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97,196 Words - Essays by John Lambert (Translator); Emmanuel Carrère
Category: Languages and Reference
A selection of the best short work by France's greatest living nonfiction writer ANew York Times Notable Books of 2020 No one writes nonfiction like Emmanuel Carrère. Although he takes cues from such literary heroes as Truman Capote and Janet Malcolm, Carrère has, over the course of his career, reinven ...Show more
97,196 Words : Essays (HB) by Emmanuel Carrère
Category: Culture
*The first collection of essays in English from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Adversary* Over the course of his career, Emmanuel Carrère has reinvented non-fiction writing. In a search for truth in all its guises, he dispenses with the rules of genre. For him, no form is out of reach: theo ...Show more
Class Trip by Emmanuel Carrère
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Editions Ser.
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE ADVERSARY Little Nicolas is a delicate, timid schoolboy, with an excitable, if morbid imagination - the child of an overbearing father. So, two weeks away on the class trip is already enough to fill him with dread. But when a child goes missing, Nicolas' mind turns to ...Show more
Limonov by Emmanuel Carrère
Category: Biography | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Limonov is not a fictional character, but he could have been. He's lived a hundred lives. He was a hoodlum in Ukraine, an idol of the Soviet underground, punk-poet and valet to a billionaire in Manhattan, fashion writer in Paris, lost soldier in the Balkans, and now, in the chaos after the fall of commu ...Show more
Lives Other Than My Own by Emmanuel Carrère; Linda Coverdale (Translator)
Category: Fiction
From the acclaimed Emmanuel Carrère, an act of generous imagination that unflinchingly records devastating loss and, equally vividly, the wealth of human solace that follows in its wake In Sri Lanka, a tsunami sweeps a child out to sea, her grand-father helpless against the onrushing water. In France, ...Show more
Other Lives But Mine by Emmanuel Carrère
Category: Biography
Read this an expansive meditation on death, grief and the limtless reach of the human spirit from the bestselling author of The Adversary'Compelling... Carr re has the gift of speaking simply and directly of the essentials' Evening StandardBeset by arguments and the fear that things between them may be ...Show more
The Kingdom (PB) by Emmanuel Carrère; John Lambert (Translator)
Category: Fiction
A sweeping fictional account of the early Christians, whose unlikely beliefs conquered the world Gripped by the tale of a Messiah whose blood we drink and body we eat, the genre-defying author Emmanuel Carrère revisits the story of the early Church in his latest work. With an idiosyncratic and at times ...Show more
The Moustache by Emmanuel Carrère
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Editions Ser.
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE ADVERSARY One morning, a man shaves off his long-worn moustache, hoping to amuse his wife and friends. But when nobody notices, or pretends not to have noticed, what started out as a simple trick turns to terror. As doubt and denial bristle, and every aspect of his li ...Show more
Yoga by Emmanuel Carrère
Category: Fiction
A moving and inspiring account of meditation, madness, and the Yin and Yang of life, Yoga is the new novel by one of the world's greatest and bestselling international writers.This is a book about yoga. Or at least, it was. January 2015. High on literary success and familial bliss, Emmanuel Carr re emba ...Show more
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