knopf doubleday publishing group sep 1992 (5 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this icy, knife s-edge story of a life that progresses backward through time, unfolding into one of the darkest episodes of the 20thcentury, Amis ( at his intriguing, heedful, and powerful best Time Out), finds a chillingly original approach to the Holocaust in fiction From the acclaimed author of Zone of Interest'The narrative moves with irresistible momentum. [Amis is] a daring, exacting writer willing to defy the odds in pursuit of his art.' NewsdayTod. T. Friendly is living his life in reverse. Doctor Friendly has just died, but he moves out of blackest sleep to find himself surrounded by doctors and on the deathbed of a man in whose body he is imprisoned. After weeks of improving in the hospital, he is sent home to his affable, melting-pot, primary-colors existence in suburban America.As Friendly breaks up with his lovers in a prelude to seducing them and mangles his patients before he sends them home, his life races backward toward the one appalling moment in modern history when such reversals make sense. From the fresh-cut lawns of his retirement to the hustle of New York, and then back to the boat which reverses his course to the war-torn Europe Friendly came from, Amis brings the steeliest nerve to the job of realizing the novel s inevitable logic. Trapped in his body from grave to cradle, Friendly s consciousness can only watch as he struggles to make sense of the good doctor s most ambitious project yet the final solution.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In the spring of 1983 Terry Tempest Williams learned that her mother was dying of cancer. That same season, The Great Salt Lake began to rise to record heights, threatening the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge and the herons, owls, and snowy egrets that Williams, a poet and naturalist, had come to gauge her life by. One event was nature at its most random, the other a by-product of rogue technology: Terry's mother, and Terry herself, had been exposed to the fallout of atomic bomb tests in the 1950s. As it interweaves these narratives of dying and accommodation, Refuge transforms tragedy into a document of renewal and spiritual grace, resulting in a work that has become a classic.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - First published in 1962, this wonderfully provocative book introduced the notion of 'pseudo-events'-events such as press conferences and presidential debates, which are manufactured solely in order to be reported-and the contemporary definition of celebrity as 'a person who is known for his well-knownness.' Since then Daniel J. Boorstin's prophetic vision of an America inundated by its own illusions has become an essential resource for any reader who wants to distinguish the manifold deceptions of our culture from its few enduring truths.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The bestselling second installment of the graphic novel acclaimed as the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust (Wall Street Journal) and the first masterpiece in comic book history (The New Yorker) PULITZER PRIZE WINNER One of Variety s Banned and Challenged Books Everyone Should Read A brutally moving work of art widely hailed as the greatest graphic novel ever written Maus recounts the chilling experiences of the author s father during the Holocaust, with Jews drawn as wide-eyed mice and Nazis as menacing cats.Maus is a haunting tale within a tale, weaving the author s account of his tortured relationship with his aging father into an astonishing retelling of one of history's most unspeakable tragedies. It is an unforgettable story of survival and a disarming look at the legacy of trauma.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Moon Beach--place of the dead--where once a year the city observes the Day of the Dead. During one such celebration, two young men from different worlds become the fascinated servants of an entrepreneur of death, whose private passions are intimately entwined with his vocation. 'Ghoulish and imaginative . . . ingenious, sardonic and seductive'.--New York Times Times Book Review.