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The Marriage Plot

Sun, 25 Dec 2011 19:40:38 PST

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"There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel." Anthony Trollope It's the early 1980s. In American colleges, the wised-up kids are inhaling Derrida and listening to Talking Heads. But Madeleine Hanna, dutiful English major, is writing her senior thesis on Jane Austen and George Eliot, purveyors of the marriage plot that lies at the heart of the greatest English novels. As ...

Skippy Dies

Sun, 25 Dec 2011 19:39:41 PST

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Ruprecht Van Doren is an overweight genius whose hobbies include very difficult maths and the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence. Daniel 'Skippy' Juster is his roommate. In the grand old Dublin institution that is Seabrook College for Boys, nobody pays either of them much attention. But when Skippy falls for Lori, the Frisbee-playing Siren from the girls' school next door, suddenly all kin ...

Neve

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 18:25:19 PST

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Yuko è un giovane poeta giapponese. Nei suoi haiku sa cantare solo lo splendore e la bianchezza della neve. Soseki è un anziano pittore divenuto cieco. Vive nel ricordo di un amore perduto. Neve è una ragazza bellissima. Il suo corpo giace per sempre tra i ghiacci. A legare i loro destini, un filo, disperatamente teso tra le cime di due montagne, come simbolo di un esercizio funambolico imposs ...

Then We Came to the End

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 18:23:25 PST

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This wickedly funny, big-hearted novel about life in the office signals the arrival of a gloriously talented new writer. The characters in THEN WE CAME TO THE END cope with a business downturn in the time-honored way: through gossip, secret romance, elaborate pranks, and increasingly frequent coffee breaks. By day they compete for the best office furniture left behind and try to make sense of ...

The Line of Beauty

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:57:33 PST

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It is the summer of 1983, and young Nick Guest, an innocent in the matters of politics and money, has moved into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: Gerald, an ambitious new Tory MP, his wealthy wife Rachel, and their children Toby and Catherine. Nick had idolized Toby at Oxford, but in his London life it will be the troubled Catherine who becomes his friend and his uneasy resp ...

La favola di Amore e Psiche

Sat, 17 Sep 2011 18:48:49 PST

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Tradotta in tutte le lingue, raffigurata dai più celebri pittori, musicata dai compositori e cantata dai poeti, la storia di Amore e Psiche è riconosciuta come il racconto più noto e più bello delle Metamorfosi di Apuleio. È una favola autentica, dai toni delicati e dalle atmosfere magiche e incantate, che racchiude in sé tutti gli elementi cari alla tradizione fiabesca popolare. Un racconto cono ...

High Fidelity

Sat, 17 Sep 2011 18:31:44 PST

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"High Fidelity" is Nick Hornby's hilarious and heart-breaking first novel bestseller. Do you know your desert-island, all-time, top five most memorable split-ups? Rob does. He keeps a list, in fact. But Laura isn't on it - even though she's just become his latest ex. He's got his life back, you see. He can just do what he wants when he wants: like listen to whatever music he likes, look up the gi ...

Kafka on the Shore

Sat, 17 Sep 2011 18:30:27 PST

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With Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami gives us a novel every bit as ambitious and expansive as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, which has been acclaimed both here and around the world for its uncommon ambition and achievement, and whose still-growing popularity suggests that it will be read and admired for decades to come. This magnificent new novel has a similarly extraordinary scope and the sam ...

Franny and Zooey

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 23:25:30 PST

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Franny Glass is a pretty, effervescent college student on a date with her intellectually confident boyfriend, Lane. They appear to be the perfect couple, but as they struggle to communicate with each other about the things they really care about, slowly their true feelings come to the surface. The second story in this book, 'Zooey', plunges us into the world of her ethereal, sophisticated family. ...

Troppo amore

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 23:23:20 PST

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Le età di Lulù

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 23:21:34 PST

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