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PICADOR SHOTS - 'Sonata'
E-bok
Engelska, 201217 kr
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In June, 2006, Picador launch Picador Shots, a new series of pocket-sized books priced at £1. The Shots aim to promote the short story as well as the work of some Picador's greatest authors. They will be contemporarily packaged but ultimately disposable books that are the ideal literary alternative to a magazine.Jackie Kay's 'Sonata' will be one of the first Picador Shots and comes from her new collection, WISH I WAS HERE.In 'Sonata', Two strangers meet on a train and connect in a way that one only can when you know that you only have a few hours together, and that anything you do or say will never be held against you. One is a good listener and one is a good talker – they are the perfect combination. One tells the other about her recent loss of love whilst the other watches on, falling, secretly, in love. What will become of them? Will this journey be the sum of their relationship?
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PICADOR SHOTS - 'Death of the Pugilist, or The Famous Battle of Jacob Burke and Blindman McGraw'
E-bok
Engelska, 201134 kr
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Death of the Pugilist, or The Famous Battle of Jacob Burke & Blindman McGraw Rising from a childhood of rough dockside brawls, a young bare-knuckle fighter faces off against a legendary behemoth.The Ecstasy of Alfred Russel WallaceIn the jungles of the Malay Archipelago, a botanist is struck by an epiphany that will change not only his own life, but the course of science.
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PICADOR SHOT - 'Even the Crows Say Krakow'
E-bok
Engelska, 201131 kr
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Opening in Krakow's legendary cabaret cafe, Jama Michalika, 'Even the Crows Say Kraków' takes the reader on a by turns fanciful and philosophical flight around the magical Polish city. The story won the first Norwich Prize for Literature and thus now links two UNESCO cities of Literature, Norwich and Krakow.In 'Apple Vapours' a young man who can't stay out of trouble inherits a small house in a remote Eastern European village. Will this finally change his fortunes?
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PICADOR SHOTS - 'The Then Wives'
E-bok
Engelska, 201134 kr
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The Then WivesA husband remembers a party many years – and at least one wife – ago.A Dictionary of BetrayalEntries on the theme of love, loss, party etiquette and sleeping with other people’s partners.
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PICADOR SHOTS - 'The Unrequited'
E-bok
Engelska, 201317 kr
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In June, 2006, Picador launch Picador Shots, a new series of pocket-sized books priced at £1. The Shots aim to promote the short story as well as the work of some Picador's greatest authors. They will be contemporarily packaged but ultimately disposable books that are the ideal literary alternative to a magazine. The Unrequited by Niall Williams is to be one of the first.'The Unrequited' opens with the arrival in Oslo of Raphael Newell, a Dublin accountant. Someone who has always previously lived on the margins of life, Ray has come to Norway find the married woman he has fallen in love with. Rejuevnated and invigorated by the experience of being in love, Ray sees the world differently; everything and everyone around him is transformed, and he feels for the first time that he has really come alive.Recounting the couple's first meeting alongside Ray's Norwegian quest, The Unrequited is both love story and fable, both a story for our times and -- in the themes of love, life and loss it explores -- one that is timeless; a story for all ages, in all senses of the word.
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PICADOR SHOTS - 'The Voice'
E-bok
Engelska, 201133 kr
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The VoiceA daughter’s vigil for her mother, and her lost childhood.F SharpMasako is married to Freya’s former boyfriend. The only other thing the two women have in common is the piano – though their experiences are worlds apart.
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Water from the Sun and Discovering Japan
Short Reads
E-bok
Engelska, 201117 kr
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Water from the Sun and Discovering Japan are two short stories from Bret Easton Ellis, author of American Psycho, previously published as in his collection The Informers. These stories chronicle the lives of a group of Los Angeles residents suffering from nothing less that death of the soul. Featuring Ellis's trademark skill for dialogue, off-the-wall humour, merciless description and exotic bleakness.In Water from the Sun, Cheryl Lane is going under. Her marriage to William has broken down, she has moved in with a young boy half her age. This young boy is more interested in other young boys. She doesn't show up to work. To keep afloat she drinks, she shops and she takes pills. Would she get anything out of seeing her husband again?In Discovering Japan, Bryan is on tour. His manager has taken him to Tokyo to promote his record and do a few gigs. But to get him off the drink, drugs and women is going to be a tall order. Written with spare and hypnotic prose, this is a story about a man hell-bent on destruction by a writer deeply concerned with the moral decline of our society.Part of the Picador Shots range of short reads.