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Editore: Vintage Publishing Apr 2009, 2009
ISBN 10: 0099529947ISBN 13: 9780099529941
Da: Smartbuy, Einbeck, Germania
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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY ANDREY KURKOVA rich, successful Moscow professor befriends a stray dog and attempts a scientific first by transplanting into it the testicles and pituitary gland of a recently deceased man. A distinctly worryingly human animal is now on the loose, and the professor's hitherto respectable life becomes a nightmare beyond endurance. An absurd and superbly comic story, this classic novel can also be read as a fierce parable of the Russian Revolution. 144 pp. Englisch.
Editore: Vintage Publishing Apr 2009, 2009
ISBN 10: 0099526190ISBN 13: 9780099526193
Da: Smartbuy, Einbeck, Germania
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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - It is left to Noel to call for the help of sometime-detective and full-time psychoanalyst Mrs Bradley, who sets out on an unnervingly unorthodox investigation into the mysterious pregnancy, an investigation that also takes in a smuggler, the village lunatic, a missing corpse, a public pillory, an exhumation and, of course, a murderer. 288 pp. Deutsch.
Editore: Vintage Publishing Apr 2009, 2009
ISBN 10: 0099526158ISBN 13: 9780099526155
Da: Smartbuy, Einbeck, Germania
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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional'A compelling mediation on the power of running and a fascinating insight into the life of this internationally bestselling writer. A perfect reading companion for runners.In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Murakami began running to keep fit. A year later, he'd completed a solo course from Athens to Marathon, and now, after dozens of such races, he reflects upon the influence the sport has had on his life and on his writing.Equal parts travelogue, training log and reminiscence, this revealing memoir covers his four-month preparation for the 2005 New York City Marathon and settings ranging from Tokyo's Jingu Gaien gardens, where he once shared the course with an Olympian, to the Charles River in Boston.By turns funny and sobering, playful and philosophical, this is a must-read for fans of this masterful yet private writer as well as for the exploding population of athletes who find similar satisfaction in distance running.\*Murakami's new book Novelist as a Vocation is available now\*'There can never have been a book quite like this memoir of running and writing before. In its self-contained way, it's nothing less than an inspiration' Evening Standard'Hugely enjoyable.You don't have to have run a marathon to be captivated' Sunday Telegraph'Comical, charming and philosophical.an excellent memoir' GQ 192 pp. Englisch.
Editore: Vintage Publishing Apr 2009, 2009
ISBN 10: 009951589XISBN 13: 9780099515890
Da: Smartbuy, Einbeck, Germania
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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This workplace novel was the winner of the Betty Trask Award 2008. This is the story of Paul Rainey, a barely-functioning alcoholic who loses his advertising job, finds himself working a supermarket nightshift and fighting a battle of sexual jealousy with his neighbour and store manager, Martin. 'Wonderfully dark' 'The Times'. Huge proof mailing. 352 pp. Deutsch.
Editore: Vintage Publishing Apr 2009, 2009
ISBN 10: 0099518937ISBN 13: 9780099518938
Da: Smartbuy, Einbeck, Germania
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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year' Becky Sharp is a poor orphan when she first makes friends with the lovely Amelia Sedley at Miss Pinkerton's Academy for Young Ladies. She may not have the natural advantages of her companion but she more than makes up for it with her wit, charm, deviousness and determination to make a success of herself in the world, whatever the cost. Vanity Fair is the story of anti-hero Becky's spectacular rise and fall as she gambles, manipulates and seduces her way through high society against the backdrop of Waterloo and the Napoleonic wars. 768 pp. Deutsch.
Editore: Vintage Publishing Apr 2009, 2009
ISBN 10: 0099526220ISBN 13: 9780099526223
Da: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germania
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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Sayers. When psychoanalyst and detective Mrs Bradley's grandson finds an old diary in her rented cottage it attracts the interest of this most unconventional of detectives, for the book's owner - now deceased - was once suspected of the murders of both her aunt and cousin.
Editore: Vintage Publishing Apr 2009, 2009
ISBN 10: 0099523736ISBN 13: 9780099523734
Da: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germania
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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Making peace in Northern Ireland was the greatest success of the Blair government, and one of the greatest achievements in British politics since the Second World War. In Jonathan Powell's masterly account we learn just how close the talks leading to the Good Friday agreement came to collapse and how the parties finally reached a deal.Pithy, outspoken and precise, Powell, Tony Blair's chief of staff and chief negotiator, gives us that rarest of things, a true insider's account of politics at the highest level. He demonstrates how the events in Northern Ireland have valuable lessons for those seeking to end conflict in other parts of the world and shows us how the process of making peace is sometimes messy and often blackly comic.
Editore: Vintage Publishing Apr 2009, 2009
ISBN 10: 0099536072ISBN 13: 9780099536079
Da: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germania
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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Rough Crossings is the astonishing story of the struggle to freedom by thousands of African-American slaves who fled the plantations to fight behind British lines in the American War of Independence. With gripping, powerfully vivid story-telling, Simon Schama follows the escaped blacks into the fires of the war, and into freezing, inhospitable Nova Scotia where many who had served the Crown were betrayed in their promises to receive land at the war's end. Their fate became entwined with British abolitionists: inspirational figures such as Granville Sharp, the flute-playing father-figure of slave freedom, and John Clarkson, the 'Moses' of this great exodus, who accompanied the blacks on their final rough crossing to Africa, where they hoped that freedom would finally greet them.
Editore: Vintage Publishing Apr 2009, 2009
ISBN 10: 0099526239ISBN 13: 9780099526230
Da: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germania
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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYRediscover Gladys Mitchell â ¿ one of the 'Big Three' female crime fiction writers alongside Agatha Christie and Dorothy L.