Hot on the heels of his bestseller, The Witches of Eastwick--a big Jack Nicholson movie this summer--John Updike has written yet another triumph. Sensual and cerebral, Roger's Vers...9999903199342John Updike
Fawcett
miércoles, 16 de octubre de 2024
The Good Conscience is Carlos Fuentes's second novel. The scene is Guanajuato, a provincial capital in Central Mexico, once one of the world's richest mining centers. The Ceballos ...9999903198789Carlos Fuentes
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
miércoles, 16 de octubre de 2024
In this observation of ordinary lives under extraordinary pressure, the author explores the complex nature of the bond between mother and son, father and daughter, and examines wha...9999903162681Alice Jolly
Pocket Books
viernes, 19 de julio de 2024
Kate Leslie, an Irish widow visiting Mexico, finds herself equally repelled and fascinated by what she sees as the primitive cruelty of the country. As she becomes involved with Do...9999903198451Lawrence, D.H. H.
Wordsworth Editions, Ltd
sábado, 12 de octubre de 2024
"Naguib Mahfouz is Egypt's most famous novelist and his leading role in Arabic literature remains assured. He is now the author of no fewer than thirty novels and more than a hundr...9999903198420Nagib Mahfouz
Amer Univ in Cairo Pr
sábado, 12 de octubre de 2024
"Peter Winceworth, a disaffected Victorian lexicographer, inserts false entries into a dictionary - violating and subverting the dictionary's authority - in an attempt to assert so...9999903197898Eley Williams
William Heinemann
viernes, 11 de octubre de 2024
First English TranslationIt is a winter evening, and Yegor Aduyev, the scion of a wealthy family from the landed gentry, slips into the house of Baron Neyleyn with the intention of asking his beautiful dau...9781847499110Ivan Goncharov
Alma Books
viernes, 11 de octubre de 2024
National Book Award WinnerWinner of the National Book Award for First Work of Fiction"A very good novel indeed, with echoes of Gabriel García Márquez, Katherine Anne Porter, and even Graham Greene."--The Ne...9999903197331Doerr, Harriet
Penguin
jueves, 10 de octubre de 2024
'A cracker. O'Hanlon's grasp of dialect and teenage concerns is spot-on. And very funny' NME Patrick Scully is special. At least he was in the 70s when he was the school team's bes...9999903197218Ardal O?Hanlon
London : Scepter/Lir, 1999.
jueves, 10 de octubre de 2024
Guests are circulating in a haze of gin-rickies, blue movies, uppers, downers and inside-outers. Friday melts into Saturday, Saturday spirals into Sunday and then, the assembled Sl...9999903196785Amis, Martin
Penguin Books Ltd
martes, 8 de octubre de 2024
The lives of two very different couples--an officer and his aristocratic wifeand a young soldier and his childhood sweetheart--are irrevocably intertwinedand forever changed in thi...9999903194095Young, Louisa
Editors Varis
viernes, 4 de octubre de 2024
Fourteen-year-old Ellen Russell runs away from home, from her nagging mother and mean stepfather, and goes and lives with her boyfriend, Robbie. Robbie is mean too, but it's still ...9999903192985Giles, Marie
Virago Press Ltd
sábado, 28 de septiembre de 2024
From the writer of the award-winning Game of Thrones series for HBO based on the books of George R. R. Martin. 'David Benioff is an exceptional storyteller . . . CITY OF THIEVES is...9999903192688David Benioff
Plume,2009.
jueves, 26 de septiembre de 2024
A tale of an unexpected friendship, an unlikely hero and an improbable journey. This is the story of Alex Woods - born to a clairvoyant mother and a phantom father, victim of an im...9999903192633Extence, Gavin
Hodder
jueves, 26 de septiembre de 2024
Age has done everything except mellow the characters in Kingsley Amis's "The Old Devils," which turns its humane and ironic gaze on a group of Welsh married couples who have been s...9999903192503Kingsley Amis
Vintage
jueves, 26 de septiembre de 2024
Passionate, erotic and haunting, this is a brilliant novel by one of Britain's most important novelists. Simon Rakes - a conservation expert - is restoring the Stone Virgin, a stat...9999903192381Barry Unsworth
Penguin Books Ltd
jueves, 26 de septiembre de 2024
Spenser Spender wants to make a film of Dickens' Little Dorrit using a contemporary London prison as a set. But he is not the only person interested in Dickens. Unwittingly he beco...9999903192374Peter Ackroyd
London : Penguin, 1993.
jueves, 26 de septiembre de 2024
Morton Dauwen Zabel Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters. LYING IN BED begins with the voice of a strange, compelling speaker. The more we learn of his life and his most unu...9999903192114J. D. Landis
Algonquin Books
lunes, 23 de septiembre de 2024
In November 1960, Frank Sinatra gave Marilyn Monroe a dog. His name was Maf. He had an instinct for the 20th century; for politics, for psychoanalysis, for literature, for interior...9999903192046Andrew O'Hagan
Faber & Faber
lunes, 23 de septiembre de 2024
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