grove atlantic jul 2011 (4 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The legendary writer Patricia Highsmith is best remembered today for her chilling psychological thrillers 'The Talented Mr. Ripley' and 'Strangers on a Train.' A critically acclaimed best seller in Europe, Highsmith has for too long been underappreciated in the United States. Starting in 2011, Grove Press will begin to reissue nine of Highsmith's works. 'Eleven' is Highsmith's first collection of short stories, an arresting group of dark masterpieces of obsession and foreboding, violence and instability. Here naturalists meet gruesome ends and unhinged heroes disturb our sympathies. This is a captivating, important collection from 'one of the truly brilliant short-story writers of the twentieth century' (Otto Penzler). Includes an introduction by Graham Greene.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In a small Pennsylvania town, Robert Forrester is recuperating from a nasty divorce and a bout of psychological trouble. One evening, while driving home, he sees a pretty young woman framed by her bright kitchen window. Soon, he can't keep himself away. But when Robert is inevitably discovered, obsession is turned on its head, and he finds himself unable to shake the young woman, nor entirely sure whether he should. Recently made into a major motion picture starring Julia Stiles and Paddy Considine, 'The Cry of the Owl' is essential Highsmith, a modern classic ready to be reborn.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Five-year-old Eva Farkas is smuggled in a flour sack across the Hungarian border to escape the Nazis. When she returns to politically charged Hungary years later, her relationship with an American teacher deepens as they rescue a child from abuse.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - George-Jacques Danton was the driving force behind the French Revolution, which brought an end to an absolute monarchy that had ruled for nearly one thousand years. In 'The Giant of The French Revolution,' David Lawday reveals the larger-than-life figure who joined the fray at the storming of the Bastille in 1789 at twenty-nine--and was dead five years later. Danton's impassioned speeches drove reformers to action and kept the Revolution alive at the moment when it risked collapse. But he lost his grip against Robespierre's Reign of Terror, becoming another of its victims under the guillotine. In vivid, novelistic prose worthy of a Shakespearean tragedy, Lawday leads us from Danton's humble roots to the streets of Paris, where this political legend acted on the operatic stage of the Revolution that altered Western civilization.