The first & only novel by Lydia Davis winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2013' It surprised me over & over to find that I was with such a young man He was twenty-two when I met him He turned twenty-three while I knew him but by the time I turned thirty-five I did not know where he was anymore' Mislabelled boxes confusing notes wrong turnings
- such are the obstacles in the way of the unnamed narrator of The End of the Story as she organises her memories of a love affair into a novel With compassion wit & what seems to be candour she seeks to determine what she actually knows about herself & her past but we begin to suspect along with her that given the elusiveness of memory & understanding any tale retrieved from the past must be fiction Back in print at last this is Lydia Davis's first
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- novel ' Extraordinary' Newsday' Brilliant' New Yorker' Breathtakingly elegant' Details' Beautifully written' Marie Claire' Astonishing' Elle Lydia Davis is the author of Collected Stories one novel & six short story collections most recently Can't & Won't She is the recipient of a Mac Arthur Fellowship & was named an Officer of the Order of Arts & Letters by the French government for her fiction & her translations of modern writers including Gustave Flaubert & Marcel Proust She won the Man Booker International Prize in 2013


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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play When Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky (Jesse Eisenberg The Social Network) joined acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace (Jason Segel Sex Tape) on his book tour an epic five-day journey began As the two men share laughs & reveal hidden frailties they are forever bonded in this fascinating & ultimately heartbreaking story ...

The End of the World RPG Revolt of the Machines ...

The Number One Bestseller & featured on Simon Mayo's Radio 2 Book Club 'A real find' STEPHEN KINGTHE ULTIMATE RACE-AGAINST-TIME THRILLERWhen the world ends & you find yourself stranded on the wrong side of the country every second counts No one knows this more than Edgar Hill 550 miles away from his family he must push himself to the very limit to get back to them or risk losing them forever His best option is to run But what if your best isn't good enough? An original & powerful post-apocalyptic thriller perfect for fans of The Martian ...

An in-depth look at how to account for the human complexities at the heart of today's financial system Our economy may have recovered from the Great Recession--but not our economics In The End of Theory Richard Bookstaber discusses why the human condition & the radical uncertainty of our world renders the standard economic model--and the theory behind it--useless for dealing with financial crises What model should replace it? None At least not any version we've been using for the past two hundred years Instead Bookstaber argues for a new approach called agent-based economics one that takes as a starting point the fact that we are humans not the optimizing automatons that standard economics assumes we are Bookstaber's groundbreaking paradigm promises to do a far better job at preventing crises & managing those that break out As he explains our varied memories & imaginations color our economic behavior in unexpected hues Agent-based modeling embraces these nuances by avoiding the mechanistic unrealistic structure of our current economic approach Bookstaber tackles issues such as radical uncertainty when circumstances take place beyond our anticipation & emergence when innocent everyday interactions combine to create sudden chaos Starting with the realization that future crises cannot be predicted by the past he proposes an approach that recognizes the human narrative while addressing market realities Sweeping aside the historic failure of twentieth-century economics The End of Theory offers a novel & innovative perspective along with a more realistic & human framework to help prevent today's financial system from blowing up again ...

The cult-hit Manning Award-nominated mini-series gets collected with bonus content! When the Biblical apocalypse starts charming bastard Bram Carlson is raptured into Heaven in a "clerical error" After he&s sent back to Earth Bram decides to cash in the end of the world for all it&s worth! But can his anxious roommate Ben save his friend from himself & the mounting forces of Armageddon? Check out the book the Onion&s AVClub called "hilarious" & IGN called "an amazing series!" ...

A guidebook describing Britain's famous ' End to End' cycle route a journey of almost 1000 miles from the very tip of southwest England
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For fans of Station Eleven an extraordinary story of motherhood in a world changed beyond recognition 144 pages Hunter Megan ...

An exquisite & moving fine art photography book that combines a thought-provoking theme with the star power of beloved actresses 136 pages Ennis Jessica ...

Autumn thought she had everything a gorgeous stud of a boyfriend a practical if unexciting PA job at Thorne PR a savvy best friend & a soon-to-be-earned journalism diploma But things in her perfectly constructed world shift when Autumn discovers a life-shattering secret Needing to change her life drastically Autumn meets a mysterious & sexy stranger who could be the solution to her problems Autumn is thrown into a luxurious new world One that is powered by high flyers fantasies & carnal desires How will she escape? Or does this new world hold the key to her own fulfillment? Annabelle Knight's debut novel The Endless Autumn is a sizzling steamy & sexually sinister story of how a girl next door unwittingly
- but perhaps not unwillingly
- explores the fringes of desire & release

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