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Heidi Zerning

    Summer Crossing
    Breakfast at Tiffany's
    Too much happiness
    James Miranda Barry. Roman. Aus d. Engl. v. Heidi Zerning
    Woman on the Edge of Time
    Runaway
    • 2016

      Summer Crossing

      • 154 pages
      • 6 hours of reading
      3.5(7436)Add rating

      Grady - beautiful, rich, flame-haired, defiant - is the sort of girl people stare at across a room. The daughter of an important man, who people want to be introduced to. A girl to whom people sense something is going to happen. But the privileged society life of parties, debutantes and dresses leaves her wanting more than her parents and conventional sister Apple have in mind for her. Excitement comes in the form of the highly unsuitable Clyde, a Brooklyn-born, Jewish parking attendant. And when Grady's mother and father leave her alone for the first time in their New York penthouse one summer, their secret affair intensifies. As a heatwave envelops the city, Grady gets in deeper and deeper and cares less and less about the consequences. Soon, though, she will be forced to make decisions - choices that will forever affect her future once the long, sultry summer of 1945 comes to an end.

      Summer Crossing
    • 2013

      Too much happiness

      • 320 pages
      • 12 hours of reading
      3.8(1538)Add rating

      These are beguiling, provocative stories about manipulative men and the women who outwit them. 'Brimming with intensely believable characters and rich social detail' Sunday Times A wife and mother whose spirit has been crushed finds release from her extraordinary pain in the most unlikely of places. The young victim of a humiliating seduction finds an unusual way to get her own back and move on. An older woman, dying of cancer, weaves a poisonous story to save her life. Alice Munro takes on complex, even harrowing emotions and events and renders them into stories that surprise, amaze, and shed light on the unpredictable ways we accommodate to what happens in our lives. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2009

      Too much happiness
    • 2013

      Presents three stories connected into one narrative about Juliet - who escapes from teaching at a girls' school and throws herself into a wild and passionate love match. This work is about the power and betrayals of love, about lost children, lost chances.

      Runaway
    • 2012

      Often compared to Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and Naomi Alderman's The Power - Woman on the Edge of Time has been hailed as a classic of speculative science fiction. Disturbing and forward thinking, Marge Piercy's remarkable novel will speak to a new generation of readers.

      Woman on the Edge of Time
    • 2007

      Breakfast at Tiffany's

      • 160 pages
      • 6 hours of reading
      3.6(2883)Add rating

      With her tousled blond hair and upturned nose, dark glasses and chic black dresses, she is top notch in style and a sensation wherever she goes. He brownstone apartment vibrates with Martini-soaked parties as she plays hostess to millionaires and gangsters alike. Yet Holly never loses sight of her ultimate goal - to find a real life place like Tiffany's that makes her feel at home. Immortalized in a film starring Audrey Hepburn, Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's is full of sharp wit and in its exuberant cast of characters vividly captures the restless, madcap era of early 1940s New York. This edition also contains three stories: 'House of Flowers', 'A Diamond Guitar' and 'A Christmas Memory'.

      Breakfast at Tiffany's
    • 2004

      Die Geschichte folgt einer Frau, die im 19. Jahrhundert als Mann Karriere macht. Drei Männer ermöglichen ihr, als James Miranda Barry Medizin zu studieren. Sie führt ein abenteuerliches Leben, das die Gesellschaft der Zeit beleuchtet, während nur die Schauspielerin Alice Jones ihr Geheimnis kennt.

      James Miranda Barry. Roman. Aus d. Engl. v. Heidi Zerning