Lavinia Greenlaw Forfatter
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The Importance of Music to Girls (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
If I had not kissed anyone, or danced with anyone, or had a reason to cry, the music made me feel as if I had gone through all that anyway. This book tells the story of... Læs mere
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The Vast Extent: On Seeing and Not Seeing Further (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
'[Greenlaw] wields her erudition lightly.' Sunday Times'Remarkable, visionary.' CELIA PAUL'Indescribably brilliant.' Daily Telegraph'Kaleidoscopic.' Guardian'A rare pleasure .
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Night Photograph (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Galileo's wife, a young woman dying of radium poisoning, the first dog in space, a strangely obsessed concert pianist, an early beneficiary of plastic surgery, and a Russian boy whose... Læs mere
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A World Where News Travelled Slowly (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Lavinia Greenlaw's first collection, Night Photograph, made an immediately favourable impact. Her second collection, A World Where News Travelled Slowly explores more local and personal matters. This volume serves to confirm the gifts Lavinia Greenlaw showed in her first book.
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A Double Sorrow: Troilus and Criseyde (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Trojan hero Troilus and his beloved Criseyde, whose traitorous father has defected to the Greeks and has persuaded them to ask for his daughter in an exchange of... Læs mere
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In the City of Love's Sleep (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Iris, a museum conservator in her late forties, is separating from her husband while bringing up two daughters. Raif is a stalled academic, as uncertain of the past as he is of the future, whose girlfriend is about to move in with him.
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The Built Moment (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The Built Moment explores what we build out of the provisional: beginnings and endings, arrivals and departures, and the moments we fix as memories, fixing too their joy and pain. The... Læs mere
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The Casual Perfect (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
If Lavinia Greenlaw's Minsk was about home, her new collection tests the proximities of elsewhere, 'the circle round our house', the road between two lives.
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Questions of Travel: William Morris in Iceland (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The Victorian artist and activist William Morris travelled to Iceland in search of an answer to the problem of how to live.
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Minsk (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATIONMinsk, Lavinia Greenlaw's third collection, was shortlisted for the 2003 Whitbread Poetry Prize, the T. Eliot Prize and the Forward Prize for Best Collection.
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Some Answers Without Questions (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
'A pointed, svelte but diverse work.' Irish TimesPart memoir, part manifesto, Some Answers Without Questions is an elegant, important and spirited work of self-investigation;
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