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17 produkter
Nothing Is Quite Forgotten in Brooklyn
A Novel
E-bok, 2009
102 kr
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From critically acclaimed author Alice Mattison, “a charmer” ( New York Times ) whose “voice is like that of no one else writing today” ( Kirkus )—comes a profoundly moving meditation on love, friendship, and the unforgotten past One quiet spring day in 1989, Constance Tepper arrives from …
When We Argued All Night
A Novel
E-bok, 2012
91 kr
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From bestselling and award-winning author Alice Mattison comes a breathtaking new novel following two best friends from Brooklyn, exploring the way in which the world and their lives change over the course of the 20th century. The deft literary touch that readers have grown to love in novels such …
Book Borrower
A Novel
E-bok, 2012
113 kr
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On the day they first meet in a city playground, Deborah Laidlaw lends Toby Ruben a book called Trolley Girl , the memoir of a forgotten trolley strike in the 1920s, written by the sister of a fiery Jewish revolutionary who played an important, ultimately tragic role in the events. Young mothers …
Hilda and Pearl
A Novel
E-bok, 2012
91 kr
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To Frances, an only child living in McCarthy-era Brooklyn, her mother, Hilda, and her aunt Pearl seem as if they have always been friends. Frances does not question the love between the two women until her father''s job as a teacher is threatened by anti-Communism, just as Frances begins to learn …
Men Giving Money, Women Yelling
Intersecting Stories
E-bok, 2012
102 kr
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Men Giving Money, Women Yelling is Alice Mattisons latest collection in which the characters lives are told in tales that overlap or echo one another. At the center of the stories is Denny Ring, a young man nobody quite knows. Other characters include John Corey, a contractor who renovates old …
Wedding of the Two-Headed Woman
A Novel
E-bok, 2012
89 kr
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For years, following an early first marriage, Daisy Andalusia remained single and enjoyed the company of men on her own terms, making the most of her independent life. Now in her fifties, she has remarried and settled into a quieter life in New Haven, Connecticut. She''s committed to a job she …
In Case We're Separated
Connected Stories
E-bok, 2012
91 kr
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Spanning the length and breadth of the twentieth century, Alice Mattison''s masterful In Case We''re Separated looks at a family of Jewish immigrants in the 1920s and 1930s and follows the urban, emotionally turbulent lives of their children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren against a …
Kite and the String
How to Write with Spontaneity and Control - and Live to Tell the Tale
Häftad, 2017
177 kr
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A targeted and insightful guide to the stages of writing fiction and memoir without falling into common traps, while wisely navigating the writing life, from an award-winning author and longtime teacher “A book-length master class.” — The Atlantic Writing well does not result from following rules …
Kite and the String
How to Write with Spontaneity and Control--and Live to Tell the Tale
E-bok, 2016
161 kr
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A targeted and insightful guide to the stages of writing fiction and memoir without falling into common traps, while wisely navigating the writing life, from an award-winning author and longtime teacher “A book-length master class.” — The Atlantic Writing well does not result from following rules …
Animals
E-bok, 2021
213 kr
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Animals highlights pregnancy and motherhood from an introspective and blunt voice. Dark humor weaves itself through these unwavering and candid poems.
