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‎Le secret d'un milliardaire Harlequin Collection Rouge n1129‎

‎Collection Harlequin Sans date. Leanne Banks: Le secret d'un milliardaire/ Harlequin Collection Rouge N°1129 . Leanne Banks: Le secret d'un milliardaire/ Harlequin Collection Rouge N°1129‎

‎Très bon état‎

‎Signed typed letter about his novel Continental Drift ‎

‎Russell BANKS (1940-2023) American writer of fiction and poetry Signed typed letter, signed by Russel Banks, 11 lines, to French autograph collector Gérard Léman + autograph envelope postmarked 30 OCT 2020 — Russell Banks / 14 Victoria Lane, Sarasota Springs, NYY 12866. American writer of fiction and poetry, Russell Banks, member of the International Parliament of Writers and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, thanks Gérard Léman, French autograph collector about his "kind letter" : "I am grateful for your loyalty to my work" and send him a quotation from his famous novel Continental Drift : "Good cheer and mournfulness over lives other than our own, even wholly invented lives — no, especially wholly invented lives — deprive the world as it is of some of the greed it needs to continue to be itself. Sabotage and subversion, then, are this book's objectives. Go, my book, and help destroy the world as it is." Continental Drift is a 1985 novel by Russell Banks. Set in the early 1980s, it follows two plots, through which Banks explores the relationship between apparently distant people drawn together in the world under globalization, which Banks compares to the geologic phenomenon of continental drift. The first plot features Bob DuBois, a working class New Englander who heads to Florida in the hopes of striking it rich; the second plot traces the journey of Vanise Dorsinville from Haiti to Florida. It is an avowedly political work, whose stated aim is to "destroy the world as it is." Despite its scope, it is according to critic Michiko Kakutani "somehow, acutely personal. The book sold well (15,000 copies in hard cover, 100,000 in paperback) and was highly acclaimed by critics. After publishing Continental Drift, Banks won the Dos Passos Prize for Literature in 1986. Russell Earl Banks was born in Newton, Massachusetts, on March 28, 1940, and grew up "in relative poverty." He is the son of Florence, a homemaker, and Earl Banks, a plumber, and was raised in Barnstead, New Hampshire. His father deserted the family when Banks was aged 12. While he was awarded a scholarship to attend Colgate University, he dropped out six weeks into university and travelled south instead, with the "intention of joining Fidel Castro's insurgent army in Cuba, but wound up working in a department store in Lakeland, Florida". He married Darlene Bennett, who was working as a sales clerk at the time; they had one daughter and later divorced. According to an interview with The Independent, he started to write when he was living in Miami in the late-1950s, though an interview with The Paris Review dates this to Banks's subsequent spell living in Boston. He moved back to New England in 1964 and then to North Carolina, where he attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, funded by the family of his second wife, Mary Gunst. In Chapel Hill, Banks was involved in Students for a Democratic Society and protest during the Civil Rights Movement. In 1976, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. Banks divorced Mary Gunst in 1977 after 14 years of marriage. They had three daughters. He was subsequently married to Kathy Walton, an editor at Harper & Row, from 1982 to 1988. The following year, he married poet Chase Twichell. Banks was the 1985 recipient of the John Dos Passos Prize for fiction. Continental Drift and Cloudsplitter were finalists for the 1986 and 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction respectively. Banks was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1996. In popular culture, Banks was briefly mentioned in philosopher Richard Rorty's 1996 future history essay "Fraternity Reigns" in The New York Times Magazine as having written the fictional book Trampling the Vineyards, described as "samizdat", in 2021. Banks lived in upstate New York and Miami. He was a New York State Author for 2004–2006. He was also Artist-in-Residence at the University of Maryland. He taught creative writing at Princeton University. Banks died from cancer at his home in Saratoga Springs, New York, on January 7, 2023, at the age of 82. His work has been translated into twenty languages and has received numerous international prizes and awards. He wrote fiction, and, later, non-fiction, with Dreaming up America. His main works include the novels Continental Drift, Rule of the Bone, Cloudsplitter, The Sweet Hereafter, and Affliction. The latter two novels were each made into feature films in 1997 (see The Sweet Hereafter and Affliction). Many of Banks's works reflect his working-class upbringing. His stories often show people facing tragedy and downturns in everyday life, expressing sadness and self-doubt, but also showing resilience and strength in the face of their difficulties. Banks also wrote short stories, some of which appear in the collection The Angel on the Roof, as well as poetry. Banks also lived in Jamaica. Interviewed in 1998 for The Paris Review, he stated that : "After living in Jamaica and writing The Book of Jamaica, I accepted that I was obliged, for example, to have African-American friends. I was obliged to address, deliberately, the overlapping social and racial contexts of my life. I'm a white man in a white-dominated, racialized society, therefore, if I want to I can live my whole life in a racial fantasy. Most white Americans do just that. Because we can. In a color-defined society we are invited to think that white is not a color. We are invited to fantasize, and we act accordingly." The themes of Continental Drift (1985) include globalization and unrest in Haiti. His 2004 novel The Darling is largely set in Liberia and deals with the racial and political experience of the white American narrator. Writing in the Journal of American Studies, Anthony Hutchison argues that, "[a]side from William Faulkner it is difficult to think of a white twentieth-century American writer who has negotiated the issue of race in as sustained, unflinching and intelligent a fashion as Russell Banks". In 2023, it was confirmed that Paul Schrader would write and direct Oh, Canada, an adaptation of Banks' novel, Foregone, starring Richard Gere and Jacob Elordi. Beautiful piece of American Literature history.‎

‎autograph signed card about 2019 Nobel Prize of literature‎

‎Russell BANKS (1940-2023) American writer of fiction and poetry Autograph card, signed by Russel Banks, 11 lines, printed name letterhead to French autograph collector Gérard Léman + autograph envelope postmarked 24 OCT 2019 with printed label : Russell Banks / 1026 Hurricane Road / Keene, New York 12942. 14x10.6 cm American writer of fiction and poetry, Russell Banks, member of the International Parliament of Writers and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, thanks Gérard Léman, French autograph collector about his "kind letter" : "your words pleased me very much" and answer his question about 2019 Nobel Prize of Literature : "You ask whom I would give the Nobel Prize to, if it were up to me. I don't believe there is a "best" in literature or art, so I would decline the offer." The 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Austrian writer Peter Handke (born 1942) "for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience." The prize was announced by the Swedish Academy on 10 October 2019. Russell Earl Banks was born in Newton, Massachusetts, on March 28, 1940, and grew up "in relative poverty." He is the son of Florence, a homemaker, and Earl Banks, a plumber, and was raised in Barnstead, New Hampshire. His father deserted the family when Banks was aged 12. While he was awarded a scholarship to attend Colgate University, he dropped out six weeks into university and travelled south instead, with the "intention of joining Fidel Castro's insurgent army in Cuba, but wound up working in a department store in Lakeland, Florida". He married Darlene Bennett, who was working as a sales clerk at the time; they had one daughter and later divorced. According to an interview with The Independent, he started to write when he was living in Miami in the late-1950s, though an interview with The Paris Review dates this to Banks's subsequent spell living in Boston. He moved back to New England in 1964 and then to North Carolina, where he attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, funded by the family of his second wife, Mary Gunst. In Chapel Hill, Banks was involved in Students for a Democratic Society and protest during the Civil Rights Movement. In 1976, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. Banks divorced Mary Gunst in 1977 after 14 years of marriage. They had three daughters. He was subsequently married to Kathy Walton, an editor at Harper & Row, from 1982 to 1988. The following year, he married poet Chase Twichell. Banks was the 1985 recipient of the John Dos Passos Prize for fiction. Continental Drift and Cloudsplitter were finalists for the 1986 and 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction respectively. Banks was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1996. In popular culture, Banks was briefly mentioned in philosopher Richard Rorty's 1996 future history essay "Fraternity Reigns" in The New York Times Magazine as having written the fictional book Trampling the Vineyards, described as "samizdat", in 2021. Banks lived in upstate New York and Miami. He was a New York State Author for 2004–2006. He was also Artist-in-Residence at the University of Maryland. He taught creative writing at Princeton University. Banks died from cancer at his home in Saratoga Springs, New York, on January 7, 2023, at the age of 82. His work has been translated into twenty languages and has received numerous international prizes and awards. He wrote fiction, and, later, non-fiction, with Dreaming up America. His main works include the novels Continental Drift, Rule of the Bone, Cloudsplitter, The Sweet Hereafter, and Affliction. The latter two novels were each made into feature films in 1997 (see The Sweet Hereafter and Affliction). Many of Banks's works reflect his working-class upbringing. His stories often show people facing tragedy and downturns in everyday life, expressing sadness and self-doubt, but also showing resilience and strength in the face of their difficulties. Banks also wrote short stories, some of which appear in the collection The Angel on the Roof, as well as poetry. Banks also lived in Jamaica. Interviewed in 1998 for The Paris Review, he stated that : "After living in Jamaica and writing The Book of Jamaica, I accepted that I was obliged, for example, to have African-American friends. I was obliged to address, deliberately, the overlapping social and racial contexts of my life. I'm a white man in a white-dominated, racialized society, therefore, if I want to I can live my whole life in a racial fantasy. Most white Americans do just that. Because we can. In a color-defined society we are invited to think that white is not a color. We are invited to fantasize, and we act accordingly." The themes of Continental Drift (1985) include globalization and unrest in Haiti. His 2004 novel The Darling is largely set in Liberia and deals with the racial and political experience of the white American narrator. Writing in the Journal of American Studies, Anthony Hutchison argues that, "[a]side from William Faulkner it is difficult to think of a white twentieth-century American writer who has negotiated the issue of race in as sustained, unflinching and intelligent a fashion as Russell Banks". In 2023, it was confirmed that Paul Schrader would write and direct Oh, Canada, an adaptation of Banks' novel, Foregone, starring Richard Gere and Jacob Elordi. Beautiful piece of American Literature history.‎

‎Lointain souvenir de la peau‎

‎ACTES SUD 2012 2012. Russel Banks: Lointain souvenir de la peau / Actes sud 2012 . bon état‎

‎Bon état‎

‎Un homme de glace‎

‎Pocket 1998 1998. Iain Banks - Un homme de glace / Pocket 1998‎

‎Bon état‎

‎L'homme qui fuyait l'amour Harlequin‎

‎Editions Harlequin 2009 2009. L'homme qui fuyait l'amour - Leanne Banks (2002) Harlequin . Florence Weber/ Manuel de l'ethnographe/ Puf 2009‎

‎Très bon état‎

‎CARTES ET FIGURES DES VOYAGES pour faire des découvertes dans l'Hémisphère Méridional, entrepris par ordre de Sa Majesté Britannique. Rédigée d'après les journaux tenus par les différents commandants & les papiers de M. Banks, Par J. Hawkesworth ‎

‎Paris Chez Saillant et Nyon. Chez Panckoucke 1774 in 4 (25,5x19) 1 volume reliure demi basane fauve de l'époque, dos à nerfs orné de caissons dorés, pièce de titre de cuir beige, 52 planches ou cartes gravées dépliantes. Et successivement exécutés par le Commodore Byron, le Capitaine Carteret, le Capitaine Wallis, et le Capitaine Cook, dans les vaisseaux le Dauphin, le Swallow et l'Endeavour. Rédigée d'après les journaux tenus par les différents commandants & les papiers de M. Banks, Par J. Hawkesworth. Sir Joseph Banks, Londres 1743-1820, aristocrate et naturaliste britannique, participa au premier voyage de James Cook autour du monde (1768-1771). Atlas seul (collationné complet). Bel exemplaire ( Photographies sur demande / We can send pictures of this book on simple request ) ‎

‎Très bon Couverture rigide ‎

‎The sheep and wool correspondance of Sir Joseph Banks 1781-1820‎

‎British Museum (Natural history), The Library Council of New South Wales 1979 In-4 27 x 17,5 cm. Reliure éditeur pleine toile bleue, jaquette bleu-ciel illustrée avec report du titre en noir sur le dos et le premier plat, XXX-641 pp., 6 planches hors-texte, notes, bibliographie, index. Ouvrage en bon état, jaquette effrangée.‎

‎Texte en anglais. Grande figure de l’Angleterre géorgienne, Joseph Banks (1743-1820) faisait partie de la Royal Society de Londres, la plus prestigieuse des sociétés scientifiques de l'époque. Il participa au titre de naturaliste au premier voyage de Cook à bord de l’Endeavour (1768-71). Il introduisit le mouton Mérinos d’Espagne en Angleterre et préconisa son élevage en Australie. Le roi George III lui confia la direction de Kew Gardens, parc des environs de Londres. Banks en fera le plus grand centre botanique du monde. Bon état d’occasion ‎

‎KGI T1 : En sursis‎

‎Milady 2015 2015. Broché.‎

‎Bon état‎

‎Le pendentif enchanté‎

‎La bibliotheque rose 2017 2017.‎

5 Images

‎Bon état‎

‎Pur Sang - Tome 02‎

‎ Sans date.‎

‎Très bon état‎

‎Les animaux se déguisent‎

‎ 1980 1980.‎

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‎Bon état‎

‎De beaux lendemains‎

‎Actes Sud 1997 336 pages poche. 1997. broché. 336 pages.‎

‎Bon état‎

‎Un piège si troublant ; Le feu du désir‎

‎Harlequin 2011 423 pages 18x12x3cm. 2011. Broché. 423 pages.‎

‎Bom estado‎

‎Un Couple Ideal‎

‎Harlequin 2002 2002. Broché.‎

4 Images

‎Bon état‎

‎Dans la peau d'une domestique anglaise‎

‎Payot 2018 2018.‎

5 Images

‎Bon état‎

‎Royal Baby: Naissance au palais - Surprise pour le prince‎

‎HARLEQUIN 2019 416 pages 10 6x17 6x3cm. 2019. pocket_book. 416 pages.‎

‎Très bon état‎

‎Royal Baby: Naissance au palais - Surprise pour le prince‎

‎HARLEQUIN 2019 416 pages 10 6x17 6x3cm. 2019. pocket_book. 416 pages.‎

‎Très bon état‎

‎Royal Baby: Naissance au palais - Surprise pour le prince‎

‎HARLEQUIN 2019 416 pages 10 6x17 6x3cm. 2019. pocket_book. 416 pages.‎

‎Très bon état‎

‎Royal Baby: Naissance au palais - Surprise pour le prince‎

‎HARLEQUIN 2019 416 pages 10 6x17 6x3cm. 2019. pocket_book. 416 pages.‎

‎Très bon état‎

‎Royal Baby: Naissance au palais - Surprise pour le prince‎

‎HARLEQUIN 2019 416 pages 10 6x17 6x3cm. 2019. pocket_book. 416 pages.‎

‎Très bon état‎

‎Une promesse sous le gui - Pour Noël pour toute la vie - Pour séduire un prince‎

‎Harlequin 2011 448 pages 11x18x3cm. 2011. Broché. 448 pages.‎

‎Bon état - . quelques marques de lecture et/ou de stodckage sur couverture et coins mais du reste en bon état - envoi rapide et soigné dans enveloppe à bulles depuis france‎

‎Love Affairs Tome 2: Love Affairs Tome 2 : Asher - Gavin - Brock‎

‎Editions Harlequin 2016 480 pages 18x11x4cm. 2016. Poche. 480 pages. Traduit de Sénès Florence - Illustrations de Jankovics györgy‎

‎French édition -Le livre qui n'a jamais été lu présente de légères marques de stockage sur la couverture et/ou les pourtours mais reste en très bon état d?ensemble. Expédition soignée dans un emballage adapté depuis la France‎

‎Un don de la mer‎

‎Editions Gallimard 1999 34 pages 26x24x1cm. 1999. Broché. 34 pages.‎

‎French édition -Le livre qui n'a jamais été lu présente des marques de stockage sur la couverture et/ou les pourtours mais reste en bon état d'ensemble. Expédié soigneusement dans un emballage adapté depuis la France‎

‎Une fiancée très secrète - Bouleversante séduction‎

‎Harlequin 2012 432 pages 18x9x3cm. 2012. Poche. 432 pages.‎

‎French édition. Le livre présente des marques de stockage sur la couverture et/ou les pourtours mais reste en bon état d'ensemble. Expédié soigneusement dans un emballage adapté depuis la France‎