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Author : Jan Morris
Release : 1989
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 649/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Last Letters from Hav by : Jan Morris
Download or read book Last Letters from Hav written by Jan Morris. This book was released on 1989. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jan Morris
Release : 1985
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis Last Letters from Hav by : Jan Morris
Download or read book Last Letters from Hav written by Jan Morris. This book was released on 1985. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book of travel experiences in an imaginary place. Short-listed for the 1985 Booker Prize.
Author : Jan Morris
Release : 2011-08-30
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 704/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Hav by : Jan Morris
Download or read book Hav written by Jan Morris. This book was released on 2011-08-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Journey through a mystical country where everything is possible and easily arranged” in this 2-part travelogue set in a fictional Mediterranean city of dreams (Los Angeles Times). “A touching lover letter . . . to life itself”—featuring Last Letters from Hav, shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and a foreword by Ursula K. Le Guin (The Independent) Hav is like no place on earth. Rumored to be the site of Troy, captured during the crusades and recaptured by Saladin, visited by Tolstoy, Hitler, Grace Kelly, and Princess Diana, this Mediterranean city-state is home to several architectural marvels and an annual rooftop race that is a feat of athleticism and insanity. As Jan Morris guides us through the corridors and quarters of Hav, we hear the mingling of Italian, Russian, and Arabic in its markets, delight in its famous snow raspberries, and meet the denizens of its casinos and cafés. When Morris published Last Letters from Hav in 1985, it was short-listed for the Booker Prize. Here it is joined by Hav of the Myrmidons, a sequel that brings the story up-to-date. Twenty-first-century Hav is nearly unrecognizable. Sanitized and monetized, it is ruled by a group of fanatics who have rewritten its history to reflect their own blinkered view of the past. Morris’s only novel is dazzlingly sui-generis, part erudite travel memoir, part speculative fiction, part cautionary political tale. It transports the reader to an extraordinary place that never was, but could well be. “Jan Morris is to other travel writers what John le Carré is to other spy novelists.” —New York Times
Author : John Irving
Release : 2022-10-18
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 298/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Last Chairlift by : John Irving
Download or read book The Last Chairlift written by John Irving. This book was released on 2022-10-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Irving’s fifteenth novel is “powerfully cinematic” (The Washington Post) and “eminently readable” (The Boston Globe). The Last Chairlift is part ghost story, part love story, spanning eight decades of sexual politics. In Aspen, Colorado, in 1941, Rachel Brewster is a slalom skier at the National Downhill and Slalom Championships. Little Ray, as she is called, finishes nowhere near the podium, but she manages to get pregnant. Back home, in New England, Little Ray becomes a ski instructor. Her son, Adam, grows up in a family that defies conventions and evades questions concerning the eventful past. Years later, looking for answers, he will go to Aspen. In the Hotel Jerome, where he was conceived, Adam will meet some ghosts; in The Last Chairlift, they aren’t the first or last ghosts he sees. John Irving has written some of the most acclaimed books of our time—among them, The World According to Garp and The Cider House Rules. A visionary voice on the subject of sexual tolerance, Irving is a bard of alternative families. In the “generously intertextual” (The New York Times) The Last Chairlift, readers will once more be in his thrall.
Author : Jan Morris
Release : 1996-03-01
Genre : Mediterranean Region
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Book Rating : 314/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Scenes from Havian Life by : Jan Morris
Download or read book Scenes from Havian Life written by Jan Morris. This book was released on 1996-03-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
