Télécharger le livre :  Junk
From the author of Homeland Elegies and Pulitzer Prize winner Disgraced, a fast-paced play that exposes the financial deal making behind the mergers and acquisitions boom of the 1980s. Set in 1985, Junk tells the story of Robert Merkin, resident genius of...

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Parution : 2017-11-07
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Télécharger le livre :  The Invisible Hand
A "tense, provocative" play (Seattle Times) from the author of Homeland Elegies and the Pulitzer Prize winner Disgraced -- a chilling examination of how far we will go to survive and the consequences of the choices we make. In remote Pakistan,...

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Parution : 2015-08-25
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Télécharger le livre :  Show Me A Hero
NOW AN HBO MINISERIESNot in my backyard -- that's the refrain commonly invoked by property owners who oppose unwanted development. Such words assume a special ferocity when the development in question is public housing. Lisa Belkin penetrates the prejudices, myths, and...

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Parution : 2015-08-18
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Télécharger le livre :  Signifying Rappers
David Foster Wallace and Mark Costello's exuberant exploration of rap music and culture. Living together in Cambridge in 1989,David Foster Wallace and longtime friend Mark Costello discovered that they shared "an uncomfortable, somewhat furtive, and distinctively white...

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Parution : 2013-07-23
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Télécharger le livre :  On Celestial Music
Rick Moody has been writing about music as long as he has been writing, and this book provides an ample selection from that output. His anatomy of the word cool reminds us that, in the postwar 40s, it was infused with the feeling of jazz music but is now merely a...

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Parution : 2012-03-21
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Télécharger le livre :  La Hija de la Chuparrosa
“Inmensamente entretenida.” —David Hellman, San Francisco ChronicleElegida como uno de los mejores libros del año por el Chicaogo Tribune, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News, y Washington...

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Parution : 2011-11-01
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Télécharger le livre :  The Soul of A New Machine
Tracy Kidder's "riveting" (Washington Post) story of one company's efforts to bring a new microcomputer to market won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and has become essential reading for understanding the history of the American tech industry....

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Parution : 2011-08-23
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Télécharger le livre :  To Hell with All That
From The New Yorker's most entertaining and acerbic wit comes a controversial reassessment of the rituals and events that shape women's lives: weddings, sex, housekeeping, and motherhood.

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Parution : 2011-05-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man
Bill Clegg had a thriving business as a literary agent, a supportive partner, trusting colleagues, and loving friends when he walked away from his world and embarked on a two-month crack binge. He had been released from rehab nine months earlier, and his relapse would...

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Parution : 2010-06-07
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Télécharger le livre :  The Ornament of the World
This classic bestseller — the inspiration for the PBS series — is an "illuminating and even inspiring" portrait of medieval Spain that explores the golden age when Muslims, Jews, and Christians lived together in an atmosphere of tolerance...

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Parution : 2009-11-29
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Télécharger le livre :  A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
These widely acclaimed essays from the author of Infinite Jest -- on television, tennis, cruise ships, and more -- established David Foster Wallace as one of the preeminent essayists of his generation.  In this exuberantly praised book -- a collection of...

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Parution : 2009-11-23
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Télécharger le livre :  This Body
An unforgettable story of reincarnation and redemption in which a middle-aged woman relives her life in the body of a 22-year-old drug addict, this book signals an astonishing debut from an original writer.

Editeur : Back Bay Books
Parution : 2009-09-26
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Télécharger le livre :  The System
Taking as an example the Clinton health care reform initiative, the authors show how a policy that aimed to please everyone ended by satisfying no one due to pressure groups, political gamesmanship and the inertia of the American 'system'.

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Parution : 2009-09-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Transparency
With a deceptively simple yet graceful style, and in the tradition of Lara Vapnyar, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Gish Jen, Frances Hwang captures the thousand minor battles waged in the homes of immigrants -- struggles to preserve timehonored traditions or break free of them, to...

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Parution : 2009-09-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Tomorrow They Will Kiss
Written with buoyant humor and a sharp sense of human desire, this is the story of love pursued at any cost, of how friendship and history unite people for better or worse, and of the hope for that redemptive kiss capable of reconciling estranged lovers and countries.

Editeur : Back Bay Books
Parution : 2009-06-27
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Télécharger le livre :  Hank Williams
- Long considered the last word on Hank Williams, this biography has remained continuously in print since its first publication in 1994.- This new edition has been completely updated and includes many previously unpublished photographs, as well as a complete catalog...

Editeur : Back Bay Books
Parution : 2009-05-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Rumbo al Hermoso Norte
Nineteen-year-old Nayeli works at a taco shop in her Mexican village and dreams about her father, who journeyed to the US to find work. Recently, it has dawned on her that he isn't the only man who has left town. In fact, there are almost no men in the village --...

Editeur : Back Bay Books
Parution : 2009-05-19
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Télécharger le livre :  Me Talk Pretty One Day
This vibrant collection of expat essays from legendary humorist David Sedaris is a cause for jubiliation. Sedaris's move to Paris in the early aughts inspired hilarious pieces, such as "Me Talk Pretty One Day", about his attempts to learn French. His...

Editeur : Back Bay Books
Parution : 2009-05-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Naked
Welcome to the hilarious, strange, elegiac, outrageous world of David Sedaris! In Naked, Sedaris turns the mania for memoir on its ear, mining the exceedingly rich terrain of his life, his family, and his unique worldview-a sensibility at once take-no-prisoners...

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Parution : 2009-05-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Infinite Jest
The 30th anniversary edition of the virtuosic, wickedly comic modern classic about the pursuit of happiness in America, with a new foreword by Michelle Zauner, author of the New York Times bestselling sensation Crying in H Mart. “To my mind, there have been...

Editeur : Back Bay Books
Parution : 2009-04-13
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