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Talking Horse
Bernard Malamud on Life and Work
Av Bernard Malamud, Alan Cheuse m. fl.
Inbunden, 1996
919 kr
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-- Publishers Weekly
Talking Horse
Bernard Malamud on Life and Work
Av Bernard Malamud, Alan Cheuse m. fl.
Häftad, 1997
541 kr
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-- Publishers Weekly
Lost Suitcase
Reflections on the Literary Life
Häftad, 2001
304 kr
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We work, each one of us, in the deep dark with no notion of what lasts. With this phrase Nicholas Delbanco reveals one of his urgent concerns: Why does a writer write? How much of his work will seem meaningful to others? In The Lost Suitcase Delbanco ruminates on the life of the writer and the …
Anywhere out of the World
Essays on Travel, Writing, Death
Inbunden, 2005
423 kr
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Nicholas Delbanco-who, John Updike says, "wrestles with the abundance of his gifts as a novelist the way other men wrestle with their deficiencies"-ventures forth to discover and illuminate various writers and places. In this follow-up to his acclaimed The Lost Suitcase, Delbanco weaves varied …
Why Writing Matters
Inbunden, 2020
247 kr
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Drawing lessons from writers of all ages and writing across genres, a distinguished teacher and writer reveals the enduring importance of writing for our time In this new contribution to Yale University Press's Why X Matters series, a distinguished writer and scholar tackles central questions of …
Lastingness
The Art of Old Age
Häftad, 2012
206 kr
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America grows older yet stays focused on its young. Whatever hill we try to climb, we're 'over' it by fifty and should that hill involve entertainment or athletics we're finished long before. However, younger may be better but it doesn't appear that youngest is best: we want our teachers, doctors, …
Speaking of Writing
Selected Hopwood Lectures
Häftad, 1990
388 kr
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Essays on the art and craft of writing by some of the nation’s finest writers make up this rich collection, from Louise Bogan’s meditation on popular and unpopular poetry, to Saul Bellow’s assessment of the future of fiction, to Francie du Plessix Gray’s reflection on womenand Russian literature. …
Writing Life
The Hopwood Lectures, Fifth Series
Häftad, 2000
302 kr
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This collection of essays does not intend to teach its readers to write, nor does it attempt to convince them to take up the pen. Rather, in their respective essays, writers William Kennedy, Robert Hass, Richard Ford, Roger Rosenblatt, Geoffrey Wolff, Diane Johnson, Louise Glück, Philip Levine, and …
Dear Wizard
The Letters of Nicholas Delbanco and Jon Manchip White
E-bok, 2014
530 kr
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Dear Wizard is a carefully selected, highly crafted gathering of letters from over three decades of correspondence between authors Nicholas Delbanco and Jon Manchip White. This correspondence, in part a contest to outdo one another with exotic and outlandish letterhead, ranges in tone from carefree …
Running in Place
Scenes from the South of France
Häftad, 2001
255 kr
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Provence: Its magnificent landscape has inspired artists and writers for centuries. In this stunning evocation of Provencal culture and history, the critically lauded novelist and essayist Nicholas Delbanco captures both the immediacy of this changing region and the time-honored traditions of its …
Art of Youth
Crane, Carrington, Gershwin, and the Nature of First Acts
Ljudbok, 2013
303 kr
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The Art of Youth is a moving inquiry into the nature of artistic prodigies who did their major work at an early age. Renowned novelist Nicholas Delbanco gives us a triptych of indelible portraits: the American writer Stephen Crane (immortalized by The Red Badge of Courage ); British artist Dora …
Sherbrookes
Possession / Sherbrookes / Stillness
Häftad, 2011
231 kr
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The collected early novels of an American master.
Sherbrookes
Possession / Sherbrookes / Stillness
E-bok, 2011
288 kr
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Now finally collected into a single volume, the Sherbrookes trilogy— Possession, Sherbrookes , and Stillness —is Nicholas Delbanco''s most celebrated achievement. Centering upon one New England clan and their estate in southwestern Vermont—a full thousand acres, including the bleak and chilly Big …
It Is Enough
Häftad, 2020
204 kr
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“A family album: leather-bound, thin, its pages yellow with age. There are images on every page—black and white to start with, then Kodacolor.” So begins Nicholas Delbanco’s new novel, It Is Enough, a chronicle of the German-Jewish Hochmann family, which is also a chronicle of the twentieth century …
Collected Stories
The Collected Stories of Nicholas Delbanco
Häftad, 2025
284 kr
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A writer of “enormous sophistication” (The New York Times), Nicholas Delbanco has established himself as an intelligent and erudite fount of American literature. Reprise collects three volumes of short stories, bringing together half a century of Delbanco’s writing for the first time.Nicholas …
Reprise
The Collected Stories of Nicholas Delbanco
E-bok, 2025
314 kr
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A writer of “enormous sophistication” ( The New York Times ), Nicholas Delbanco has established himself as an intelligent and erudite fount of American literature. Reprise collects three volumes of short stories, bringing together half a century of Delbanco’s writing for the first time. Nicholas …
Count of Concord
Häftad, 2008
197 kr
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Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, was—as Nicholas Delbanco writes—“world famous in his lifetime,” yet now he has been “almost wholly forgotten.” Like Delbanco himself, Sally Ormsby Thompson Robinson—the narrator of this novel and the Count’s fictional, last-surviving relative—is “haunted” by one of …
Countess of Stanlein Restored
A History of the Countess of Stanlein Ex Paganini Stradivarius Cello of 1707
Inbunden, 2001
195 kr
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that Antonio Stradivari of Cremona (1644-1737) was the noblest of bowed wooden stringed instrument makers. His work remains the Platonic ideal and template for contemporary 'luthiers'; present day technology may hope to match but not alter the standard of such …
