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Hot Country
A Christopher Marlowe Cobb Thriller
Häftad, 2013
287 kr
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The Hot Country is an epic tale of war, love, and espionage. Christopher Marlowe Cobb is an American newspaper war correspondent who travels to Mexico in 1914 to report on the country's civil war, the invasion of Vera Cruz, and the controversial presidency of Victoriano Huerta, El Chacal (The …
From Where You Dream
The Process of Writing Fiction
Av Robert Olen Butler, Janet Burroway
Häftad, 2006
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
287 kr
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This comprehensive guide to writing creative fiction collects the lectures of the Pulitzer Prize winning author, Robert Olen Butler, transcribed and edited by Janet Burroway, the author of the classic text on creative writing, "Writing Fiction". "From Where You Dream" reimagines the process of …
Best Peace Fiction
A Social Justice Anthology
Av Robert Olen Butler, Phong Nguyen
Häftad, 2021
312 kr
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In the first anthology of its kind, Robert Olen Butler and Phong Nguyen assemble an astounding collection of stories that cause readers to contemplate war, peace, and social justice in a new light. The fourteen stories featured in this volume explore the varied and often unexpected outcomes of …
Late City
The last surviving veteran of WWI revisits his life in this moving story of love and fatherhood from the Pulitzer Prize winner
E-bok, 2022
85 kr
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A visionary and poignant novel centered around former newspaperman Sam Cunningham as he prepares to die, Late City covers much of the early twentieth century, unfurling as a conversation between the dying man and a surprising God. As the two review Sam's life, from his childhood in the American …
Twice Around a Marriage
Inbunden, 2025
450 kr
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Twice Around a Marriage tells the story of Amanda Duval and Howard Blevins, an early-septuagenarian husband and wife who were once married for twenty-two years, then divorced for ten, and now are in the tenth year of a second-try marriage. They have come to Paris to see if they should attempt to …
Hemingway Valise
E-bok, 2018
35 kr
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Having embedded in Mexico, London, and Berlin in the years leading up to the first World War, journalist-turned-spy Christopher Marlowe Cobb has already lived many lives by the time he returns to Paris in 1922. He''s travelled there to work on his novel, so it''s no surprise that he soon finds …
Hot Country
E-bok, 2014
88 kr
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A Christopher Marlowe Cobb ThrillerWar correspondent Christopher Marlowe 'Kit' Cobb arrives in Vera Cruz, Mexico, to cover the country's civil war. A passionate believer in the power of a free press and the moral superiority of the United States, Kit is no mere observer. He assumes a false identity …
Star of Istanbul
Häftad, 2015
123 kr
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A Christopher Marlowe Cobb ThrillerIt is 1915 and Germany has allied itself with the Ottoman empire, persuading the caliphs of Turkey to declare a jihad on the British empire, as President Woodrow Wilson hesitates to enter the fray. War correspondent Christopher Marlowe Cobb has been tasked to …
Star of Istanbul
E-bok, 2015
88 kr
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A Christopher Marlowe Cobb ThrillerIt is 1915 and Germany has allied itself with the Ottoman empire, persuading the caliphs of Turkey to declare a jihad on the British empire, as President Woodrow Wilson hesitates to enter the fray. War correspondent Christopher Marlowe Cobb has been tasked to …
Empire of Night
Häftad, 2015
127 kr
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A Christopher Marlowe Cobb ThrillerIt is 1915, and "Kit" Cobb is working undercover in a castle on the Kent coast owned by a suspected British government mole, Sir Albert Stockman. Kit is working with his mother, the beautiful and mercurial spy, Isabel Cobb, who also happens to be a world-famous …
Empire of Night
E-bok, 2015
86 kr
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A Christopher Marlowe Cobb ThrillerIt is 1915, and "Kit" Cobb is working undercover in a castle on the Kent coast owned by a suspected British government mole, Sir Albert Stockman. Kit is working with his mother, the beautiful and mercurial spy, Isabel Cobb, who also happens to be a world-famous …
Intercourse
E-bok, 2015
88 kr
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What goes through the mind of a person while having sex?Acclaimed story teller Robert Olen Butler turns his daring imagination to the intimate in his latest collection that both dazzles and probes. He lays bare the most flagrant, personal thoughts and feelings of fifty often surprsing couples. The …
Severance
E-bok, 2015
86 kr
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The human head is believed to remain in a state of consciousness for one and one-half minutes after decapitation. In a heightened state of emotion, people speak at the rate of 160 words per minute. Inspired by the intersection of these two seemingly unrelated concepts, Pulitzer Prize-winning author …
Severance / Intercourse
Häftad, 2016
175 kr
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The human head remains in a state of consciousness for one and a half minutes after decapitation. In a heightened state of emotion, people speak at a rate of 160 words per minute. Inspired by this, Robert Olen Butler wrote Severance, sixty-two vignettes each exactly 240 words in length, that …
Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
E-bok, 2015
88 kr
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Robert Olen Butler's lyrical and poignant collection of stories about the aftermath of the Vietnam War and its impact on the Vietnamese was acclaimed by critics across the nation and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1993. A contemporary classic by one of America's most important living writers, this …
Perfume River
E-bok, 2016
88 kr
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Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence 2017Profound and poignant, Perfume River is a masterful novel that examines family ties and the legacy of the Vietnam War through the portrait of a single North Florida family.Profound and poignant, Perfume River is a masterful novel that …
Paris In the Dark
Häftad, 2019
123 kr
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Nominated for the 2019 Hammett PrizeAutumn 1915. The First World War is raging across Europe. Woodrow Wilson has kept Americans out of the trenches, although that hasn't stopped young men and women from crossing the Atlantic to volunteer at the front. Christopher Marlowe 'Kit' Cobb, a Chicago …
Paris In the Dark
E-bok, 2018
88 kr
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Nominated for the 2019 Hammett PrizeAutumn 1915. The First World War is raging across Europe. Woodrow Wilson has kept Americans out of the trenches, although that hasn't stopped young men and women from crossing the Atlantic to volunteer at the front. Christopher Marlowe 'Kit' Cobb, a Chicago …
Perfume River
Häftad, 2017
127 kr
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Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence 2017 Profound and poignant, Perfume River is a masterful novel that examines family ties and the legacy of the Vietnam War through the portrait of a single North Florida family.Profound and poignant, Perfume River is a masterful novel that …
