The only novel by avant-garde literary star Jane Bowles, the highly influential wife of legendary writer Paul Bowles, Two Serious Ladies is a modernist cult classic, mysterious, profound, anarchic, and funny, that follows two "respectable" women as they descend into debauchery--updated with an intro[...]
The Last Life is the story of the teenage Sagesse LaBasse and her family, repatriated French Algerians. It is set in colonial Algeria, the south of France, and New England.. "The LaBasse family had always believed in the permanence of their world, in which stories created from the past had the weigh[...]
A collection of novels by the Russian-born author of Suite Franaise, who died in Auschwitz in 1942, features David Golder, a parable about greed and loneliness, as well as three tales available in English for the first time--The Ball, Snow in Autumn, and The Courilof Affair. 25,000 first printing.[...]
Three friends on the verge of their thirties--beautiful, sophisticated Marina Thwaite, daughter of a noted journalist; Danielle, a quiet TV producer; and Julius, a cash-poor freelance writer--make their way through New York City, until Marina's idealistic, college-dropout cousin, Bootie, arrives to [...]
From the "New York Times "best-selling author of "The Emperor's Children, " a masterly new novel: the riveting confession of a woman awakened, transformed and betrayed by a desire for a world beyond her own.
Nora Eldridge, an elementary school teacher in Cambridge, Massachusetts, long ago compr[...]
A "New York Times" "Book Review" Notable Book - A "Washington Post "Top Ten Book of the Year - A" Chicago Tribune" Noteworthy Book - A "Huffington Post" Best Book - A "Boston Globe" Best Book of the Year - A "Kirkus" Best Fiction Book - A Goodreads Best Book
Nora Eldridge is a reliable, but unre[...]
From the "New York Times "best-selling author of "The Emperor's Children, " a masterly new novel: the riveting confession of a woman awakened, transformed and betrayed by a desire for a world beyond her own.
Nora Eldridge, an elementary school teacher in Cambridge, Massachusetts, long ago compr[...]
"The Last Life" tells the story of the teenage Sagesse LaBasse and her family, French Algerian emigrants haunted by their history, brought to the brink of destruction by a single reckless act. Observed with a fifteen-year-old's ruthless regard for truth, it is a novel about secrets and ghosts, love [...]
In Manhattan, just after the century's turn, three thirty-year-old friends, Danielle, Marina and Julius, are seeking their fortunes. But the arrival of Marina's young cousin Bootie fresh from the provinces and keen, too, to make his mark forces them to confront their own desires and expectations. Th[...]
On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her older sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching Cecilia is their housekeeper's son Robbie Turner, a childhood friend who, along with Briony's sist[...]
From the "New York Times "best-selling author of "The Emperor's Children, " a masterly new novel: the riveting confession of a woman awakened, transformed and betrayed by a desire for a world beyond her own.
Nora Eldridge, an elementary school teacher in Cambridge, Massachusetts, long ago compr[...]
A brilliant novel by Canada's own award-winning Claire Messud, author of the "New York Times" bestselling" The Emperor's Children." "The Woman Upstairs" is the riveting confession of a woman awakened, transformed and betrayed by passion and the desire for a world beyond her own.
Nora Eldridge, a[...]
Readers everywhere were introduced to the work of Irene Nemirovsky through the publication of her long-lost masterpiece, "Suite Francaise". But "Suite Francaise" was only a coda to the brief yet remarkably prolific career of this nearly forgotten, yet hugely talented novelist, who fled Russia for Pa[...]
I'm halfway through my life, or maybe more, and I'm finally awake to the fact that it's in my hands alone. I've believed in other people, had faith, been patient, waiting for my moment -- enough, already. Who have I been kidding? Nora Eldridge has always been a good girl: a good daughter, colleague,[...]
I'm halfway through my life, or maybe more, and I'm finally awake to the fact that it's in my hands alone. I've believed in other people, had faith, been patient, waiting for my moment -- enough, already. Who have I been kidding? Nora Eldridge has always been a good girl: a good daughter, colleague,[...]
"I litteraturen lyfts ofta människors längtan fram som något vackert, som en livets lågmälda melankoli. Men Kvinnan på övervåningen visar längtans mörka baksida, vreden över det man aldrig fick: "Det faller dig aldrig in medan du sorgfälligt utformar din mask att den kommer att växa f[...]
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Nora Eldridge är fyrtiotvå år och lågstadielärare i Cambridge, Massachusetts. Hon lever ensam. På dagarna tröstar hon andras barn, på helgerna besöker hon sin gamle far. Nora är pålitlig och ansvars[...]
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Hur förbannad är jag?
Det vill du inte veta.
Det vill ingen veta något om.
Nora Eldridge är fyrtiotvå år och lågstadielärare i Cambridge, Massachusetts. Hon lever ensam. På dagarna tröstar hon andras barn, på helgerna besöker hon si[...]