LIBROS DEL AUTOR: libby sommer

7 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: libby sommer

  • Flat White, One Sugar
    Libby Sommer
    ’Libby Sommer has a keen eye for extraordinary insights in the midst of the details of ordinary life, and for the striking verbal expression that captures the moral implications of what she has carefully observed. Hers is poetry that always rewards us with stimulated thought.’ - Barry Spurr, Literary Editor, Quadrant; Australia’s first Professor of Poetry ...
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    16,76 €

  • The Cellist, a Bellydancer & Other Distractions
    Libby Sommer
    ’Libby Sommer has the true poet’s eye for the deeper meaning that can abide beneath the ordinariness and small details of our daily lives and experiences. And she expresses her insights with the genuine poet’s careful and precise attention to placing the right word in the right place.’ - Barry Spurr, Literary Editor, Quadrant ...
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    15,09 €

  • Lost in Cooper Park
    Libby Sommer
    The story begins when, after a fierce storm, Gypsy, a golden Labrador, goes missing in Sydney’s Cooper Park. A bitter-sweet comedic account of mistakes, misconceptions and reconciliations in the lives of a disparate group of urban men and women. There’s Crystal, who wants stability with her eight-year-old daughter and new partner. Crystal’s ex, searching for the meaning of exis...
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    22,51 €

  • Stories from Bondi
    Libby Sommer
    Libby Sommer’s sensitively drawn characters live and breathe within the echoes of the everyday. Stories from Bondi centre on women – their joys, doubts, loves and realisations. The foibles of human nature, with all their pathos and humour, are laid bare for the reader.‘From the opening story “Art and the Mermaid” to a moving piece set in a health retreat that closes the collect...
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    24,65 €

  • The Usual Story
    Libby Sommer
    Tango is a dance of passion. It draws partners into an intimate relationship. Sofia loves to tango but, as she dances, she is confronted by society’s infatuation with the young and the beautiful. In the painful aftermath of a brief affair, Sofia seeks to find out what she actually knows about herself and the past. She looks for answers in dark corners and begins to see the elus...
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    21,09 €

  • The Crystal Ballroom
    Libby Sommer
    ‘Libby Sommer lays bare the foibles of human nature in her finely observed stories of love and loss in the singles dance scene. Brilliantly drawn with wit, compassion and poignancy, the characters you meet in The Crystal Ballroom are sure to remind you of someone – maybe even yourself.’ – Jan Cornall, Writer’s Journey‘Libby Sommer exposes the secret lives of the singles who dan...
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    19,53 €

  • My Year With Sammy
    Libby Sommer
    Set in urban contemporary Sydney, My Year With Sammy is the complex and poetic story of a memorable child. ‘Parenting and grand-parenting are joumeys without a compass. In My Year with Sammy, Libby Sommer gives us a raw, heart-rending, insightful and intimate story of one family immersed in the messiness of living with a child who is different. This is recommended reading in ju...
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    16,44 €