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33 produkter
Middle Kingdom
Av Andrea Barrett, Jane Rosenman
Häftad, 1992
318 kr
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For Grace, the ardent yet puzzled heroine of Andrea Barrett’s third novel, this trip has been planned as a three-week stay: she’s to play dutiful wife to Walter, her prominent scientist husband, at the 1986 Beijing International Conference on the Effects of Acid Rain. Walter is twelve years older …
Air We Breathe
A Novel
Häftad, 2023
194 kr
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In the fall of 1916, America prepares for war—but in the town of Tamarack Lake, the focus is on the sick. Wealthy tubercular patients live in private cure cottages; charity patients, mainly immigrants, fill the large public sanatorium. From within their isolated community, they grapple with some of …
Voyage of the Narwhal
Häftad, 2000
190 kr
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`A great, shivery, seductive read.’ ElleIntelligent, accessible literary fiction of the highest order. Superbly dramatic and beautifully readable.A terrific tale of high endeavour and polar peril, this is the story of a scientific expedition to the Arctic in 1855 and the women the explorers left …
Servants of the Map
Häftad, 2003
177 kr
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A national hardback bestseller in the US – another magnificently imagined and executed book of historical fiction with a contemporary twist, from one of the masters of the form. ‘These stories possess a wonderful clarity and ease, the serene authority of a writer working at the very height of her …
Ship Fever
Häftad, 2008
217 kr
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Exceptional tales of emancipation and evolution at the birth of the modern era. Winner of US National Book Award.’Andrea Barrett’s work stands out for its sheer intelligence. The overall effect is quietly dazzling.’ New York TimesSet against the backdrop of the nineteenth century, this elegant …
Ship Fever
E-bok, 2012
192 kr
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Exceptional tales of emancipation and evolution at the birth of the modern era. Winner of US National Book Award.’Andrea Barrett’s work stands out for its sheer intelligence. The overall effect is quietly dazzling.’ New York TimesSet against the backdrop of the nineteenth century, this elegant …
Servants of the Map
E-bok, 2012
94 kr
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A national hardback bestseller in the US – another magnificently imagined and executed book of historical fiction with a contemporary twist, from one of the masters of the form. `These stories possess a wonderful clarity and ease, the serene authority of a writer working at the very height of her …
Forms of Water
E-bok, 2012
61 kr
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Set in New England, `The Forms of Water’ is a superb exploration of the complexities of family life, grief and the ties that continue to bind us to the past.At the age of eighty, Brendan Auberon, a former monk, is now confined to a wheelchair in a nursing home. As a last wish, he is desperate to …
Middle Kingdom
E-bok, 2012
136 kr
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A lyrical, moving novel of the choices and confusions that face a married woman whose understanding of herself explodes on first contact with the energies of China and a Chinaman.Grace Hoffmeier is never quite sure where to invest her energies: in her dying marriage to star scientist Walter or in …
Voyage of the Narwhal (Text Only)
E-bok, 2012
102 kr
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`A great, shivery, seductive read.’ ElleIntelligent, accessible literary fiction of the highest order. Superbly dramatic and beautifully readable.A terrific tale of high endeavour and polar peril, this is the story of a scientific expedition to the Arctic in 1855 and the women the explorers left …
Servants of the Map
Stories
Häftad, 2003
320 kr
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Ranging across two centuries, and from the western Himalaya to an Adirondack village, these wonderfully imagined stories and novellas travel the territories of yearning and awakening, of loss and unexpected discovery. A mapper of the highest mountain peaks realizes his true obsession. A young woman …
Secret Harmonies
Av Andrea Barrett, Jane Rosenman
Häftad, 1991
295 kr
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Andrea Barrett’s novels have received resounding critical acclaim, inspiring comparisons to Gail Godwin and Anne Tyler. In Secret Harmonies , she creates a wonderful portrait of a family struggling to make sense of their lives in the rural hills of western Massachusetts. When childhood sweethearts …
Forms of Water
Häftad, 1994
329 kr
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At the age of eighty, Brendan Auberon—formerly of the Order of Our Lady of the Valley, now confined to a nursing home—has one last wish: to see his 200 acres overlooking what used to be Paradise Valley, before the villages were drowned to provide water for the city of Boston. Now, Brendan’s …
Ship Fever
Stories
Häftad, 2022
194 kr
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The elegant short fictions gathered hereabout the love of science and the science of love are often set against the backdrop of the nineteenth century. Interweaving historical and fictional characters, they encompass both past and present as they negotiate the complex territory of ambition, …
Dust and Light
On the Art of Fact in Fiction
Inbunden, 2025
294 kr
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In this thoughtful collection of essays, Andrea Barrett draws from her experiences writing some of the most acclaimed historical fiction of our time to explore the mysteries and delights of the genre. Inspiration found in the past, she argues, can illuminate fiction, just as dust scatters light and …
Voyage of the Narwhal
Häftad, 2023
194 kr
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The Narwhal has a simple mission: to find the remains—human and material—of a disappeared ship. But its rash and obsessive young commander, Zeke Voorhees, has ulterior motives that may spell doom for the Narwhal and its crew. His soon-to-be brother-in-law, scholar-naturalist Erasmus Darwin Wells, …
Archangel
Fiction
Häftad, 2023
194 kr
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A young boy comes of age amid an explosion of homespun investigations. A widowed science writer tries to reconcile the influence of emotion on scientific theory. A famous biologist finds himself outpaced by his students, even as he seeks to teach them. As the characters in this "elegant, …
Natural History
Stories
Häftad, 2023
194 kr
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In Natural History, Andrea Barrett completes the beautiful arc of intertwined lives of a family of scientists, teachers, and innovators that she has been weaving through multiple books since her National Book Award–winning collection, Ship Fever. The six exquisite stories in Natural History are set …
Servants of the Map
Stories
Häftad, 2023
194 kr
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Servants of the Map sweeps through two centuries, from the Western Himalayas to the Adirondacks, conjuring characters that travel through the territories of yearning and awakening, of loss and unexpected discovery. A mapper of the highest mountain peaks realizes his true obsession. A young woman …
Dust and Light
On the Art of Fact in Fiction
Häftad, 2026
208 kr
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The celebrated novelist Andrea Barrett has for decades reached backward to find inspiration from the past, and written acclaimed and prize-winning works of historical fiction. In Dust and Light, her first non-fiction work, Barrett draws from that deep well of experience to explore the mysteries, …
Air We Breathe
E-bok, 2011
102 kr
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Autumn, 1916. America is preparing to enter WWI, but at Tamarack State Hospital, the danger is barely felt. Here in the crisp, mountain air where wealthy tuberculosis patients recover in private cottages and charity patients, mostly European émigrés, fill the sanatorium, time stands still. …
Kite in the Wind
Fiction Writers on Their Craft
Av Peter Turchi, Andrea Barrett
E-bok, 2011
239 kr
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A Kite in the Wind is an anthology of essays by 20 veteran writers and master teachers. While the contributors offer specific, practical advice on such fundamental aspects of craft as characterization, character names, the first person point of view, and unreliable narrators, they also give …
Air We Breathe
A Novel
Ljudbok, 2007
426 kr
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In the autumn of 1916, Americans are debating whether to enter the First World War. There are “preparedness parades,” and headlines report German spies. But in an isolated community in the Adirondacks in upstate New York, the danger is barely felt. At Tamarack Lake the focus is on the sick. Wealthy …
Die Reise der Narwhal
Roman
E-bok, 2021
147 kr
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Der eigenbrötlerische Naturforscher Erasmus Wells verbringt seine Tage zwischen verstaubten Exponaten. Als ihm aber die Teilnahme an einer Arktisexpedition angeboten wird, wagt er sich aus seinem Kokon. Stolz werden große Ziele verkündet, doch je tiefer sie in den Norden vordringen, desto …
Schiffsfieber
E-bok, 2022
144 kr
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Der junge Mendel streift durch seine Erbsenpflanzung, ein verwunschener Ort, in dem er das Geheimnis der Erblehre lüften wird und doch bald selbst nicht mehr daran glaubt. Zwei Frauen stellen sich gegen zähe Vorurteile und zweifeln die Lehrmeinungen an. Der alte Carl von Linné hat der Natur eine …
Die Luft zum Atmen
Roman
E-bok, 2022
147 kr
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Von den Balkonen des Sanatoriums fällt der Blick auf die nebelumschlungenen Flüsse und Berge, einen einsamen Fuchs und die gewundene Straße zum Dorf. Während Europa im Ersten Weltkrieg versinkt, führen die Patienten der Tuberkuloseklinik hier am Tamarack Lake ihren eigenen Kampf ums Überleben. Als …
La fiebre negra
E-bok, 2018
113 kr
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NATIONAL BOOK AWARDUn libro de relatos breves y elegantes sobre el amor a la ciencia y la ciencia del amor. Entretejiendo personajes históricos y de ficción, abarcan el pasado y el presente a medida que negocian el complejo territorio de la ambición, el fracaso, el logro y los sueños rotos.Darwin, …
