Alec Wilkinson has been on the staff of The New Yorker since 1980 and is the author of ten books, most recently The Ice Balloon and, as part of Godine’s Nonpareil series, Midnights: A Year with the Wellfleet Police and Moonshine: A Life in Pursuit of White Liquor. The recipient of a Lyndhurst Prize, a Robert F. Kennedy Book Award and a Guggenheim fellowship, Mr. Wilkinson lives in New York City.
19 Ebooks von William Maxwell
William Maxwell: Heavenly Tenants
The Marvell family is on the move, driving from their Wisconsin farm to visit the children’s grandmother in Virginia. The night before their departure, Mr. Marvell talks to Roger, Heather, and the …
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William Maxwell & Mark Shenkman: Leveraged Financial Markets: A Comprehensive Guide to Loans, Bonds, and Other High-Yield Instruments
The high-yield debt market (junk bonds) is a major sector of the financial industry, with more than $600 billion traded annually, and interest in the market is on the rise Features the insights of …
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McKay Claude McKay: Complete Poems
Containing more than three hundred poems, including nearly a hundred previously unpublished works, this unique collection showcases the intellectual range of Claude Mc Kay (1889-1948), the …
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William Maxwell: Folded Leaf
The path to adulthood is littered with broken relationships.In the suburbs of 1920s Chicago two boys form an unlikely friendship. Spud Latham is slow at school but quick to fight and a natural …
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William Maxwell: So Long, See You Tomorrow
Discover this extraordinary and beautiful novel from one of America’s greatest novelists.In rural Illinois two tenant farmers share much, finally too much, until jealously leads to murder and …
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William Maxwell: Chateau
It is 1948 and a young American couple arrive in France for a holiday, full of anticipation and enthusiasm. But the countryside and people are war-battered, and their reception at the Chateau …
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William Maxwell: Time Will Darken It
The decision to invite his Southern relatives to stay proves a fateful one for Austin King. By the time they leave, his reputation and his marriage have suffered irreparable damage. Against the …
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William Maxwell: They Came Like Swallows
Discover William Maxwell s classic, heart-breaking portrait of an ordinary American family struck by the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic’A story of such engaging warmth that it would thaw the heart of any …
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William Maxwell: All the Days and Nights
In settings that range from small town Illinois to the Upper East Side of Manhattan, these stories are distinguished by Maxwell’s inimitable wisdom and kindness, his sense of the small details that …
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Claire Shewbridge & Deborah Nusche: OECD Reviews of Evaluation and Assessment in Education: Norway 2011
How can student assessment, teacher appraisal, school evaluation and system evaluation bring about real gains in performance across a country’s school system? This book provides, for Norway, an …
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€34.29
William Maxwell: Folded Leaf
The Folded Leaf, first published in 1945, is a classic American coming-of-age novel. In the suburbs of Chicago in the 1920s, two boys initiate an unusual friendship: Lymie Peters, a skinny and …
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William Maxwell: The Writer as Illusionist
“Illuminating . . . Handling strong emotions—shame, love, grief—without fuss, Maxwell gives the bald facts of life a poignant shimmer.”—Wall Street Journal As a fiction editor at The New Yorker from …
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