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  • The Stories of Frederick Busch

    de Frederick Busch ...
    A selection of short stories from a twentieth-century "American master" (Dan Cryer, Newsday).A contemporary of Ann Beattie and Tobias Wolff, Frederick Busch was a master craftsman of the form; his subjects were single-event moments in so-called ordinary life. The stories in this volume, selected by Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout, are tales of families trying to heal their wounds, save ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Western Coast

    A Novel

    de Paula Fox ...
    America and the catastrophic world of twentieth-century war, mass murder, and horror are the backdrop of this story of Annie Gianfala, a young woman who finds herself cast adrift in Hollywood with World War II looming.Defending herself with despairing stubbornness against personal catastrophe, she is able to save her life and escape. "Enormously touching and wholly believable."— Washington Post ... Leer más

    $17.29 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • A Dangerous Profession

    A Book About the Writing Life

    de Frederick Busch ...
    Frederick Busch has an enduring love affair with great books, and here he brilliantly communicates his passion to us all. Whether expounding on Melville or Dickens, or celebrating Hemingway or O'Hara, he explains what literature can ineffably reveal about our own lives. For Busch, there was no other recourse save the "dangerous profession;" it was to be his calling, and in these piercing essays, ... Leer más

    $12.39 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Girls

    A Novel

    de Frederick Busch ...
    A New York Times Notable BookIn the unrelenting cold and bitter winter of upstate New York, Jack and his wife, Fanny, are trying to cope with the desperate sorrow they feel over the death of their young daughter. The loss forms a chasm in their relationship as Jack, a sardonic Vietnam vet, looks for a way to heal them both.Then, in a nearby town, a fourteen-year-old girl disappears somewhere ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • The Night Inspector

    A Novel

    de Frederick Busch ...
    An immensely powerful story, The Night Inspector follows the extraordinary life of William Bartholomew, a maimed veteran of the Civil War, as he returns from the battlefields to New York City, bent on reversing his fortunes. It is there he meets Jessie, a Creole prostitute who engages him in a venture that has its origins in the complexities and despair of the conflict he has left behind. He also ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • A Tale of Two Cities

    de Charles Dickens, A.N. Wilson ...
    The French Revolution comes to vivid life in Charles Dickens's famous novel about the best of times and the worst of times...The storming of the Bastille…the death carts with their doomed human cargo…the swift drop of the guillotine blade—this is the French Revolution that Charles Dickens vividly captures in his famous work A Tale of Two Cities. With dramatic eloquence, he brings to life a time of ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD

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    Disponible también en: Audiolibros

  • Oliver Twist

    de Charles Dickens, Edward Le Comte ...
    One of the great novelist’s most popular works, Oliver Twist is also the purest distillation of Dickens’s genius.This tale of the orphan who is reared in a workhouse and runs away to London is a novel of social protest, a morality tale, and a detective story. Oliver Twist presents some of the most sinister characters in Dickens: the master thief, Fagin; the leering Artful Dodger; the murderer, ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibros

    Disponible también en: Audiolibros

  • Hard Times

    de Charles Dickens, Jane Smiley ...
    Dickens’s scathing portrait of Victorian industrial society.Coketown, the depressed mill town that is the setting for one of Charles Dickens’s most powerful and unforgettable novels, is all brick, machinery, and smoke-darkened chimneys. Its emblematic citizen, the schoolmaster Thomas Gradgrind, lives to impose his version of education: facts and statistics that feed the mind while starving the ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibros

    Disponible también en: Audiolibros

  • Nord

    Traducido por Stéphanie Levet ...
    de Frederick Busch ...
    "Voilà Jack, l’ancien flic qui dans Filles enquêtait sur la disparition d’une adolescente, de retour chez lui, dans le nord de l’État de New York. Désormais déchu au rang de vigile dans un complexe hôtelier de la côte de Caroline, il se voit proposer par une avocate qu’il sauve des griffes d’un gigolo un travail du genre de ceux qu’il a autrefois pratiqués : rechercher son jeune neveu parti se ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Why I Like This Story

    de Jackson R. Bryer, Diana Wagman, Doris Betts, Doris Grumbach, E. Annie Proulx, Edmund Keeley, Edward Kelsey Moore, Elizabeth Spencer, Ellen Douglas, Elliot Ackerman0, Frederick Busch1, A. R. Gurney2, George Garrett3, Herbert Gold4, Howard Norman5, Jack Greer6, Jane Hamilton7, Jill McCorkle8, Joan Silber9, Joanna Scott0, Joyce Kornblatt1, Alan Cheuse2, Julia Alvarez3, Julia Glass4, Kao Kalia Yang5, Kate Christensen6, Lee K. Abbott7, Leslie Pietrzyk8, Mako Yoshikawa9, Mary Kay Zuravleff0, Mary Lee Settle1, Maud Casey2, Alice McDermott3, Molly Giles4, Nicholas Delbanco5, Olga Grushin6, Pamela Erens7, R. H. W. Dillard8, Richard Bausch9, Rilla Askew0, Rion Amilcar Scott1, Sabina Murray2, Susan Coll3, Andre Dubus4, William H. Gass5, Andrea Barrett6, Ann Beattie7, Beverly Lowry8, Clarence Major9 ...
    On the assumption that John Updike was correct when he asserted, in a 1978 letter to Joyce Carol Oates, that "Nobody can read like a writer," Why I Like This Story presents brief essays by forty-eight leading American writers on their favorite American short stories, explaining why they like them. The essays, which are personal, not scholarly, not only tell us much about the story selected, they ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Filles

    de Frederick Busch ...
    Traducido por Nadia Akrouf ...
    Parce que sa vie lui échappe, parce que sa petite fille de quelques mois est morte et que son couple se désagrège, parce qu’il va mal, Jack, ancien flic devenu vigile à l’université, accepte d’enquêter sur la disparition d’une adolescente, Janice Tanner. Quelque temps plus tard, une autre fillette disparaît... Autour de Jack, s’étend l’interminable hiver nord-américain, la neige qui recouvre tout ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

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    de James Sallis ...
    Traducido por Stéphanie Estournet, Élisabeth Guinsbourg ...
    Series Libro 2 - Les enquêtes de Lew Griffin
    Une petite fille prématurée, abandonnée par sa mère droguée, se meurt dans sa couveuse. Qui pourrait rester insensible à une telle tragédie? Lew Griffin a beau avoir renoncé à son métier de privé pour se consacrer à l’écriture, il se doit de partir à la recherche d’Alouette pour la ramener auprès de son bébé. Des quartiers les plus sordides de La Nouvelle-Orléans au Sud profond et rural, là où l ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD