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Float Up, Sing Down - Laird Hunt - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Float Up, Sing Down - Laird Hunt - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

From National Book Award Finalist Laird Hunt, a masterful collection of interwoven stories capturing one summer''s day in Reagan-era Indiana. Candy Wilson has forgotten to buy the paprika. Turner Davis needs to get his zinnias in. Della Dorner told her mother she was going to Milky Freeze, but that''s not where she''s really headed on her new Schwinn five-speed. Float Up, Sing Down is the story of a single day. But in that day, how much teeming life! The residents of this rural town have their routines, their preferences, their joys, grudges, and regrets. The old-timers savor past triumphs, cast back to lives circumscribed and defined by the World Wars, wonder what might have been. Youngsters covet cars, karate moves, kissing; they writhe in the first blushes of love or pain or independence. Gossip is paramount. Lives are entwined. Retired sheriffs climb corn bins and muse on lost love, French teachers throw firecrackers out of barn windows, and teenagers borrow motorcycles to ride the back roads.Each of the fourteen stories of Float Up, Sing Down follows one character''s ''day-in-the-life'' in one of Hunt''s most beloved and enduring landscapes. As the book unfolds these lives echo and glance off of one another with elegance and warmth, a tenderness born of strength. In the tradition of Willa Cather, Sherwood Anderson, Elizabeth Strout, and Edward P. Jones, this is a symphony of souls, a masterful portrait of both loneliness and community by one of our great limners of American experience.

DKK 182.00
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All the Lives We Never Lived - Anuradha Roy - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

All the Lives We Never Lived - Anuradha Roy - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

"A writer of great subtlety and intelligence . . . a beautifully written and compelling story of how families fall apart and what remains of the aftermath" Kamila Shamsie, winner of the Women''s Prize for Fiction 2018 "The book everyone is talking about for the summer " Lorraine Candy, Sunday Times In my childhood, I was known as the boy whose mother had run off with an Englishman" - so begins the story of Myshkin and his mother, Gayatri, who is driven to rebel against tradition and follow her artist''s instinct for freedom. Freedom of a different kind is in the air across India. The fight against British rule is reaching a critical turn. The Nazis have come to power in Germany. At this point of crisis, two strangers arrive in Gayatri''s town, opening up for her the vision of other possible lives. What took Myshkin''s mother from India to Dutch-held Bali in the 1930s, ripping a knife through his comfortingly familiar environment? Excavating the roots of the world in which he was abandoned, Myshkin comes to understand the connections between anguish at home and a war-torn universe overtaken by patriotism. Anuradha Roy''s enthralling novel is a powerful parable for our times, telling the story of men and women trapped in a dangerous era uncannily similar to the present. Impassioned, elegiac, and gripping, it brims with the same genius that has brought Roy''s earlier fiction international renown. "One of India''s greatest living authors" - O, The Oprah Magazine "Roy''s writing is a joy" - Financial Times

DKK 126.00
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Float Up, Sing Down - Laird Hunt - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Float Up, Sing Down - Laird Hunt - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

From National Book Award Finalist Laird Hunt, a masterful collection of interwoven stories capturing one summer''s day in Reagan-era Indiana. Candy Wilson has forgotten to buy the paprika. Turner Davis needs to get his zinnias in. Della Dorner told her mother she was going to Milky Freeze, but that''s not where she''s really headed on her new Schwinn five-speed. Float Up, Sing Down is the story of a single day. But in that day, how much teeming life! The residents of this rural town have their routines, their preferences, their joys, grudges, and regrets. The old-timers savor past triumphs, cast back to lives circumscribed and defined by the World Wars, wonder what might have been. Youngsters covet cars, karate moves, kissing; they writhe in the first blushes of love or pain or independence. Gossip is paramount. Lives are entwined. Retired sheriffs climb corn bins and muse on lost love, French teachers throw firecrackers out of barn windows, and teenagers borrow motorcycles to ride the back roads.Each of the fourteen stories of Float Up, Sing Down follows one character''s ''day-in-the-life'' in one of Hunt''s most beloved and enduring landscapes. As the book unfolds these lives echo and glance off of one another with elegance and warmth, a tenderness born of strength. In the tradition of Willa Cather, Sherwood Anderson, Elizabeth Strout, and Edward P. Jones, this is a symphony of souls, a masterful portrait of both loneliness and community by one of our great limners of American experience.

DKK 120.00
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I Am Not Your Baby Mother - Candice Brathwaite - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

I Am Not Your Baby Mother - Candice Brathwaite - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

* THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER * ''I gobbled it in one weekend and encourage everyone - mother, or otherwise - to do the same'' - Pandora Sykes ''Remarkable'' - Lorraine Kelly ''Searing'' - Dolly Alderton ''I absolutely loved I Am Not Your Baby Mother '' - Giovanna Fletcher ''This book is needed for the voiceless'' - Nadiya Hussain ''Brilliant'' - Sophie Ellis-Bextor ''A brilliantly observed look at life as a black mother'' - C loser ''Urgent part-memoir, part-manifesto about black motherhood'' - Red ''[An] original and much-needed guide to navigating black motherhood'' - Cosmopolitan ''The woman bringing a fresh perspective to the mumfluencer world'' - Grazia ''Every mother, everywhere, should read this book'' - OK Magazine ___________ It''s about time we made motherhood more diverse... When Candice fell pregnant and stepped into the motherhood playing field, she found her experience bore little resemblance to the glossy magazine photos of women in horizontal stripe tops and the pinned discussions on mumsnet about what pushchair to buy. Leafing through the piles of prenatal paraphernalia, she found herself wondering: "Where are all the black mothers?". Candice started blogging about motherhood in 2016 after making the simple but powerful observation that the way motherhood is portrayed in the British media is wholly unrepresentative of our society at large. The result is this thought-provoking, urgent and inspirational guide to life as a black mother. It explores the various stages in between pregnancy and waving your child off at the gates of primary school, while facing hurdles such as white privilege, racial micro-aggression and unconscious bias at every point. Candice does so with her trademark sense of humour and refreshing straight-talking, and the result is a call-to-arms that will allow mums like her to take control, scrapping the parenting rulebook to mother their own way.

DKK 127.00
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