Verlag: Vintage Publishing Apr 2002, 2002
ISBN 10: 0099429160 ISBN 13: 9780099429166
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - When teenager Keith Rosen runs away from his Florida home - inexplicably taking along a motherless baby - his divorced mother is perplexed and terrified. she takes off on her own journey to find him. Turtle Moon follows their path in a suspenseful, beautifully written story that confirms once again the exquisite talent of Alice Hoffman.
Verlag: Vintage Publishing Apr 2002, 2002
ISBN 10: 0099429098 ISBN 13: 9780099429098
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Carel is widowed rector presiding over a London church destroyed during the war. The rectory is home to an array of residents: his daughter, Muriel; his beautiful invalid ward, Elizabeth; their West Indian servant, Pattie; Eugene, a Russian emigre, and his delinquent son, Leo. Carel's brother, Marcus, is co-guardian of Elizabeth, but his attempts to get closer to the rector are constantly rebuffed. These seven characters maintain a constant dance of attraction and repulsion, misunderstanding and revelation, the centre of which is the enigmatic Carel himself - a priest who believes that, God being dead, His angels have been released.
Verlag: Vintage Publishing Apr 2002, 2002
ISBN 10: 0099285924 ISBN 13: 9780099285922
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Welsh is brilliant at what he does. This is his most readable and memorable novel since Trainspotting' Independent on SundayGlue is the story of four boys growing up in the Edinburgh schemes, and about the loyalties, the experiences and the secrets that hold them together into their thirties. As we follow their lives from the 70s into the new century - from punk to techno, from speed to Es - we can see each of them trying to struggle out from under the weight of the conditioning of class and culture, peer pressure and their parents' hopes that maybe their sons will do better than they did. What binds the four of them is the friendship formed by the scheme, their school, and their ambition to escape from both; their loyalty fused in street morality: back up your mates, don't hit women and, most importantly, never grass - on anyone.'His most ambitious, but also his most complete and engaging work to date. arguably, his best book' TLS.
Verlag: Vintage Publishing Apr 2002, 2002
ISBN 10: 0099285339 ISBN 13: 9780099285335
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A new edition of the classic 1970 novel by Murdoch, with a new introduction by Susan Hill. 'The most important novelist writing in my time' A.S. Byatt.
Verlag: Vintage Publishing Apr 2002, 2002
ISBN 10: 0099429128 ISBN 13: 9780099429128
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Saved from a delinquent childhood by education, cheated out of Oxford by a tragic love tangle, Hilary Burde cherishes his obsessive guilt and ekes out a living in a dull civil service job. When the man whom he has harmed and betrayed reappears as head of his department, Hilary hopes for forgiveness, even for redemption and a new life, but finds himself haunted by a ghostly repetition.
Verlag: Vintage Publishing Apr 2002, 2002
ISBN 10: 009942908X ISBN 13: 9780099429081
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Iris Murdoch was born in Dublin in 1919. She read Classics at Somerville College, Oxford, and after working in the Treasury and abroad, was awarded a research studentship in Philosophy at Newnham College, Cambridge. In 1948 she returned to Oxford as fellow and tutor at St Anne¿s College and later taught at the Royal College of Art. Until her death in 1999, she lived in Oxford with her husband, the academic and critic, John Bayley. She was made a Dame of the British Empire in 1987 and in the 1997 PEN Awards received the Gold Pen for Distinguished Service to Literature.
Verlag: Vintage Publishing Apr 2002, 2002
ISBN 10: 0099429551 ISBN 13: 9780099429555
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Reissue. Mitford was a witty, intelligent and often acerbic observer of upper-class English idiosyncracies. She was also an inveterate writer of letters, writing almost daily to the likes of Evelyn Waugh, Harold Action, John Betjeman and Lady Seafield; it is these that lie at the base of this biography, written with the full co-operation of her family and friends.