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The Summer Friend

A Memoir

par Charles McGrath ...

Alive with the intoxicating magic of summer in New England, former editor of the New York Times Book Review Charles McGrath’s evocative memoir looks back at that sun-soaked season, at family, youth, and a singular bond made at a time when he thought he was beyond making friends.**“Sun-drenched and deeply touching.” —The New York Times“Positively aches with beauty and loss.” —Richard Russo, ... En savoir plus

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Alive with the intoxicating magic of summer in New England, former editor of the New York Times Book Review Charles McGrath’s evocative memoir looks back at that sun-soaked season, at family, youth, and a singular bond made at a time when he thought he was beyond making friends.**“Sun-drenched and deeply touching.” —The New York Times“Positively aches with beauty and loss.” —Richard Russo,
... En savoir plus

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Appointment in Samarra

(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

par John O'Hara ...

Collections series Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
The best-loved book by the writer whom Fran Lebowitz compared to the author of The Great Gatsby, calling him “the real F. Scott Fitzgerald”One of the great novels of small-town American life, Appointment in Samarra is John O’Hara’s crowning achievement. In December 1930, just before Christmas, the Gibbsville, Pennsylvania, social circuit is electrified with parties and dances. At the center of the ... En savoir plus

$14.99 CAD

The best-loved book by the writer whom Fran Lebowitz compared to the author of The Great Gatsby, calling him “the real F. Scott Fitzgerald”One of the great novels of small-town American life, Appointment in Samarra is John O’Hara’s crowning achievement. In December 1930, just before Christmas, the Gibbsville, Pennsylvania, social circuit is electrified with parties and dances. At the center of the
... En savoir plus
Donald Barthelme: Collected Stories (LOA #343)

par Donald Barthelme ...

The definitive collection of a twentieth-century master of the short story, whose unforgettable inventions revolutionized the formThe short stories of Donald Barthelme, revered by the likes of Thomas Pynchon and George Saunders, are gems of invention and pathos that have dazzled and delighted readers since the 1960s. Here, for the first time, these essential stories are preserved as they were ... En savoir plus

$47.99 CAD

The definitive collection of a twentieth-century master of the short story, whose unforgettable inventions revolutionized the formThe short stories of Donald Barthelme, revered by the likes of Thomas Pynchon and George Saunders, are gems of invention and pathos that have dazzled and delighted readers since the 1960s. Here, for the first time, these essential stories are preserved as they were
... En savoir plus
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Our Boston

Writers Celebrate the City They Love

par Andrew Blauner, Kevin Cullen, Mike Barnicle, E. M. Swift, Charles McGrath, Madeleine Blais, George Howe Colt, Susan Orlean, David M. Shribman, Joan Wickersham0, David Michaelis1, Katherine A. Powers2, Jabari Asim3, Lesley Visser4, Hugh Delehanty5, George Plimpton6, Leslie Epstein7, Bud Collins8, Nell Scovell9, Israel Horovitz0, Shira Springer1, Dennis Lehane2, Susan Sheehan3, James Atlas4, Leigh Montville5, Tova Mirvis6, Pagan Kennedy7, Scott Stossel8, Robert Pinsky9, Bill Littlefield0, Carlo Rotella1, Neil Swidey2, Jessica Shattuck3, John Updike4, Pico Iyer5, Sally Taylor6, André Aciman0 ...

Lu par various narrators7, Peter Berkrot8, Johnny Heller9, Malcolm Hillgartner0, Jim Meskimen1, Joe Barrett2, Bernadette Dunne3, Bronson Pinchot4, Carrington MacDuffie5, Susan Boyce6, Kevin Kenerly7, Meredith Mitchell8, Ralph Lister9 ...

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10 heure 57 min

What defines Boston? Its history? Its landmarks? Its sports teams and shrines?Perhaps the question should be, who defines Boston? From Henry David Thoreau to Dennis Lehane, Boston has been beloved by many of America's greatest writers, and there is no better group of men and women to capture the heart and soul of the Hub. In Our Boston, editor Andrew Blauner has collected both original and ... En savoir plus

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What defines Boston? Its history? Its landmarks? Its sports teams and shrines?Perhaps the question should be, who defines Boston? From Henry David Thoreau to Dennis Lehane, Boston has been beloved by many of America's greatest writers, and there is no better group of men and women to capture the heart and soul of the Hub. In Our Boston, editor Andrew Blauner has collected both original and
... En savoir plus

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The Summer Friend

A Memoir

par Charles McGrath ...

Lu par Charles McGrath ...

Version Longue

4 heure 21 min

Alive with the intoxicating magic of summer in New England, former editor of the New York Times Book Review Charles McGrath’s evocative memoir looks back at that sun-soaked season, at family, youth, and a singular bond made at a time when he thought he was beyond making friends.**“Sun-drenched and deeply touching.” —The New York Times“Positively aches with beauty and loss.” —Richard Russo, ... En savoir plus

$20.99 CAD

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Alive with the intoxicating magic of summer in New England, former editor of the New York Times Book Review Charles McGrath’s evocative memoir looks back at that sun-soaked season, at family, youth, and a singular bond made at a time when he thought he was beyond making friends.**“Sun-drenched and deeply touching.” —The New York Times“Positively aches with beauty and loss.” —Richard Russo,
... En savoir plus

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Endpoint and Other Poems

Unabridged Selections

par John Updike ...

Lu par Charles McGrath ...

Version Abrégée

58 min

A stunning collection of poems that John Updike wrote during the last seven years of his life and put together only weeks before he died for this, his final book.The opening sequence, “Endpoint,”is made up of a series of connected poems written on the occasions of his recent birthdays and culminates in his confrontation with his final illness. He looks back on the boy that he was, on the family, ... En savoir plus

$12.99 CAD

A stunning collection of poems that John Updike wrote during the last seven years of his life and put together only weeks before he died for this, his final book.The opening sequence, “Endpoint,”is made up of a series of connected poems written on the occasions of his recent birthdays and culminates in his confrontation with his final illness. He looks back on the boy that he was, on the family,
... En savoir plus
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Appointment in Samarra

par John O'Hara ...

Lu par Christian Camargo ...

Collections series Penguin Audio Classics
Version Longue

6 heure 50 min

The writer whom Fran Lebowitz compared to the author of The Great Gatsby, calling him “the real F. Scott Fitzgerald,” makes his Penguin Classics debut with this beautiful deluxe edition of his best-loved book.One of the great novels of small-town American life, Appointment in Samarra is John O’Hara’s crowning achievement. In December 1930, just before Christmas, the Gibbsville, Pennsylvania, ... En savoir plus

$22.99 CAD

The writer whom Fran Lebowitz compared to the author of The Great Gatsby, calling him “the real F. Scott Fitzgerald,” makes his Penguin Classics debut with this beautiful deluxe edition of his best-loved book.One of the great novels of small-town American life, Appointment in Samarra is John O’Hara’s crowning achievement. In December 1930, just before Christmas, the Gibbsville, Pennsylvania,
... En savoir plus

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BUtterfield 8

par John O'Hara ...

Lu par Gretchen Mol ...

Collections series Penguin Audio Classics
Version Longue

8 heure 7 min

The bestselling novel that became an Oscar-winning film starring Elizabeth Taylor about New York's speakeasy generationA masterpiece of American fiction and a bestseller upon its publication in 1935, BUtterfield 8 lays bare with brash honesty the unspoken and often shocking truths that lurked beneath the surface of a society still reeling from the effects of the Great Depression. One Sunday ... En savoir plus

$22.99 CAD

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The bestselling novel that became an Oscar-winning film starring Elizabeth Taylor about New York's speakeasy generationA masterpiece of American fiction and a bestseller upon its publication in 1935, BUtterfield 8 lays bare with brash honesty the unspoken and often shocking truths that lurked beneath the surface of a society still reeling from the effects of the Great Depression. One Sunday
... En savoir plus

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Book of Numbers

par Joshua Cohen ...

Lu par Kirby Heyborne ...

Version Longue

22 heure 53 min

When the enigmatic billionaire founder and CEO of Teration, the world's most powerful tech company, is diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer, he hires failed novelist, Josh Cohen, to ghostwrite his memoirs. This tech mogul, known only as "principle", takes Josh deep into his own mind, and outlines the history of Tetration and outlines the history of Tetration, which started by revolutionizing ... En savoir plus

$49.99 CAD

When the enigmatic billionaire founder and CEO of Teration, the world's most powerful tech company, is diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer, he hires failed novelist, Josh Cohen, to ghostwrite his memoirs. This tech mogul, known only as "principle", takes Josh deep into his own mind, and outlines the history of Tetration and outlines the history of Tetration, which started by revolutionizing
... En savoir plus
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The Crying of Lot 49

par Thomas Pynchon ...

Lu par George K Wilson ...

Version Longue

6 heure 17 min

The highly original satire about Oedipa Maas, a woman who finds herself enmeshed in a worldwide conspiracy.When her ex-lover, wealthy real-estate tycoon Pierce Inverarity, dies and designates her the coexecutor of his estate, California housewife Oedipa Maas is thrust into a paranoid mystery of metaphors, symbols, and the United States Postal Service. Traveling across SouthernCalifornia, she meets ... En savoir plus

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The highly original satire about Oedipa Maas, a woman who finds herself enmeshed in a worldwide conspiracy.When her ex-lover, wealthy real-estate tycoon Pierce Inverarity, dies and designates her the coexecutor of his estate, California housewife Oedipa Maas is thrust into a paranoid mystery of metaphors, symbols, and the United States Postal Service. Traveling across SouthernCalifornia, she meets
... En savoir plus

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The Innocent

par Ian McEwan ...

Lu par John Franklyn-Robbins ...

Version Longue

10 heure 3 min

War-weary Berlin has much to offer Leonard Markham, a young, naive postal engineer: first the arts of sophisticated intrigue, then the delights of sexual pleasure. But Leonard's new knowledge carries a heavy price, dragging him into a life that is exhaustively suspenseful and utterly irresistible. ... En savoir plus

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War-weary Berlin has much to offer Leonard Markham, a young, naive postal engineer: first the arts of sophisticated intrigue, then the delights of sexual pleasure. But Leonard's new knowledge carries a heavy price, dragging him into a life that is exhaustively suspenseful and utterly irresistible.
... En savoir plus

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I, Claudius

par Robert Graves ...

Lu par Derek Jacobi, Full Cast, Tom Goodman-Hill ...

Version Longue

5 heure 47 min

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Robert Graves' brilliant account of the madness and debauchery of ancient Rome, starring Tom Goodman Hill as Claudius and Derek Jacobi as Augustus. The wickedly entertaining inside story of the lives and deaths of the Imperial dynasty from Augustus to Caligula is told by their obscure relation, Claudius. In public, Claudius is a stammering, drooling ... En savoir plus

$25.99 CAD

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A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Robert Graves' brilliant account of the madness and debauchery of ancient Rome, starring Tom Goodman Hill as Claudius and Derek Jacobi as Augustus. The wickedly entertaining inside story of the lives and deaths of the Imperial dynasty from Augustus to Caligula is told by their obscure relation, Claudius. In public, Claudius is a stammering, drooling
... En savoir plus

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