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17 produkter
Blood of the Lamb
A Novel
Häftad, 2005
194 kr
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With a new Foreword by Jeffrey Frank The most poignant of all De Vries's novels, The Blood of the Lamb is also the most autobiographical. It follows the life of Don Wanderhop from his childhood in an immigrant Calvinist family living in Chicago in the 1950s through the loss of a brother, his faith, …
Slouching Towards Kalamazoo
A Novel
Häftad, 2005
175 kr
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With a new Foreword by Derek De Vries It is 1963 in an unnamed town in North Dakota, and Anthony Thrasher is languishing for a second year in eighth grade. Prematurely sophisticated, young Anthony spends too much time reading Joyce, Eliot, and Dylan Thomas but not enough time studying the War of …
Reuben, Reuben
A Novel
Häftad, 2014
234 kr
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Harking from the golden age of fiction set in American suburbia - the school of John Updike and Cheever - these three works from the great American humorist Peter De Vries look with laughter upon its lawns, its cocktails, and its slightly unreal feeling of comfort. De Vries' classic situation …
Without a Stitch in Time
A Selection of the Best Humorous Short Pieces
Häftad, 2014
224 kr
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Harking from the golden age of fiction set in American suburbia - the school of John Updike and Cheever - these three works from the great American humorist Peter De Vries look with laughter upon its lawns, its cocktails, and its slightly unreal feeling of comfort. De Vries' classic situation …
Without a Stitch in Time
A Selection of the Best Humorous Short Pieces
E-bok, 2014
469 kr
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Harking from the golden age of fiction set in American suburbia—the school of John Updike and Cheever—this work from the great American humorist Peter De Vries looks with laughter upon its lawns, its cocktails, and its slightly unreal feeling of comfort. Without a Stitch in Time , a selection of …
Tunnel of Love
A Novel
Häftad, 2014
214 kr
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Harking from the golden age of fiction set in American suburbia - the school of John Updike and Cheever - these three works from the great American humorist Peter De Vries look with laughter upon its lawns, its cocktails, and its slightly unreal feeling of comfort. De Vries' classic situation …
Without A Stitch In Time A Selection Of The Best Humorous Short Pieces
Inbunden, 2022
459 kr
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Without A Stitch In Time A Selection Of The Best Humorous Short Pieces
Häftad, 2022
328 kr
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Comfort Me with Apples
A Novel
E-bok, 2014
246 kr
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A laugh-out-loud novel about teenage pretensions and adult delusions from an author whom the New York Times has called "a Balzac of the station wagon set"Chick Swallow and his best friend, Nickie Sherman, are teenage boulevardiers of Decency, Connecticut, devotees of Oscar Wilde who spend their …
Mackerel Plaza
A Novel
E-bok, 2014
182 kr
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An irresistible comedy about faith, desire, and middle-class morality from the man described by Kingsley Amis as "the funniest serious writer to be found on either side of the Atlantic"Pity the poor reverend Andrew Mackerel of the People''s Liberal Church of Avalon, Connecticut. His is the first …
Tents of Wickedness
A Novel
E-bok, 2014
165 kr
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A masterwork of literary parody about a suburban Samaritan and the poet he seeks to inspireAfter the wild adventures of Comfort Me with Apples, Chick Swallow has found domestic peace in Decency, Connecticut, accepting his fate as a middle-class husband and father and the author of an advice column …
Let Me Count the Ways
A Novel
E-bok, 2014
165 kr
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The sins of the father are hilariously visited on the son in this witty and profound novel about the meaning of it allStanley Waltz is a Polish American piano mover and pugnacious atheist married to a born-again believer. His heroes are H. L. Mencken and Clarence Darrow, and if he confuses …
Vale of Laughter
A Novel
E-bok, 2014
170 kr
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A brilliant, fiercely funny novel that ponders the eternal question: is it better to laugh or cry?Joe Sandwich is a clown. Not literally, but what else do you call an eleven-year-old who goes to church to confess his good deeds: "I did my homework without being told"? A stockbroker who gets seasick …
Cat's Pajamas and Witch's Milk
E-bok, 2014
246 kr
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Twin tales of middle-class hilarity and despair from the writer who was dubbed "America''s preeminent comic novelist" by the New York TimesWhen college professor Hank Tattersall sees his former flame, Lucy Stiles, at a campus concert, it sets off a chain reaction that results in one of the funniest …
Serampore Form of Agreement
A Commentary
Av Samuel E Masters, Peter De Vries
Häftad, 2025
257 kr
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La sangre del cordero
E-bok, 2017
77 kr
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En La sangre del cordero, Don Wanderhope, alter ego del autor, nos cuenta cómo ha sido su vida desde su infancia en Chicago, en el seno de una familia calvinista, hasta la muerte de su hija de doce años, enferma de leucemia. Una vida,pues, marcada por la pérdida: la de su hermano, muerto en la …
