Flamingo australia (12 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. Spine is uncreased.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. Minor Rubbing around the cover.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. Rubbing and marks around the book.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. Rubbing and marks around the book.

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. 360 pages. creased & faded spine, wearI was almost thirteen when the bluebelly Yankee bastards invaded the Valley. I s aw a lot that day They killed Poppa right off, and then they dragged Mother into the front yard before they killed her too. I figure that was the day I first go t the knack of being invisible. From the critically acclaimed author of the Memo ry Cathedral comes a most powerful, haunting and unforgettable novel of the Civi l War. Provocative, poetic, and disturbing, the Silent introduces us to a young narrator whose voice rivals any in literature in bringing poignantly to life the surreal horrors of battle and its spiritual cost to human survival. A ferocious portrait Dann captures the sheer bloody chaos of battle in the civil war A vivi d and disturbing read. Kirkus Reviews.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. 240 pages. Cover worn. Text tanned.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. 512 pages. light wear, faded spine, tanned edges'In this wise, compassionate novel.temby explores the antagonisms, the collision s of culture, and the events that transform' - Glenda Adams. In the autumn of 19 43 Giuseppe Lazaro, an Italian prisoner of war, is dropped into a small rural ou tpost on the edge of the West Australian wheatbelt. He has never seen a place so colourless and flat. He has never met anyone like Max Nash, the young and strug gling owner of the farm. the Nashes slowly accept Giuseppe - or Joe, as they cal l him - into their home, but he discovers there are limits. Max's sister, Eddy, back from nursing Australian soldiers overseas, bitterly resents 'the enemy' eat ing at her family's table. the enforced isolation and intimacy of the farm gradu ally push Eddy and Giuseppe into an uneasy truce. As the months pass Giuseppe's feelings for the prickly young woman grow stronger, bringing him into conflict w ith not only the family and the community, but also with Hal, a neighbour and fa mily friend.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 382 pages. When Frank returns to America in 1953, he works on the docks, always resisting what everyone tells him, that men and women who have dreamed and toiled for year s to get to America should stick to their own kind once they arrive. Somehow, Frank knows that he should be getting an education, and though he left school at fourteen, he talks his way into New York University. There, he falls in love wi th the quintessential Yankee, long-legged and blonde, and tries to live his drea m. But it is not until he starts to teach - and to write - that Frank finds his place in the world.--BOOK JACKET.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. 330 pages. some wear, lightly tanned Based on the true story of the theft of Katherine Mansfield's letters. the life of the New Zealand author Katherine Mansfield poses the central questi on of this exciting new novel by the author of the Green Library. As the tumultu ous life of this seminal author of short stories unfolds, the ordinary lives of those around her, and those contemporary characters who are recounting her story , are also examined. Is genius a justification for the chaos and deceit the grea t writer sows with abandon, and the wreckage it inflicts on the lives of others? What is the value of peace and happiness if they exclude passion and extraordin ary accomplishment? thieves is a tour de force, an accessible, compelling, conci se achievement in fiction.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. 199 pages. insciption on half title -some tanning.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 447 pages. 'a journey across the islamic heartlands-clean tidy copy.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. 267 pages.