Editore: Macmillan Publishers International, Picador Mär 2020, 2020
ISBN 10: 1509889159 ISBN 13: 9781509889150
Da: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germania
Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - For fans of Mrs Hemingway and The Paris Wife, Whitney Scharer's The Age of Light is the riveting, vivid and powerful story of the photographer Lee Miller and her lover, Man Ray.Model. Muse. Lover. Artist.Paris, 1929. Lee Miller has abandoned her life in New York and a modelling career at Vogue to pursue her dream of becoming a photographer. When she catches the eye of artist Man Ray she convinces him to hire her as his assistant. Man is an egotistical, charismatic force and they soon embark upon a passionate affair.Lee and Man spend their days working closely in the studio and their nights at smoky cabarets and wild parties. But as Lee begins to assert herself, and to create pioneering work of her own, Man's jealousy spirals out of control and leads to a betrayal that threatens to destroy them both . . .'Powerful, sensual and gripping' - Madeleine Miller, author of Circe'Fans of Mrs Hemingway and The Paris Wife will love this one' - Elle.
Editore: Picador USA Mär 2020, 2020
ISBN 10: 1250234891 ISBN 13: 9781250234896
Da: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germania
Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In The End of the End of the Earth, which gathers essays and speeches written mostly in the past five years, Jonathan Franzen returns with renewed vigor to the themes - both human and literary - that have long preoccupied him. Whether exploring his complex relationship with his uncle, recounting his young adulthood in New York, or offering an illuminating look at the global seabird crisis, these pieces contain all the wit and disabused realism that we've come to expect from Franzen. Taken together, these essays trace the progress of a unique and mature mind wrestling with itself, with literature, and with some of the most important issues of our day, made more pressing by the current political milieu. The End of the End of the Earth is remarkable, provocative, and necessary.
Editore: PICADOR Mär 2020, 2020
ISBN 10: 1509898158 ISBN 13: 9781509898152
Da: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germania
Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Jack Chalmers is a man of few words, married to a woman of many. He and Bet have been together for seventy years - almost a lifetime - and happily so, for the most part.All Jack and Bet want is to enjoy the rest of their days in the flat they have tried to make their home. Their son Tommy has other ideas: he wants them to live somewhere with round-the-clock care, hot meals, activities.When they strike up an unlikely friendship with Marinela, a young Romanian woman, Bet thinks she has found the perfect solution - one that could change Marinela's life as well as theirs. But this means revisiting an old love affair, and confronting a long-buried secret she has kept hidden from everyone, even Jack, for many years . . .Tender, moving and beautifully told, Jack and Bet is an unforgettable novel about love and loss, the joys and regrets of a long marriage, and the struggle to find a place to call home.
Editore: Picador USA Mär 2020, 2020
ISBN 10: 1250251109 ISBN 13: 9781250251107
Da: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germania
Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In The Twice-Born, Aatish Taseer embarks on a journey of self-discovery in an intoxicating, unsettling personal reckoning with modern India, where ancient customs collide with the contemporary politics of revivalism and revengeWhen Aatish Taseer first came to Benares, the spiritual capital of Hinduism, he was eighteen, the Westernized child of an Indian journalist and a Pakistani politician, raised among the intellectual and cultural elite of New Delhi. Nearly two decades later, Taseer leaves his life in Manhattan to go in search of the Brahmins, wanting to understand his own estrangement from India through their ties to tradition.Known as the twice-born-first into the flesh, and again when initiated into their vocation-the Brahmins are a caste devoted to sacred learning. But what Taseer finds in Benares, the holy city of death also known as Varanasi, is a window on an India as internally fractured as his own continent-bridging identity. At every turn, the seductive, homogenizing force of modernity collides with the insistent presence of the past. In a globalized world, to be modern is to renounce India-and yet the tide of nationalism is rising, heralded by cries of 'Victory to Mother India!' and an outbreak of anti-Muslim violence.From the narrow streets of the temple town to a Modi rally in Delhi, among the blossoming cotton trees and the bathers and burning corpses of the Ganges, Taseer struggles to reconcile magic with reason, faith in tradition with hope for the future and the brutalities of the caste system, all the while challenging his own myths about himself, his past, and his countries old and new.
Editore: Picador USA Mär 2020, 2020
ISBN 10: 1250251060 ISBN 13: 9781250251060
Da: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germania
Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'Scapellato's blend of existential noir, absurdist humor, literary fiction, and surreal exploration of performance art merges into something special. . . . The Made-Up Man is a rare novel that is simultaneously smart and entertaining.' -Gabino Iglesias, NPRStanley had known it was a mistake to accept his uncle Lech's offer to apartment-sit in Prague-he'd known it was one of Lech's proposals, a thinly veiled setup for some invasive, potentially dangerous performance art project. But whatever Lech had planned for Stanley, it would get him to Prague and maybe offer a chance to make things right with T after his failed attempt to propose. Stanley can take it. He can ignore their hijinks, resist being drafted into their evolving, darkening script. As the operation unfolds it becomes clear there's more to this performance than he expected; they know more about Stanley's state of mind than he knows himself. He may be able to step over chalk outlines in the hallway, may be able to turn away from the women acting as his mother or the men performing as his father, but when a man made up to look like Stanley begins to play out his most devastating memory, he won't be able to stand outside this imitation of his life any longer.Immediately and wholly immersive, Joseph Scapellato's debut novel, The Made-Up Man, is a hilarious examination of art's role in self-knowledge, a sinister send-up of self-deception, and a big-hearted investigation into the cast of characters necessary to help us finally meet ourselves.
Editore: PICADOR Mär 2020, 2020
ISBN 10: 1529032466 ISBN 13: 9781529032468
Da: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germania
Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A moving depiction of the bond between parent and child, set in wartime Poland. The debut novel from the author of the memoir 'If A Tree Falls: A Family's Quest To Hear & Be Heard'.
Editore: PICADOR Mär 2020, 2020
ISBN 10: 1509829881 ISBN 13: 9781509829880
Da: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germania
Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'McMonagle is back with a magical cracker, a new novel glistening as its historic sobriquet, ghosting the threadbare auditoria of the world.' Patrick McCabe, author of The Butcher Boy'An irresistible comedy of delusion and hope against self-sabotaging hope . . . Compulsively readable, painfully funny.' Luke Kennard, author of The Transition'A wonderful observation of love and loss, the over-whelming voice of unfulfilled dreams, and brilliantly excavates the trauma of grief we carry.' Elaine Feeney, author of As You Were'Alan McMonagle's comic prose is entirely his own and told with an unerring musicality.' Paul Lynch, author of Grace'Heartbreaking, warm, funny, relevant and insightful.' Lisa Harding, author of Harvesting.
Editore: Picador USA Mär 2020, 2020
ISBN 10: 1250254868 ISBN 13: 9781250254863
Da: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germania
Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Best known for The Berlin Stories-the inspiration for the Tony and Academy Award-winning musical Cabaret-Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986) was a major figure in twentieth-century fiction and the gay rights movement. Where Joy Resides is the perfect introduction to the author's essential writings.This collection presents two complete novels, Prater Violet and A Single Man; episodes from three other novels, Goodbye to Berlin, Down There on a Visit, and Lions and Shadows; along with excerpts from Isherwood's nonfiction works, Exhumations, Kathleen and Frank, and My Guru and His Disciple.