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  • How the Dead Live

    av Will Self ...
    Serie serie Will Self
    Will Self possesses one of the greatest literary imaginations of any writer working today. How the Dead Live is his most extraordinary book yet—a novel that will challenge, entertain, and truly astonish.Lily Bloom is an aging American transplanted to England who has lost her battle with cancer and lies wasting away at the Royal Ear Hospital. As her two daughters—lumpy Charlotte, who runs a hugely ... Läs mer

    81,08 kr

  • Great Apes

    av Will Self ...
    Serie serie Will Self
    Some people lost their sense of proportion, others their sense of scale, but Simon Dykes, a middle-aged, successful London painter, has lost his sense of perspective in a most disturbing fashion. After a night of routine, pedestrian debauchery, traipsing from toilet to toilet, and imbibing a host of narcotics on the way, Simon wakes up cuddled in his girlfriend’s loving arms. Much to his dismay, ... Läs mer

    81,08 kr

  • The Sweet Smell of Psychosis

    A Novella

    av Will Self ...
    Serie serie Will Self
    A brief and brilliant satire of magazine hacks and fashionistas, The Sweet Smell of Psychosis shows Will Self-a writer hailed by Time as brilliant, iconoclastic . . . one of Britain’s most original young writers”-at the top of his form. It looks like it’s going to be quite a Christmas for Richard Hermes, powdered with cocaine and whining with the white noise of urban derangement. Not so much ... Läs mer

    67,62 kr

  • Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys

    av Will Self ...
    Serie serie Will Self
    Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys is a new collection of cork-screwed tales from the author of Great Apes. The Guardian (London) describes Will Self as a wayward genius,” and you can find out why when you observe the author’s pitiless dissection of the foibles of men, women, and the Volvo 760 Turbo.Self’s world is a no-funhouse of warped mirrors. A man is seduced into a misanthropically ... Läs mer

    74,30 kr

  • Grey Area

    av Will Self ...
    Serie serie Will Self
    Will Self, whom the Los Angeles Times calls the hottest young novelist in England,” demonstrates his razor-sharp wit in these nine new stories. Self’s method depends upon taking an ordinary aspect of the world and then pushing it to its limit in furious absurdity. The short stories in Grey Area reflect the technical brilliance and satiric voice that have made him one of the most highly praised ... Läs mer

    86,17 kr

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  • Pastoralia

    av George Saunders ...
    'Saunders is an astoundingly tuned voice - graceful, dark, authentic and funny - telling just the kind of stories we need to get us through these times' Thomas PynchonIn PASTORALIA elements of contemporary life are twisted, merged and amplified into a slightly skewed version of modern America. A couple live and work in a caveman theme-park, where speaking is an instantly punishable offence. A born ... Läs mer

    105,35 kr

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  • How Shall I Know You?

    av Hilary Mantel ...
    An unforgettable, unnerving short story about a writer’s life from one of today’s greatest writers – extracted from her upcoming collection, THE ASSASSINATION OF MARGARET THATCHER.“One summer at the fag-end of the nineties, I had to go out of London to talk to a literary society, of the sort that must have been old-fashioned when the previous century closed. When the day came, I wondered why I’d ... Läs mer

    19,81 kr

  • The Sweet Smell of Psychosis

    reissued

    av Will Self ...
    Thrust into the seedy underworld of hack reporters and Soho drinking dens, young Richard Hermes is skidding down a cocaine slope of self-destruction in pursuit of the impossibly beautiful socialite-cum-columnist Ursula Bentley. But between Richard and his object of desire stands his omnipresent nemesis, the lubricious Bell, doyen of late night radio shows, provider of drugs and gossip, and ... Läs mer

    79,28 kr

  • The Quantity Theory of Insanity

    Reissued

    av Will Self ...
    This is the sparkling debut with which Will Self burst onto the literary scene. In it, we discover a superhumanly dull tribe of Amazonians, the terrible, seductive secret of Ward 9 and why you are right to think that London is full of dead people.Full of his trademark jagged-edge satire and dark wit, The Quantity Theory of Insanity is acerbic, hilarious and, most of all, utterly unique in its ... Läs mer

    105,35 kr

  • Ones a poner time

    av Ilsa Evans ...
    There are certain moments studded throughout our lives where events embed memories that last the distance. Not just the obvious, like births, deaths and marriages, but also the smaller, less overtly impactful ones, which glue our past to our present to our future. The minutiae that solidify us. It may be as inconsequential as a conversation, a meal, or the sun-speckled image of a six-year old ... Läs mer

    44,37 kr eller gratis med Kobo Plus

  • The Scent of Dried Roses

    One family and the end of English Suburbia - an elegy

    av Tim Lott ...
    Serie serie Penguin Modern Classics
    Tim Lott's parents, Jack and Jean, met at the Empire Snooker Hall, Ealing, in 1951, in a world that to him now seems 'as strange as China'. In this extraordinarily moving exploration of his parents' lives, his mother's inexplicable suicide in her late fifties and his own bouts of depression, Tim Lott conjures up the pebble-dashed home of his childhood and the rapidly changing landscape of postwar ... Läs mer

    112,77 kr

  • The Dumb House

    av John Burnside ...
    As a child, Luke’s mother often tells him the story of the Dumb House, an experiment on newborn babies raised in silence, designed to test the innateness of language.As Luke grows up, his interest in language and the delicate balance of life and death leads to amateur dissections of small animals – tiny hearts revealed still pumping, as life trickles away. But as an adult, following the death of ... Läs mer

    101,43 kr