Soul of a Whore and Purvis: Two Plays in Verse, Paperback - Denis Johnson

Reducere. Two plays--hilarious and searing in equal measure--by one of our most essential and original authors In his poetry, short stories, novels, and play...

"Perfection is not the basis of what I'm talking about, " says a member of the Cassandra family, which forms the center of Denis Johnson's plays, H...

Provincetown, Cape Cod: the last outpost of civilisation, the end of the earth. In the confused aftermath of a failed suicide attempt, Leonard Engl...

An epic miniature of one man's life journey through the American West at the turn of the twentieth century.Publisher: Granta BooksAuthor(s): Denis ...

"A dazzling and savage first novel". (New York Times). Angels tells the story of two born losers. Jamie has ditched her husband and is running away...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Tracy BeachAn extensively researched book about a well-known Colorado madam, but most of what's known about her is wrong, i...

Reducere. Tree of Smoke is the 2007 National Book Award Winner for Fiction.One of the New York Times 10 Best Books of the YearNamed a Best Book of the Year b...

Reducere. The award-winning poet reinvents a genre in a stunning work that is both a novel and a poem, both an unconventional re-creation of an ancient Greek...

Reducere. Poetry. Translated from the French by Peter Manson. THE POEMS IN VERSE is Peter Manson's translation of The Poésies of Stéphane Mallarmé. Long over...

Reducere. A powerful love story set in the class-conscious Tsarist Russia of the early 19th century. It embraces every level of that society - serf, provinci...

Reducere. A book-length poem in six sections, Long Rules takes readers to five Trappist monasteries in the southeastern United States to consider the interse...

Reducere. A book of testimonies in verse, Winter Phoenix is a collection of poems written loosely after the form of an international war crimes tribunal. The...

Reducere. The most critically acclaimed, and first, of Denis Johnson's novels, Angels puts Jamie Mays -- a runaway wife toting along two kids -- and Bill Hou...

A new edition of the classic novel from Johnson, reissued to tie in with his latest book }Train Dreams{. Johnson won the National Book Award for }T...

Reducere. Hailed by the New York Times as "wildly ambitious" and "the sort of book that a young Herman Melville might have written had he lived today and stu...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Jimmy Luntz is an innocent man, more or less. He's just leaving a barbershop chorus contest in Bakersfield, California, thinking about placing a fe...

Written for anyone who has been affected by the invisible yet wildly destructive path of chronic Lyme disease, this collection of poems is a ray of...

Reducere. A riveting, beautiful novel in verse by Australia's greatest contemporary poet, winner of the 1996 T. S. Eliot Prize.I never learned the old top ro...

Reducere. DescriptionIn a variety of voices, Truax tells the never-before-told story of the first two elephants to come to America and their enslaved keeper,...

Part political inquiry, part travel journal, part-self exploration, "Seek" is a collection of essays by an award-winning novelist out to explore hi...

Reducere. DescriptionA "playful, delightfully illustrated verse narrative" (Kirkus) about two siblings who take on the great outdoors with their young-at-hea...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Aristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, an exuberant form of festival drama which flourished in Athens during the fi...

Publisher: Random House USA IncAuthor(s): Alora YoungNumber of pages: 160Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 142 x 209 x 21Cover type: Paperback / so...

Reducere. DescriptionTwenty-five years after Jesus' Son, a haunting new collection of short stories on mortality and transcendence, from National Book Award ...

Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): Joseph JohnsonIllustration(s): 0Number of pages: 68Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 233 x 156 x 16...

Reducere. In acest volum postum, naratorii lui Denis Johnson sunt adesea blocati intr-un spatiu in timp ce-si spun povestile: masa din bucatarie, un centru d...

Reducere. Fiul lui Iisus este o cronica vizionara a visatorilor, a dependentilor, a sufletelor pierdute. Aceste povesti vorbesc despre vortexul suferintei, d...

This text contains two plays: "Stones in his Pocket" which is a humorous take on the film industry in rural Ireland and "A Night in November" which...

DescriptionThis study examines Exeter riddles, Anglo-Saxon biblical poems (Exodus, Andreas, Judith) and Beowulf in order to uncover the poetics of ...

Reducere. Each of the plays in this theater book is a complete dramatic work balanced for a two-actor performance. Lengths vary from ten to thirty minutes. M...

Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 2 in A major, S125 Denis Matsuev (piano) Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat major, S124 Denis Matsuev (piano) Totentanz, S126...

Reducere. In The Vendetta, author Alston Purvis recounts the story of his father, Melvin Purvis, the iconic G-man and public hero made famous by his remarkab...

Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): Joseph JohnsonIllustration(s): 0Number of pages: 68Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 238 x 160 x 9C...

Contributor(s): Author: David FinkleIllustrator: Roberta GranzenDepressed and defeated, facing the inauguration day of a new U.S. President he call...

Written during the Second World War while Hikmet was serving a thirteen-year sentence as a political prisoner, his verse-novel uses cinematic techn...

Reducere. Expounding the series, coveted lectures from the head of the world's largest Sufi spiritual order and descendant of the popular poet and mystic Rum...

Reducere. After being sexually assaulted at 4, Angelia Robinson grew up with an identity crisis so acute that she didn't even know how to properly spell her ...

Reducere. Descriptionstardust and skin is a poetic memoir based on a singular perspective. lessons learned through abandonment. heartbreak. childhood trauma ...

Reducere. DescriptionThese daily meditations on Christian belief take the form of Bible quotations and discussions; one for the morning, and one for the even...

DescriptionWINNER OF THE CRIME WRITERS' ASSOCIATION GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION 2017'In its tragic absurdity, Close But No Cigar reads like a Graha...

Publisher: Hill House New YorkAuthor(s): E M SchorbIllustration(s): 12 IllustrationsNumber of pages: 214Publication date: 2019Dimensions: 161 x 237...

Long a leading figure in American literature, N. Scott Momaday is perhaps best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning House Made of Dawn and his cele...

Reducere. Twenty-three outstanding short length plays for a cast of one, two, or three actors are included in just one text. Absolutely no cuttings. Each pla...

Reading Latin Poetry Aloud Paperback with Audio CDs: A Practical Guide to Two Thousand Years of Verse - Clive Brooks

Reducere. DescriptionThis critical edition delivers a unique and comprehensive collection of the works of Ktunaxa-Secwepemc writer and educator Vera Manuel, ...