LIBROS DEL AUTOR: laura kalpakian

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  • Fair Augusto and Other Stories
    Laura Kalpakian
    FAIR AUGUSTO AND OTHER STORIES, Laura Kalpakian’s first collection of short fiction shows remarkable breadth and depth. The settings, moods, themes and characters who inhabit these stories display enviable artistic range. 'Hunters in the Fields of August' follows the fates and fortunes of a family of Italian Jews fleeing Mussolini.  'Veteran’s Day' (winner of the Stand Internat...
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    17,17 €

  • The Unruly Past
    Laura Kalpakian
    To write a memoir is to take the grains of sand-individuals and particulars- and shape them into sandcastles. To make artful narrative of experience that, in the living of it, might have seemed random, even chaotic. Writing a memoir tames the unruly past, but it does not make it docile.Celebrated novelist Laura Kalpakian grew up in Southern California amid a blending of vastly ...
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    15,72 €

  • These Latter Days
    Laura Kalpakian
    'You listen to me, my girl' Ruth Douglass tells her daughter. 'You’ve got three choices in this world, and only three. A woman can be a virgin, a wife, or a widow, and that’s all there is.'Ruth Douglass should know. The central character in Laura Kalpakian’s novel of three generations of Mormons, Ruth soon finds herself neither wife, widow, nor virgin. Born into genteel Salt La...
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    22,68 €

  • Dark Continent
    Laura Kalpakian
    Rich and resonant, these stories follow the lives of characters whose obsession with the past illuminates their otherwise ordinary lives. In A Christmas Cordial an elderly spinster creates a cordial brewed from notes given to her from an 18th century writer. The Battle of Manila chronicles the tale of a mother whose grief for her lost soldier son has turned to madness, but whos...
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    17,11 €

  • The Great Pretenders
    Laura Kalpakian
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    22,14 €