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Party for the Girls
Stories
Av H. E. Bates
Inbunden, 1988
267 kr
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The six long stories of A Party for the Girls present H.E. Bates at his finest. A crack shot at understated tragedy, Bates is perhaps at his best with comedy and character––consider the opening line of the title story: “Miss Tompkins, who was seventy-six, bright pink-looking in a bath-salts sort of …
Stained Glass Elegies
Stories
Av Shusaku Endo
Häftad, 1990
272 kr
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The arresting beauty of Shusaku Endo's fiction is best known in the West through his highly acclaimed novels The Samurai and Silence. His consummately wrought short stories, with their worlds of deep shadows and achieved clarity, are less familiar. The dozen stories of Stained Glass Elegies, …
Man with the Heart in the Highlands & Other Early Stories
Häftad, 1992
173 kr
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Gathered in The Man with the Heart in the Highlands are sixteen stories from William Saroyan’s most celebrated literary period, culled from several long out-of-print collections from the 1930s and ’40s, While achieving meteoric success with The Human Comedy and The Time of Your Life, the young …
Life Being the Best & Other Stories
Av Kay Boyle
Häftad, 1988
108 kr
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In both her art and her life, Kay Boyle has exemplified that quality she values most in other artists––the bold articulation of a passionately held belief. An American expatriate in Europe from 1923-1941, Boyle was part of that pioneering group of modernists forging the “revolution of the word.” …
Rain Came Last & Other Stories
Inbunden, 1990
266 kr
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Born in 1908, Niccolo Tucci is the author of six books (three in Italian, three in English). He first became known in America for his articles and stories published in various leading periodicals––among them Partisan Review, Harper’s, The Atlantic, and The New Yorker. The Rain Came Last is the …
Rain Came Last & Other Stories
Häftad, 1990
127 kr
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Born in 1908, Niccolò Tucci is the author of six books (three in Italian; three, English). He first became known in America for his articles and stories published in various leading periodicals—among them Partisan Review, Harper's, The Atlantic, and The New Yorker. The Rain Came Last is the first …
Three Italian Chronicles: Stories
Av Stendhal
Häftad, 1991
137 kr
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Italian passion––”the passion that seeks its own satisfaction, and not to give one’s neighbor an enhanced idea of oneself”––is the life-blood of Stendhal’s Three Italian Chronicles. Gathered here are three long-out-of-print stories animated by life-and-death romances and sensational crimes. “The …
She Was a Queen: Historical Novel
Häftad, 1991
151 kr
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She was indeed a Queen. Born a peasant in thirteenth-century Burma, Queen Saw––young, beautiful, and extremely intelligent––reigned beside two kings. Everything luxuriantly cruel or voluptuously lovely swirled around the royal White Umbrella: mandarins, oracle-eating tigers, murdersome intrigue, …
Aller Retour New York
Essay
Av Henry Miller
Häftad, 1993
125 kr
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Aller Retour New York is truly vintage Henry Miller, written during his most creative period, between Tropic of Cancer (1934) and Tropic of Capricorn (1939). Miller always said that his best writing was in his letters, and this unbuttoned missive to his friend Alfred Perlès is not only his longest …
Efraim's Book
Häftad, 1994
137 kr
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Efraim’s Book is the sophisticated, offbeat novel about the peculiar society of post-World-II Berlin. Its hero George Efraim is a Jewish reporter who has fought for the British on the Italian front and lost both parents to Auschwitz. He returns home to Berlin in 1962 for the first time since the …
