Isbn: 9780006551133 - visible worlds: winner of the ethel wilson prize 1998 (9 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Two stories from distant worlds make up this book. In the farming country of Winnipeg, two brothers grow up and part in the 1930s, while Fika has lost her companions to a frosty death and she must ski for a month to reach civilization on the other side of the North Pole. Will she survive. …

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Visible Worlds This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Mesmerizing storytelling, great themes embodied and hidden in the workings of realistic relationships and lives, precise language and a strong whiff of the uncanny -- a magnificent novel. * A moving and memorable epic tale that spans decades and continents to bring us the riches of one family's history of intertwined lives. * In the farming country of Winnipeg, two brothers grow up and apart in the 1930s, gravitating towards a parent each as mother and father themselves find a changing climate in world affairs reaching out to their rural backwater and prising them asunder.* Exhaustion is crippling FIka at the icecap; it's midwinter 1960, and she's lost her companions to a frosty death, can barely carry her lifeblood, and must still ski for a month yet to reach civilization on the other side of the North Pole. Will she survive? Where will she find the will? * Quite how these two gripping tales on their separate sides of the globe unfold and come together as mesmerizingly as they do is the beauty and the accomplishment of this magical epic. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. …

Zustand: Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Zustand: Used; Very Good. Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. Though second-hand, the book is still in very good shape. Minimal signs of usage may include very minor creasing on the cover or on the spine.

Zustand: good. Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Reprint; First Printing. Light reading and cover creases, minor shelf wear, slight foxing to endpapers and edges of reading block. ; First printing of Flamingo paperback edition with full number line, 1999. Nice tight copy, no names inside. Cover photo courtesy of Getty Images/John Beatty and John Warden. ; 336 pages; Albrecht and Gerhard are twins brought up in rural Canada during the 1930s. One of them is dispatched to Germany to study music and gets caught up with the Hitler Youth movement. The other, quieter one, leads a voyeuristic existence, trying to make sense of the lives of his parents and their friends. There is a lot to make sense of. His father believes in a wierd science known as Personal Magnetism and takes a clairvoyant for his mistress. His mother is haunted by the spectre of an earlier love affair and an abandoned child. And what about Fika, the young Russian woman who, in a parallel narrative, is busy trying to ski across the ice-cap to Canada in 1960.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. 294 pages. Cover worn. Text tanned.Mesmerizing storytelling, great themes embodied and hidden in the workings of realistic relationships and lives, precise language and a strong whiff of the u ncanny - a magnificent novel. A moving and memorable epic tale that spans decad es and continents to bring us the riches of one family's history of intertwined lives. In the farming country of Winnipeg, two brothers grow up and apart in th e 1930s, gravitating towards a parent each as mother and father themselves find a changing climate in world affairs reaching out to their rural backwater and pr ising them asunder. Exhaustion is crippling FIka at the icecap; it's midwinte r 1960, and she's lost her companions to a frosty death, can barely carry her li feblood, and must still ski for a month yet to reach civilization on the other s ide of the North Pole. Will she survive? Where will she find the will? Quite ho w these two gripping tales on their separate sides of the globe unfold and come together as mesmerizingly as they do is the beauty and the accomplishment of thi s magical epic. Amazon Review Marilyn Bowering's Visible Worlds introduces at l east 12 characters, cuts from Winnipeg to Siberia to the North Pole, shifts back and forth in time from 1960 to 1934 and depicts three crucial deaths. And that' s just the first 14 pages. There's more to come--much more--in this book that ta kes on the Great Depression, World War II and the Korean War, exploring their ef fects on three improbably intertwined families. The plot's remarkable contortion s are too labyrinthine to describe here, but suffice to say they involve meteors , Nazis, several dead, deformed and abandoned babies, personal magnetism, labour camps, polar exploration, the Odd Fellows, circus performers and lots and lots.…