Benjamin Markovits grew up in Texas and London, where he now lives. He teaches at the University of London. He contributes to the New York Times, The Paris Review, Granta, the Times Literary Supplement, and others.
21 Ebooks von Benjamin Markovits
Benjamin Markovits: Playing Days
Fresh out of college and uncertain how to proceed with life, the narrator of Ben Markovits' Playing Days finds himself drifting towards a career that once obsessed his father – professional bask …
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Benjamin Markovits: Either Side of Winter
In Fall we see the tentative beginnings of an unlikely romance – between schoolteacher Amy and drifting former graduate, Charles. In Winter we hear how her colleague Howard learns, seventeen years to …
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€9.00
Benjamin Markovits: Imposture
Three years after Lord Byron dismissed him from his service, Dr John Polidori has fallen on hard times. And then a young woman mistakes the doctor for the poet. As the pair fall in love, Polidori kno …
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Benjamin Markovits: Quiet Adjustment
Nineteen-year -old Annabella Milbanke, visiting London for the swirl of parties and engagements of the season, is introduced to Byron at a waltz. He has just published Childe Harold, and is surrounde …
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€8.91
Benjamin Markovits: Syme Papers
Douglas Pitt is a man obsessed. Laughed at, mocked, and dismissed at every turn, Pitt has dedicated the best part of an unremarkable academic career attempting to prove the genius of Samuel Highgate …
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€8.86
Benjamin Markovits: Childish Loves
When his former colleague Peter Sullivan dies, the narrator of Childish Loves inherits his life's work – a number of fragmentary manuscripts about the life of Lord Byron. Fascinated by his prose …
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Benjamin Markovits: You Don’t Have To Live Like This
Ten years out of Yale, with an extra degree from Oxford, and all Greg Marnier has to show for it is a rambling academic career that has landed him in Aberystwyth. At his college reunion, jetlagged an …
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Benjamin Markovits: Weekend in New York
'Elegant and absorbing.' Guardian'A book to be savoured.' Observer'Intimate, funny . . . Masterfully done.' Daily Mail'Sophisticated and engrossing.' Literary …
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Benjamin Markovits: Christmas in Austin
'Intricately, intimately written, with some wonderful prose and delicate dialogue.' Guardian'A loving and nuanced portrait of a family's myriad functions.' The New Yorker&apo …
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€10.15
Benjamin Markovits: You Don’t Have to Live Like This
A frighteningly prescient novel of todays Americaone mans story of a racially charged real estate experiment in Detroit, Michigan.You get in the habit of living a certain kind of life, you keep going …
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€3.69
Benjamin Markovits: Playing Days
In print for the first time in the United States, acclaimed novelist Benjamin Markovitss Playing Days is a mostly autobiographical narrative concerning the authors season playing minor league profess …
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Alex Preston: Pursuit
What is it to pursue a goal, to strive for an ideal, to follow a dream?These are the questions explored by The Balvenie in this unique collection compiled by award-winning novelist Alex Preston. The …
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Benjamin Markovits: Christmas in Austin
'A novel that everyone should read before they face their own family Christmas.' The Times When the four Essinger children gather in Austin for Christmas, they all bring their news. Nathan …
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Benjamin Markovits: Weekend in New York
'What are you feeling so anxious about? I'm the guy who has to go out there and lose.''That's what I don't like. That's what you don't realise. It's harde …
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€11.57
Benjamin Markovits: Home Games
Award-winning adult author Benjamin Markovits delivers a poignant coming-of-age middle grade story that will give comfort to anyone feeling like a small fish in a Texas-size sea. Perfect for fans of …
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€8.99
Benjamin Markovits: A Quiet Adjustment: A Novel
‚A first-rate example of a literary historical novel.‘ —Regan Upshaw, San Francisco Chronicle In his ‚Byron trilogy, ‚ Benjamin Markovits lovingly reinvents the nineteenth-century novel, true to its …
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€20.99
Benjamin Markovits: Imposture: A Novel
‚[Markovits] leaves us wanting, in the most delicious way, more.‘ —Kirsty Gunn, The Observer Lord Byron was the greatest writer and the most notorious, scandalous lover of his age—an irresistible att …
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€16.99
Benjamin Markovits: Childish Loves: A Novel
The last piece of a literary puzzle falls into place in the final novel of Benjamin Markovits’s Byron trilogy. When his former colleague Peter Sullivan dies, Ben Markovits inherits unpublished manusc …
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Benjamin Markovits: Spieltage
Spieltage ist so gegenwärtig geschrieben, dass man sich in der Schilderung dieses ersten langen Sommers nach Studienabschluss ohne Weiteres wiedererkennt. Mit melancholisch-nostalgischem Blick auf di …
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€20.99
Benjamin Markovits: Sidekick
ONE OF THIS WEEK'S BEST NOVELS OF 2022The perfect novel for fans of The Last Dance, Hoop Dreams and Winning Time'Exquisite. . . Warm, humane, and tragic.' JONATHAN LETHEMAt his high sc …
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€11.47
Will Eaves & Jenni Fagan: BBC National Short Story Award 2017
The stories shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award with Book Trust 2017 all feature characters that are disconnected, willingly or unwillingly, from those around them: a mysterious out-of …
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