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Verlag: Random House UK, Transworld, 2012
ISBN 10: 0857520962ISBN 13: 9780857520968
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH, Einbeck, Deutschland
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Gebundene Ausgabe. Zustand: Gebraucht. Gebraucht - Sehr gut SG - leichte Beschädigungen, Verschmutzungen, ungelesenes Mängelexemplar, Versand Büchersendung - The protagonist and first person narrator of In One Person, Billy Abbott, is bisexual. Why do you think bisexuals are rarely represented in literature Irving, John: The bisexual men I have known were not shy, nor were they 'conflicted'. (This is also true of the bisexual men I know now.) I would say, too, that both my oldest and youngest bisexual male friends are among the most confident men I have ever known. Yet bisexual men - of my generation, especially - were generally distrusted. Their gay male friends thought of them as gay guys who were hedging their bets, or holding back - or keeping a part of themselves in the closet. To most straight men, the only part of a bisexual man that registers is the gay part; to many straight women, a bi guy is doubly untrustworthy - he could leave you for another woman or for a guy! The bisexual occupies what Edmund White calls 'the interstitial - whatever lies between two familiar opposites'. I can't speculate on why other writers may choose to eschew the bisexual as a potential main character - especially as a point-of-view character (Billy Abbott is an outspoken first-person narrator). I just know that sexual misfits have always appealed to me; writers are outsiders - at least we're supposed to be 'detached'. Well, I find sexual outsiders especially engaging. There is the gay brother in The Hotel New Hampshire; there are the gay twins (separated at birth) in A Son of the Circus; there are transsexual characters in The World According to Garp and in A Son of the Circus, and now again (this time, much more developed as characters) in In One Person. I like these people; they attract me, and I fear for their safety - I worry about who might hate them and wish them harm. Great Expectations has an enormous influence on Billy in more than one respect. What are some of the books that helped to define and influence you at a young age John Irving: Like Billy, I spent some of my childhood backstage in a small-town theatre; my mother, who - in many respects - was not like Billy's mother, was a prompter in a small-town theatre. My earliest interest in storytelling came from the theatre, and I imagined myself as an actor (onstage, never in the movies) before I imagined being a novelist. But Great Expectations, and other novels by Dickens, inspired me to want to write those plotted, character-driven novels of the 19th century - also Hardy, Melville, Hawthorne; also Flaubert and Mann and the Russian writers. But before I was old enough to appreciate those novels, I saw Shakespeare and Sophocles onstage; those plays have plots. There were plots in the theatre - centuries before the earliest novels were written. Y ou do a magnificent job portraying the AIDS crisis in New York in this novel. Was it difficult for you to encapsulate this moment in history John Irving: If you mean 'difficult' in terms of research, no. Other novels have been much harder, in terms of research - in terms of having to teach myself about something foreign to me - than In One Person. But, yes, it was difficult - personally. I lived in New York City from '81 till '86; I was there at the start of the AIDS crisis, I lost friends (young and old) to that disease. I had no desire to revisit some of those memories. But I have two good friends (and fellow writers) who I knew would be reading this manuscript - over my shoulder, so to speak. I doubt I would have begun writing In One Person if I didn't know I could count on these two friends as essential readers: Edmund White and Abraham Verghese. I knew if I made a mistake, they would catch it; I have complete faith in their authority. They gave me confidence; they allowed me to write freely - they were my safety nets. In One Person features some of the classic signatures that your readers have come to expect to find in your books: wrestling, living abroad in Vienna, the loss of childhood innocence, an absent parent, New England boarding schools, sexual deviants, etc. What is it that attracts you to these themes and settings again and again John Irving: Ah, well - there are the subjects for fiction or the 'themes' you choose, and then there are the obsessions that choose you. Wrestling is something I know: I competed as a wrestler for twenty years; I coached the sport till I was forty-seven. The life in a New England boarding school, and living as a student abroad in Vienna - these are simply things I know very well. I choose them because I have no end of detail in my memory bank, regarding those oh-so-familiar things. But 'the loss of childhood innocence', or 'the absent parent', and those sexual outsiders and/or misfits I am repeatedly attracted to in my fiction - well, I do not choose to write about those things. Those things obsess me; those things choose me. You don't get to pick the nightmare that wakes you up at 4 A.M., do you That nightmare comes looking for you, again and again. What was behind your choice to make libraries such an important part of Billy Abbott's development John Irving: I love libraries. I used to read in libraries, write in libraries, hide in libraries; libraries embrace a code of silence - that was just fine with me. I went to libraries to be left alone. So much of being a writer is seeking to be alone - actually, needing to be alone. Bookstores aren't the same; they're social places. I was a fairly antisocial kid; libraries were my cave. Was your experience with writing In One Person different from your other books If so, how Did you write the last sentence first, as you're famous for doing No, not different - very much the same. I always begin with endings, with last sentences - usually more than a single last sentence, often a last paragraph (or two). I compose an ending and write toward it, as if the ending were a piece of music I can hear - however many years ahead of me it is waiting. The ending to.
Verlag: Random House UK|Transworld, 2013
ISBN 10: 1905026498ISBN 13: 9781905026494
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
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Zustand: New. Well told, personable, fast-paced, and undoubtedly a fascinating read Daily TelegraphGripping, moving and wildly exhilarating, Mud, Sweat and Tears is a must-read for adrenalin junkies and armchair adventurers alike. Bear Grylls is a man who has a.
Verlag: Random House UK|Transworld, 2010
ISBN 10: 055216089XISBN 13: 9780552160896
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
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Zustand: New. CERN Institute, Switzerland: a world-renowned scientist is found brutally murdered with a mysterious symbol seared onto his chest. The Vatican, Rome: the College of Cardinals assembles to elect a new pope. Somewhere beneath them, an unstoppable bomb of terr.
Verlag: Random House UK|Transworld, 2015
ISBN 10: 1784161195ISBN 13: 9781784161194
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
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Zustand: New. In 1995, before leaving his much-loved home in North Yorkshire to move back to the States for a few years with his family, Bill Bryson insisted on taking one last trip around Britain, a sort of valedictory tour of the green and kindly island that had so lo.
Verlag: Random House UK|Transworld, 2015
ISBN 10: 178416173XISBN 13: 9781784161736
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
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Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. A gripping, addictive thriller from the bestselling author of BEFORE I GO TO SLEEP. Simultaneously believable and terrifying.An edgy, disturbing read. ObserverShe loves her husband.She s obsessed by a stranger.
Verlag: Random House UK|Transworld, 2014
ISBN 10: 1784160172ISBN 13: 9781784160173
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
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Zustand: New. Packs a killer twist Prima Wickedly funny Sunday Mirror________To mark the twelve days of Christmas, he gives me a gift every day, each more horrible than the last . I couldn t put it down. ***** Should you want a captivating, dark, twisted and enthral.
Verlag: Random House UK|Transworld, 2012
ISBN 10: 0552992070ISBN 13: 9780552992077
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
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Zustand: New. Yet he stubbornly clings to the notion that he ll make something of his life, and is about to commit himself to a second marriage that bears remarkable resemblance to his first. The Water-Method Man is a work of cosummate artistry and comic invention, biz.
Verlag: Random House UK|Transworld, 2016
ISBN 10: 0857502581ISBN 13: 9780857502582
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
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Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. We don t know why and we don t know from whom, but we do know he s abandoned his battered, blood-stained car in the middle of an isolated part of rural France at the height of a sweltering summer. Somebody! I half-sob and then, more quietly, Ple.
Verlag: Random House UK|Transworld, 2014
ISBN 10: 0553824422ISBN 13: 9780553824421
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
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Zustand: New. Head-to-head with Nicci French and Karin Slaughter Daily MirrorTHE FIRST BODY IS A MYSTERY. She s young. And her corpse, laid out in the office of Boston medical examiner Kat Novak, betrays no secrets - except for a matchbook clutched in one stiff hand,.
Verlag: Random House UK|Transworld, 2013
ISBN 10: 0552167002ISBN 13: 9780552167000
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
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Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. or stay silent and watch them grow up from the inside of a prison cell. Her MI5 handler, David Ryan, has never questioned where his loyalties lie. But as he watches Colette put herself in increasing danger to fulfil her side of the bargain, he realises th.
Verlag: Random House UK|Transworld, 2007
ISBN 10: 0552773115ISBN 13: 9780552773119
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
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Zustand: New. At twenty-two, he s the youngest of the family. His father, Russell, a theatrical agent, is rather hoping to get his wife back. And his sister, Rosa, is wrestling with debt and the end of a turbulent love affair. Meet the Boyd family and the empty nest, t.
Verlag: Random House UK|Transworld, 2009
ISBN 10: 0553819488ISBN 13: 9780553819489
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
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Zustand: New. A story of the author s early life in Irish Catholic Birkenhead that started him on the long and winding road from mischievous altar boy to national treasure. It includes a tale of gossip in the back yard, bragging in the corner shop and slanging matches on.
Verlag: Random House UK|Transworld, 2009
ISBN 10: 0552158933ISBN 13: 9780552158930
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
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Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. Generation Kill is about the young men sent to fight their nation s first open-ended war since Vietnam. Generation Kill is not just a combat chronicle but an inside look at how people fighting in war actually experience it.Tie-in edition about the shock.
Verlag: Random House UK|Transworld, 2012
ISBN 10: 0552992089ISBN 13: 9780552992084
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
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Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. On a New England campus, Viennese housewife Utchka and her aspiring writer husband live a rather placid life with their two children.Until, that is, they meet Severin Winter, Professor of German and wrestling coach, and his delicate wife Edith at a faculty .
Verlag: Random House UK|Transworld, 2012
ISBN 10: 0552165158ISBN 13: 9780552165150
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
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Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. The decision to publish this book has been very difficult, and taken with heavy hearts . My reason for writing it is simple: to give an account of the truth . Sharing these with strangers does not come easily to me, but if I hadn t done so I would not .
Verlag: Random House UK|Transworld, 2013
ISBN 10: 0857502468ISBN 13: 9780857502469
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
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Zustand: New. 8th April 2009 was just an ordinary day for 53 -year-old Richard Phillips, captain of the United States-registered cargo vessel, the Maersk Alabama, as it headed towards the port of Mombasa.Published for the first time in the UK, an astonishing true st.
Verlag: Random House UK|Transworld, 2014
ISBN 10: 0552156086ISBN 13: 9780552156080
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
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Zustand: New. Here, in their own words and for the first time, are the young veterans of Herrick 4. Controversial, fascinating and occasionally downright terrifying, A Million Bullets analyses the sorry slide into war in Helmand and asks this most troubling question: cou.
Verlag: Random House UK|Transworld, 2012
ISBN 10: 0552157910ISBN 13: 9780552157919
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
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Zustand: New. There, it is rumoured, both riches and glory are to be found. The journey takes them through unknown and dangerous waters - from the wind-whipped marshes of the Camargue to the treachery and faded glory of a once-mighty Rome. For Raven and the Wolfpac.
Verlag: Random House UK|Transworld, 2009
ISBN 10: 0552156892ISBN 13: 9780552156899
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
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Zustand: New. On a rainy night in Denton, Detective Inspector Jack Frost is called to the site of a macabre discovery in the woods - that of a human foot.From the creator of A TOUCH OF FROST, the eagerly anticipated D. I. Jack Frost novelOn a rainy night in De.
Verlag: Random House UK|Transworld, 2010
ISBN 10: 0553824864ISBN 13: 9780553824865
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
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Zustand: New. SEE EVILJournalist Joe Oakes makes a living exposing supernatural hoaxes.But what he sees when he visits a secretive religious community on a remote Scottish island forces him to question everything he thought he knew.Now reissued in B-format paperback,.
Verlag: Random House UK|Transworld, 2009
ISBN 10: 1905811365ISBN 13: 9781905811366
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
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Zustand: New. Each chapter starts with a brief story about the month itself (what s happening in the farming calendar, food-related customs and traditions), followed by narrative sections covering what s in prime season - fruit and veg, meat, fish and other seasonally-in.
Verlag: Random House UK|Transworld, 2015
ISBN 10: 0552171646ISBN 13: 9780552171649
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
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Zustand: New. COMING TO NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC ON 27 MAY 2019_________In March 2014, the Ebola outbreak in West Africa was first reported.In March 2014, the Ebola outbreak in West Africa was first reported. By October 2014, it had become the largest and deadliest occurr.
Verlag: Random House UK|Transworld, 2015
ISBN 10: 0553824759ISBN 13: 9780553824759
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
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Zustand: New. Casting light on mysteries spanning the Malazan empire, and offering a glimpse of the storied and epic history that shaped it, Assail brings the epic story of the Empire of Malaz to a thrilling close.The sixth epic fantasy novel from the co-creator - wi.
Verlag: Random House UK|Transworld, 2008
ISBN 10: 0552141852ISBN 13: 9780552141857
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
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Zustand: New. Meg Henderson was part of a large family, and when the tenement block in which they lived collapsed they had to move to the notorious Blackhill district where religious sectarianism and gang warfare were part of daily life.A true and shocking account of.
Verlag: Random House UK|Transworld, 2014
ISBN 10: 0552158666ISBN 13: 9780552158664
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
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Zustand: New. In 1983 Andy McNab was assigned to B Squadron, one of the four Sabre Squadrons of the SAS, and within it to Air Troop, otherwise known as Seven Troop. The links they forged then bound them inextricably together, but the things they saw and did during that t.
Verlag: Random House UK|Transworld, 2008
ISBN 10: 0552156094ISBN 13: 9780552156097
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
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Zustand: New. Paolo Hewitt has known Paul Weller since they were both teenagers in the depths of Woking, through his ascent to fame with The Jam, the halcyon years of The Style Council and for all of his critically acclaimed solo career.The definitive Weller book, wr.
Verlag: Random House UK|Transworld, 2003
ISBN 10: 055215072XISBN 13: 9780552150729
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
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Zustand: New. A Short History of Nearly Everything is Bill Bryson s quest to find out everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization - how we got from there, being nothing at all, to here, being us. It s not so much about what we know, as abou.
Verlag: Random House UK|Transworld, 2014
ISBN 10: 1848271891ISBN 13: 9781848271890
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
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Zustand: New. But all that glitters is not gold, and as the smoke and mirrors of the lifestyle she so longed for shatter around her there are some secrets she can never escape. London 1965: Cat, headstrong and independent, drawn to danger and passionately opposed to in.
Verlag: Random House UK|Transworld, 2009
ISBN 10: 0593061381ISBN 13: 9780593061381
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
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Zustand: New. Covers subjects such as child and adolescent development, parenting skills, problems at school, emotional health and wellbeing. This book looks specifically at some of the most distressing problems that young people face, including anxiety and stress disord.
Verlag: Random House UK, Transworld, Corgi, 2011
ISBN 10: 0552165115ISBN 13: 9780552165112
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH, Einbeck, Deutschland
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Gebraucht. Gebraucht - Sehr gut SG - leichte Beschädigungen, Verschmutzungen, ungelesenes Mängelexemplar, Versand Büchersendung - Trainee journalist Annika Bengtzon has secured a summer placement at Sweden's biggest tabloid newspaper. She's desperate for this to be her big break, although manning the tip-off phoneline isn't quite what she had in mind. Until a caller tells her that the naked body of a young woman has been found in a nearby cemetery.