On the crowded streets of New York City, there are even more stories than there are people passing each other every day...only some of these stories survive to become history. Lamont Williams, recently released from prison and working as a hospital janitor, strikes up an unlikely friendship with a p[...]
A first novel, by an Australian short-story writer, about what happens to people in a world of downsizing, outsourcing and privatizing. How did a university graduate - an honest, compassionate man - find himself at the age of 38 with an attractive and intelligent wife, a child, and three dollars?[...]
A novel of obsessive love in an age of obsessive materialism, 'Seven Types of Ambiguity' is Elliot Perlman's stunning follow-up to his highly acclaimed debut novel 'Three Dollars'. Following years of unrequited love, an out-of-work schoolteacher decides to take matters into his own hands, kidnapping[...]
Lamont Williams, recently released from prison and working as a hospital janitor, strikes up an unlikely friendship with a patient, an elderly Jewish Holocaust survivor who starts to tell him of his extraordinary past.[...]
Frustrated by years of unrequited love, an unemployed schoolteacher takes matters into his own hands, with unexpected repercussions, in a novel about obsessive love, told in seven parts by six different narrators whose lives have become entangled with one another. Reprint.[...]
A collection of nine short stories by the author of Seven Types of Ambiguity explores the complex worlds of such protagonists as lovers, poets, lawyers, immigrants, students, and murderers, in a volume that follows such themes as betrayal and lost opportunities. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.[...]
The long-unavailable debut novel by the bestselling author of "Seven Types of Ambiguity."
From celebrated author Elliot Perlman, "Three Dollars" is the deft, passionate portrait of a man coming to terms with his place in an increasingly hostile and corporate world, while struggling to retain hi[...]
How breathtakingly close we are to lives that at first seem so far away.From the civil rights struggle in the United States to the Nazi crimes against humanity in Europe, there are more stories than people passing one another every day on the bustling streets of every crowded city. Only some stories[...]
Nogle bøger er overvældende og uafrystelige. Gadefejeren er sådan en bog.