Gail Godwin – författare
Visar alla böcker från författaren Gail Godwin. Handla med fri frakt och snabb leverans.
28 produkter
Making of a Writer
Journals, 1961-1963
E-bok, 2007
126 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Gail Godwin was twenty-four years old and working as a waitress in the North Carolina mountains when she wrote: “I want to be everybody who is great; I want to create everything that has ever been created.” It is a declaration that only a wildly ambitious young writer would make in the privacy of …
Evenings at Five
Av Gail Godwin
E-bok, 2003
142 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Every evening at five o’clock, Christina and Rudy stopped work and began the ritual commonly known as Happy Hour. Rudy mixed Christina’s drink with loving precision, the cavalier slosh of Bombay Sapphire over ice shards, before settling across from her in his Stickley chair with his glass of …
Finishing School
Av Gail Godwin
E-bok, 2011
110 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Justin Stokes would never forget the summer she turned fourteen, nor the woman who transformed her bleak adolescent life into a wondrous place of brilliant color. In the little pondside hut also known as the “finishing school,” eccentric, free-spirited Ursula DeVane opened up a world full of …
Making of a Writer, Volume 2
Journals, 1963-1969
E-bok, 2011
236 kr
Lägg i varukorg
“True, time is the villain and we are trapped in him. True, love is sometimes not returned. True, friends are sometimes false. But to be aware of this—all of it—and still want to go on living, that is the triumph. It is the reward.” As a young woman and aspiring author, Gail Godwin kept a detailed …
Flora
Av Gail Godwin
E-bok, 2013
127 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Gail Godwin''s penetrating and haunting narrative about intimacy and loss and remorse, set against a background of world-changing events ''The perfect summer read can come in unexpected guises ... Dive into its deep waters and witness a novelist at …
Queen of the Underworld
A Novel
Av Gail Godwin
E-bok, 2006
98 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Here at last is the eagerly awaited new novel from New York Times bestselling author Gail Godwin. Queen of the Underworld is sweeping and sultry literary fiction, featuring a memorable young heroine and engaging characters whose intimate dramas interconnect with hers. In the summer of 1959, as …
Unfinished Desires
A Novel
Av Gail Godwin
E-bok, 2010
164 kr
Lägg i varukorg
BONUS: This edition contains an Unfinished Desires discussion guide. From Gail Godwin, three-time National Book Award finalist and acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Evensong and The Finishing School , comes a sweeping new novel of friendship, loyalty, rivalries, redemption, and memory. …
Flora
A Novel
Av Gail Godwin
E-bok, 2013
246 kr
Lägg i varukorg
"A complex tale of family and loss" from the award-winning, New York Times–bestselling author (Los Angeles Times).Ten-year-old Helen and her summer guardian, Flora, are isolated together in Helen''s decaying family house while her father is doing secret war work in Oak Ridge during the final months …
Grief Cottage
A Novel
Av Gail Godwin
Häftad, 2018
126 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Longlisted for the 2020 Grand Prix de littérature américaine Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2017 (Top 10) Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Books 2017 Indie Next Summer 2018 Pick For Reading Groups The haunting tale of a desolate cottage, and the hair-thin junction between this life and the …
Grief Cottage
A Novel
Av Gail Godwin
E-bok, 2017
246 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Longlisted for the 2020 Grand Prix de littérature américainePublishers Weekly Best Books of 2017 (Top 10)Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Books 2017Indie Next Summer 2018 Pick For Reading GroupsThe haunting tale of a desolate cottage, and the hair-thin junction between this life and the …
Old Lovegood Girls
A Novel
Av Gail Godwin
E-bok, 2020
246 kr
Lägg i varukorg
"As always, wry, beadyeyed, acute." —Margaret Atwood, via TwitterFrom the bestselling, award-winning author of Flora and Evensong comes the story of two remarkable women and the complex friendship between them that spans decades.When the dean of Lovegood Junior College for Girls decides to pair …
Old Lovegood Girls
Av Gail Godwin
Häftad, 2021
153 kr
Lägg i varukorg
"As always, wry, beady-eyed, acute." —Margaret Atwood, via Twitter From the bestselling, award-winning author of Flora and Evensong comes the story of two remarkable women and the complex friendship between them that spans decades. When the dean of Lovegood Junior College for Girls decides to pair …
Getting to Know Death
A Meditation
Av Gail Godwin
Inbunden, 2024
262 kr
Lägg i varukorg
From New York Times -bestselling, three-time National Book Award finalist Gail Godwin, a consideration of what makes for a life well lived—for readers of Oliver Sacks’s Gratitude and Deborah Levy’s Cost of Living . I can't see a way out of this. Things will not necessarily get better. This is my …
Getting to Know Death
A Meditation
Av Gail Godwin
E-bok, 2024
239 kr
Lägg i varukorg
" Getting to Know Death could just as easily be called Getting to Know Life . As a meditation, it is both unsentimental and full of wonder. As a piece of writing, it stands beside the best of Godwin''s fiction. Extraordinary." -Ann Patchett From New York Times -bestselling, three-time National Book …
Art of Becoming a Citizen
A Memoir
Av Gail Godwin
Inbunden, 2026
251 kr
Lägg i varukorg
From the three-time National Book Award nominee and New York Times bestselling author Gail Godwin comes an incandescent reflection on past and present that speaks urgently to our current political moment. “He just had the presidency stolen from him.” Gail Godwin first heard these words in November …
Good Husband
Av Gail Godwin
Häftad, 2002
367 kr
Lägg i varukorg
BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR 'Fascinating . . . [A] big sumptuous book . . . her best novel' ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY '[A] brilliant, witty and provocative new novel' SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE'Compelling writing . . . Remarkably skilful' BOSTON GLOBE 'Mates are not always matches, and matches …
Heart
A Personal Journey Through Its Myth and Meanings
Av Gail Godwin
Häftad, 2004
99 kr
Tillfälligt slut
To humans, the heart has always been more than flesh and blood. Rising above its biological function, it has, instead, become the symbol of our emotions. Fear, sadness, anger, love, restlessness, discernment, foreboding, pleasure, longing, comfort, pride, despair - all that signifies passion and …
Flora
Av Gail Godwin
Häftad, 2014
123 kr
Tillfälligt slut
Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Gail Godwin's penetrating and haunting narrative about intimacy and loss and remorse, set against a background of world-changing events'The perfect summer read can come in unexpected guises ... Dive into its deep waters and witness a novelist at the …
