LIBROS DEL AUTOR: jean minton

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  • All the Sweeter
    Jean Minton
    All the Sweeter tells the stories of families who have adopted one or more children from the US foster care system. Each of the twelve families interviewed has a dedicated chapter in which at least one representative tells their family’s adoption story. Woven through these stories are topical chapters that explore the common challenges these families face, including the complic...
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    13,85 €

  • Glimpses of the Moon
    Jean D Minton
    A young woman lies in critical condition in a Bronx hospital, the victim of an assault. As her crisis looms her boyfriend spends a frantic weekend wandering through New York City trying to come to grips with the disaster, his mind filled with thoughts of her as well as reflections on his past life.Set in the 60s and using flashbacks and a variety of interior-monologue technique...
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    11,80 €

  • A Leopard Shall Watch Over
    Jean D. Minton / Jean DMinton
    A Vietnam war veteran’s search for redemption in the Holy Land is the subject of this contemporary version of the Divine Comedy. The leader of a platoon of soldiers that took vengeance on a small village and its inhabitants attempts to come to terms with his descent into evil in this rendering of Dante’s journey from darkness to light. Set in the 70s, many of the scenes in the ...
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    12,60 €

  • In the Ruins
    Jean D. Minton / Jean DMinton
    Parole Officer Maria Peres confronts Brooklyn’s volatile streets and disturbing incidents in her own past while hunting a parole violator who has committed a particularly heinous crime. More profoundly, the novel explores a young woman’s search for a meaningful life in a flawed world where morality is relative and terrible acts are committed gratuitously.The poetry of one of th...
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    12,62 €

  • Fireflies
    Jean D. Minton / Jean DMinton
    Fireflies is a modern rendering of Moby Dick, with most of the prominent characters and incidents from that work included, though somewhat transformed. Ahab and Ishmael have become two Jewish sisters from Brooklyn: Queequeg, a reformed Harlem drug dealer, and Pip, a deaf Indonesian dancer. Starbuck, Flask, Stubb, and even Bulkington, Feddalah, and Father Mapple are all here to ...
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    11,12 €

  • Pipe Dreams
    Jean D. Minton / Jean DMinton
    A modern depiction of the Faust legend set in New York City in the 60s, Pipe Dreams concerns a young singer’s obsession with a Broadway career. His dreams of success, however, lead him to stray into a series of compromises that prove disastrous and precipitate his ’pact with the Devil’ and his sacrifice of the gifted young ballet dancer whom he loves. In the startling climax, h...
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    12,62 €