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Von Benjamin Cheever erzählte Bücher

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  • The Secret Society of Demolition Writers

    Stories

    What would you write if no one knew who you were?In the spirit of the demolition derby, where drivers take heedless risks with reckless abandon, welcome to the first convocation of the Secret Society of Demolition Writers. Here is a one-of-a-kind collection by famous authors writing anonymously–and dangerously. With the usual concerns about reputations and renown cast aside, these twelve … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 7,91

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    The Good Nanny

    Erzählt von George K. Wilson …

    Ungekürzt

    8 Stunden 47 Min.

    Expert satirist Benjamin Cheever, author of Famous After Death, uses his dark sense of humor to deliver another searing look at suburbia. Literary editor Stuart Cross and his wife Andie, a film critic, hire the talented Louise to be nanny to their two young girls. Louise's perfection, however, begins to irritate the ambitious, but less accomplished Stuart and Andie, and soon the parents' jealousy … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 20,27

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    Famous After Death

    Erzählt von Johnny Heller …

    Ungekürzt

    6 Stunden 9 Min.

    A brilliant and wickedly comic novel about fame and its discontents.Noel Hammersmith has two dreams: to bring his weight down to a slim 138 pounds and to be famous. Despite being a diet book editor and exercising regularly, he can't lose a pound, and his hilarious timidity insures that he has a hard time getting attention at all, let alone fame.To express his growing frustration, Noel begins to … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 20,27

  • Le lettere

    von John Cheever …
    Übersetzt von Tommaso Pincio …
    “Conservare una lettera è come cercare di preservare un bacio” diceva John Cheever per esortare parenti e amici a gettare quelle che lui scriveva. E proprio perché convinto che i destinatari gli avrebbero dato ascolto, il Cechov dell’America suburbana ha confidato per lettera pensieri e timori, eventi importanti e cose di tutti i giorni, e lo ha fatto con un candore, una freschezza, un senso dell … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 19,99

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    Drinking in America

    Our Secret History

    von Susan Cheever …
    Erzählt von Barbara Benjamin Creel …

    Ungekürzt

    9 Stunden 1 Min.

    In Drinking in America, bestselling author Susan Cheever chronicles our national love affair with liquor, taking a long, thoughtful look at the way alcohol has changed our nation's history. This is the often-overlooked story of how alcohol has shaped American events and the American character from the seventeenth to the twentieth century.Seen through the lens of alcoholism, American history takes … Lesen Sie mehr

    Zuvor € 24,99 Jetzt € 21,99

  • The Wapshot Chronicle

    von John Cheever …
    There is Captain Leander Wapshot, venerable sea-dog and would-be suicide; his licentious older son, Moses; and Moses's adoring and errant younger brother, Coverly. Tragic and funny, ribald and splendidly picaresque, and partly based on Cheever's adolescence in New England, The Wapshot Chronicle is a family narrative in the finest traditions of Trollope, Dickens, and Henry James … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 1,10

  • The Swimmer

    von John Cheever …
    Here is the preface to 12 magnificent stories, originally part of The John Cheever Audio Collection, in which John Cheever celebrates - with unequaled grace and tenderness - the deepest feelings we have.As Cheever writes in his preface, "These stories seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York was still filled with a river light, when you heard the Benny Goodman … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 1,12

  • American Bloomsbury

    Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau: Their Lives, Their Loves, Their Work

    von Susan Cheever …
    Even the most devoted readers of nineteenth-century American literature often assume that the men and women behind the masterpieces were as dull and staid as the era's static daguerreotypes. Susan Cheever's latest work, however, brings new life to the well-known literary personages who produced such cherished works as The Scarlet Letter, Moby-Dick, Walden, and Little Women. Rendering in full color … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 13,21

  • Cronache della famiglia Wapshot

    von John Cheever …
    Übersetzt von Vanni De Simone …
    “John Cheever è un incantato realista, i suoi romanzi sono incomparabili” Philip Roth Sembra tutto normale a St Botolphs, un villaggio di pescatori saldamente piantato nel Massachusetts e in tutto ciò che quello stato verde, ricco e tradizionale rappresenta per gli Stati Uniti. Sembra normale la florida famiglia Wapshot. Sembra normale la vita del lupo di mare Leander Wapshot e dei suoi figli, l … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 6,99

  • Il nuotatore

    von John Cheever …
    Cosa c'è di più avventuroso, in una pigra giornata di sole, che decidere di attraversare tutta la contea a nuoto? Ned ha appena scoperto e battezzato il fiume Lucinda: un corso d'acqua composto da tutte le piscine e i rigagnoli che collegano la casa dei Westerhazy, di cui è ospite, a casa propria. Perché, si dice Ned, in una così pigra e piacevole giornata d'estate non tentare l'impresa, piscina … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 0,99

  • The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

    The heartwarming Richard and Judy Book Club favourite

    von Aimee Bender …
    _______________________________On the eve of her ninth birthday, Rose Edelstein bites into her mother's homemade lemon-chocolate cake and discovers she has a magical gift: she can taste her mother's emotions in the slice. All at once her cheerful, can-do mother tastes of despair and desperation. Suddenly, and for the rest of her life, food becomes perilous. Anything can be revealed at any meal … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 8,99

  • Bullet Park

    von John Cheever …
    Eliot Nailles e Paul Hammer: due uomini, due archetipi prigionieri della cabala del loro cognome (nail e hammer sono, in inglese, rispettivamente chiodo e martello). Uno è un marito innamorato e un padre affettuoso, l’altro un bastardo psicotico, perduto in un mondo che non sa che farsene di tipi come lui. Il palcoscenico del loro dramma magnetico e irresistibile è il sobborgo di Bullet Park … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 6,99