random house uk ltd sep 2010 (12 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Brilliantly paced, lit with sparks of danger and underlying menace, these are dazzling, provocative stories about Svengali men, and radical women who outmanoeuvre them, about destructive marriages and curdled friendships, about mothers and sons, about moments which change or haunt a life. Alice Munro takes on complex, even harrowing emotions and events, and renders them into stories that surprise, amaze and shed light on the unpredictable ways we accommodate to what happens in our lives. A wife and mother, whose spirit has been crushed, finds release from her extraordinary pain in the most unlikely place. The young victim of a humiliating seduction (which involves reading Housman in the nude) finds an unusual way to get her own back and move on. An older woman, dying of cancer, weaves a poisonous story to save her life. Other stories uncover the 'deep holes' in marriage and their consequences, the dangerous intimacy of girls and the cruelty of children. The long title story follows Sophia Kovalevsky, a late nineteenth-century Russian emigree and mathematical genius, as she takes a fateful winter journey that begins with a visit to her lover on the Riviera, and ends in Sweden, where she is a professor at the only university willing to hire a woman to teach her subject. Munro's unsettling stories turn lives into art, expand our world and our understanding of the strange workings of the human heart.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - These are beguiling, provocative stories about manipulative men and the women who outwit them.'Brimming with intensely believable characters and rich social detail' Sunday TimesA wife and mother whose spirit has been crushed finds release from her extraordinary pain in the most unlikely of places. The young victim of a humiliating seduction finds an unusual way to get her own back and move on. An older woman, dying of cancer, weaves a poisonous story to save her life. Alice Munro takes on complex, even harrowing emotions and events and renders them into stories that surprise, amaze, and shed light on the unpredictable ways we accommodate to what happens in our lives.Winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureWinner of the Man Booker International Prize 2009.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Mit 'Im Sommer' gewährt uns J. M. Coetzee überraschend Einblick in seine entscheidenden Lehrjahre als Schriftsteller. Aus Amerika zurückgekehrt, tuscheln die Verwandten hinter seinem Rücken: warum lebt er nur wieder hier in Südafrika bei seinem Vater und betoniert den Hof Den Kopf voll Büchern und wilden Plänen, eine akademische Karriere, die nicht ins Laufen kommt, eine verheiratete Frau, die von dem rätselhaften Langhaarigen fasziniert ist, eine brasilianische Tänzerin, deren Tochter Nachhilfe braucht, schließlich die Cousine Margot und ein missglückter Ausflug ins Veld, der großen offenen Steppe, in der die Coetzee schon immer ihr Vieh hüteten.Voller Ironie und Witz dreht Coetzee die Erzählperspektive um: nicht er schildert die Geschichte, sondern ein junger Autor, der ihn nie kennengelernt hat, aber nun an seiner Biographie schreibt. Um Stoff zu gewinnen, interviewt er die Frauen dieses Sommers. Auf seinem Tonband sammeln sich ungeschminkte Porträts eines Künstlers als junger Mann, der über sein eigenes Begehren stolpert, aber schließlich die Stimme findet, deren Unbestechlichkeit wir so bewundern.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Brilliantly paced, lit with sparks of danger and underlying menace, these are dazzling, provocative stories about Svengali men, and radical women who outmanoeuvre them, about destructive marriages and curdled friendships, about mothers and sons, about moments which change or haunt a life. Alice Munro takes on complex, even harrowing emotions and events, and renders them into stories that surprise, amaze and shed light on the unpredictable ways we accommodate to what happens in our lives. A wife and mother, whose spirit has been crushed, finds release from her extraordinary pain in the most unlikely place. The young victim of a humiliating seduction (which involves reading Housman in the nude) finds an unusual way to get her own back and move on. An older woman, dying of cancer, weaves a poisonous story to save her life. Other stories uncover the 'deep holes' in marriage and their consequences, the dangerous intimacy of girls and the cruelty of children. The long title story follows Sophia Kovalevsky, a late nineteenth-century Russian emigree and mathematical genius, as she takes a fateful winter journey that begins with a visit to her lover on the Riviera, and ends in Sweden, where she is a professor at the only university willing to hire a woman to teach her subject. Munro's unsettling stories turn lives into art, expand our world and our understanding of the strange workings of the human heart. 303 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Brilliantly paced, lit with sparks of danger and underlying menace, these are dazzling, provocative stories about Svengali men, and radical women who outmanoeuvre them, about destructive marriages and curdled friendships, about mothers and sons, about moments which change or haunt a life. Alice Munro takes on complex, even harrowing emotions and events, and renders them into stories that surprise, amaze and shed light on the unpredictable ways we accommodate to what happens in our lives. A wife and mother, whose spirit has been crushed, finds release from her extraordinary pain in the most unlikely place. The young victim of a humiliating seduction (which involves reading Housman in the nude) finds an unusual way to get her own back and move on. An older woman, dying of cancer, weaves a poisonous story to save her life. Other stories uncover the 'deep holes' in marriage and their consequences, the dangerous intimacy of girls and the cruelty of children. The long title story follows Sophia Kovalevsky, a late nineteenth-century Russian emigree and mathematical genius, as she takes a fateful winter journey that begins with a visit to her lover on the Riviera, and ends in Sweden, where she is a professor at the only university willing to hire a woman to teach her subject. Munro's unsettling stories turn lives into art, expand our world and our understanding of the strange workings of the human heart. 303 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Mit 'Im Sommer' gewährt uns J. M. Coetzee überraschend Einblick in seine entscheidenden Lehrjahre als Schriftsteller. Aus Amerika zurückgekehrt, tuscheln die Verwandten hinter seinem Rücken: warum lebt er nur wieder hier in Südafrika bei seinem Vater und betoniert den Hof Den Kopf voll Büchern und wilden Plänen, eine akademische Karriere, die nicht ins Laufen kommt, eine verheiratete Frau, die von dem rätselhaften Langhaarigen fasziniert ist, eine brasilianische Tänzerin, deren Tochter Nachhilfe braucht, schließlich die Cousine Margot und ein missglückter Ausflug ins Veld, der großen offenen Steppe, in der die Coetzee schon immer ihr Vieh hüteten.Voller Ironie und Witz dreht Coetzee die Erzählperspektive um: nicht er schildert die Geschichte, sondern ein junger Autor, der ihn nie kennengelernt hat, aber nun an seiner Biographie schreibt. Um Stoff zu gewinnen, interviewt er die Frauen dieses Sommers. Auf seinem Tonband sammeln sich ungeschminkte Porträts eines Künstlers als junger Mann, der über sein eigenes Begehren stolpert, aber schließlich die Stimme findet, deren Unbestechlichkeit wir so bewundern. 266 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Mit 'Im Sommer' gewährt uns J. M. Coetzee überraschend Einblick in seine entscheidenden Lehrjahre als Schriftsteller. Aus Amerika zurückgekehrt, tuscheln die Verwandten hinter seinem Rücken: warum lebt er nur wieder hier in Südafrika bei seinem Vater und betoniert den Hof Den Kopf voll Büchern und wilden Plänen, eine akademische Karriere, die nicht ins Laufen kommt, eine verheiratete Frau, die von dem rätselhaften Langhaarigen fasziniert ist, eine brasilianische Tänzerin, deren Tochter Nachhilfe braucht, schließlich die Cousine Margot und ein missglückter Ausflug ins Veld, der großen offenen Steppe, in der die Coetzee schon immer ihr Vieh hüteten.Voller Ironie und Witz dreht Coetzee die Erzählperspektive um: nicht er schildert die Geschichte, sondern ein junger Autor, der ihn nie kennengelernt hat, aber nun an seiner Biographie schreibt. Um Stoff zu gewinnen, interviewt er die Frauen dieses Sommers. Auf seinem Tonband sammeln sich ungeschminkte Porträts eines Künstlers als junger Mann, der über sein eigenes Begehren stolpert, aber schließlich die Stimme findet, deren Unbestechlichkeit wir so bewundern. 266 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -A brilliant, compelling new collection from the winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2009. A wife and mother, whose spirit has been crushed, finds release from her extraordinary pain in the most unlikely place. The young victim of a humiliating seduction finds an unusual way to get her own back. An older woman, dying of cancer, weaves a poisonous story to save her life. Alice Munro takes on complex, even harrowing emotions and events, and renders them into stories that surprise, amaze and shed light on the unpredictable ways we accommodate to what happens in our lives.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -These are beguiling, provocative stories about manipulative men and the women who outwit them.'Brimming with intensely believable characters and rich social detail' Sunday TimesA wife and mother whose spirit has been crushed finds release from her extraordinary pain in the most unlikely of places. The young victim of a humiliating seduction finds an unusual way to get her own back and move on. An older woman, dying of cancer, weaves a poisonous story to save her life. Alice Munro takes on complex, even harrowing emotions and events and renders them into stories that surprise, amaze, and shed light on the unpredictable ways we accommodate to what happens in our lives.Winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureWinner of the Man Booker International Prize 2009 303 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -These are beguiling, provocative stories about manipulative men and the women who outwit them.'Brimming with intensely believable characters and rich social detail' Sunday TimesA wife and mother whose spirit has been crushed finds release from her extraordinary pain in the most unlikely of places. The young victim of a humiliating seduction finds an unusual way to get her own back and move on. An older woman, dying of cancer, weaves a poisonous story to save her life. Alice Munro takes on complex, even harrowing emotions and events and renders them into stories that surprise, amaze, and shed light on the unpredictable ways we accommodate to what happens in our lives.Winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureWinner of the Man Booker International Prize 2009 303 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -A brilliant, compelling new collection from the winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2009. A wife and mother, whose spirit has been crushed, finds release from her extraordinary pain in the most unlikely place. The young victim of a humiliating seduction finds an unusual way to get her own back. An older woman, dying of cancer, weaves a poisonous story to save her life. Alice Munro takes on complex, even harrowing emotions and events, and renders them into stories that surprise, amaze and shed light on the unpredictable ways we accommodate to what happens in our lives.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -A young English biographer is working on a book about the late writer, John Coetzee. He plans to focus on a period in the seventies when, the biographer senses, Coetzee was 'finding his feet as a writer'. He embarks on a series of interviews with people who were important to Coetzee - a married woman with whom he had an affair, his favourite cousin Margot, a Brazilian dancer whose daughter had English lessons with him, former friends and colleagues. Thus emerges a portrait of the young Coetzee as an awkward, bookish individual, regarded as an outsider within the family. His insistence on doing manual work, his long hair and beard, and rumours that he writes poetry evoke nothing but suspicion in the South Africa of the time.