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13 produkter
Fine Place to Daydream
A Classic Story of the National Hunt
Av Bill Barich
Häftad, 2006
164 kr
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Experience the sheer thrill and joy of national hunt racing as an American novelist follows a select group of leading horses and their Irish trainers on their annual pilgrimage to the Cheltenham Festival, in this evocative book on the jumps and the Irish love of horse racing.The last thing Bill …
A Fine Place to Daydream: Racehorses, Romance, and the Irish
Av Bill Barich
Häftad, 2007
273 kr
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Sporting Life
Horses, Boxers, Rivers, and a Russian Ballclub
Av Bill Barich
E-bok, 2016
199 kr
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Bill Barich’s widely praised work is at its peak in these intimate glimpses into the stories behind the stories, the real people behind the public façade of the athletic realm. In this collection, Barich takes readers behind the scenes of both participatory and spectator sports, whose wide variety …
Angle on the World
Dispatches and Diversions from the New Yorker and Beyond
Av Bill Barich
E-bok, 2016
239 kr
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An Angle on the World is a brilliant tribute to Bill Barich''s extraordinary range as a writer. Gathering together more than thirty years of work, this book addresses such diverse subjects as a murder trial in the Caribbean, a visit to a juju doctor in Nigeria, and the author''s youthful escapades …
Pint of Plain
Tradition, Change, and the Fate of the Irish Pub
Av Bill Barich
E-bok, 2018
173 kr
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After meeting an Irishwoman in London and moving to Dublin, Bill Barich?a “blow-in,” or stranger, in Irish parlance?found himself looking for a traditional Irish pub to be his local. There are nearly 12,000 pubs in Ireland, so he appeared to have plenty of choices. He wanted a pub like the one in …
Long Way Home
On the Trail of Steinbeck''s America
Av Bill Barich
E-bok, 2018
173 kr
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“We do not take a trip; a trip takes us,” John Steinbeck noted in his 1962 classic, Travels with Charley . In 2008, Bill Barich decided to explore the mood of the United States as Steinbeck had done almost a half century before. He set off on a 5,943 mile cross-country drive from New York to his …
Crazy for Rivers
Tales of Trout Fishing
Av Bill Barich
E-bok, 2015
173 kr
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“That autumn, I went a little crazy for rivers.” So writes Bill Barich, and this charming volume captures the essence of obsession. The hours he spent on various streams became a meditation on family, friends, and the natural world. To anyone who remembers the infinite patience of a grandfather on …
Traveling Light
A Year of Wandering, from California to England and Tuscany and Back Again
Av Bill Barich
E-bok, 2015
159 kr
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Here is a travel book with a difference: ten chronological chapters from a year of wandering, from the Pacific Northwest to Tuscany and back again to the trout-laden streams of California. Join Bill Barich as he travels the globe, from the trout streams of Northern California to the auction ring at …
Big Dreams
Into the Heart of California
Av Bill Barich
E-bok, 2015
199 kr
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The land of opportunity, a golden Eden, the last frontier. What is this place that has given rise to countless metaphors but can still quicken the imagination? For Bill Barich, the question became a quest when he realized that home was no longer New York, where he had grown up, but California, to …
Carson Valley
A Novel
Av Bill Barich
E-bok, 2015
173 kr
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From one of California’s most celebrated writers comes a generous and deeply absorbing novel, as filled with warmth and the hope of second chances as the land it describes. Returning from New York to the vineyards of Northern California to be with her dying mother, Anna Torelli never expects that …
Fine Place to Daydream
Racehorses, Romance, and the Irish
Av Bill Barich
E-bok, 2015
199 kr
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Twenty-five years after his racetrack classic Laughing in the Hills , Bill Barich tells the story of how he fell in love and found a new life in Dublin, where he was soon caught up in the Irish obsession with horses and luck. Barich travels throughout his adopted country and meets the leading …
Hard to Be Good
Stories
Av Bill Barich
E-bok, 2015
173 kr
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In his first collection of short fiction, Bill Barich gives us cause to celebrate a prose stylist who can gracefully cross the boundaries of genre. As stated by Anne Tyler, Hard to Be Good is so large and complete that you tend to look up at the end and find yourself surprised that it’s still the …
Laughing in the Hills
A Season at the Racetrack
Av Bill Barich
E-bok, 2015
173 kr
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Bill Barich burst onto the literary scene more than twenty-five years ago with this remarkable account of racetrack life. Holed up in a cheap motel in Albany, California, only a few miles from Golden Gate Fields, he looked to the track to help him make sense of his life during a dark peiod of loss …
