2012, ISBN: 9780857207470

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Bloomsbury, 2010. First edition. Hardcover. New. 15 x 23 cm. It all started in August 1968 when Babo, with curly hair and jhill mill teeth, became the first member of the Patel family t… Mehr…

Bloomsbury, 2010. First edition. Hardcover. New. 15 x 23 cm. It all started in August 1968 when Babo, with curly hair and jhill mill teeth, became the first member of the Patel family to leave Madras and fly on a plane all the way to London to further his education. His father should have known there would be trouble: on the morning of the departure he had his first and only dream, in which strange ghosts threw poison-tipped arrows and all his family was lost... But off Babo went, and now here he is, in a flat off the Finchley Road, untraditionally making love to a cream-skinned girl from Wales, Sian Jones, who he fell head over heels for as soon as he saw the twirl of red ribbon in her hair. Ba-ba-boom, ba-ba-boom, ba-ba-boom-boom-boom. Theirs is a mixed-up love in a topsy-turvy world, and their two families will never be the same again. Meet the Patel-Joneses: Babo, Sian, Mayuri and Bean, in their little house with orange and black gates next-door to the Punjab Women’s Association. As the twentieth century creaks and croaks its way along – somewhere out there Charles and Diana get hitched; Indira Gandhi is assassinated by her own bodyguards; cable TV arrives in India – these four navigate their way through the uncharted territory of a ‘hybrid’ family: the hustle and bustle of Babo’s relatives, the faraway phone-line crackle of Sian’s, the eternal wisdom and soft bosom of great-grandmother Ba, the perils of first love, lost innocence and old age, and the big question: what do you do with the space your loved ones leave behind? In this tender, lyrical and uplifting debut, Tishani Doshi, a prizewinning poet, effortlessly captures the quirks and calamities of one unusual clan in a story of identity, family, belonging and all-transcending love. Printed Pages: 314., Bloomsbury, 2010, 6, New York. 1996. June 1996. Metropolitan/Henry Holt. 1st Printing. Very Good in Dustjacket. ISBN:0805044450. 290 pages. hardcover. Jacket art & design by Art Spiegelman. FROM THE PUBLISHER - DERBY DUGAN’S DEPRESSION FUNNIES not only pays homage to American comic strips, it goes one better - it’s a strip in novel form. Like the funnies, this novel teems with comic grotesqueries, the bizarre and the far-fetched, criminals of all persuasions, tricky twists of irony, and many an amazing adventure. In New York City, 1936, the legendary cartoonist Walter Geebus - self-confessed forger, back-stabber, misanthrope, and hot-goods passer - is hospitalized with a mysterious ailment. Was the old bastard poisoned - again? Although Geebus is stricken, possibly forever, his popular comic strip about an orphan boy and his smart-aleck talking dog must go on, as it has every day for the last forty years in hundreds of newspapers. But who can ghost the great Geebus and satisfy millions of avid readers who turn each morning to ‘Derby Dugan’ for comic relief in hard times? The frantic search for a replacement begins. Narrated by the cynical Al Bready, Walter’s scriptwriter and a lightning-fast author of pulp fiction, DERBY DUGAN’S DEPRESSION FUNNIES conjures up a world of colorful characters. There’s Howard Blum, surly and mysterious, a supremely talented comic artist with a secret past that he’ll do anything to conceal; Clark Kamen, a former bootlegger, now the proprietor of a burgeoning comic-book company employing (make that exploiting) a small army of hungry boys; and Jewel Rogers, Clark Kamen’s girl Friday, a woman with the world’s most paralyzingly beautiful smile. Al Bready’s New York City of 1936 is a wondrous and electric place, a tabloid town of swank nightclubs, seedy hotels, and cozy brothels; an Art Deco metropolis rife with gangsters, tycoons, gossip mongers, and dazed men and women waiting on long breadlines. inventory #22398 ISBN: 0805044450., 0, Used - Very Good. Ships from the UK. Former Library book. Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear., 3, Harper Collins, UK, 2012. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 433 pages. Covers have light creasing. Corners of covers are lightly bumped. Spine has minimal reading creases. Edges of pages are lightly browned. 'I have lost my father in battle, my sister to Elizabeth Woodville's spy, my brother-in-law to Elizabeth Woodville's executioner, my nephew to her poisoner, and now my son to her curse...' The gripping and ultimately tragic story of Anne Neville and her sister Isabel, the daughters of the Earl of Warwick, the most powerful magnate in England through the Cousins' Wars. In the absence of a son and heir, he ruthlessly uses the two girls as pawns but they, in their own right, are thoughtful and powerful actors. Against the backdrop of the court of Edward IV and his beautiful queen, Elizabeth Woodville, Anne turns from a delightful child growing up in intimacy and friendship with the family of Richard Duke of York to become ever more fearful and desperate as her father's enemies turn against her, the net closes in and there is, in the end, simply nowhere she can turn, no one she can trust with her life. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Historical; ISBN/EAN: 9780857207470. Inventory No: 21010286.. 9780857207470, Harper Collins, 2012, 3<

2012, ISBN: 9780857207470

Harper Collins, UK, 2012. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Trade Paperback. 433 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Harper Collins, UK, 2012. *** CONDITION: Very Good ... Covers have light cre… Mehr…

Harper Collins, UK, 2012. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Trade Paperback. 433 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Harper Collins, UK, 2012. *** CONDITION: Very Good ... Covers have light creasing. Corners of covers are lightly bumped. Spine has minimal reading creases. Edges of pages are lightly browned. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: 'I have lost my father in battle, my sister to Elizabeth Woodville's spy, my brother-in-law to Elizabeth Woodville's executioner, my nephew to her poisoner, and now my son to her curse...' The gripping and ultimately tragic story of Anne Neville and her sister Isabel, the daughters of the Earl of Warwick, the most powerful magnate in England through the Cousins' Wars. In the absence of a son and heir, he ruthlessly uses the two girls as pawns but they, in their own right, are thoughtful and powerful actors. Against the backdrop of the court of Edward IV and his beautiful queen, Elizabeth Woodville, Anne turns from a delightful child growing up in intimacy and friendship with the family of Richard Duke of York to become ever more fearful and desperate as her father's enemies turn against her, the net closes in and there is, in the end, simply nowhere she can turn, no one she can trust with her life. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Historical; ISBN/EAN: 9780857207470. Inventory No: 21010286.. 9780857207470, Harper Collins, 2012, 3<

2012, ISBN: 0857207474

[EAN: 9780857207470], Usato, ottimo stato, [SC: 10.46], [PU: Simon & Schuster Ltd], GREGORY PHILIPPA THE KINGMAKER'S DAUGHTER 4 COUSINS' WAR, The book has been read, but is in excellent c… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780857207470], Usato, ottimo stato, [SC: 10.46], [PU: Simon & Schuster Ltd], GREGORY PHILIPPA THE KINGMAKER'S DAUGHTER 4 COUSINS' WAR, The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged., Books<

2012, ISBN: 9780857207470

433 Seiten Taschenbuch 24806M Versand D: 40,00 EUR Unterhaltungsliteratur / Populäre Belletristik, [PU:Simon + Schuster UK,]