Sue mccauley (36 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

paperback. Zustand: Good. Penguin Books June 1985.

Zustand: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Back cover creased. 349 pages.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. George -- The Day -- Mia Culpa -- It Could Be You -- Losing -- Notes For Episode Seven -- Trembling Annie -- Arctic Circle -- Said Linda -- The Remarkably Unhumble William Saroyan -- Purple Trousers -- Boots -- Aunt Elly And The Rockbusters -- After Max -- The Married Man -- An Alternative Life -- The National School Of Beauty Therapy -- All Things Are Possible -- Diary Of The Victim -- Distance In Kilometres -- Do -- The Assassin Bug. Sue Mccauley. 199 pages.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hint of foxing and a pen name. While involved with United Nations peacekeeping in the Bosnian town of Zepa, Brent King met Aza Mehmedovic. As the war closed in he realised that he had to smuggle Aza out before the town fell to the Serb militia. Brent negotiated, bent rules and took extraordinary risks for his love.…

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. 174 pages. cover worn. Ex-libraryIn her third novel, the author of Other Halves explores the special magnetism of the music that draws its energy from sources that are socially unacceptable - like sex, drugs and rock'n'roll. It is also a story of growing older and new be ginnings.…

Zustand: New. In English.

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. 349 pages. worn copy, spine frayedThey were all in some sense seeking sanctuary, a respite at least from the pres sures and problems of life on the mainland. They did not arrive together. They w ere not a group. Some had not thought beyond escaping from the past. Others were more intent in working out a future. All though in their different ways were tr ying to find a foothold in the changing tide of male/female relationships. But M otuwairua, Island of the Spirit, was to force them together. As the vegetation g rew with hot-house abandon, as the insects swarmed and flourished, so predilecti ons became obsessions--Page 4 of cover.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. 174 pages. cover worn In her third novel, the author of Other Halves explores the special magnetis m of the music that draws its energy from sources that are socially unacceptable - like sex, drugs and rock'n'roll. It is also a story of growing older and new beginnings.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. 254 pages. page edge tanned and markedTug is an unemployed Maori boy of sixteen - orphaned, badly educated, already in trouble with the police and about to be sucked into the world of hard drugs and violent crime. Liz is a married, middle-class housewife of thirty-four, suff ering from suburban neurosis. Their love affair transcends the barriers of age, class and culture. It is a raw, hard-biting story of astonishing power and vital ity. …

Paperback. Zustand: Good. 349 pages. cover faded, cover corner creased, writing on inside cover, text lightly tannedThey were all in some sense seeking sanctuary, a respite at least from the pres sures and problems of life on the mainland. They did not arrive together. They w ere not a group. Some had not thought beyond escaping from the past. Others were more intent in working out a future. All though in their different ways were tr ying to find a foothold in the changing tide of male/female relationships. But M otuwairua, Island of the Spirit, was to force them together. As the vegetation g rew with hot-house abandon, as the insects swarmed and flourished, so predilecti ons became obsessions--Page 4 of cover.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. 254 pages. Cover very worn, Text tanned.An older woman, a younger boy - a relationship that society still feels awkwa rd about. And she is white and middle-class, he Maori and a street kid.In this p owerful, prize-winning novel of their love, Sue McCauley writes from the heart a nd from the gut, and from experience. She glosses over nothing, and takes her ch aracters back to the bare bones, to where there can be no more hope . . . then l ets their love triumph.Exploring ethnic, gender, age and class differences, this classic novel won both the Wattie Book of the Year Award and the New Zealand Bo ok Award for Fiction.'not only a good love story but also good ethnography' - Ti mes Literary Supplement'Resoundingly every situation clangs of truth' - New Zeal and Times.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. 240 pages. cover creased, spine faded, text lightly tannedProof at last that there is such a thing as true love - only we don't always recognise it when it first appears. It can strike at the worst possible time, or it can happen just when you need it most. From wartime romances to cross-cultru al liaisons, from first encounters to live in the twilight years, and from passi on across the miles to love in adversity, this collection of heart-warming stori es reveals the rich variety of experiences New Zealanders have when falling in l ove. These wonderful, honest stories, all of them true, confirm that love really does exist - and remind you it doesn't always happen exactly as you might expec t.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 352 pages. Dj faded, spine cocked, page edge foxed, text in good conditionFrom Publishers WeeklyIn this ingratiating successor to Other Halves , three families, alike only in vivacity and need, crowd onto a ferry bound for the island of Motuwairua, off the coast of Auckland. The reader's heart is insta ntly captured by Maureen, whose passionate regard for her children exacerbates h er doubts about herself, and by Josiefair, fat and 46and Geoff, unencumbered b y Josie's offspring for the first time in their seven years together. Keith, a l apsed journalist haunted by dreams of madness and death, stands in woeful contra st to the others, with whomquickened now by prospects of renewal on this island of the spirithis fate will become entwined. Before their paths cross, Maureen, estranged from her shiftless husband, shores up the sagging cottage the dole al lows her, Josie and Geoff acquire a couple of lambs and four Shetland ponies, an d Keith settles in with a lesbian feminist squatting in the house lent him by a colleague. But underlying and enriching these physical details are the exuberanc e, the eager, argumentative talk, the warm roundness of people who involve the r eader in their mundane tasks, while lucidly discussing issues of parenting, lesb ian politics and nuclear disaster. By no means a polemic, this sustained narrati ve is alternately tragic and uproariously funny, and always engrossing.Copyr ight 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 362 pages. dj worn & chipped. Shelf wear. name ffep. some foxingOriginally published: Auckland : Hodder and Stoughton, 1986.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. 254 pages. Cover worn and fadedTug is an unemployed Maori boy of sixteen - orphaned, badly educated, already in trouble with the police and about to be sucked into the world of hard drugs and violent crime. Liz is a married, middle-class housewife of thirty-four, suff ering from suburban neurosis. Their love affair transcends the barriers of age, class and culture. It is a raw, hard-biting story of astonishing power and vital ity.--Back cover.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 230 pages. 21 stories about New Zealanders, and love in all its complexity and permutations .

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 240 pages. Proof at last that there is such a thing as true love - only we don't always recognise it when it first appears. It can strike at the worst possible time, or it can happen just when you need it most. From wartime romances to cross-cultru al liaisons, from first encounters to live in the twilight years, and from passi on across the miles to love in adversity, this collection of heart-warming stori es reveals the rich variety of experiences New Zealanders have when falling in l ove. These wonderful, honest stories, all of them true, confirm that love really does exist - and remind you it doesn't always happen exactly as you might expec t.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. 244 pages. spine worn, Cover worn, foxingTug is an unemployed Maori boy of sixteen - orphaned, badly educated, already i n trouble with the police and about to be sucked into the world of hard drugs an d violent crime. She is a married, middle-class housewife of thirty-four, suffer ing from suburban neurosis. Their love affair transcends the barriers of age, cl ass, culture and race.--Back cover.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 352 pages. From Publishers WeeklyIn this ingratiating successor to Other Halves , three families, alike only in vivacity and need, crowd onto a ferry bound for the island of Motuwairua, off the coast of Auckland. The reader's heart is insta ntly captured by Maureen, whose passionate regard for her children exacerbates h er doubts about herself, and by Josiefair, fat and 46and Geoff, unencumbered b y Josie's offspring for the first time in their seven years together. Keith, a l apsed journalist haunted by dreams of madness and death, stands in woeful contra st to the others, with whomquickened now by prospects of renewal on this island of the spirithis fate will become entwined. Before their paths cross, Maureen, estranged from her shiftless husband, shores up the sagging cottage the dole al lows her, Josie and Geoff acquire a couple of lambs and four Shetland ponies, an d Keith settles in with a lesbian feminist squatting in the house lent him by a colleague. But underlying and enriching these physical details are the exuberanc e, the eager, argumentative talk, the warm roundness of people who involve the r eader in their mundane tasks, while lucidly discussing issues of parenting, lesb ian politics and nuclear disaster. By no means a polemic, this sustained narrati ve is alternately tragic and uproariously funny, and always engrossing.Copyr ight 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. …

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 174 pages. In her third novel, the author of Other Halves explores the special magnetism of the music that draws its energy from sources that are socially unacceptable - like sex, drugs and rock'n'roll. It is also a story of growing older and new b eginnings.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 244 pages. Tug is an unemployed Maori boy of sixteen - orphaned, badly educated, already i n trouble with the police and about to be sucked into the world of hard drugs an d violent crime. She is a married, middle-class housewife of thirty-four, suffer ing from suburban neurosis. Their love affair transcends the barriers of age, cl ass, culture and race.--Back cover.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. 240 pages. Light tanning beginning around page edgesWhen Brent King, a young New Zealand pilot, was sent as a UN observer to Sepa in Serb-held Bosnia, he met and fell in love with Aza Mehmedovic, a beautiful l ocal girl. The war closed in on Sepa inexorably, and Brent soon realized that so mehow he would have to arrange for Aza to escape from the ever-tightening grip o f the Serb militia before they finally destroyed the town. It was only through complex and devious negotiations that Brent was able to arrange for Aza to be s muggled out of Zepa - at a price. In return he would have to take extraordinary risks and display raw courage as he bent UN rules until they broke. This both Brent's story of how he orchestrated Aza's escape, told for the first time, and Aza's own story - a harrowing and moving account of what life was really like in a Muslim enclave under siege from the Serbs. Escape From Bosnia is both a real- life love story and a gripping tale of adventure and intrigue: the tenderness an d the suspense are brilliantly captured by award-winning author Sue McCauley.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. 240 pages. clean tidy copyWhen Brent King, a young New Zealand pilot, was sent as a UN observer to Sepa in Serb-held Bosnia, he met and fell in love with Aza Mehmedovic, a beautiful loca l girl. The war closed in on Sepa inexorably, and Brent soon realized that someh ow he would have to arrange for Aza to escape from the ever-tightening grip of t he Serb militia before they finally destroyed the town.It was only through c omplex and devious negotiations that Brent was able to arrange for Aza to be smu ggled out of Zepa - at a price. In return he would have to take extraordinary ri sks and display raw courage as he bent UN rules until they broke.This both B rent's story of how he orchestrated Aza's escape, told for the first time, and A za's own story - a harrowing and moving account of what life was really like in a Muslim enclave under siege from the Serbs. Escape From Bosnia is both a real-l ife love story and a gripping tale of adventure and intrigue: the tenderness and the suspense are brilliantly captured by award-winning author Sue McCauley.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 254 pages. d/j top edge wear, shelf wearTug is an unemployed Maori boy of sixteen - orphaned, badly educated, already i n trouble with the police and about to be sucked into the world of hard drugs an d violent crime. Liz is a married, middle-class housewife of thirty-four, suffer ing from suburban neurosis. Their love affair transcends the barriers of age, cl ass and culture. It is a raw, hard-biting story of astonishing power and vitalit y.--Back cover. …

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Zustand: New. In English.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. 158 pages. Cover worn.