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Verlag: Random House UK Ltd Feb 2004, 2004
ISBN 10: 0099470462ISBN 13: 9780099470465
Anbieter: Smartbuy, Einbeck, Deutschland
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - \*\*AS SEEN ON BBC TWO's BETWEEN THE COVERS\*\*Discover Joseph Heller's hilarious and tragic satire on military madness, and the tale of one man's efforts to survive it.It's the closing months of World War II and Yossarian has never been closer to death. Stationed in an American bomber squadron off the coast of Italy, each flight mission introduces him to thousands of people determined to kill him.But the enemy above is not Yossarian's problem - it is his own army intent on keeping him airborne, and the maddening 'Catch-22' that allows for no possibility of escape.'The greatest satirical work in the English language' Observer 519 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Random House UK Ltd Feb 2004, 2004
ISBN 10: 0099470470ISBN 13: 9780099470472
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY EVIE WYLD 'There is not a page in this first novel which does not prove that its author is a master storyteller' New York TimesWeird, withdrawn, and unloved, Fred is a young collector of butterflies. One day his eye alights on a beautiful stranger, the art student Miranda, and an obsession starts to form. So when Fred wins some money he decides to use the money to compensate for his unfair start and to get what he really wants - Miranda. If she could only get to know him she might start to love him. And so with the meticulous attention to detail of an experienced collector he calmly plans her abduction. 285 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Random House UK Ltd Feb 2004, 2004
ISBN 10: 0099470489ISBN 13: 9780099470489
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Discover Murdoch's wonderful writing in this compelling story of a young woman and an unusual religious lay community.A lay community of thoroughly mixed-up people is encamped outside Imber Abbey, home to an enclosed order of nuns. A new bell, legendary symbol of religion and magic, is rediscovered. Dora Greenfield, erring wife, returns to her husband. Michael Mead, leader of the community, is confronted by Nick Fawley, with whom he had disastrous homosexual relations, while the wise old Abbess watches and prays and exercises discreet authority. And everyone, or almost everyone, hopes to be saved whatever that may mean. Iris Murdoch's funny and sad novel is about religion, the fight between good and evil and the terrible accidents of human frailty. 329 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Random House UK Ltd Feb 2004, 2004
ISBN 10: 0099470446ISBN 13: 9780099470441
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this extraordinary novel, Stingo, an inexperienced twenty-two year old Southerner, takes us back to the summer of 1947 and a boarding house in a leafy Brooklyn suburb. There he meets Nathan, a fiery Jewish intellectual; and Sophie, a beautiful and fragile Polish Catholic. Stingo is drawn into the heart of their passionate and destructive relationship as witness, confidant and supplicant. Ultimately, he arrives at the dark core of Sophie's past: her memories of pre-war Poland, the concentration camp and - the essence of her terrible secret - her choice. 656 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Random House UK Ltd Feb 2004, 2004
ISBN 10: 0099453835ISBN 13: 9780099453833
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory, an enthralling, wrenching novel about the lives and choices of one family, caught on the cusp of identities.Jonah, Ruth and Joseph are the children of mixed-race parents determined to raise them beyond time, beyond identity, steeped in song. Yet they cannot be protected from the world forever. Even as Jonah becomes a successful young tenor, the opera arena remains fixated on his race. Ruth turns her back on classical music and disappears, dedicating herself to activism and a new relationship. As the years pass, Joseph - the middle child, a pianist and our narrator - must battle not just to remain connected to his siblings, but to forge a future of his own. This is a story of the tragedy of race in America, told through the lives and choices of one family caught on the cusp of identities.'An epic novel of modern America that weaves ideas of race, music and science into a mysterious but satisfying tapestry. Endlessly fascinating' Independent 631 pp. Englisch.