| Title | : | Jean Rhys |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 0393022269 |
| Format | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 574 |
Omnibus containing Voyage in the Dark, Quartet, After Leaving Mr Mackenzie, Good Morning, Midnight and Wide Sargasso Sea....
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| Title | : | Sunflowers |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | |
| Format | : | Kindle Edition |
| Number of Pages | : | 276 |
There s nothing like a knock on the door at 3 00 a.m to change your life forever Gus Moore discovers how true this is when his ex girlfriend blows in on an icy January night just long enough to dump his problem on the couch From languid single slob to competent single parent, Gus s metamorphosis over the next six years is remarkable All is going swimmingly for Gus an There s nothing like a knock on the door at 3 00 a.m to change your life forever Gus Moore discovers how true this is when his ex girlfriend...
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| Title | : | We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 0399162097 |
| Format | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 310 |
Meet the Cooke family Our narrator is Rosemary Cooke As a child, she never stopped talking as a young woman, she has wrapped herself in silence the silence of intentional forgetting, of protective cover Something happened, something so awful she has buried it in the recesses of her mind.Now her adored older brother is a fugitive, wanted by the FBI for domestic terrori Meet the Cooke family Our narrator is Rosemary Cooke As a child, she never stopped talking as a young woman, she has wrapped herself in sil...
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| Title | : | Land of the Free |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 1940500354 |
| Format | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 204 |
On the road for the better part of a decade, Woodrow Landfair pawned everything he owned in 2006, departing on a secondhand motorcycle to live, research, and write what would become LAND OF THE FREE Harbinger, June 10 A modern American odyssey, LAND OF THE FREE is the autobiographical recollection of an affable and often embellishing opportunist, who abandons his home a On the road for the better part of a decade, Woodrow Landfair pawned everything he owned in 2006, departing on a secondhand motorcycle to...
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| Title | : | Beka Lamb |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 0435988441 |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 192 |
Set in Belize, Central America, this book is the record of a few months in the life of Beka and her family The story is built around Beka s victory over her habit of lying and her relationship with her friend Toycie The politics of the colony and the presence of the Catholic Church are featured....
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| Title | : | Hotel World |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 0140296794 |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 236 |
Five disparate voices inhabit Ali Smith s dreamlike, mesmerising Hotel World, set in the luxurious anonymity of the Global Hotel, in an unnamed northern English city The disembodied yet interconnected characters include Sara, a 19 year old chambermaid who has recently died at the hotel her bereaved sister, Clare, who visits the scene of Sara s death Penny, an advertisin Five disparate voices inhabit Ali Smith s dreamlike, mesmerising Hotel World, set in the luxurious anonymity of the Global ...
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| Title | : | All the Little Live Things |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 0140154418 |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 345 |
Joe Allston, the retired literary agent of Stegner s National Book Award winning novel, The Spectator Bird, returns in this disquieting and keenly observed novel Scarred by the senseless death of their son and baffled by the engulfing chaos of the 1960s, Allston and his wife, Ruth, have left the coast for a California retreat And although their new home looks like Eden, Joe Allston, the retired literary agent of Stegner s National Book Award winning novel, The Spectator Bird, returns in this dis...
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| Title | : | Oxygen |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 0340728256 |
| Format | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 323 |
Oxygen is a contemporary tale of courage, love and liberation It is the latest novel from the winner of the James Tait Black Memorial, International Impac and Grinzane Cavour Prizes and one of the most celebrated debutants of the 90s, Andrew Miller....
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| Title | : | Everyman |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 0224078690 |
| Format | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : |
Philip Roth s new novel is a candidly intimate yet universal story of loss, regret, and stoicism The bestselling author of The Plot Against America now turns his attention from one family s harrowing encounter with history New York Times to one man s lifelong skirmish with mortality.The fate of Roth s everyman is traced from his first shocking confrontation with death Philip Roth s new novel is a candidly intimate yet universal story of loss, regret, and stoicism The bestselling author of 5.5 739
| Title | : | Solitaria |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 1897109431 |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 250 |
When Vito Santoro s body is inadvertently unearthed by a demolition crew in Fregene, Italy, his siblings are thrown into turmoil, having been told by their sister Piera that Vito had fled to Argentina fifty years earlier after abandoning his wife and son Piera, the self proclaimed matriarch, locks herself in her room, refusing to speak to anyone but her Canadian nephew, D
When Vito Santoro s body is inadvertently unearthed by a demolition crew in Fregene, Italy, his siblings are thrown into turm...
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| Title | : | Delicate Edible Birds and Other Stories |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 1401340865 |
| Format | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 306 |
In Sir Fleeting, a Midwestern farm girl on her honeymoon in Argentina falls into lifelong lust for a French playboy In Blythe, an attorney who has become a stay at home mother takes a night class in poetry and meets another full time mother, one whose charismatic brilliance changes everything In The Wife of the Dictator, that eponymous wife brought back fro In Sir Fleeting, a Midwestern farm girl on her honeymoon in Argentina falls into lifelong lust for a French playboy In Blythe, an attorney ...
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| Title | : | The Dangers of Proximal Alphabets |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 1590515293 |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 |
An extraordinary debut novel that challenges the definition of family and explores the intricate ties that bind us togetherIda grew up with Jackson and James where there was I there was a J She can t recall a time when she didn t have them around, whether in their early days camping out in the boys room decorated with circus scenes or later drinking on rooftops as te An extraordinary debut novel that challenges the definition of family and explores the intricate ties that bind us togetherIda gre...
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| Title | : | King of the Badgers |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 0007301332 |
| Format | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 436 |
Here, Philip Hensher brings us the peaceful civility and spiralling paranoia of the small English town of Hanmouth Usually a quiet and undisturbed place situated on an estuary, Hanmouth becomes the centre of national attention when an eight year old girl vanishes....
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| Title | : | Disturbances in the Field |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 1582433321 |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 |
As powerful now as when first published in 1983, Lynne Sharon Schwartz s third novel established her as one of her generation s most assured writers In this long awaited reissue, readers can again warm to this acutely absorbing story.According to Lydia Rowe s friend George, a philosophizing psychotherapist, a disturbance in the field is anything that keeps us from reali As powerful now as when first published in 1983, Lynne Sharon Schwartz s third novel established her as one of her generation s most assu...
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| Title | : | Our Souls at Night |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 1101875895 |
| Format | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 179 |
In the familiar setting of Holt, Colorado, home to all of Kent Haruf s fiction, Addie Moore pays an unexpected visit to a neighbor, Louis Waters Her husband died years ago, as did his wife, and in such a small town they naturally have known of each other for decades in fact, Addie was quite fond of Louis s wife His daughter lives hours away in Colorado Springs, her son In the familiar setting of Holt, Colorado, home to all of Kent Haruf s fiction, Addie Moore pays an unexpected visit to a neighb...
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| Title | : | A Thousand Acres |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 1400033837 |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 371 |
When Larry Cook, the aging patriarch of a rich, thriving farm in Iowa, decides to retire, he offers his land to his three daughters For Ginny and Rose, who live on the farm with their husbands, the gift makes sense a reward for years of hard work, a challenge to make the farm even successful But the youngest, Caroline, a Des Moines lawyer, flatly rejects the idea, When Larry Cook, the aging patriarch of a rich, thriving farm in Iowa, decides to retire, he offers his land to his three daughters ...
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| Title | : | Union Atlantic |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 0385524471 |
| Format | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 |
The eagerly anticipated debut novel from the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist You Are Not a Stranger Here a deeply affecting portrait of the modern gilded age, the first decade of the twenty first century At the heart of Union Atlantic lies a test of wills between a young banker, Doug Fanning, and a retired schoolteacher, Charlotte Graves, whose two dogs have begun The eagerly anticipated debut novel from the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist You Are Not a Stranger Here...
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