ISBN: 9780679727774 - sleeping in flame (vintage contemporaries) (15 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Walker Easterling is a retired actor turned successful screenwriter living in the Vienna of strong coffee, fascinating friends, and mysterious cafes. When he falls in love with Maris York, a beautiful artist who creates cities, his life becomes alive in fantastic and unsettling ways. As Walker's love for Maris grows, his life gets more and more bizarre-he discovers he can see things happening just before they happen, and at the same time feels an incredibly strong tug from his past-so a friend steers him to Venasque, an odd little man reputed to be a powerful shaman. Venasque helps Walker discover and unravel his many interconnected past lives, and it is soon clear that an unresolved conflict from these past lives has resurfaced, and now threatens to undo Walker and Maris's love. At once lyrical, frightening, funny, and sexy, Sleeping in Flame is a spellbinding tale where reality and fantasy merge in astonishing convolutions of magic and suspense. It confirms that Jonathan Carroll is one of the very few novelists who-by constantly surprising us-give us an entirely new perspective on our world. It is no wonder that he is generally considered to be the most original and provocative novelist of his generation.…

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. Walker Easterling is a retired actor turned successful screenwriter living in the Vienna of strong coffee, fascinating friends, and mysterious cafes. When he falls in love with Maris York, a beautiful artist who creates cities, his life becomes alive in fantastic and unsettling ways. As Walker's love for Maris grows, his life gets more and more bizarre-he discovers he can see things happening just before they happen, and at the same time feels an incredibly strong tug from his past-so a friend steers him to Venasque, an odd little man reputed to be a powerful shaman. Venasque helps Walker discover and unravel his many interconnected past lives, and it is soon clear that an unresolved conflict from these past lives has resurfaced, and now threatens to undo Walker and Maris's love. At once lyrical, frightening, funny, and sexy, Sleeping in Flame is a spellbinding tale where reality and fantasy merge in astonishing convolutions of magic and suspense. It confirms that Jonathan Carroll is one of the very few novelists who-by constantly surprising us-give us an entirely new perspective on our world. It is no wonder that he is generally considered to be the most original and provocative novelist of his generation.…

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Zustand: Very Good. Very Good condition. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.

Zustand: Good. Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.

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

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: Very Good. Reprint. 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.

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

Paperback. Zustand: Used-Very Good. later printing. Pap. Minor shelf-wear.

Zustand: GOOD. First thus- a trade paperback. His fourth novel - a "sophisticated supernatural thriller that collapses the boundary between fantasy and reality." Good in glossy illustrated wrappers (gift inscription, light crease to front cover.).

Zustand: FINE. First thus- a trade paperback. His fourth novel - a "sophisticated supernatural thriller that collapses the boundary between fantasy and reality." Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. First Vintage Contemporaries Edition, July 1990, 3rd printing. Tight copy, unread, w/slight age toning on pages' edges, o/w clean, unmarked, in Very Good condition. "Ricocheting between the haunted chic of Vienna and the mystical crassness of Los Angeles, between the world of desire and the landscape of dreams, SLEEPING IN FLAME is a hypnotic literary novel with irresistible elements of fantasy and magic. It is the story of Walker Easterling, who saves a woman's life only to place her in infinitely greater danger by falling in love with her. It's the story of Maris York, an androgynous beauty who arouses incinerating passions in the men around her. It is a novel populated by a shaman with a fondness for sandwiches, an autistic Adonis, and a tiny man as powerful and ravenously jealous as the God of the Old Testament. Praised by writers ranging from Stanislaw Lem to Stephen King, Jonathan Carroll has made SLEEPING IN FLAME a dizzying tour de force of tenderness and terror, realistic suspense and mythic imagination." [publisher copy] "Jonathan Carroll is a cult waiting to be born, a novelist of rare and terrifying power."--Pat Conroy. "Begins as a straightforward 'serious' novel, laced with psychological insights--[set in] an attractive Vienna locale, [with] a forthright first-person narrator, his talented movie-business friends and a beautiful model with whom he falls in love. [The novel becomes] a fantasy [that] is deft. As writers blend and blur the conventions of genre and mainstream fiction, fascinating hybrids have shown up. SLEEPING IN FLAME [is] part of a healthy trend."--Chicago Tribune. VG mass-market paperback w/sharp corners & crisp edges, bright wrappers & [rare photo of author w/amazonian smirk] a square & tight binding w/no creases in spine.…

Paperback. Zustand: New. In shrink wrap.

paperback. Zustand: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.