Edité par Faber & Faber, 1985
ISBN 10 : 0571137245 ISBN 13 : 9780571137244
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Softcover. Etat : Good. First Edition. The scandalous reputation of Laclos's novel, first published in 1782, is based on its chilling portrayal of the mannered decadence and sexual cynicism of the French aristocracy in the last years of the ancien regime. Christopher Hampton has made a masterful adaptation for the stage of the conspiracy to corrupt a young girl barely out of her convent.
Edité par Faber & Faber, 2010
ISBN 10 : 0571521584 ISBN 13 : 9780571521586
Vendeur : Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Etats-Unis
Softcover. Etat : New. Godár's large and varied output includes an oratorio, works for orchestra, chorus, numerous chamber works, educational pieces and a number of award-winning film scores. His haunting music was little known outside Eastern Europe until ECM Records released his choral/vocal cycle Mater in 2006, in stunning performances featuring Czech singer Iva Bittova.The Choral Signature Series presents new or recently composed choral music written by a diverse and eclectic selection of composers, including Howard Goodall, Morten Lauridsen, Jonathan Dove and Alexander L'Estrange. The series includes both lighter and more challenging works, and is designed to show that music is a reflection of composers' personalities and backgrounds -- from their biographical details right down to their signatures -- showing that contemporary choral music doesn't have to be faceless and impersonal. The covers feature the composer's signature, along with a short biography, and a useful 'difficulty rating' for the work.
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Edité par Faber & Faber, 2004
ISBN 10 : 0571056865 ISBN 13 : 9780571056866
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Softcover. Etat : Good. First published in 1954, Lord of the Flies is now recognised as a classic, one of the most celebrated and widely read of modern novels. This edition, which includes an introduction and notes by Ian Gregor and Mark Kinkead-Weekes, meets the demand for its use in schools and its prescription by numerous examining boards. In compiling the notes they have borne in mind the needs of younger readers not only in this country but overseas.
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Edité par Faber & Faber, 2011
ISBN 10 : 0865478538 ISBN 13 : 9780865478534
Vendeur : Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Etats-Unis
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Hardcover. Etat : Good. First Edition. Breakfasts boiled egg, the overhead hum of fluorescent lights, the midmorning coffee break-daily routines keep the world running. But when people are pushed-by a coworkers taunt, a face-to-face encounter with a woman in free fall from a bridge-cracks appear, revealing alienation, casual cruelty, madness, and above all a simultaneous hunger for and fear of the unknown.<br /><br />Daniel Orozco leads the reader through the hidden lives and moral philosophies of bridge painters, men housebound by obesity, office temps, and warehouse workers. He reveals the secret pleasures of late-night supermarket trips for cookie binges, exceptional data entry, and an exiled dictators occasional piss on the U.S. embassy. A love affair blooms between two officers in the impartially worded pages of a police blotter; a new employees first-day office tour includes descriptions of other workers most private thoughts and actions; during an earthquake, the consciousness of the entire state of California shakes free for examination.<br /><br /><i>Orientation </i>introduces a writer at the height of his powers, whose work surely invites us to reassess the landscape of American fiction.<br /><br /><i>Orientation</i> is a Kirkus Reviews Best of 2011 Short Story Collections title.
Edité par Faber & Faber, 2016
ISBN 10 : 0571329497 ISBN 13 : 9780571329496
Vendeur : Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Good. Walker, Sholto (illustrateur). Illustrated. A charming and very funny tribute to the children's classic, to appeal to moms everywhere.The day Mom didn't get dressed and went on strike, Dad called her "a Wild Thing" and Mom said "Cook your own dinner" and stomped off upstairs to have a bath . . .In this hilarious, touching homage to Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are, a worn-out mom finds herself floating across time and space to the place where the Wild Moms are. Dazzled by her party tricks, they crown her Queen of the Wild Moms and try to entice her to join their conga . . . But Mom has just remembered who she loves best of all . . .Lovingly illustrated by the award-winning Sholto Walker, this little book is the perfect gift for baby showers, Mother's Day - or any mom who's ever wanted to go on strike.
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Edité par Faber & Faber, 1998
ISBN 10 : 0571144799 ISBN 13 : 9780571144792
Vendeur : Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Etats-Unis
Softcover. Etat : Good. It is 1936 and harvest time in County Donegal. In a house just outside the village of Ballybeg live the five Mundy sisters, barely making ends meet, their ages ranging from twenty-six up to forty. The two male members of the household are brother Jack, a missionary priest, repatriated from Africa by his superiors after twenty-five years, and the seven-year-old child of the youngest sister. In depicting two days in the life of this menage, Brian Friel evokes not simply the interior landscape of a group of human beings trapped in their domestic situation, but the wider landscape, interior and exterior, Christian and pagan, of which they are nonetheless a part.
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Edité par Faber & Faber, 1976
ISBN 10 : 0571105580 ISBN 13 : 9780571105588
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Softcover. Etat : Good. Later Printing. Book by Eliot, T. S.
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Edité par Faber & Faber, 2008
ISBN 10 : 0865479984 ISBN 13 : 9780865479982
Vendeur : Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Etats-Unis
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Softcover. Etat : Good. First Edition. In Reasons to Be Pretty, Greg's tight-knit social circle is thrown into turmoil when his offhand remarks about a female coworker's pretty face and his own girlfriend Steph's lack thereof get back to Steph. But that's just the beginning. Greg's best buddy, Kent, and Kent's wife, Carly, also enter into the picture, and the emotional equation becomes exponentially more complicated. As their relationships crumble, the four friends are forced to confront a sea of deceit, infidelity, and betrayed trust in their journey to answer that oh-so-American question: How much is pretty worth?Neil LaBute's bristling new comic drama puts the final ferocious cap on a trilogy of plays that began with The Shape of Things and Fat Pig. America's obsession with physical beauty is confronted headlong in this brutal and exhilarating work.
Edité par Faber & Faber, 2016
ISBN 10 : 0571323308 ISBN 13 : 9780571323302
Vendeur : Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Etats-Unis
Softcover. Etat : Good. If you can read this, you obviously understand Pigeonese. You may read my book.If you're a cat and you've learnt Pigeonese. (HA HA HA! As if a cat would be smart enough to learn Pigeonese). This must mean if you are a cat and you are able to read this, you have taken a pigeon hostage so that you can trick them into translating the Pigeonese words into Meow. I demand you release the hostage pigeon now. My book contains TOP SECRET ideas that are NONE of a cat's business.Dave Pigeon is writing a book on how he defeated Mean Cat in order to help fellow pigeons everywhere. Cats beware!A hilarious debut for 6+ readers with black and white illustrations by the superbly talented Sheena Dempsey.
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Edité par Faber & Faber, 2024
ISBN 10 : 0571231918 ISBN 13 : 9780571231911
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Softcover. Etat : Good. Main. 28th April 1870. Fanny and Stella, the flamboyantly dressed Miss Fanny Park and Miss Stella Boulton, are causing a stir in the Strand Theatre. All eyes are riveted upon their lascivious oglings of the gentlemen in the stalls. Moments later they are led away by the police. What followed was a scandal that shocked and titillated Victorian England in equal measure.It turned out that the alluring Miss Fanny Park and Miss Stella Boulton were no ordinary young women. Far from it. In fact, 'Boulton and Park' were young men who liked to dress as women. When the Metropolitan Police launched a secret campaign to bring about their downfall, they were arrested and subjected to a sensational show trial in Westminster Hall.As the trial of 'the Young Men in Women's Clothes' unfolded, Fanny and Stella's extraordinary lives as wives and daughters, actresses and whores were revealed to an incredulous public.With a cast of peers, politicians and prostitutes, drag queens, doctors and detectives, Fanny and Stella is a Victorian peepshow, exposing the startling underbelly of nineteenth-century London. By turns tragic and comic, meticulously researched and dazzlingly written, Fanny and Stella is an enthralling tour-de-force.
Edité par Faber & Faber, 1999
ISBN 10 : 0571198775 ISBN 13 : 9780571198771
Vendeur : Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Etats-Unis
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Softcover. Etat : Good. First Edition. Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, the Drama Desk Award, the Outer Critics Circle Award, the Lucille Lortel Award, and the Oppenheimer Award.Adapted to an Emmy Award-winning television movie, directed by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson.Margaret Edson's powerfully imagined Pulitzer Prize-winning play examines what makes life worth living through her exploration of one of existence's unifying experiences-mortality-while she also probes the vital importance of human relationships. What we as her audience take away from this remarkable drama is a keener sense that, while death is real and unavoidable, our lives are ours to cherish or throw away-a lesson that can be both uplifting and redemptive. As the playwright herself puts it, "The play is not about doctors or even about cancer. It's about kindness, but it shows arrogance. It's about compassion, but it shows insensitivity."In Wit, Edson delves into timeless questions with no final answers: How should we live our lives knowing that we will die? Is the way we live our lives and interact with others more important than what we achieve materially, professionally, or intellectually? How does language figure into our lives? Can science and art help us conquer death, or our fear of it? What will seem most important to each of us about life as that life comes to an end?The immediacy of the presentation, and the clarity and elegance of Edson's writing, make this sophisticated, multilayered play accessible to almost any interested reader.As the play begins, Vivian Bearing, a renowned professor of English who has spent years studying and teaching the intricate, difficult Holy Sonnets of the seventeenth-century poet John Donne, is diagnosed with advanced ovarian cancer. Confident of her ability to stay in control of events, she brings to her illness the same intensely rational and painstakingly methodical approach that has guided her stellar academic career. But as her disease and its excruciatingly painful treatment inexorably progress, she begins to question the single-minded values and standards that have always directed her, finally coming to understand the aspects of life that make it truly worth living.
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Edité par Faber & Faber, 2024
ISBN 10 : 057130222X ISBN 13 : 9780571302222
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Softcover. Etat : Good. Main. When his flight gets delayed, Ted Severson meets Lily, a magnetic stranger in the airport bar. In the netherworld of international travel and too many martinis, he confesses his darkest secrets, about his wife's infidelity and how he wishes her dead. Without missing a beat she offers to help him carry out the task.
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Edité par Faber & Faber Children, 2017
ISBN 10 : 0571332544 ISBN 13 : 9780571332540
Vendeur : Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Etats-Unis
Softcover. Etat : Good. It sounded like a respectable and worthy enough death for an explorer - tumbling from an ice bridge to be impaled upon a mammoth tusk - but Stella really, really didnt want that to happen, just the same.Join Stella Starflake Pearl and her three fellow explorers as they trek across the snowy Icelands and come face-to-face with frost fairies, snow queens, outlaw hideouts, unicorns, pygmy dinosaurs and carnivorous cabbages . . .When Stella and three other junior explorers get separated from their expedition can they cross the frozen wilderness and live to tell the tale?.
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Edité par Faber & Faber, 2016
ISBN 10 : 0571255981 ISBN 13 : 9780571255986
Vendeur : Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Good. Main. While dipping into The Children's Encyclopaedia of 1910, Axel Scheffler came across a small but indispensable guide to procuring and caring for your pet squirrel. Intrigued by the unlikely notion of a child attempting to keep so wild an animal, Axel created a series of delightful, beautifully finished illustrations to accompany the text.
Edité par Faber & Faber, 2008
ISBN 10 : 0571217443 ISBN 13 : 9780571217441
Vendeur : Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Etats-Unis
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Softcover. Etat : Good. First Edition. What does a movie producer actually do for a living? Does producing amount to anything more than writing checks and smoking cigars? Helen de Winter, herself an intrepid young producer, explores the ins and outs of a job that requires the combined skills of a wheeler-dealer, a diplomat, a stern but doting parent, and a clinical psychiatrist.Along the way, she gets help from the producers of everything from The Lord of the Rings and Bridget Jones's Diary to The Constant Gardener and My Big Fat Greek Wedding, who give their answers to questions such as:* How do you smell a hit?* How do you raise sufficient sums of other peoples' money to get a film made?* How do you handle feuds, fights, or even fatalities on set?* And what can you do to drag the general public off the street and into cinemas to appreciate the fruits of your labor?The results make enlightening reading, whether your interest lies in movies or money, or whether indeed what you really want to do is produce . . . Helen de Winter has worked in production and post-production on independent and studio feature films, and freelanced as a script editor for UK and US producers. She produced her first acclaimed short film for FilmFour and BBC Films and has since produced several others.What does a movie producer actually do for a living? Helen de Winter, herself an intrepid young producer, explores the ins and outs of a job that requires the combined skills of a wheeler-dealer, a diplomat, a stern but doting parent, and a clinical psychiatrist. Along the way, she gets help from several well-known producers of several well-known films-from The Lord of the Rings to Bridget Joness Diary to The Constant Gardener-who give their answers to questions such as: How do you smell a hit? How do you handle feuds, fights, or even fatalities on set? "De Winter, an aspiring film producer, interviewed 21 successful film producers working in England, Hollywood and New York to discover what they do. Her aim is to clarify a job title that defies a one-size-fits-all definition. While some compare the position to being a cheerleader and psychoanalyst, the more practical aspects include developing material, budgeting, financing and distribution. De Winter casts a wide net on moviemaking-from Lawrence Bender working on Quentin Tarantino's stripped-down Reservoir Dogs to the lavish James Bond franchise overseen by Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli. James Schamus, who has worked on 10 Ang Lee pictures, likes to be involved in the creative process; others see their talent as convincing people to give them money. De Winter's definition of a producer is the most poetic: turning money into light . . . the advice of Bob Shaye, producer of the supersuccessful Lord of the Rings trilogy, is best: If someone wants to be in the movie business, they should just get up and do something."-Publishers Weekly.
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Edité par Faber & Faber, 2006
ISBN 10 : 0865479712 ISBN 13 : 9780865479715
Vendeur : Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Etats-Unis
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Softcover. Etat : Good. First Edition. Now a major motion picture from Fox Searchlight Pictures, The History Boys: The Film contains Alan Bennett's diary of the filming, the shooting script, and an introduction by director Nicholas Hytner, as well as an extensive plate section that includes a look behind the scenes and stills from the film. An unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form (or senior) boys in a British boys' school are, as such boys will be, in pursuit of sex, sport, and a place at a good university, generally in that order. In all their efforts, they are helped and hindered, enlightened and bemused, by a maverick English teacher who seeks to broaden their horizons in sometimes undefined ways, and a young history teacher who questions the methods, as well as the aim, of their schooling. In The History Boys, Alan Bennett evokes the special period and place that the sixth form represents in an English boy's life. In doing so, he raises not only universal questions about the nature of history and how it is taught but also questions about the purpose of education today.
Edité par Faber & Faber, 1977
ISBN 10 : 0571109071 ISBN 13 : 9780571109074
Vendeur : Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Etats-Unis
Softcover. Etat : Good. Revised. 192 Pages.
Edité par Faber & Faber, 2017
ISBN 10 : 0571336256 ISBN 13 : 9780571336258
Vendeur : Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Etats-Unis
Softcover. Etat : Good. Media tie-in. Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Empire, Canada, and France are surrounded by the German army during fierce battle in World War II. The soldiers are evacuated across the Channel, not knowing if on their return they will be treated as heroes or cowards.The international cast of Dunkirk includes British actors Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Mark Rylance, and Kenneth Brannah.Nominated for three Golden Globes at the 75th Golden Globe Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Music, announced on December 11, 2017. It was also nominated for eight Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Directing, Best Cinematography and Best Film Editing, announced on the 23rd January 2018.
Edité par Faber & Faber, 2019
ISBN 10 : 0571348750 ISBN 13 : 9780571348756
Vendeur : Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Good. Dunbar, Polly (illustrateur). A beautiful, heartwarming picture book with all the universal appeal of Guess How Much I Love You.Hedgehog was feeling sad.As sad as a hedgehog can feel.So sad only one thing could help . . .Tortoise was feeling sad.As sad as a tortoise can feel.So sad only one thing could help . . .In this clever flipbook, both a hedgehog and a tortoise are looking for a hug. They ask all the other animals they come across but for some reason no one will hug them. Until a wise owl explains: Hedgehog is too spiky; Tortoise is too bony.And that's when they find each other!'Feels like being enveloped in your very own hug.' Kirkus'A smashing story time tale.' Books for Keeps'It's utterly lovely. It makes her face light up every time she hears it.' The Guardian Best Books of 2019.
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Edité par Faber & Faber, 2000
ISBN 10 : 0571200117 ISBN 13 : 9780571200115
Vendeur : Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Etats-Unis
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Softcover. Etat : Good. First Edition. Marina Carr: Plays 1 introduces the work of a major new voice in playwrighting. Carr has been praised for the beauty and uniqueness of her language, was cited by The Independent as "a hugely valuable dramatic voice," and has even been compared to Eugene O'Neill. A prominent voice in British letters who has been building momentum in the United States for the past decade, Carr's four critically acclaimed works are gathered together here for the first time.
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Edité par Faber & Faber, 2020
ISBN 10 : 0571365582 ISBN 13 : 9780571365586
Vendeur : Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Good. Dunbar, Polly (illustrateur). From the team behind the bestselling The Hug, a heart-warming picture book that shows us ways to be affectionate while social distancing.Hedgehog and Tortoise were the best of friends.They wanted to give each other a great, big hug.But they weren't allowed to touch."Don't worry," said Owl. "There are lots of ways to show someone you love them."So the two friends wave to each other, blow kisses, sing songs, dance around and write letters. And even though they can't hug and they can't touch, they both know that they are loved.A gorgeous, uplifting, inspiring picture book that makes social distancing fun!.
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Edité par Faber & Faber, 2009
ISBN 10 : 0571211038 ISBN 13 : 9780571211036
Vendeur : Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Etats-Unis
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Softcover. Etat : Good. First Edition. Did you know that most of the biggest indie filmmakers, screenwriters, and producers working today each made the same avoidable mistakes early on in their careers?The Reel Truth details the pitfalls, snares, and roadblocks that aspiring filmmakers encounter. Reed Martin interviewed more than one hundred luminaries from the independent film world to discuss the near misses that almost derailed their first and second films and identify the close shaves that could have cut their careers short. Other books may tell you the best way to make your independent film or online short, but no other book describes so candidly how to spot and avoid such issues and obstacles as equipment problems, shooting-day snafus, postproduction myths, theatrical distribution deal breakers, and dozens of other commonly made missteps, including the top fifty mistakes every filmmaker makes.From personal experience and his years as a freelance reporter covering independent film for USA Today and Filmmaker magazine, Martin uncovers the truth about the risks and potential rewards that go with chasing celluloid glory. Whether you're writing a screenplay, looking for financing, about to start shooting, or thinking about investing time and money (or someone else's money) in an independent film, The Reel Truth is a must-read.
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Edité par Faber & Faber, 2002
ISBN 10 : 0571143725 ISBN 13 : 9780571143726
Vendeur : Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Etats-Unis
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Softcover. Etat : Good. First Edition. This volume contains a selection of work from each of Seamus Heaney's published books of poetry up to and including the Whitbread prize-winning collection, The Haw Lantern (1987).'His is 'close-up' poetry - close up to thought, to the world, to the emotions. Few writers at work today, in verse or fiction, can give the sense of rich, fecund, lived life that Heaney does.' John Banville'More than any other poet since Wordsworth he can make us understand that the outside world is not outside, but what we are made of.' John Carey.
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Edité par Faber & Faber, 1984
ISBN 10 : 057113386X ISBN 13 : 9780571133864
Vendeur : Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Etats-Unis
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Softcover. Etat : Good. First Edition. Book by White, Freda.
Edité par Faber & Faber, 2017
ISBN 10 : 0571325246 ISBN 13 : 9780571325245
Vendeur : Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Etats-Unis
Softcover. Etat : Good. Sara is a comedian who has talked and joked about female sexuality, psychology, and the media's portrayal of women on stage and screen. While researching her most recent live show, Sara realized that she had a lot more to say.In her first book Sara combines autobiography and evolutionary history to entertain and inform about the female body. Why we have boobs and how they have become so fetishised. How the kidnap of a 13-year old-chimney sweep's daughter created our present age of consent. The discovery and subsequent forgetting of the clitoris, the many eras of misunderstanding the female orgasm. Did you know that clitoridectomies were once performed on British and American women to cure masturbation and hysteria? And that we learned so much about female sexuality from the behavior of sperm?Animal is a laugh-out-loud book, perfect for fans of Caitlin Moran, Lena Dunham, and Amy Schumer.
Edité par Faber & Faber, 2021
ISBN 10 : 0571360475 ISBN 13 : 9780571360475
Vendeur : Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Good. THE NEW FILM FROM WES ANDERSONThe French Dispatch brings to life a collection of stories from the final issue of an American magazine published in a fictional 20th-century French city. It stars Bill Murray, Benicio del Toro, Adrien Brody, Tilda Swinton, Léa Seydoux, Frances McDormand, Timothée Chalamet, Lyna Khoudri, Jeffrey Wright, Mathieu Amalric, Stephen Park, and Owen Wilson.
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Edité par Faber & Faber, 2016
ISBN 10 : 0571316530 ISBN 13 : 9780571316533
Vendeur : Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Etats-Unis
Softcover. Etat : Good. In this book Richard Ayoade -- actor, writer, director, and amateur dentist -- reflects on his cinematic legacy as only he can: in conversation with himself. Over ten brilliantly insightful and often erotic interviews, Ayoade examines Ayoade fully and without mercy, leading a breathless investigation into this once-in-a-generation visionary. They have called their book Ayoade on Ayoade: A Cinematic Odyssey. Take the journey, and your life will never be the same again.Only Ayoade can appreciate Ayoade's unique methodology. Only Ayoade can recognize Ayoade's talent. Only Ayoade can withstand Ayoade's peculiar scent. Only Ayoade can truly get inside Ayoade.Ayoade on Ayoade captures the director in his own words: pompous, vain, angry, and very, very funny.
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Edité par Faber & Faber, 2009
ISBN 10 : 0571230318 ISBN 13 : 9780571230310
Vendeur : Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Etats-Unis
Softcover. Etat : Good. Main. Isabella de' Medici was the hostess of a glittering circle in Renaissance Florence. Beautiful and liberated, she not only matched the intellectual accomplishments of her male contemporaries, but sought sexual parity also, engaging in an adulterous affair with her husband's cousin. It was this affair - and her very success as First Lady of Florence - that led to her death at the hands of her husband at the age of just thirty-four. She left behind a remarkable story, and as her legacy a son who became the best of the Orsini Dukes, immortalised by Shakespeare as Duke Orsino in Twelfth Night. Caroline P. Murphy illuminates this often misunderstood figure, and in the process brings to life the home of creativity, the city of Florence itself.
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Edité par Faber & Faber, 2004
ISBN 10 : 0571211747 ISBN 13 : 9780571211746
Vendeur : Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Etats-Unis
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Softcover. Etat : Good. First Edition. I Am My Own Wife is the winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.From the Obie Award-winning author of Quills comes this acclaimed one-man show, which explores the astonishing true story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf. A transvestite and celebrated antiques dealer who successfully navigated the two most oppressive regimes of the past century-the Nazis and the Communists--while openly gay and defiantly in drag, von Mahlsdorf was both hailed as a cultural hero and accused of colluding with the Stasi.In an attempt to discern the truth about Charlotte, Doug Wright has written "at once a vivid portrait of Germany in the second half of the twentieth century, a morally complex tale about what it can take to be a survivor, and an intriguing meditation on everything from the obsession with collecting to the passage of time" (Hedy Weiss, Chicago Sun-Times).
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Edité par Faber & Faber, 2003
ISBN 10 : 0571216803 ISBN 13 : 9780571216802
Vendeur : Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Good. <b>In a breathtaking work of narrative history, Mark Urban traces the story of the 95th Rifles, the toughest and dealiest sharpshooters in Wellington's army.</b><br /><br /><i>Rifles</i> follows the fortunes of the individual soldiers in a legendary regiment, drawing upon many new sources to recreate an extraordinary story of immense hardship, bravery and comradeship - and an experience which will change the nature of warfare for ever.<br /><br />As part of the Light Division created to act as the advance guard of Wellington's army, the 95th Rifles are the first into battle and the last out. Fighting, thieving and raping their way across Europe, they are clearly no ordinary troops. The 95th are in fact the first British soldiers to take aim at their targets, to take cover when being shot at, to move tactically by fire and manoeuvre. And by the end of a six-year campaign they have not only proved themselves the toughest fighters in the army, they have also - at huge personal cost - created the modern notion of the infantryman.