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THE SNOW QUEEN follows the Meeks brothers as each travels down a different path in his search for transcendence. One turns unexpectedly to religion, while the other, Tyler, grows increasingly convinced that only drugs can release his creative powers, and his wife Beth tries to face mortality with as much courage as she can summon.

Luminously written ... page-turningly enjoyable, this is a profound novel about love from a highly regarded, Pulitzer-winning novelist' Sunday Times

Barrett Meeks, having lost love yet again, is walking through Central Park when he is suddenly and inexplicably inspired to look up at the sky, where he sees a pale, translucent light that seems to regard him in a distinctly godlike way. At the same time, Beth, who's engaged to Barrett's older brother, Tyler, is dying of colon cancer. Cunningham follows the Meeks brothers as each turns down a decidedly different path in his search for transcen...

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Was bleibt, wenn sich in der Mitte des Lebens plötzlich ganz neue Möglichkeiten auftun, die alles Bisherige in Frage stellen? Der Galerist Peter Harris ist seit zwanzig Jahren mit der Kunsthistorikerin Rebecca verheiratet, in Manhattan gehören sie zu den »happy few« und haben allen Grund, glücklich zu sein. Doch als Rebeccas jüngerer Bruder, ein charmanter Taugenichts, bei ihnen auftaucht, gerät Peters Welt komplett aus den Fugen. Michael Cunn...

Eine furiose Hommage an eine der großartigsten und unverwüstlichsten Städte der Welt: New York City. Cunningham erzählt drei Geschichten aus drei Jahrhunderten, die auf raffinierte Weise miteinander verflochten sind. Ein kunstvoller, spannender und ungewöhnlicher Roman über Trauer, Verlust und den unverbrüchlichen Lebensmut, der die Menschen dieser Stadt seit jeher prägt. Gelesen von der ¿Starken Stimme¿ (Brigitte-Edition) Eva Mattes.

Eine furiose Hommage an eine einzigartige Stadt - an New York City. Der preisgekrönte Autor Michael Cunningham erzählt drei Geschichten aus drei Jahrhunderten, die auf raffinierte Weise miteinander verflochten sind, unter anderem durch die Verse Walt Whitmans, des großen romantischen Dichters Amerikas. Ein kunstvoller, immens vergnüglicher, ungewöhnlicher Roman über die verwundete amerikanische Seele und den unverbrüchlichen Lebensmut, der die...

Here are the moments that our fairy tales forgot or deliberately concealed: the years after a spell is broken, the rapturous instant of a miracle unexpectedly realized, or the fate of a prince only half cured of a curse. Reimagined by one of the most gifted storytellers of his generation, and illustrated by Yuko Shimizu, rarely have our bedtime stories been this dark, this perverse, or this true.

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A new photographic jacket design for this novel by the author of "The Hours".

Here are the moments that our fairy tales forgot or deliberately concealed, reimagined by one of the most gifted storytellers of his generation, the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Hours, and exquisitely illustrated by Yuko Shimizu. Rarely have our bedtime stories been this dark, this perverse, or this true.The Beast stands ahead of you in line at the convenience store, buying smokes and a Slim Jim, his devouring smile aimed at the cashie...

In Hans Christian Andersens Märchen Die Schneekönigin zerbricht ein Zauberspiegel in tausend Scherben. Trifft ein Splitter einen Menschen im Auge, so sieht er fortan alles um sich herum nur noch hässlich und böse. Wird ein Mensch dagegen im Herzen getroffen, wird es so kalt wie Eis ... Michael Cunningham spielt auf brillante Weise, voller Poesie und mit einem guten Schuss Ironie versehen, mit Motiven aus Andersens Märchen. Und während er vor d...

In A Wild Swan and Other Tales, the people and the talismans of away lands-the mythic figures of our childhoods and the source of so much of our wonder-are transformed into stories of sublime revelation. Reimagined by one of the most gifted storytellers of his generation, and exquisitely illustrated by Yuko Shimizu, rarely have our bedtime stories been this dark, this perverse, or this true.

In A Wild Swan and Other Tales, the people and the talismans of away lands-the mythic figures of our childhoods and the source of so much of our wonder-are transformed into stories of sublime revelation. Reimagined by one of the most gifted storytellers of his generation, and exquisitely illustrated by Yuko Shimizu, rarely have our bedtime stories been this dark, this perverse, or this true.

Here are the moments that our fairy tales forgot or deliberately concealed, reimagined by one of the most gifted storytellers of his generation, the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Hours, and exquisitely illustrated by Yuko Shimizu. Rarely have our bedtime stories been this dark, this perverse, or this true. The Beast stands ahead of you in line at the convenience store, buying smokes and a Slim Jim, his devouring smile aimed at the cash...

Ein Tag im Leben dreier Frauen: Clarissa Vaughan spaziert an einem strahlenden Junimorgen durch die Straßen von New York. Es ist das pulsierende New York der späten neunziger Jahre. Clarissa will Blumen für eine Party besorgen, die sie an diesem Abend für ihren aidskranken Freund Richard geben will, der soeben einen bedeutenden Literaturpreis erhalten hat. Sie kennen sich seit Jahrzehnten, für kurze Zeit waren sie auch ein Paar. Richard gab ih...

The author of "At Home at the End of the World" and "Flesh and Blood" draws inventively on the life and work of Virginia Woolf to tell the story of a group of contemporary characters struggling with conflicting claims of love and inheritance, hope and despair.

Like his legendary, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Hours, Michael Cunningham's masterly new novel is a heartbreaking look at the way we live now. Full of shocks and aftershocks, it makes us think and feel deeply about the uses and meaning of beauty and the place of love in our lives.

Encuadernación: Tapa blanda con solapa.Una exploración de las leyes de la atracción, más allá de la identidad sexual que creemos nuestra.Imaginemos un apartamento exquisito y algo bohemio en SoHo, si asomamos la cabeza por la ventana veremos a una pareja de mediana edad que toma una comida ligera en la cocina o se acaricia en el dormitorio, sin que la mujer se moleste ya en quitarse esos calcetines de lana que tanto le gustan. Ella se llama Re...

Peter and Rebecca Harris, mid-forties denizens of Manhattan's SoHo, are admirable, enviable contemporary urbanites with every reason, it seems, to be happy--until her much-younger look-alike brother shows up for a visit. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Hours.