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Coming Up for Air
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George Orwell,Marina MacKay |
Years in insurance and marriage to the joyless Hilda have been no more than death in life to George Bowling. This and fear of another war take his mind back to the peace of his childhood in a small c… |
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Solar
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Ian McEwan |
Michael Beard ist Physiker und Frauenheld. Er hat den Nobelpreis erhalten, doch ist er alles andere als nobel: Im Beruf ruht er sich auf seinen Lorbeeren aus, privat hält es ihn auf Dauer bei keiner … |
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Portobello
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Ruth Rendell |
'Rendell coaxes her horrors along so seductively that all kinds of nastiness seem not only possible, but inevitable' Literary ReviewThe Portobello area of West London has a rich personality - vibrant… |
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Wilson
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Daniel Clowes |
A lonely, neurotic and hilariously honest middle-aged man reunites with his estranged wife and meets his teenage daughter for the first time. |
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Aloft
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Chang-rae Lee |
"Aloft offers a reexamination of the American dream from the inside out, through the voice of Jerry Battle, a suburban middle-aged man who has lived his entire life on Long Island, New York." "Battle… |
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Herzog
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Saul Bellow |
In Herzog Saul Bellow presents a multifaceted portrait of a modern-day hero, a man struggling with the complexity of existence and longing for redemption. This is the story of Moses Herzog, a great s… |
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Lamb
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Bonnie Nadzam |
She was coming toward him in a crooked purple tube top and baggy shorts and brassy sandals studded with rhinestones. She carried a huge pink patent leather purse and was possibly the worst thing he'd… |
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Bullfighting
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Roddy Doyle |
A collection of stories set in modern Ireland explores a theme of loss, from a man who remembers his early family life while taking daily prescribed walks to a father who considers the impact of his … |
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The beginner's goodbye
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Anne Tyler |
"Anne Tyler gives us a wise, haunting, and deeply moving new novel in which she explores how a middle-aged man, ripped apart by the death of his wife, is gradually restored by her frequent appearance… |
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Everything you know
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Zoë Heller |
"Zoë Heller's first novel introduces an unforgettable curmudgeon, Willy Muller, an embittered journalist turned celebrity biographer and misanthrope. At the age of fifty, having survived imprisonment… |
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The narrative of John Smith
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Arthur Conan Doyle |
Arthur Conan Doyle wrote The Narrative of John Smith in 1883 when he was just 23, living in Portsmouth and struggling to establish himself as a doctor and a writer. By that time he had succeeded in g… |
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There but for the
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Ali Smith |
There But For The is a 2011 novel by Scottish author Ali Smith, first published in the UK by Hamish Hamilton and in the US by Pantheon, and set in 2009 and 2010 in Greenwich, London. It was cited by … |
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Doctor Sleep
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Stephen King |
Perseguitato dalle visioni provocate dallo shining, la luccicanza, il dono maledetto con il quale è nato, e dai fantasmi dei vecchi ospiti dell'Overlook Hotel dove ha trascorso un terribile inverno d… |
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Marrying the mistress
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Joanna Trollope |
Simon Stockdale spells it out for his son Jack; your grandfather is proposing to leave your grandmother to whom he has been married for forty years and marry a woman with whom he has been having an a… |
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Instructions for living someone else's life
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Mil Millington |
"Chris is 25. He has a job in advertising he despises - despite being naturally brilliant at creating shamelessly successful campaigns - an 'artistic' girlfriend, and his two best mates from universi… |
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One hit wonder
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Charles Carillo |
Mickey was once a teenage heartthrob with a number one hit single called "Sweet Days." Now, unable to get his act together, he returns home to Queens where he is reunited with Lynn, his former high s… |
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Warlock
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Jim Harrison |
"Johnny Lundgren, a.k.a. Warlock, is an unemployed foundation executive whose life is about to become unhinged. After surviving a midlife crises, Warlock finally decides to get a job. He soon disco… |
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The here and now
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Gregg Easterbrook |
"Carter Morris, whose sixties youth was full of fiery idealism and passionate romance, has grown into a disillusioned, unfeeling adult who can no longer love and who no longer cares about any issue m… |
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The crane wife
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Patrick Ness |
" A magical novel, based on a Japanese folk tale, that imagines how the life of a broken-hearted man is transformed when he rescues an injured white crane that has landed in his backyard. George Dunc… |
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Mr. Wakefield's crusade
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Bernice Rubens |
From Library Journal
Luke Wakefield's business has gone bankrupt, his wife has left him (for another woman)his life, he thinks, has been one big failure. Then one day, as he is waiting in line at th… |
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