Zbirka: Avtobiografije: književnost
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In the Blood(2007) MOTION, SIR ANDREW'A wonderful read.' Irish Times'Sad, gripping and powerful.' Margaret Drabble'Superbly clear, intimate and evocative.' New York TimesFrom the former poet laureate, Andrew Motion, In the Blood is an unforgettable evocation of family, school and country lifVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Performing Flea(2014) WODEHOUSE, P.G.In this series of letters to William Townend, a fellow-writer and friend since their schooldays at Dulwich College, Wodehouse discusses in some detail his literary outlook, writing methods and constant hunt for new plots.Vezava: Trda21,03 € -
Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake(2013) QUINDLEN, ANNAIn Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake, New York Times bestseller and winner of the Pulitzer Prize Anna Quindlen shares the events of her own life to illuminate our own. From childhood memories to manic motherhood to middle age, Quindlen tells life as she hasVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Kurt Vonnegut: Letters(2014) VONNEGUT, KURTThis collection of Vonnegut’s letters is the autobiography he never wrote – from the letter he posted home upon being freed from a German POW camp, to notes of advice to his children: ‘Don’t let anybody tell you that smoking and boozing are bad for you.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Cold Cream(2009) MOUNT, FERDINANDA pitch-perfect memoir, brilliantly funny, wise and moving, of family, friends and political life over the last sixty yearsVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
What Am I Doing Here?(1998) CHATWIN, BRUCEIn this collection of profiles, essays and travel stories, Chatwin takes us to Benin, where he is arrested as a mercenary during a coup; and to Nepal where he reminds us that 'Man's real home is not a house, but the Road, and that life itself is a journeyVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Country Girl(2013) O'BRIEN, EDNAI thought of life's many bounties, to have known the extremities of joy and sorrow, love, success and failure, fame and slaughter, to have read in the newspapers that as a writer I was past my sell-by date, yet regardless, to go on writing and reading, toVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Boy(2011) DAHL, ROALDTells the story of unadulterated childhood - sad and funny, macabre and delightful - that inspired Britain's favourite storyteller and also speaks of an age which vanished with the coming of the Second World War.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Miracles of Life(2008) BALLARD, J. G.J. G. Ballard was, for over fifty years, one of this country's most significant writers. Beginning with the events that inspired his classic novel, ‘Empire of the Sun’, this revelatory autobiography charts the course of his astonishing life.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Peeling the Onion(2008) GRASS, GUNTERPeeling the Onion is a searingly honest account of Grass' modest upbringing in Danzig, his time as a boy soldier fighting the Russians, and the writing of his masterpiece, The Tin Drum, in Paris. It is a remarkable autobiography and, without question, onVezava: Mehka26,62 € -
Lions and Shadows(2013) ISHERWOOD, CHRISTOPHERWITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY JAMES FENTONSubtitled 'An education in the twenties', this work blends autobiography and fiction to describe the inner life of a writer evolving from precocious public school boy to Cambridge drop-out at large in London’s BohemiVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
My Paper Chase(2010) EVANS, HAROLD* A moving memoir by a unique character which delivers a penetrating insight into some of the major events in post-war BritainVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Facts(2007) ROTH, PHILIPHow does a novelist write about the facts of his life after spending years fictionalising those facts with irrepressible daring and originality?What becomes of 'the facts' after they have been smelted down for art's sake?Vezava: Mehka15,41 €
