Milan Kundera-Fay Weldon -Francis King -Stephen Spender

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Conditie: Zo goed als nieuw

Type: Fictie

Beschrijving

De 5 boeken samen 15,00 euro, +pakketpost Kialapunt 3,95 of ophalen Zaandijk.
1. Fay Weldon - PRAXIS
Praxis Duveen is a survivor. At five years old, in 1920s England, she is still innocent, the product of an unstable mother and a flighty father who abandoned Praxis and her half-crazy sister, Hypatia. As the decades fly by, Praxis experiences many incarnations, from prostitute to rape victim, wife to adulteress and eventually becomes the accidental leader of an international women's movement.
Now, from her dingy basement apartment, where she's attempting to write a memoir, Praxis tells about the story of her remarkable journey - peppered with more than a few detours along the way...
Prijs 3,00- ¨porto 2,95

2. Milan Kundera - Laughable Loves
Milan Kundera is a master of graceful illusion and illuminating surprise. In one of these stories a young man and his girlfriend pretend that she is a stranger he picked up on the road -- only to become strangers to each other in reality as their game proceeds. In another a teacher fakes piety in order to seduce a devout girl, then jilts her and yearns for God. In yet another girls wait in bars, on beaches, and on station platforms for the same lover, a middle-aged Don Juan who has gone home to his wife. Games, fantasies, and schemes abound in all the stories while different characters react in varying ways to the sudden release of erotic impulses.
Prijs 4,00- porto 2,95

3. Francis King: Punishments
Michael, an attractive young medical student, is eager for experience as he travels to the German University town where he and his English friends will stay in the homes of local undergraduates with whom they debate, attend lectures and seminars, picnic and swim in the hot summer of 1948.
He is prepared for the desolate landscape, even for the hunger of the people. He, too, cannot forget the bombing of London and Coventry; Hitler; the concentration camps. But does the cheerful friendliness of their welcome mask any antagonism? How do the Germans cope with their guilt - if they feel any guilt? How do they suppress their memories of horror? Are the British too crass and patronizing?
As Michael struggles to understand what is going on beneath the surface - and to understand why he is at once attracted to and repelled by the good-looking Jurgen - he comes to realize these few weeks are an experience which will mark him for life.
Prijs 4,00- porto 3,65.

4. Joseph O'Connor - Cowboys & Indians
Joseph O'Connor's first novel is a sharply focused and realistic story about a thoroughly unlikable Irish guitar-hero who nevertheless manages to capture the reader's sympathy amidst a bewildering array of London acid house ravers and saloon-bar revolutionaries.
Flamingo 1992, 250 blz.
Prijs 5.00 -verzendkosten 2,95

5. The Temple- Stephen Spender 1989
Beyond the wonderful insights ... there is a portrait of the world in the eye of the storm between two world wars. It is a novel of awakening -- awakening to sex, yes ... but also an awakening to the presence of evil in the world and to the possibilities of love and friendship. -- The Bloomsbury Review
Prijs 5,00 -porto 3,65.