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Rest of Our Lives
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2025
Häftad, 2025
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
158 kr
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A TLS, FINANCIAL TIMES AND TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR'Feels less like reading a novel and more like sitting in a car beside a dear friend . . . a profoundly moving experience' ANN PATCHETT 'Deeply human . . . a beautifully quiet and devastating book' SARAH JESSICA PARKER 'Funny, wise and knowing' …
You Don't Have to Live Like This
A Novel
E-bok, 2015
42 kr
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A frighteningly prescient novel of today’s America—one man’s story of a racially charged real estate experiment in Detroit, Michigan. “You get in the habit of living a certain kind of life, you keep going in a certain direction, but most of the pressure on you is just momentum. As soon as you stop …
Playing Days
A Novel
E-bok, 2015
100 kr
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In print for the first time in the United States, acclaimed novelist Benjamin Markovits’s Playing Days is a mostly autobiographical narrative concerning the author’s season playing minor league professional basketball in Germany and the love affair with another player’s estranged wife that ushers …
Home Games
E-bok, 2020
102 kr
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Award-winning adult author Benjamin Markovits delivers a poignant coming-of-age middle grade story that will give comfort to anyone feeling like a small fish in a Texas-size sea. Perfect for fans of Kevin Henkes, Rebecca Stead, and Kate DiCamillo. Twelve-year-old Ben is a shy, quiet kid. His life …
Imposture
A Novel
Häftad, 2007
296 kr
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A love affair based on a case of mistaken identity, set in an impeccable re-creation of nineteenth-century London.
A Quiet Adjustment
A Novel
Häftad, 2009
361 kr
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"A first-rate example of a literary historical novel."-Regan Upshaw, San Francisco Chronicle
Childish Loves
A Novel
Häftad, 2011
402 kr
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The last piece of a literary puzzle falls into place in the final novel of Benjamin Markovits s Byron trilogy."
Either Side of Winter
From the 2025 Booker shortlisted author of The Rest of Our Lives
Häftad, 2006
127 kr
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'Human, astonishing, superb; and sublime.' Guardian'A formidable voice . . . the bastard son of Philip Roth and A. S. Byatt.' New Statesman'A remarkable achievement.' ObserverTaking place over the course of one year, shifting between uptown Manhattan and a private high-school campus in Riverdale, …
Childish Loves
From the 2025 Booker Prize shortlisted author of The Rest of Our Lives
Häftad, 2012
142 kr
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When the narrator of Childish Loves inherits a colleague Peter's writings on Lord Byron, he finds himself acting as a literary sleuth. Sorting through boxes of manuscripts he reads between the lines of these scandalous, Byron-inspired stories, meets with the Society for the Publication of the Dead, …
Playing Days
From the 2025 Booker Shortlisted Author of the Rest of Our Lives
E-bok, 2010
113 kr
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Fresh out of college and uncertain how to proceed with life, the narrator of Ben Markovits' Playing Days finds himself drifting towards a career that once obsessed his father - professional basketball. Gaining a place on a minor league German team, he leaves Texas and lands in the small rather …
Either Side of Winter
From the 2025 Booker Shortlisted Author of the Rest of Our Lives
E-bok, 2010
115 kr
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'Human, astonishing, superb; and sublime.' Guardian'A formidable voice . . . the bastard son of Philip Roth and A. S. Byatt.' New Statesman'A remarkable achievement.' ObserverTaking place over the course of one year, shifting between uptown Manhattan and a private high-school campus in Riverdale, …
Imposture
From the 2025 Booker Shortlisted Author of the Rest of Our Lives
E-bok, 2010
115 kr
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Three years after Lord Byron dismissed him from his service, Dr John Polidori has fallen on hard times. And then a young woman mistakes the doctor for the poet. As the pair fall in love, Polidori knows that he can only emerge from Byron's shadow if he confesses his true identity to the deluded …
Quiet Adjustment
From the 2025 Booker Shortlisted Author of the Rest of Our Lives
E-bok, 2010
115 kr
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Nineteen-year -old Annabella Milbanke, visiting London for the swirl of parties and engagements of the season, is introduced to Byron at a waltz. He has just published Childe Harold, and is surrounded by a crowd of admirers, one of whom is his half-sister Augusta Leigh. Annabella and Byron fall in …
Syme Papers
From the 2025 Booker Shortlisted Author of the Rest of Our Lives
E-bok, 2011
115 kr
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Douglas Pitt is a man obsessed. Laughed at, mocked, and dismissed at every turn, Pitt has dedicated the best part of an unremarkable academic career attempting to prove the genius of Samuel Highgate Syme (b.1794, Baltimore; soldier, geologist, inventor). Pitt's postulation is simple enough: Syme, …
Childish Loves
From the 2025 Booker Prize Shortlisted Author of the Rest of Our Lives
E-bok, 2011
115 kr
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When his former colleague Peter Sullivan dies, the narrator of Childish Loves inherits his life's work - a number of fragmentary manuscripts about the life of Lord Byron. Fascinated by his prose - and intrigued by the rather sinister rumours surrounding Peter's life, including whispers of an …
You Don't Have To Live Like This
From the 2025 Booker Shortlisted Author of the Rest of Our Lives
E-bok, 2015
115 kr
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A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 100 NOVEL OF THE 21ST CENTURYWINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK MEMORIAL PRIZETen years out of Yale and drifting, Greg Marnier heads for his college reunion. There he bumps into an old friend, Robert James, now influential and wealthy from dotcom success. He has a plan: to buy up …
You Don't Have To Live Like This
From the 2025 Booker shortlisted author of The Rest of Our Lives
Häftad, 2016
142 kr
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A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 100 NOVEL OF THE 21ST CENTURYWINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK MEMORIAL PRIZETen years out of Yale and drifting, Greg Marnier heads for his college reunion. There he bumps into an old friend, Robert James, now influential and wealthy from dotcom success. He has a plan: to buy up …
Weekend in New York
From the 2025 Booker shortlisted author of The Rest of Our Lives
Häftad, 2019
130 kr
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'Elegant and absorbing.' Guardian'A book to be savoured.' Observer'Intimate, funny . . . Masterfully done.' Daily Mail'Sophisticated and engrossing.' Literary ReviewPaul is a mid-ranking tennis professional on the ATP tour. His girlfriend Dana is an ex-model and photographer, and together with …
Weekend in New York
From the 2025 Booker Shortlisted Author of the Rest of Our Lives
E-bok, 2018
131 kr
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'Elegant and absorbing.' Guardian'A book to be savoured.' Observer'Intimate, funny . . . Masterfully done.' Daily Mail'Sophisticated and engrossing.' Literary ReviewPaul is a mid-ranking tennis professional on the ATP tour. His girlfriend Dana is an ex-model and photographer, and together with …
Christmas in Austin
From the 2025 Booker shortlisted author of The Rest of Our Lives
Häftad, 2020
142 kr
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'Intricately, intimately written, with some wonderful prose and delicate dialogue.' Guardian'A loving and nuanced portrait of a family's myriad functions.' The New Yorker'Utterly absorbing.' Financial Times'A tour de force.' Sunday TimesA Luminous family saga from one of Granta's Best Young British …
Christmas in Austin
From the 2025 Booker Shortlisted Author of the Rest of Our Lives
E-bok, 2019
131 kr
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'Intricately, intimately written, with some wonderful prose and delicate dialogue.' Guardian'A loving and nuanced portrait of a family's myriad functions.' The New Yorker'Utterly absorbing.' Financial Times'A tour de force.' Sunday TimesA Luminous family saga from one of Granta's Best Young British …
Sidekick
From the 2025 Booker shortlisted author of The Rest of Our Lives
Häftad, 2023
126 kr
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ONE OF THE WEEK'S BEST NOVELS OF 2022'Exquisite. . . Warm, humane, and tragic.' JONATHAN LETHEM 'Compelling and emotionally resonant.' SpectatorAt his high school basketball try-outs, nerdy sports-obsessed Brian Blum meets new kid MarcusHayes. As a sportswriter, Brian spends the following twenty …
Sidekick
From the 2025 Booker Shortlisted Author of the Rest of Our Lives
E-bok, 2022
148 kr
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ONE OF THIS WEEK'S BEST NOVELS OF 2022The perfect novel for fans of The Last Dance, Hoop Dreams and Winning Time'Exquisite. . . Warm, humane, and tragic.' JONATHAN LETHEM At his high school basketball try-outs, nerdy sports-obsessed Brian Blum meets new kid MarcusHayes. As a sportswriter, Brian …
El resto de nuestras vidas
Av Benjamin Markovits, Juan Nadalini
Häftad, 2026
98 kr
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Tom, el protagonista de esta novela, se entera de que su esposa tiene una aventura y decide no separarse hasta que su hija menor cumpla dieciocho. Doce años más tarde emprende un viaje para llevarla a la universidad y, en el camino, recuerda esa especie de pacto que se había hecho a sí mismo. …
Dias de juego
E-bok, 2026
93 kr
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¿Qué ocurre cuando el talento no está a la altura de nuestros deseos? ¿Cuán lejos se puede llegar solo con el esfuerzo? ¿Cuáles son los efectos de medirse con el mejor?A Ben, un joven que ha jugado toda su vida al básquet en el jardín de su casa en Texas, lo fichan en un equipo alemán de segunda …
