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32 produkter
Nowhere City
Av Alison Lurie
Häftad, 2021
152 kr
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'Marvellous entertainment' Sunday TimesJust married and newly arrived in Los Angeles are Paul and Katherine Cattleman. Paul responds immediately to the sunny, sprawling cosmopolitan city but to Katherine the main impression is of dirt and smog. Paul explores his surroundings and discovers Ceci, a …
Familiar Spirits: A Memoir of James Merrill and David Jackson
Av Alison Lurie
Häftad, 2002
367 kr
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Boys and Girls Forever: Children's Classics from Cinderella to Harry Potter
Av Alison Lurie
Häftad, 2002
385 kr
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Women and Ghosts
Av Alison Lurie
E-bok, 2012
122 kr
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The author of The War Between the Tates and the Pulitzer prize-winning Foreign Affairs now brings her irresistible wit to the ghost story. In nine spooky tales, Alison Lurie writes of women haunted by ghosts both literal and metaphorical: A woman about to marry Mr. Right is visited by the spirit of …
Don't Tell the Grown-Ups: The Subversive Power of Children's Literature
Av Alison Lurie
Häftad, 1998
318 kr
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Last Resort
Av Alison Lurie
E-bok, 2010, 0-3 år
102 kr
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Jenny has devoted her life to her husband, the famous naturalist Wilkie Walker. But this year, as winter comes on, Wilkie seems distant and depressed. In desperation Jenny persuades him to visit Key West, but the sun and tropical scenery do nothing to cheer him up. As he grows even stranger, Jenny …
Truth and Consequences
Av Alison Lurie
E-bok, 2010
102 kr
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'Delightful... Her characters are, as always, wonderfully imperfect' New York Review of BooksAlan has changed because he's injured his back. Pain has altered his appearance and made him glum, demanding and resentful. His wife Jane has to do everything for him - fetching, carrying, shopping, …
Foreign Affairs
Av Alison Lurie
E-bok, 2010
100 kr
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'If you're coming to Lurie for the first time, you must begin with the Pulitzer Prize-winning Foreign Affairs' GuardianVinnie Miner is an American professor of children's literature on her way to London for six months of research. Settling into her aeroplane seat she finds herself accosted by …
Love and Friendship
A Novel
Av Alison Lurie
E-bok, 2012
162 kr
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In the Pulitzer Prize–winning author''s "excellent" debut, a professor''s wife searches for liberation at the hands of a music instructor (The New York Times). Though born in New York, the men of Emmy Turner''s family have long found their spiritual home in the idyllic Convers College. Her father, …
Nowhere City
A Novel
Av Alison Lurie
E-bok, 2012
182 kr
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In this "excellent" novel of "rare understanding" from a Pulitzer Prize–winning author, culture shock consumes a young Harvard couple in Los Angeles (The New York Times). When his mentor at Harvard University suddenly leaves for Washington, Paul Cattleman finds himself adrift in the wilds of …
Real People
A Novel
Av Alison Lurie
E-bok, 2012
178 kr
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An artists'' colony is a false paradise for a frustrated writer in this "witty, knowing, and perceptive" novel from a Pulitzer Prize–winning author (The New Yorker). The mansion is called Illyria, but for the writers and artists who flock there each summer, it''s a Garden of Eden where every …
Imaginary Friends
A Novel
Av Alison Lurie
E-bok, 2012
182 kr
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Two sociologists infiltrate a cult that pulls them into madness in this "barbed and richly entertaining" novel from a Pulitzer Prize–winning author (The Wall Street Journal). Once the nation''s most popular sociologist, Tom McMann searches for a research subject that will invigorate his career. …
War Between the Tates
A Novel
Av Alison Lurie
E-bok, 2012
166 kr
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A husband''s affair pushes a suburban wife to her breaking point in this "near perfect comedy of manners" by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Real People (The New York Times). Erica Tate wouldn''t mind getting up in the morning if her children were less intolerable. Until puberty struck, …
Only Children
A Novel
Av Alison Lurie
E-bok, 2012
178 kr
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A novel of childlike wonder and adult discord during the Great Depression—by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Nowhere City. Dozing in the back seat of her father''s car, Mary Ann Hubbard is the happiest eight-year-old in the country. It''s 1935, and she and her parents are going to spend …
Truth About Lorin Jones
A Novel
Av Alison Lurie
E-bok, 2012
166 kr
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In this comedy by a Pulitzer Prize–winning author, a biographer out to vindicate a neglected female artist learns that the truth is never tidy. Polly Alter is through with men. Recovering from her divorce, she has taken a year off from her museum job to write a biography of Lorin Jones, a sensitive …
Last Resort
A Novel
Av Alison Lurie
E-bok, 2012
166 kr
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A Pulitzer Prize–winning author''s "sparkling, smart" tale of an aging writer and his younger wife looking for new life—or a way to end it—in Key West (The New York Times). Every schoolboy in America knows the work of author Wilkie Walker, who won fame and fortune with his accessible nature books. …
Real People
A Novel
Av Alison Lurie
E-bok, 2012
50 kr
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An artists’ colony is a false paradise for a frustrated writer in this “witty, knowing, and perceptive” novel from a Pulitzer Prize–winning author ( The New Yorker ). The mansion is called Illyria, but for the writers and artists who flock there each summer, it’s a Garden of Eden where every …
Foreign Affairs
A Novel
Av Alison Lurie
E-bok, 2013
178 kr
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Two unexpected romances in London unfold in this Pulitzer Prize–winning novel from "one of this country''s most able and witty novelists" (The New York Times).In her early fifties, Vinnie Miner is the sort of woman no one ever notices, despite her career as an Ivy League professor. Then, alone on a …
Foreign Affairs
A Novel
Av Alison Lurie
E-bok, 2013
328 kr
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This Pulitzer Prize–winning novel follows two American academics in London—a young man and a middle-aged woman—as they each fall into unexpected romances. In her early fifties, Vinnie Miner is the sort of woman no one ever notices, despite her career as an Ivy League professor. She doubts she could …
Foreign Affairs
Av Alison Lurie
Häftad, 2020
139 kr
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'If you're coming to Lurie for the first time, you must begin with the Pulitzer Prize-winning Foreign Affairs' GuardianVinnie Miner is an American professor of children's literature on her way to London for six months of research. Settling into her aeroplane seat she finds herself accosted by …
Last Resort
Av Alison Lurie
Häftad, 2020, 0-3 år
136 kr
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Jenny has devoted her life to her husband, the famous naturalist Wilkie Walker. But this year, as winter comes on, Wilkie seems distant and depressed. In desperation Jenny persuades him to visit Key West, but the sun and tropical scenery do nothing to cheer him up. As he grows even stranger, Jenny …
Truth and Consequences
Av Alison Lurie
Häftad, 2021
136 kr
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'Delightful... Her characters are, as always, wonderfully imperfect' New York Review of BooksAlan has changed because he's injured his back. Pain has altered his appearance and made him glum, demanding and resentful. His wife Jane has to do everything for him - fetching, carrying, shopping, …
Love and Friendship
Av Alison Lurie
Häftad, 2021
149 kr
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'A brilliant and seemingly effortless accomplishment...steady uninterrupted delight' Sunday TelegraphFaculty wife Emily Stockwell Turner is beautiful, rich, and principled. However, five years in a marriage devoid of passion is enough to propel Emmy, despite her principles, into an affair with a …
Language of Houses
How Buildings Speak to Us
Av Alison Lurie
Inbunden, 2014
320 kr
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In 1981 Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Alison Lurie published The Language of Clothes, a meditation on costume and fashion as an expression of history, social status and individual psychology. Amusing, enlightening and full of literary allusion, the book was highly praised and widely anthologized. …
Language of Houses
How Buildings Speak to Us
Av Alison Lurie
Häftad, 2015
223 kr
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In 1981 Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Alison Lurie published The Language of Clothes, a meditation on costume and fashion as an expression of history, social status and individual psychology. Amusing, enlightening and full of literary allusion, the book was highly praised and widely anthologized. …
Words and Worlds
From Autobiography to Zippers
Av Alison Lurie
Häftad, 2020
236 kr
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In this candid and bluntly humorous collection of essays on a wide range of topics, Lurie begins with a portrait of her life at Radcliffe during World War II when the smartest women in the country were treated like second-class citizens, the most scholarly among them expected to work in factories …
