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ALFRED A. KNOPF
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Título : ELIZABETH FINCH Tipo de documento: texto impreso Autores: BARNES, JULIAN, Autor Editorial: NEW YORK : ALFRED A. KNOPF Fecha de publicación: 2022 Número de páginas: 179p ISBN/ISSN/DL: 978-0-593-53543-1 Idioma : Inglés (eng) Palabras clave: FRIENDSHIP FICTION ROMANCE LITERARY FICTION Resumen: This beautiful, spare novel of platonic unrequited love springs into being around the singular character of the stoic, exacting Professor Elizabeth Finch. Neil, the narrator, takes her class “Culture and Civilisation,” taught not for undergraduates but for adults of all ages; we are drawn into his intellectual crush on this private, withholding, yet commanding woman. While other personal relationships and even his family drift from Neil’s grasp, Elizabeth’s application of her material to the matter of daily living remains important to him, even after her death, in a way that nothing else does.
In Elizabeth Finch, we are treated to everything we cherish in Barnes: his eye for the unorthodox forms love can take between two people, a compelling swerve into nonfictional material (this time, through Neil’s obsessive study of Julian the Apostate, following on notes Elizabeth left for him to discover after her death), and the forcefully moving undercurrent of history, and biography in particular, as nourishment and guide in our current lives.Reserva
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Código de barras Signatura Tipo de medio Ubicación Sección Estado E6462 F^BAR Libro Biblioteca Anglo Colección general Disponible
Título : GREAT CIRCLE Tipo de documento: texto impreso Autores: SHIPSTEAD, MAGGIE, Autor Editorial: NEW YORK : ALFRED A. KNOPF Fecha de publicación: 2021 Número de páginas: 589p ISBN/ISSN/DL: 978-0-525-65697-5 Idioma : Inglés (eng) Palabras clave: FICTION HISTORICAL WORLD WAR II BIOGRAPHICAL Resumen: After being rescued as infants from a sinking ocean liner in 1914, Marian and Jamie Graves are raised by their dissolute uncle in Missoula, Montana. There--after encountering a pair of barnstorming pilots passing through town in beat-up biplanes--Marian commences her lifelong love affair with flight. At fourteen she drops out of school and finds an unexpected and dangerous patron in a wealthy bootlegger who provides a plane and subsidizes her lessons, an arrangement that will haunt her for the rest of her life, even as it allows her to fulfill her destiny: circumnavigating the globe by flying over the North and South Poles.
A century later, Hadley Baxter is cast to play Marian in a film that centers on Marian's disappearance in Antarctica. Vibrant, canny, disgusted with the claustrophobia of Hollywood, Hadley is eager to redefine herself after a romantic film franchise has imprisoned her in the grip of cult celebrity. Her immersion into the character of Marian unfolds, thrillingly, alongside Marian's own story, as the two women's fates--and their hunger for self-determination in vastly different geographies and times--collide. Epic and emotional, meticulously researched and gloriously told, Great Circle is a monumental work of art, and a tremendous leap forward for the prodigiously gifted Maggie Shipstead.Reserva
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Código de barras Signatura Tipo de medio Ubicación Sección Estado E6399 F^SHI Libro Biblioteca Anglo Colección general Disponible
Título : INSIDE STORY Tipo de documento: texto impreso Autores: AMIS, MARTIN, Autor Editorial: NEW YORK : ALFRED A. KNOPF Fecha de publicación: 2020 Número de páginas: 538p ISBN/ISSN/DL: 978-0-593-31829-4 Idioma : Inglés (eng) Palabras clave: FICTION BIOGRAPHICAL DARK HUMOR Resumen: This novel had its birth in the death of Martin Amis's closest friend, the incomparable Christopher Hitchens, and it is within that profound and sprawling friendship that Inside Story unfurls. From their early days as young magazine staffers in London, reviewing romantic entanglements and the latest literary gossip (not to mention ideas, books, and where to lunch), Hitch was Amis's wingman and adviser, especially in the matter of the alluringly amoral Phoebe Phelps—an obsession Amis must somehow put behind him if he is ever to find love, marriage, a plausible run at happiness.
Other figures competing as Amis's main influencers are his literary fathers—Kingsley, of course; his hero Saul Bellow; the weirdly self-finessing poet Philip Larkin—and his significant literary mothers, including Iris Murdoch and Elizabeth Jane Howard. Moving among these greats to set his own path, Amis's quest is a tender, witty exploration of the hardest questions: how to live, how to grieve, and how to die. In search of his answers, he surveys the horrors of the twentieth century, and the still-unfolding impact of the 9/11 attacks on the twenty-first--and considers what all of this has taught him about how to be a writer.
The result is a love letter to life—and to the people in his life—that achieves a new level of confidentiality with his readers, giving us the previously unseen portrait of his extraordinary world.Reserva
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Código de barras Signatura Tipo de medio Ubicación Sección Estado E6400 F^AMI Libro Biblioteca Anglo Colección general Disponible
Título : LESSONS Tipo de documento: texto impreso Autores: MCEWAN, IAN, Autor Editorial: NEW YORK : ALFRED A. KNOPF Fecha de publicación: 2022 Número de páginas: 431p ISBN/ISSN/DL: 978-0-593-53520-2 Idioma : Inglés (eng) Palabras clave: FAMILY LIFE FICTION Resumen: When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has closed, eleven-year-old Roland Baines's life is turned upside down. Two thousand miles from his mother's protective love, stranded at an unusual boarding school, his vulnerability attracts piano teacher Miss Miriam Cornell, leaving scars as well as a memory of love that will never fade.
Now, when his wife vanishes, leaving him alone with his tiny son, Roland is forced to confront the reality of his restless existence. As the radiation from Chernobyl spreads across Europe, he begins a search for answers that looks deep into his family history and will last for the rest of his life.
Haunted by lost opportunities, Roland seeks solace through every possible means—music, literature, friends, sex, politics, and, finally, love cut tragically short, then love ultimately redeemed. His journey raises important questions for us all. Can we take full charge of the course of our lives without causing damage to others? How do global events beyond our control shape our lives and our memories? And what can we really learn from the traumas of the past?
Epic, mesmerizing, and deeply humane, Lessons is a chronicle for our times—a powerful meditation on history and humanity through the prism of one man's lifetime.Reserva
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Código de barras Signatura Tipo de medio Ubicación Sección Estado E6464 F^MCE Libro Biblioteca Anglo Colección general Disponible
Título : NIGHTS OF PLAGUE Tipo de documento: texto impreso Autores: PAMUK, ORHAN, Autor Editorial: NEW YORK : ALFRED A. KNOPF Fecha de publicación: 2022 Número de páginas: 683p ISBN/ISSN/DL: 978-0-525-65689-0 Idioma : Inglés (eng) Palabras clave: CULTURAL HERITAGE FICTION HISTORICAL SCIENCE FICTION FANTASY Nota de contenido: It is April 1900, in the Levant, on the imaginary island of Mingheria—the twenty-ninth state of the Ottoman Empire—located in the eastern Mediterranean between Crete and Cyprus. Half the population is Muslim, the other half are Orthodox Greeks, and tension is high between the two. When a plague arrives—brought either by Muslim pilgrims returning from the Mecca or by merchant vessels coming from Alexandria—the island revolts.
To stop the epidemic, the Ottoman sultan Abdul Hamid II sends his most accomplished quarantine expert to the island—an Orthodox Christian. Some of the Muslims, including followers of a popular religious sect and its leader Sheikh Hamdullah, refuse to take precautions or respect the quarantine. And then a murder occurs.
As the plague continues its rapid spread, the Sultan sends a second doctor to the island, this time a Muslim, and strict quarantine measures are declared. But the incompetence of the island’s governor and local administration and the people’s refusal to respect the bans doom the quarantine to failure, and the death count continues to rise. Faced with the danger that the plague might spread to the West and to Istanbul, the Sultan bows to international pressure and allows foreign and Ottoman warships to blockade the island. Now the people of Mingheria are on their own, and they must find a way to defeat the plague themselves.
Steeped in history and rife with suspense, Nights of Plague is an epic story set more than one hundred years ago, with themes that feel remarkably contemporary.Reserva
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Código de barras Signatura Tipo de medio Ubicación Sección Estado E6461 F^PAM Libro Biblioteca Anglo Colección general Disponible
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