Artículos relacionados a Independent People: An Epic (Vintage International)
Book by Laxness Halldor
"Sinopsis" puede pertenecer a otra edición de este libro.
Críticas:
"Reader rejoice! At last this funny, clever, sardonic and brilliant book is back in print. Independent People is one of my Top Ten Favourite Books of All Time." --Annie Proulx "There are good books and there are great books and there may be a book that is something still more: it is the book of your life. . . . My favorite book by a living novelist is Independent People." --Brad Leithauser "This beautiful and heartbreaking novel has haunted me ever since I was lent a rare copy years ago, and I am delighted that what is clearly a masterpiece by a relatively uncelebrated genius will now be available to a wide audience of book lovers. If there is any justice in the world, the name Laxness will soon become a household word, at least in those households where timeless works of the imagination are cherished." --Joel Conarroe "Laxness has a poet's imagination and a poet's gift for phrase and symbol. . . . Bjartur is a magnificent and complex symbol of peasant independence." --The New York Times Book Review "A strange story, vibrant and alive. . . . There is a rare beauty in its telling, a beauty as surprising as the authentic strain of poetry that lies in the shoving, battering Icelander." --Atlantic Monthly
"A saga that somehow contrives to recapture the broad, clear air of older Icelandic tales." --The Observer (London) "[Laxness] gives a large picture of life under primitive conditions, [he] writes vividly, using irony with vigorous effect; amid the brutality and squalor there are rich moments of humor and poetry." --The Spectator (London)
Reseña del editor:
"A saga that somehow contrives to recapture the broad, clear air of older Icelandic tales." --The Observer (London) "[Laxness] gives a large picture of life under primitive conditions, [he] writes vividly, using irony with vigorous effect; amid the brutality and squalor there are rich moments of humor and poetry." --The Spectator (London)
From the Nobel Prize-winning Icelandic author, a magnificent, epic novel—"funny, clever, sardonic and brilliant" (Annie Proulx)—at last available to contemporary American readers.
Set in the early twentieth century, Independent People recalls both Iceland's medieval epics and such classics as Sigrid Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter. If Bjartur of Summerhouses, the book's protagonist, is an ordinary sheep farmer, his flinty determination to achieve independence is genuinely heroic and, at the same time, terrifying and bleakly comic.
Having spent eighteen years in humiliating servitude, Bjartur wants nothing more than to raise his flocks unbeholden to any man. But Bjartur's spirited daughter wants to live unbeholden to him. What ensues is a battle of wills that is by turns harsh and touching, elemental in its emotional intensity and intimate in its homely detail. Vast in scope and deeply rewarding, Independent People is a masterpiece.
"Sobre este título" puede pertenecer a otra edición de este libro.
- EditorialVintage
- Año de publicación1997
- ISBN 10 0679767924
- ISBN 13 9780679767923
- EncuadernaciónTapa blanda
- Número de páginas512
- Valoración
Comprar nuevo
Ver este artículo
EUR 15,26
Gastos de envío:
GRATIS
A Estados Unidos de America
Otras ediciones populares con el mismo título
Los mejores resultados en AbeBooks
Imagen de archivo
Independent People
Publicado por
Vintage
(1997)
ISBN 10: 0679767924
ISBN 13: 9780679767923
Nuevo
Tapa blanda
Cantidad disponible: 1
Librería:
Valoración
Descripción Condición: New. New! This book is in the same immaculate condition as when it was published 1.1. Nº de ref. del artículo: 353-0679767924-new
Comprar nuevo
EUR 15,26
Convertir moneda
Imagen de archivo
Independent People
Publicado por
Vintage
(1997)
ISBN 10: 0679767924
ISBN 13: 9780679767923
Nuevo
Tapa blanda
Cantidad disponible: 1
Librería:
Valoración
Descripción Condición: New. Buy with confidence! Book is in new, never-used condition 1.1. Nº de ref. del artículo: bk0679767924xvz189zvxnew
Comprar nuevo
EUR 15,70
Convertir moneda
Imagen del vendedor
Independent People by Halldor Laxness [Paperback ]
Publicado por
Vintage
(1997)
ISBN 10: 0679767924
ISBN 13: 9780679767923
Nuevo
Soft Cover
Cantidad disponible: 10
Librería:
Valoración
Descripción Soft Cover. Condición: new. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9780679767923
Comprar nuevo
EUR 15,72
Convertir moneda
Imagen de archivo
Independent People
Publicado por
Vintage
(1997)
ISBN 10: 0679767924
ISBN 13: 9780679767923
Nuevo
Tapa blanda
Cantidad disponible: > 20
Librería:
Valoración
Descripción Condición: New. Brand New! Not Overstocks or Low Quality Book Club Editions! Direct From the Publisher! We're not a giant, faceless warehouse organization! We're a small town bookstore that loves books and loves it's customers! Buy from Lakeside Books!. Nº de ref. del artículo: OTF-S-9780679767923
Comprar nuevo
EUR 12,69
Convertir moneda
Imagen de archivo
Independent People Format: Paperback
Publicado por
Penguin Random House
(1997)
ISBN 10: 0679767924
ISBN 13: 9780679767923
Nuevo
Tapa blanda
Cantidad disponible: > 20
Librería:
Valoración
Descripción Condición: New. Brand New. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9780679767923
Comprar nuevo
EUR 12,71
Convertir moneda
Imagen del vendedor
Independent People (Paperback or Softback)
Publicado por
Vintage 1/14/1997
(1997)
ISBN 10: 0679767924
ISBN 13: 9780679767923
Nuevo
Paperback or Softback
Cantidad disponible: 5
Librería:
Valoración
Descripción Paperback or Softback. Condición: New. Independent People 1.12. Book. Nº de ref. del artículo: BBS-9780679767923
Comprar nuevo
EUR 16,45
Convertir moneda
Imagen del vendedor
Independent People : An Epic
Publicado por
Vintage
(1997)
ISBN 10: 0679767924
ISBN 13: 9780679767923
Nuevo
Tapa blanda
Cantidad disponible: 3
Librería:
Valoración
Descripción Condición: New. Nº de ref. del artículo: 412281-n
Comprar nuevo
EUR 14,56
Convertir moneda
Imagen de archivo
Independent People
Publicado por
Vintage
(1997)
ISBN 10: 0679767924
ISBN 13: 9780679767923
Nuevo
Tapa blanda
Cantidad disponible: > 20
Librería:
Valoración
Descripción Condición: New. Nº de ref. del artículo: I-9780679767923
Comprar nuevo
EUR 19,26
Convertir moneda
Imagen del vendedor
Independent People (Paperback)
Publicado por
Random House USA Inc, New York
(1997)
ISBN 10: 0679767924
ISBN 13: 9780679767923
Nuevo
Paperback
Original o primera edición
Cantidad disponible: 1
Librería:
Valoración
Descripción Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. In an epic set in Iceland in the early twentieth century, Gudbjartur Jonsson buys his own croft after eighteen years of service to the local bailiff, and brings his wife and his small flock of sheep there to build a new, independent life for himself. In an epic set in Iceland in the early twentieth century, Gudbjartur Jonsson buys his own croft after eighteen years of service to the local bailiff, and brings his wife and his small flock of sheep there to build a new, independent life for himself. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9780679767923
Comprar nuevo
EUR 20,21
Convertir moneda
Imagen de archivo
Independent People
Publicado por
Vintage
(1997)
ISBN 10: 0679767924
ISBN 13: 9780679767923
Nuevo
paperback
Cantidad disponible: 1
Librería:
Valoración
Descripción paperback. Condición: New. . Nº de ref. del artículo: 52GZZZ00LEIW_ns
Comprar nuevo
EUR 20,34
Convertir moneda