Newest press mai 2015 (2 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Everyone deals with grief in their own personal way. Take Carrie, for example. Getting over her mother's death from ovarian cancer takes the form of ramping up passive-aggressive office warfare, continuing her campaign to show her ex-husband she is over him (further increasing the distance between herself and her teenage daughter, natch), ridding herself of her mother's overweight cat Poncho, and consuming heroic quantities of red wine, spiked coffee and coffin nails. Nobody's perfect. Situated at the midpoint between the booze-soaked mayhem of Absolutely Fabulous and the middle-aged ennui of Anakana Schofield's Malarky, this is a riotous assemblage of found objects, Choose Your Own Adventure-style in jokes and useful facts about mice. In her startlingly funny first novel, Hollie Adams takes the conventional wisdom about likeable literary heroines and shoves it down an elevator shaft.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In his second collection of stories, author and filmmaker R W Gray (Crisp) once again finds the place where the beautiful, the strange, and the surreal all meet -- sometimes meshing harmoniously, sometimes colliding with terrible violence, launching his characters into a redefined reality. A lovestruck man discovers the secret editing room where his girlfriend erases all her flaws; a massage artist finds that she can alleviate her clients' pain in more ways than one; a beautiful man invites those who want him to do whatever they wish with his unconscious body; and a gay couple meets what appear to be the younger versions of themselves, and learns that history can indeed repeat itself.…