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 Libri di Alison Lurie su Unilibro.it)
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2019 |
 
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Casuali incontri fra estraneiAuthor: Lurie Alison Publisher: Astoria Due accademici americani, Vinnie, che insegna letteratura per l'infanzia, e Fred, un giovane ricercatore, hanno la possibilità di trascorrere un anno sabbatico in Inghilterra. Sentendosi entrambi più inglesi che americani, sognano di poter dimenticare per un po' il loro Paese. Vinnie è una cinquantenne con un matrimonio fallito alle spalle, che sogna un'avventura a Londra, magari con un artista. E invece s'innamorerà di un ingegnere dell'Oklahoma, che le è seduto di fianco sull'aereo che la porta a Londra. L'affascinante Fred, avvilito per il recente abbandono della moglie, si invaghirà invece di un'attrice inglese ancora più stravagante dell'ex consorte. Condotto sull'onda di continue opposizioni - America/Inghilterra, famiglia/vita da single; conformismo/eccentricità, "Casuali incontri fra estranei" è un romanzo di formazione per adulti confusi e insicuri. € 18,00
Scontato: € 17,10
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1915 |
Title :
The Language of HousesAuthor: Lurie Alison, Sung Karen (ILT) Publisher: Delphinium Books € 14,80
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1914 |
Title :
The Language of HousesAuthor: Lurie Alison, Sung Karen (ILT) Publisher: Delphinium Books In 1981 Alison Lurie published The Language of Clothes, a meditation on costume and fashion as an expression of history, social status and individual psychology. Amusing, enlightening and full of literary allusion, the book was highly praised and widely anthologized. Now Lurie has returned with a companion book, The Language of Houses, a lucid, provocative and entertaining look at how the architecture of buildings and the spaces within them both reflect and affect the people who inhabit them. Schools, churches, government buildings, museums, prisons, hospitals, restaurants, and of course, houses and apartments?all of them speak to human experience in vital and varied ways. The Language of Houses discusses historical and regional styles and the use of materials such as stone and wood and concrete, as well as contemplating the roles of stairs and mirrors, windows and doors, tiny rooms and cathedral-like expanses, illustrating its conclusions with illuminating literary references and the comments of experts in the field. Accompanied by lighthearted original drawings, The Language of Houses is an essential and highly entertaining new contribution to the literature of modern architecture. € 24,00
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1911 |
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The Secret GardenAuthor: Burnett Frances Hodgson, Lurie Alison (CON) Publisher: Penguin Classics Published to coincide with the 2011 centennial of The Secret Garden's publication, this Penguin Threads edition of the classic children's tale includes cover art by Jillian Tamaki and deluxe french flaps. Commissioned by award-winning Penguin art director Paul Buckley, the Penguin Threads series debuts with cover art by Jillian Tamaki for three gift-worthy Penguin Classics. Sketched out in a traditional illustrative manner, then hand stitched using needle and thread, the final covers are sculpt embossed for a tactile, textured, and beautiful book design that will appeal to the Etsy(tm)-loving world of handmade crafts. The Penguin Classics Deluxe series has been celebrated for its unique packaging and innovative design. The books of the Penguin Threads series will make truly special gifts and will be welcome additions to any craft or literature lover's collection. € 18,55
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2007 |
Title :
Il linguaggio dei vestitiAuthor: Lurie Alison; Attimonelli C. (cur.) Publisher: Armando Editore € 23,00
Scontato: € 21,85
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2006 |
Title :
Foreign AffairsAuthor: Lurie Alison Publisher: Random House Inc WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE Virginia Miner, a fifty-something, unmarried tenured professor, is in London to work on her new book about children’s folk rhymes. Despite carrying a U.S. passport, Vinnie feels essentially English and rather looks down on her fellow Americans. But in spite of that, she is drawn into a mortifying and oddly satisfying affair with an Oklahoman tourist who dresses more Bronco Billy than Beau Brummel. Also in London is Vinnie’s colleague Fred Turner, a handsome, flat broke, newly separated, and thoroughly miserable young man trying to focus on his own research. Instead, he is distracted by a beautiful and unpredictable English actress and the world she belongs to. Both American, both abroad, and both achingly lonely, Vinnie and Fred play out their confused alienation and dizzying romantic liaisons in Alison Lurie’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Smartly written, poignant, and witty, Foreign Affairs remains an enduring comic masterpiece. “A splendid comedy, very bright, brilliantly written in a confident and original manner. The best book by one of our finest writers.” –Elizabeth Hardwick “There is no American writer I have read with more constant pleasure and sympathy. . . . Foreign Affairs earns the same shelf as Henry James and Edith Wharton.” –John Fowles “If you manage to read only a few good novels a year, make this one of them.” –USA Today “An ingenious, touching book.” –Newsweek “A flawless jewel.” –Philadelphia Inquirer € 15,20
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Truth And ConsequencesAuthor: Lurie Alison Publisher: Penguin Group USA Over the years, Alison Lurie has earned a devoted readership for her satiric wit and storytelling acumen. With Truth and Consequences, described by the New Yorker as "a comedy of adultery with a comedy of academia thrown in," Lurie returns with a modern social satire that recalls the best of David Lodge and Mary McCarthy as well as her own popular university novels The War Between the Tates and Foreign Affairs. BACKCOVER: "A wily, shapely tale of love's labors lost." -Elle "A wry, insightful, thoroughly enjoyable tale about how men and women choose their demons and their lovers, and the sacrifices they're willing to make for both." -The Atlanta Journal-Constitution "Delightful . . . Her characters are, as always, wonderfully imperfect." -The New York Review of Books € 12,50
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2003 |
Title :
Boys and Girls ForeverAuthor: Lurie Alison Publisher: Penguin Group USA Are some of the world's most talented children's book authors essentially children themselves? In this engaging series of essays, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alison Lurie considers this theory, exploring children's classics from many eras and relating them to the authors who wrote them, including Little Women author Louisa May Alcott and Wizard of Oz author Frank Baum, as well as Dr. Seuss and Salman Rushdie. Analyzing these and many others, Lurie shows how these gifted writers have used children's literature to transfigure sorrow, nostalgia, and the struggles of their own experiences. € 14,30
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2002 |
Title :
Familiar SpiritsAuthor: Lurie Alison Publisher: Penguin Group USA Alison Lurie, one of America's greatest novelists, has written a loving memoir of world-famous poet James Merrill and his longtime partner David Jackson. Drawing on her forty-year friendship with Merrill and Jackson, Lurie reveals the couple's deep involvement with ghosts, gods, and spirits, with whom they communicated through a Ouija board. Among the results of their intense twenty-year preoccupation with the occult is the brilliant book-length poem "The Changing Light at Sandover", which Merrill called his "chronicles of love and loss." Recalling Merrill and Jackson's life together in New York, Athens, and Key West, Familiar Spirits is a poignant memoir infused with great affection and generous amounts of Lurie's signature wit. "[A] remarkable and moving memoir." (The Boston Globe) "Written with the poignancy of long affection." (The Atlantic Monthly) "This memoir is Lurie's own Ouija board, through which she shares one final, intimate conversation with her much-missed familiar spirits." (The Washington Post) € 13,40
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The Secret GardenAuthor: Burnett Frances Hodgson, Lurie Alison (EDT) Publisher: Penguin Classics Ten-year-old Mary comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors and discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden. € 8,90
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1999 |
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Lolly WillowesAuthor: Warner Sylvia Townsend, Lurie Alison (INT) Publisher: New York Review of Books In Lolly Willowes, Sylvia Townsend Warner tells of an aging spinster's struggle to break way from her controlling family—a classic story that she treats with cool feminist intelligence, while adding a dimension of the supernatural and strange. Warner is one of the outstanding and indispensable mavericks of twentieth-century literature, a writer to set beside Djuna Barnes and Jane Bowles, with a subversive genius that anticipates the fantastic flights of such contemporaries as Angela Carter and Jeanette Winterson. € 15,20
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1998 |
Title :
Don't Tell the Grown-UpsAuthor: Lurie Alison Publisher: Back Bay Books € 17,60
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1995 |
Title :
Women and GhostsAuthor: Lurie Alison Publisher: Nan a Talese The author of The War Between the Tates and the Pulitzer prize-winning Foreign Affairs now brings her irresistible wit to the ghost story. In nine spooky tales, Alison Lurie writes of women haunted by ghosts both literal and metaphorical: A woman about to marry Mr. Right is visited by the spirit of his first wife; a dead fiancé haunts a foreign service officer every time she has an intimate moment with another man; the ghost of a girl in a Halloween costume disconcerts the perfect housewife. A secretary on a diet begins to see obese people everywhere she looks; a self-conscious poet is shadowed by her intrusive doppelganger; and a capricious, malevolent spirit seems to have inhabited an acquisitive matron’s prized piece of furniture. Delightfully strange and beautifully told, these nine tales show Alison Lurie at her luminous best. € 13,20
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1994 |
Title :
Foreign AffairsAuthor: Alison Lurie Publisher: Vintage € 10,70
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1991 |
Title :
Peter PanAuthor: Barrie J. M., Lurie Alison (AFT), Martinez Sergio (ILT) Publisher: Signet Classic This literary work, which has enthralled readers of all ages, once again visits the magical world of Neverland where the three Darling children have many thrilling adventures with Peter Pan, the boy who refused to grow up. Reissue. (A Universal Pictures film, written by J. M. Barrie & adapted by Michael Goldenberg, directed by P. J. Hogan, releasing December 25, 2003, starring Jason Isaacs, Jeremy Sumpter, & Rachel Hurd-Wood) (Literature) € 6,75
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