Rakuten Kobo

Skip side bar filters

Basquiat

A Quick Killing in Art

par Phoebe Hoban ...

New York Times Notable Book“A smart, crackling chronicle of fast game, the ’80s art market, [and] the attraction of destruction.”— Village VoiceA bold and vivid biography that chronicles the dazzling rise and tragic death of Neo-expressionist artist Jean-Michel Basquiat.In less than a decade, Jean-Michel Basquiat went from being a teenage graffiti artist to an international art star. His meteoric ... En savoir plus

$11.99 CAD

Aussi disponible en : Livre audio

New York Times Notable Book“A smart, crackling chronicle of fast game, the ’80s art market, [and] the attraction of destruction.”— Village VoiceA bold and vivid biography that chronicles the dazzling rise and tragic death of Neo-expressionist artist Jean-Michel Basquiat.In less than a decade, Jean-Michel Basquiat went from being a teenage graffiti artist to an international art star. His meteoric
... En savoir plus

Aussi disponible en : Livre audio
Alice Neel: The Art of Not Sitting Pretty

par Phoebe Hoban, Alice Neel ...

“Neel emerges as a resolute survivor who lived by her convictions, both aesthetically and politically.” —Publisher’s WeeklyPhoebe Hoban’s definitive biography of the renowned American painter Alice Neel tells the unforgettable story of an artist whose life spanned the twentieth century, from women’s suffrage through the Depression, McCarthyism, the civil rights movement, the sexual revolution, and ... En savoir plus

$18.99 CAD

“Neel emerges as a resolute survivor who lived by her convictions, both aesthetically and politically.” —Publisher’s WeeklyPhoebe Hoban’s definitive biography of the renowned American painter Alice Neel tells the unforgettable story of an artist whose life spanned the twentieth century, from women’s suffrage through the Depression, McCarthyism, the civil rights movement, the sexual revolution, and
... En savoir plus
Livre audio

Basquiat

A Quick Killing in Art

par Phoebe Hoban ...

Lu par Ron Butler ...

Version Longue

14 heure 6 min

New York Times Notable Book“A smart, crackling chronicle of fast game, the ’80s art market, [and] the attraction of destruction.”— Village VoiceA bold and vivid biography that chronicles the dazzling rise and tragic death of Neo-expressionist artist Jean-Michel Basquiat.In less than a decade, Jean-Michel Basquiat went from being a teenage graffiti artist to an international art star. His meteoric ... En savoir plus

$41.99 CAD

Aussi disponible en : eBook

New York Times Notable Book“A smart, crackling chronicle of fast game, the ’80s art market, [and] the attraction of destruction.”— Village VoiceA bold and vivid biography that chronicles the dazzling rise and tragic death of Neo-expressionist artist Jean-Michel Basquiat.In less than a decade, Jean-Michel Basquiat went from being a teenage graffiti artist to an international art star. His meteoric
... En savoir plus

Aussi disponible en : eBook
Livre audio

Lucian Freud

Eyes Wide Open

par Phoebe Hoban ...

Lu par Laural Merlington ...

Collections series Icons
Version Longue

5 heure 31 min

Phoebe Hoban, author of definitive biographies of Jean-Michel Basquiat and Alice Neel, now turns her attention to Lucian Freud, the grandson of Sigmund and one of the greatest painters England has produced. Lucian Freud: Eyes Wide Open is the first biography to assess Freud’s work and life, showing how the two converge.In Hoban’s dramatic and fast-paced narrative, we follow Freud from his ... En savoir plus

$49.46 CAD

Phoebe Hoban, author of definitive biographies of Jean-Michel Basquiat and Alice Neel, now turns her attention to Lucian Freud, the grandson of Sigmund and one of the greatest painters England has produced. Lucian Freud: Eyes Wide Open is the first biography to assess Freud’s work and life, showing how the two converge.In Hoban’s dramatic and fast-paced narrative, we follow Freud from his
... En savoir plus

Livre audio

My Seditious Heart

Collected Nonfiction

par Arundhati Roy ...

Lu par Tania Rodrigues ...

Version Longue

36 heure 17 min

Bookended by her two extraordinary novels, The God of Small Things (1997) and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness (2017), My Seditious Heart collects the work of a two-decade period when Arundhati Roy devoted herself to the political essay as a way of opening up space for justice, rights, and freedoms in an increasingly hostile environment.Radical and superbly readable, the essays speak in a voice of ... En savoir plus

$41.95 CAD

Aussi disponible en : eBooks

Bookended by her two extraordinary novels, The God of Small Things (1997) and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness (2017), My Seditious Heart collects the work of a two-decade period when Arundhati Roy devoted herself to the political essay as a way of opening up space for justice, rights, and freedoms in an increasingly hostile environment.Radical and superbly readable, the essays speak in a voice of
... En savoir plus

Aussi disponible en : eBooks
Livre audio

Just a Couple of Days

par Tony Vigorito ...

Lu par Bernard Clark ...

Version Longue

12 heure 26 min

Blip Korterly kicks off a game of graffiti tag on a local overpass by painting a simple phrase: "Uh-oh." An anonymous interlocutor writes back: "When?" Blip slyly answers: "Just a couple of days." But what happens in just a couple of days? Blip is arrested; his friend, Dr. Flake Fountain—a molecular biologist—is drafted into a shadow-government research project conducting experiments on humans. ... En savoir plus

$32.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

Aussi disponible en : eBook

Blip Korterly kicks off a game of graffiti tag on a local overpass by painting a simple phrase: "Uh-oh." An anonymous interlocutor writes back: "When?" Blip slyly answers: "Just a couple of days." But what happens in just a couple of days? Blip is arrested; his friend, Dr. Flake Fountain—a molecular biologist—is drafted into a shadow-government research project conducting experiments on humans.
... En savoir plus

Aussi disponible en : eBook
Livre audio

Forbidden Journeys

Fairy Tales and Fantasies by Victorian Women Writers

par Nina Auerbach, U. C. Knoepflmacher ...

Lu par Auto-narrated ...

Version Longue

13 heure 53 min

As these eleven dark and wild stories demonstrate, fairy tales by Victorian women constitute a distinct literary tradition, one startlingly subversive of the society that fostered it. From Anne Thackeray Ritchie’s adaptations of “The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood” to Christina Rossetti’s unsettling antifantasies in Speaking Likenesses, these are breathtaking acts of imaginative freedom, by turns ... En savoir plus

$6.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

Aussi disponible en : eBook

As these eleven dark and wild stories demonstrate, fairy tales by Victorian women constitute a distinct literary tradition, one startlingly subversive of the society that fostered it. From Anne Thackeray Ritchie’s adaptations of “The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood” to Christina Rossetti’s unsettling antifantasies in Speaking Likenesses, these are breathtaking acts of imaginative freedom, by turns
... En savoir plus

Aussi disponible en : eBook
Livre audio

Black Detroit

A People's History of Self-Determination

par Herb Boyd ...

Lu par James Shippy ...

Version Longue

10 heure 23 min

The author of Baldwin’s Harlem looks at the evolving culture, politics, economics, and spiritual life of Detroit—a blend of memoir, love letter, history, and clear-eyed reportage that explores the city’s past, present, and future and its significance to the African American legacy and the nation’s fabric.Herb Boyd moved to Detroit in 1943, as race riots were engulfing the city. Though he did not ... En savoir plus

$36.99 CAD

Aussi disponible en : eBook

The author of Baldwin’s Harlem looks at the evolving culture, politics, economics, and spiritual life of Detroit—a blend of memoir, love letter, history, and clear-eyed reportage that explores the city’s past, present, and future and its significance to the African American legacy and the nation’s fabric.Herb Boyd moved to Detroit in 1943, as race riots were engulfing the city. Though he did not
... En savoir plus

Aussi disponible en : eBook
Livre audio

Greater Trumps, The

par Charles Williams ...

Lu par David Pickering ...

Version Longue

8 heure 51 min

Would someone really kill for a pack of cards?But these are no ordinary cards. This is the original tarot deck, from which all other tarot decks have sprung. Their fate is entwined with a set of gold figurines representing the Major Arcana, which continually dance around a tabletop much like a chess board—the archetypal forces of the universe in miniature. Whoever can bring the deck and the ... En savoir plus

$16.99 CAD

Aussi disponible en : eBooks

Would someone really kill for a pack of cards?But these are no ordinary cards. This is the original tarot deck, from which all other tarot decks have sprung. Their fate is entwined with a set of gold figurines representing the Major Arcana, which continually dance around a tabletop much like a chess board—the archetypal forces of the universe in miniature. Whoever can bring the deck and the
... En savoir plus

Aussi disponible en : eBooks
Livre audio

Falling Torch

par Algis Budrys ...

Lu par Jerry Sciarrio ...

Version Longue

6 heure 8 min

How could he save Earth, when Earth no longer cared? In this sci-fi classic, distant archaic Earth has been occupied by aliens for several decades, while Earth's government-in-exile has resided in the advanced Centaurian system. Finally, this aging, tired group find they are about to receive help - financial aid and weaponry to recover their lost planet. But do they want to give up their lives for ... En savoir plus

$13.99 CAD

Aussi disponible en : eBook

How could he save Earth, when Earth no longer cared? In this sci-fi classic, distant archaic Earth has been occupied by aliens for several decades, while Earth's government-in-exile has resided in the advanced Centaurian system. Finally, this aging, tired group find they are about to receive help - financial aid and weaponry to recover their lost planet. But do they want to give up their lives for
... En savoir plus

Aussi disponible en : eBook
Livre audio

Smoketown

The Untold Story of the Other Great Black Renaissance

par Mark Whitaker ...

Lu par Prentice Onayemi ...

Version Longue

13 heure 31 min

The other great Renaissance of black culture, influence, and glamour burst forth joyfully in what may seem an unlikely place—Pittsburgh, PA—from the 1920s through the 1950s.Today black Pittsburgh is known as the setting for August Wilson’s famed plays about noble but doomed working-class strivers. But this community once had an impact on American history that rivaled the far larger black worlds of ... En savoir plus

$31.54 CAD

Aussi disponible en : eBook

The other great Renaissance of black culture, influence, and glamour burst forth joyfully in what may seem an unlikely place—Pittsburgh, PA—from the 1920s through the 1950s.Today black Pittsburgh is known as the setting for August Wilson’s famed plays about noble but doomed working-class strivers. But this community once had an impact on American history that rivaled the far larger black worlds of
... En savoir plus

Aussi disponible en : eBook
Livre audio

The Motion of Light in Water

Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village

par Samuel R. Delany ...

Lu par Stefan Rudnicki ...

Version Longue

19 heure 29 min

Born in New York City’s black ghetto Harlem at the start of World War II, Samuel R. Delany married white poet Marilyn Hacker right out of high school. The interracial couple moved into the city’s new bohemian quarter, the Lower East Side, in summer 1961.Through the decade’s opening years, new art, new sexual practices, new music, and new political awareness burgeoned among the crowded streets and ... En savoir plus

$41.95 CAD

Aussi disponible en : eBook

Born in New York City’s black ghetto Harlem at the start of World War II, Samuel R. Delany married white poet Marilyn Hacker right out of high school. The interracial couple moved into the city’s new bohemian quarter, the Lower East Side, in summer 1961.Through the decade’s opening years, new art, new sexual practices, new music, and new political awareness burgeoned among the crowded streets and
... En savoir plus

Aussi disponible en : eBook

Kobo Rakuten

Liseuses

Applis

Accessoires

Qu'est ce que les Kobo Super Points ?

Faites-vous plaisir

Panier

Vous profitez des avantages réservés aux VIP !

Votre panier est vide

Disponible:

1 livre audio par mois

+ Essai GRATUIT de 30 jours

Disponible:

1 livre audio par mois

+ Essai GRATUIT de 30 jours

Recommandé pour vous

Meilleures séries dans ce pays : Canada

Icons

Basquiat

Alice Neel: The Art of Not Sitting Pretty

Basquiat

Lucian Freud

Les lecteurs de ces romans ont aussi aimé

My Seditious Heart

Just a Couple of Days

Forbidden Journeys

Black Detroit

Greater Trumps, The

Falling Torch

Smoketown

The Motion of Light in Water

Liseuses

Applis

Accessoires

Panier

Vous profitez des avantages réservés aux VIP !

Votre panier est vide

Disponible:

1 livre audio par mois

+ Essai GRATUIT de 30 jours

Disponible:

1 livre audio par mois

+ Essai GRATUIT de 30 jours

Recommandé pour vous

Meilleures séries dans ce pays : Canada

Icons

Afficher :

Les lecteurs de ces romans ont aussi aimé