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  • Strides

    Running Through History With an Unlikely Athlete

    Acclaimed novelist Benjamin Cheever--author of The Plagiarist, Famous After Death, and The Good Nanny--brings his buoyant literary style to this impassioned memoir about the sport that changed his life.From Pheidippides, who ran the first marathon in 490 BC--bringing news to Athens of the Greek victory on the plains of Marathon--to our own soldiers in Iraq today, running is an integral part of ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD

  • Livre audio

    The Good Nanny

    Lu par George K. Wilson ...

    Version Longue

    8 heure 47 min

    Expert satirist Benjamin Cheever, author of Famous After Death, uses his dark sense of humor to deliver another searing look at suburbia. Literary editor Stuart Cross and his wife Andie, a film critic, hire the talented Louise to be nanny to their two young girls. Louise's perfection, however, begins to irritate the ambitious, but less accomplished Stuart and Andie, and soon the parents' jealousy ... En savoir plus

    $28.84 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Livre audio

    Famous After Death

    Lu par Johnny Heller ...

    Version Longue

    6 heure 9 min

    A brilliant and wickedly comic novel about fame and its discontents.Noel Hammersmith has two dreams: to bring his weight down to a slim 138 pounds and to be famous. Despite being a diet book editor and exercising regularly, he can't lose a pound, and his hilarious timidity insures that he has a hard time getting attention at all, let alone fame.To express his growing frustration, Noel begins to ... En savoir plus

    $28.84 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Livre audio

    Selling Ben Cheever

    Back to Square One in a Service Economy

    Lu par Benjamin Cheever ...

    Version Longue

    10 heure 13 min

    Ben Cheever's hilarious and profound odyssey through the want-ad world.In 1995, America was in the throes of downsizing-fever. Many thousands then, as now, were losing their jobs to the corporate demand of more money for the top, by tightening the belt below. Unable to sell his latest novel, Ben Cheever started to think about what employment opportunities were out there. Mustering his courage, he ... En savoir plus

    $35.72 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Secret Society of Demolition Writers

    Stories

    What would you write if no one knew who you were?In the spirit of the demolition derby, where drivers take heedless risks with reckless abandon, welcome to the first convocation of the Secret Society of Demolition Writers. Here is a one-of-a-kind collection by famous authors writing anonymously–and dangerously. With the usual concerns about reputations and renown cast aside, these twelve ... En savoir plus

    $6.99 CAD

  • Livre audio

    Drinking in America

    Our Secret History

    Version Longue

    9 heure 1 min

    In Drinking in America, bestselling author Susan Cheever chronicles our national love affair with liquor, taking a long, thoughtful look at the way alcohol has changed our nation's history. This is the often-overlooked story of how alcohol has shaped American events and the American character from the seventeenth to the twentieth century.Seen through the lens of alcoholism, American history takes ... En savoir plus

    $35.99 CAD

  • Le lettere

    par John Cheever ...
    Traduit par Tommaso Pincio ...
    “Conservare una lettera è come cercare di preservare un bacio” diceva John Cheever per esortare parenti e amici a gettare quelle che lui scriveva. E proprio perché convinto che i destinatari gli avrebbero dato ascolto, il Cechov dell’America suburbana ha confidato per lettera pensieri e timori, eventi importanti e cose di tutti i giorni, e lo ha fatto con un candore, una freschezza, un senso dell ... En savoir plus

    $29.99 CAD

  • Livre audio

    The Secret Society of Demolition Writers

    Version Longue

    7 heure 29 min

    What would you write if no one knew who you were?In the spirit of the demolition derby, where drivers take heedless risks with reckless abandon, welcome to the first convocation of the Secret Society of Demolition Writers. Here is a one-of-a-kind collection by famous authors writing anonymously–and dangerously. With the usual concerns about reputations and renown cast aside, these twelve ... En savoir plus

    $23.99 CAD

  • American Bloomsbury

    Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau: Their Lives, Their Loves, Their Work

    par Susan Cheever ...
    Even the most devoted readers of nineteenth-century American literature often assume that the men and women behind the masterpieces were as dull and staid as the era's static daguerreotypes. Susan Cheever's latest work, however, brings new life to the well-known literary personages who produced such cherished works as The Scarlet Letter, Moby-Dick, Walden, and Little Women. Rendering in full color ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Stories of John Cheever (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    par John Cheever ...
    Collections series Vintage International
    PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A seminal collection from one of the true masters of the short story. Spanning the duration of Cheever’s long and distinguished career, these sixty-one stories chronicle and encapsulate the lives of what has been called “the greatest generation.”From the early wonder and disillusionment of city life in “The Enormous Radio” to the surprising discoveries ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD

  • Drinking in America

    Our Secret History

    par Susan Cheever ...
    In Drinking in America, bestselling author Susan Cheever chronicles our national love affair with liquor, taking a long, thoughtful look at the way alcohol has changed our nation's history. This is the often-overlooked story of how alcohol has shaped American events and the American character from the seventeenth to the twentieth century.Seen through the lens of alcoholism, American history takes ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Swimmer

    par John Cheever ...
    Here is the preface to 12 magnificent stories, originally part of The John Cheever Audio Collection, in which John Cheever celebrates - with unequaled grace and tenderness - the deepest feelings we have.As Cheever writes in his preface, "These stories seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York was still filled with a river light, when you heard the Benny Goodman ... En savoir plus

    $1.79 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus