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Av Jenny Offill
Pocket, 2017
3,9 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (8)
89 kr
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"Min plan var att aldrig gifta mig. Jag skulle bli ett konstnärsmonster i stället. Kvinnor blir nästan aldrig konstnärsmonster eftersom konst närsmonster bara är upptagna av konst, aldrig av världsliga ting. Nabokov fällde inte ens ihop sitt eget paraply. Vera slickade frimärkena åt honom." "Avd. …
Dept. of Speculation
Av Jenny Offill
Häftad, 2023
135 kr
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From the Women's Prize Shortlisted-author of Weather, an electrifying, funny and wise account of a couple falling out of one another's orbit.'It is the kind of book that you will be quoting over and over to friends who don't quite understand, until they give in and read it too' John Self, Guardian …
Weather
Av Jenny Offill
Häftad, 2021
160 kr
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Lizzie Benson slid into her job as a librarian without a traditional degree. But this gives her a vantage point from which to practice her other calling: she is a fake shrink. For years she has tended to her God-haunted mother and her recovering addict brother. They have both stabilized for the …
Dept. of Speculation
Av Jenny Offill
Häftad, 2015
3,5 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
139 kr
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From the Women's Prize Shortlisted-author of Weather, an electrifying, funny and wise account of a couple falling out of one another's orbit.'It is the kind of book that you will be quoting over and over to friends who don't quite understand, until they give in and read it too' John Self, Guardian …
Väder
Av Jenny Offill
Inbunden, 2021
2,6 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (5)
245 kr
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”Offill skriver intelligent och ironisk prosa, så smart att den nästan glänser.” Bernur ”…vad också Väder handlar om: betydelsen av en tillit till världen i all dess oförutsägbarhet, en tillit till den - mitt i kaos? Och låt mig ge det högsta betyg jag nog kan ge till en bok just nu: Väder är en …
Friend Who Got Away
Twenty Women''s True Life Tales of Friendships that Blew Up, Burned Out or Faded Away
Av Elissa Schappell, Jenny Offill
E-bok, 2007
205 kr
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Losing a friend can be as painful and as agonizing as a divorce or the end of a love affair, yet it is rarely written about or even discussed. THE FRIEND WHO GOT AWAY is the first book to address this near-universal experience, bringing together the brave, eloquent voices of writers like Francine …
Dept. of Speculation
Av Jenny Offill
Häftad, 2014
277 kr
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW • From the acclaimed author of Weather comes a slim, stunning portrait of a marriage—a beguiling rumination on the mysteries of intimacy, trust, faith, knowledge, and the condition of universal …
17 Things I'm Not Allowed to Do Anymore
Av Jenny Offill
E-bok, 2010
110 kr
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This Parenting Magazine Best Book of the Year and Bank Street College of Education Best Children''s Book of the Year features a kid full of fun ideas. For example, in the morning, gluing her brother''s bunny slippers to the floor sounds like a good plan. But now she''s not allowed to use glue …
Dept. of Speculation
Av Jenny Offill
E-bok, 2014
205 kr
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Dept. of Speculation is a portrait of a marriage. It is also a beguiling rumination on the mysteries of intimacy, trust, faith, knowledge, and the condition of universal shipwreck that unites us all. Jenny Offill’s heroine, referred to in these pages as simply “the wife,” once exchanged love …
Money Changes Everything
Twenty-Two Writers Tackle the Last Taboo with Tales of Sudden Windfalls, Staggering Debts, and Other Surprising Turns of Fortune
Av Elissa Schappell, Jenny Offill
E-bok, 2007
142 kr
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The editors of The Friend Who Got Away are back with a new anthology that will do for money what they did for women’s friendships. Ours is a culture of confession, yet money remains a distinctly taboo subject for most Americans. In this riveting anthology, a host of celebrated writers explore the …
Last Things
Av Jenny Offill
E-bok, 2015
205 kr
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Grace''s father believes in science and builds his daughter a dollhouse with lights that really work. Grace''s mother takes her skinny-dipping in the lake and teaches her about African hyena men who devour their wives in their sleep. Grace''s world, of fact and fiction, marvels and madness, is …
Last Things
From the Author of Weather, Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020
Av Jenny Offill
E-bok, 2016
123 kr
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_______________ ''Unexpectedly funny'' - New York Times ''Full of imagination, humour and invention ... A glorious debut '' - Irish Times ''Mesmerising ... She writes with a heartbreaking clarity ... and is dexterously able to evoke emotional extremity through pitch-perfect narrative compression '' …
Last Things
From the author of Weather, shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020
Av Jenny Offill
Häftad, 2016
126 kr
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_______________'Unexpectedly funny' - New York Times'Full of imagination, humour and invention ... A glorious debut' - Irish Times'Mesmerising ... She writes with a heartbreaking clarity ... and is dexterously able to evoke emotional extremity through pitch-perfect narrative compression' - The …
Weather
Av Jenny Offill
Häftad, 2023
130 kr
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKS ARE MY BAG FICTION READERS AWARD'Stunning' Maggie O'Farrell'Gorgeous, funny and deadly serious' Max Porter 'This is so good. We are not ready nor worthy' Ocean VuongAn obligatory note of hope, in a world going to hell.'What are …
Wetter
Roman
Av Jenny Offill
E-bok, 2022
113 kr
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»Das richtige Buch für das Ende der Welt.« LA TimesLizzie Benson, Bibliothekarin mit Hang zu apokalyptischen Gedanken, geht seit Jahren ihrer Berufung als Amateur-Psychologin nach: Sie kümmert sich um ihren Ex-Junkie-Bruder und ihre gottesfürchtige Mutter. Dieses Talent ist auch gefragt, als ihre …
Väder
Av Jenny Offill
E-bok, 2021
169 kr
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”Offill skriver intelligent och ironisk prosa, så smart att den nästan glänser.” Bernur ”…vad också Väder handlar om: betydelsen av en tillit till världen i all dess oförutsägbarhet, en tillit till den - mitt i kaos? Och låt mig ge det högsta betyg jag nog kan ge till en bok just nu: Väder är en …
Ilmastoja
Av Jenny Offill
E-bok, 2020
188 kr
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Brooklynissa asuva Lizzie työskentelee yliopiston kirjastossa ja kantaa huolta kaikista: perheestään, huumeriippuvuuden kanssa kamppailevasta veljestään ja elämän heittelemistä kirjastokävijöistä. Lizzien vanha mentori Sylvia on tullut tunnetuksi ilmastonmuutospodcastistaan. Hän palkkaa Lizzien …
11 Experiments That Failed
Av Jenny Offill
Häftad, 1900
142 kr
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A hilarious how-to of "science" experiments, dreamed up by a wildly imaginative kid. Is it possible to eat snowballs doused in ketchup--and nothing else--all winter? Can a washing machine wash dishes? By reading the step-by-step instructions, kids can discover the answers to such all-important …
