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How to decorate with chandeliers, to brighten, revamp, renew and add style to rooms. Styles range from cool and modern to romantic and baroque, with tops from interior designers, showroom stylists, set designers and decorating mavens
Clarice Lispector's masterly second novel, now available in English for the first time 'She found the best clay that one could desire: white, supple, sticky, cold ... She would get a clear and tender material from which she could shape a world' Like the clay from which she sculpts figurines as a girl, Virginia is constantly shifting and changing. From her dreamlike childhood on Quiet Farm with her adored brother Daniel, through an adulthood where the past continues to pull her back and shape her, she moves through life, grasping for the truth of existence. Illuminating Virginia's progress through intense flashes of image, sensation and perception, The Chandelier, Lispector's landmark second novel, is a disorienting and exhilarating portrait of one woman's inner life. 'Utterly original and brilliant, haunting and disturbing' Colm Tóibín Translated by Benjamin Moser and Magdalena Edwards
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Two hundred full-color photographs and an informative text trace the history of the chandelier from its earliest candle-lit forms to the avant-garde creations of the present day and offers an close-up look at the many styles of these popular light fittings and their makers. 25,000 first printing.
’A brutal treat’ Daily Mail Includes an exclusive first look at Lionel Shriver's new novel, THE MOTION OF THE BODY THROUGH SPACE From the award-winning novelist and short story writer, Lionel Shriver, comes a literary gem, a story about love and the power of a gift.
Night after night, little Rufus Chandelier watches from the wings while the rest of his family puts on "the greatest show in town." But Rufus isn't quite big enough to be a part of the show. Until the night when everything goes terribly wrong, and it is Rufus Chandelier who makes certain that the show goes on. With winsome, colorful illustrations, Vincent X. Kirsch's entertaining story shows that the greatest reward is simply the chance to help others—no matter how little you might be.
Anyone who has ever been part of a family, even for a pin tip's point in time, will spot themselves in at least one incident of hilarious family moments in this collection. Whether the specifics of the tale are hermetically sealed in the family skeleton closet (oh, you know we all maintain one) or it has been trumpeted to the world, it makes everyone laugh. And we all know that a laugh a day keeps the doctor away! But more importantly, it makes that bitter pill of embarrassment easier to swallow.