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A House for Alice
Evans's writing is...subtle but grounded, lyrical yet accessible. Her characters feel real, their interactions - particularly that tense space where the political and domestic meet - nuanced
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Broth
€ 6,95 -
The Wedding
This incredible novel by the last surviving writer of the Harlem Renaissance deserves to be discovered by a new generation of readers. Introduced by Diana Evans, author of Ordinary People, and now reissued in our beautiful Classics With Bite series.
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La geometria delle coppie
Sullo sfondo della storica vittoria di Obama del 2008 con tutto il suo carico di sogni e speranze, due coppie londinesi riflettono sui desideri raggiunti e le aspettative deluse. E in un gioco di tradimenti e perdono, di fughe e incontri, esplorano la fragile architettura dell'amore. Michael non si sente piú desiderato, ma vuole salvare il proprio matrimonio perché ama ancora Melissa, come tredici anni fa. Melissa vorrebbe tornare a essere la donna che era prima di sposarsi e ha paura di essersi persa, dopo due bambini. Damian ha un lavoro frustrante e sogna di fare lo scrittore, di conquistare Melissa, di scappare dalla provincia. Stephanie, sua moglie, vorrebbe soltanto vivere con serenità la sua esistenza di casalinga e madre. Sono due coppie come tante che passeranno un anno ad avvicinarsi e allontanarsi, soffrire e amarsi.
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A House for Alice
A Novel€ 20,95 -
A House for Alice
'Heart and humour in abundance... exquisite' The TimesAfter fifty years in London, Alice wants to live out her days in the land of her birth. Her children are divided on whether she stays or goes, and in the wake of their father's death, the imagined stability of the family begins to fray. Meanwhile youngest daughter Melissa has never let go of a love she lost, and Michael in return, now married to Nicole, is haunted by the failed perfection of the past. As Alice's final decision draws closer, all that is hidden between them rises to the surface . . . Set against the shadows of a city and a country in turmoil, Diana Evans's ordinary people confront fundamental questions. How should we raise our children? How to do right by our parents? And how, in the midst of everything, can we satisfy ourselves?'A gorgeous novel from one of our most outstanding writers' Bernardine Evaristo'Diana Evans is fast proving herself a novelist to rank alongside Anne Tyler' Daily Mail'A warm but devastating narrative... Like any Evans novel, it is unputdownable' Harper's BazaarA New York Times *100 Notable Books of 2023*Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political FictionSelected in Best Reads of 2023 by The Times, The Guardian, Financial Times, Harper's Bazaar, New Statesman and Good HousekeepingA Waterstones Book of the YearThe Bookseller Editor's ChoiceThe New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceStarred Kirkus ReviewGuardian Book of the Day
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The Wonder
The most dazzling depiction of the world of dance since Ballet Shoes'
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Ordinary People
A NovelShortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, and the Rathbones Folio Prize Winner of the South Bank Sky Arts Award for Literature A Washington Post “Lily Lit” Book Club Selection
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The Richer, The Poorer
Stories, Sketches and ReminiscencesAn incredible collection of writing - both essays and short stories - spanning the long career of Dorothy West. Includes a new introduction by Diana Evans.
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The Wedding
In The Wedding, West brilliantly portrays the ferocity of class, race, and gender distinctions within family, groups, and generations - Entertainment Weekly West published her second novel, The Wedding (1995), at the age of 87. It received an ecstatic reaction ... Set on the Vineyard on a single summer weekend, The Wedding is narrated by an irresistibly droll omniscient voice that veers across centuries to trace the knotty, reverberating heritage of an affluent African American family ... timelessly cinematic, with painterly visual descriptions and pitch-perfect dialogue that ranges across class, region, race, age, and gender - PAris Review The tranquility of a late summer weekend in 1953 is shattered by a tragic accident in this spare, affecting novel by one of the last surviving members of the Harlem Renaissance ... Through the ancestral histories of the Coles family, West subtly reveals the ways in which color can burden and codify behavior. The author makes her points with a delicate hand, maneuvering with confidence and ease through a sometimes incendiary subject ... a triumph. - Publisher's Weekly You have only to read the first page to know that you are in the hands of a writer, pure and simple. At the end, it's as though we've been invited not so much to a wedding as to a full-scale opera, only to find that one great artist is belting out all the parts. She brings down the house - New York Times West is a wonderful storyteller, painting vivid and memorable scenes of the life and plight of African Americans from slavery to the fifties. The Wedding is an engrossing tale - USA Today
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26a
Winner of the Orange Award for New WritersIdentical twins, Georgia and Bessi, live in the loft of 26 Waifer Avenue. It is a place of beanbags, nectarines and secrets, and visitors must always knock before entering. Forced to create their own identities, the Hunter children build a separate universe. It is when the reality comes knocking that the fantasies of childhood start to give way.
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Ordinary People
A Novel"The book achieves a moody, velvety atmosphere, as though events were unfolding under amber-tinted bulbs. Bracketed by Barack Obama’s electoral victory and Michael Jackson’s overdose, Ordinary People also offers a precise sketch of the British black middle class, with a daring fifth-act twist."
€ 28,95