66 Results for : banville
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Journey to the End of the Night
Journey to the End of the Night ab 12.99 € als Taschenbuch: Foreword by John Banville. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Romane & Erzählungen,- Shop: hugendubel
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The Infinities , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 580min
The dazzling new novel from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea Old Adam Godley’s time on earth is drawing to an end, and as his wife and children gather at the family home, little do they realize that they are not the only ones who have come to observe the spectacle. The mischievous Greek gods, too, have come; as tensions fray and desire bubbles over, their spying soon becomes intrusion becomes intervention, until the mortals’ lives – right before their eyes – seem to be changing faster than they can cope with. Overflowing with bawdy humour, Banville has allowed his twinkling eye to rove through memories of the past and relationships of the present in this moving family drama. The Infinities is both a salacious delight and a penetrating exploration of the terrifying, wonderful, immutable plight of being human. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Julian Rhind-Tutt. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/macm/000507/bk_macm_000507_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Speaking Volumes: Conversations with Remarkable Writers , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 940min
Ramona Koval has been praised as a master of the interview genre, renowned for engaging writers in conversations that are incisive, provocative, and often funny. In this new collection, Speaking Volumes: Conversations with Remarkable Writers, she shares the most fascinating interviews from her 2005 book Tasting Life Twice, along with brand-new ones with some of the most important writers of our times. Through Koval, we are privy to the extraordinary minds of Joseph Heller, Joyce Carol Oates, Mario Vargas Llosa, Saul Bellow, Norman Mailer, David Malouf, P. D. James, John Mortimer, Ian McEwan, Amos Oz, Gore Vidal, Harold Pinter, John le Carré, Barry Lopez, Malcolm Bradbury, William Gass, Judith Wright, Les Murray, Fay Weldon, A. S. Byatt, Margaret Drabble, Martin Amis, Toni Morrison, André Brink, John Banville, Jeanette Winterson, Hanif Kureishi, and Anne Enright, among others. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joan Walker. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/021271/bk_adbl_021271_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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How to Write a Play
How to Write a Play ab 5.49 € als pdf eBook: Letters from Augier Banville Dennery Dumas Gondinet Labiche Legouve Pailleron Sardou Zola. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Belletristik, Erzählungen,- Shop: hugendubel
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Die Blonde mit den schwarzen Augen: Ein Philip-Marlowe-Roman
In diesem packenden Roman erweckt John Banville alias Benjamin Black den berühmtesten Privatdetektiv der Weltliteratur, Philip Marlowe, zu neuem Leben. Eine virtuose Mimikry, die die Krimifans begeistern wird. Los Angeles in den frühen Fünfzigerjahren. Philip Marlowe, Privatdetektiv, ist ruhelos und einsam wie eh und je. Die Geschäfte laufen eher schlecht, da trifft es sich gut, dass eine neue Klientin sein Büro betritt: jung, atemberaubend schön, gut gekleidet. Clare Cavendish will, dass Marlowe ihren Liebhaber findet, Nico Petersen, der plötzlich wie vom Erdboden verschluckt ist. Bald verfällt Marlowe dem Charme der schwarzäugigen Blonden und findet sich in einem Fall wieder, der ihn in die Welt einer der reichsten Familien der Gegend führt. Die wiederum würde alles dafür tun, um diesen Reichtum zu verteidigen...- Shop: Audible
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A Spy Among Friends
A SUNDAY TIMES No. 1 BESTSELLERWITH AN AFTERWORD BY JOHN LE CARRÉ'Riveting, astounding ... An unputdownable postwar thriller' Observer'Irresistibly readable' Sunday Times'Worthy of John le Carré at his best' John Banville, Guardian'Hugely engrossing ... Both authoritative and enthralling' William Boyd________________Kim Philby was the most notorious British defector and Soviet mole in history. Agent, double agent, charmer and traitor, he betrayed every secret of Allied operations to the Russians in the early years of the Cold War. In the aftermath of the Second World War, Philby, Nicholas Elliott and James Jesus Angleton were rising stars in the intelligence world and shared every secret. Elliott and Angleton thought they knew Philby better than anyone - and then discovered they had not known him at all.This is a story of loyalty, trust and treachery, class and conscience, of male friendships forged, and then systematically betrayed. With access to newly released MI5 files and previously unseen papers, A Spy Among Friends unlocks what is perhaps the last great secret of the Cold War.- Shop: buecher
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Time Pieces: A Dublin Memoir , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 279min
From the internationally acclaimed and Man Booker prize-winning author of The Sea and the Benjamin Black mysteries - a vividly evocative memoir that unfolds around the author's recollections, experience, and imaginings of Dublin. As much about the life of the city as it is about a life lived, sometimes, in the city, John Banville's "quasi-memoir" is as layered, emotionally rich, witty, and unexpected as any of his novels. Born and bred in a small town a train ride away from Dublin, Banville saw the city as a place of enchantment when he was a child, a birthday treat, the place where his beloved, eccentric aunt lived. And though, when he came of age and took up residence there, and the city became a frequent backdrop for his dissatisfactions (not playing an identifiable role in his work until the Quirke mystery series, penned as Benjamin Black), it remained in some part of his memory as fascinating as it had been to his seven-year-old self. And as he guides us around the city, delighting in its cultural, architectural, political, and social history, he interweaves the memories that are attached to particular places and moments. The result is both a wonderfully idiosyncratic tour of Dublin, and a tender yet powerful ode to a formative time and place for the artist as a young man. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Lee. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/006016/bk_rand_006016_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Blood Meridian
The wrath of God lies sleeping. It was hid a million years before men were and only men have power to wake it. Hell aint half full. Set in the anarchic world opened up by America's westward expansion, Blood Meridian is an epic and potent account of the barbarous violence that man visits upon man. Through the hostile landscape of the Texas-Mexico border wanders the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennessean who is quickly swept up in the relentless tide of blood. But the apparent chaos is not without its order: while Americans hunt Indians - collecting scalps as their bloody trophies - they too are stalked as prey. Since its first publication in 1985, Blood Meridian has been read as both a brilliant subversion of the Western novel and a blazing example of that form. Powerful and savagely beautiful, it has emerged as one of the most important works in American fiction of the last century. 'A bloody and starkly beautiful tale' Sunday Times 'Unlike anything I have read in recent years, an extraordinary, breathtaking achievement' John Banville- Shop: buecher
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Laughter in the Dark
"Once upon a time there lived in Berlin, Germany, a man called Albinus. He was rich, respectable, happy; one day he abandoned his wife for the sake of a youthful mistress; he loved; was not loved; and his life ended in disaster." Thus begins Vladimir Nabokov's Laughter in the Dark; this, the author tells us, is the whole story-except that he starts from here, with his characteristic dazzling skill and irony, and brilliantly turns a fable into a chilling, original novel of folly and destruction. Amidst a Weimar-era milieu of silent film stars, artists, and aspirants, Nabokov creates a merciless masterpiece as Albinus, an aging critic, falls prey to his own desires, to his teenage mistress, and to Axel Rex, the scheming rival for her affections who finds his greatest joy in the downfall of others. Published first in Russian as Kamera Obskura in 1932, this book appeared in Nabokov's own English translation six years later. This New Directions edition, based on the text as Nabokov revised it in 1960, features a new introduction by Booker Prize-winner John Banville.- Shop: buecher
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Die Blonde mit den schwarzen Augen
»Als würde ein alter, tot geglaubter Freund plötzlich den Raum betreten« Stephen KingIn diesem packenden Roman erweckt John Banville alias Benjamin Black den berühmtesten Privatdetektiv der Weltliteratur, Philip Marlowe, wieder zum Leben. Eine meisterliche Mimikry, die Krimifans auf der ganzen Welt begeistert. Der Meister ist zurück. Los Angeles in den frühen Fünfzigerjahren. Philip Marlowe, Privatdetektiv, ist so ruhelos und einsam wie eh und je. Die Geschäfte laufen eher schlecht, da trifft es sich gut, dass eine neue Klientin sein Büro betritt: jung, wunderschön, gut gekleidet. Clare Cavendish will, dass Marlowe ihren Liebhaber findet, Nico Petersen, der plötzlich wie vom Erdboden verschluckt ist. Bald verfällt Marlowe dem Charme der schwarzäugigen Blonden und findet sich in einem Fall wieder, der ihn in die Welt einer der reichsten Familien der Gegend führt. Die wiederum würde offenbar alles dafür tun, um diesen Reichtum zu verteidigen, und schreckt dabei vor nichts zurück ...»Ein erstklassiger Noir. Es ist bemerkenswert, wie frisch sich das Buch liest, dabei hält es sich eng an die literarischen Vorgaben. Black hat den Nagel auf den Kopf getroffen.« New York Times»Absolut unwiderstehlich« The Guardian- Shop: buecher
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