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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 ... En savoir plus

    6,99 €

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    Famous After Death

    Lu par Johnny Heller ...

    Version Longue

    6 heure 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 ... En savoir plus

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    The Good Nanny

    Lu par George K. Wilson ...

    Version Longue

    8 heure 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 ... En savoir plus

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  • Le lettere

    par John Cheever ...
    Traduit par 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 ... En savoir plus

    19,99 €

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    Drinking in America

    Our Secret History

    Version Longue

    9 heure 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 ... En savoir plus

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  • Il nuotatore

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

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  • American Bloomsbury

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

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

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  • Creature ostinate

    par Aimee Bender ...
    Traduit par Martina Testa ...
    Con la sua originale miscela di surrealismo, prosa musicale e potenza emotiva, Aimee Bender è diventata una delle scrittrici di culto della nuova scena letteraria americana. I quindici racconti di questa raccolta sono incroci originalissimi tra la realtà e la fiaba: vi compaiono omini in miniatura tenuti in gabbia come animali da compagnia, piccole patate ambulanti, coppie con la testa a forma di ... En savoir plus

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  • Una specie di solitudine

    I diari

    “Uno dei libri più avvincenti e intimi che vi capiterà mai di leggere” The Independent I diari di John Cheever, scritti dalla fine degli anni quaranta fino alla sua morte nel 1982. Cheever era un uomo pieno di contraddizioni: amava la moglie e i figli, ma si sentiva profondamente solo; amava le donne, ma amava anche gli uomini; si odiava perché aveva il vizio di bere, ma per gran parte della vita ... En savoir plus

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  • I racconti

    “Tanti suoi racconti avrebbero potuto essere romanzi…” Goffredo Fofi Maestro del racconto come misura ideale di investigazione e reinvenzione, John Cheever è stato il riconosciuto testimone di un’America suburbana soffice e torbida, e continua a essere l’implacabile voce-sonda che ha tratto dall’ombra la gestualità rituale e le emozioni malate di una media borghesia chiusa dentro il suo severo ... En savoir plus

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  • The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

    The heartwarming Richard and Judy Book Club favourite

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

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  • The Swimmer

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

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