Hester´s Story

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Spisovateľ: Geras Adéle
Vydavateľ: BCA
Rok vydania: 2004
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Katalogové číslo: E8341

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Adele Geras's second adult novel is similar only different to FACING THE LIGHT. Set in the late Eighties in deep mid-winter in Yorkshire, it takes place over ten days between Christmas and Twelfth Night and skilfully weaves two stories - the past stitched into the present. The overall story follows the life of a former prima ballerina, Hester Fielding, from her girlhood in France to the present day when she is in her early fifties. In the present story, she lives in Wychwood Hall, left to her by a rich benefactor who was her first ballet teacher. Ten years earlier, Hester founded the Wychwood Festival - a ballet festival that takes place each year in the little theatre built in the Hall's grounds, when a new ballet created for the Festival is performed. The two narratives follow the production of the ballet, which brings together many characters who clash and conflict and bring Hester's past tumbling into the present. That past includes a disastrous love affair, a life-changing accident and a lost child ... v angličtine, tvrdá väzba, obal, 375 strán

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Spisovatel: Le Vien Jack, Lord John, Transworld publishers 1962
Katalogové číslo: L1519

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That they may face the rising sun

Spisovatel: John McGahern, Faber and Faber Limited 2002
Katalogové číslo: I7900

Joe and Kate Ruttledge have come back to Ireland from London in search of a different life. There is John Quinn, who will stop at nothing to ensure a flow of women: Johnny, who left for England 20 years before in pursuit of love: Jimmy Joe McKiernan, uctioneer, undertaker and head of the local IRA: and the gentle Jamesie and his wife Mary who have neer left the lake and know everything that happens in the area ... 300 strán, obal, tvrdá väzba

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Nature´s Wonderlands

Spisovatel: Kolektív autorov, National geographic society 1989
Katalogové číslo: N4036

Natinal Parks of the World, teams of writers and photographers traveled to six continents to explore some of the world's finest national parks. Here they present the vivid diversity of roles played by today's parklands... v angličtine, obal, tvrdá väzba, veľký formát, 304 strán