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The Believer, Issue 56: September 2008by Ed Park, Vendela Vida, Heidi JulavitsISBN 1934781177 (1-934781-17-7)
Softcover, McSweeneys Books
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The Believer, Issue 57by Ed Park, Vendela Vida, Heidi JulavitsISBN 1934781185 (1-934781-18-5)
Softcover, McSweeneys Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Believer, Issue 57'Book summary:The Believer is an amiable yet rigorous forum for book criticism, providing an alternative to the plot summary squib that has become synonymous with "book review." Each issue includes interviews with philosophers, politicians, poets, and ninjas. Nick Hornby has a widely celebrated books column, and Amy Sedaris (as well as well-known guest-columnists) offers hilariously bad advice. The celebrated graphic novelist Charles Burns illustrates the cover each month, and the magazine is packaged with a tactile and varying bonus item a CD, DVD, temporary tattoos, and so on.[via]More editions of The Believer, Issue 57:
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The Effect of Living Backwardsby Heidi JulavitsISBN 184408177X (1-84408-177-X)
Softcover, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Effect of Living Backwards'Book summary:The Effect of Living Backwards, Heidi Julavits's second novel, is a mess--but a good mess, an ambitious mess. The title is taken from Through the Looking-Glass, and Julavits's narrator--named Alice--certainly wanders into a perplexing wonderland. She and her sister Edith are flying to Morocco, where Edith is to be married. The plane is hijacked by a charismatic, chubby blind man named Bruno. After a time, the hijacking appears to be an extended moral case study: Bruno forces his hostages to consider whether they would give their own life to save another. The hijacking, it turns out, may or may not be real; Bruno may or may not be blind; Alice may or may not be falling in love with Pitcairn, the hostage negotiator who's supposed to save them all. As she unspools her black comedy, Julavits displays a wildly discursive style; the book can seem overwritten. But as her plot gains momentum, so too does Julavits's writing, and her tortuous sentences begin to make sense: they reflect the awkward situation of the heroine. After a supper of candy and punch, Alice tells us she and her fellow hostages "suffered extreme intestinal discomfort, which made the lavatories more unspeakably filth-ridden, and tempers, whose foulness is always proportional to the decrepitude of a WC, began to fester." On one level, this is an unhappy sentence; on another, its very contortions are funny. So it is with The Effect of Living Backwards, which, in its patience-trying elegance, recalls the underrated novelist Nancy Lemann. This is a brave novel, aggressively intelligent and aggressively silly all at once. --Claire Dederer [via]
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- The Effect of Living Backwards: ISBN 1860499252 (1-86049-925-2)
Softcover, Little, Brown Book Group Limited - The Effect Of Living Backwards: ISBN 0425198170 (0-425-19817-0)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group - The Effect Of Living Backwards: ISBN 0399150498 (0-399-15049-8)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group - The Effect of Living Backwards: ISBN 184408177X (1-84408-177-X)
Softcover, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
- The Effect of Living Backwards: ISBN 1860499252 (1-86049-925-2)
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Hotel Andromeda: Fiction by Heidi Julavits and Photographs by Jenny Gageby Jenny Gage, Heidi JulavitsISBN 1891273043 (1-891273-04-3)
Hardcover, Artspace Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hotel Andromeda: Fiction by Heidi Julavits and Photographs by Jenny Gage'Book summary:A whimsical yet dark exploration of rigged biology, femininity and guns, Hotel Andromeda revolves around the lives of five girls, each born on the same day to the same mother but different fathers. Regina, Lydia, Pamela, Dora and Danielle have been under constant surveillance since they were infants. They live alone in a hotel--but is it a hotel? The rooms are empty, the girls have daily appointments with a talk therapist and their mother, a champion marksman, seems to have forgotten all about them. As their boredom intensifies, so does their deviousness; their ideas about personality and identity are challenged by the oppressive predictability of their environment. Combining lurid, surreal photographs by Jenny Gage with Heidi Julavits' penchant for the giddily sinister, Hotel Andromeda provides a wicked meditation on girlhood, alienation and the perversions born from being watched in isolation. [via]
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The Mineral Palaceby Heidi JulavitsISBN 1860499171 (1-86049-917-1)
Softcover, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
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- The Mineral Palace: ISBN 1860497519 (1-86049-751-9)
Softcover, Little, Brown Book Group Limited - The Mineral Palace: ISBN 0425179826 (0-425-17982-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated - The Mineral Palace: ISBN 0399146229 (0-399-14622-9)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group - The Mineral Palace: ISBN 1860499171 (1-86049-917-1)
Softcover, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
- The Mineral Palace: ISBN 1860497519 (1-86049-751-9)
The Uses of Enchantment: A Novelby Heidi JulavitsISBN 1400078113 (1-4000-7811-3)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Der Mineralpalastby Heidi JulavitsISBN 3492042910 (3-492-04291-0)
Softcover
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El Palacio Mineralby Heidi JulavitsISBN 8439707800 (84-397-0780-0)
Softcover, Mondadori
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