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Funny, bighearted...Miles specializes in giving fully rounded humanity to characters who might elsewhere be treated as stock figures...pitch-perfect."- New York Times Book Review"Miles is a writer so virtuosic that readers will feel themselves becoming better, more observant people from reading him."- Los Angeles Review of BooksA profound new novel about a paralyzed young man's unexplainable recovery-a stunning exploration of faith, science, m...

Talmadge e Micah abitano abusivamente in un appartamento di Manhattan, vivendo serenamente degli avanzi che trovano nei cassonetti, ma il loro equilibrio subisce una scossa quando devono ospitare un vecchio compagno universitario di lui. Elwin, un linguista di mezza età lasciato dalla moglie, deve fare i conti con un padre malato che va perdendo la memoria. Sara, un'avvenente vedova dell'11 settembre, vede sgretolarsi il rapporto con la figlia...

This spellbinding account of the most famous shipwreck before the "Titanic" draws on published accounts and journals of survivors. Historian Miles brilliantly reconstructs the ill-fated voyage and the events that inspired Theodore Gericaults painting "The Raft of the Medusa.

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This is the first book dedicated to the four year collaboration between two major British artists, Eric Gill and David Jones, at Gill's artistic-religious community at Capel-y-Ffin, a remote disused monastery in the Black Mountains.

A little-known lecture by Lévi-Strauss is the inspiration for this work. In this lecture, he intuitively suggested that in medieval Europe there once existed a set of myths, centred on the grail, which are structurally the opposite of the goatsucker myths that he famously analyzed in his mythologiques series. This work uses Lévi-Strauss' inspirational lecture as a launchpad for an exploration of a group of related medieval Welsh myths, two of ...

From the cocktails columnist at the "The New York Times" comes the scathingly funny, deeply moving story of a stranded airline passenger, whose enraged letter of complaint transforms into a lament for a life gone awry.

From the cocktails columnist of the New York Times, a scathingly funny, deeply moving epistle form a stranded passenger whose enraged letter of complaint transforms into a lament for a life gone awry.

From the cocktails columnist of the New York Times, a scathingly funny, deeply moving epistle form a stranded passenger whose enraged letter of complaint transforms into a lament for a life gone awry.

From the cocktails columnist of the New York Times, a scathingly funny, deeply moving epistle form a stranded passenger whose enraged letter of complaint transforms into a lament for a life gone awry.