books by Picador     books:       The Fabulous Sylvester: The Legend, the Music, the Seventies in San Francisco22 reviews Joshua Gamson Picador, 2006 Great Book this Book was on right on time. Sylvester was something else back in the day as a artist and very Open about his sexuality. He didn't back down from anything. His voice was the truth and very soulful. this Book explores his whole career and thensome and the many other artists he encountered and how important they were,etc... this book takes you back to a time period when so much was happening. a ...             Fair and Tender Ladies49 reviews Lee Smith Picador, 1990 How can you not love Ivy Rowe? I love Ivy Rowe; especially the child Ivy whose words and observations make me smile and sometimes laugh out loud. While I know some readers find adjusting to the letter-style of this book a little difficult, I found it a compelling read from the first page. I wrote lots of letters as a child, so perhaps that is why this style seems so natural to me. I was most impressed with Ivy's words and ...             Defying Hitler: A Memoir22 reviews Sebastian Haffner Picador, 2003 An Amazing Unfinished Memoir Sebastian Haffner's "Defying Hitler" has an ambitious initial scope - to chronicle the rise of Hitler from 1918-1939. The memoir is "unfinished" in that the narrative leaves off in 1933 as Haffner put down writing the manuscript with the advent of World War II and never came back to it. Haffner's son, Oliver Pretzel ultimately had the work published after Haffner's death. Even in its ...             PrairyErth36 reviews William Least Heat-Moon Picador, 1993 A Great Walk Like many I bought this book based on WLHM's book Blue Highways. I have absolutely no interest in the history of Kansas or the midwest for that matter. Regardless, I found in Prairyerth a book with rich detail that saunters along through the recent, and sometimes ancient, history of one Kansas county. While reading Prairyerth, I looked forward to escaping into Chase County each evening; ...             Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath66 reviews Michael Norman, Elizabeth M. Norman Picador, 2010 Go Ahead And Buy It You're reading this to figure out if you should get this book--go for it. I know the story of the Death March and have read other accounts of it, so I thought why bother with yet another one? But everyone elses' reviews made me take a chance. I've read many a book that was a great story, but it just wasn't told quite right, in the way that some people can't tell a joke or a story very well. ...             Fifty Miles from Tomorrow: A Memoir of Alaska and the Real People21 reviews William L. Iggiagruk Hensley Picador, 2010 FIFTY MILES FROM TOMORROW WILLIE HENSLEY IS A FRIEND & FORMER CLASSMATE OF MINE. I AM A FULLBLOODED REDNECK EAST TENNESSEE HILLBILLY AND I BOUGHT THIS BOOK OUT OF CURIOSITY AND THE UNIQUE TITLE. I RECEIVED SO MUCH MORE. HE DID NOT MEAN TO BUT HE COVERED 400 YEARS OF U.S. HISTORY WITH HIS OWN SHORT LIFE STORY. IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN NATIVE AMERICANS, THE ENVIRONMENT, MISSIONARYS REACHING AN UNREACHED PEOPLE, GOVERNMENT ...             The Pianist107 reviews Wladyslaw Szpilman Picador, 1999 Living more than five years in hell I read this excellent book, here in Brazil.This book is amazing.The author, a polish jew is hunted to be exterminated, by nazists.And this happens for more than five years.All his family is murdered.He has famine and even tries the suicide, one time. About the Warsaw uprising, the author writes on page 186:"I was walking down a broad main road, once busy and full of trafic.There was not a single ...             Mysteries (Picador Classics)33 reviews Knut Hamsun Picador, 1976 The more you see, the less you understand... An eccentric stranger comes to a small Norwegian town and proceeds to shock, bewilder, and beguile its bourgeoisie inhabitants with his bizarre behavior, feverish rants, and uncompromising self-revelations. Mysteries is, perhaps, Hamsun best novel--the fullest, most effective expression of his major preoccupation with social hypocrisy and personal honesty--a novel that illustrates, as do all ...             Under the Frog : A Novel22 reviews Tibor Fischer Picador, 2001 Sorry for the cliche, but you'll laugh & you'll cry... I don't remember how I came across this book in the first place, but by the second page I was laughing out loud, read the whole thing in one sitting and immediately went back to the beginning and started reading again. Why's it so good? First of all, it's packed with Fischer's unique sense of humor. Read the first couple sample pages; if you're not laughing, you probably won't enjoy the rest ...             The Garden Angel: A Novel18 reviews Mindy Friddle Picador, 2005 now THIS is more like it! I had grown so tired of being disappointed in cookie cutter novels about women and friendship. As if it were a hot topic du jour and authors were just jumping on the bandwagon. This was a GOOD BOOK. An unlikely friendship, humor, heartache and women finding themselves and their strength. Ms Friddle has set a high standard for herself, I look forward to the next one.             Blackburn: A Novel17 reviews Bradley Denton Picador, 1995 Cheer For The Killer Generally, when a serious book set in modern America features a person who murders twenty people, that person is not the star, you don't find yourself cheering him on, and you aren't sad when the killing spree comes to an end. In Blackburn, Bradley Denton makes all of that happen. Blackburn follows the life of Jimmy Blackburn, told through a series of nineteen stories spanning his life. The ...             The Pity of It All : A Portrait of the German-Jewish Epoch, 1743-193317 reviews Amos Elon Picador, 2003 A history of the theological-political problem. There are many strengths to this book- one of the main strengths is the variety of uses that it has. It's obvious purpose is to relate the history of German Jews from the rise of the Enlightenment to the rise to power of the Nazi party. But it serves other purposes as well. I came to it for an understanding of the intellectual background of both Leo Strauss and Hannah Arendt. It could serve as ...             Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller19 reviews Judith Thurman Picador, 1995 Biography as Literature Isak Dinesen, by Judith Thurman, is easily, although a biography, one of my favorite "stories", and one of the best books I've ever read. Thurman's style is such that her book comes across as more then just a biography, but a novel as well. Her writing is beautiful, and really does her subject, also a master story-teller, more then justice. Most importantly though, she thoroughly examines ...             Happy Baby16 reviews Stephen Elliott Picador USA, 2005 Exquisitely honest. I loved this book. I loved the crucial word choices, honesty, and form. It was one of those books that stuck with me in this strangely satisfying way. Read it.             The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty18 reviews Sebastian Barry Picador (UK), 1998 Where does Ireland get all these great authors? The Irish have always been known as great storytellers, but now they're all turning into great writers as well, and it seems they're coming out of the woodwork. Sebastian Barry's The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty places the protagonist in the small village of Sligo where he is an innocent among angry partisans. When he chooses to alleviate his problems of employment by taking a job with the Royal ...             Selected Stories16 reviews Andre Dubus Picador, 1991 TERRIFIC! A great collection of stories from a master of the short story form. Whether you buy them to read and just savor and enjoy, or you read them because you want to learn from a master how the short story form should be done, you can't go wrong with Dubus.             Life on the Outside: The Prison Odyssey of Elaine Bartlett19 reviews Jennifer Gonnerman Picador, 2005 Life on the Outside, Prison Odyssey of Elaine Bartlett An important book. Several years ago, I read a lengthy rave review about this book in "The New York Times" and bought it. It's about "breaking the cycle" of imprisonment and poverty in families. At a time when governments do little other than epitomize Benjamin Franklin's definition of insanity ("doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results") this book makes clear why we ...             Golden Boy: Memories of a Hong Kong Childhood19 reviews Martin Booth Picador, 2006 Fabulous memoir ! This is a book everyone should read. I am deeply sad that the author Martin Booth is no longer with us. However, he left behind a treasure in this amazing memoir. This book is also published under the name "Gweilo." I hated coming to the end of this enchanting book and recommend it to everyone.             An Imaginary Life18 reviews David Malouf Picador, 1990 A literary classic - really! This is a remarkable book - about what it means to be human - and how we would live our life if we could invent it from scratch with no reference to our culture and family. Malouf writes with a poetic beauty that is enthralling. I have been unable to read any more of his books in case they were not as magical as this one! Yes it is true he is a fellow Australian, but his ancestry is from ...              search for books 1743-1933, aftermath, bartlett, blackburn, childhood, classics, darkness, defying, dinesen, fabulous, francisco, german-jewish, imaginary, ladies, mcnulty, memories, mysteries, odyssey, outside, pianist, picador, portrait, prairyerth, selected, seventies, stories, storyteller, sylvester, tomorrow, whereabouts books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen book: Mart. Herm. Geisweit Oratio De Urbe Roma (1727) (Latin Edition) we recommend Ring of Fire home  impressum - about us