Portrait of an Artist (Lisle Laurie)(Paperback)

Portrait of an Artist (Lisle Laurie)(Paperback)

'Readers will welcome what Lisle has found. The woman who emerges has extraordinary personal stature, artistic gifts, commitment to her vision.' --(Chicago Tribune) Recollections of more than one hundred of O'Keeffe's friends, relatives, colleagues, and neighbors--including 16 pages of

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Joyce James)(Paperback)

James Joyce's Portrait of an Artist is one of the most significant literary works of the twentieth century, and one of the most innovative. Its originality shocked contemporary readers on its publication in 1916 who found its treating of the minutiae of daily life as indecorous, and its central

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Joyce James)(Paperback)

Portrait of the Artist Kathe Kollwitz (Egremont Max)(Paperback / softback)

Prince: A Portrait of the Artist (Sexton Paul)(Pevná vazba)

An illustrated biography of the artist and his music, complete with removable facsimile memorabilia, documents, posters, concert tickets and more.Prince Rogers Nelson was a musical phenomenon who constantly reinvented himself throughout his long and colorful career, changing his style and even his

Leave Society (Lin Tao)(Paperback)

A bold portrait of a writer working to balance all his lives--as an artist, a son, and a loner. In 2014, a novelist named Li leaves Manhattan to visit his parents in Taipei for ten weeks. He doesn't know it yet, but his life will begin to deepen and complexify on this trip. As he flies between

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Joyce James)(Paperback / softback)

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Joyce James)(Paperback / softback)

Recollections of My Non-Existence (Solnit Rebecca (Y))(Paperback / softback)

A landmark memoir from the author of Men Explain Things to Me: an electric portrait of the artist as a young woman that asks how a young writer finds her voice in a society that prefers women to be

Head-To-Toe Portrait of Suzanne (Topor Roland)(Paperback)

Working from the 1960s on, the French writer, artist and illustrator Roland Topor (1938-97) was an all-round maverick known for his paintings and drawings as much as for his novels (such as The Tenant, filmed by Roman Polanski), plays and short stories, all dominated by a sense of irrational,

Fever 1793 (Anderson Laurie Halse)(Paperback)

An epidemic of fever sweeps through the streets of 1793 Philadelphia in this novel from Laurie Halse Anderson where 'the plot rages like the epidemic itself' (The New York Times Book Review). During the summer of 1793, Mattie Cook lives above the family coffee shop with her widowed mother and

The Secret Gospel of Mark: A Poet's Memoir (Reece Spencer)(Pevná vazba)

An exquisite memoir of a life saved by poetry. This is a portrait of the artist, narrated by a priest and a poet and a gay man with tenderness and searing honesty. Spencer Reece weaves the poetry he loves into how he has lived, the poetry as solace and relief, as confirmation and rescue, as

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce - e-kniha

eBook:,'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' is a semi-autobiographical novel by James Joyce that follows the coming-of-age of Stephen Dedalus, a young Irish artist. The book charts Stephen's intellectual, moral, and spiritual development from childhood to adulthood as he struggles with his

Deus Irae (Dick Philip K.)(Paperback)

An artist searches for God so he can paint his portrait in Philip K. Dick's collaboration with Roger Zelazny. After World War III, the Servants of Wrath cult deified the mysterious Carlton Lufteufel, creator of the doomsday weapon that wiped out much of humanity. But to worship the man, they need

The Gun Seller (Laurie Hugh)(Paperback)

Hugh Laurie concocts an uproarious cocktail of comic zingers and over-the-top action in this ripping spoof of the spy genre (Vanity Fair) -- the irresistible tale of a former Scots Guard-turned-hired gun, a freelance soldier of fortune who also happens to be one heck of a nice guy. Cold-blooded

Francesca Woodman: Portrait of a Reputation (Burnett Abrams Nora)(Pevná vazba)

Never-before-published work by an iconic woman artist from the very start of her career. Francesca Woodman took her first photograph at the age of the thirteen. From the time she was a teenager until her death at twenty-two, she produced a fascinating body of work exploring gender, representation,

Manual of Painting and Calligraphy (Saramago Jose)(Paperback / softback)

H. is a struggling artist with a commission to paint a portrait of a well-known industrialist. Whilst the industrialist sits for the portrait, H. For inspiration H. takes a trip to Italy to contemplate the works of the great artists, but when his friend back home is arrested by the secret police of

Gently with the Painters (Hunter Alan)(Paperback)

The death of a young artist leaves Gently desperately piecing together the portrait of a murderer. When artist Shirley Johnson is murdered and her body dumped outside a provincial police headquarters, Gently is despatched from London to Northshire to take over the investigation. The prime suspect

Dusty - An Intimate Portrait of a Musical Legend (Bartlett Karen)(Paperback / softback)

Paperback edition of bestselling music

How the French Think - An Affectionate Portrait of an Intellectual People (Hazareesingh Sudhir)(Paperback / softback)

Wonder Woman: Tempest Tossed (Anderson Laurie Halse)(Paperback)

New York Times bestselling author Laurie Halse Anderson (Speak, Shout) and artist Leila del Duca explore Wonder Woman's teen years in this timely story about the refugee experience, activism, and finding the love and strength to create change. Diana of Themyscira believes that her sixteenth

Sons and Lovers - David Herbert Lawrence - e-kniha

eBook:,D.H. Lawrence's great autobiographical novel is a provocative portrait of an artist torn between love for his possessive mother and desire for two young beautiful women. Set in the Nottinghamshire coal fields of Lawrence's own boyhood, the story of young Paul Morel's growing into manhood in

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Joyce James)(Paperback)

For the centennial of its original publication, a beautiful Deluxe Edition of one of Joyce's greatest works--featuring a foreword by Karl Ove Knausgaard, author the New York Times bestselling six-volume autobiographical novel My Struggle, which has been likened to a 21st-century Portrait of the

Tsar of Love and Techno (Marra Anthony)(Paperback / softback)

A Granta Best Young American Novelist1930s Leningrad: a failed portrait artist employed by Soviet censors must erase political dissenters from official images and