Gefunden 4 Dokumente.
The Importance of being earnest & other plays
Oxford : Macmillan Collector's Library, 2017
Titel / Autor: The Importance of being earnest & other plays
Veröffentlichung: Oxford : Macmillan Collector's Library, 2017
Physische Beschreibung: 472 Seiten ; 16 cm
ISBN: 9781509827848
Datum:2017
Sprache: Englisch (Sprache des Textes, der Filmmusik usw.)
New York : Pantheon Books, [2017]
Titel / Autor: Autumn / Ali Smith
Veröffentlichung: New York : Pantheon Books, [2017]
Physische Beschreibung: 264 Seiten ; 22 cm
ISBN: 978-1-101-87073-0
Datum:2017
Sprache: Englisch (Sprache des Textes, der Filmmusik usw.)
Abstract: "From the Man Booker-shortlisted and Baileys Prize-winning author of How to be both: a breathtakingly inventive new novel--about aging, time, love, and stories themselves--that launches an extraordinary quartet of books called Seasonal. Readers love Ali Smith's novels for their peerless innovation and their joyful celebration of language and life. Her newest, Autumn, has all of these qualities in spades, and--good news for fans!--is the first installment in a quartet. Seasonal, comprised of four stand-alone books, separate yet interconnected and cyclical (as are the seasons), explores what time is, how we experience it, and the recurring markers in the shapes our lives take and in our ways with narrative. Fusing Keatsian mists and mellow fruitfulness with the vitality, the immediacy, and the color hit of Pop Art, Autumn is a witty excavation of the present by the past. The novel is a stripped-branches take on popular culture and a meditation, in a world growing ever more bordered and exclusive, on what richness and worth are, what harvest means"--
Exit west : a novel / Mohsin Hamid
New York : Riverhead Books, 2017
Titel / Autor: Exit west : a novel / Mohsin Hamid
Veröffentlichung: New York : Riverhead Books, 2017
Physische Beschreibung: 231 Seiten ; 22 cm
ISBN: 978-0-7352-1217-6
Datum:2017
Sprache: Englisch (Sprache des Textes, der Filmmusik usw.)
First American edition
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2017, [2015]
A Borzoi book
Titel / Autor: Number 11 / Jonathan Coe
First American edition
Veröffentlichung: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2017, [2015]
Physische Beschreibung: 333 Seiten ; 25 cm
Reihen: A Borzoi book
ISBN: 978-0-451-49336-1
Datum:2017
Sprache: Englisch (Sprache des Textes, der Filmmusik usw.)
Abstract: "Jonathan Coe finally provides a sequel to The Winshaw Legacy, the 1995 novel that introduced American readers to one of Britain's most exciting new writers -- an acerbic, hilariously dark, and unflinching portrait of modern society. In Number 11, Coe has filled his intricate plot with a truly Dickensian cast of characters. The novel opens in the early aughts with two ten-year-old girls, Alison and Rachel, and their frightening encounter with the "Mad Bird Woman," a mysterious figure who lives down the road. As the narrative progresses through time, the novel broadens in scope toward other people who are somehow connected to the two girls. We follow the trials and tribulations of Alison's mother, a has-been singer, as she competes on TV's reality hit I'm a Celebrity.. Get Me Out of Here! Rachel's university mentor confronts her late husband's disastrously obsessive search for an untraceable German film he saw as a child. A young police constable investigates the seemingly accidental and unrelated deaths of two stand-up comedians. And when Rachel becomes a nanny for ludicrously wealthy family, she discovers a dark and terrifying secret lying beneath their immense mansion in London's most staggeringly expensive neighborhood. Combining psychological insight, social commentary, vicious satire, and even surrealist horror, this highly accomplished work holds a revealing and disquieting mirror up to the world we live in today"--