Trefferliste "W&n Essentials" - alle Bücher und CDs

Helen Garner

Garner, H: Cosmo, Cosmolino

'Garner is a recording angel at life's secular apocalypses' NEW YORKER 'A great, strange novel by a very great Australian writer' SYDNEY REVIEW OF BOOKS 'So exact and vigorous, so full of creative energy'…

Renata Adler

Pitch Dark

'Perfect and prescient. A tremendously influential book' CHRIS KRAUS 'Plangent, mournful, brilliant' ARTFORUM 'A bright kaleidoscope of a book' ANNE TYLERPitch Dark is a book about love.Kate Ennis is pois…

Ntozake Shange

Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo

'Shange's wit, lyricism and fierceness are marvellous' New York TimesSassafrass, Cypress and Indigo are sisters. They are growing up, and their dreams are far from their Mama's house in Charleston.Sassafr…

Heinrich Böll

The Silent Angel

May, 1945. Carrying the coat of a comrade who died in his place, German soldier Hans Schnitzler wanders the bombed-out streets of Cologne.In search of the dead man's widow, he meets a woman as lost and gr…

Renata Adler

Speedboat

'I can't think of a living stylist I admire more than Renata Adler' ELIF BATUMAN 'Luminously exact' NEW YORK TIMES 'It was as though the novel had outstretched arms and I fell in' PARIS REVIEWWhen Speedbo…

Laurie Colwin

Passion and Affect

'Colwin wrings magic from ordinary lives' Entertainment WeeklyCarl thinks that his wife Lucy tells him everything, until he discovers her secret daily habit. She has arranged a part of her life away from …

Laurie Colwin

The Lone Pilgrim

'Colwin is a bard of burgeoning adulthood' New YorkerPolly has been the house pet to several families: friendly, cheerful, good with children, happy to bask in the domesticity of other people's lives - un…

Laurie Colwin

Shine on, Bright and Dangerous Object

'Breathtaking, moving and very funny' Brandon TaylorOlly is twenty-one when she first meets Sam Bax. Fearless, goofy and risk-taking, he arrives in her life on the back of a huge motorcycle. By the end of…

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