Alva And Irva
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Alva Irva
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Author : Edward Carey
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2011-05-13
Alva Irva written by Edward Carey and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-13 with Fiction categories.
The city of Entralla – along with Gondal, Brobdingnag and the Emerald City – is not somewhere you are likely to have visited. Only one guidebook to the place exists, despite its historic landmarks and the considerable civic pride of its inhabitants. Alva and Irva are identical twin sisters, and Entralla is their home. By nature, Alva is an explorer, and longs to travel the world. Irva is a recluse, for whom every step outside the house is an ordeal. But the twins belong together and cannot survive without each other. It is when Irva refuses to leave the house at all that the major work of their lives begins: Alva wanders the city streets, observing, taking notes, measuring, and reporting her findings to Irva, who painstakingly recreates a miniature Entralla. In Alva and Irva, Edward Carey takes the reader on an enchanting journey through a city of the imagination; the twins are mesmerizing heroines whose conflicting desires contain the seeds of both their destruction and their salvation.
Alva And Irva
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Author : Edward Carey
language : en
Publisher: Picador
Release Date : 2012-01-05
Alva And Irva written by Edward Carey and has been published by Picador this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-05 with categories.
The city of Entralla âe" along with Gondal, Brobdingnag and the Emerald City âe" is not somewhere you are likely to have visited. Only one guidebook to the place exists, despite its historic landmarks and the considerable civic pride of its inhabitants. Alva and Irva are identical twin sisters, and Entralla is their home. By nature, Alva is an explorer, and longs to travel the world. Irva is a recluse, for whom every step outside the house is an ordeal. But the twins belong together and cannot survive without each other. It is when Irva refuses to leave the house at all that the major work of their lives begins: Alva wanders the city streets, observing, taking notes, measuring, and reporting her findings to Irva, who painstakingly recreates a miniature Entralla. In Alva and Irva, Edward Carey takes the reader on an enchanting journey through a city of the imagination; the twins are mesmerizing heroines whose conflicting desires contain the seeds of both their destruction and their salvation.
Alva And Irva
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Author : Edward Carey
language : en
Publisher: Vintage Canada
Release Date : 2004
Alva And Irva written by Edward Carey and has been published by Vintage Canada this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with City planning categories.
A fairy tale for our times about the worlds we inhabit and the worlds we contain, from the astonishing new voice who introduced us to the strange and marvellous world of Observatory Mansions. Alva and Irva Dapps are identical twin sisters. They live in the city of Entralla, not a place you are likely to have visited. Alva is by nature an explorer; she longs to travel the world. Irva is a recluse, for whom a step outside the house is an ordeal. But the twins belong together -- they feel each other's feelings, think each other's thoughts, suffer together, love together and hate together -- they cannot survive without each other. Since childhood, the twins have built fantastical cities of Plasticine. But when Irva finally refuses to leave the house at all, the major work of their lives begins. Alva, attempting to return Irva to life, brings the city of Entralla into their home; she wanders its streets, observing, taking notes, measuring, and reports her findings to Irva, who painstakingly constructs a miniature Entralla of Plasticine. And the model city comes to serve Entralla in a way its creators could never have imagined. In Alva & Irva, Edward Carey takes the reader on an enchanting journey through a city of the imagination, with unforgettable heroines whose conflicting desires contain the seeds of both their destruction and their salvation. "From the Hardcover edition.
Alva Und Irva
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Author : Edward Carey
language : de
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Alva Und Irva written by Edward Carey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with categories.
Die Zwillinge Alva und Irva sind vorherbestimmt für eine große Karriere im Postwesen. Ihr Großvater ist Postmeister, der früh verstorbene Vater war Briefträger, und ihre Mutter tut Dienst am Schalter des Hauptpostamtes. Die unzertrennlichen, aber in ihrem Wesen sehr verschiedenen Schwestern haben jedoch anderes im Sinn. Die extrovertierte Alva träumt davon, die Welt zu entdecken, die schüchterne Irva hingegen geht nur ungern aus dem Haus. Aus der Sehnsucht heraus, sich eine eigene Welt zu schaffen, beschließen die beiden, ihre Heimatstadt aus Plastilin nachzubauen. Mit Maßband und Notizblock bewaffnet, streift Alva durch die Straßen und vermißt Häuser, während Irva auf dem heimischen Speicher an dem ständig wachsenden Modell baut ... Mit viel Einfühlungsvermögen hat Edward Carey eine urkomische und zugleich berührende Geschichte geschrieben, die von bewohnten und erträumten Welten erzählt, von Nähe und Distanz, und davon, daß letztendlich alles nur eine Frage der Perspektive ist.
Alva Et Irva
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Author : Edward Carey
language : fr
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Alva Et Irva written by Edward Carey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with categories.
Pour la critique et les lecteurs des deux côtés de l'Atlantique, la découverte d'Edward Carey (L'Observatoire, Phébus, 2002) fut une révélation un peu magique. On pouvait encore écrire, par ces temps abonnés à tous les minimalismes, en laissant son imagination battre largement la campagne, en courant même le risque de paraître un brin dérangé - mais Lewis Carroll, Tolkien, Calvino, Mervyn Peake, Pérec (auxquels on a comparé tour à tour le jeune écrivain anglais) n'ont-ils pas ouvert le chemin ? Carey persiste donc, et signe ici un deuxième roman du même tonneau, sans consentir à mettre la moindre goutte d'eau dans son vin. Deux sœurs jumelles que rien ne distingue à l'œil et qui partagent tout - amours comprises - s'arrangent pour vivre à deux, dans une harmonie fusionnelle, les multiples contradictions du réel. Tandis qu'Irva se voue à une vie de recluse, Alva l'exploratrice parcourt fiévreusement les rues d'Entralla - une cité prise de folie qui n'est pas sans ressembler aux villes d'aujourd'hui - et rapporte à sa sueur la réalité extérieure à domicile. Ami des labyrinthes et des simulacres, Edward Carey, maître de l'ironie fantasmagorique, parvient une fois encore à donner vraisemblance à l'invraisemblable, vie aux reflets et mirages, beauté au désastre.
Alva E Irva Le Gemelle Che Salvarono Una Citt
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Author : Edward Carey
language : it
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Alva E Irva Le Gemelle Che Salvarono Una Citt written by Edward Carey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Fiction categories.
Little
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Author : Edward Carey
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2018-10-23
Little written by Edward Carey and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-23 with Fiction categories.
"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 legendary Madame Tussaud. In 1761, a tiny, odd-looking girl named Marie is born in a village in Switzerland. After the death of her parents, she is apprenticed to an eccentric wax sculptor and whisked off to the seamy streets of Paris, where they meet a domineering widow and her quiet, pale son. Together, they convert an abandoned monkey house into an exhibition hall for wax heads, and the spectacle becomes a sensation. As word of her artistic talent spreads, Marie is called to Versailles, where she tutors a princess and saves Marie Antoinette in childbirth. But outside the palace walls, Paris is roiling: The revolutionary mob is demanding heads, and . . . at the wax museum, heads are what they do. In the tradition of Gregory Maguire's Wicked and Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus, Edward Carey's Little is a darkly endearing cavalcade of a novel—a story of art, class, determination, and how we hold on to what we love.
Lungdon Iremonger 3
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Author : Edward Carey
language : en
Publisher: Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.
Release Date : 2015-11-05
Lungdon Iremonger 3 written by Edward Carey and has been published by Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-05 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
'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.
Observatory Mansions
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Author : Edward Carey
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2011-12-12
Observatory Mansions written by Edward Carey and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-12 with Fiction categories.
Observatory Mansions was once the Orme family's ancestral home. Now it is a crumbing apartment block, stranded on a traffic island and peopled with eccentrics. Alice Orme never stirs from her bed, her husband lives in his old armchair, and Francis, their son, practises his own art of stillness as a human statue in the centre of the decaying city. He lives by his Law of White Gloves, never touching anything without their protection, and collects items for his secret exhibition - items stolen, not because of any monetary worth, but because they are treasured by the owners. This careful routine is shaken by the arrival of a new resident, Anna Tap, half blind and vulnerable, but with a strange gift for inspiring trust. As the other residents gradually open their hearts to her, Francis realises he must act before she forces him to confront his own past, and before she finds out about the mysterious final object in his exhibition. But as the currents of memory and desire swirl within Observatory Mansions' crumbling walls, it seems the sinister Porter has plans of his own... Edward Carey's debut is a novel of immense originality - a strangely haunting landscape occupied by compelling and unforgettable characters.
Foulsham Iremonger 2
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Author : Edward Carey
language : en
Publisher: Hot Key Books
Release Date : 2014-08-07
Foulsham Iremonger 2 written by Edward Carey and has been published by Hot Key Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-07 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
'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, 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...