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  • A Graveyard of First Chapters
    Johnny Payne
    A GRAVEYARD OF FIRST CHAPTERSA dazzling literary fiction novel about second chances, buried stories, and the strange power of starting over.Once a bestselling author with ten novels under his belt, Jasper Delgado has watched his life crumble piece by piece. He’s lost his girlfriend, his house, his life savings to a disastrous day-trading venture, and worst of all-his confidence...
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    22,31 €

  • The Reluctant Assassin
    Johnny Payne
    Étienne D’Abattoir, the inveterate writer, romantic, and lover of French poetry, offers witty and understated insights into the world and the company he keeps, as his restless feet travel from Paris to Dubrovnik, Brussels, Buenos Aires, Peru, El Paso, and Los Angeles. Tender and ruthless in his wandering and wondering, he is the most reluctant of assassins. ...
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    15,59 €

  • The Hard Side of the River
    Johnny Payne
    In the Old South, freedom moves in kind hands and brave hearts … but justice only comes from the barrel of a gun.The setting is Maysville, Kentucky, 1833—thirty years before the War Between the States will tear our fledgling nation asunder. But on the dusty roads just south of the freedom line, schoolteacher Dana Curbstone and preacher Cal Fenton have already begun their privat...
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    10,77 €

  • Conquest of the New Word
    Johnny Payne
    Latin American fiction won great acclaim in the United States during the 1960s, when many North American writers and critics felt that our national writing had reached a low ebb. In this study of experimental fiction from both Americas, Johnny Payne argues that the North American reception of the 'boom' in Latin American fiction distorted the historical grounding of this writin...
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    40,25 €

  • She-Calf and Other Quechua Folk Tales
    Johnny Payne
    For readers tired of everything postmodern, this collection of folk tales reminds us of the primal power fables and oral tradition hold over the imagination. In these thirty-one stories--told by Quechua speakers in highland Peru--we encounter the voice of an indigenous people on the cusp of modernity. These stories overcome stereotypes of what it means to be traditional. Yet th...
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    50,02 €