Häftad, Engelska, 2013
332 kr
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9 produkter
9 produkter
- E-bokEngelska, 2013
44 kr
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Elizabeth Stone, a respected academic, has a new lease on life. In remission from cancer, she returns to the city where she was a student over thirty years ago to investigate some little-known papers by T. S. Eliot, which she believes contain the seeds of her masterpiece; a masterpiece that centres on a poem given to her when she was eighteen by the elusive Professor Hunt...
But as the days pass in the city she loves and her friendship with Professor Hunt is rekindled, her memories return her to a time shadowed by loneliness, longing and quiet despair, and to an undeclared but overwhelming love. Paralysed by the fear of writing something worthless, haunted by a sense of waste, Elizabeth Stone comes to realise she is facing the biggest test of her life.
As in her acclaimed debut The Land of Decoration, Grace McCleen gives an intense evocation of place, an unflinching portrayal of a character by turns comic, absurd, and disturbing, and a powerful sense of the transcendent within the ordinary. Profound and hypnotic, The Professor of Poetry devastates even as it exhilarates and echoes long after it has been closed.
- Häftad, Engelska, 2014
119 kr
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Elizabeth Stone, a respected academic, has a new lease on life. In remission from cancer, she returns to the city where she was a student over thirty years ago to investigate some little-known papers by T. S. Eliot, which she believes contain the seeds of her masterpiece; a masterpiece that centres on a poem given to her when she was eighteen by the elusive Professor Hunt...But as the days pass in the city she loves and her friendship with Professor Hunt is rekindled, her memories return her to a time shadowed by loneliness, longing and quiet despair, and to an undeclared but overwhelming love. Paralysed by the fear of writing something worthless, haunted by a sense of waste, Elizabeth Stone comes to realise she is facing the biggest test of her life.As in her acclaimed debut The Land of Decoration, Grace McCleen gives an intense evocation of place, an unflinching portrayal of a character by turns comic, absurd, and disturbing, and a powerful sense of the transcendent within the ordinary. Profound and hypnotic, The Professor of Poetry devastates even as it exhilarates and echoes long after it has been closed. - E-bokEngelska, 2015
44 kr
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It was the year when Madeline''s family moved to an island her father believed God had guided him to.It was a place where she revelled in the natural beauty of their surroundings. It was a time of euphoria, but also of successive disasters. It was the night Madeline turned fourteen, when she did something she thought would save her beloved mother. Something so traumatic that she cannot now recall it, but her suave new psychiatrist thinks he knows how to unlock her memory. He is treading on very dangerous ground.
- Häftad, Engelska, 2015
280 kr
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It was the year when Madeline's family moved to an island her father believed God had guided him to.It was a place where she revelled in the natural beauty of their surroundings. It was a time of euphoria, but also of successive disasters. It was the night Madeline turned fourteen, when she did something she thought would save her beloved mother. Something so traumatic that she cannot now recall it, but her suave new psychiatrist thinks he knows how to unlock her memory. He is treading on very dangerous ground. - E-bokEngelska, 2012
100 kr
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'An extraordinary and peculiarly haunting novel' Chris Cleave, author of The Other HandA RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK My name is Judith McPherson. I am ten years old. On Monday a miracle happened.Judith doesn’t have much. The house she shares with her devoutly religious father is full of dusty relics, reminders of the mother Judith never knew. Bullied at school, she finds comfort in creating a miniature world in her bedroom – a world of wonder she calls The Land of Decoration. Perhaps, she thinks, if she makes it snow in The Land of Decoration there will be no school on Monday.Sure enough, when Judith opens her curtains the next day, the world beyond her window has turned white.And that's when her troubles begin. - E-bokEngelska, 2016
44 kr
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''Startlingly original stories.''S Magazine''Together they assert that love is more heart-breaking and transforming that the word necessarily conveys.''Observer Love is not a singular concept. In this collection, seven award-winning authors explore seven concepts of love: from Philautia, self-love, to Agape, love for humanity; and from Storge, a natural affection for family, to Mania, a frenzied, obsessive love. Seven authors; seven short stories; seven flashes of love. ''Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.'' Zelda FitzgeraldThis paperback edition of How Much the Heart Can Hold includes the winning short story from the SceptreLoves short story Prize.
- Häftad, Engelska, 2017
143 kr
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'Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.' Zelda FitzgeraldLove is not a singular concept. In this collection, seven award-winning authors explore seven concepts of love: from Philautia, self-love, to Agape, love for humanity; and from Storge, a natural affection for family, to Mania, a frenzied, obsessive love. Seven authors; seven short stories; seven flashes of love. This paperback edition of How Much the Heart Can Hold includes the winning short story from the SceptreLoves short story Prize. - E-bokFinska, 2016
356 kr
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"Pystyt siis saamaan aikaan lumisateen", ääni sanoi. "Mitähän muuta sinä pystyisit tekemään?"Sydämeni löi kerran hyvin lujaa, ja sanoin: "Olet Jumala, etkö olekin?""Hys", sanoi ääni. "Olen tarkkaillut sinua jo jonkin aikaa. Saattaisit olla minulle varsin hyödyllinen. Sinulla on mahtava mielikuvitus. Tarvitsen jonkun sinunlaisesi välineekseni. Ihmeitä ja sellaisia juttuja." Kymmenvuotiaan Judithin pakopaikka on pienoismaailma, jonka hän on askarrellut huoneensa lattialle. Sinne hän pakenee koulukiusaamista ja ongelmallista suhdettaan isäänsä. Isä piinaa lähiseutujen ihmisiä käännytysyrityksillään, ja siksi Judithkin joutuu koulussa pilkan kohteeksi.Kun Neil-niminen poika ottaa Judithin silmätikukseen, tyttö tekee pienoismaailmaansa Neiliä muistuttavan nuken. Mielikuvitusleikkien ja todellisuuden sekoittuessa seurauksia on monia, vaarallisiakin. Grace McCleen on brittiläisen kirjallisuuden uusi nuori lupaus. Valloittavassa omaelämäkerrallisessa esikoisromaanissaan hän avaa lukijalle oven äidittömän, koulukiusatun tytön rikkaaseen sisäiseen maailmaan ja tiukasti säänneltyyn uskonnolliseen yhteisöön.Tämä sähkökirja toimii ePub-formaattia tukevilla lukuohjelmilla.
