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Feast of Love
E-bok, 2012
142 kr
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A superb novel that delicately unearths the myriad manifestations of extraordinary love between ordinary people. `The Feast of Love’ is just that – a sumptuous work of fiction about the thing that most distracts and delights us. Shortlisted for the National Book Award.In this latter-day `Midsummer …
Soul Thief
A Novel
E-bok, 2008
189 kr
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As a graduate student in upstate New York, Nathaniel Mason is drawn into a tangle of relationships with people who seem to hover just beyond his grasp. There''s Theresa, alluring but elusive, and Jamie, who is fickle if not wholly unavailable. But Jerome Coolberg is the most mysterious and …
Gryphon
New and Selected Stories
E-bok, 2011
205 kr
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Ever since the publication of The Harmony of the World in 1984, Charles Baxter has slowly gained a reputation as one of America’s finest short-story writers. Each subsequent collection— Through the Safety Net, A Relative Stranger, and Believers —was further confirmation of his mastery: his gift for …
Saul and Patsy
E-bok, 2007
205 kr
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Five Oaks, Michigan is not exactly where Saul and Patsy meant to end up. Both from the East Coast, they met in college, fell in love, and settled down to married life in the Midwest. Saul is Jewish and a compulsively inventive worrier; Patsy is gentile and cheerfully pragmatic. On Saul’s initiative …
Feast of Love
E-bok, 2009
189 kr
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From "one of our most gifted writers" (Chicago Tribune), here is a superb new novel that delicately unearths the myriad manifestations of extraordinary love between ordinary people. The Feast of Love is just that -- a sumptuous work of fiction about the thing that most distracts and delights us. In …
First Light
E-bok, 2012
205 kr
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Hugh Welch has cared for his little sister Dorsey ever since they were children, when Dorsey looked at him as though he were a god. But when Dorsey returns to their small Michigan hometown with a successful career as an astrophysicist and a happy family life, Hugh, who has a long habit of worrying …
William Maxwell Portrait
Memories and Appreciations
Av Charles Baxter, Michael Collier m. fl.
Inbunden, 2004
564 kr
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William Maxwell, who died in July 2000, was revered as one of the twentieth century's great American writers and a longtime fiction editor at The New Yorker. Now writers who knew Maxwell and were inspired by him—both the man and his work—offer intimate essays, most specifically written for this …
Relative Stranger
Stories
Häftad, 2001
320 kr
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Without question Charles Baxter, whose ravishing novel The Feast of Love was a National Book Award finalist, is one of our finest contemporary writers. These two books, set in the Michigan landscape that Baxter has made his own, display his unparalleled gift for revealing the unexpected in everyday …
Shadow Play
A Novel
Häftad, 2001
386 kr
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Without question Charles Baxter, whose ravishing novel The Feast of Love was a National Book Award finalist, is one of our finest contemporary writers. These two books, set in the Michigan landscape that Baxter has made his own, display his unparalleled gift for revealing the unexpected in everyday …
Bringing the Devil to His Knees
The Craft of Fiction and the Writing Life
Av Charles Baxter, Peter Turchi
Häftad, 2001
371 kr
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In Bringing the Devil to His Knees: The Craft of Fiction and the Writing Life, seventeen award-winning writers--all expert teachers--share the secrets of creating compelling, imaginative stories and novels. A combination handbook, writer's companion, and collection of spirited personal essays, the …
Blood Test
A Comedy
Häftad, 1900
266 kr
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From the winner of the PEN/Malamud Award and “one of our most gifted writers”( Chicago Tribune ) comes a comic novel about a divorced Midwestern dad who takes a cutting-edge medical test and learns that he has a predisposition to murder. In this fresh take on love and trouble in America, Brock …
Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules
Av Patricia Highsmith, Amy Hempel m. fl.
Ljudbok, 2005
246 kr
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A must-have for the fans of the #1 bestselling author of Me Talk Pretty One Day , David Sedaris, a collection of his favorite short fiction from Flannery O''Connor to Tobias Wolff. David Sedaris is an exceptional reader. Alone in his apartment, he reads stories aloud to the point he has them …
There's Something I Want You to Do
Stories
E-bok, 2015
205 kr
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From one of the great masters of the contemporary short story, here is an astonishing collection that showcases Charles Baxter’s unique ability to unveil the remarkable in the seemingly inconsequential moments of an eerie yet familiar life. Penetrating and prophetic, the ten inter-related stories …
Would-be Father
E-bok, 2014
16 kr
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From the collection Gryphon, Charles Baxter’s luminous story of caretaking under any circumstance. Burrage never thought he’d be the responsible one. When his brother and sister-in-law die in a car accident, he becomes caretaker to his young nephew, a fragile boy who wants to know what the future …
Art of Subtext
Beyond Plot
E-bok, 2013
171 kr
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Charles Baxter inaugurates The Art of , a new series on the craft of writing, with the wit and intelligence he brought to his celebrated book Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction . Fiction writer and essayist Charles Baxter''s The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot discusses and illustrates the …
Art Of Subtext
Beyond Plot
Häftad, 2007
229 kr
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Discusses and illustrates the hidden subtextual overtones and undertones in fictional works haunted by the unspoken, the suppressed and the secreted. Using an array of examples from melville to Dostoevsky and contemporary writers Paula Fox, Edward P Jones and Lorrie Moore, Baxter explains how …
Sherwood Anderson: Collected Stories (LOA #235)
Winesburg, Ohio / The Triumph of the Egg / Horses and Men / Death in the Woods / Uncollected Stories (Library of America #235)
Av Sherwood Anderson, Charles Baxter
E-bok, 2012
451 kr
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In the winter of 1912, Sherwood Anderson (1876–1941) abruptly left his office and spent three days wandering through the Ohio countryside, a victim of “nervous exhaustion.” Over the next few years, abandoning his family and his business, he resolved to become a writer. Novels and poetry followed, …
Wonderlands
Essays on the Life of Literature
E-bok, 2022
182 kr
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Searching and erudite new essays on writing from the author of Burning Down the House. Charles Baxter’s new collection of essays, Wonderlands , joins his other works of nonfiction, Burning Down the House and The Art of Subtext . In the mold of those books, Baxter shares years of wisdom and …
Feast of Love
Häftad, 2002
177 kr
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A superb novel that delicately unearths the myriad manifestations of extraordinary love between ordinary people. ‘The Feast of Love’ is just that – a sumptuous work of fiction about the thing that most distracts and delights us. Shortlisted for the National Book Award.In this latter-day ‘Midsummer …
