picador jul 2020 (5 results)

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Rachel Cusk redrew the boundaries of fiction with the Outline Trilogy, three literary masterpieces (The Washington Post) whose narrator, Faye, perceives the world with a glinting, unsparing intelligence while remaining opaque to the reader. Lauded for the precision of her prose and the quality of her insight, Cusk is a writer of uncommon brilliance. Now, in Coventry, she gathers a selection of her nonfiction writings that both offers new insights on the themes at the heart of her fiction and forges a startling critical voice on some of our most personal, social, and artistic questions. Coventry encompasses memoir, cultural criticism, and writing about literature, with pieces on family life, gender, and politics, and on D. H. Lawrence, Françoise Sagan, and Elena Ferrante. Named for an essay in Granta (Every so often, for offences actual or hypothetical, my mother and father stop speaking to me. Theres a funny phrase for this phenomenon in England: its called being sent to Coventry), this collection is pure Cusk and essential reading for our age: fearless, unrepentantly erudite, and dazzling to behold. 256 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Three days in a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu. The Pull of the Stars is the Sunday Times Bestseller from the acclaimed author of The Wonder and Room.'An immersive, unforgettable fever-dream of a novel' - The TimesThe old world dying on its feet, a new one struggling to be born . . . Dublin, 1918. In a country doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city centre, where expectant mothers who have come down with an unfamiliar flu are quarantined together. Into Julia's regimented world step two outsiders: Doctor Kathleen Lynn, on the run from the police, and a young volunteer helper, Bridie Sweeney.In the darkness and intensity of this tiny ward, over the course of three days, these women change each other's lives in unexpected ways. They lose patients to this baffling pandemic, but they also shepherd new life into a fearful world. With tireless tenderness and humanity, carers and mothers alike somehow do their impossible work.In The Pull of the Stars, Emma Donoghue tells an unforgettable and deeply moving story of love and loss.Shortlisted for the An Post Irish Book Awards -- Eason Novel of the YearThe Telegraph's 'Best Novels of 2020'Guardian's 'Brilliant Books to Transport You This summer', 'Best Books of 2020'Cosmopolitan's 'Best Books to Read this summer'Stylist's 'Best summer Reads.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Two books in one in a flip dos-à-dos format: The story of Aleksandar Hemon's parents' immigration from Sarajevo to Canada and a book of short memories of the author's family, friends, and childhood in SarajevoIn My Parents, Aleksandar Hemon tells the story of his parents' immigration to Canada-of the lives that were upended by the war in Bosnia and siege of Sarajevo and the new lives his parents were forced to build. As ever with his work, he portrays both the perfect, intimate details (his mother's lonely upbringing, his father's fanatical beekeeping) and a sweeping, heartbreaking history of his native country. It is a story full of many Hemons, of course-his parents, sister, uncles, cousins-and also of German occupying forces, Yugoslav partisans, royalist Serb collaborators, singing Ukrainians, and a few befuddled Canadians.My Parents is Hemon at his very best, grounded in stories lovingly polished by retelling, but making them exhilarating and fresh in writing, summoning unexpected laughs in the midst of the heartbreaking narratives. This Does Not Belong to You, meanwhile, is the exhilarating, freewheeling, unabashedly personal companion to My Parents-a perfect dose of Hemon at his most dazzling and untempered in a series of beautifully distilled memories and observations and explosive, hilarious, poignant miniatures. Presented dos-à-dos with My Parents, it complements and completes a major work from a major writer.In the words of Colum McCann, 'Aleksandar Hemon is, quite frankly, the greatest writer of our generation.' Hemon has never been better than here in these pages. And the moment has never been more ready for his voice, nor has the world ever been more in need of it.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Praise for David Coventry's previous book, The Invisible Mile'Bruising, beautiful and ultimately transcendent, there's a perfect thought on sport, humanity or endurance on just about every page' Markus Zusak, author of The Book Thief' . . . absorbing, and on many levels. It's a book about violence, youth, mythology, history, guilt and love - all set to the agonising rhythm of an inhuman bike race. Some achievement! Fictionalised accounts of sporting events don't always work, but this has the same feeling of total immersion as I remember feeling when I read David Peace's The Damned Utd' Ned Boulting, cycling broadcaster and author'Pick of the Week. David Coventry's poetic odyssey in the Tour de France. Relates . . . with symbolic force and poetic finesse.' Sydney Morning Herald'Gorgeous . . . Coventry's brooding narrative, in varying parts philosophical action adventure, travelogue, family drama, war chronicle and psychological puzzler, is suffused with the ever-querying perspective of its haunted central character.' New York Times 'A wonderfully colourful and attentive novel that subtly combines the tangible pains of the race with the echoes of war. It isn't myth-making or playing true events like puppets. Coventry commendably creates his own legend and pays homage to our ancestral competitors in doing so . . . Bursts of brilliance . . .' Sunday Express'. . . it's such an accomplished and beautifully refined novel. It almost makes other writers look like they're just mucking around.' Kiran Dass, New Zealand Herald'The Invisible Mile is a dream to read, in all senses of the word. It's a trance-like account of the 1928 Tour de France . . . The writing is fierce, a bravura mix of narcissism, masochism and lyricism grounded in the honesty of the unnamed rider's journey into his self and the dawning realisation that the race has become a grand metaphor for the trauma of World War I.' John Sinclair, Metro.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Praise for Safe'A thrilling heist novel with a big beating heart' Paula Hawkins, author of Girl on the Train'Safe is a propulsive thriller that confirms Ryan Gattis as one of our most gifted novelists.' Michael Connelly, creator of the Harry Bosch and Mickey Haller series'Tenderness in the midst of stories of brutality, Safe is the perfect read to have in your suitcase' GQ'A literary novel and a thriller with more twists than a DVD box-set make quite a combination. There is a lathed quality to Ryan Gattis's prose, which is reminiscent of Raymond Carver or Ernest Hemingway.' Scotsman'No ordinary gangster cat-and-mouse chase . . . Gattis has created a gripping novel about opportunity, transformation and hope.' ObserverPraise for All Involved'A symphonic, pitch-perfect, superlative novel. It is visceral and adrenalin-fuelled, yet tender and even darkly comic. It is audacious, unflinching and subversive. It doesn't judge. It swallowed me whole.' David Mitchell.