Drive beyond the dusty provincial towns and the Chilean landscape is carpeted with 1?4 million acres of grapes that ripen perfectly in bright sunlight, warm days, and cool evenings. Labor, land, and grape prices are low, so Chilean wineries can make high quality wines at a fraction of the cost of those in California, Australia or Europe. Walker Elliott Rowe weaves a narrative of the Chilean people and culture, introducing the reader to many characters both inside and outside the wine business. The towering Andes Mountains are not the only item looming over the Chilean horizon-this progressive...
Drive beyond the dusty provincial towns and the Chilean landscape is carpeted with 1?4 million acres of grapes that ripen perfectly in bright sunlight...
-Joanna Walsh is fast becoming one of our most important writers.- --Deborah Levy
This collection cements Joanna Walsh's reputation as one of the sharpest writers of this century. Wearing her learning lightly, Walsh's stories make us see the world afresh, from a freewheeling story on cycling (and Freud), to a country in which words themselves fall out of fashion--something that will never happen wherever Walsh is read.
Joanna Walsh is the author of Hotel and Vertigo. She also writes literary criticism, edits at 3: AM and Catapult, and founded @read_women. She lives in...
-Joanna Walsh is fast becoming one of our most important writers.- --Deborah Levy
This collection cements Joanna Walsh's reputation as one of...
There's a kiss here for everyone in this warm and cozy Classic Board Book edition of The Biggest KissDo worms kiss underground, with the soil all around? Do fish kiss like this--splosh, splash, splish? Everyone needs kisses, so what could be better than a book that's full of them? With darling animals on every page and irresistible text that begs to be read aloud, parents and grandparents will love sharing this collection of affection with the youngest of readers.
There's a kiss here for everyone in this warm and cozy Classic Board Book edition of The Biggest KissDo worms kiss underground, with t...
Pedro the donkey is sad and he needs your help. Can you save him? Maybe the fairy can. Perhaps it is the monkey. Or will it be too late? Find out in this delightful tale about a donkey who finds a new path to follow. Pedro the Donkey is a story which helps people to understand that you can choose to see and focus on all of the good, happy, positive, beautiful things in life or you can choose to be sad and focus on the negative things. All of life is a choice and by maintaining a positive aspect we can choose how we experience things. We see this demonstrated by two characters, walking the...
Pedro the donkey is sad and he needs your help. Can you save him? Maybe the fairy can. Perhaps it is the monkey. Or will it be too late? Find out in t...
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
During the breakdown of an unhappy marriage, writer Joanna Walsh got a job as a hotel reviewer, and began to gravitate towards places designed as alternatives to home. Luxury, sex, power, anonymity, privacy...hotels are where our desires go on holiday, but also places where our desires are shaped by the hard realities of the marketplace. Part memoir and part meditation, this book visits a series of rooms, suites, hallways, and lobbies-the spaces and things that make up these...
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
