impedimenta jul 2026 (4 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This is one of the most lucid and stark portraits of working-class England in the postwar era. A book about class warfare, honesty, escape, and the desire for isolation or unbridled individualism, it continues to resonate with the same dry depth and silent pulse that made it unforgettable, almost six decades after its original publication. Colin Smith lives in a working-class neighborhood of Nottingham with his widowed mother, her lover, and his three younger siblings. His life is far from exemplary, and he feels as though the world has already decided for him. When he robs a bakery and ends up in a reform school, he discovers something unexpected: he's good at running. In his solitary early morning runs, he finds his own territory, a clarity he had never known, and privileges he doesn't desire for himself, until finally he must choose between success as a sports hero and the loneliness of the long-distance runner.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Sardà, Júlia (illustratore). Neuware - A new paperback edition of illustrator Júlia Sardà's beautiful tribute to Frankenstein and its fascinating author, Mary Shelley. How does a story begin Sometimes, it all starts with a dream. Mary is a great dreamer, a child who learns to read by tracing the letters written on the tombstone of her mother, the pioneering feminist Mary Wollstonecraft. Years later, on a stormy night, she writes a ghost story and daydreams about a monster that comes to life: 'Frankenstein.' A book that will become one of the most popular legends of all time.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Maryse Condé, winner of the Right Livelihood Award (the 'Alternative Nobel Prize'), returns with Mixed Earth, a collection of stories where each woman--from rage, silence, or passion--reinvents her destiny and asserts her freedom in a world shaped by memory and cultural mixing. In Mixed Earth, Condé once again demonstrates why she is one of the most prodigious storytellers of our time. In these stories--sensual, fierce, and profoundly human--we follow women and men cast to the margins, wandering between islands, continents, and memories, trying to understand who they are and where they come from. A teacher finds fleeting happiness by taking in and healing Solo, a young outcast considered cursed by the village; an engineer caught between passion and justice risks his future to protect Ayissé; a young woman discovers the true face of her father, seductive and fragile; Létitia, a voracious consumer of life, learns to choose between fleeting passion and the hand that sustains her. A doctor pieces together the story of a dead son and a lineage marked by madness and marginalization; a traveler takes in a specter that smells of rotten earth; three women in Manhattan try to survive loneliness and the desire to leave their mark; a man climbs Mount Shasta to confront the voice that calls to him. Family echoes, wounds never fully healed, and the shifting heart of an archipelago of voices claiming their place in history: with a lucid and compassionate gaze, Condé transforms his personal genealogy into a mirror reflecting lives shaped by mixed heritage and displacement. A book that throbs with the force of that which has been silenced for too long.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Witches, vampires, women who merge with their darkest desires, monstrous mothers, vengeful daughters, ladies with rotten souls, and young girls who laugh while everything burns. This Christmas brings Weird Sisters, a delightful anthology of stories by the grande dames of pulp fiction, expertly selected by Mike Ashley for the British Library. Fourteen authors--from the celebrated Margaret St. Clair to the enigmatic Allison V. Harding, by way of Tanith Lee, Baroness Greye La Spina, and even Lucy Maud Montgomery at her most gothic--contribute these murky, suggestive, and highly addictive tales, born in the pages of Weird Tales and other legendary magazines between the 1920s and 1970s.