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'Marvellous entertainment' Sunday Times\n\nJust married and newly arrived in Los Angeles are Paul and Katherine Cattleman. Paul responds immediately to the sunny, sprawling cosmopolitan city but to Katherine the main impression is of dirt and smog. Paul explores his surroundings and discovers Ceci, a girl who could be the incarnation of the city's uninhibited ways, while Katherine meets Iz a psychiatrist who recognises her unhappiness and sets out to help her. Under the bright west coast sun, the city begins to affect the couple in separate, subtle but significant ways, shining new light on their marriage with moving, funny and unexpected consequences.

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'Delightful... Her characters are, as always, wonderfully imperfect' New York Review of Books\n\nAlan has changed because he's injured his back. Pain has altered his appearance and made him glum, demanding and resentful. His wife Jane has to do everything for him - fetching, carrying, shopping, cooking, even dressing and undressing him. Sometimes she longs for escape.\n\nDelia is a writer and researcher specialising in fairy tales - she is, in her own estimation, a 'Great Artist'. Her husband, Henry, manages her every need making certain Delia gets everything she desires including spectacular doses of adulation.\n\nCan Delia coax Alan out of his grumpiness? Can Henry stop Jane feeling guilty? Can the two couples break out of their fixed roles?\n\n'I am re-reading with enormous delight and greed. If you're new to [Lurie], lucky you: marvellously astute comedies of social, moral and sexual manners, her witty exuberance is nothing short of inspirational' Helen Simpson

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EAN: 9788833210384
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Due accademici americani, Vinnie, che insegna letteratura per l'infanzia, e Fred, un giovane ricercatore, hanno la possibilità di trascorrere un anno sabbatico in Inghilterra. Sentendosi entrambi più inglesi che americani, sognano di poter dimenticare per un po' il loro Paese. Vinnie è una cinquantenne con un matrimonio fallito alle spalle, che sogna un'avventura a Londra, magari con un artista. E invece s'innamorerà di un ingegnere dell'Oklahoma, che le è seduto di fianco sull'aereo che la porta a Londra. L'affascinante Fred, avvilito per il recente abbandono della moglie, si invaghirà invece di un'attrice inglese ancora più stravagante dell'ex consorte. Condotto sull'onda di continue opposizioni – America/Inghilterra, famiglia/vita da single; conformismo/eccentricità, \"Casuali incontri fra estranei\" è un romanzo di formazione per adulti confusi e insicuri.

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Brian and Erica Tate appear to have every advantage in life: academic careers, two children, nice friends and money. But when Brian begins an affair with one of his students the disintegration of their lives is swift and shocking. Things spiral when a protest against a sexist professor at the university ramps up and Brian, hopelessly compromised by split loyalties, gets caught up in the action.\n\nCan the Tates marriage survive? Lurie skewers both sides in this brilliant campus satire of 1960s feminism, parenthood, infidelity and academic pomposity.\n\n'Her humour is a delight and she writes with an almost unholy relish' Irish Times

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'A brilliant and seemingly effortless accomplishment...steady uninterrupted delight' Sunday Telegraph\n\nFaculty wife Emily Stockwell Turner is beautiful, rich, and principled. However, five years in a marriage devoid of passion is enough to propel Emmy, despite her principles, into an affair with a silver-tongued self-confessed libertine. Her husband, a dull, hard-working lecturer, suspecting everyone but the right man, sends himself half mad with jealousy. The shocking, unforeseen consequences of their affair shatter Emmy's most cherished delusions about friendship, romance, and the ties that bind.\n\n'Lurie is and really is, different. She writes with great elegance, as frostily clear as the climate she describes; and with sharp intelligence piercing through every sentence. She is very funny as well' Observer

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Jenny has devoted her life to her husband, the famous naturalist Wilkie Walker. But this year, as winter comes on, Wilkie seems distant and depressed. In desperation Jenny persuades him to visit Key West, but the sun and tropical scenery do nothing to cheer him up. As he grows even stranger, Jenny becomes involved with some intriguing local characters including Gerry, an ex-beatnik poet, and Lee, the dramatically attractive manager of a women-only guest house.\n\nWife, secretary, confidante, housekeeper - might Jenny at last break free from her role as Wilkie's support act?\n\nWITH A NEW PREFACE FROM ALISON LURIE\n\n'Full of sparkish - indeed Muriel Sparkish - observations and gently subversive wit... Lurie beautifully handles the ecstatic liberation of lesbian love' Independent

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'If you're coming to Lurie for the first time, you must begin with the Pulitzer Prize-winning Foreign Affairs' Guardian\n\nVinnie Miner is an American professor of children's literature on her way to London for six months of research. Settling into her aeroplane seat she finds herself accosted by Chuck, a brash engineer wearing cowboy boots. She never imagines she'll see him again. But wet, windy London turns out to be the setting for fresh beginnings, and for Vinnie, a place to take up space, breathe the air, and to refuse to become a minor character in one's own life. \n\nForeign Affairs is a comic, heart-wrenching masterpiece of unexpected romance. \n\nWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY AMANDA CRAIG

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Brand: Stefania Fabri
EAN: 9788893570435
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I bambini, per dirla con Alison Lurie, sono \"una strana tribù semiselvaggia\" e per questo mal sopportano la narrativa \"moralistica\" con cui gli adulti spesso cercano di impartire loro delle velate lezioni. \"Proibito proibire\" accompagna insegnanti e bibliotecari in un percorso di lettura attraverso il filone più sovversivo della narrativa destinata ai ragazzi, attenta ai loro desideri e contraria agli indottrinamenti di ogni genere, a partire agli anni Settanta fino ai nostri giorni.

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Brand: Amanda Craig
EAN: 9780349142685
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'A very good read indeed' MATT HAIG\n\n\n\n'Terrific, page-turning, slyly funny' INDIA KNIGHT\n\n\n\n'As satisfying a novel as I have read in years' SARAH PERRY\n\n\n\n'One of the most brilliant and entertaining novelists' ALISON LURIE\n\n\n\nQuentin and Lottie Bredin, like many modern couples, can't afford to divorce. Having lost their jobs in the recession, they can't afford to go on living in London; instead, they must downsize and move their three children to a house in a remote part of Devon. Arrogant and adulterous, Quentin can't understand why Lottie is so angry; devastated and humiliated, Lottie feels herself to have been intolerably wounded.\n\n\n\nMud, mice and quarrels are one thing - but why is their rent so low? What is the mystery surrounding their unappealing new home? The beauty of the landscape is ravishing, yet it conceals a dark side involving poverty, revenge, abuse and violence which will rise up to threaten them.\n\n\n\nSally Verity, happily married but unhappily childless knows a different side to country life, as both a Health Visitor and a sheep farmer's wife; and when Lottie's innocent teenage son Xan gets a zero-hours contract at a local pie factory, he sees yet another. At the end of their year, the lives of all will be changed for ever. \n\n\n\nA suspenseful black comedy, this is a rich, compassionate and enthralling novel in its depiction of the English countryside, and the potentially lethal interplay between money and marriage.\n\n\n\nA BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN, EVENING STANDARD, SUNDAY TIMES AND IRISH TIMES

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Brand: Claire Tomalin
EAN: 9780241963302
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Katherine Mansfield is the celebrated biography be bestselling author Claire Tomalin\n\n'One of the best biographies I have ever read: a perfect match of author and subject. It should become a classic' Alison Lurie\n\nPursuing art and adventure across Europe, Katherine Mansfield lived and wrote with the Furies on her heels; but when she died aged only thirty-four she became one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. Sexually ambiguous, craving love yet quarrelsome and capricious, she glittered in the brilliant circles of D. H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf, her beauty and recklessness inspiring admiration, jealousy, rage and devotion. Claire Tomalin's biography brings us nearer than we have ever been to this courageous, greatly gifted, haunted and haunting writer.\n\n'Generous, dispassionate, even-handed, setting out probably as plainly as anyone ever will Katherine's high hopes, the odds she faced and the impossible obstacles that ditched her in the end' Hilary Spurling, Daily Telegraph\n\n'Provides the finest and most subtly shaded portrait so far' John Gross, New York Times\n\nFrom the acclaimed author of Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self, Charles Dickens: A Life and The Invisible Woman, this virtuoso biography is invaluable reading for lovers of Katherine Mansfield everywhere.\n\nClaire Tomalin is the award-winning author of eight highly acclaimed biographies, including: The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft; Shelley and His World; Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life; The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens; Mrs Jordan's Profession; Jane Austen: A Life; Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self; Thomas Hardy: The Time-Torn Man and, most recently, Charles Dickens: A Life. A former literary editor of the New Statesman and the Sunday Times, she is married to the playwright and novelist Michael Frayn.

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Brand: Stefania Fabri
EAN: 9788893570435
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I bambini, per dirla con Alison Lurie, sono \"una strana tribù semiselvaggia\" e per questo mal sopportano la narrativa \"moralistica\" con cui gli adulti spesso cercano di impartire loro delle velate lezioni. \"Proibito proibire\" accompagna insegnanti e bibliotecari in un percorso di lettura attraverso il filone più sovversivo della narrativa destinata ai ragazzi, attenta ai loro desideri e contraria agli indottrinamenti di ogni genere, a partire agli anni Settanta fino ai nostri giorni.

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