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Over Nine Waves - Marie Heaney - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Over Nine Waves - Marie Heaney - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

''These legends are the action-packed stories - of ancient heroes, huge battles, attempted invasions, prophecies and spells, clashes between the underworld and the real world, abductions, love affairs and feasts - which have fascinated the Irish mind for more than 2,000 years . . . Most of them have an extraordinary, stark narrative sweep, with a marvellous sense of detail . . . Heaney writes directly and fluently . . . with great tact and skill.'' Sunday Times

DKK 141.00
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The Rockingham Shoot and Other Dramatic Writings - John Mcgahern - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

The Rockingham Shoot and Other Dramatic Writings - John Mcgahern - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Sinclair; The Sisters; Swallows; The Rockingham Shoot; The Power of Darkness John McGahern, the leading Irish novelist of his generation, wrote a substantial number of compelling scripts for radio and television. This volume brings together five of his produced works, at the heart of which sits the previously unpublished The Rockingham Shoot , a dark and powerful play for television that concerns a Nationalist teacher whose attempt to prevent his pupils beating at a pheasant shoot held in honour of the British Ambassador leads to a shockingly violent incident. Collectively, these dramatic works offer an evocative and often stark account of a deeply troubled and divided nation.

DKK 175.00
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Palo Alto - James Franco - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Palo Alto - James Franco - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Palo Alto is the debut of a powerful new literary voice. Written with an immediacy and sense of place Palo Alto traces the lives of an extended group of teenagers as they experiment with vices of all kinds, struggle with their families and one another, and succumb to self-destructive, often heartless nihilism. Franco presents his characters in all their raw humanity, while at the same time providing insight into the teenage mind.In the classic American tradition of story-cycles such as Sherwood Anderson''s Winesburg, Ohio, Palo Alto presents a stark, vivid, disturbing, but, above all, compassionate portrait of lives on the rough fringes of youth.

DKK 119.00
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Born Losers - Barbara Skelton - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Born Losers - Barbara Skelton - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Born Losers , published in 1965, and Barbara Skelton''s second book, is a collection of short stories.''Miss Skelton''s twelve stories are sharp and stark and have an almost maniacal lucidity. Her Born Losers are mostly orphans of Manhattan ... Miss Skelton takes one from the purple darkness of Harlem to Mexico City, to the London Zoo and the Cote d''Azur, on a wild schizophrenic slide. She describes the meaningless sex battle with zest and accuracy. Her humour is alarming but never malicious. Here are twelve quite shocking little stories, cute as mad midgets, about Gloomsville. Nutty, as they say, as a fruit cake ... Her book cannot be recommended to the frail and fearful.'' John Davenport, Observer

DKK 157.00
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Fire Songs - David Harsent - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Fire Songs - David Harsent - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Winner of the 2014 T S Eliot Prize for Poetry ''A writer we should treasure.'' Charlotte Runcie, Daily Telegraph ''With every book [Harsent''s] stature as a truly significant writer becomes more undeniable.'' Fiona Sampson, Independent The poems in David Harsent''s new collection, whether single poems, dramatic sequences, or poems that ''belong to one another'', share a dark territory and a sometimes haunting, sometimes steely, lyrical tone. Throughout the book - in the stark biography of ''Songs from the Same Earth'', the troubling fractured narrative of ''A Dream Book'', the harrowing lines of connection in four poems each titled ''Fire'', or the cheek-by-jowl shudder of ''Sang the Rat'' - Harsent writes, as always, with passion and a sureness of touch.

DKK 127.00
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When a Billion Chinese Jump - Jonathan Watts - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

When a Billion Chinese Jump - Jonathan Watts - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

With foul air, filthy water, rising temperatures and encroaching deserts, China is already suffering an environmental disaster. Now it faces a stark choice: either accept catastrophe, or make radical changes. Traveling the vast country to witness this environmental challenge, Jonathan Watts moves from mountain paradises to industrial wastelands, examining the responses of those at the top of society to the problems and hopes of those below. At heart his book is not a call for panic, but a demonstration that - even with the crisis so severe, and the political scope so limited - the actions of individuals can make a difference.Consistently attentive to human detail, Watts vividly portrays individual lives in a country all too often viewed from outside as a faceless state. No reader of his book - no consumer in the world - can be unaffected by what he presents.

DKK 166.00
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Parade - Rachel Cusk - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Parade - Rachel Cusk - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

WINNER OF THE 2024 GOLDSMITHS PRIZE ''A brilliant, stark and unsettling feat.'' Observer ''Thoughtful and true ... Cusk is a disciple of the truth and she helps us to see.'' Independent ''Cusk’s most formidable, radical and compelling novel yet.'' The Conversation A path-breaking novel of art, womanhood and violence, from the author of the Outline trilogy. Midway through his life, an artist begins to paint upside down.In Paris, a woman is attacked by a stranger in the street.A mother dies. A man falls to his death. Couples seek escape in distant lands.The new novel from one of the most distinctive writers of the age, Parade sets loose a carousel of lives. It surges past the limits of identity, character, and plot, to tell a true story—about art, family, morality, gender, and how we compose ourselves.

DKK 166.00
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Parade - Rachel Cusk - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Parade - Rachel Cusk - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

WINNER OF THE 2024 GOLDSMITHS PRIZE ''A brilliant, stark and unsettling feat.'' OBSERVER ''Thoughtful and true ... Cusk is a disciple of the truth and she helps us to see.'' INDEPENDENT ''Cusk’s most formidable, radical and compelling novel yet.'' THE CONVERSATION A path-breaking novel of art, womanhood and violence, from the author of the Outline trilogy. Midway through his life, an artist begins to paint upside down.In Paris, a woman is attacked by a stranger in the street.A mother dies. A man falls to his death. Couples seek escape in distant lands.The new novel from one of the most distinctive writers of the age, Parade sets loose a carousel of lives. It surges past the limits of identity, character, and plot, to tell a true story—about art, family, morality, gender, and how we compose ourselves.

DKK 119.00
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So What - Frederick Seidel - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

So What - Frederick Seidel - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

A bristling, invigorating new collection from the eminent American poet Frederick Seidel declares ‘I’m not as old as I used to be. / I’m getting young.’ In So What , he speeds across the island of Manhattan on his racetrack-only Superbike, hurtling into the tenth decade of his life and the sixth decade of his extraordinary career. But the path from youth to old age has not been straightforward. With a disarming combination of acuity and playfulness, the poet confronts his vulnerability while using his artfulness as a form of subversion. Rather than contemplating a return to childlike innocence, he writes, ‘I explode with rage and age.’ In doing so, he summons up a tidal surge full of shotguns and wristwatches, late-blooming love and sex, and stark glimpses of American life. At its crest stands the poet, looking over all this wreckage and creation, and he proclaims: so what.

DKK 139.00
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The Translations of Seamus Heaney - Seamus Heaney - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

The Translations of Seamus Heaney - Seamus Heaney - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

‘A huge book, an immense book. Such adventure and variety, such industry, such subjugation of self.’ Michael Hofmann, TLS Heaney not only translated classic works of Latin and Old English but also poems from a great number of ancient and modern European languages, not least translations from the Old, Middle and Modern Irish of his homeland. The breadth and depth in evidence here is extraordinary — from monastic hymns and prayers, to the civic and familial tragedies of Sophocles and Kochanowski; from Virgil and Dante’s living underworld to the stark landscapes of Sweeney’s Ireland. As editor, Marco Songzogni frames the translations with the poet’s own writings on his works. Collectively these bring us closer to an understanding of the genius for interpretation and transformation that distinguished Heaney as one of the great poet-translators of all time.‘The Translations . . . is a landmark volume, a striking testament to the particular and generous genius of Seamus Heaney. . . The crucial part played by translation in the formation and development of his extraordinary talent is under the spotlight as readers are further gifted with Marco Sonzogni’s meticulously detailed notes. . ..’ Martina Evans, Irish Times ‘…this volume is handsome testimony to Heaney’s lifelong service to a noble art.’ David Wheatley, Guardian ‘This magnificent book. . . is without a doubt a compendium to be cherished, and to be celebrated.’ Paul Perry, Sunday Independent

DKK 182.00
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No Love Lost - Rachel Ingalls - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

No Love Lost - Rachel Ingalls - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Introduced by Patricia Lockwood: Gothic tales from the mistress of the weird behind frogman-romance Mrs Caliban for fans of Shirley Jackson, Lucia Berlin and Patricia Highsmith. ''Wonderful.'' Margaret Atwood ''Genius.'' Patricia Lockwood ''Remarkable.'' Joseph Heller ''Perfect.'' Max Porter ''''Immensely skillful'' . Ursula K. Le Guin ''Tender, erotic, singular.'' Carmen Maria Machado ''Still outpaces, out-weirds, and out-romances anything today.'' Marlon James ‘One of the greatest short story writers we have.’ The Times ‘You are in masterly hands as Ingalls lures you into a swamp of violence and magic.’ Sunday Times After a one-night-stand with the Angel Gabriel, a monk is transformed into a pregnant woman.Lost in the fog, two visitors are lured into a ruined candlelit mansion.A wife confiscates her husband’s homemade sex doll, only to demand her own.Great-aunts warn of the deadly skin of the pearlkillers. Rachel Ingalls'' incomparable novellas are masterpieces: s urrealist, subversive, tragicomic. P repare to meet what lurks beneath … ''Macabre, fantastic and haunting . . . One of the most brilliant practitioners of American Gothic since Poe . . . Read her at your peril.'' Independent ''Fables whose unadorned sentences belie their irreducible strangeness . . . In her vision of intimacy and interdependence, you’re simply not safe until everybody else is dead . . . Brilliant.'' New Yorker ''Resists definition . . . Her work combines subtlety and horror, magic and stark realism, Greek tragedy and happily-ever-afters . . . Rare and fine. '' Guardian ''Idiosyncratic, haunting, masterly . . . A modern fabulist making myths which explode into strangeness.'' Observer

DKK 119.00
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The Translations of Seamus Heaney - Seamus Heaney - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

The Translations of Seamus Heaney - Seamus Heaney - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Seamus Heaney’s translation of Beowulf (1999) was hailed as a masterpiece, alerting readers to his extraordinary ability to tune into other poets and languages and render their work fresh and alive in his own voice. In fact, as this volume attests, from the very beginning translation informed over fifty years of Heaney’s critical and creative output, to which the posthumous publication of his translation of Virgil’s Aeneid Book VI (2016) – also widely acclaimed – made a fitting epilogue.Heaney not only translated classic works of Latin and Old English but also a great number of poems from Spanish, Romanian, Dutch, Russian, German, Scottish Gaelic, Czech, classical and modern Greek, modern and Middle French, medieval and modern Italian, and more. He was drawn in particular to the language of his homeland, a preoccupation that runs through this volume in those translations from Old, Middle and modern Irish. As he said: ‘If you lived in the Irish countryside as I did in my childhood, you lived in a primal Gaeltacht.’The breadth and depth in evidence here is extraordinary: from the stark landscapes of Sweeney’s Ireland to Virgil and Dante’s living underworlds, from monastic hymns and prayers to the civic and familial tragedies of Sophocles and Kochanowski.As editor, Marco Sonzogni frames the translations with the poet’s own writings on his works, drawing from various introductions, interviews and commentaries. Collectively we are brought closer to an understanding of the remarkable extent of Heaney’s talent, a genius for interpretation and transformation that distinguish him as one of the great poet-translators of all time.

DKK 340.00
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In Defence of Sensuality - John Cowper Powys - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

In Defence of Sensuality - John Cowper Powys - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

In Defence of Sensuality was first published in 1930. The author''s own foreword to the book is worth quoting in full:''The author feels that perhaps some explanation is due tot eh reader for the rather unusual employment of the ''''Sensuality'''' which serves as the title of this work. The advantage given to the author by the use of this particular expression is that it enables him to proceed from rock-bottom upwards as far as he likes. A more refined title would have cut him off, in his method of developing his idea, from the physical roots of existence; for while it is easy to indicate the overtones and undertones of Sensuality it would be hard to bring a gentle, vague word, like the word ''''sensuousness'''' down to the bare, stark, stoically-stripped Life-Sensation which is the subject of this book.How far has the individual the right to be what is called ''''selfish''''? How far has he the right to concentrate on his own solitary awareness of existence and make this alone his life-purpose? Is there such a thing at all as a Religion of Nature or a Cosmic Ethic? Such are the questions the author attempts to answer; and he finds that in his discussion of the root-sensations of life the word Sensuality, taken in an unusually comprehensive sense, serves his purpose better than any other word.'' In Defence of Sensuality is one of the self-help books John Cowper Powys wrote that owe their genesis to the free-lance lecturing he did in America. In addition to this one, Faber Finds are reissuing The Meaning of Culture , A Philosophy of Solitude and The Art of Happiness .

DKK 183.00
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Lord of the Flies - William Golding - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Lord of the Flies - William Golding - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

First published in 1954, William Golding''s debut novel, now a classic, is a stark story of survival, probing the depths of human nature, and what happens when civilization collapses. As dystopian stories like The Hunger Games and Battle Royale surge in popularity, this haunting tale of a group of young boys stranded on a desert island still captivates schoolchildren around the world, raising timeless and profound questions about how easily society can slip into chaos and savagery when rules and order have been abandoned. This new educational edition provides supplementary material, chapter summaries, discussion questions and additional teaching resources to help guide students and support teachers throughout the text. When a plane crashes on a remote island, a group of schoolboys are the sole survivors. As the reality of their situation sets in, the boys attempt to establish control and their world gradually descends into brutal savagery. As Catcher in the Rye became the classic coming-of-age tale, Lord of the Flies is the classic story of innocence lost. A teacher himself, Golding clearly understood how to interest children with a gripping story and strong, sympathetic characters. The novel serves as a catalyst for thought-provoking discussion and analysis of universal issues, not only concerning the capabilities of humans for good and evil and the fragility of moral inhibition, but beyond. The boys'' struggle to find a way of existing in a community with no fixed boundaries invites readers to evaluate the concepts involved in social and political constructs and moral frameworks. Symbolism is strong throughout, revealing both the boys'' capacity for empathy and hope, as well as illuminating the darkest corners of the human spirit. Ideas of community, leadership, and the rule of law are called into question as the reader has to consider who has a right to power, why, and what the consequences of the acquisition of power may be. All of these concerns are current today and can be easily related to the novel through effective teaching and learning. This new educational edition encourages original and independent thought from students, as well as guiding them through the text. The supplementary material includes a biographical section on William Golding, and his own interpretive essay ''Fable'' on Lord of the Flies , as well as providing information about the novel''s historical context, which will be ideal for students completing GCSE and A-Level courses as well as those studying the novel worldwide . At the end of the text there are chapter summaries, comprehension questions, discussion points and activities plus a glossary of less familiar words or phrases. All of these are intended to inspire and generate creative teaching, learning and love of the novel.

DKK 119.00
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