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American Originalsby Adam GopnikISBN 0679412670 (0-679-41267-0)
Hardcover, Random House of Canada, Limited
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The Annotated Hunting of the Snark: The Full Text of Lewis Carroll's Great Nonsense Epic The Hunting of the Snarkby Lewis Carroll, Martin Gardner, Henry Holiday, Adam GopnikISBN 0393062422 (0-393-06242-2)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Evidence, 1944-1994by Richard Avedon, Jane Livingston, Adam GopnikISBN 067940922X (0-679-40922-X)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Evidence, 1944-1994'Book summary:The definitive account of the life and work of Richard Avedon, to accompany a major retrospective of the photographic work at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. [via]
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The King in the Windowby Adam Gopnik , Omar RayyanISBN 0786838949 (0-7868-3894-9)
Softcover, Disney Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The King in the Window'Book summary:Award-winning adult author Adam Gopnik's first children's book, an adventure set in modern day Paris starring an American boy who finds himself at the center of a war between window and mirror spirits, is an mixed bag of fantasy, technology and history that doesn't quite hang together as a whole. One January evening, eleven-year-old Oliver receives a vision in his bedroom window of a young boy in 17th century dress. This apparition informs him that he is the new King in the Window, a hero elected by kind window wraiths to assist them in their centuries-long war with the soul-stealing evil mirror spirits. Soon, Oliver finds himself in The Way, or the parallel universe on the other side of mirrors. Here, he engages in battle with the diabolical Master of Mirrors, chats with Nostradamus, and helps rescue an elderly Alice in Wonderland. In addition, there is a subplot concerning a super computer atop the Eiffel Tower! , an examination of 17th century French court life, and an on-going discussion of quantum physics. Whew! Gopnik's promising premise quickly sinks under the weight of top-heavy symbolism, arcane literary references, and a seemingly endless supply of quirky characters. As a result, the narrative loses its thread, and ultimately, it's target middle grade audience, who will be unable to tie together the divergent strands of this convoluted tale. In sum, less would have been much more. --Jennifer Hubert [via]
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The Lost Estate (Le Grand Meaulnes)by Henri Alain-Fournier, Robin Buss, Adam GopnikISBN 0141441895 (0-14-144189-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Mordecai Richler Was Here: Selected Writingsby Mordecai Richler, Aislin, Adam GopnikISBN 0786720026 (0-7867-2002-6)
Hardcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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The Necklace and Other Talesby Guy De Maupassant, Joachim Neugroschel, Adam GopnikISBN 0375757171 (0-375-75717-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Necklace and Other Tales'Book summary:Ranging from poignant scrutiny of social pretension, to wicked tales of lust and love, to harrowing stories of terror and madness, the genius of Guy de Maupassant, Frances greatest short-story writer, is on full display in this enthralling new translation by Joachim Neugroschel. The stories Neugroschel has gathered vividly reveal Maupassants remarkable range, his keen eye, his technical perfection, his sexual realism, his ability to create whole worlds and sum up intricate universes of feeling in a few pages.
Adam Gopniks Introduction incisively explores the essence of Maupassants unique style and his tremendous, if unjustly unacknowledged, influence (on everything from the American short story to contemporary cinema), bearing eloquent testimony to Maupassants continuing and vital appeal. [via]More editions of The Necklace and Other Tales:
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Paris to the Moonby Adam GopnikISBN 0375758232 (0-375-75823-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Paris to the Moon'Book summary:In 1995 Gopnik was offered the plush assignment of writing the "Paris Journals" for the New Yorker. He spent five years in Paris with his wife, Martha, and son, Luke, writing dispatches now collected here along with previously unpublished journal entries. A self-described "comic-sentimental essayist," Gopnik chose the romance of Paris in its particulars as his subject. Gopnik falls in unabashed love with what he calls Paris's commonplace civilization--the cafés, the little shops, the ancient carousel in the park, and the small, intricate experiences that happen in such settings. But Paris can also be a difficult city to love, particularly its pompous and abstract official culture with its parallel paper universe. The tension between these two sides of Paris and the country's general brooding over the decline of French dominance in the face of globalization (haute couture, cooking, and sex, as well as the economy, are running deficits) form the subtexts for these finely wrought and witty essays. With his emphasis on the micro in the macro, Gopnik describes trying to get a Thanksgiving turkey delivered during a general strike and his struggle to find an apartment during a government scandal over favoritism in housing allocations. The essays alternate between reports of national and local events and accounts of expatriate family life, with an emphasis on "the trinity of late-century bourgeois obsessions: children and cooking and spectator sports, including the spectator sport of shopping." Gopnik describes some truly delicious moments, from the rites of Parisian haute couture, to the "occupation" of a local brasserie in protest of its purchase by a restaurant tycoon, to the birth of his daughter with the aid of a doctor in black jeans and a black silk shirt, open at the front. Gopnik makes terrific use of his status as an observer on the fringes of fashionable society to draw some deft comparisons between Paris and New York ("It is as if all American appliances dreamed of being cars while all French appliances dreamed of being telephones") and do some incisive philosophizing on the nature of both. This is masterful reportage with a winning infusion of intelligence, intimacy, and charm. --Lesley Reed [via]
Pictures of Nothing: Abstract Art Since Pollockby Adam GopnikISBN 069112678X (0-691-12678-X)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Through the Children's Gate: A Home in New Yorkby Adam GopnikISBN 0676978274 (0-676-97827-4)
Softcover, Knopf Canada
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Through the Children's Gate: A Home in New York'Book summary:Following Adam Gopniks best-selling Paris to the Moon, the adventure continues against the panorama of another storied city.
Autumn, 2000: the Gopnik family moves back to a New York that seems, at first, safer and shinier than ever. Here are the triumphs and travails of father, mother, son and daughter; and of the teachers, coaches, therapists, adversaries and friends who round out the extended urban family. From Bluie, a goldfish fated to meet a Hitchcockian end, to Charlie Ravioli, an imaginary playmate who, being a New Yorker, is too busy to play, Gopniks New York is charmed by the civilization of childhood. It is a fabric of living, which, though rent by the events of 9/11, will reweave itself, reviving a world where Jewish jokes mingle with debates about the problem of consciousness, the price of real estate and the meaning of modern art. By turns elegant and exultant, written with a signature mix of mind and heart, Through the Childrens Gate is at once a celebration of a newly fragile city and a poignant study of a family trying to find its way, and joy, within it. [via]More editions of Through the Children's Gate: A Home in New York:
Voila Caremeby Adam Gopnik , Jack HubermanISBN 0312850980 (0-312-85098-0)
Hardcover, St. Martin's Press
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Wayne Thiebaud: A Paintings Retrospectiveby Steven A. Nash, Adam GopnikISBN 0500092923 (0-500-09292-3)
Hardcover, Thames & Hudson
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The Wrong Side of Parisby Honoré de Balzac, Adam Gopnik , Jordan StumpISBN 0679642757 (0-679-64275-7)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wrong Side of Paris'Book summary:The Wrong Side of Paris, the final novel in Balzacs The Human Comedy, is the compelling story of Godefroid, an abject failure at thirty, who seeks refuge from materialism by moving into a monastery-like lodging house in the shadows of Notre-Dame. Presided over by Madame de La Chanterie, a noblewoman with a tragic past, the house is inhabited by a remarkable band of menall scarred by the tumultuous aftermath of the French Revolutionwho have devoted their lives to performing anonymous acts of charity. Intrigued by the Order of the Brotherhood of Consolation and their uplifting dedication to virtuous living, Godefroid strives to follow their example. He agrees to travelincognitoto a Parisian slum to save a noble family from ruin. There he meets a beautiful, ailing Polish woman who lives in great luxury, unaware that just outside her bedroom door her own father and son are suffering in dire poverty. By proving himself worthy of the Brotherhood, Godefroid finds his own spiritual redemption.
This vivid portrait of the underbelly of nineteenth-century Paris, exuberantly rendered by Jordan Stump, is the first major translation in more than a century of Balzacs forgotten masterpiece LEnvers de lhistoire contemporaine. Featuring an illuminating Introduction by Adam Gopnik, this original Modern Library edition also includes explanatory notes. [via]More editions of The Wrong Side of Paris:
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