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Silver Palace Restaurant
Av Mark Abley
Häftad, 2005
251 kr
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A deeply humane and accessible volume
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Fugues, Fatherhood, and a Fragile Mind
Av Mark Abley
Häftad, 2020
293 kr
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Harry Abley was a nightmare of a father: depressive, self-absorbed, unpredictable, emotionally unstable. He was also a dream of a father: gentle, courageous, artistically gifted. Mark Abley, his only child, grew up in the shadow of music and mental illness. How he came to terms with this divided …
Prodigal Tongue
Dispatches from the Future of English
Av Mark Abley
E-bok, 2008
147 kr
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Mark Abley takes the reader on a world-wide trip like no other - from Singapore to Japan, Oxford to Los Angeles, through the web and even back in time. As much a travel book as a linguistic study, this book goes beyond grammar and vocabulary; more importantly, this book is about the people of the …
Spoken Here
Av Mark Abley
E-bok, 2011
147 kr
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Half the world's languages are threatened with extinction over the next century, as English and the rest of the world's top twenty languages drive all before them. What ways of looking at the world will die along with them, what cultural riches, what experiences, histories and memories? And how …
Strange Bewildering Time
Istanbul to Kathmandu in the Last Year of the Hippie Trail
Av Mark Abley
Häftad, 2023
182 kr
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A poet and journalist looks back on a remarkable journey from Turkey to Nepal in 1978, when the region was on the brink of massive transformation.In the spring of 1978, at age twenty-two, Mark Abley put aside his studies at Oxford and set off with a friend on a three-month trek across the …
Conversations with a Dead Man
The Legacy of Duncan Campbell Scott
Av Mark Abley
Inbunden, 2014
292 kr
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As a poet and citizen deeply concerned by the Oka Crisis, the Idle No More protests, and Canada’s ongoing failure to resolve First Nations issues, Montreal author Mark Abley has long been haunted by the figure of Duncan Campbell Scott, known both as the architect of Canada’s most destructive …
