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Last Samurai
Av Helen DeWitt
Häftad, 2018
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
149 kr
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‘Fiercely intelligent, very funny and unlike anything else I’ve ever read’ MARK HADDON'Original...witty...playful…a wonderfully funny book' JAMES WOOD'A triumph – a genuinely new story, a genuinely new form' A. S. BYATTEleven-year-old Ludo is in search of a father. Raised singlehandedly by his …
English Understand Wool
Av Helen DeWitt
Inbunden, 2022
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
210 kr
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Raised in Marrakech by a French mother and English father, a 17-year-old girl has learned above all to avoid mauvais ton (“bad taste” loses something in the translation). One should not ask servants to wait on one during Ramadan: they must have paid leave while one spends the holy month abroad. One …
Your Name Here
Av Helen Dewitt, Ilya Gridneff
Häftad, 2025
271 kr
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A major literary event over two decades in the making, Your Name Here marks the seismic return of Helen DeWitt (The Last Samurai), and will introduce readers to the riveting voice of Ilya Gridneff.A book of unparalleled scope and vision, Your Name Here is a spectacular honeycomb of …
Lightning Rods
Av Helen DeWitt
Häftad, 2012
194 kr
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Described as “the most well-executed literary sex comedy” of our time by Salon.com, and “a wickedly smart satire that deserves to be a classic” by Bookforum, Helen DeWitt’s Lighting Rods is a novel that will leave you laughing for more. Follow one steady rise to power in corporate America as …
Last Samurai
Av Helen DeWitt
Häftad, 2016
225 kr
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Helen DeWitt’s 2000 debut, The Last Samurai, was “destined to become a cult classic” (Miramax). The enterprising publisher sold the rights in twenty countries, so “Why not just, ‘destined to become a classic?’” (Garth Risk Hallberg) And why must cultists tell the uninitiated it has nothing to do …
Some Trick
Av Helen DeWitt
Häftad, 2019
194 kr
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For sheer unpredictable brilliance, Gogol may come to mind, but no author alive today takes a reader as far as Helen DeWitt into the funniest, most far-reaching dimensions of possibility. Her jumping-off points might be statistics, romance, the art world’s piranha tank, games of chance and games of …
Last Samurai
A fiercely original cult modern classic about a prodigy searching for his father
Av Helen DeWitt
E-bok, 2011
34 kr
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A brilliant, funny novel about a child prodigy, his formidable mother and the search for a father worthy of the name.Sibylla raises her son Ludo alone in London, with little money and an education unlike any other. By four, he reads Greek, Arabic, Japanese and Hebrew. On the Circle Line, in museums …
Lightning Rods
Shortlisted for the 2013 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic fiction
Av Helen DeWitt
Häftad, 2012
137 kr
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Shortlisted for the 2013 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic fiction Failing salesman Joe has a dream — or rather an outrageous fantasy. Holed up in his trailer, Joe devises a jaw-dropping plan that will stamp out sexual harassment in the workplace and make his fortune. Win-win? As he …
Lightning Rods
Av Helen DeWitt
Inbunden, 2011
279 kr
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“All I want is to be a success. That’s all I ask.” Joe fails to sell a single set of the Encyclopedia Britannica in six months. Then fails to sell a single Electrolux and must eat 126 pieces of homemade pie, served up by his would-be customers who feel sorry for him. Holed up in his trailer, Joe …
