536985
All families have their myths and legends. For many years Juliet Nicolson accepted hers the dangerous beauty of her flamenco-dancing great-great-grandmother Pepita, the flirty manipulations of her great-grandmother Victoria, the infamous eccentricity of her grandmother Vita Sackville-West, her mother's Tory-conventional background. But then Nicolson, a distinguished historian, started to question. As she did, she sifted ...
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A memoir of love, death and jazz chickens, Eddie Izzard's fabulous Believe Me is his one and only autobiography . . .'I know why I'm doing all this,' I said. 'Everything I do in life is trying to get her back. I think if I do enough things . . . that maybe she'll come ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 5,05 €
ISBN 978-1-78487-261-8
EAN 9781784872618
How does a writer compose a suicide note? This was not a question that the prize-winning novelist William Styron had ever contemplated before. In this true account of his depression, Styron describes an illness that reduced him from a successful writer to a man arranging his own destruction. He lived to give us this gripping ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 3,83 €
ISBN 978-1-78487-268-7
EAN 9781784872687
Salman Rushdie, a self-described 'emigrant from one place and a newcomer in two', explores the true meaning of home. Writing with insight, passion and humour, he looks at what it means to belong, whether roots are real and homelands imaginary, what it is like to reconfigure your past from fragments of memory and what happens ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 5,45 €
ISBN 978-1-78487-272-4
EAN 9781784872724
How do we love? With romance. With work. Through heartbreak.Throughout a lifetime. As a means, but not an end. Love in all its forms has been an abiding theme of Jeanette Winterson's writing.Here are selections from her books about that impossible, essential force, stories and truths that search for the mythical creature we call Love. ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 4,80 €
ISBN 978-1-78487-292-2
EAN 9781784872922
How do you remember the summers of your childhood? For Laurie Lee they were flower-crested, heady, endless days. Here is an evocation of summer like no other - a remote valley filled with the scent of hay, jazzing wasps, blackberries plucked and gobbled, and games played until the last drop of dusk. Lee's joyful and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-910695-41-8
EAN 9781910695418
Essayism is a personal, critical and polemical book about the genre, its history and its contemporary possibilities, itself an example of what it describes: an essay that is curious and digressive and at the same time held together by a personal voice and a polemical point.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura con sobrecubierta · 776 páginas
PVP: 22,20 €
ISBN 978-1-84159-376-0
EAN 9781841593760
Twain's playful exuberance and remarkable storytelling gifts are on full display as he regales readers with his real-life adventures, some of them so outrageous they cannot be true - or can they? As Richard Russo says in his fascinating introduction, Twain was an 'inspired, indeed, unparalleled, bullshitter' who himself cheerfully relates how as a cub ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 112 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-1-911214-52-6
EAN 9781911214526
Bluets winds its way through depression, divinity, alcohol, and desire, visiting along the way with famous blue figures, including Joni Mitchell, Billie Holiday, Yves Klein, Leonard Cohen and Andy Warhol. While its narrator sets out to construct a sort of pillow book' about her lifelong obsession with the colour blue, she ends up facing down ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 22,70 €
ISBN 978-1-78131-594-1
EAN 9781781315941
'In digging up the forgotten friendships chronicled in A Secret Sisterhood, Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney have done much service to literary history.' Margaret Atwood 'A Secret Sisterhood will help make women's literary friendships of the past relevant to the present.' Michele Roberts 'A Secret Sisterhood offers a clever new perspective on established literary ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 22,00 €
ISBN 978-0-349-12073-7
EAN 9780349120737
Won't people turn away if they know the real me? you wonder. The me that hates my own child, that put my perfectly healthy dog to sleep? The me who thinks, deep down, that maybe The Wire was overrated? For nearly four decades, David Sedaris has faithfully kept a diary in which he records his ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 330 páginas
PVP: 32,60 €
ISBN 978-0-674-50482-0
EAN 9780674504820
Pigeonholed in popular memory as a Jazz Age epicurean, a playboy, and an emblem of the Lost Generation, F. Scott Fitzgerald was at heart a moralist struck by the nations shifting mood and manners after World War I. In Paradise Lost, David Brown contends that Fitzgeralds deepest allegiances were to a fading antebellum world he ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 25,90 €
ISBN 978-0-226-45780-2
EAN 9780226457802
This book focuses on six brilliant women who are often seen as particularly tough-minded: Simone Weil, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, Diane Arbus, and Joan Didion. Aligned with no single tradition, they escape straightforward categories. Yet their work evinces an affinity of style and philosophical viewpoint that derives from a shared attitude toward suffering.What ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
PVP: 30,10 €
ISBN 978-1-4736-3218-9
EAN 9781473632189
'This is my kind of history: carefully researched but so vivid that you are convinced Lucy Worsley was actually there at the party - or the parsonage.' Antonia Fraser'A refreshingly unique perspective on Austen and her work and a beautifully nuanced exploration of gender, creativity, and domesticity.' Amanda Foreman'Brilliant and very moving, this book is ...
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The iconic Roman Baths, medieval Abbey, exquisite Georgian architecture and the luxurious Thermae Spa: Bath is one of the UK's most appealing destinations. Great Breaks Bath is a collection of 10 illuminating walks and tours in and around this elegant city, guiding you through the museums, gardens and architectural gems of Bath. Plus there are ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-1-4088-8469-0
EAN 9781408884690
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sportswriter comes a deeply personal account of his parents - an intimate portrait of American mid-twentieth century life, and a celebration of family love Richard Ford's parents volunteered little about their early lives - and he rarely asked. Later, he pieced their stories together from anecdote, history and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 144 páginas
PVP: 20,40 €
ISBN 978-0-226-35038-7
EAN 9780226350387
George Steiner is one of the preeminent intellectuals of our time. The Washington Post has declared that no one else writing on literature can match him as polymath and polyglot, and few can equal the verve and eloquence of his writing, while the New York Times says of his works that the erudition is almost ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 66 páginas
PVP: 10,85 €
ISBN 978-1-5040-4665-7
EAN 9781504046657
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-1-5247-3279-0
EAN 9781524732790
From the best-selling author of the National Book Award-winning The Year of Magical Thinking: two extended excerpts from her never-before-seen notebooks--writings that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of a legendary writer. Joan Didion has always kept notebooks: of overheard dialogue, observations, interviews, drafts of essays and articles--and here is one such ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 296 páginas
PVP: 32,60 €
ISBN 978-0-674-54509-0
EAN 9780674545090
The Boatman gives readers a Thoreau for the Anthropocene epoch. As a backyard naturalist and river enthusiast, Thoreau was keenly aware of the way humans had altered the waterways and meadows of his beloved Concord River Valley. And he recognized that he himself'a land surveyor by trade'was as complicit in these transformations as the bankers, ...
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