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Sunday

av Georges Simenon

Pocketbok. Penguin . 1963. 136 sidor.

Mycket gott skick. There is a classical economy about this study of the mind of a poisoner. Few writers could emulate the apparent artlessness with which Simenon plays back the past in his account of the events of one day - a Sunday - and, at the top pitch of tension, sudde läs mer … läs mer

The Little Man from Archangel

av Georges Simenon

Pocketbok. Penguin . 1964. 140 sidor.

Gott skick. By the author of the Inspector Maigret series
'She's gone to Bourges?
It was to protect Gina's reputation that Jonas had told the little lie. She had often gone off with younger men since their wedding. In fact her family, most of the neigh-bours - they läs mer … läs mer

Black Rain

av Georges Simenon

Pocketbok. Penguin . 1965. 301 sidor.

Gott skick. By the author of the Inspector Maigret series
Henry Miller has remarked that Simenon would make a wonderful (benevolent) dictator, who would provide real bread and real wine, and not the ideological varieties.
Black Rain, the second of the two long stor läs mer … läs mer

In Case of Emergency

av Georges Simenon

Pocketbok. Penguin . 1965.

Mycket gott skick. By the author of the Inspector Maigret series
Few writers pierce the plaster of normality and respectability with such a disturbing effect as Georges Simenon.
In Case of Emergency is the self-portrait of a French defence counsel whose gilt-edged success läs mer … läs mer

Grantchester grind - a Porterhouse chronicle

av Sharpe, Tom

Pocketbok. Pan. 1996. 490 sidor.

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Gott skick. CRISIS TIME AGAIN AT PORTERHOUSE
- WHERE CRISES NEVER COME SINGLY
The formidable Skullion - previously head porter, now elevated to Master - is showing signs of physical frailty after his stroke, though as cunning as ever. So the tricky business of appo läs mer … läs mer

The Thomas Crown Affair (movie tie-in edition...

av Evan Lee Heyman

Pocketbok. Hodder. First uppl. 1968. 157 sidor.

Gott skick. Imagine you're Thomas Crown-millionaire, layabout, fearfully bored with life.
As an antidote you decide to knock over the biggest bank in town. Two million bucks and a private Swiss account.
Then they trace it all to you. Not a sharp-eyed sleuth with to läs mer … läs mer

Jarhead: A Soldier's Story of Modern War

av Swofford, Anthony

Pocketbok. SIMON. 2004.

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Nyskick. EACH GENERATION FIGHTS ITS WAR;
EACH GENERATION TELLS ITS SOLDIER'S STORY.
This is what it is like to fight in the Gulf.
'If you want a clear-eyed sense of what might be going on today in the staging areas surrounding Iraq, a view stripped of cant, hyp läs mer … läs mer

Still life with woodpecker

av Robbins, Tom

Pocketbok. 2018.

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Hyggligt skick. STILL LIFE WITH WOODPECKER is sort of a love story that takes place inside a pack of Camel cigarettes. It reveals the purpose of the moon, explains the difference between criminals and outlaws, examines the conflict between social activism and romantic in läs mer … läs mer

How I Escaped My Certain Fate, The Life and D...

av Stewart Lee

Häftad bok. Faber . 2010. 394 sidor.

ISBN 978057125481

Hyggligt skick. In 2001, after over a decade in the business, Stewart Lee quit stand-up, disillusioned and drained, and went off to direct a loss-making opera about Jerry Springer.
Here is a blow-by-blow account of his snail-paced comeback, in the form of annotated tran läs mer … läs mer

Averno

av Glück, Louise

Häftad bok. Macmillan US. 2007. 79 sidor.

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Gott skick. "Averno may be (Glück's] masterpiece. Certainly it demonstrates that she is writing at the peak of her powers."
-NICHOLAS CHRISTOPHER, The New York Times Book Review
Averno is a small crater lake in southern Italy, regarded by the ancient Romans as the läs mer … läs mer

Timbuktu

av Auster, Paul

Pocketbok. London : Faber. 2000. 186 sidor.

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Nära nyskick. Meet Mr Bones, the canine hero of Paul Auster's remarkable new novel, Timbuktu, his first work of fiction in five years. Mr Bones is the sidekick and confidant of Willy G. Christmas, the brilliant, troubled and altogether original poet-saint from Brooklyn läs mer … läs mer

North

av Heaney, Seamus

Pocketbok. Faber . 1975. 73 sidor.

Gott skick.

A manual for cleaning women - selected storie...

av Berlin, Lucia

Inbunden bok. 1 uppl. 2015. 403 sidor.

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Gott skick. Skyddsomslag i hyggligt skick. "I have always had faith that the best writers will rise to the top, like cream, sooner or later, and will become exactly as well-known as they should be their work talked about, quoted, taught, performed, filmed, set to music, anthologized. Perhaps, with läs mer … läs mer

Horseman, pass by - a novel

av McMurtry, Larry

Pocketbok. 2018. 171 sidor.

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Nära nyskick. The celebrated literary debut of "one of American literature's native treasures" (Boston Herald), Larry McMurtry's Horseman, Pass By "rode over the tired clichés of post-Wister cowboy mythology with iron hooves" (Annie Proulx). … läs mer

Quiet

av Cain, Susan

Pocketbok. Penguin Books Ltd. 2013.

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Nära nyskick. THE BOOK THAT STARTED A QUIET REVOLUTION
For far too long, those who are naturally quiet, serious or sensitive have been overlooked. The loudest have taken over - even if they have nothing to say.
It's time for everyone to listen. It's time to harness t läs mer … läs mer

Glowing enigmas

av Nelly Sachs

Pocketbok. Tavern books. 2013.

ISBN 9781935635222

Gott skick. Nelly Sachs' book-length poem "Glowing Enigmas" is widely regarded as the Nobel Laureate's finest poetic achievement and one of the essential poetic works of postwar Europe. This definitive edition is the first in English to showcase the poem in its entir läs mer … läs mer

Hand to mouth : a chronicle of early failure

av Paul Auster

Pocketbok. Macmillan US. 2003. 169 sidor.

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Gott skick. P... tuscars Hard to Mouth isabecimaingandohen fang memorabout his caly
years as a young, struggling writer. From one odd job to the next, from one failed scheme to another, Auster investigates his own stubborn compulsion to make art and describes his in läs mer … läs mer

Neverwhere

av Neil Gaiman

Pocketbok. Harper Collins USA. 1997. 388 sidor.

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Nyskick. Richard Mayhew is a plain man with a good heart- and an ordinary life that is changed forever on a day he stops to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk. From that moment forward he is propelled into a world he never dreamed existed -a dark s läs mer … läs mer

Hiroshima

av Hersey, John

Pocketbok. Penguin. 1986. 196 sidor.

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Mycket gott skick. One of the most magnificent and powerful writers of modern times. This book brings the central problem of human existence today down from the often stupefyingly technical and theoretical to a reality no one can miss. You must not fail to read it'
- Washi läs mer … läs mer

It can't happen here

av Lewis, Sinclair

Pocketbok. Penguin . 2017. 381 sidor.

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Gott skick. A vain, outlandish, anti-immigrant, fear-mongering demagogue runs for President of the United States - and wins. Sinclair Lewis's chilling 1935 bestseller is the story of Buzz Windrip, who promises poor, angry voters that he will make America proud and pr läs mer … läs mer

Snow

av Orham Pamuk

Pocketbok. Vintage U.S. . First uppl. 2004. 463 sidor.

ISBN 9780375706868

Gott skick. An exiled poet named K a returns to Turkey and travels to the forlorn city of Kars. His ostensible purpose is to report on a wave of suicides among religious girls forbidden to wear their head scarves. But Ka is also drawn by his memories of the radiant I läs mer … läs mer

The Pyramid

av William Golding

Inbunden bok. Faber . First uppl. 1967. 217 sidor.

Mycket gott skick. Skyddsomslag i mycket gott skick. Oliver, the dispenser's son, adolescent in the England of two-seaters, the silent screen, the Savoy Orphans.
And round

him, in the small huddle of houses by a minimal river that is Stilbourne, are woven the complicated, recurring yet never identical pat läs mer … läs mer

Austerity - vintage minis

av Varoufakis, Yanis

Pocketbok. Vintage . 2018. 144 sidor.

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Nära nyskick. 'An austere life is one thing and Ponzi austerity is quite another'
How do we choose between what is fair and just, and what our debtors demand of us?
Yanis Varoufakis was put in such a dilemma in 2015 when he became the finance minister of Greece. In t läs mer … läs mer

The Corporation

av Joel Bakan

Pocketbok. Free Press. First uppl. 2005. 228 sidor.

ISBN 9780743247467

Gott skick. Joel Bakan contends that today's corporation is a pathological institution, a dangerous possessor of the great power it wields over people and societies.
In this revolutionary assessment of the history, character, and globalization of the modern business läs mer … läs mer

Miami and the Siege of Chicago

av Norman Mailer

Pocketbok. Signet . 1968. 223 sidor.

Mycket gott skick. Miami and the Siege of Chicago the unprecedented, unconventional account of Conventions, '68
The hottest writer in American letters,
Norman Mailer, burns through the hoopla and hysteria of the '68 conventions.
THE CHICAGO "LAW AND ORDER" BATTLES.
THE läs mer … läs mer

The Bridges

av Tarjei Vesaas

Pocketbok. Panther . 1972. 157 sidor.

Gott skick. Aud and Torvil, two teenagers in love, stumble across the body of a drowned baby in a wood. This traumatic event and their subsequent strange relationship with the mother of the dead child (an adolescent like themselves) dramatically alters their lives: a läs mer … läs mer

Cities of Wonder

av Ed. Damon Knight

Pocketbok. Sphere . 1970. 239 sidor.

Gott skick. eleven visions of the future. of man's place in a changing world.
... Damon Knight has collected a series of extremely individual short stories from the cream of S.F. writers.
Stories by:
J. G. Ballard • Robert A. Heinlein. Henry Kuttner • C. M. Kornbl läs mer … läs mer

Löpeld : [roman]

av Ford, Richard - Lundgren, Caj

Inbunden bok. Stockholm : Gedin. Första uppl. 1990. 212 sidor.

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Mycket gott skick. Skyddsomslag i gott skick. "Pa hösten 1960, när jag var sexton &r och min far tillfälligt var utan arbete, träffade min mor en karl som hette Warren Miller och blev kar i honom."
Si inleder Richard Ford denna roman omen vanlig amerikansk familj. Joe, som àr bokens berättare, lever läs mer … läs mer

Not Fade Away

av Jim Dodge

Pocketbok. Rebel Inc. . 1998. 325 sidor.

ISBN 0862419603

Mycket gott skick. Floorboard George Gastin is part of an insurance scam to wreck a pure white, mint condition '59 Cadillac originally intended as a present to The Big Bopper from an ageing admirer. But in the name of love, Floorboard George has other ideas, and disappears läs mer … läs mer

The Cold Six Thousand

av James Ellroy

Pocketbok. Random House/Arrow . First uppl. 2002. 672 sidor.

ISBN 9780099893301

Gott skick. Dallas, November 22nd, 1963. Wayne Tedrow Jr. has arrived to kill a man. The fee is $6,000. He finds himself instead in the middle of the cover-up following JFK's assassination. There follows a hellish five-year ride through the sordid underbelly of publi läs mer … läs mer