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  • A Young Man's Guide to Late Capitalism

    A Novel

    de Peter Mountford ...
    "A terrific debut novel . . . Mountford's parable of the voracious global economy reminds me of Graham Greene's The Quiet American." —Jess Walter, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Cold MillionsOn his first assignment for a rapacious hedge fund, Gabriel embarks to Bolivia at the end of 2005 to ferret out insider information about the plans of the controversial president-elect. If Gabriel ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Detonator

    Stories

    de Peter Mountford ...
    Sensorily rich and narratively captivating, the stories in Detonator are utterly addictive. Author Peter Mountford invites readers with a balance of humor, sensuality, and compassion while spanning continents, offering intimate portraits of flawed characters caught in the crosshairs of personal and political upheavals.In “One More Night Behind Walls,” set against the early 1980s-onset of Sri Lanka ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • The Dismal Science

    A Novel

    de Peter Mountford ...
    Mountford's follow up to A Young Man's Guide to Late Capitalism is at once a cogent political drama and an acute meditation on the fragile nature of identity.The Dismal Science tells of a middle-aged vice president at the World Bank, Vincenzo D’Orsi, who publicly quits his job over a seemingly minor argument with a colleague. A scandal inevitably ensues, and he systematically burns every bridge to ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Maecenas

    de Peter Mountford ...
    While much has been written of the importance of Agrippa in Augustus’ rise to power as the first emperor of Rome, Maecenas remains a shadowy figure despite being a vital part in the success of Augustus. After the assassination of Julius Caesar, Maecenas was a vital negotiator between Octavian and Mark Antony in the years leading up to the battle of Actium, and a wise political advisor to Augustus ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • Hotel Angeline: A Novel in 36 Voices

    A Novel in 36 Voices

    de Garth Stein, Jennie Shortridge, Erik Larson, Julia Quinn, Jamie Ford, Kevin O'Brien, Susan Wiggs, Erica Bauermeister, Carol Cassella, Mary Guterson, Elizabeth George, Deb Caletti, Kathleen Alcalá, William Dietrich, Karen Finneyfrock, Stephanie Kallos, Frances McCue, Suzanne Selfors, Craig Welch, Matthew Amster-Burton, Sean Beaudoin, Robert Dugoni, Jarret Middleton, Greg Stump, David Lasky, Kit Bakke, Dave Boling, Maria Dahvana Headley, Kevin Emerson, Clyde W. Ford, Teri Hein, Stacey Levine, Peter Mountford, Nancy Rawles, Ed Skoog, Indu Sundaresan ...
    Thirty-six of the most interesting writers in the Pacific Northwest came together for a week-long marathon of writing live on stage. The result? Hotel Angeline, a truly inventive novel that surprises at every turn of the page.Something is amiss at the Hotel Angeline, a rickety former mortuary perched atop Capitol Hill in rain-soaked Seattle. Fourteen-year-old Alexis Austin is fixing the plumbing, ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Ploughshares Summer 2024 Guest-edited by Rebecca Makkai

    de Rebecca Makkai, Molly Anders, Dur e Aziz Amna, Ramona Ausubel, Joy Deva Baglio, Drew Calvert, Diana Cao, Jane Delury, Janice Furlong, Tim Horvath, Juan Martinez, Khaddafina Mbabazi, Peter Mountford, Susan V. Meyers, DK Nnuro ...
    The Summer 2024 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.”The Summer 2024 Issue, guest-edited ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Classic Starts®: Peter Pan

    de J. M. Barrie, Tania Zamorsky ...
    Ilustraciones de Karl James Mountford ...
    Series series Classic Starts®
    **“**All children grow up. All except one.” When Wendy and her brothers discover a boy named Peter Pan looking for his shadow, they can’t decide what makes him more magical: the fact that he can fly, or that he never grows up!This abridged retelling is the perfect way to introduce young readers to the marvelous Neverland, jealous Tinker Bell, and menacing Captain Hook. ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Women Writing Home

    Heimat and Belonging in Exile Writing after 1933

    de Angharad Mountford ...
    Series Libro 24 - Exile Studies
    Women writers offer us rich and diverse perspectives on exile, yet they remain relatively unexplored in the scholarship. This book aims to address this omission by illuminating the life and work of four German-speaking writers exiled in Britain after 1933. Gerda Mayer, Gabriele Tergit, Ruth Feiner and Eva Priester, in different and unique ways, all articulate ideas of (national) identity and home ... Leer más

    $61.99 USD

  • Fighting Words

    Fifteen Books that Shaped the Postcolonial World

    Edición de Dominic Davies, Erica Lombard, Benjamin Mountford ...
    Series Libro 1 - Race and Resistance Across Borders in the Long Twentieth Century
    Can a book change the world? If books were integral to the creation of the imperial global order, what role have they played in resisting that order throughout the twentieth century? To what extent have theories and movements of anti-imperial and anticolonial resistance across the planet been shaped by books as they are read across the world?This updated edition of Fighting Words responds to these ... Leer más

    $39.99 USD

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  • Imperial Infrastructure and Spatial Resistance in Colonial Literature, 1880–1930

    de Dominic Davies ...
    Series Libro 2 - Race and Resistance Across Borders in the Long Twentieth Century
    Between 1880 and 1930, the British Empire’s vast infrastructural developments facilitated the incorporation of large parts of the globe into not only its imperial rule, but also the capitalist world-system. Throughout this period, colonial literary fiction, in recording this vast expansion, repeatedly cited these imperial infrastructures to make sense of the various colonial landscapes in which ... Leer más

    $103.99 USD

  • How Evan Broke His Head and Other Secrets

    de Garth Stein ...
    “Funny, bewitching, observant.”—The Oregonian“Hits all the frets of a powerful story: sharp-witted dialogue, vivid characters, insight into medical challenges and prose that snaps like well-placed plucks of guitar strings. . . . I hold up my lighter and turn it full-flame for [Garth] Stein’s latest work. Encore!”—The Seattle Times“Compelling.”—Seattle Post-Intelligencer“Stein handles the many ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Raven Stole the Moon

    A Novel

    de Garth Stein ...
    From the author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller The Art of Racing in the Rain comes a tale of grief, devotion, redemption, and timeless mystery.A profoundly poignant and unforgettable story of a grieving mother's return to a remote Alaskan town to make peace with the loss of her young son, Raven Stole the Moon combines intense emotion with Native American ... ... Leer más

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