Russell Hoban (1925-2011) is the author of numerous children”s books, including The Mouse and His Child. Other adult novels include The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz, Kleinzeit, Turtle Diary, and Pilgermann.
21 Ebooks por Russell Hoban
Russell Hoban: Riddley Walker, Expanded Edition
‘A hero with Huck Finn’s heart and charm, lighting by El Greco and jokes by Punch and Judy. . . . Riddley Walker is haunting and fiercely imagined and—this matters most—intensely ponderable.’ —Benjam …
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Russell Hoban: The Messiaen Companion
Re-issued to coincide with the centenary of Messiaen's birth, The Messiaen Companion was the first major study to appear after the composer's death in April 1992. It was the first book to …
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Russell Hoban: The Mouse and His Child
Funny, thought-provoking and moving, this much loved story is a true classic.'What are we, Papa?' the toy mouse child asked his father.'I don't know, ' the father answered. …
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€6.22
Russell Hoban: Angelica Lost and Found
In Ariosto”s epic sixteenth century poem Orlando Furioso, the beautiful Angelica is rescued by the valiant Ruggiero. He swoops in riding a hippogriff, a fantastical winged creature, the offspring of …
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Hoban Russell Hoban: Come Dance With Me
Since the age of thirteen, Christabel Alderton has been troubled by a sort of second sight that works sometimes, but not always. Death is much on her mind because the men in her life tend to die …
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Hoban Russell Hoban: Bat Tattoo
Recently widowed and increasingly lonely, Roswell Clark’s life had arrived at the point when he felt he needed a tattoo. His ideal image was that of a bat featured on an eighteenth-century bowl in …
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Hoban Russell Hoban: Linger Awhile
When eighty-three-year-old Irving Goodman falls in love with actress Justine Trimble she’s been dead for forty-seven years. Irving may not know how he’s going to attain his heart’s desire but he …
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Hoban Russell Hoban: Her Name Was Lola
‘This is it … this is my destiny woman, ‘ Max blurted out when he first met Lola at the Coliseum shop. Not only was she aristocratic and wild at heart, but the two discovered an uncanny convergence …
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Hoban Russell Hoban: Angelica’s Grotto
Angelica’s Grotto is a pornographic website into which seventy-two-year-old art historian Harold Klein wanders one evening. Klein, a walking catalogue of infirmities, known to medical consultants as …
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€15.02
Hoban Russell Hoban: Amaryllis Night and Day
The first time Peter Diggs saw Amaryllis she was at a bus stop where the street sign said "Balsamic" although there was nothing vinegary about the place. The bus was unthinkably tall, made …
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Hoban Russell Hoban: My Tango With Barbara Strozzi
Recently separated Phil Ockerman falls hard for Bertha Strunk at a tango lesson in Clerkenwell. Bertha also bears a strong resemblance to the seventeenth-century Venetian singer and composer Barbara …
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Russell Hoban: Kleinzeit
‘An original … a delight to read’ The Times On an ordinary day in a strangely unfamiliar London, Kleinzeit is fired from his advertising job and told he must go to hospital with a skewed …
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Russell Hoban: The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz
”A piece of invention as original as any of Tolkien”s or C.S. Lewis”s” New Statesman ”I have gone to look for a lion.” In a world where lions have become extinct, the map-maker Jachin-Boaz neve …
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Russell Hoban: Pilgermann
”Superb … Pilgermann is history, metaphysics, a tangle of mysteries, profound and simple” Guardian It is 1097 and a traveller arrives in the great, walled city of Antioch with a vision of a beaut …
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Russell Hoban: Turtle Diary
‘Wonderful, life-saving … places Russell Hoban among the greatest, timeless novelists’ The Times Born to swim thousands of miles in the ocean, the giant sea turtles are now trapped in a tank of …
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Russell Hoban: Fremder
‘Recalls Orwell’s 1984 and Wells’s The Time Machine … a revelation’ Guardian On 4 November 2052, Fremder Gorn is discovered drifting in deep space. He has no spacesuit, no helmet, no oxygen, but he …
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Russell Hoban: The Medusa Frequency
”Sparkles with classical allusions and a wisecracking humour … it is pure joy” Daily Telegraph It all begins the night a leaflet comes through the door of unsuccessful novelist Herman Orff, promi …
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Russell Hoban: Mr Rinyo-Clacton’s Offer
‘Russell Hoban’s imagination knows no bounds … darkly funny and profound’ The Times’You want to buy my death for a million pounds!’ Piccadilly Circus tube station is an unlikely location for a pact …
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Russell Hoban: Riddley Walker
”This is what literature is meant to be” Anthony Burgess ”O what we ben! And what we come to…” Wandering a desolate post-apocalyptic landscape, speaking a broken-down English lost after the end …
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