Obsessive Brilliant
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Get the Picture: A Paint-Splattered Adventure Among the Fanatical Artists, Obsessive Gallerists, and Fine-Art Fiends Who Showed Me HowAN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2024 BY NPR, TIME, AND THE ECONOMIST Get the Picture is one of the funniest books I ve read . . . Brilliant. The Washington Post A gripping and often hilarious investigation into the art world. . . . Bosker goes full Tom Wolfe. TIME Funny,... |
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Get the Picture: A Paint-Splattered Adventure Among the Fanatical Artists, Obsessive Gallerists, and Fine-Art Fiends Who Showed Me HowAN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2024 BY NPR, TIME, AND THE ECONOMIST Get the Picture is one of the funniest books I ve read . . . Brilliant. The Washington Post A gripping and often hilarious investigation into the art world. . . . Bosker goes full Tom Wolfe. TIME Funny,... |
15,05 € |
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NicotineWritten with the passion of an obsessive, Nicotine addresses a life of addiction, from the epiphany of the first drag to the perennial last last cigarette. With comic insight and meticulous precision, Hens deconstructs every facet of the dependency and offers a brilliant disquisition on the psychopa... |
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The New New JournalismForty years after Tom Wolfe, Hunter S. Thompson, and Gay Talese launched the New Journalism movement, Robert S. Boynton sits down with nineteen practitioners of what he calls the "New New Journalism to discuss their methods, writings and careers. The New New Journalists are first and foremost brilli... |
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You Are Fatally Invited'When you trap a group of mystery authors on a secluded island, the result is wickedly delightful mayhem! It's Agatha Christie on steroids' - Tess Gerritsen'You'll trip over the twists in this sneaky, snaky mystery' - A.J. Finn'Glass Onion meets Cluedo in this intricate and clever thriller' - Cather... |
17,26 € |
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Juliet, Naked - Nick Hornby, Penguin BooksJuliet, Naked is bestselling author Nick Hornby's moving, funny account of life's second chancesAnnie's put fifteen years into safe, slightly obsessive Duncan, and now she'd like her money back, please. It's time to move on. But she lives in Gooleness, the north's answer to a question nobody asked.I... |
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The Nix - Nathan Hill, Picador'The best new writer of fiction in America. The best.' - John Irving Nathan Hill's brilliant debut takes the reader from the rural Midwest of the 1960s, to New York City during Occupy Wall Street, from Chicago in 1968, to wartime Norway: home of the mysterious Nix. Meet Samuel: stalled writer, bored... |
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ButcherFrom one of our most accomplished storytellers, an extraordinary and arresting novel about a women's asylum in the nineteenth century, and a terrifying doctor who wants to change the world. In this harrowing story based on authentic historical documents, we follow the career of Dr. Silas Weir, "Fath... |
14,45 € |
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Juliet, NakedJuliet, Naked is bestselling author Nick Hornby's moving, funny account of life's second chances. Annie's put fifteen years into safe, slightly obsessive Duncan, and now she'd like her money back, please. It's time to move on. But she lives in Gooleness, the north's answer to a question nobody asked... |
10,23 € |
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Robert Service - LeninLenin is a colossal figure whose influence on twentieth-century history cannot be underestimated. Robert Service has written a calmly authoritative biography on this seemingly unknowable figure. Making use of recently opened archives, he has been able to piece together the private as well as the pub... |
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M.C. EscherFrom impossible staircases to tesselated birds, Dutch artist M. C. Escher (1898–1972) crafted a unique graphic language of patterns, puzzles, and mathematics. Dense, complex, and structured by intricate principles, his work is at the same time decorative and playful, toying constantly with optic ill... |
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M.C. EscherFrom impossible staircases to tesselated birds, Dutch artist M. C. Escher (1898–1972) crafted a unique graphic language of patterns, puzzles, and mathematics. Dense, complex, and structured by intricate principles, his work is at the same time decorative and playful, toying constantly with optic ill... |
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The LoserThomas Bernhard was one of the most original writers of the twentieth century. His formal innovation ranks with Beckett and Kafka, his outrageously cantankerous voice recalls Dostoevsky, but his gift for lacerating, lyrical, provocative prose is incomparably his own.One of Bernhard's most acclaimed ... |
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BatardeAn obsessive and revealing self-portrait of a remarkable woman humiliated by the circumstances of her birth and by her physical appearance, La Batarde relates Violette Leduc's long search for her own identity through a series of agonizing and passionate love affairs with both men and women. When fir... |
15,45 € |
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Lord Jim(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed) Lord Jim is a classic story of one man's tragic failure and eventual redemption, told under the circumstances of high adventure at the margins of the known world which made Conrad's work so immediately popular. But it is also the book in which its author, through a... |
19,77 € |
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The Hunt and the Kill - Holly Watt*A TIMES 100 BEST BOOKS FOR SUMMER 2022 SELECTION* *A TIMES THRILLER OF THE MONTH*''In the gutsy Casey, [the author] has created an unstoppable yet entirely credible modern heroine... Much of John le Carré’s work was steered by his moral compass. Why should his heir be a man?'' The Times''Casey is f... |
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Exes and O´s - Amy Lea, Penguin Books'Unapologetically romantic, wonderfully sexy, always brilliant' Ali Hazelwood'The perfect book to lift your spirits' Beth O'Leary------Tara Chen has had her heart broken ten times, by ten different men. Nevertheless, she is still determined to find her perfect match. The only problem? Tara is a roma... |
11,35 € |
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Nothing But The Truth: The Memoir of an Unlikely LawyerThe Sunday Times bestseller and a BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week'Full of hilarious and shocking stories, the Secret Barrister's memoir Nothing But The Truth tracks their transformation from hang 'em and flog 'em austerity-supporter to celebrated, campaigning, bestselling author.'Masterful, compassion... |
19,19 € |
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No One Here Gets Out AliveJim Morrison -- singer, philosopher, poet, delinquent -- is here in all his complexity, the brilliant and the obsessive disciple of darkness who rejected authority and probed 'the bounds of reality to see what would happen'. Jim Morrison was lead singer of the Doors, one of the most popular and cont... |
19,57 € |
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Rabbit Hole - Kate Brody, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC**A Jennette McCurdy book club pick****Cosmopolitan, The 20 best books to look forward to in 2024****An Independent Book of the Month**'I loved it: the fast pace, the wry protagonist, and how Brody painfully examines the measures we take to find closure' Jennette McCurdy'A brilliant, dark debut abou... |
13,25 € |
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