Verlag: Granta Publications Ltd, United Kingdom, London, 2007
ISBN 10: 0903141965 ISBN 13: 9780903141963
Sprache: Englisch
Anbieter: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Vereinigtes Königreich
Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. This title contains: Richard Ford interviewed by Tim Adams: the aftermath of Dirty Realism; Owen Sheers on the consequences of Christmas Island's nuclear past; Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on the death of her high-school sweetheart; Katya Krausova on the survivors of the Slovakian Holocaust; Roberto Saviano on the streets of Naples; and Kitty Hauser on OGS Crawford: pioneering aerial photographer, utopian socialist and English eccentric. It also contains fiction by Josh Weil, Gemini Wahhaj and Helon Habila; Photo essays in colour: Joel Sternfeld's New York street scenes and in B/w: Dayanita Singh on an unusual pioneering Indian photographer - her mother. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Granta Publications Ltd, United Kingdom, London, 2023
ISBN 10: 180351003X ISBN 13: 9781803510033
Sprache: Englisch
Anbieter: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Vereinigtes Königreich
Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 'Reads like a brilliant miniseries . has the narrative intensity of Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections and the emotional punch of Siri Hustvedt's What I Loved.' Observer Harold Silver has spent a lifetime watching his taller, smarter, and more successful younger brother George acquire a covetable wife, two kids, and a beautiful home in New York City. But Harry also knows his brother has a murderous temper. When George loses control the result is an act of violence so shocking that both brothers are hurled into entirely new lives in which they both must seek absolution. Suddenly Harry finds himself playing parent to his brother's two adolescent children, tumbling down a rabbit hole of online sex, and dealing with aging parents who move through life like travellers on a fantastic voyage. And he is forced to confront the ways in which our histories can either compel us to repeat our mistakes - or become the catalyst for change. May We Be Forgiven is a darkly funny tale exploring how one deeply fractured family might begin to put itself back together. 'An unflinching account of a catastrophic, violent, black-comic, transformative year in the history of one broken American family. Flat-out amazing' Salman Rushdie. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Verlag: Granta Publications Ltd, London, 2024
ISBN 10: 1803510196 ISBN 13: 9781803510194
Sprache: Englisch
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. 'I love this book. Put your life on hold while you finish it' Maggie O'FarrellA suspenseful and chilling novel of haunted landscapes and a teenage girl in danger.Seventeen-year-old Silvie is camping in rural Northumberland with her father and a group of archaeologists, who are attempting to uncover evidence of human sacrifice. As Silvie glimpses the possibility of freedom with the students - new female friendships and a sexual awakening - her difficult relationship with her overbearing father begins to deteriorate. As the feelings of dread build the haunting rites of the past begin to bleed into the present.'This book ratcheted the breath out of me so skilfully, that as soon as I'd finished, the only thing I wanted was to read it again' Jessie Burton'An instant classic' Emma Donoghue'I loved it' Bernadine Evaristo INCLUDED IN THE BEST OF GRANTA SERIES: a powerful and chilling novel of haunted landscapes, rites of the past and a teenage girl in danger Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: Granta Publications Ltd, London, 2024
ISBN 10: 1803510013 ISBN 13: 9781803510019
Sprache: Englisch
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023NAMED AS ONE OF GRANTA MAGAZINE'S BEST OF YOUNG BRITISH NOVELISTS 2023A powerful, compressed masterwork for fans of Shirley Jackson and Claire-Louise BennettA woman moves from the place of her birth to a remote northern country to be housekeeper to her brother, whose wife has just left him. The youngest child of many siblings - more than she cares to remember - from earliest childhood she has attended to their every desire, smoothed away the slightest discomfort with perfect obedience, with the highest degree of devotion. The country, it transpires, is the country of their family's ancestors, an obscure though reviled people.Soon after she arrives, a series of unfortunate events occurs - collective bovine hysteria; the demise of a ewe and her nearly-born lamb; a local dog's phantom pregnancy; the containment of domestic fowl; a potato blight. She notices that the local suspicion about incomers in general seems to be directed particularly in her case. What is clear is that she is being accused of wrongdoing, but in a language she cannot understand and so cannot address. And however diligently and silently she toils in service of the community, still she feels their hostility growing, pressing at the edges of her brother's property.Inside the house, although she tends to her brother and his home with the utmost care and attention, he too begins to fall ill. A powerful, compressed masterwork that explores questions of complicity, power and devotion - from one of Granta magazine's Best of Young British Novelists 2023 Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: Granta Publications Ltd, London, 2000
ISBN 10: 0903141345 ISBN 13: 9780903141345
Sprache: Englisch
Anbieter: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Vereinigtes Königreich
paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. Slight shelf wear. Volume discounts available - please email for more information. Clean Copy.
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Verlag: Granta Publications Ltd, London, 1996
ISBN 10: 0903141035 ISBN 13: 9780903141031
Sprache: Englisch
Anbieter: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Vereinigtes Königreich
paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. Slight shelf wear. Volume discounts available - please email for more information. Clean Copy.
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Verlag: Granta Publications Ltd, London, 1998
ISBN 10: 0903141183 ISBN 13: 9780903141185
Sprache: Englisch
Anbieter: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Vereinigtes Königreich
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paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. No Earlier Edition Stated. Slight shelf wear. Volume discounts available - please email for more information. Clean Copy.
Verlag: Granta Publications Ltd, London, 2023
ISBN 10: 1803510048 ISBN 13: 9781803510040
Sprache: Englisch
Anbieter: Grand Eagle Retail, Fairfield, OH, USA
Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship in Madrid, struggling to establish his sense of self and his attitude towards art. Fuelled by strong coffee and self-prescribed tranquillizers, Adam's 'research' soon becomes a meditation on the possibility of authenticity, as he finds himself increasingly troubled by the uncrossable distance between himself and the world around him. It's not just his imperfect grasp of Spanish, but the underlying suspicion that his relationships, his reactions, and his entire personality are just as fraudulent as his poetry. Included in the BEST OF GRANTA launch list for 2023: this story of a young American abroad and adrift is a hilarious, intelligent cult classic, from one of the most celebrated contemporary novelists. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: Granta Publications Ltd, London, 2023
ISBN 10: 1915051045 ISBN 13: 9781915051042
Sprache: Englisch
Anbieter: Grand Eagle Retail, Fairfield, OH, USA
Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. A speculative-poetic work from the Forward Prize-winning, T.S. Eliot shortlisted author of RENDANG.At the heart of Brother Poem is a sequence addressed to a fictional brother. Through these fragments, Will Harris attempts to reckon with the past while mourning what never existed.The text moves, cloud-like, through states of consciousness, beings and geographies, to create a moving portrait of contemporary anxieties around language and the need to communicate. With pronominal shifts, broken dialogisms, and obsessive feedback loops, it reflects on the fictions we tell ourselves, and in our attempts to live up to the demands of others.From a dimension uncannily like our own, intuited through signs, whispers, and glitches, Brother Poem is shadowed by the loss of what can't be seen. Telling stories of bizarre familial reckonings and difficult relationships, about love and living with others, it is a deeply sensitive coming-of-age poetics. A speculative-poetic work from the Forward Prize-winning, T.S. Eliot shortlisted author of RENDANG Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Verlag: Granta Publications Ltd, London, 2022
ISBN 10: 1915051002 ISBN 13: 9781915051004
Sprache: Englisch
Anbieter: Grand Eagle Retail, Fairfield, OH, USA
Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Witty and wide-ranging, Heritage Aesthetics draws from Anthony's family'smigratory histories - between Cyprus and the UK - to interrogate patriarchy,xenophobia and national divides. Spanning from the British Empire to thecontemporary moment, Anaxagorou unpacks the travelogues of colonialwriters and military men alongside experiences of racism in the present.Yet this collection never settles into being 'about' identity or contemporaryculture. Anthony's adept, eviscerating eye continues to complicate - looking athow perception is shaped, how we perform our politics, and how we love whatis hard to love. Offering no easy answers, Anaxagorou instead calls for adeeper interrogation of the ways in which we're living and performing.Fearless, intensely honest and hopeful, Heritage Aesthetics merges Anthony'sgift for performance and his brilliant experimentation with form to create avivid insistence to communicate a self in the world. The third collection from the award-winning author ofAfter the Formalities, tackling migration, identity andhistory. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: Granta Publications Ltd, London, 2024
ISBN 10: 1803510021 ISBN 13: 9781803510026
Sprache: Englisch
Anbieter: Grand Eagle Retail, Fairfield, OH, USA
Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE, a darkly funny, offbeat western about a reluctant assassin and his murderous brother.'The Sisters Brothers confirms deWitt as one of the most talented young writers around' Sunday TimesHermann Kermit Warm is going to die. Across 1000 miles of Oregon desert his assassins, the notorious Eli and Charlies Sisters, ride - fighting, shooting, and drinking their way to Sacramento. But their prey isn't an easy mark, the road is long and bloody, and somewhere along the path Eli begins to question what he does for a living - and who he does it for.Filled with a remarkable cast of losers, cheaters, and ne'er-do-wells from all stripes of life - and told by a complex and compelling narrator, it is a violent, lustful odyssey through the underworld of the 1850s frontier. It beautifully captures the humour, melancholy, and grit of the Old West, through a tale of two brothers bound by blood, violence, and love.'Superb . deWitt has ensured another unforgettable pair their place in fictive lore' Sunday TelegraphNOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING JAKE GYLLENHAAL, JOHN C. REILLY AND JOAQUIN PHOENIX Included in the BEST OF GRANTA series: deWitt's dazzlingly original novel is a darkly funny, offbeat western about a reluctant assassin and his murderous brother, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: Granta Publications Ltd, London, 2023
ISBN 10: 1915051061 ISBN 13: 9781915051066
Sprache: Englisch
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. We Play Here is a collection of four poem-stories, taking place in an underdeveloped area of Protestant North Belfast in the summer of 1988, against a background of political turbulence during the Troubles. Written from the perspectives of four female friends in the months between finishing primary school and starting high school, the girls inhabit an eerie, elemental landscape of normalised violence, poverty and neglect.This is a lyrical and graceful evocation of working-class girlhood that rings of Elena Ferrante's studies of female friendships in the Neapolitan novels, Didier Eribon's Returning to Reims, and Annie Ernaux's The Years. It is a radical approach to girlhood and girl-friendships, the kind of skewered space before an imposition of gender, or before the trappings of gender make themselves strongly known. Innocence is tinged here with a kind of hidden menace. Four female friends navigate the political turbulence of North Belfast in the late 80s in this extraordinary, evocative verse novel. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: Granta Publications Ltd, London, 2024
ISBN 10: 1803510188 ISBN 13: 9781803510187
Sprache: Englisch
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. 'The funniest book I've read in a long time: its deadpan, dry humour and its accumulation of absurdities will leave you rolling on your floor with laughter' The TimesShe thought she was a lover of the great classics of Russian literature - until she met the superfans.Roaming from Tashkent to San Francisco, this is the true story of one budding writer's strange encounters with the fanatics who are devoted - absurdly! melancholically! ecstatically! - to the Russian classics. Combining fresh readings of the great Russians from Tolstoy to Dostoevsky with the sad and funny stories of the lives they continue to influence, The Possessed is comic, humane, charming, poignant and full of an infectious love for literature.'Dazzlingly good . very bookish, very clever and very funny. a preposterously engaging volume' Jane Shilling, Sunday Telegraph'The highest compliment you can pay such a book is that it sends you back to the original authors refreshed. I can go one higher - I found myself simply wanting to read more from Elif Batuman' Evening Standard'An intoxicating mix of travel memoir, autobiography, literary criticism and philosophy. Charming and hilarious' Daily Telegraph Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: Granta Publications Ltd, London, 2023
ISBN 10: 1803510080 ISBN 13: 9781803510088
Sprache: Englisch
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. 'Powerful and brilliant . Straw Dogs challenges all our assumptions about what it is to be human, and convincingly shows that most of them are delusions.' - J. G. Ballard From Plato to Christianity, from the Enlightenment to Nietzsche, the Western tradition has been based on arrogant and erroneous beliefs about human beings and their place in the world. In his radical work of philosophy John Gray sets out to challenge our most cherished assumptions about what it means to be human.Philosophies such as liberalism and Marxism enthrone humankind as a species whose destiny is to transcend natural limits and conquer the Earth. Even in the present day, despite Darwin's discoveries, nearly all schools of thought take as their starting point the belief that humans are radically different from other animals. John Gray argues that this belief in human difference is a dangerous illusion and explores how the world and human life look once humanism has been finally abandoned. The result is an exhilarating, sometimes disturbing book that leads the reader to question our deepest-held beliefs. Included in the BEST OF GRANTA launch list for 2023: an exciting, radical work of philosophy that challenges our most cherished assumptions about what it means to be human Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: Granta Publications Ltd, London, 2024
ISBN 10: 1803510242 ISBN 13: 9781803510248
Sprache: Englisch
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. 'A moving and extraordinary evocation of the 20th-century tragedy of China. compelling' GuardianSHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION AND THE MAN BOOKER PRIZEIn Canada in 1991, ten-year-old Marie and her mother invite a guest into their home. Ai- Ming has fled China in the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square protests.As her relationship with Marie deepens, Ai-Ming tells the story of her family in revolutionary China, from the crowded teahouses in the first days of Chairman Mao's ascent to the Beijing demonstrations of 1989. And she speaks of three musicians - the shy and brilliant composer Sparrow, the violin prodigy Zhuli, and the enigmatic pianist Kai - who struggled during China's relentless Cultural Revolution to remain loyal to one another and to the music they have devoted their lives to. Their fates reverberate through the years, with deep and lasting consequences for Ai-Ming - and for Marie.Do Not Say We Have Nothing magnificently brings to life one of the most significant political regimes of the 20th century and its traumatic legacy.'A magnificent epic of Chinese history, richly detailed and beautifully written' Kate Saunders, The Times INCLUDED IN THE BEST OF GRANTA SERIES: an epic novel about the far-reaching effects of China's revolutionary history, told through the stories of two interlinked musical families, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: Granta Publications Ltd, London, 2023
ISBN 10: 1803510498 ISBN 13: 9781803510491
Sprache: Englisch
Anbieter: Grand Eagle Retail, Fairfield, OH, USA
Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. How did a small-minded, low-level KGB operative come to control the world's largest country and, in an astonishingly short time, destroy years of progress, making Russia once more a threat to her own people and to the world? Masha Gessen shows that when Vladimir Putin, an unimportant, low-level KGB operative, was rushed to power by a group of Oligarchs in 1999, he was a man without a history. Yet within a few brief years, he had dismantled Russia's media, wrested control and wealth from the country's burgeoning business class, and decimated the fragile mechanisms of democracy. Virtually every opposing voice was silenced, with political rivals and critics driven into exile or to the grave. Drawing on information and sources no other writer has tapped, Masha Gessen's fearless account charts Putin's rise from the boy who had scrapped his way through post-war Leningrad schoolyards. Now the 'faceless' man who manoeuvred his way into absolute - and absolutely corrupt - power, has become a threat to the stability of the world, and this important book is more relevant than ever. A brave and revelatory account of how a small-minded, low-level KGB operative came to control the world's largest country and, in an astonishingly short time, destroyed years of progress, making Russia once more a threat to her own people and to the world - now with a new preface Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: Granta Publications Ltd, London, 2024
ISBN 10: 1915051096 ISBN 13: 9781915051097
Sprache: Englisch
Anbieter: Grand Eagle Retail, Fairfield, OH, USA
Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. An extraordinary and playful debut collection by one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists, exploring the joy and fluidity of queer love.An interrogation of the erotic and romantic becomes refracted, as though through a prism, towards beings, lovers, states, objects, landscapes, systems, in K Patrick's ground-breaking debut book of poems. These are notes towards a contemporary queer experience that emerge from the body, dodging and playing with logic to create a brand new poetics. Patrick's subversive and distinct poetic manoeuvres through a marriage and a subsequent divorce, nature writing and 20th Century literary figures with agility, delicacy, candour, and humour.By turns both innovative and empathetic, Three Births documents the absurdity of obsessive desires, giving room to states of flux and flow in the body, relationships, ecology and place. George Michael, the history of inches, the ache that lives behind a 'rigid seam': a high-wire linguistic utopia is put forward in Patrick's easy-going, cool and ironic tone, which zaps with syntactic-synaptic wildness. Three Births culminates in the subtle but powerful message that we should be able to inhabit the body we want to inhabit and love freely within this. An extraordinary and playful debut collection by one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists, exploring the joy and fluidity of queer love. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: Granta Publications Ltd, London, 2021
ISBN 10: 1783783982 ISBN 13: 9781783783984
Sprache: Englisch
Softcover. Zustand: Near Fine. A nice, clean copy. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 382 pages.
Verlag: Granta Publications Ltd, London, 1997
ISBN 10: 1862070067 ISBN 13: 9781862070066
Sprache: Englisch
Anbieter: Barter Books Ltd, Alnwick, NORTH, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: IOBA
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Black hardback cloth cover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. VG : in very good condition with dust jacket. Spine of jacket faded. 240mm x 160mm (9" x 6"). 266pp.
Verlag: Granta Publications Ltd, London, 2023
ISBN 10: 1915051088 ISBN 13: 9781915051080
Sprache: Englisch
Anbieter: Grand Eagle Retail, Fairfield, OH, USA
Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. The Lights is a constellation of verse and prose, voice memos and vignettes, songs and silences, that brings the personal and the collective into startling relation. These are poems at once alive to the forces that shape human society and to the rhythms of the natural world, to the power of new technologies and the wonder of our timeless planet. Sometimes the scale is intimate and quiet and sometimes the poems are sweeping, Orphic experiments in the 'collectivization of feeling': 'I want everybody out there to sing along, even the stones.'Written over a span of fifteen years, The Lights records the pleasures, risks, and absurdities of making art and family and meaning against a backdrop of interlocking, accelerating crises. And, even while alert to the darkness, it is the light in the book that remains, in dusk, in images from space, in old poems, in power cuts, in the flickering connections between people. From one of the most celebrated writers of his generation, the poems in this collection come to us as beacons, the poems in this collection come to us as beacons, illuminating new possibilities of thought and feeling. From the celebrated author of The Topeka School, a collection of poetry that is dazzlingly intelligent, moving and speaks directly to our complex times. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: Granta Publications Ltd, London, 2024
ISBN 10: 1803510609 ISBN 13: 9781803510606
Sprache: Englisch
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Hardcover. Zustand: new. Hardcover. When Asa's husband is offered a new job away from the city, the couple end up relocating. And since his new office is very close to his family's home, it makes sense to move in next door to his parents.Through the long hot summer, Asa does her best to adjust to their new rural lives, to the constant presence of her in-laws, to the emptiness of her existence and the incessant buzz of cicadas. And then one day, while running an errand for her mother-in-law, she comes across a strange creature, follows it to the embankment of a river, and ends up falling into a hole - a hole that seems to have been made specifically for her.Thus begins a series of bizarre experiences that drive Asa deeper into the mysteries of this rural landscape and the family she has married in to, leading her to question her role in this world and, eventually, who she even is. A woman moves to live with her in-laws in the Japanese countryside in this haunting and surreal novel featuring a mysterious relative, an elusive hairy creature, and lots of strange holes - from the author of Weasels in the Attic Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: Granta Publications Ltd, London, 2023
ISBN 10: 1803510099 ISBN 13: 9781803510095
Sprache: Englisch
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. In Hawaii, a cast of women reckon with physical and emotional alienation, and the toll it takes on their psyches. A childhood encounter with a wild pua'a (boar) on the haunted Pali highway portends one woman's increasingly fraught relationship with her body during pregnancy. A woman recalls an uncanny experience, in which Elvis impersonators take centre stage, to an acquaintance who doesn't yet know just how intimately they're connected. An elderly widow begins seeing her deceased lover in the giant corpse flower a mourner has gifted her.Centering native Hawaiian identity, and how it unfolds in the lives, mind and bodies of kanaka women, the stories in Kakimoto's debut collection are speculative and uncanny, exploring themes of queerness, colonization and desire. Both a fierce love letter to mixed native Hawaiian and Japanese women and a searing dispatch from an occupied territory simmering with tension, Every Drop is a Man's Nightmare takes seriously the superstitions born of the islands. Kakimoto's characters seek pleasure and purpose even in absurd circumstances, often with a surprising sense of humor, and her stories treat Hawai'i as so much more than a postcard from paradise. A stunning collection of stories that weaves Hawaiian mythology with a vivid fabulism and rich sense of place. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: Granta Publications Ltd, London, 2024
ISBN 10: 1803510927 ISBN 13: 9781803510927
Sprache: Englisch
Anbieter: Grand Eagle Retail, Fairfield, OH, USA
Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. 'There is a sense throughout Athill's work that you are making a new friend as much as reading a new story . a delight to read' ObserverWINNER OF THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY PRIZE, the moving and witty memoir on what it means to grow old.Written in her nineties, when she was free from any inhibitions she may have once had, Diana Athill reflects frankly on the losses and occasionally the gains that old age can bring, and on the wisdom and fortitude required to face death.Lively, fearless and humorous, Somewhere Towards the End encapsulates the vibrant final decades of Athill's life. Filled with events, love and friendships, this is a memoir about maintaining hope, joy and vigour in later life, resisting regret, and questioning the beliefs and customs of your own generation.'Informative, honest and lacking in the usual sorrow over old age. A remarkable woman' Beryl Bainbridge'An honest joy to read' Alice Munro'The book is a moving and humorous account of old age, unsparing about its indignities, unflinching from the inevitability that the end can not be many years away, but full of joy at the way life keeps on, at the most unexpected moments, renewing itself' Irish Times'Her brilliant book is entirely lacking in the usual regrets, nostalgia and Hovis-ad recollections of old-timers. It is a little literary gem, penned by a marvellous, feisty old character . What a treasure' Daily Mail Included in the BEST OF GRANTA series: the Costa-award winning memoir on what it means to grow old. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: Granta Publications Ltd, London, 2023
ISBN 10: 1803510366 ISBN 13: 9781803510361
Sprache: Englisch
Anbieter: Grand Eagle Retail, Fairfield, OH, USA
Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Sister Perpetue is not to move. She is not to fall asleep. She is to sit, keeping guard over the patient's room. She has heard the stories of his hunger, which defy belief: that he has eaten all manner of creatures and objects. A child even, if the rumours are to be believed. But it is hard to believe that this slender, frail man is the one they once called The Great Tarare, The Glutton of Lyon.Before, he was just Tarare. Well-meaning and hopelessly curious, born into a world of brawling and sweet cider, to a bereaved mother and a life of slender means. The 18th Century is drawing to a close, unrest grips the heart of France and life in the village is soon shaken. When a sudden act of violence sees Tarare cast out and left for dead, his ferocious appetite is ignited, and it's not long before his extraordinary abilities to eat make him a marvel throughout the land. One man with an insatiable hunger: a novel of desire and destruction in Revolutionary France, based on a true story, from the Desmond Elliott Prize-winning author of The Manningtree Witches. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: Granta Publications Ltd, London, 1990
ISBN 10: 0140140824 ISBN 13: 9780140140828
Sprache: Englisch
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Martin Amis, Kazuo Ishiguro, Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan and Julian Barnes were relatively unknown names in literature when Granta published its first Best of Young British Novelists list in 1983. They did not remain unknown for long. These writers -- along with Pat Barker, Rose Tremain, A.N. Wilson and Adam Mars-Jones -- became the most celebrated voices of their generation. In this anthology, now newly reissued in paperback, allows readers to experience the emerging voices of today's most established writers. The inaugural Best of Young Novelist list, which heralded an extraordinary decade in British fiction. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: Granta Publications Ltd, United Kingdom, London, 2024
ISBN 10: 1803510390 ISBN 13: 9781803510392
Sprache: Englisch
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Which nations have launched which animals into space? Which countries have no sea views? Where were our planet's now-extinct species last sighted? Who is behind the great avocado boom? Where can you hug the world's oldest trees? With infographic maps covering the entire globe, Wild Maps will delight cartography fans and nature lovers, as well as anyone with an interest in all that is fascinating and awe-inspiring on Planet Earth - and beyond. Beautifully designed and illustrated, Wild Maps is an eye-opening celebration of our world, and the plants and animals with whom we share it. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Verlag: Granta Publications Ltd, London, 1997
ISBN 10: 1862070067 ISBN 13: 9781862070066
Sprache: Englisch
Anbieter: Barter Books Ltd, Alnwick, NORTH, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: IOBA
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Black hardback cloth cover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. VG : in very good condition with chipped dust jacket. 240mm x 160mm (9" x 6"). 266pp.
Verlag: Granta Publications Ltd, London, 2024
ISBN 10: 1803511370 ISBN 13: 9781803511375
Sprache: Englisch
Anbieter: Grand Eagle Retail, Fairfield, OH, USA
Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Having married her childhood sweetheart, Riko now finds herself trapped in a relationship that has been soured by infidelity. One day, by chance, she runs into her old friend Mr Takaoka, who offers friendship, love, and an unusual escape: he teaches her the trick of living inside her dreams. And so, each night, she sinks into another life: first as a high-ranking courtesan in the 17th century, and then as a serving lady to a princess in the late Middle Ages. As she experiences desire and heartbreak in the past, so Riko comes to reconsider her life as a 21st century woman, as a wife, as a mother, and as a lover, and to ask herself whether, after loving her husband and loving Mr Takaoka, she is now ready for her third great love. From the bestselling author of Strange Weather in Tokyo, a novel that moves between Japan past and present to tell a time-bending story about desire and destiny. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: Granta Publications Ltd, London, United Kingdom, 2002
ISBN 10: 0903141507 ISBN 13: 9780903141505
Anbieter: Shadow Books, Norwich, Vereinigtes Königreich
Paperback. Zustand: Fine. 254pp.
Verlag: Granta Publications Ltd, London, 2023
ISBN 10: 1803511222 ISBN 13: 9781803511221
Sprache: Englisch
Anbieter: Grand Eagle Retail, Fairfield, OH, USA
Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2023A woman moves from the place of her birth to a remote northern country to be housekeeper to her brother, whose wife has just left him. The youngest child of many siblings - more than she cares to remember - from earliest childhood she has attended to their every desire, smoothed away the slightest discomfort with perfect obedience, with the highest degree of devotion. The country, it transpires, is the country of their family's ancestors, an obscure though reviled people.Soon after she arrives, a series of unfortunate events occurs - collective bovine hysteria; the demise of a ewe and her nearly-born lamb; a local dog's phantom pregnancy; the containment of domestic fowl; a potato blight. She notices that the local suspicion about incomers in general seems to be directed particularly in her case. What is clear is that she is being accused of wrongdoing, but in a language she cannot understand and so cannot address. And however diligently and silently she toils in service of the community, still she feels their hostility growing, pressing at the edges of her brother's property.Inside the house, although she tends to her brother and his home with the utmost care and attention, he too begins to fall ill. A powerful, compressed masterwork that explores questions of complicity, power and devotion Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.