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Förtvivlade människor
Av Paula Fox
Pocket, 2015
3,5 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (13)
89 kr
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"Hennes meningar är små underverk av förtätning och exakthet, var och en är en roman i sin egen rätt." Jonathan Franzen "En verklig milstolpe inom efterkrigsrealismen ... Ett prosaverk som levt kvar med oförminskad styrka, så klart och förfinat att det snarare verkat snidat är skrivet." David …
Borrowed Finery
Av Paula Fox
Häftad, 2003
164 kr
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One of the most powerful memoirs of recent times.Shortly after Paula Fox’s birth in 1923, her hard-drinking Hollywood screenwriter father and her glamorous mother left her in a Manhattan orphanage. Rescued by her grandmother, she was passed from hand to hand, the kindness of strangers interrupted …
Desperate Characters
Av Paula Fox
Häftad, 2003
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
139 kr
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A Great American Novel – from the author of ‘Borrowed Finery’.Otto and Sophie Bentwood live childless in a renovated Brooklyn brownstone. The complete works of Goethe line their bookshelf, their stainless steel kitchen is newly installed, and their Mercedes is parked outside. After Sophie is bitten …
Widow’s Children
Av Paula Fox
Häftad, 2008
217 kr
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A classic American novel from the author of ‘Borrowed Finery’.On the eve of their trip to Africa, Laura Maldonada Clapper and her husband, Desmond, sit in a New York City hotel room, drinking scotch-and-sodas and awaiting the arrival of three guests: Clara, Laura’s timid daughter from a previous …
Widow’s Children
Av Paula Fox
E-bok, 2012
131 kr
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A classic American novel from the author of `Borrowed Finery’.On the eve of their trip to Africa, Laura Maldonada Clapper and her husband, Desmond, sit in a New York City hotel room, drinking scotch-and-sodas and awaiting the arrival of three guests: Clara, Laura’s timid daughter from a previous …
Borrowed Finery (Text Only)
Av Paula Fox
E-bok, 2012
96 kr
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One of the most powerful memoirs of recent times.Shortly after Paula Fox’s birth in 1923, her hard-drinking Hollywood screenwriter father and her glamorous mother left her in a Manhattan orphanage. Rescued by her grandmother, she was passed from hand to hand, the kindness of strangers interrupted …
Desperate Characters
Av Paula Fox
E-bok, 2013
79 kr
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A Great American Novel – from the author of `Borrowed Finery’.Otto and Sophie Bentwood live childless in a renovated Brooklyn brownstone. The complete works of Goethe line their bookshelf, their stainless steel kitchen is newly installed, and their Mercedes is parked outside. After Sophie is bitten …
Poor George
A Novel
Av Paula Fox
Häftad, 2011
320 kr
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Poor George gives us George Mecklin, a restless, soft-spoken teacher at a private school in Manhattan. Depressed by his life of vague moral purpose, George discovers a local adolescent named Ernest breaking into his house. Rather than hand the boy over to the police, as his nagging wife insists, …
Servant's Tale
A Novel
Av Paula Fox
Häftad, 2001
345 kr
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Luisa de la Cueva was born on the Caribbean island of Malagita, of a plantation owner's son and a native woman, a servant in the kitchen. Her years on Malagita were sweet with the beauty of bamboo, banana, and mango trees with flocks of silver-feathered guinea hens underneath, the magic of a …
Western Coast
A Novel
Av Paula Fox
Häftad, 2001
361 kr
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Defending herself with despairing stubbornness against personal catastrophe, she is able to save her life and escape. "Enormously touching and wholly believable."—Washington Post Book World
God of Nightmares
Av Paula Fox
Häftad, 2002
320 kr
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In 1941, twenty-three-year-old Helen Bynum leaves home for the first time and sets out from rural New York to find her Aunt Lulu, an aging actress in New Orleans. There she finds a life of passion and adventure, possibilities and choices. Falling in with a bohemian group of intellectuals, she …
Desperate Characters
Av Paula Fox
Häftad, 2015
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
154 kr
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Otto and Sophie Bentwood live in a changing neighborhood in Brooklyn. Their stainless-steel kitchen is newly installed, and their Mercedes is parked curbside. After Sophie is bitten on the hand while trying to feed a stray, perhaps rabies-infected cat, a series of small and ominous disasters begin …
Likely Place
Av Paula Fox
Häftad, 2010
164 kr
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Newberry Medal-winning author Paula Fox pens “a very funny book, full of lightning transitions from the matter-of-fact to fantasy which make an imaginative child’s world continuously exciting” ( The New York Times). If there is one thing Lewis has enough of, it’s good advice from his overprotective …
Slave Dancer
Av Paula Fox
E-bok, 2016
127 kr
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Newbery Medal Winner: A young Louisiana boy faces the horrors of slavery when he is kidnapped and forced to work on a slave ship in this iconic novel. Thirteen-year-old Jessie Bollier earns a few pennies playing his fife on the docks of New Orleans. One night, on his way home, a canvas is thrown …
Monkey Island
Av Paula Fox
E-bok, 2016
127 kr
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Eleven-year-old Clay must find a home on the streets of New York City in this award-winning, heartbreakingly honest novel. He was eleven years old, and he had never felt so alone in his life. Clay Garrity lived a normal life until his father lost his job and abandoned the family. Now his pregnant …
One-Eyed Cat
Av Paula Fox
E-bok, 2016
127 kr
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A Newbery Honor Book and Winner of the Christopher Award: A young boy fires a forbidden rifle—and must face the consequences. Ned Wallis''s minister father made him promise not to touch the rifle until he turns fourteen. But the eleven-year-old can''t resist sneaking outside and trying it out, just …
Moonlight Man
Av Paula Fox
E-bok, 2016
127 kr
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Newbery Medal–winning author Paula Fox''s gripping and sensitive portrayal of a teenage girl who discovers her father is not the man she thought he was. Catherine Ames''s father, Harry, has always been a mystery. Her parents divorced when she was three, and she has spent most of her life in a …
Maurice's Room
Av Paula Fox
E-bok, 2016
24 kr
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A hilarious tale from Newbery Medal winner Paula Fox: Maurice loves to collect things—but what happens when he collects too many things? Eight-year-old Maurice is a collector. It doesn''t matter how big or how small it is—if he likes something, he''ll bring it home with him. His newest addition is …
Village by the Sea
Av Paula Fox
E-bok, 2016
127 kr
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Winner of the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award:A young girl learns some hard truths about human nature in this thought-provoking, beautifully crafted novel. Tomorrow, Emma''s uncle is coming to take her to his house on Long Island while her father undergoes surgery and her mother stays with him in …
Western Wind
Av Paula Fox
E-bok, 2016
16 kr
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From Newbery Medal–winning author Paula Fox,an isolated young girl discovers surprising revelations about her grandmother—and herself. Eleven-and-a-half-year-old Elizabeth Benedict is furious when she finds out she''ll be spending a month with her grandmother in Maine. She''s sure she''s being …
Place Apart
Av Paula Fox
E-bok, 2016
24 kr
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National Book Award Winner: A grieving teenager wonders if she''ll ever understand anything—especially the big things—in life. Time passed, and all the minutes hurt . . . After her father''s death, Victoria Finch''s life changes completely. To save money, she and her mother move from Boston to a …
Lily and the Lost Boy
Av Paula Fox
E-bok, 2016
127 kr
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Newbery Medal winner Paula Fox depicts a fateful summer on the mysterious Greek island of Thasos in this "haunting tale" (TheNew York Times Book Review). Lily Corey and her older brother, Paul, have been summering on the Greek island of Thasos with their parents. For Lily, it''s been fun hanging …
Förtvivlade människor
Av Paula Fox
E-bok, 2014
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
169 kr
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"Hennes meningar är små underverk av förtätning och exakthet, var och en är en roman i sin egen rätt." Jonathan Franzen "En verklig milstolpe inom efterkrigsrealismen ... Ett prosaverk som levt kvar med oförminskad styrka, så klart och förfinat att det snarare verkat snidat är skrivet." David …
News from the World
Stories and Essays
Av Paula Fox
Häftad, 2012
154 kr
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This gathering of PaulaFox’s short work spans her illustrious career, from 1965 to the presentincluding perfectly turned stories; pointed, engaging essays; and raw yeteloquent memoir.
