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Timothy Gray approved Ulrich’s request to combine 5 books, including The Winner Stands Alone: A Novel, 2 weeks ago.
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Ulrich submitted a request to combine 5 books, including The Winner Stands Alone: A Novel, 2 weeks ago.
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Shy edited the quotations of The Winner Stands Alone: A Novel 3 weeks ago.
- Added a quotation: “Life sometimes separates people so that they can realise how much they mean to each other”Igor
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Shy edited the glossary of The Winner Stands Alone: A Novel 3 weeks ago.
- Added the definition of Perfume: A term used by starlets to refer to elderly millionaire or millionairess
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Shy edited the quotations of The Winner Stands Alone: A Novel 3 weeks ago.
- Added a quotation: “...to pretend that they’re (The Powerful) happy, even though they’re now hostage to their own success, to continue struggling to increase their wealth and influence, even when both those things are already vast...”
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Shy edited the quotations of The Winner Stands Alone: A Novel 3 weeks ago.
- Added a quotation: “It doesn’t even occur to the hopefuls that the Powerful only talk to the Powerful”
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Shelfari edited the contributors of The Winner Stands Alone: A Novel 3 weeks ago.
- Added a contributor: Paulo Coelho: (Primary Author)
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Timothy Gray denied Jessica ’s request to change the title of The Winner Stands Alone: A Novel Thursday, September 10 2009.
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Jessica requested a change to the title of The Winner Stands Alone: A Novel Wednesday, September 9 2009.
Timothy Gray denied this request. (show what wasn't approved) ( see Jessica ’s edits | report abuse ) -
Shelfari edited the description of The Winner Stands Alone: A Novel Friday, July 31 2009.
The beloved, bestselling international author of The Alchemist returns with another haunting novel—a thrilling journey into our constant fascination with the worlds of fame, fortune, and celebrity. A profound meditation on personal power and innocent dreams that are manipulated or undone by success, The Winner Stands Alone is set in the exciting worlds of fashion and cinema. Taking place over the course of twenty-four hours during the Cannes Film Festival, it is the story of Igor, a successful, driven Russian entrepreneur who will go to the darkest lengths to reclaim a lost love—his ex-wife, Ewa. Believing that his life with Ewa was divinely ordained, Igor once told her that he would destroy whole worlds to get her back. The conflict between an individual evil force and society emerges, and as the novel unfolds, morality is derailed. Meet the players and poseurs behind the scenes at Cannes—the "Superclass" of producers, actors, designers, and supermodels, as well as the aspiring starlets, has-been stars, and jaded hangers-on. Adroitly interweaving the characters' stories, Paulo Coelho uses his twelfth novel to paint an engrossing picture of a world overrun by glamour and excess, and shows us the possibly dire consequences of our obsession with fame.
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