Bokhandel

En gripande och sann berättelse om vänskap, liv och död.

När Mitch Albom tar sin examen lovar han att hålla kontakten med sin favoritprofessor och vän Morrie Schwartz. Vardagen och karriären uppfyller dock all hans tid och inte förrän 20 år senare möts de igen. Morrie har då drabbats av nervsjukdomen ALS och har bara några månader kvar att leva. Mitch Albom börjar besöka sin gamle mentor varje tisdag och får en sista kurs i konsten att leva medan livet fortfarande pågår.

Språk: Engelska

”I Want It Now is Kingsley Amis´s funniest book since Lucky Jim. At its centre is a relationship which, in its struggle to overcome the self-consciousness and the clichés of the so-called permissive society, illuminates with devastating accuracy and with the precarious role of honesty in a success-addicted age.” 

Språk: Engelska

This New Windmill Classics edition contains an introduction, notes and activities to enhance your understanding and enjoyment of the novel.

Språk: Engelska

Språk: Engelska

Språk: Engelska

Denna utgåva av Djuna Barnes Nightwood innehåller 72 extra sidor som hittats av två olika tidigare, mer utlämnande, versioner från 1932 och 1934 i faksimilversion med noteringar och överstrykningar etc.

”The version of Nightwood published in 1936 and revered ever since both as a classic modernist work and a groundbreaking lesbian novel differs in many respects from the book Djuna Barnes actually wrote. Unable to find a publisher for her earlier, more explicit versions, Barnes allowed her friend Emily Coleman and her editor T.S. Eliot to cut much material  - ranging from a word to passages 3 pages long – to create a book ”suitable” for publication.”

”Nightwood is the story of Robin Vote and those she destroys: her husband ”Baron” Felix Volkbein and their child Guido, and the two women who love her, Nora Flood and Jenny Petherbridge.”

Språk: Spanska

Språk: Engelska

Språk: Franska

Språk: Franska

Språk: Engelska

”The reverend Charles Dodgson – known to millions of readers as Lewis Carroll – wrote his classic books Alice In Wonderland and Alice Through The Looking Glass in an age of Victorian innoscence, when an interest in pre-pubescent girls was considered harmless and hallucinogenic drugs were unheard of outside the extreme underbelly of society. Dodgson´s books were largely taken on face value, and assimilated into children´s literature where they have remained ever since.

This new edition of Alice Through The Looking Glass includes a revealing introduction by Jeremy Reed, pointing both to Dodgson´s obsession with young girls – he regularly photographed them naked – and to the repercussions of the book´s proto-psychedelic imagery on the acid generation, nearly a century after its first publication.

Wether viewed as a metaphor for the bodily mutations of female puberty, or as a covert paean to hallucinogenic drug abuse, Through The Looking Glass remains a fascinating book, and is here presented in its true context for the very first time.”

- Baksidestext

Språk: Engelska

Språk: Engelska

Språk: Engelska

Språk: Engelska

Språk: Engelska

Språk: Engelska

Språk: Tyska

Språk: Engelska

National Book Award 1985.

”A brilliant satire of mass culture and the numbing effects of technology, White Noise tells the story of Jack Gladney, a teacher of Hitler studies at a liberal arts college in Middle America. Jack and his fourth wife, Babette, bound by their love, fear of death, and four ultramodern offspring, navigate the rocky passages of family life to the background babble of brand-name consumerism. Then a lethal black chemical cloud, unleashed by an industrial accident, floats over their lives, an ”airborne toxic event” that is more urgent and visible version of the white noise engulfing the Gladneys – the radio transmissions, sirens, microwaves, and TV murmurings that constitute the music of American magic and dread.”

Språk: Engelska