Ankor, Newburyport
En hemmafru i Ohio bakar den ena pajen efter den andra och försöker samtidigt famna allt som inte går att greppa i ett liv. Hon oroar sig för sina barn, tänker på sitt äktenskap och på sina döda föräldrar. Men grubblerierna kan också röra afrikanska elefanter, hur lyckliga par egentligen har det, massförstörelsevapen, Donald Trump, klimatförändringar, sjukhuskostnader, skolskjutningar, katter och höns … Att beskriva Ankor, Newburyport är som att beskriva ett hav, eller en storm. Lucy El
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By the author of Ducks, Newburyport, shortlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize, Goldsmiths Prize and Saltire Fiction Book of the Year Award Bach, sculpture, plastic surgery, public speaking and a New York love story like no other - this is Lucy Ellman...
Ducks, Newburyport
WINNER OF THE 2019 GOLDSMITHS PRIZE - SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 BOOKER PRIZE - A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2019 - A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2019 - A TIME MUST-READ BOOK OF 2019 'This book has its face pressed up against the pane of the present; its form mimics the way our minds move now toggling between tabs, between the needs of small children and aging parents, between news of ecological collapse and school shootings while somehow remembering to pay taxes and fold the laundry.'--Parul Sehgal, New York Times Baking a multitude of tartes tatins for local restaurants, an Ohio housewife contemplates her four kids, husband, cats and chickens. Also, America's ignoble past, and her own regrets. She is surrounded by dead lakes, fake facts, Open Carry maniacs, and oodles of online advice about survivalism, veil toss duties, and how to be more like Jane Fonda. But what do you do when you keep stepping on your son's toy tractors, your life depends on stolen land and broken treaties, and
Ducks, Newburyport
Ducks, Newburyport
Sweet Desserts
By the author of Ducks, Newburyport, shortlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize, Goldsmiths Prize and Saltire Fiction Book of the Year Award. Winner of the Guardian First Book Award 'exhilarating ... Lucy Ellmann is an original' The Guardian Suzy Schwa...
Doctors & Nurses
Doctors & Nurses
Man or Mango?
By the author of Ducks, Newburyport, shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2019, the Saltire Fiction Book of the Year Award and the Goldsmiths Prize 'Bold ... Wonderful' Sunday Times 'Hilarious ... Razor-sharp wit' Cosmopolitan Eloise is too old to be called an orphan but insists she is bereft. With a cello, a car, some cats and a supply of Chicken Balti, she has devised for herself a half-alive hermitude. From her sinister country cottage she dispatches plaintive missives to the purveyors of evaporated milk and loo-roll holders. No one is too high, too powerful, to escape the fury of her attack. George is England's only poet of ice hockey (not a full-time job). Pining for inspiration, he plays a lot of pinball and is chased around by his students. Indeed, all through the land people languish in a rage of bewilderment, undone by neighbours, the news and the heartless human tendancy to reduce the world to lists. Fierce, funny and strange (touching on the unseen links between donkeys,
Varying Degrees of Hopelessness
Varying Degrees of Hopelessness
Lucy Foley Boxed Set
Together in a beautiful boxed set, three twisty locked-room mysteries from #1¿New York Times¿bestselling author Lucy Foley. Travel from a snowy hunting lodge in Scotland to a secluded island off the coast of Ireland to an elegant yet siniste...
Loser
LRB BOOKSHOP'S AUTHOR OF THE MONTH ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019 'If you haven't read Bernhard, you will not know of the most radical advance in fiction since Joyce ... My advice: dive in.' Lucy Ellmann 'I absolutely love Bernhard: he i...
Lucy
The coming-of-age story of one of Jamaica Kincaid's most admired creationsLucy, a teenage girl from the West Indies, comes to North America to work as an au pair for Lewis and Mariah and their four children. Lewis and Mariah are a thrice-blessed c...
Lucy
A portrait of an indelible young woman, Kincaid's second novel is 'vivid, true and necessary' (Los Angeles Times). Lucy, a teenage girl from the West Indies, comes to North America to work as an au pair for Lewis and Mariah and their four children. Lewis and Mariah are a thrice-blessed couple--handsome, rich, and seemingly happy. Yet, almost at once, Lucy begins to notice cracks in their beautiful facade. With mingled anger and compassion, Lucy scrutinizes the assumptions and verities of her employers' world and compares them with the vivid realities of her native place. Lucy has no illusions about her own past, but neither is she prepared to be deceived about where she presently is. At the same time that Lucy is coming to terms with the way the family lives, she is also unraveling the mysteries of her own sexuality. Gradually a new person unfolds: passionate, forthright, and disarmingly honest. In Lucy, Jamaica Kincaid has created a startling new character possessed of adamantine
Lucy
The coming-of-age story of one of Jamaica Kincaid's most admired creations--available now in an e-book edition. Lucy, a teenage girl from the West Indies, comes to America to work as an au pair for a wealthy couple. She begins to notice cracks in ...
Lucy
BOKCIRKELBOK I LUNDSTRÖMS BOKRADIO HÖSTEN 2018Jamaica Kincaid föddes 1949 på den karibiska ön Antigua som Elaine Potter Richardson, men bytte namn när hon började skriva. I dag lever hon i USA, där hon vid sidan av sitt författande arbetar som professor på Harvard. Lucy, som är en av Kincaids mest lästa romaner, är ett starkt och originellt porträtt av en ung kvinna som upptäcker -- och uppfinner -- sig själv. Den handlar om tonårsflickan Lucy som kommer från en liten karibisk ö till New York för att arbeta som au pair i en amerikansk familj. Familjen tycks ha allt som går att önska sig -- de är vackra, rika och lyckliga. Men Lucy, som är en frisinnad och avväpnande person som får alla hon möter att öppna sig, ser snart sprickorna i den fina fasaden. Själv bär hon på en historia som ingen känner till, om ett uppbrott från modern och en önskan att frigöra sig från sitt förflutna. »En av världslitteraturens mest omtyckta författare, helt underbar att läsa.«Per Wirtén, Sydsvenskan »Storslagen litteratur.«Hanna Nordenhök, Expressen »Efter att ha läst ett par böcker av henne nu måste jag tillstå att det här är sällsynt bra litteratur... Hon är en sådan författare jag vill att alla ska läsa, varken mer eller mindre.« Björn Kohlström, Jönköpings-Posten
Lucy
En actionthriller av Luc Besson!Lucy är en knarkkurir åt maffian i Tai Pei år 2069. Vid en av hennes resor spricker förpackningen och drogerna tas upp av hennes kropp. Till sin förvåning dör hon inte. Hon får superkrafter. Men hur länge klarar hennes kropp av förändringen?
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Lucy
OBS! Import. Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.Scarlett Johansson and Morgan Freeman star in this sci-fi action thriller written and directed by Luc Besson. Johansson stars as the titular heroine who finds herself caught up in the dodgy dealings of the Taiwanese mob while living in Taipei. Forced into becoming a smuggler, she is drugged before a package is inserted into her stomach for safe transit. Lucy is then severely beaten for protesting her situation which results in the package bursting inside her and leaking into her bloodstream. As the drug takes over her body, Lucy becomes capable of using a higher brain capacity than humans are naturally accustomed to which makes her able to use telekinesis and absorb knowledge rapidly. Meanwhile, neurological scientist Professor Norman (Freeman) takes an interest in Lucy's evolution as she takes revenge on those responsible for her extraordinary transformation and evades those who wish to harness her powers for their own ends.Typ: Blu-ray / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray (Red Tag)
Lucy
OBS! Import. Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.Scarlett Johansson and Morgan Freeman star in this sci-fi action thriller written and directed by Luc Besson. Johansson stars as the titular heroine who finds herself caught up in the dodgy dealings of the Taiwanese mob while living in Taipei. Forced into becoming a smuggler, she is drugged before a package is inserted into her stomach for safe transit. Lucy is then severely beaten for protesting her situation which results in the package bursting inside her and leaking into her bloodstream. As the drug takes over her body, Lucy becomes capable of using a higher brain capacity than humans are naturally accustomed to which makes her able to use telekinesis and absorb knowledge rapidly. Meanwhile, neurological scientist Professor Norman (Freeman) takes an interest in Lucy's evolution as she takes revenge on those responsible for her extraordinary transformation and evades those who wish to harness her powers for their own ends.Typ: DVD
Lucy
A classic coming-of-age story from Jamaica Kincaid, following a young woman as she enters adulthood against the backdrop of a strange and unfamiliar country.Lucy, a teenage girl from the West Indies, comes to North America to work as an au pair for Lewis and Mariah and their four children. At first glance Lewis and Mariah are a blessed couple - handsome, rich, and seemingly happy. Almost at once, however, Lucy begins to notice cracks in their beautiful facade.With a mixture of anger and compassion, Lucy scrutinizes the privileged, facile world of her employers while comparing it to the vivid realities of her home in the Caribbean. Lucy has no illusions about her own past, but neither is she prepared to be deceived about where she presently is.In this environment a new person unfolds: passionate, sexually forthright, and disarmingly honest. In Lucy, Jamaica Kincaid has created a startling new character: a captivating heroine possessed with clear-sightedness and ferocious integrity. Part of the Picador Collection, a new series showcasing the best of modern literature.
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The Nets of Modernism
One of the finest literary critics of her generation, Maud Ellmann synthesises her work on modernism, psychoanalysis and Irish literature in this important new book. In sinuous readings of Henry James, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, she examines ...
A.K.A. Lucy
This stunning package offers a rich, intimate, and highly entertaining look at the remarkable life and work of the television pioneer, the First Lady of Comedy, the legend, Lucille Ball-AKA Lucy. Full of fresh perspective, gorgeously designed, and...
Lucy Carmichael
Rediscover the brilliance of Lucy Carmichael in the Mermaid Collection - classic books by popular pioneering female authors republished to delight new generations of readers. Pre-order this gorgeous edition now.Originally published in 1951 from the author of beloved holiday classic The Feast comes a glorious coming-of-age tale about a heroine whose wedding day does not go entirely to plan . . .With a foreword by Lucy Mangan***'People seem to get over things, don't they? I don't know how, but they do - ordinary people. I'm very ordinary, so I expect I shall do what they do.'Lucy Carmichael is jilted at the altar. But no matter. Her loving and kind family never liked her explorer fiance anyway.Instead of moping or falling into her supportive family's arms, however, Lucy abandons their suburban home. Heading for the country, she takes up a teaching position in the industrial town of Ravonsbridge.There, she finds solace in her work, in her new (rather gossipy) colleagues - and rediscovers her sensible young self.But if Lucy has, despite everything, kept her head - where lies her heart?Praise for Margaret Kennedy:'She is not only a romantic but an anarchist, and she knows the ways of men and women very well indeed' Anita Brookner'Kennedy was immensely popular in her heyday' Washington Post'Margaret Kennedy's poised style, cool wit and skilful characterization kept her novels welcome for three decades' Cambridge Guide to Literature in English
Bakery: Lucy
Bakery: Lucy [Vinyl LP]
Lucy, Uncensored
A road trip through gender identity, self-expression, and the thorny process of figuring out where you fit after high school as an out-and-proud transgender teen. Lucy imagines college as more than a chance to party with other drama nerds and be roommates with her best friend Callie. College will be her fresh start. For the first time, she'll be able to introduce herself as Lucy to people she hasn't gone to school with since kindergarten. Plus, she happens to live an hour away from one of the most prestigious theater programs in the country. She's always dreamed of going to Central, but when she finally has a chance to visit, it's not what she imagined. While Lucy and Callie are on their campus tour, two kids from their high school make the typical transphobic comments Lucy's gotten used to in her small town. She starts to worry that her dream school might end up being High School 2.0. What if she belongs somewhere else? Somewhere that she can truly have a fresh start? When Lucy finds a beautiful school with a great theater program on a list of the most LGBTQ+ friendly colleges, it seems like fate-except that the school is hundreds of miles away. And there's something unexpected about it: it's a women's college. As far as she can tell, they've never admitted a trans woman. Will they let Lucy in? There's only one way to find out: road trip!
Lucy, Ljudbok
Jamaica Kincaid är den hyllade karibisk-amerikanska författaren som av Svenska Dagbladets kritiker röstades fram som alternativ nobelpristagare 2018. Nu finns hennes roman Lucy äntligen som ljudbok, inläst av den Guldbaggenominerade skådespelaren Evin Ahmad. Romanen var bokcirkelbok i Lundströms bokradio hösten 2018. Lucy, som är en av Kincaids mest lästa romaner, är ett starkt och originellt porträtt av en ung kvinna som kommer från en liten karibisk ö till USA för att arbeta som barnflicka. Vid sin ankomst överväldigas hon av kulturkrockarna: av att åka hiss för första gången, att kunna förvara mat i kylskåp, av att uppleva en sol som inte värmer. Lucy har lämnat en plats som av de rika amerikanerna betraktas som paradiset, men som hon själv aldrig vill återvända till. Och hon har lämnat en mor som hon älskat så mycket, men vars brev hon nu lämnar oöppnade på sitt rum. Hennes betraktelser av människorna hon har runtom sig och deras priviligierade vardag är lika träffsäkra som de är syrliga, för Lucy blir snart medveten om vilken plats människor som ser ut som henne har i det samhälle hon kommit till. Jamaica Kincaid föddes 1949 på den karibiska ön Antigua som Elaine Potter Richardson, men bytte namn när hon började skriva. I dag lever hon i USA, där hon vid sidan av sitt författande arbetar som professor på Harvard. Hon debuterade på 1980-talet och blev omgående en betydande röst i det som kallades den postkoloniala litteraturen, som behandlar erfarenheten av att växa upp på en plats som styrs av ett land långt borta och förnekas sin egen kultur. Pressröster: »Jag tycker att man märker efter två sidor att det här är en Nobelprisförfattare, det är den typen av kvalitet. Det är som att läsa Camus eller Coetzee, det är den typen av tyngd. Det är helt fantastiskt bra. /…/ För mig var det här första gången på väldigt länge som jag återupptäckte hur underbart det är att läsa en riktig roman, en riktig skönlitterär text som är skriven av en mästerlig författare.« Björn Wiman, DN i Lundströms bokradios bokcirkel »På 158 sidor gestaltar Jamaica Kincaid stora frågor som kolonialism, klass och kön. Och hon gör det storartat. Man kan öppna boken var som helst och hitta formuleringar väl värda att brodera på örngottet.« Elisabeth Skog i Hallandsposten »Det är något så koncentrerat från författarens sida, ett sådant komplicerat, vackert, ibland sorgligt porträtt som vecklar upp sig på romanens få sidor och sedan bygger bo i en långt efter berättelsens slut. Som får en att flytta in i historiens melankoliska lunk och många dagar efteråt får mig att tänka på Lucy, hur det gick för henne, vad hon tänker på just nu, om hon är fri. Som om hon vore en verklig, gammal vän.« Valerie Kyeyune Backström i E...
Lynn + Lucy
OBS! Import. Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.British drama written and directed by Fyzal Boulifa. Best friends Lynn (Roxanne Scrimshaw) and Lucy (Nichola Burley) were inseparable at school and as adults they remain keenly devoted to one another, living as neighbours in an Essex housing estate. When Lucy becomes pregnant Lynn, who has a daughter of her own, is delighted and looks forward to sharing the joys of motherhood with her best friend. However, as Lucy struggles with suspected post-natal depression and rumours abound about her lifestyle choices tensions grow between the pair and their once perfect relationship falls apart.Typ: Blu-ray
Love, Lucy
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The one and only autobiography by the iconic Lucille Ball, hailed by TV Guide as the '#1 Greatest TV Star of All Time.' Love, Lucy is the valentine Lucille Ball left for her fans--a warm, wise, and witty memoir written by Lucy herself. The legendary star of the classic sitcom I Love Lucy was at the pinnacle of her success when she sat down to record the story of her life. No comedienne had made America laugh so hard, no television actress had made the leap from radio and B movies to become one of the world's best-loved performers. This is her story--in her own words. The story of the ingenue from Jamestown, New York, determined to go to Broadway, destined to make a big splash, bound to marry her Valentino, Desi Arnaz. In her own inimitable style, she tells of their life together--both storybook and turbulent; intimate memories of their children and friends; wonderful backstage anecdotes; the empire they founded; the dissolution of their marriage. And,
Luring Lucy
"e;This is one of the best 'friends become lovers' stories ever."e; - All About RomanceAll Lucy was looking for when she went to her vacation home was an innocent fling to quell the yearning she had felt since her husband died four...