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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Mark Twain, George SaundersISBN 0375757376 (0-375-75737-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Commentary by Thomas Perry Sergeant, Bernard DeVoto, Clifton Fadiman, T. S. Eliot, and Leo Marx
?"All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn," Ernest Hemingway wrote. "It's the best book we've had." A complex masterpiece that spawned controversy right from the start (it was banished from the Concord library shelves in 1885), it is at heart a compelling adventure story. Huck, in flight from his murderous father, and Jim, in flight from slavery, pilot their raft through treacherous waters, surviving a crash with a steamboat and betrayal by rogues. As Norman Mailer has said, "The mark of how good Huckleberry Finn has to be is that one can compare it to a number of our best modern American novels and it stands up page for page."More editions of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn:
The Brain-dead Megaphoneby George SaundersISBN 0747594260 (0-7475-9426-0)
Softcover, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil : (Includes the 'in Persuasion Nation' Collection)by George SaundersISBN 0747585962 (0-7475-8596-2)
Softcover, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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Casebook of the Bizarre: A Review of Famous Scottish Trialsby George SaundersISBN 0859763536 (0-85976-353-6)
Softcover, Birlinn, Limited
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Civ War Land/Bad Declinby George SaundersISBN 0517302292 (0-517-30229-2)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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CivilWarLand in Bad Decline : Stories and a Novellaby George SaundersISBN 0224042475 (0-224-04247-5)
Softcover, Random House
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› Find signed collectible books: 'CivilWarLand in Bad Decline : Stories and a Novella'Book summary:Funny, sad, bleak, weird, toxic - the future of America as the Free Market runs rampant,the environment skids into disarray, and civilization dissolves into surreal chaos. These wacky, brilliant, hilarious and entirely original stories cue us in on George Saunder's skewed vision of the legacy we are creating. Against the backdrop of our devolvement, our own worst tendencies and greatest virtues are weirdly illuminated. [via]
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Mars, the Bringer of Warby George SaundersISBN 0595408311 (0-595-40831-1)
Softcover, Iuniverse Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mars, the Bringer of War'Book summary:John Mars is the oldest astronaut in the fleet and the commander of Challenger II. His latest assignment from NASA is a top-secret shuttle mission to the moon to investigate a mysterious signal. What he finds is an alien robot that murders his crew and destroys the source of that signala deep-space probe. When John returns to Earth without his crew, the probe, or any evidence of what really happened on his mission, NASA forces him into retirement.
Humiliated and disgraced, John takes a job as a pilot for a commercial airline, unaware that his experience on the moon has marked him more than psychologically: in the battle to save his crew and himself, John Mars was injected with an alien tracking device.
One night, while flying his regular route, John and the occupants of hisplane, including his fiancé Anna, are whisked aboard a gigantic ship and thrown into deep space toward the Andromeda Galaxyhome to an Alien species called Sels . The Sels live for one thing only, colonization of all worlds in the known universe. And now theyve got their sights set on Earth. But in order to decide if Earth is a worthy adversary, the Sels have something special planned for Johna kind of alien vetting program.
John, Anna and the rest of his group arrive on a Sel planet used for wargames, where alien life forms are pitted against one anotherand the Selsin death battles. One by one, John Mars small group of survivors succumb to the Sels. But a larger problem looms for Marseven if he can survive the Sel wargames, how could he ever get back home and warn Earth of impending invasion and assimilation into the Sel Empire?
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The October Revolutionby Ro-I Aleksandrovich Medvedev, George SaundersISBN 0231045913 (0-231-04591-3)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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The October Revolutionby Ro i. A. Medvedev, George SaundersISBN 0094629005 (0-09-462900-5)
Hardcover, Constable & Robinson Limited
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On Soviet Dissentby Ro i. A. Medvedev, Piero Ostellino, George SaundersISBN 0094638705 (0-09-463870-5)
Hardcover, Constable & Robinson Limited
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Pastoraliaby George SaundersISBN 074755000X (0-7475-5000-X)
Softcover, Bloomsbury Pub Ltd
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Portraits, Political and Personalby George Saunders , Leon Trotsky, George BreitmanISBN 0873485033 (0-87348-503-3)
Hardcover, Pathfinder Pr
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Red Bowby George SaundersISBN 0747582211 (0-7475-8221-1)
Softcover, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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The Rise Of The Superconductorsby Peter Ford, George SaundersISBN 0748407839 (0-7484-0783-9)
Softcover, CRC Pr I Llc
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Treatise on Theatresby George SaundersISBN 0405089171 (0-405-08917-1)
Hardcover, Ayer Co Pub
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The Very Persistent Gappers of Fripby George SaundersISBN 0747576114 (0-7475-7611-4)
Softcover, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Very Persistant Gappers of Frip'Book summary:The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip is that rarity, a fable that appeals equally to literate adults and id-crazed kids. Its author, George Saunders, is a Thomas Pynchon-approved, three-time O. Henry Award-winning surrealist writer; its artist, Lane Smith, is the Caldecott-honored illustrator of The Stinky Cheese Man and film designer of James and the Giant Peach. Nothing could evoke Saunders's simple yet extravagant story better than Smith's strange, painterly depictions of the seaside town of Frip, a place of ornery eccentrics and oddball animals. Smith combines some of the virtues of George Grosz, Dr. Seuss, and the Japanese prints called Ukiyo-e ("pictures of the floating world").
Gappers are baseball-sized, burr-shaped orange creatures with a compulsion to creep up out of the sea and fasten themselves to goats, whom they love. "When a gapper gets near a goat it gives off a continual high-pitched happy shriek of pleasure that makes it impossible for the goat to sleep, and the goats get skinny and stop giving milk," writes Saunders. Since Frip survives by selling goat milk, the children must brush gappers off the herd eight times daily and dump them into the ocean. You simply must see Smith's picture of Capable, the book's plucky heroine, emptying her gapper-sack from a precarious cliff picturesquely menaced by subtly colored waves. You'll be torn between lingering over the gorgeous artwork and flipping the page to see how Capable will ever cope with the gapper invasion of Frip, her obdurately past-obsessed widower papa, and her dumb, mean neighbors (two snooty, boy-obsessed girls and a family of singers who are harder on the ears than a keening gapper attached to the goat of its dreams). This is a slim tale, but unquestionably one quite in keeping with Saunders's prizewinning books. The title story of Pastoralia, for instance, is also a fable involving class struggle and people who get snooty about the difficulties of working with goats.
The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip is a grownups' book, a kids' book, an art book, and a cause for countless happy shrieks of pleasure. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Hardcover, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip: ISBN 0375503838 (0-375-50383-8)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - Very Persistant Gappers of Frip: ISBN 0747576114 (0-7475-7611-4)
Softcover, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip: ISBN 0747550417 (0-7475-5041-7)
Writings of Leon Trotsky 1929by Leon Trotsky, George Breitman, Sarah Lovell, Iain Fraser, George SaundersISBN 0873484584 (0-87348-458-4)
Hardcover, Pathfinder Press
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Writings of Leon Trotsky 1932by Leon Trotsky, George Breitman, Sarah Lovell, Iain Fraser, George SaundersISBN 0873483103 (0-87348-310-3)
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Writings of Leon Trotsky, 1930-31by Leon Trotsky, George Breitman, Sarah Lovell, George SaundersISBN 0873483243 (0-87348-324-3)
Hardcover, Pathfinder Press
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Writings of Leon Trotsky, 1932-33by Leon Trotsky, George Breitman, Sarah Lovell, George Saunders , Iain FraserISBN 0873482271 (0-87348-227-1)
Hardcover, Pathfinder Press
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