Published by Vintage (US) 1994 : ( 9 other books by this author also available.) Format: paperback. Reduced postage on multiple orders., 1994
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Published by Vintage 1994 Paperback, 1994
ISBN 10: 1869412265 ISBN 13: 9781869412265
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
Condition: Good. 152 pages.
Published by Vintage 1994 Paperback, 1994
ISBN 10: 009930256X ISBN 13: 9780099302568
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
Condition: Good. With A Dead Man in Deptford, Burgess concluded his literary career to overwhelming acclaim for his re-creation of the Elizabethan poet Christopher Marlowe. In lavish, pitch-perfect, and supple, readable prose, Burgess matches his splendid Shakespeare novel, Nothing Like the Sun. The whole world of Elizabethan England-from the intrigues of the courtroom, through the violent streets of London, to the glory of the theater-comes alive in this joyous celebration of the life of Christopher Marlowe, murdered in suspicious circumstances in a tavern brawl in Deptford more than four hundred years ago. 288 pages.
Published by Vintage 1994 Paperback, 1994
ISBN 10: 0099389517 ISBN 13: 9780099389514
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
Condition: Good. Until the end of the Cold War, the politics of national identity was confined to isolated incidents of ethnics strife and civil war in distant countries. Now, with the collapse of Communist regimes across Europe and the loosening pf the Cold War'd clamp on East-West relations, a surge of nationalism has swept the world stage. In 'Blood and Belonging,' Ignatieff makes a thorough examination of why blood ties--inplaces as diverse as Yugoslavia, Kurdistan, Northern Ireland, Quebec, Germany, and the former Soviet republics--may be the definitive factor in international relation today. He asks how ethnic pride turned into ethnic cleansing, whether modern citizens can lay the ghosts of a warring past, why--and whether--a people need a state of their own, and why armed struggle might be justified. 'Blood and Belonging' is a profound and searching look at one of the most complex issues of our time. 201 pages.
Published by Vintage 1994 Paperback, 1994
ISBN 10: 0099329611 ISBN 13: 9780099329619
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
Condition: Fair. book bowed/curled 256 pages.
Published by Vintage 1994 Paperback, 2002
ISBN 10: 0099933608 ISBN 13: 9780099933601
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
Condition: Good. Fina, our eponymous hero, is a receptionist at a gynaecology clinic. A preposterous, yet curiously attractive figure, he spends his hours fantasising about solving the nation's problems and pursuing women with equivocal success. 352 pages.
Published by Vintage 1994 Paperback, 1994
ISBN 10: 1869412281 ISBN 13: 9781869412289
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
Condition: Very Good. A collection of non-fiction writing and speeches that examine the images that have been significant in the author's life and work. The process of writing and the world of books are discussed. The author explores the importance of place on people and on her own work. 245 pages.
Published by Vintage Books 1994 Paperback, 1994
ISBN 10: 0099387913 ISBN 13: 9780099387916
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
Condition: Good. In 1910 a young Englishman, Stephen Wraysford, goes to Picardy, France, to learn the textile business. While there he plunges into a love affair with the young wife of his host, a passion so imperative and consuming that it changes him forever. Several years later, with the outbreak of World War I, he finds himself again in the fields of Picardy, this time as a soldier on the Western Front. A strange, occasionally bitter man, Stephen is possessed of an inexplicable will to survive. He struggles through the hideously bloody battles of the Marne, Verdun, and the Somme (in the last named, thirty thousand British soldiers were killed in the first half hour alone), camps for weeks at a time in the verminous trenches, and hunkers in underground tunnels as he watches many of the companions he has grown to love perish. In spite of everything, Stephen manages to find hope and meaning in the blasted world he inhabits.Sixty years after war's end, his granddaughter discovers, and keeps, Stephen's promise to a dying man. Sebastian Faulks brings the anguish of love and war to vivid life, and leaves the reader's mind pulsating with images that are graphic and unforgettable. 504 pages.
Published by Vintage 1994 Paperback, 1994
ISBN 10: 0099496119 ISBN 13: 9780099496113
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
Condition: Good. 152 pages.
Published by Vintage 1994 Paperback, 1994
ISBN 10: 009930242X ISBN 13: 9780099302421
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
Condition: Good. A picture of Australia at the time of its foundation, focused on the hostility between early British settlers and native Aboriginals. It is essentially the story of a boy caught between both worlds. David Malouf, himself an Australian, is the prize-winning author of THE GREAT WORLD. 202 pages.