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Sisterland
ISBN : 9780552776592
Paperback edition of the latest novel from the bestselling author of "American Wife", this follows twin sisters who share a special gift, and explores the enduring power of the bond between them. Curtis was shortlisted for the Orange Prize with her first novel "Prep". 'A work of psychological genius...' "Observer"
The World According to Garp
ISBN : 9780552776783
This is the life and times of T. S. Garp, the bastard son of Jenny Fields - a feminist leader ahead of her times. It is also the life and death of a famous mother and her almost-famous son; theirs is a world of sexual extremes - even of sexual assassinations. It is a novel rich with 'lunacy and sorrow'; yet the dark, violent events of the story do not undermine a comedy both ribald and robust. It provides almost cheerful, even hilarious evidence of its famous last line: "In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases."
Into the water
ISBN : 9781784163402
2017, dt: Into the water - Traue keinem. Auch nicht dir selbst, 2017 The girl on the train, englische Autorin
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ISBN : 9781784164393
In 1940, eighteen-year-old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage. Sent to an obscure department of MIS tasked with monitoring the comings and goings of British Fascist sympathizers, she discovers the work to be by turns both tedious and terrifying. But after the war has ended, she presumes the events of those years have been relegated to the past for ever. Ten years later, now a producer at the BBC, Juliet is unexpectedly confronted by figures from her past. A different war is being fought now, on a different battleground, but Juliet finds herself once more under threat. A bill of reckoning is due, and she finally begins to realize that there is no action without consequence.
The Heart's Invisible Furies
ISBN : 9781784161002
Cast out from her West Cork village, sixteen years old and pregnant, Catherine Goggin makes her way to Dublin to start afresh. She has no choice but to believe that the nun to whom she entrusts her child will find him a better life.The baby is named Cyril by his adoptive parents, Charles and Maude Avery, a well-to-do but deeply eccentric couple who treat him more like a curiosity than a son. You're not a real Avery, they tell him. And perhaps he isn't. But through them he meets Julian Woodbead who, even from childhood, seems destined for an infinitely more glamorous and dangerous life. And so begins one man's funny and moving search to find his place in a world that seems to delight in gently tormenting him at every turn. Buffeted by circumstance and, at times, the consequences of his own questionable judgement, Cyril must navigate his emotions and desires in a search for that most elemental human need, happiness.
Bridge of Clay
ISBN : 9780552774765
A lost typewriter. A dead dog. The bones of the snake that killed it. Matthew Dunbar, eldest of five brothers, is on a journey to find them all. Only then can he tell the astonishing story of his family, torn apart by tragedy and a long-buried secret. He will learn of a mother who crosses continents for a new home ; of a father searching for love in the keys 'of an old piano ; and, finally, of a brother named Clay, who will make the most challenging journey of them all, and change their lives for ever. An epic and spellbinding quest for redemption and greatness, Bridge of Clay will take you to many places, and in many ways, and will ask two eternal questions : where are you going, and who will you be when you get there ?