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13 produkter
Civilization
And Its Part in My Downfall
E-bok, 2011
308 kr
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Received with almost unanimous accolades from critics and readers alike, Civilization is the amazing tale of Thom Moss, a young man who sets out in the early twentieth century in search of a grand adventure. He soon finds himself in the thick of Hollywoodland, employed as an actor by the renowned …
Home Game
E-bok, 2011
386 kr
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Nathanael "Crybaby" Isbister was once the greatest baseball player in the world, but now he''s a down-on-his-luck drifter on the road to oblivion. That is until he wanders into a circus sideshow troupe stranded in a tiny Michigan town dominated by a hellfire-and brimstone religious sect. The sect …
Life Of Hope
E-bok, 2012
186 kr
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Paul rolls into Hope—Population 1001—late at nigh on his thirtieth birthday, on the lam from his wife and a surprise party he has known about for weeks He is trying to escape the Big city and get some serious work done on his second novel, but finds the diversions of Hope no less seductive than …
Spirit Cabinet
E-bok, 2011
215 kr
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After a slow climb out of the strip clubs and flesh pots of Europe, Jurgen and Rudolfo have hit the big time in Las Vegas, headlining a slick and well-oiled magic act. Rudolfo, a true misfit, is content orchestrating the spectacle, but Jurgen, stricken since childhood with the irrational desire to …
Whale Music
E-bok, 2011
243 kr
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Des Howell is a former rock ''n'' roll star who never leaves his secluded oceanfront mansion. Naked, rich and fabulously deranged, he subsists on a steady diet of whiskey, pharmaceuticals and jelly doughnuts and occasionally works on his masterpiece, "Whale Music." One day, upon awakening from his …
Galveston
E-bok, 2010
154 kr
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From one of Canada’s beloved fiction writers comes a tale of love and loss, guilt and forgiveness -- and finding redemption in the eye of a hurricane. Few people seek out the tiny Caribbean island of Dampier Cay. Visitors usually wash up there by accident, rather than by design. But this weekend, …
Ravine
E-bok, 2010
215 kr
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One morning in Don Mills, Phil and his brother Jay agree to let their friend Norman Kitchen tag along on an adventure down into a ravine — and what happens there at the hands of two pitiless teenagers changes all their lives forever. Years later the horrifying details are still unclear, smothered …
Boy on the Back of the Turtle
Seeking God, Quince Marmalade, and the Fabled Albatross on Darwin's Islands
Häftad, 2003
245 kr
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Cigar Box Banjo
Notes on Music and Life
E-bok, 2010
150 kr
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This eclectic, funny, and moving book tracks a life lived in music and words. Paul Quarrington ruminates on the bands of his childhood; his restless youth, spent playing bass with the cult band Joe Hall and the Continental Drift; and his incarnation, in middle age, as rhythm guitarist and singer …
From the Far Side of the River
Chest-Deep in Little Fish and Big Ideas
E-bok, 2012
127 kr
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As he braves rills, rivers, and ocean waters in search of his elusive quarry, Paul Quarrington ’s casts are as likely to call up thoughts of his troubled marriage, his father’s death, or one of midlife’s existential questions as they are to yield a fish, big or small. But whatever his trials and …
Spirit Cabinet
Häftad, 2001
249 kr
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After a long, slow climb out of the strip clubs of Europe, Jurgen and Rudolfo have hit the big time in Las Vegas, headlining a magic act as slick as their own buffed and usually half-naked bodies. Rudolfo is content orchestrating the spectacle and attempting to twin his soul with Jurgen's. But …
Cigar Box Banjo
Notes on Music and Life
Inbunden, 2010
230 kr
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In Paul Quarrington's favorite childhood recording, a boy fashions a banjo from a cigar box, pluckily sets off for a contest in the next town, and wins with a song that weaves in the sounds he hears along the way: a bluebird trilling, truck tires whining. Years later, a writer and musician himself, …
Cigar Box Banjo
Notes on Music and Life
Häftad, 2011
155 kr
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Award-winning novelist, screenwriter, and musician Paul Quarrington was diagnosed with stage-four lung cancer in summer 2009. Looking death in the face, he decided to go out singing, throwing everything he had into his work and demonstrating a creative energy that belied his illness. He performed …
