Jenny Offill - Böcker

"Min plan var att aldrig gifta mig. Jag skulle bli ett konstnärsmonster i stället. Kvinnor blir nästan aldrig konstnärsmonster eftersom konst närsmonster bara är upptagna av konst, aldrig av världsliga ting. Nabokov fällde inte ens ihop sitt eget ...

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Lizzie Benson slid into her job as a librarian without a traditional degree. But this gives her a vantage point from which to practice her other calling: she is a fake shrink. For years she has tended to her God-haunted mother and her recovering a...

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"Offill skriver intelligent och ironisk prosa, så smart att den nästan glänser." Bernur "?vad också¿Väder¿handlar om: betydelsen av en tillit till världen i all dess oförutsägbarhet, en tillit till den - mitt i kaos? Och låt mig ge det högsta bety...

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From the Women's Prize Shortlisted-author of Weather, an electrifying, funny and wise account of a couple falling out of one another's orbit. 'It is the kind of book that you will be quoting over and over to friends who don't quite understand, unt...

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Losing a friend can be as painful and as agonizing as a divorce or the end of a love affair, yet it is rarely written about or even discussed. THE FRIEND WHO GOT AWAY is the first book to address this near-universal experience, bringing together t...

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This Parenting Magazine Best Book of the Year and Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Book of the Year features a kid full of fun ideas. For example, in the morning, gluing her brother's bunny slippers to the floor sounds like a good ...

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From the acclaimed author of Weather comes a slim, stunning portrait of a marriage--a beguiling rumination on the mysteries of intimacy, trust, faith, knowledge, and the condition of universal shipwreck that unites us all.ONE OF THE ...

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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER  From the beloved author of the nationwide best seller Dept. of Speculation—one of the New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of the Year—a “darkly funny and urgent...

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The editors of The Friend Who Got Away are back with a new anthology that will do for money what they did for women’s friendships.Ours is a culture of confession, yet money remains a distinctly taboo subject for most Americans. In this rivet...

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Grace's father believes in science and builds his daughter a dollhouse with lights that really work. Grace's mother takes her skinny-dipping in the lake and teaches her about African hyena men who devour their wives in their sleep. Grace's world, ...

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_______________ 'Unexpectedly funny' - New York Times 'Full of imagination, humour and invention ... A glorious debut' - Irish Times 'Mesmerising ... She writes with a heartbreaking clarity ... and is dexterously able to evoke emotional extremity ...

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A little girl wants a pet. She's not fussy, any will do. Her mother said no to a bird and bunny and trained seal. Then she agrees to the sloth, Sparky! Sloths don't know how to fetch. Or roll over. But they sure know how to play dead. What's an ea...

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKS ARE MY BAG FICTION READERS AWARD 'Stunning' Maggie O'Farrell 'Gorgeous, funny and deadly serious' Max Porter 'This is so good. We are not ready nor worthy' Ocean Vuong An obli...

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»Das richtige Buch für das Ende der Welt.« LA TimesLizzie Benson, Bibliothekarin mit Hang zu apokalyptischen Gedanken, geht seit Jahren ihrer Berufung als Amateur-Psychologin nach: Sie kümmert sich um ihren Ex-Junkie-Bruder und ihre gottesfür...

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Darf ich vorstellen: Lucky! Mein Haustier - ein Faultier. Er kennt keine Spiele und lässt sich keine Tricks beibringen. Eigentlich kann er gar nichts ... außer schlafen, und damit kann man keinen Blumentopf gewinnen. Dennoch ist Lucky das beste Ha...

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"Offill skriver intelligent och ironisk prosa, så smart att den nästan glänser." Bernur "?vad också¿Väder¿handlar om: betydelsen av en tillit till världen i all dess oförutsägbarhet, en tillit till den - mitt i kaos? Och låt mig ge det högsta bety...

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Brooklynissa asuva Lizzie työskentelee yliopiston kirjastossa ja kantaa huolta kaikista: perheestään, huumeriippuvuuden kanssa kamppailevasta veljestään ja elämän heittelemistä kirjastokävijöistä. Lizzien vanha mentori Sylvia on tullut tunnetuksi ...

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From the Women's Prize Shortlisted-author of Weather, an electrifying, funny and wise account of a couple falling out of one another's orbit. 'It is the kind of book that you will be quoting over and over to friends who don't quite understand, unt...

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