Friday, 16 December 2016
Wednesday, 14 December 2016
Native Speaker By Chang-rae Lee
Title | : | Native Speaker |
Author | : | Chang-rae Lee |
ISBN | : | 1573225312 |
Format | : | Paperback |
Number of Pages | : | 349 |
In Native Speaker, author Chang rae Lee introduces readers to Henry Park Park has spent his entire life trying to become a true American a native speaker But even as the essence of his adopted country continues to elude him, his Korean heritage seems to drift further and further away Park s harsh Korean upbringing has taught him to hide his emotions, to remember everyt In Native Speaker, author Chang rae Lee introduces readers to Henry Park Park has spent his entire life trying to become a t...
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Sunday, 27 November 2016
The Last Samurai By Helen DeWitt
Title | : | The Last Samurai |
Author | : | Helen DeWitt |
ISBN | : | 0676973256 |
Format | : | Hardcover |
Number of Pages | : | 530 |
This is the story of a single mother, Sibylla, who comes from a long line of frustrated talents, and her son Ludo, who just happens to be a genius Obsessed with the film The Seventh Samurai, she makes it a running backdrop to Ludo s childhood At five Ludo learns ancient Greek, reading Homer as they travel round and round on the London Underground, teaches himself Hebrew, This is the story of a single mother, Sibylla, who comes from a long line of frustrated talents, and her son Ludo, who just happe...
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Sunday, 20 November 2016
Chibi Vampire By Tohru Kai
Karin is a reverse vampire instead of sucking blood, she injects it into her victims and fills them with vitality This is a comedic novel based off of Yuna Kagesaki s manga....
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Tuesday, 1 November 2016
La febre d'or By Narcís Oller
Title | : | La febre d'or |
Author | : | Narcís Oller |
ISBN | : | 842971670X |
Format | : | Hardcover |
Number of Pages | : | 304 |
La febre d or s la gran novel la de la Barcelona del XIX i d una burgesia que veu cr ixer la seva autoritat econ mica i social arran de l especulaci de la borsa de comen aments dels anys vuitanta Es converteix, aix , en un document d estudi per a con ixer un moment crucial de la hist ria d un determinat sector de la societat del seu temps, vist, evidentment, a trav s de La febre d or s la gran novel la de la Barcelona del XIX i d una burgesia que veu cr ixer la seva autoritat econ mica i social arran de l...
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Friday, 14 October 2016
The Last Novel By David Markson
Title | : | The Last Novel |
Author | : | David Markson |
ISBN | : | 1593761430 |
Format | : | Paperback |
Number of Pages | : | 220 |
In recent novels, which have been called hypnotic, stunning, and exhilarating, David Markson has created his own personal genre In this new work, The Last Novel, an elderly author referred to only as Novelist announces that since this will be his final effort, he has carte blanche to do anything he damned well pleases Pressed by solitude and age, Novelist s pr In recent novels, which have been called hypnotic, stunning, and exhilarating, David Markson has created his own personal genre In...
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Sunday, 9 October 2016
A Special Providence By Richard Yates
Title | : | A Special Providence |
Author | : | Richard Yates |
ISBN | : | 0312420404 |
Format | : | Paperback |
Number of Pages | : | 352 |
Robert Prentice is 18 His mother, Alice Prentice,is 53 Both are damaged souls Robert, by war Alice, by thwarted dreams of prosperity In two deeply humanizing portraits, the great American writer Richard Yates crafts a novel of postwar America, at once at odds with its own sense of identity and mercilessly prohibitive to its like minded citizens....
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Saturday, 8 October 2016
After Many a Summer Dies the Swan By Aldous Huxley
Title | : | After Many a Summer Dies the Swan |
Author | : | Aldous Huxley |
ISBN | : | 1566630185 |
Format | : | Paperback |
Number of Pages | : | 368 |
A Hollywood millionaire with a terror of death, whose personal physician happens to be working on a theory of longevity these are the elements of Aldous Huxley s caustic and entertaining satire on man s desire to live indefinitely With his customary wit and intellectual sophistication, Huxley pursues his characters in their quest for the eternal, finishing on a note of ho A Hollywood millionaire with a terror of death, whose personal physician happens to be working on a theory of longevity these...
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Tuesday, 27 September 2016
Capital By John Lanchester
From the best selling author of The Debt to Pleasure, a sweeping social novel set at the height of the financial crisis.Celebrated novelist John Lanchester an elegant and wonderfully witty writer New York Times returns with an epic novel that captures the obsessions of our time It s 2008 and things are falling apart Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers are going under, a From the best selling author of The Debt to Pleasure, a sweeping social novel set at the height of the financial crisis.Celebr...
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Thursday, 15 September 2016
Family Pictures By Sue Miller
Spanning forty years, Family Pictures follows the conflict between husband and wife, over a beautiful autistic child Randall is both angel and demon His father, David, a coolly rational psychiatrist, wants him placed in an institution his mother, Lainey, insists on keeping him at home Yet it is not just David and Lainey who are struggling to come to terms with a diffic Spanning forty years, Family Pictures follows the conflict between husband and wife, over a beautiful autistic child Randall...
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Wednesday, 14 September 2016
Later Novels By Willa Cather
Title | : | Later Novels |
Author | : | Willa Cather |
ISBN | : | 0940450526 |
Format | : | Hardcover |
Number of Pages | : | 976 |
The library of America is dedicated to publishing America s best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts Hailed as the finest looking, longest lasting editions ever made The New Republic , Library of America volumes make a fine gift for any occasion Now, with exactly one hundred volumes to choose from, there is a perfe The library of America is dedicated to publishing America s best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, feat...
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Thursday, 25 August 2016
October Light By John Gardner
Title | : | October Light |
Author | : | John Gardner |
ISBN | : | 0811216373 |
Format | : | Paperback |
Number of Pages | : | 440 |
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award New Directions is excited to reissue the Gardner classics, beginning with October Light, a complex relationship rendered in a down to earth narrative October Light is one of John Gardner s masterworks The penniless widow of a once wealthy dentist, Sally Abbot now lives in the Vermont farmhouse of her older brother, 72 yea Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award New Directions is excited to reissue the Gardner classics, begin...
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Sunday, 14 August 2016
What Makes Sammy Run? By Budd Schulberg
Title | : | What Makes Sammy Run? |
Author | : | Budd Schulberg |
ISBN | : | 0375508317 |
Format | : | Hardcover |
Number of Pages | : | 320 |
What Makes Sammy Run Everyone of us knows someone who runs He is one of the symp toms of our times from the little man who shoves you out of the way on the street to the go getter who shoves you out of a job in the office to the Fuehrer who shoves you out of the world And all of us have stopped to wonder, at some time or another, what it is that makes these people tick What Makes Sammy Run Everyone of us knows someone who runs He is one of the symp toms of our times from the little man who shoves you out ...
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Thursday, 11 August 2016
You Shall Know Our Velocity! By Dave Eggers
Title | : | You Shall Know Our Velocity! |
Author | : | Dave Eggers |
ISBN | : | 1400033543 |
Format | : | Paperback |
Number of Pages | : | 401 |
In his first novel, Dave Eggers has written a moving and hilarious tale of two friends who fly around the world trying to give away a lot of money and free themselves from a profound loss It reminds us once again what an important, necessary talent Dave Eggers is....
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Tuesday, 2 August 2016
Avenue of Death By Akash Bansal
University of Stan s grand and gothic structure was intimidating, and so were its uniquely and incomprehensibly built underground territory This was how Samantha Jones viewed the basements during a tedious tour of its surroundings on her very first day at Stan But little she knew then they were to mark an unalterable dent in her life, and all of it was to begin University of Stan s grand and gothic structure was intimidating, and so were its uniquely and incomprehensibly built underground territ...
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The Novel By James A. Michener
Title | : | The Novel |
Author | : | James A. Michener |
ISBN | : | 0449221431 |
Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
Number of Pages | : | 448 |
In this riveting new novel, James A Michener, America s preeminent bestselling author, plunges us into the exciting world he knows so well the world of books Here is the fascinating story of a writer, editor, critic, and reader locked in a desperate scenario of life, death, love and truth.Lukas Yoder, a novelist who has had a long, successful career, has written what he In this riveting new novel, James A Michener, America s preeminent bestselling author, plunges us into the exciting world he knows so wel...
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Friday, 10 June 2016
How German is It By Walter Abish
Title | : | How German is It |
Author | : | Walter Abish |
ISBN | : | 0811207765 |
Format | : | Paperback |
Number of Pages | : | 257 |
The question HOW GERMAN IS IT underlies the conduct and actions of the characters in Walter Abish s new novel, an icy panorama of contemporary Germany, in which the tradition of order and obedience, the patrimony of the saber and the castle on the Rhine, give way to the present, indiscriminate fascination with all things American On his return from Paris to his home city The question HOW GERMAN IS IT underlies the conduct and actions of the characters in Walter Abish s new novel, an icy panorama of contem...
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