Notes from an exhibition, Gale, Patrick

Автор: Patrick Gale
Название: The whole day through
ISBN: 0007306016 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007306015
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Описание: The new novel from Patrick Gale, author of Richard & Judy-bestseller Notes from an Exhibition.

Автор: Patrick Gale
Название: A Perfectly Good Man
ISBN: 0007465084 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007465088
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Описание: The new novel from Patrick Gale, author of Richard & Judy-bestseller `Notes from an Exhibition`, returning readers to his beloved Cornish coastline.

Автор: Patrick Gale
Название: Cat Sanctuary, The
ISBN: 0007307683 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007307685
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Описание: A powerful and moving novel in which Patrick Gale casts a compassionate yet satirically sharp eye over the pains and abuses inflicted by families, friends and lovers.

Автор: Patrick Gale
Название: Friendly Fire
ISBN: 0007151047 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007151042
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Описание: Youthful beauty, intellectual brilliance, physical passion, tragedy and disgrace are all in, this wonderful new Patrick Gale novel, as told thrgh the eyes of a 14-year-old girl. Phil is a self-contained, exceptionally bright child, who has no known parents and has spent all her life in a children's home. Her life is transformed, when she wins a scholarship to Tatham's, a kind of Oxbridge university for teenagers, but this is only the start of an education as much emotional as intellectual. She falls hopelessly in love with Lucas, adored gay son of a wealthy Jewish family and, through him, is drawn into a tangle of betrayed friendship and forbidden passions that ends in tragedy and disgrace. But school is only half the story. Spanning the years 1975 to 1979, the chapters alternate between terms and holidays, between Phil's dogged pursuit of the glittering prizes and her slow, painful discovery of, who she is and where she belongs. Through other people's families, and especially other people's mothers, she learns as much about the mysterious laws of class and love, as she learns from her teachers, about the Latin and Greek that will prove her passport to security.

Автор: Patrick Gale
Название: Ease
ISBN: 0586091475 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780586091470
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Описание: A novel about downsizing from a life of ease and upgrading to one of sleaze. Many people would kill to be Domina Tey. She's one of life's successes: an award-winning playwright living in a beautiful house with an equally celebrated writer. A lucky woman. She knows it. And she appreciates it. But she isn't happy. Life is too easy. It's becoming stultifying, negating her creative force. She decides upon a spell of sleazy living to give both her work and her soul a spring-clean -- and elopes with her typewriter in search of just a hint of degradation. She finds it in Bayswater. Safe in bedsit land, she immediately sets about getting to know her neighbour, a candidate for the priesthood half her age.

Автор: Patrick Gale
Название: Dangerous Pleasures
ISBN: 0006547699 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780006547693
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Описание: A collection of Patrick Gale's most brilliant pieces of short fiction. The subjects are wide-ranging and various -- curious childhood loyalties, long-hidden memories, newly discovered joys, startling secrets, dislocated relationships, overwhelming, thrilling passions. In prose which is vivid and fresh, Patrick Gale explores the subtle boundaries that shift between the fantastic and shockingly real. With characteristic insight and wit and with consummate ease, he draws the reader into lives both familiar and strange, revealing a world that shines with possibilities and will never fail to delight.

Автор: Patrick Gale
Название: Tree Surgery for Beginners
ISBN: 0006550746 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780006550747
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Описание: From the author of The Facts of Life comes a cunning mix of tragedy and comedy, featuring one man's journey to self-discovery. * As befits the hero of a modern fairy tale, Lawrence Frost has neither father nor siblings, and fits so awkwardly into his worldly mother's life, he might have dropped from the sky. Like many such a hero, he grows up happier with plants than people. Whilst he is straightforward, honest, and a doting dad, he can be a difficult, taciturn husband -- but he's the last person one would suspect of being a killer...* Waking one morning to find himself branded a wife-beater and under suspicion of murder, his small world falls apart as he loses wife, daughter, liberty, livelihood and, almost, his mind...* With a bold mixture of tragicomedy, harsh truth and sublime fantasy, Patrick Gale has created a vivid and compelling portrait of a man at odds with himself, and an extended family of friends and lovers trying to take its proper shape.

Автор: Patrick Gale
Название: Little Bits of Baby
ISBN: 0586090606 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780586090602
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Описание: No one knew why Robin abandoned a brilliant university career to start a new life at an eccentric island monastery, but it was thought to have something to do with the surprise engagement of Candida, Robin's childhood playmate and Jake, their mutual friend.

Автор: Patrick Gale
Название: Sweet Obscurity, A
ISBN: 0007151020 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007151028
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
Цена: 879 р.
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Описание: A moving and intensely felt examination of the steps to which we will go to seek protection and security in others. Returning to haunted Cornish landscapes familiar from other Gale novels, it is the story of individuals in search of a family. Dido, the nine-year-old heroine and emotional centre of Patrick Gale's latest painful comedy, knows that the adults who surround her, the adults who should know better, depend on her for happiness. So who is she to turn to when her short life turns upside down and tragic family history threatens to repeat itself. Eliza, the clever, depressive aunt who has brought Dido up, and whose brilliant academic career has foundered due to the demands of unlooked-for motherhood, tries and fails to give Dido the happy normal childhood she never had herself. Her ex-husband Giles needs Dido back in his life, feeling it has lost all meaning, all substance, without her. Then there is Pearce, the new love interest in Eliza'a life, desperate to give Eliza and Dido the security and protection they need. But will Eliza let him? Does she love him or is she using him to restart a stalled career?Only Dido, unheard of in the clamour of others' needs, has the power to make or break the happiness of these children in adult clothing.

Автор: Patrick Gale
Название: Tree Surgery for Beginners
ISBN: 0007307691 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007307692
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Описание: A vivid and compelling portrait of a man at odds with himself; and an extended family of friends and lovers trying to take its proper shape.

Автор: Patrick Gale
Название: Sweet Obscurity, A
ISBN: 0007307659 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007307654
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Описание: A moving and intensely felt examination of the lengths to which we will go to seek protection and security in others. Returning to haunted Cornish landscapes familiar from other Gale novels, it is the story of individuals in search of a family.

Автор: Patrick Gale
Название: Rough Music
ISBN: 0007307675 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007307678
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Описание: A gripping and unnerving story of a family's secrets and lies, from the bestselling author of 'Notes from an Exhibition'. Julian as a small boy is taken on the perfect Cornish holiday. When glamorous American cousins unexpectedly swell the party, however, emotions run high and events spiral out of control.

Though he has been brought up in the forbidding shadow of the prison his father runs, though his parents are neither as normal nor as happy as he supposes, Julian's world view is the sunnily selfish, accepting one of boyhood. It is only when he becomes a man -- seemingly at ease with love, with his sexuality, with his ghosts -- that the traumatic effects of that distant summer rise up to challenge his defiant assertion that he is happy and always has been.