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6 produkter
Ben Hecht
Fighting Words, Moving Pictures
Häftad, 2020
163 kr
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A vibrant portrait of one of the most accomplished and prolific American screenwriters, by an award-winning biographer and essayistHe was, according to Pauline Kael, “the greatest American screenwriter.” Jean-Luc Godard called him “a genius” who “invented 80 percent of what is used in Hollywood …
House of Windows
Portraits From a Jerusalem Neighborhood
E-bok, 2012
98 kr
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A brilliant and moving evocation of the rhythms of life (and the darker shadows below it) in a working-class quarter of the world’s most fascinating and divided city. In the tradition of the literature of place perfected by such expatriate writers as M. F. K. Fisher and Isak Dinesen, Adina …
Sacred Trash
The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza
E-bok, 2011
217 kr
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NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD FINALIST Part of the Jewish Encounter series One May day in 1896, at a dining-room table in Cambridge, England, a meeting took place between a Romanian-born maverick Jewish intellectual and twin learned Presbyterian Scotswomen, who had assembled to inspect several pieces …
My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness
A Poet's Life in the Palestinian Century
Häftad, 2010
235 kr
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This first biography of a Palestinian writer also provides a moving account of the ways “ordinary” individuals are swept up by the floodtides of both war and peace Beautifully written, and composed with a novelist’s eye for detail, this book tells the story of an exceptional man and the culture …
Ben Hecht
Fighting Words, Moving Pictures
Inbunden, 2019
235 kr
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From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a vibrant portrait of Ben Hecht, one of the most accomplished and prolific American screenwriters“Adina Hoffman's superb [book] . . . loads Hecht's staggering contradictions into a compact but abounding two hundred twenty pages. . . . She writes with …
