LIBROS DEL AUTOR: eve ottenberg

6 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: eve ottenberg

  • Homegrown
    Eve Ottenberg
    When two suburban retirees decide to enter the marijuana trade for extra spending money, it doesn’t take long for things to go haywire. First one of their distributors plunges off the deep end, while the other becomes the object of a conspiracy-minded neighbor’s bizarre fixation. Then there comes a court case, multiple, hysterical calls to 911 and an utterly harebrained burglar...
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    26,11 €

  • Sojourn at Dusk
    Eve Ottenberg
    Courage and Conviction Across Two Decades... This sprawling novel, set in the 1960s and the two decades that followed, depicts a large group of hippies, anti-war activists and political radicals, as they participate in the volcanic events of an era that changed the United States. From the major East Coast cities to Chicago, San Francisco, Texas, Wyoming...
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    19,07 €

  • Glum and Mighty Pagans
    Eve Ottenberg
    div class=Section1>This comic novel set in the worldof New York City real estate in thelate 1970s and early 1980s chronicles the coming of age of Clara Chimes, whowant to be a scientist. But her overbearing aunt wants her in the familybusiness. Brilliant though not particularly good at standing up for herself,Clara flounders through her family’s upper class Republican milieu on...
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    17,20 €

  • The Widow’s Opera
    Eve Ottenberg
    The Widow’s Opera is the story of people whose lives have been uprooted by the cataclysms of the twentieth century - World War II, Stalin’s purges and, earlier, the Armenian Genocide.The novel chronicles the life of Ursa Smirny, a Polish refugee in New York City.  It also recounts her friendship with the ruthless Nina Morphy, and Nina’s mysterious husband, nicknamed Morpheus by...
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    26,02 €

  • Dead In Iraq
    Eve Ottenberg
    A stereoscopic study of battlefield carnage and suburban aspirations - of the chaos of roadside explosions abroad and the masquerade of normality at home - Eve Ottenberg's stingingly detailed, stately paced Dead in Iraq is an elegy suffused with a sense of loss and fortified with a quiet fury over lives destroyed, dreams dashed, bonds severed. It's a novel about what happens un...
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    16,71 €

  • The Unblemished Darlings
    Eve Ottenberg
    When Allwin Snarkle comes up with a preposterous get-rich-quick scheme, he quickly snares the attention of his luckless friend Olympia and a gaggle of other bumblers, all eager to increase their incomes in New York City of the early 1990s. Unfortunately none of these would-be entrepreneurs can seem to do anything right, from the greedy Dr. Jerky, a plastic surgeon who lost his ...
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    16,92 €