grove atlantic feb 1999 (5 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Detective Sergeant Mulheisen finds a link between the fate of Teamster boss Jimmy Hoffa and that of a young saxophonist who disappeared the same week.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The therapist's office remains one of the few private places in our world. On the Couch, a scintillating collection of contemporary American short stories, provides nineteen separate windows onto this intensely private experience, from the heroine in Lorrie Moore's 'If Only Bert Were Here', who cannot recover from the death of her beloved cat (and who lists Haagen-Dazs as a distinct stage of mourning), to the couple in John Updike's 'The Fairy Godfathers', whose passion requires the presence of their respective therapists, to the protagonist of Stephen McCauley's 'The Whole Truth', who can, hilariously, barely keep straight the twisted lies she tells her therapist about her romantic entanglements.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this sixth page-turner in the Detective Sergeant Mulheisen series, Joe Service is again on the run from would-be mob assassins. As dead bodies begin to turn up, Joe struggles to evade Mulheisen's and the mob's detection.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Filled with insights into an enigma' ('USA Today'), 'An Invisible Spectator' chronicles Paul Bowles's life and work--interwoven with vivid depictions of the writer's intimates, including Truman Capote, Gertrude Stein, Allen Ginsberg, and William Burroughs.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - As a young man, Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa, a Zulu from the South African province of Natal, was determined to follow in the footsteps of his grandfather and become a tribal historian in order to keep the rich oral tradition of his culture alive. In this book, begun in response to the injustices against Africans and their culture, he sets these legends down in writing. He begins with the creation myth, when Ninavanhu-Ma, the Great Mother, created the human race. From there, an epic unfolds, an intricate and vivid cultural tapestry populated by gods and mortals, cattle herders and supreme kings, witch doctors, lovers, grave diggers, warriors, and handmaidens. The story continues all the way up to the colonial era, when a Portuguese Kapitanoh and his crew arrive on the African shore. Indaba, My Children is a classic and indispensable resource for anyone interested in the cultural life of Africa and the human experience as it is filtered into myth.