Isbn: 9780747595601 - novel about my wife (5 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 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: Good. Tom Stone, skinnyish, fortyish, English, is madly in love with his wife Ann, an Australian in self-imposed exile in London. Expecting their first child, they buy a semi-derelict house in Hackney. They believe this is their settled future, despite Tom's stalling career and their spiralling money troubles. But soon Ann becomes convinced she's being shadowed by a local homeless man whose presence seems like a terrible omen. As her pregnancy progresses she spends hours cleaning the house and sits up all night talking with a new feverish passion. As their child grows, so too does Tom's sense of an impending, nameless threat. Their home seems beset with vermin, smells and strange noises. On the verge of losing the house, Tom makes a decision that he hopes will save their lives. 286 pages.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Tom Stone, skinnyish, fortyish, English, is madly in love with his wife Ann, an Australian in self-imposed exile in London. Expecting their first child, they buy a semi-derelict house in Hackney. They believe this is their settled future, despite Tom's stalling career and their spiralling money troubles. But soon Ann becomes convinced she's being shadowed by a local homeless man whose presence seems like a terrible omen. As her pregnancy progresses she spends hours cleaning the house and sits up all night talking with a new feverish passion. As their child grows, so too does Tom's sense of an impending, nameless threat. Their home seems beset with vermin, smells and strange noises. On the verge of losing the house, Tom makes a decision that he hopes will save their lives. Owner's Name inside. 286 pages.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. 271 pages. cover worn & creased, bumped, Text tanned If I could build her again using words, I would: starting at her long, painte d feet and working up, meticulously shading in every cell and gap and space for breath until her pulse just couldn't help but kick back in to life. Her hip bone s, her red knuckles, the soft skin of her thighs, her fine crackle of hair. When Tom and Ann move from their tiny Camden flat into a large semi-derelict hou se in Hackney, it feels like the start of proper adulthood, though both are well into their thirties. Ann's room at St Bartholomew's hospital, coated in plaster -dust from the medical casts she moulds all day is not quite what she had imagin ed when she was a sassy student at the Slade, while Tom's scriptwriting career s eems to have stalled while he tinkers with endless drafts of his vampire movie. But, still deeply in love with his beautiful wife, with a baby on the way and a place of their own, it feels to Tom as though life is on the up. If they sometim es have to rely on credit cards for their weekly shop, well, plenty of aspiratio nal London couples are doing the same. .Ann is galvanised by her pregnancy: h er long hair loose, her elegant body lenta new luscious fullness, she spends hou rs cleaning and reorganising the house, and sits up all night talking with a new feverish passion about sculpture. But there is a darker side to this new fervou r, somehow linked with her conviction that someone is lingering threateningly ar ound their new home. Someone who - Tom soon realises - may not exist at all. Dark, sensuous and utterly compelling, Novel About my Wife is a sexy, chilling n ovel about the secrets that lie at the heart of every marriage.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 271 pages. If I could build her again using words, I would: starting at her long, painte d feet and working up, meticulously shading in every cell and gap and space for breath until her pulse just couldn't help but kick back in to life. Her hip bone s, her red knuckles, the soft skin of her thighs, her fine crackle of hair. When Tom and Ann move from their tiny Camden flat into a large semi-derelict hou se in Hackney, it feels like the start of proper adulthood, though both are well into their thirties. Ann's room at St Bartholomew's hospital, coated in plaster -dust from the medical casts she moulds all day is not quite what she had imagin ed when she was a sassy student at the Slade, while Tom's scriptwriting career s eems to have stalled while he tinkers with endless drafts of his vampire movie. But, still deeply in love with his beautiful wife, with a baby on the way and a place of their own, it feels to Tom as though life is on the up. If they sometim es have to rely on credit cards for their weekly shop, well, plenty of aspiratio nal London couples are doing the same. .Ann is galvanised by her pregnancy: h er long hair loose, her elegant body lenta new luscious fullness, she spends hou rs cleaning and reorganising the house, and sits up all night talking with a new feverish passion about sculpture. But there is a darker side to this new fervou r, somehow linked with her conviction that someone is lingering threateningly ar ound their new home. Someone who - Tom soon realises - may not exist at all. Dark, sensuous and utterly compelling, Novel About my Wife is a sexy, chilling n ovel about the secrets that lie at the heart of every marriage.…