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1918 |
![]() ![]() Author: Gould Emily, Stafford Alexis Gould Publisher: Cedar Fort € 16,60
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1915 |
![]() ![]() Author: Comyns Barbara, Gould Emily (INT) Publisher: New York Review of Books “I told Helen my story and she went home and cried” begins Our Spoons Came from Woolworths. But Barbara Comyns’s beguiling novel is far from maudlin, despite the ostensibly harrowing ordeals its heroine endures. Sophia is twenty-one when she marries fellow artist Charles, and she seems to have nearly as much affection for her pet newt as she does for her husband. Her housekeeping knowledge is lacking (everything she cooks tastes of soap) and she attributes her morning sickness to a bad batch of strawberries. England is in the middle of the Great Depression, and in any case, the money Sophia earns at her occasional modeling gigs is not enough to make up for her husband’s lack of interest in keeping the heat on. Predictably, the marriage begins to falter; not so predictably, Sophia’s optimistic guilelessness is the very thing responsible for turning her life around. € 14,30
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![]() ![]() Author: Gould Emily Publisher: Picador USA € 15,70
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2015 |
![]() ![]() Author: Gould Emily Publisher: Bookme Complice, specchio, spalla su cui piangere: un'amica è tutto questo e molto di più. Bev ed Amy non potrebbero essere più diverse - maschiaccio squattrinato la prima, bambolina viziata la seconda - eppure si attraggono come solo gli opposti sanno fare: istintivamente, appassionatamente, senza riserve. Quasi trentenni nella New York delle grandi ambizioni e dei lavoretti precari, sono l'una il satellite dell'altra, inseparabili e complementari. Quando Bev, disincantata e alla deriva, all'improvviso si scopre incinta, Amy perde di colpo il suo bizzarro e ben remunerato lavoro ed è costretta a dire addio al fidanzato. Per uno scherzo del destino, le prospettive d'un tratto si ribaltano, equilibri vecchi di decenni si spezzano e nuove paure prendono il posto di antichi, inconfessati rancori. E mentre ciascuna raccoglie i pezzi della propria esistenza e studia la prossima mossa, la distanza tra le due amiche si trasforma in un'occasione. Perché crescere è un'impresa che si affronta da sole e perdersi è spesso l'unico modo per ritrovarsi davvero. Ironico, pungente, spudorato come una chiacchierata tra amiche, 'Due di noi' è il ritratto di una generazione spaesata e coraggiosa. Che ha imparato a fare sul serio senza mai smettere di prendersi in giro. € 14,90
Scontato: € 6,71
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1910 |
![]() ![]() Author: Gould Emily Publisher: Free Pr Essays by former editor of Gawker.com—and the new female voice of her generation. In And the Heart Says Whatever, Emily Gould tells the truth about becoming an adult in New York City in the first decade of the twenty-first century, alongside bartenders, bounty hunters, bloggers, bohemians, socialites, and bankers. These are essays about failing at pet parenthood, suspending lust during the long moment in which a dude selects the perfect soundtrack from his iTunes library, and leaving one life behind to begin a new one (but still taking the G train back to visit the old one sometimes). For everyone who has ever had a job she wishes she didn't, felt inchoate ambition sour into resentment, ended a relationship, regretted a decision, or told a secret to exactly the wrong person, these stories will be achingly familiar. At once a road map of what not to do and a document of what's possible, this book heralds the arrival of a writer who decodes the new challenges of our post-private lives, and the age-old intricacies of the human heart. € 13,60
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