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Paperback. Condition: Good. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Condition: very good. Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages.

Condition: Very Good. 1762506451. 11/7/2025 9:07:31 AM.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good Minus. First Paperback Edition. In Argentina in the time of the generals, Richard Garay lives quietly with his mother, hiding his sexuality from her and from society. Wear at edges, reading creases, sticker remnants on front cover, rubbedl. Size: 4 1/4" x 7". PAPERBACK.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

Trade Paperback. Condition: As New. No Jacket. May contain remainder mark. Discount Book.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. SIze: 6 X 9.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+, Not Price Clipped. British First. Complete number line from 1 to 9; minimal wear; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. British First. Complete number line from 1 to 9; some edge wear to boards and dust jacket; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition; contributors include Roddy Doyle, Anne Enright, Joseph O'Connor and Colm Toibin. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. British First. Bound in light blue covers with white lettering on front cover and one spine; complete number line from 1 to 9; some edge wear to card covers; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+, Not Price Clipped. British First. Complete number line from 1 to 9; minor wear; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition; dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+, Not Price Clipped. British First. Complete number line from 1 to 9; minor wear; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition. Book.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. Standard used condition. Reading copy or better. Used Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Richard Williams (illustrator). This book is straight and tight with no marks noted, pages a bit yellowed, and it has wonderful drawings throughout. Nasrudin was devised as the central figure in a series of jokes used to illustrate the teaching of the Sufi School of philosophy. Whether studied for their hidden wisdom or enjoyed for their exhilarating humour, they remain an incomparable delight! Proceeds from the sale of this book benefit environmental restoration and education.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Thus. Standard used condition. Reading copy or better. Used Book.

Condition: Wie neu. Englische Erstausgabe. First Imprint. 201 Seiten. 20,5 cm. Aus der Bibliothek der Gräfin Ledebur. Sehr guter Zustand. Very Good. - In Margriet de Moor's exquisite (and exquisitely translated) The Virtuoso, a love affair with a castrato becomes the last thing one would expect: thoroughly, almost overwhelmingly physical. A bestseller in Europe, this Dutch writer's novel overflows with the sights and smells, tastes and textures of an 18th-century Naples caught in intellectual and sensual ferment. Here, thieves take shelter in churches, carriages race through the narrow streets, and aristocrats gamble, discuss Descartes, cross-dress, and swoon over their favorite male sopranos. Into this heady milieu comes Carlotta, Duchess of Rocca d'Evandro, married at 15 and a firm believer that "your body is what you are and all knowledge begins with desire." What, then, to do with a body like Gasparo's? A native of the same village as Carlotta, at age 11 Gasparo underwent the infamous operation that would keep his soprano suitably pure. Years later, Carlotta hears him sing in the San Carlo theater and immediately falls into a fever of desire. One expects such a passion to be primarily metaphorical, and there is indeed something quixotic about her love for Gasparo, with his voice that "attests to a world beyond this world but which comes none the less from a body like every other: warm, full of obscure desires." Well, not quite like every other. A product of both prodigious natural gifts and prodigiously unnatural intervention, Gasparo is closer to a work of art than a man--but that doesn't prevent Carlotta from lusting after his bod. With some coaxing on her part, they manage to have an affair, the mechanics of which Carlotta by no means ignores in her breathless narration. De Moor writes compellingly about beauty and art, but the book's real strength lies in her almost offhand depiction of Neapolitan aristocracy--its decadence, its playfulness, and even its casual cruelty. ("Only one boy in four fails to survive" Gasparo's operation, Carlotta breezily notes.) Reading The Virtuoso is like immersing yourself in another world entirely, one in which the central love affair makes beautiful sense. History is full of mutilation in the name of art; de Moor's triumph is to make the mutilation itself a subject of desire. --Mary Park. - - Margriet de Moor (* 21. November 1941 in Noordwijk als Margaretha Maria Antonetta Neefjes) ist eine niederländische Schriftstellerin. Leben: Margriet de Moor ist eines von zehn Kindern eines Lehrerehepaares. Ihre Schwiegermutter war die Schriftstellerin Anna Margaritha Annie de Moor-Ringnalda. Sie studierte zunächst am Königlichen Konservatorium in Den Haag Klavier und Gesang. In ihrem Zweitstudium belegte sie Kunstgeschichte sowie Archäologie in Amsterdam, das sie mit Klavierunterricht finanzierte. Mit ihrem Ehemann eröffnete sie 1984 in 's-Graveland bei Hilversum einen Salon für Künstler. Für den Salon machte sie eine Reihe von Film- und Video-Portraits der ausstellenden Künstler. Nachdem die Subventionen für die Filmprojekte eingestellt worden waren, begann sie mit dem Schreiben. Ihr Debütwerk war der 1988 erschienene Erzählungsband Rückenansicht, der gute Kritiken erhielt und als am besten verkauftes literarisches Debüt mit dem Goldenen Eselsohr ausgezeichnet wurde. Für ihren ersten Roman Erst grau dann weiß dann blau (1991) erhielt sie den AKO Literatuurprijs. Dieser Roman wurde 2016 Ein Buch für die Stadt Köln und Umgebung. Margriet de Moor war mit dem Bildhauer Heppe de Moor (19381992) verheiratet, aus der Ehe gingen zwei Töchter hervor. De Moor spricht fließend Deutsch. Ihre Tochter Marente de Moor (* 1972) ist Slawistin, Zeitungskolumnistin und debütierte 2010 mit einem Roman. Die Schriftstellerin lebt und arbeitet in Amsterdam. . . . Aus: wikipedia-Margriet_de_Moor. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 350 Schwarzes Leinen mit farbigen Vorsätzen und Schutzumschlag. Hardcover.

Condition: as new. Appears unread. May have a retail sticker on back cover or remainder mark on the text block.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condition: acceptable. Used - Acceptable: All pages and the cover are intact, but shrink wrap, dust covers, or boxed set case may be missing. Pages may include limited notes, highlighting, or minor water damage but the text is readable. Item may be missing bundled media.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. British First. Complete number line from 1 to 9; signed by Robin Robertson on the title page with no inscription; a solid, clean copy in collectible condition. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good, Not Price Clipped. British First. Complete number line from 1 to 9; some edge wear to dust jacket; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition; illustrated with both black and white and colour photographs; Book.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. Softcover Edition, Thirteenth Printing. Softcover book is a clean tight unmarked copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition, First Printing. Book is a clean tight unmarked copy.

Illustrierte Originalbroschur. Condition: Wie neu. 3. Auflage. 382 pages. Very Good Condition. 19,6 cm. Very Good. Sehr guter Zustand. Aus der Bibliothek der Gräfin Ledebur. When Thomas Wavery arrives in Gibralter on his way to take up his posting as HM Consul General to Abyla his passport is stolen by a barbary ape. Ignominy and shame have dogged his steps since he lost both the coveted Lisbon Embassy and his wife as a result of his infatuation with a younger woman. - Nicholas William Richmond Shakespeare (born March 3, 1957 in Worcester) is a British journalist and writer. Born to a diplomat, Shakespeare grew up in the Far East and in South America. He was educated at the Dragon School preparatory school then Winchester College and Cambridge and worked as a journalist for BBC television and then on The Times as assistant arts and literary editor. From 1988 to 1991 he was literary editor of The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph. His time in South America is represented in two novels, The Vision of Elena Silves (1989, Somerset Maugham Award, Betty Trask Award) and The Dancer Upstairs (1995, American Library Association Award). Other less well known works from this period are The Men Who Would Be King (1984), Londoners (1986) and The High Flyer (1993). In 1999, Shakespeare published his biography of Bruce Chatwin to widespread critical acclaim. This was followed by the novel Snowleg (2004, long-listed for the Booker Prize, Dublin IMPAC Award) a 'place' book, In Tasmania (2004) and Secrets of the Sea (2007). Shakespeare has also produced several extended biographies for television on Evelyn Waugh, Mario Vargas Llosa, Bruce Chatwin and on the actor Dirk Bogarde (Arena 2001, BAFTA "Best Arts Documentary Award", RTS "Best Documentary Award"). The Dancer Upstairs was made into a film in 2002 for which Shakespeare wrote the screenplay and which John Malkovich directed. Shakespeare was nominated as one of Granta's Best of British Young Novelists in 1993 and has written articles for Granta, the London Review of Books and the Times Literary Supplement among others. Shakespeare's novels place ordinary people against a background of significant events, as with The Dancer Upstairs, which deals with Abimael Guzmán, leader of Peru's Sendero Luminoso; and Snowleg, set partly during the Cold War in the German Democratic Republic. In 1999, he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. In 2009, he donated the short story The Death of Marat to Oxfam's 'Ox-Tales' project, four collections of UK stories written by 38 authors. Shakespeare's story was published in the 'Earth' collection. - wikipedia-Nicholas_Shakespeare. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 300.

Second Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Physical description; 196 pages ; 23 cm. Subjects; Byrne, Gabriel 1950-Byrne. Motion picture actors and actresses Ireland ; Biography. Motion picture actors and actresses. Entertainment & Performing Arts. Rich & Famous. Popular Culture. Acting & AuditioningFilm / General. Life Stages / Adolescence. Death, Grief, BereavementParenting / Fatherhood. Love & Romance. Autobiography: Arts & Entertainment. Individual Actors & Performers. Theatre: Individual Actors & Directors. Individual Film Directors, Film-Makers. Ireland. Autobiography. 1 Kg.

Trade Paperback. Condition: As New. No Jacket. May contain remainder mark. Discount Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Very Good in Very Good jacket 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. pp.469 with index and notes. "A major work which challenges a vast number of contemporary assumptions about the family, child rearing, contraception, sexual activity, the ethics of family planning, the question of over-population, and where it all may be leading us". former owner name on frontpiece. clean tight copy-foxing.

Soft Cover Full Gloss. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. ## The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 1983 ## ## THIS BOOK: Classified as VERY GOOD. This edition published in 1983. First published by Jonathan Cape Ltd in 1977, and the first Picador book in 1980, third printing 1983. A book that shows a few signs of being read; the cover is full-colour matt. There is some minor bumping; the page edges are slightly discoloured due to paper quality and time. A small previous owners inscription on free endpaper.### ## THE AUTUMN OF THE PATRIARCH by GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ ## In the presidential palace of an anonymous Latin American country lies the rotting corpse of a dictator ? the Patriarch. For as long as his suffering people can remember, he has held them in the grip of his limitless power and great cruelty. He has been both the creator of myths and the subject of them.## ## Now, the vultures and worms feast on his remains; the demythologising begins, the memories of those who loved him and those who hated him combining in a rich and complex narrative patchwork to provide a memorable portrait of a memorably evil tyrant. ## ##This magnificent new novel by the author of the classic One Hundred Years of Solitude* is an extraordinary experience: resonant, angry, and spellbinding, and it confirms Gabriel Garcia Mårquez as one of the great writers of our time.## ##'Mårquez is the master weaver of the real and conjectured. His descriptive power astounds' NEW STATESMAN ## ### INTERNATIONAL BUYERS: Please Note. FREE SHIPPING IS UK ONLY. PLEASE, contact me for a shipping quotation. ###. No Author signature.

THIS BOOK: This book is classified as AS NEW. This is the 2008 edition. The book was first published in 2007 by Little, Brown and Company, USA. First published in Great Britain in 2007 by Picador, and first published in paperback in 2007 by Picador. The book has a tight spine. A coloured front cover to the book. Slight discolouring on page edges. ________________________________________ IMAGES: We provide at least two Images per book or map. This gives you the opportunity to see what you are buying. We only use images of the books we scan into our system. No Stock images. Unless they are waiting to be scanned. READ ON: For in-depth information and the storyline of the book.: ________________________________________ In The Almost Moon, Alice Sebold delivers a stark and unsettling portrait of a woman unraveling under the weight of memory, duty, and long-buried trauma. The novel opens with an act of violence?Helen Knightly, a middle-aged woman and former art model, kills her elderly mother, Clair, whose descent into dementia has consumed Helen's life. What follows is not a whodunit but a psychological excavation, tracing the contours of a fraught mother-daughter relationship and the legacy of mental illness, secrecy, and emotional neglect. Set over the course of a single day, the narrative interweaves Helen's present crisis with flashbacks that reveal the claustrophobic world of her childhood. Clair, once a striking and intelligent woman, became increasingly unstable, and Helen's father, a gentle man undone by his wife's illness, ultimately took his own life. These formative experiences shape Helen's adult choices, including her strained relationship with her own daughters and her failed marriage to Jake, a sculptor whose work once mirrored Helen's own vulnerability. Sebold's prose is unflinching, at times brutal, yet laced with moments of dark humour and insight. The novel probes themes of identity, autonomy, and the taboo of matricide, asking whether liberation can ever be found in the most extreme acts. Helen's journey is not one of redemption but of reckoning?a confrontation with the self that refuses easy resolution. Published in 2008, this edition reflects Sebold's continued exploration of trauma and its reverberations, following her acclaimed debut, The Lovely Bones. The Almost Moon is a challenging, provocative work that resists sentimentality, offering instead a raw meditation on the complexities of care, resentment, and the fragile boundaries between love and loathing. ________________________________________ INTERNATIONAL BUYERS: Please note that free shipping applies to UK orders only. For a shipping quote, kindly contact us via AbeBooks using the "Contact the Seller" option, and we will be happy to provide a confirmed cost.