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Published by Vintage 2002 : ( 17 other books by this author also available.) Paperback. Orders shipped daily., 2002
Seller: Mr.G.D.Price, Mansfield, United Kingdom
VERY GOOD condition.
Published by London, Vintage paperback, 2002, 2002
ISBN 10: 009927583XISBN 13: 9780099275831
Seller: Lilian Modlock, Gillingham, United Kingdom
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Softcover. A novel about adultery, jazz and alcohol. Very Good. ISBN 0-099-27583-X.
Published by Vintage 2002 Paperback, 2002
ISBN 10: 009928717XISBN 13: 9780099287179
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Very Good. The Dark Room tells the stories of three ordinary Germans: Helmut, a young photographer in Berlin in the 1930s who uses his craft to express his patriotic fervour; Lore, a twelve-year-old girl who in 1945 guides her young siblings across a devastated Germany after her Nazi parents are seized by the Allies; and, fifty years later, Micha, a young teacher obsessed with what his loving grandfather did in the war, struggling to deal with the past of his family and his country. 400 pages.
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Published by Vintage 2002 Paperback, 2002
ISBN 10: 0099286769ISBN 13: 9780099286769
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Fair. With the inventive acuity of John Irving, this riveting picaresque novel chronicles the hopes and heartbreaks of Edgar Presley Mint. Half Apache and mostly orphaned, Edgar's trials begin on an Arizona reservation at the age of seven, when the mailman's jeep accidentally runs over his head. Shunted from the hospital to a school for delinquents to a Mormon foster family, comedy, pain and trouble accompany Edgar through a string of larger-than-life experiences. Through it all, readers will root for this irresistible innocent who never truly loses heart, and whose quest for the mailman leads him to an unexpected home. 432 pages.
Published by Vintage 2002 Paperback, 2002
ISBN 10: 0099284162ISBN 13: 9780099284161
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Good. B&W Photographs (illustrator). 'I was in my hotel room in Hefei, a town in rural southern China, when my phone rang and a voice said, 'Would you like to meet your baby?' It was two hours early. I raced around preparing as if for a visiting dignitary. I was so scared I could hardly breathe. I was ten thousand miles from home, all alone, and about to meet the person I would be responsible for for the rest of my life.'In 1994 Emily Prager, American novelist and columnist, adopted a 7-month-old baby in China. Five years later, she went back with her adopted daughter to spend three months in Wuhu City, where as a three-day-old baby Lulu had been found on the street in front of the police station. Within a week of their arrival, NATO bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, and anti-American feeling ran high; Emily's was the only non-Chinese face on the streets but Lulu was a 'Wuhuren' and therefore sacrosanct. They and the townspeople became involved in a relationship of warmth and complexity that stood politics and prejudice on its head. It was Lulu's joy and pride at having found them that people could not get over. After all, this was the same town that had thrown her away. Looking beneath the surface of modem China, Wuhu Diary is a gripping account of their experiences, both poignant and funny, and the extraordinary search for Lulu's origins. 254 pages.
Published by Vintage 2002 Paperback, 2002
ISBN 10: 0099437740ISBN 13: 9780099437741
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Fair. Hele livet har Rebecca koncentreret sig om familien, men som 53- rig enke f?ler hun sig pludselig udenfor, og hun begynder at spekulere over, om hun har udnyttet sine muligheder forkert. 288 pages.
Published by Vintage 2002 Paperback, 2002
ISBN 10: 0099422336ISBN 13: 9780099422334
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Very Good. 342 pages.
Published by Vintage 2002 Paperback, 2002
ISBN 10: 0099429632ISBN 13: 9780099429630
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Good. 304 pages.
Published by Vintage 2002 Paperback, 2003
ISBN 10: 1869415019ISBN 13: 9781869415013
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Good. The people who committed the act of revenge in 1985 thought it was perfectly executed. Twenty years on the truth is revealed, the truth about the deception that started it all and the seemingly disparate characters involved: Jasper, currently in Sydney's Long Bay Prison; psychiatrist Franca Todisco; New Zealand journalist Richard Brunel visiting Paris with society girlfriend Michaela; Lena now living on Waiheke Island with her girlfriend Scottie; and the young biographer Melody Argyle, working on a life of her intensely private subject, ex-All Black and millionaire block-buster novelist Howard Shag. What happened that connects them? The shag incident is a novel about love, responsibility, guilt and revenge. Comic , savage, and multi-layed, this is a provocative extension to this versatile writer's oeuvre.Darkly satirical and wickedly funny, this novel takes a tilt at a range of contemporary matters, including sexual stereotyping, militant feminism, the machismo of the All Blacks, new age beliefs, psychiatry, womb burial and naming ceremonies. 295 pages.
Published by Vintage 2002 Paperback, 2002
ISBN 10: 1740511522ISBN 13: 9781740511520
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Good. Inspired by the real life experience of the author's father who was a young boy in the Philippines during World War II, Tess Urize Holthe's story begins during the final week of the ferocious Japanese American battle for possession of the Philippines. Here, we listen to three distinct narrators who reveal the struggle to survive in a small community outside Manila, where the streets are littered with dead bodies and the threat of capture by Japanese soldiers lurks around every corner. Huddling together in a squalid cellar is a group of Filipino families. As the war rages outside, tales of magical realism and superstition unfold in the cellar stories that give comfort and help each family member to endure the atrocities and find hope in the midst of chaos. 379 pages.
Published by Vintage 2002 Paperback, 2003
ISBN 10: 0099450054ISBN 13: 9780099450054
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Good. Starring Michael Caine and Brendan Fraser,The Quiet Americanis already gaining incredible buzz -- including a Golden Globe nomination for Caine (Best Actor, Drama). This enchanting film is directed by Phillip Noyce(Rabbit-Proof Fence; The Bone Collector; Clear and Present Danger) and is adapted from one of Graham Greene?s best-loved novels. Into the intrigue and violence of Indo-China comes Pyle, a young idealistic American sent to promote democracy through a mysterious ?Third Force.? As his na ve optimism starts to cause bloodshed, his friend Fowler, a cynical foreign correspondent, finds it hard to stand aside and watch. But even as he intervenes he wonders why: for the sake of politics, or for love. 192 pages.
Published by Vintage 2002 Paperback, 2002
ISBN 10: 0099445107ISBN 13: 9780099445104
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Mint. Henry VIII was almost never alone. He was surrounded, twenty four hours a day, by the small group of intimates and personal attendants who made up the staff of his Privy Chamber. They organised his daily life, kept him amused and acted as the landline between the king and the formal machinery of government. These men, intermarried, interbred and close knit even in their mutual feuding, were supremely well placed to rig politics and patronage for their own benefit. Their influence was important and sometimes decisive: factions in the Privy Chamber destroyed Anne Boleyn, they frustrated the Catholic reaction of the 1540s, and, by doctoring Henry's will, prepared the way for the full blooded Protestantism of his son's reign. The Reign of Henry VIII is not so much a book about Henry VIII. It is about the great game of politics over which he presided. 176 pages.
Published by Vintage 2002 Paperback, 2002
ISBN 10: 0099283956ISBN 13: 9780099283959
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Good. Here is one book that is in a magical category of one, a truly outstanding, resonant and original work that breaks the mould of storytelling. It tells an intimate, everyday tale of grief, unrequited love, attachment and loss through the voices of an irresistible range of characters. Told in beautiful, direct language, the story has universal and immediate appeal -surprising, heartbreaking, sexy, funny, poetic and quite simply unputdownable.Reminiscent of Under Milk Wood for the range of its voices, its earthly humour and its poignancy, The Same Sea is pure joy to read, full of echoes and illusions yet with an astonishing immediacy and a powerful charge. 208 pages.
Published by Vintage 2002 Paperback, 2002
ISBN 10: 0099277131ISBN 13: 9780099277132
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Good. This Extraordinarily Moving, Shocking And Eye-Opening Work Is Set To Become The Classic Text On The Subject Of Depression, Mental Illness And The Way We Live Now, For The Literary Market - The Book That Knocks Even William Styron'S Darkness Visible Out Of The Water. Like Kay Jamison'S An Unquiet Mind, It Digs Deep And Painfully Into Personal Experience, But It Also Looks At The Much Wider Picture - The Historical, Social, Biological, Chemical, Pharmaceutical And Medical Aspects And Implications Of The Disease - Broadening The Scope Immeasurably. What Is Crucial Is That Solomon Has Not Only Experienced What He Is Writing About Firsthand, And Describes The Experience From The Inside Terrifyingly And Brilliantly, But Also That He Has Researched Ever Aspect Of Depression, From The Historical Treatment And Study Of 'Melancholy' As Far Back As The Greeks And Romans (Who Believed That Cauliflower Was Good For Depression), Right Through To The Side Effects Of The Pharmaceutical Cocktails Of The Present Day, Case Histories Of People In And Out Of Mental Hospitals, Faith Healers, The Power Of Suggestion, As Well As The Implications For The Future Of Western Society. He Also Writes Like A Dream. 560 pages.