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Anneke van Huisseling

    Christabel, het verleden ben ik zelf
    The Last of the Savages
    The Rules of Attraction
    Look at the Harlequins!
    • The Last of the Savages

      • 271 stron
      • 10 godzin czytania

      From the bestselling author of Bright Lights, Big City and Brightness Falls comes a chronicle of a generation, as enacted by two men who represent all the passions and extremes of the class of 1969. Patrick Keane and Will Savage meet at prep school at the beginning of the explosive '60s. Over the next 30 years, they remain friends even as they pursue radically divergent destinies--and harbor secrets that defy rebellion and conformity. From the Trade Paperback edition.

      The Last of the Savages1997
      3,7
    • 'He did us all an honour by electing to use, and transform, our language' Anthony Burgess 'Look at the harlequins . . . Play! Invent the world! Invent reality'. This is the childhood advice given by an aunt to Russian born writer Vadim Vadimovich, who emigrates to England, then Paris, then Germany and then the US, and, now dying, reconstructs his past. He remembers Iris his first wife, Annette his long-necked typist and Bel his daughter, as well as his own bizarre 'numerical nimbus syndrome'. The final novel published before Nabokov's death, Look at the Harlequins! playfully blends sly self-parody, recollection, riddles and jokes, in an exuberant unravelling of the mysteries of memory and the act of creation.

      Look at the Harlequins!1995
      3,8
    • Christabel, het verleden ben ik zelf

      • 324 strony
      • 12 godzin czytania

      De ervaringen van een Engelse vrouw, getrouwd met een Duitse advocaat, in het Duitsland van Hitler.

      Christabel, het verleden ben ik zelf1989
    • The Rules of Attraction

      • 288 stron
      • 11 godzin czytania

      Focuses on the kids at self-consciously bohemian Camden College, a small, affluent liberal-arts college in New England at the height of the Reagan 80s. This work treats their sexual posturings and agonies with a mixture of hilarity and compassion while exposing the moral vacuum at the centre of their lives.

      The Rules of Attraction1988
      3,8