Last Vanities

Author : Fleur Jaeggy
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811213745
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Last Vanities written by Fleur Jaeggy and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dementedly prim wife spies on her husband and is hammered to death by his paramour of the moment; a seemingly kind maid who mothers a wealthy orphan sets the house on fire; a retired couple are about to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary when the husband throws himself out the window, or does his wife give him a little help? Set in mundane, repressed middle-class environments, these tales pivot on terrible slips off the leash.

Author : Carolyn Haines
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 9781250017079
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bonefire of the Vanities written by Carolyn Haines and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2013-03-26 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracking down a porn star-turned-psychic who has promised to reunite an eccentric billionaire with her dead child, a suspicious Sarah Booth goes undercover as a maid at the billionaire's estate, where she discovers multiple murders and a host of suspects.

Author : Tom Wolfe
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429960566
Total Pages : 708 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bonfire of the Vanities written by Tom Wolfe and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2002-02-21 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vintage Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities, the #1 bestseller that will forever define late-twentieth-century New York style. "No one has portrayed New York Society this accurately and devastatingly since Edith Wharton" (The National Review) “A page-turner . . . Brilliant high comedy.” (The New Republic) Sherman McCoy, the central figure of Tom Wolfe's first novel, is a young investment banker with a fourteen-room apartment in Manhattan. When he is involved in a freak accident in the Bronx, prosecutors, politicians, the press, the police, the clergy, and assorted hustlers high and low close in on him, licking their chops and giving us a gargantuan helping of the human comedy, of New York in the 1980s, a city boiling over with racial and ethnic hostilities and burning with the itch to Grab It Now. Wolfe's novel is a big, panoramic story of the metropolis that reinforces the author's reputation as the foremost chronicler of the way we live in America. Adapted to film in 1990 by director Brian De Palma, the movie stars Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, and Morgan Freeman.

Author : John Whitson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The aged Christian's final farewell to the world and its vanities. To which is prefixed, some account of the author, by G.S. Catcott. [Entitled.] A pious meditation. With additional memoirs collected by J. Eden written by John Whitson and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Fleur Jaeggy
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811229041
Total Pages : 87 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sweet Days of Discipline written by Fleur Jaeggy and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the heels of I Am the Brother of XX and These Possible Lives, here is Jaeggy's fabulously witchy first book in English, with a new Peter Mendelsund cover A novel about obsessive love and madness set in postwar Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggy’s eerily beautiful novel begins innocently enough: “At fourteen I was a boarder in a school in the Appenzell.” But there is nothing innocent here. With the off-handed remorselessness of a young Eve, the narrator describes her potentially lethal designs to win the affections of Fréderique, the apparently perfect new girl. In Tim Parks’ consummate translation (with its “spare, haunting quality of a prose poem,” TLS), Sweet Days of Discipline is a peerless, terrifying, and gorgeous work.

Author : Arlene Corwin
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1465306129
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Circling Around Vanities written by Arlene Corwin and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-12-30 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For me, each poem to suggest a universal, despite each poem coming out of personal limited experience. I've always believed that someone out there will identify with the subject matter-the more broad-minded the reader the broader the identification.

Author : Lauren Weisberger
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451611757
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Last Night at Chateau Marmont written by Lauren Weisberger and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-06-14 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman supports her musician lover as he works his way to rock-star status, only to find herself dumped for a Brazilian supermodel, a tragedy that causes her to seek solace in a sisterhood of women who have been jilted by successful men--and are out for revenge. By the best-selling author of The Devil Wears Prada. Reprint.

Author : Charles Lamb
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The last essays of Elia written by Charles Lamb and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Lamb
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The last essays of Elia. 1914 written by Charles Lamb and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Lamb
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Works: The last essays of Elia written by Charles Lamb and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: