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Trilogía IREMONGER 2: La caída de Foulsham

Autor: Edward Carey

Número de Páginas: 314

LAS COSAS NO SON LO QUE PARECEN. NUNCA CONFÍES EN LAS COSAS. Tras la primera entrega: Los secretos de Heap House, llega el segundo volumen de la trilogía. Los Iremonger son una familia peculiar. La mansión de HEAP HOUSE y sus mentiras quedaron atrás. Ahora Clod, el escuchador, y la sirvienta Lucy Pennant han sucumbido a la maldición familiar y se han convertido en indefensos objetos: Clod, una moneda de oro a la que muchos quieren echar el guante, se dirige a FOULSHAM, la infecta ciudad al otro lado del muro; Lucy, transformada en un insignificante botón, espera abandonada en la inmundicia de los CÚMULOS a que alguien repare en ella y la saque de allí. Si al menos pudieran mantenerse unidos. Si al menos encontrasen ayuda y pudieran, por fin, enfrentarse a quienes desean acabar con ellos. Como todos los lugares malditos, FOULSHAM ha creado muchos monstruos. Algunos ni siquiera recuerdan quiénes fueron. Pero allí donde no hay justicia ni esperanza, donde unos pocos deciden el futuro de los inocentes, los monstruos pueden ser los mejores aliados.

Trilogía IREMONGER 3: La conjura de Lombres

Autor: Edward Carey

Número de Páginas: 520

LAS COSAS NO SON LO QUE PARECEN. NUNCA CONFÍES EN LAS COSAS. La conclusión magistral de esta trilogía épica y preciosista sobre el sistema de clases británico, las ciudades inundadas de deshechos y una maldición que atraviesa generaciones. Los Iremonger son una familia peculiar. Foulsham, la ciudad de la oscuridad y los crímenes, ha quedado sepultada bajo los Cúmulos. La familia Iremonger ahora anda suelta por Londres (Lombres, como ellos la llaman). Buscan un nuevo hogar y están decididos a encontrarlo, cueste lo que cueste. Los lombrinenses empiezan a notar sucesos extraños: seres queridos que desaparecen, objetos insólitos que brotan de la nada y una oscuridad sigilosa que parece devorar la luz del día. Mientras, el joven Clod, escondido junto a su familia en una diminuta casa franca de la ciudad, cree que Lucy Pennant está muerta. Pero Lucy sobrevivió entre las ruinas de la Casa de Laurel, y ha armado un escuadrón de niños que la ayudarán a reunirse con su amado. Lombres, aseguran los Iremonger, ha traicionado a su clan. La sucia Lombres, no paran de repetir, confabula contra la familia Iremonger, y merece por ello un castigo ejemplar: su completa...

Trilogía IREMONGER 1: Los secretos de Heap House

Autor: Edward Carey

Número de Páginas: 370

LAS COSAS NO SON LO QUE PARECEN. NUNCA CONFÍES EN LAS COSAS. Los Iremonger son una familia peculiar. Durante generaciones han permanecido en HEAP HOUSE, su laberíntica mansión, donde las jerarquías y los matrimonios vienen impuestos. En las plantas superiores vive la familia; en las inferiores, el servicio. Rodean la mansión los CÚMULOS: montones de basura proveniente de todo Londres que se extienden hasta donde alcanza la vista. Todos los miembros de la familia perpetúan una tradición, la de vivir ligados a un OBJETO DE NACIMIENTO que deben proteger con su vida. Los objetos parecen susurrar algo, pero solo Clod Iremonger, el ESCUCHADOR, es capaz de oírlos. La llegada de Lucy Pennant, nueva sirvienta de la mansión, lo cambiará todo. Porque en el horizonte de Heap House se adivina una gran tempestad. Y los secretos de la familia Iremonger están a punto de saltar por los aires para siempre.

Little

Autor: Edward Carey

Número de Páginas: 508

LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD, THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE, THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION AND THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 'Wonderful' Max Porter 'Unmissable' Olga Tokarczuk 'Startlingly original' Times Book of the Year There is a space between life and death: it's called waxworks. Born in Alsace in 1761, the diminutive Marie Grosholtz is quickly nicknamed 'Little'. Orphaned at the age of six, she finds employment in the household of reclusive anatomist Dr Curtius. Soon the eccentric doctor takes an interest in his odd companion, and he begins to instruct her in the fine art of wax modelling, changing the course of her life. From the gutters of pre-revolutionary France to the luxury of the Palace of Versailles, from clutching the still-warm heads of the Terror to finding something very like love, Little traces the improbable fortunes of a blood-stained crumb of a thing who went on to be the renowned Madame Tussaud. MORE PRAISE FOR LITTLE: 'Visceral, vivid and moving' GUARDIAN 'A remarkable achievement' SUNDAY TIMES'Don't miss eccentric charmer' MARGARET ATWOOD 'Absolutely brilliant' SUSAN HILL 'Mesmerising' IRISH INDEPENDENT 'A tale as moving as it ...

The Swallowed Man

Autor: Edward Carey

Número de Páginas: 129

Described as 'haunting' by Sunday Times, The Swallowed Man is a dark reimagining of Pinocchio, told from inside the belly of a fish. ‘Profound and delightful' Max Porter, author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers I am writing this account, in another man’s book, by candlelight, inside the belly of a fish. I have been eaten. I have been eaten, yet I am living still. From the acclaimed author of Little comes this beautiful and haunting imagining of the years Geppetto spends within the belly of a sea beast. Drawing upon the Pinocchio story while creating something entirely his own, Carey tells an unforgettable tale of fatherly love and loss, pride and regret, and of the sustaining power of art and imagination.

Edith Holler

Autor: Edward Carey

Número de Páginas: 332

'An extraordinary achievement' A. L. Kennedy ‘An enjoyably uncategorisable and atmospheric book, a richly dark and idiosyncratic fairytale for grownups.’ The Guardian Edward Carey's witty and entrancing story of a young woman trapped in a ramshackle English playhouse – and the mysterious figure who threatens its very survival. Norwich, 1901. Edith Holler spends her days among the eccentric denizens of the Holler Theatre, warned by her domineering father that the playhouse will literally tumble down if she should ever leave. Fascinated by tales of the city she knows only from afar, young Edith decides to write a play of her own about Mawther Meg, a monstrous figure said to have used the blood of countless children to make the local delicacy, Beetle Spread. But when her father suddenly announces his engagement to a peculiar woman named Margaret Unthank, Edith scrambles to protect her father, the theatre, and her play – the one thing that’s truly hers – from the newcomer’s sinister designs. Teeming with unforgettable characters and illuminated by Carey’s trademark illustrations, Edith Holler is a surprisingly modern fable of one young woman’s struggle to escape her...

Trilogia IREMONGER 3: La conjura de Lombres

Autor: Edward Carey

Número de Páginas: 559

LES COSES NO SÓN EL QUE SEMBLEN. NO ET REFIÏS MAI DE LES COSES. La conclusió magistral d'aquesta trilogia èpica i preciosista sobre el sistema de classes britànic, les ciutats inundades de deixalles i una maledicció que travessa generacions. Foulsham, la ciutat de la foscor i els crims, ha quedat sepultada pels Cúmuls. La família Iremonger ara corre lliurement per Londres. Lombres , com en diuen ells . Busquen una nova llar i estan decidits a trobar-la, i tant és quant costi. Els londinencs comencen a percebre que passen coses estranyes: éssers estimats que desapareixen, objectes insòlits que sorgeixen del no-res i una foscor sigil·losa que sembla que devora la llum del dia. Ningú sap què passa ni com aturar-ho. Mentrestant, en Clod, amagat amb la seva família en una casa franca de la ciutat, es pensa que la Lucy Pennant és morta. Però ella va sobreviure d'entre les runes de la Casa del Llorer, i ha armat un bon esquadró de nens que l'ajudaran a retrobar-se amb el seu estimat. Lombres, asseguren els Iremonger, ha traït el seu clan i per això mereix un càstig exemplar: la seva destrucció completa. Però la ciutat, criminal i fosca, es prepara per destruir tots ...

Foulsham (Iremonger 2)

Autor: Edward Carey

Número de Páginas: 274

'All of Edward Carey's work is profound and delightful' - Max Porter 'Dark and wildly original urban fantasy tale' - The New York Times 'If this were music, Carey would be Eric Satie. If it were film, he would be Tim Burton.' - Newsday 'A rare work of individual brilliance' - Inis magazine Dark, gothic and delightfully macabre, the Iremonger family return... Foulsham, London's great filth repository, is bursting at the seams. The walls that keep the muck in are buckling, rubbish is spilling over the top, back into the city that it came from. In the Iremonger family offices, Grandfather Umbitt Iremonger broods: in his misery and fury at the people of London, he has found a way of making everyday objects assume human shape, and turning real people into objects. Abandoned in the depths of the Heaps, Lucy Pennant has been rescued by a terrifying creature, Binadit Iremonger - more animal than human. She is desperate and determined to find Clod. But unbeknownst to her, Clod has become a golden sovereign and is 'lost'. He is being passed as currency from hand to hand all around Foulsham, and yet everywhere people are searching for him, desperate to get hold of this dangerous Iremonger,...

Foulsham

Autor: Edward Carey

Número de Páginas: 325

Foulsham, London's great filth repository, is bursting at the seams. The walls that keep the muck in are buckling, rubbish is spilling over the top, back into the city that it came from. IN the Iremonger family offices, Grandfather Umbitt Iremonger broods: in his misery and fury at the people of London, he has found a way of making everyday objects assume human shape, and turning real people into objects. Abandoned in the depths of the Heaps, Lucy Pennant has been rescued by a terrifying creature, Binadit Iremonger - more animal than human. She is desperate and determined to find Clod. But unbeknownst to her, Clod has become a golden sovereign and is 'lost'. He is being passed as currency from hand to hand all around Foulsham, and yet everywhere people are searching for him, desperate to get hold of this dangerous Iremonger, who, it is believed, has the power to bring the mighty Umbitt down. But all around the city, things, everyday things, are twitching into life...

Lungdon (Iremonger 3)

Autor: Edward Carey

Número de Páginas: 378

'Roald Dahl by way of Charles Dickens' - Vox.com 'Astonishing and inventive, it calls out to be read' - The Sunday Times 'Dark and wildly original urban fantasy tale' - New York Times 'All of Edward Carey's work is profound and delightful' - Max Porter 'If this were music, Carey would be Eric Satie. If it were film, he would be Tim Burton.' - Newsday The ghastly climax to the gothic Iremonger trilogy The dirt town of Foulsham has been destroyed, its ashes still smoldering. Darkness lies heavily over the city, the sun has not come up for days. Inside the houses throughout the capital, ordinary objects have begun to move. Strange new people run through the darkened streets. There are rumours of a terrible contagion. From the richest mansion to the poorest slum people have disappeared. The police have been instructed to carry arms. And rats, there are rats everywhere. Someone has stolen a certain plug. Someone is lighting a certain box of matches. All will come tumbling down. The Iremongers have come to London.

Little (Spanish Edition)

Autor: Edward Carey

Número de Páginas: 0

Historia y desventuras de una pequeña criada llamada Little, que más tarde se convirtió en la famosa Madame Tussaud. Una novela histórica, mágica y tremendamente adictiva que sigue la vida de Little, que pasó de ser una pequeña sirvienta a la mayor artista de la cera de todos los tiempos, pasando por amiga de la realeza y pieza clave en la Revolución Francesa "¡No te pierdas este libro excentrico pero encantador! Narrado por la mismísima Madame Tussaud, maestra de la cera, recorre su vida a través de varias épocas, incluida la Revolución Francesa, tiempo de esplendor para las cabezas." MARGARET ATWOOD "Entre Dickens y David Lynch, pasando por Defoe y Tim Burton.” THE NEW YORK TIMES ENGLISH DESCRIPTION "An amazing achievement. . . A compulsively readable novel, so canny and weird and surfeited with the reality of human capacity and ingenuity that I am stymied for comparison. Dickens and David Lynch? Defoe meets Margaret Atwood? Judge for yourself." —Gregory Maguire, New York Times-bestselling author of Wicked The wry, macabre, unforgettable tale of an ambitious orphan in Revolutionary Paris, befriended by royalty and radicals, who transforms herself into the...

Trilogia IREMONGER 1: Els secrets de Heap House

Autor: Edward Carey

Número de Páginas: 403

LES COSES NO SÓN EL QUE SEMBLEN. NO ET REFIÏS MAI DE LES COSES. Els Iremonger són una família peculiar. Durant generacions han viscut a HEAP HOUSE, la seva laberíntica mansió, on les jerarquies i els matrimonis els venen imposats. A les plantes superiors hi viu la família; a les inferiors, el servei. Al voltant de la mansió hi ha els CÚMULS: piles de brossa que ve de tot Londres i s'estén fins on arriba la vista. Tots els membres de la família perpetuen una tradició, la de viure lligats a un OBJECTE DE NAIXEMENT que han de protegir amb la vida. Els objectes sembla que murmuren alguna cosa, però només en Clod Iremonger, l'ESCOLTADOR, és capaç de sentir-los. L'arribada de la Lucy Pennant, una nova minyona de la mansió, ho canviarà tot. Perquè a l'horitzó de Heap House s'endevina una gran tempesta. I tots els secrets de la família Iremonger estan a punt de saltar pels aires per sempre.

Little: a Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year

Autor: Edward Carey

Número de Páginas: 0

LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2020 LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2019 LONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 2019 LONGLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2019 SHORTLISTED FOR THE HWA CROWN AWARDS 2019 A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year, Little tells the extraordinary story of a singular, diminutive crumb of a servant girl turned entertainment mogul. 'A startlingly original novel' Times Born in Alsace in 1761, the unsightly, diminutive Marie Grosholtz is quickly nicknamed 'Little'. Orphaned at the age of six, she finds employmet in Bern, Switzerland, under the charge of reclusive anatomist, Dr Curtius. In time the unlikely pair form an unlikely bond, and together they pursue an unusual passion: the fine art of wax-modelling. Forced to flee their city, the doctor and his protégée head for the seamy streets of Paris where they open an exhibition hall for their uncanny creations. Though revolution approaches, the curious-minded flock to see the wax heads, eager to scrutinise the faces of royalty and reprobates alike. At 'The Cabinet of Doctor Curtius', heads are made, heads are displayed, and a future is built from wax....

New York Magazine

Número de Páginas: 118

New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.

L'Homme avalé

Autor: Edward Carey

Número de Páginas: 137

Le nouveau roman de l'auteur de Petite. " Là, dans le ventre du poisson, j'ai ce journal pour raconter mon histoire. " Parti à la recherche de son fils Pinocchio disparu sans crier gare, Geppetto se retrouve dans le ventre d'une baleine. Au sein de ce purgatoire détrempé, plongé d'abord dans l'obscurité, il parvient à se procurer le minimum vital. Grâce à un vieux bateau plein de mystères, avalé lui aussi par le monstre, il trouve de quoi s'éclairer et de quoi écrire. Seul comme il ne l'a jamais été, il entreprend de raconter ses vies : sa vie d'avant et sa vie actuelle. Les débris qui chaque jour arrivent dans la gueule de son hôte lui offrent de quoi tromper l'ennui lancinant. De quoi créer, également : sculpter, dessiner... tout ce qui permet à un artiste de continuer à vivre. Après Petite, Edward Carey nous offre un conte de fées pour adultes, qui n'est pas sans évoquer l'univers de Tim Burton. Magnifiquement illustré par l'auteur, L'Homme avalé nous offre une réflexion aussi remarquable que singulière sur la solitude de l'artiste et le sens de la vie.

Observatory Mansions

Autor: Edward Carey

Número de Páginas: 396

"Easily the most brilliant fiction I've seen this year -- it proves the potential brilliance of the novel form." -- John Fowles, author of The Magus Observatory Mansions, once the Orme family's magnificent ancestral home set on beautiful grounds, is now a crumbling apartment block stranded on a traffic island, peopled with eccentrics. Thirty-seven-year-old Francis Orme lives in Observatory Mansions with his peculiar parents and a collection of misfits. By day he is a street performer, earning money as "a statue of whiteness" in the park, wearing white gloves to ensure that his skin never touches anything. He steals items for his museum of significant objects (996 in all), not for their monetary value but because they have been loved, often bringing grief to their erstwhile owners. His bedridden mother, Alice, who has created for herself an alternative time frame called "fiction," and his father, Francis, are among the occupants set apart from the rest of the busy city by their histories, their memories, and their relationships with the other seven inhabitants of the flats. Each of the house dwellers has his or her own story, as seen through Francis's eyes, and the careful routine...

Trilogia IREMONGER 2: La caiguda de Foulsham

Autor: Edward Carey

Número de Páginas: 336

LES COSES NO SÓN EL QUE SEMBLEN. NO ET REFIÏS MAI DE LES COSES. Després de la primera part d'Iremonger: Els secrets de Heap House, arriba el segon volum de la trilogia. Els Iremonger són una família peculiar. La mansió de HEAP HOUSE i les seves mentides han quedat enrere. Ara en Clod, l'escoltador, i la serventa Lucy Pennant han sucumbit a la maledicció familiar i s'han convertit en uns objectes indefensos: en Clod, que ara és una moneda d'or que molts es volen apropiar, va cap a FOULSHAM, la ciutat infecta de l'altra banda del mur; la Lucy, transformada en un botó insignificant, espera abandonada en la immundícia dels CÚMULS que algú es fixi en ella i la tregui d'allà. Si com a mínim poguessin continuar junts. Si com a mínim trobessin ajuda i poguessin, per fi, enfrontar-se als que volen eliminar-los. Com tots els llocs maleïts, FOULSHAM ha creat molts monstres. Alguns ni tan sols recorden qui són. Però allà no hi ha justícia ni esperança, allà on uns pocs decideixen el futur dels innocents, els monstres poden ser els millors aliats.

Heap House

Autor: Edward Carey

Número de Páginas: 0

A storm is brewing over Heap House. The Iremongers are growing restless and the whispers are getting louder. When Clod meets Lucy Pennant, a girl newly arrived from the city, everything changes. The secrets that bind Heap House together begin to unravel to reveal a dark truth that threatens to destory Clod's world.

B: A Year in Plagues and Pencils

Autor: Edward Carey

Número de Páginas: 364

Author and illustrator Edward Carey presents a paean to connection at a time of isolation: a year of daily lockdown drawings posted on social media from his home in Texas. 'This book contains magic' A.L. Kennedy In March 2020, as lockdowns were imposed around the world, author and illustrator Edward Carey published a sketch on social media with a plan to keep posting a drawing a day from his family home in Austin, Texas, until life returned to normal. One hundred and fifty pencil stubs later, he was still drawing. Carey's hand moved with world events, chronicling pandemic and politics. It reached into the past, taking inspiration from history, and escaped grim reality through flights of vivid imagination and studies of the natural world. The drawings became a way of charting time, of moving forward, and maintaining connection at a time of isolation. This remarkable collection of words and drawings from the acclaimed author of Little and The Swallowed Man charts a tumultuous year in pencil, finding beauty amid the horror of extraordinary times.

Sexuality Counseling

Autor: Amber L. Pope , Christine Murray , Ben Willis

Número de Páginas: 483

Providing a comprehensive, research- and theory-based approach to sexuality counseling, Sexuality Counseling: Theory, Research, and Practice, Second Edition is grounded in an integrative, multi-level conceptual framework that addresses the various levels that influence how individuals experience positive sexuality. At each level (culture and context, development, gender identity, affectional and sexual orientation, sexual expression and community, intimate relationships, sexual trauma, mental health, physiology), authors Amber L. Pope, Christine Murray, and Ben Willis emphasize practical strategies for assessment and intervention. Interactive features, including case studies, application exercises, ethics discussions, and guided reflection questions, help readers apply and integrate the information as they develop the professional competency needed for effective practice. New features in this second edition include a fully integrated positive sexuality framework, expanded and modernized coverage of identity and diversity, and updated standards, research, and terminology throughout the book.