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The Alterationby Kingsley AmisISBN 022401305X (0-224-01305-X)
Hardcover, Cape
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Aunts Aren't Gentlemenby P.G. WodehouseISBN 0214200477 (0-214-20047-7)
Hardcover, Barrie and Jenkins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aunts Aren't Gentlemen'Book summary:A humorous novel in which Bertie Wooster retires to the village of Maiden Eggesford for some rest and quiet, but the presence of Aunt Dahlia shatters the peace as a confused situation develops. From the author of JEEVES IN THE OFFING and FEUDAL SPIRIT. [via]
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Before She Met Meby Julian BarnesISBN 0224019856 (0-224-01985-6)
Hardcover, J. Cape
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The BFGby Roald Dahl, Quentin BlakeISBN 0224020404 (0-224-02040-4)
Hardcover, J. Cape
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The BFG'Book summary:Evidently not even Roald Dahl could resist the acronym craze of the early eighties. BFG? Bellowing ferret-faced golfer? Backstabbing fairy godmother? Oh, oh ... Big Friendly Giant! This BFG doesn't seem all that F at first as he creeps down a London street, snatches little Sophie out of her bed, and bounds away with her to giant land. And he's not really all that B when compared with his evil, carnivorous brethren, who bully him for being such an oddball runt. After all, he eats only disgusting snozzcumbers, and while the other Gs are snacking on little boys and girls, he's blowing happy dreams in through their windows. What kind of way is that for a G to behave?
The BFG is one of Dahl's most lovable character creations. Whether galloping off with Sophie nestled into the soft skin of his ear to capture dreams as though they were exotic butterflies; speaking his delightful, jumbled, squib-fangled patois; or whizzpopping for the Queen, he leaves an indelible impression of bigheartedness. (Ages 9 to 12) [via]
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The Big Sleepby Raymond ChandlerISBN 0194242218 (0-19-424221-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Book Of Imaginary Beingsby Jorge Luis Borges, Margarita GuerreroISBN 0224619136 (0-224-61913-6)
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The Brains of Earthby Jack VanceISBN 0234770554 (0-234-77055-4)
Hardcover, Dobson
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Breakfast of Championsby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0224008889 (0-224-00888-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Breakfast of Champions'Book summary:"We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane." So reads the tombstone of downtrodden writer Kilgore Trout, but we have no doubt who's really talking: his alter ego Kurt Vonnegut. Health versus sickness, humanity versus inhumanity--both sets of ideas bounce through this challenging and funny book. As with the rest of Vonnegut's pure fantasy, it lacks the shimmering, fact-fueled rage that illuminates Slaughterhouse-Five. At the same time, that makes this book perhaps more enjoyable to read.
Breakfast of Champions is a slippery, lucid, bleakly humorous jaunt through (sick? inhumane?) America circa 1973, with Vonnegut acting as our Virgil-like companion. The book follows its main character, auto-dealing solid-citizen Dwayne Hoover, down into madness, a condition brought on by the work of the aforementioned Kilgore Trout. As Dwayne cracks, then crumbles, Breakfast of Champions coolly shows the effects his dementia has on the web of characters surrounding him. It's not much of a plot, but it's enough for Vonnegut to air unique opinions on America, sex, war, love, and all of his other pet topics--you know, the only ones that really count. [via]
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The Bridge on the Drinaby Ivo AndricISBN 0226020452 (0-226-02045-2)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bridge on the Drina'Book summary:The Bridge on the Drina is a vivid depiction of the suffering history has imposed upon the people of Bosnia from the late 16th century to the beginning of World War I. As we seek to make sense of the current nightmare in this region, this remarkable, timely book serves as a reliable guide to its people and history.[via]
"No better introduction to the study of Balkan and Ottoman history exists, nor do I know of any work of fiction that more persuasively introduces the reader to a civilization other than our own. It is an intellectual and emotional adventure to encounter the Ottoman world through Andric's pages in its grandiose beginning and at its tottering finale. It is, in short, a marvelous work, a masterpiece, and very much sui generis. . . . Andric's sensitive portrait of social change in distant Bosnia has revelatory force."William H. McNeill, from the introduction
"The dreadful events occurring in Sarajevo over the past several months turn my mind to a remarkable historical novel from the land we used to call Yugoslavia, Ivo Andric's The Bridge on the Drina."John M. Mohan, Des Moines Sunday Register
Born in Bosnia, Ivo Andric (1892-1975) was a distinguished diplomat and novelist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1961. His books include The Damned Yard: And Other Stories, and The Days of the Consuls.More editions of The Bridge on the Drina:
Briefing for a Descent into Hellby Doris May LessingISBN 0224005073 (0-224-00507-3)
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Centaurby John UpdikeISBN 023396360X (0-233-96360-X)
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Chattertonby Peter AckroydISBN 0241123488 (0-241-12348-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chatterton'Book summary:Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770), apparently a suicide at 18, posthumously astonished literary England when he was revealed as the author of a sequence of famous and influential "medieval" poems he claimed to have discovered. An authentic talent as well as a literary counterfeiter, he is the guiding spirit of Peter Ackroyd's brilliant novel. In today's London, a young poet and an elderly novelist engage the mystery of Chatterton by trying to decode the clues found in an old manuscript, only to discover that their investigation discloses other riddles for which there are no solutions. Chatterton is at once a hilariously witty comedy; a thoughtful and dramatic exploration of the deepest issues of authenticity in both life and art; and a subtle and touching story of failed lives, parental love, doomed marriages, and erotic passions.[via]More editions of Chatterton:
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The Chinese Lake Murders: A Judge Dee Detective Storyby Robert Hans Van GulikISBN 0226848655 (0-226-84865-5)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Chinese Lake Murders: A Judge Dee Detective Story'Book summary:The Chinese Lake Murders describes how Judge Dee solves three difficult cases in A.D. 666, shortly after he has been appointed magistrate of Han-yuan.[via]
"[Robert van Gulik] deftly interweaves three criminal cases involving exotic yet universally recognizable characters, then has his Judge Dee provide a surprising yet most plausible solution."New York Times Book ReviewMore editions of The Chinese Lake Murders: A Judge Dee Detective Story:
The Chinese Maze Murdersby Robert Hans Van GulikISBN 0226848787 (0-226-84878-7)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Chymical Weddingby Lindsay ClarkeISBN 0224025376 (0-224-02537-6)
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Concrete Islandby J.G. BallardISBN 0224009702 (0-224-00970-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Concrete Island'Book summary:On a day in April, just after three o'clock in the afternoon, Robert Maitland's car crashes over the concrete parapet of a high-speed highway onto the island below, where he is injured and, finally, trapped. What begins as an almost ludicrous predicament soon turns into horror as Maitland--a wickedly modern Robinson Crusoe--realizes that, despite evidence of other inhabitants, this doomed terrain has become a mirror of his own mind. Seeking the dark outer rim of the everyday, Ballard weaves private catastrophe into an intensely specular allegory.
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The Coupby John UpdikeISBN 0233970940 (0-233-97094-0)
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The Custom of the Countryby Edith Wharton, Stephen OrgelISBN 0192840614 (0-19-284061-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Custom of the Country'Book summary:Edith Wharton's satiric anatomy of American society in the first decade of the twentieth century appeared in 1913; it both appalled and fascinated its first reviewers, and established her as a major novelist. The Saturday Review wrote that she had "assembled as many detestable people as it is possible to pack between the covers of a six-hundred page novel," but concluded that the book was "brilliantly written," and "should be read as a parable."
It follows the career of Undine Spragg, recently arrived in New York from the Midwest and determined to conquer high society. Glamorous, selfish, mercenary and manipulative, her principal assets are her striking beauty, her tenacity, and her father's money. With her sights set on an advantageous marriage, Undine pursues her schemes in a world of shifting values, where triumph is swiftly followed by disillusion.
Wharton was recreating an environment she knew intimately, and Undine's education for social success is chronicled in meticulous detail. The novel superbly captures the world of post-Civil War America, as ruthless in its social ambitions as in its business and politics. [via]More editions of The Custom of the Country:
Dance to the Music of Timeby Anthony PowellISBN 0226677141 (0-226-67714-1)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr - Dance to the Music of Time: ISBN 0226677184 (0-226-67718-4)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr - Dance to the Music of Time: ISBN 0226677141 (0-226-67714-1)
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David Copperfieldby Charles DickensISBN 019422709X (0-19-422709-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'David Copperfield'Book summary:Beginning in 1854 up through to his death in 1870, Charles Dickens abridged and adapted many of his more popular works and performed them as staged readings. This version, each page illustrated with lovely watercolor paintings, is a beautiful example of one of these adaptations.
Because it is quite seriously abridged, the story concentrates primarily on the extended family of Mr. Peggotty: his orphaned nephew, Ham; his adopted niece, Little Emily; and Mrs. Gummidge, self-described as "a lone lorn creetur and everythink went contrairy with her." When Little Emily runs away with Copperfield's former schoolmate, leaving Mr. Peggotty completely brokenhearted, the whole family is thrown into turmoil. But Dickens weaves some comic relief throughout the story with the introduction of Mr. and Mrs. Micawber, and David's love for his pretty, silly "child-wife," Dora. Dark nights, mysterious locations, and the final destructive storm provide classic Dickensian drama. Although this is not David Copperfield in its entirety, it is a great introduction to the world and the language of Charles Dickens. [via]
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The Day of the Triffidsby Pauline Francis, John WyndhamISBN 0237525364 (0-237-52536-4)
Softcover, Evans Publishing Group
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Dead Babiesby Martin AmisISBN 0224011677 (0-224-01167-7)
Hardcover, Cape
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Deliveranceby James DickeyISBN 0241019273 (0-241-01927-3)
Hardcover, Hamish Hamilton
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Deliverance'Book summary:The setting is the Georgia wilderness, where the states most remote white-water river awaits. In the thundering froth of that river, in its echoing stone canyons, four men on a canoe trip discover a freedom and exhilaration beyond compare. And then, in a moment of horror, the adventure turns into a struggle for survival as one man becomes a human hunter who is offered his own harrowing deliverance.
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East, Westby Salman RushdieISBN 0224041347 (0-224-04134-7)
Hardcover, J. Cape
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Eighty-Minute Hourby Brian AldissISBN 0224009419 (0-224-00941-9)
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The Emperor's Pearlby Robert Van GulikISBN 0226848728 (0-226-84872-8)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Enormous Crocodileby Quentin Blake, Roald DahlISBN 0224015796 (0-224-01579-6)
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Esio Trotby Roald Dahl, Juvenile Collection (Library of Congress), Quentin BlakeISBN 0224027867 (0-224-02786-7)
Hardcover, Jonathan Cape
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F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsbyby Nicolas TredellISBN 0231115350 (0-231-11535-0)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby'Book summary:In 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald announced his decision to write "something new--something extraordinary and beautiful and simple + intricately patterned." That extraordinary, beautiful, intricately patterned, and above all, simple novel became The Great Gatsby, arguably Fitzgerald's finest work and certainly the book for which he is best known. A portrait of the Jazz Age in all of its decadence and excess, Gatsby captured the spirit of the author's generation and earned itself a permanent place in American mythology. Self-made, self-invented millionaire Jay Gatsby embodies some of Fitzgerald's--and his country's--most abiding obsessions: money, ambition, greed, and the promise of new beginnings. "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning--" Gatsby's rise to glory and eventual fall from grace becomes a kind of cautionary tale about the American Dream.
It's also a love story, of sorts, the narrative of Gatsby's quixotic passion for Daisy Buchanan. The pair meet five years before the novel begins, when Daisy is a legendary young Louisville beauty and Gatsby an impoverished officer. They fall in love, but while Gatsby serves overseas, Daisy marries the brutal, bullying, but extremely rich Tom Buchanan. After the war, Gatsby devotes himself blindly to the pursuit of wealth by whatever means--and to the pursuit of Daisy, which amounts to the same thing. "Her voice is full of money," Gatsby says admiringly, in one of the novel's more famous descriptions. His millions made, Gatsby buys a mansion across Long Island Sound from Daisy's patrician East Egg address, throws lavish parties, and waits for her to appear. When she does, events unfold with all the tragic inevitability of a Greek drama, with detached, cynical neighbor Nick Carraway acting as chorus throughout. Spare, elegantly plotted, and written in crystalline prose, The Great Gatsby is as perfectly satisfying as the best kind of poem. [via]
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The Famished Roadby Ben OkriISBN 0224027018 (0-224-02701-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Famished Road'Book summary:You have never read a novel like this one. Winner of the 1991 Booker Prize for fiction, The Famished Road tells the story of Azaro, a spirit-child. Though spirit-children rarely stay long in the painful world of the living, when Azaro is born he chooses to fight death: "I wanted," he says, "to make happy the bruised face of the woman who would become my mother." Survival in his chaotic African village is a struggle, though. Azaro and his family must contend with hunger, disease, and violence, as well as the boy's spirit-companions, who are constantly trying to trick him back into their world. Okri fills his tale with unforgettable images and characters: the bereaved policeman and his wife, who try to adopt Azaro and dress him in their dead son's clothes; the photographer who documents life in the village and displays his pictures in a cabinet by the roadside; Madame Koto, "plump as a mighty fruit," who runs the local bar; the King of the Road, who gets hungrier the more he eats.
At the heart of this hypnotic novel are the mysteries of love and human survival. "It is more difficult to love than to die," says Azaro's father, and indeed, it is love that brings real sharpness to suffering here. As the story moves toward its climax, Azaro must face the consequences of choosing to live, of choosing to walk the road of hunger rather than return to the benign land of spirits. The Famished Road is worth reading for its last line alone, which must be one of the most devastating endings in contemporary literature (but don't skip ahead). --R. Ellis [via]
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First Love, Last Ritesby Ian McEwanISBN 0224010956 (0-224-01095-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'First Love, Last Rites'Book summary:A collection of short stories, focusing on the awakening sensations of first love and its ritual initiations. This collection won the Somerset Maugham Award, and is from the author of THE CEMENT GARDEN, THE COMFORT OF STRANGERS and THE CHILD IN TIME. [via]
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Five Children and Itby E. Nesbit, Diane Mowat, Tricia HedgeISBN 0194229734 (0-19-422973-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Five Children and It'Book summary:When the children dug a hole in the gravel-pit, they were very surprised at what they found. 'It' was a Psammead, a sand-fairy, thousands of years old. It was a strange little thing - fat and furry, and with eyes on long stalks. It was often very cross and unfriendly, but it could give wishes - one wish a day. 'How wonderful!' the children said. But wishes are difficult things. They can get you into trouble ... [via]
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Flash for Freedom!by George MacDonald FraserISBN 0214653587 (0-214-65358-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Flash for Freedom!'Book summary:A game of cards leads Flashman from the jungle death-house of Dahomey to the slave state of Mississippi as he dabbles in the slave trade in Volume III of the "Flashman Papers". When Flashman was inveigled into a game of pontoon with Disraeli and Lord George Bentinck, he was making an unconscious choice about his own future - would it lie in the House of Commons or the West African slave trade? Was there, for that matter, very much difference? Once again Flashman's charm, cowardice, treachery, lechery and fleetness of foot see the lovable rogue triumph by the skin of his chattering teeth.[via]More editions of Flash for Freedom!:
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Flashman's Ladyby George MacDonald FraserISBN 0214203883 (0-214-20388-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Flashman's Lady'Book summary:Volume VI of THE FLASHMAN PAPERS 1842-45, reissued in B format paperback, in celebration of the thirtieth anniversary of the creation of Flashman. [via]
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Funeral Ritesby Jean GenetISBN 0218514743 (0-218-51474-3)
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 100 Years of Solitude: A Casebookby Gene H. Bell-VilladaISBN 0195144554 (0-19-514455-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 100 Years of Solitude: A Casebook'Book summary:Casebooks in Criticism offer analytical and interpretive frameworks for understanding key texts in world literature and film. Each casebook reprints documents relating to a work's historical context and reception, presents the best critical studies, and, when possible, features an interview with the author. Accessible and informative to scholars, students, and nonspecialist readers alike, the books in this series provide a wide range of critical and informative commentaries on major texts.
Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude is arguably the most important novel in twentieth-century Latin American literature. This Casebook features ten critical articles on García Márquez's great work. Carefully selected from the most important work on the novel over the past three decades, they include pieces by Carlos Fuentes, Iris Zavala, James Higgins, Jean Franco, Michael Wood, and Gene H. Bell-Villada. Among the intriguing aspects of the work discussed are its mythic dimension, its "magical" side, its representations of women, its relationship with past chronicles of exploration and discovery, its portrayals of Western power and imperialism, its astounding diffusion throughout the globe and the media, and its simple truth-telling, its fidelity to the tangled history of Latin America. The book incorporates several theoretical approaches--historical, feminist, postcolonial; the first English translation of Fuentes's renowned, oft-cited, eight page meditation on the work; a general introduction; and a 1982 interview with García Márquez. [via]More editions of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 100 Years of Solitude: A Casebook:
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Galapagosby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0224028472 (0-224-02847-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Galapagos'Book summary:The human survivors of the "Nature Crisis of the Century", are quietly evolving into sleek, furry creatures with flippers and small brains. All other forms of humankind have ceased to exist, made redundant by their prized big brains. From the author of "Slaughterhouse 5". [via]
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The Giraffe and the Pelly and Meby Roald Dahl, Juvenile Collection (Library of Congress), Quentin BlakeISBN 0224029991 (0-224-02999-1)
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The Girl in Blueby P.G. WodehouseISBN 0214652769 (0-214-65276-9)
Hardcover, Barrie & Jenkins
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The Good Companionsby J. B. PriestleyISBN 0226682234 (0-226-68223-4)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Gravity's Rainbowby Thomas PynchonISBN 0224009605 (0-224-00960-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gravity's Rainbow'Book summary:Tyrone Slothrop, a GI in London in 1944, has a big problem. Whenever he gets an erection, a Blitz bomb hits. Slothrop gets excited, and then (as Thomas Pynchon puts it in his sinister, insinuatingly sibilant opening sentence), "a screaming comes across the sky," heralding an angel of death, a V-2 rocket. The novel's title, Gravity's Rainbow, refers to the rocket's vapor arc, a cruel dark parody of what God sent Noah to symbolize his promise never to destroy humanity again. History has been a big trick: the plan is to switch from floods to obliterating fire from the sky.
Slothrop's father was an unwitting part of the cosmic doublecross. To provide for the boy's future Harvard education, he took cash from the mad German scientist Laszlo Jamf, who performed Pavlovian experiments on the infant Tyrone. Laszlo invented Imipolex G, a new plastic useful in rocket insulation, and conditioned Tyrone's privates to respond to its presence. Now the grown-up Tyrone helplessly senses the Imipolex G in incoming V-2s, and his military superiors are investigating him. Soon he is on the run from legions of bizarre enemies through the phantasmagoric horrors of Germany.
That's just the Imipolex G tip of the shrieking vehicle that is Pynchon's book. It's pretty much impossible to follow a standard plot; one must have faith that each manic episode is connected with the great plot to blow up the world with the ultimate rocket. There is not one story, but a proliferation of characters (Pirate Prentice, Teddy Bloat, Tantivy Mucker-Maffick, Saure Bummer, and more) and events that tantalize the reader with suggestions of vast patterns only just past our comprehension. You will enjoy Pynchon's cartoon inferno far more if you consult Steven Weisenburger's brief companion to the novel, which sorts out Pynchon's blizzard of references to science, history, high culture, and the lowest of jokes. Rest easy: there really is a simple reason why Kekulé von Stradonitz's dream about a serpent biting its tail (which solved the structure of the benzene molecule) belongs in the same novel as the comic-book-hero Plastic Man.
Pynchon doesn't want you to rest easy with solved mysteries, though. Gravity's Rainbow uses beautiful prose to induce an altered state of consciousness, a buzz. It's a trip, and it will last. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Guerrillasby Vidiadhar Surajprasad NaipaulISBN 0233967028 (0-233-96702-8)
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A Guest of Honourby Nadine GordimerISBN 0224005103 (0-224-00510-3)
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Gulliver's Travelsby Jonathan Swift, Clare West, Jennifer BassetISBN 0194230341 (0-19-423034-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gulliver's Travels'Book summary:This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition" includes a glossary and readers notes to help the modern reader contend with Swifts complex references and vocabulary. First published anonymously in 1727, Jonathan Swifts Gullivers Travels created a storm of criticismfrom those who believed the stories to be true and knew exactly who Lemuel Gulliver was, to those who demanded that the writer of the seditious tales be hunted down and executed for high treason. Even today, Swifts vitriolic attacks on politics, culture, and human nature itself have earned him the reputation of a crazed misanthrope. Swift, through his hero, consistently rails against political whims, human follies, and the bestial behaviors of the human race: In Lilliput, Gulliver is twelve times the size of the European-like natives. In Brobdingnag, he is one-twelfth the size of the primitive but moral inhabitants. In Laputa, buildings collapse and clothing does not fit, although constructed by the most modern and reasonable means. Finally, in the land of the horse-like Houyhnhnms Gulliver realizes that he and his race are nothing but a brood of Yahoos. [via]
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The Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the Worldby Haruki MurakamiISBN 0241131448 (0-241-13144-8)
Hardcover, Hamish Hamilton
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World'Book summary:By the author of "A Wild Sheep Chase", which won the Noma Literary Award for New Writers, this novel combines science-fiction, satire and a warning of the dangerous powers of corporations. [via]
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A House for Mr. Biswasby V.S. NaipaulISBN 0233976388 (0-233-97638-8)
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The House of the Spiritsby Isabel AllendeISBN 0224022318 (0-224-02231-8)
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In Between the Sheets, and Other Storiesby Ian McEwanISBN 0224015567 (0-224-01556-7)
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In the Place of Fallen Leavesby Tim PearsISBN 024113322X (0-241-13322-X)
Hardcover, Hamish Hamilton
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Laughing Boyby Oliver LA FargeISBN 0214668185 (0-214-66818-5)
Hardcover, Barrie and Jenkins
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Legsby William KennedyISBN 0224012703 (0-224-01270-3)
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Lord Byron's Doctorby Paul WestISBN 0226894010 (0-226-89401-0)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Lord Jimby Joseph Conrad, Jacques BerthoudISBN 0192840673 (0-19-284067-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Lost Worldby Pauline FrancisISBN 023752404X (0-237-52404-X)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square Books
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Love Unknownby A. N. WilsonISBN 0241119227 (0-241-11922-7)
Hardcover, H. Hamilton
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Malacia Tapestryby Brian W. AldissISBN 022401269X (0-224-01269-X)
Hardcover, Jonathan Cape
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Mantissaby John FowlesISBN 022402938X (0-224-02938-X)
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Money: A Suicide Noteby Martin AmisISBN 0224022768 (0-224-02276-8)
Hardcover, J. Cape
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Money: A Suicide Note'Book summary:Absolutely one of the funniest, smartest, meanest books I know. John Self, the Rabelaisian narrator of the novel, is an advertising man and director of TV commercials who lurches through London and Manhattan, eating, drinking, drugging and smoking too much, buying too much sex, and caring for little else besides getting the big movie deal that will make him lots of money. Hey, it was the '80s. Most importantly, however, Amis in Money musters more sheer entertainment power in any single sentence than most writers are lucky to produce in a career. [via]
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Moon Tigerby Penelope LivelyISBN 0233981071 (0-233-98107-1)
Hardcover, A. Deutsch
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Moreau's Other Islandby Brian Wilson AldissISBN 022401840X (0-224-01840-X)
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Morvern Callarby Alan WarnerISBN 0224040111 (0-224-04011-1)
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The Mosquito Coastby Paul TherouxISBN 0241106885 (0-241-10688-5)
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Musrumby Eric Thacker, Anthony EarnshawISBN 0224005677 (0-224-00567-7)
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No One Writes To The Colonel: And Other Storiesby Gabriel Garcia MarquezISBN 0224005308 (0-224-00530-8)
Hardcover, Cape
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Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Lessby Jeffrey ArcherISBN 0224013092 (0-224-01309-2)
Hardcover, Cape
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Novel on Yellow Paperby Stevie SmithISBN 0224616994 (0-224-61699-4)
Hardcover, Cape
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On the Black Hillby Bruce ChatwinISBN 0224019805 (0-224-01980-5)
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One Hundred Years of Solitudeby Gabriel Garcia MarquezISBN 0224032356 (0-224-03235-6)
Hardcover, Jonathan Cape
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Optimist's Daughterby Eudora WeltyISBN 0233964312 (0-233-96431-2)
Hardcover, Deutsch
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Other Peopleby Martin AmisISBN 0224017667 (0-224-01766-7)
Hardcover, Cape
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Other People'Book summary:UK hardback first impression. VG with a little spine roll in fine unclipped jacket. Jonathan Cape 1981. [via]
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Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens and Peter and Wendyby J. M. Barrie, Peter HollindaleISBN 0192839292 (0-19-283929-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Rachel Papersby Martin AmisISBN 0224009125 (0-224-00912-5)
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Sacred Hungerby Barry UnsworthISBN 0241132827 (0-241-13282-7)
Softcover, H. Hamilton
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sacred Hunger'Book summary:Winner of the 1992 Booker Prize for Fiction: "Possibly the best novel I've read in the last decade."David Halberstam
Sacred Hunger is a stunning and engrossing exploration of power, domination, and greed. Filled with the "sacred hunger" to expand its empire and its profits, England entered full into the slave trade and spread the trade throughout its colonies. In this Booker Prize-winning work, Barry Unsworth follows the failing fortunes of William Kemp, a merchant pinning his last chance to a slave ship; his son who needs a fortune because he is in love with an upper-class woman; and his nephew who sails on the ship as its doctor because he has lost all he has loved. The voyage meets its demise when disease spreads among the slaves and the captain's drastic response provokes a mutiny. Joining together, the sailors and the slaves set up a secret, utopian society in the wilderness of Florida, only to await the vengeance of the single-minded, young Kemp. [via] 
Savilleby David StoreyISBN 0224012738 (0-224-01273-8)
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See Under--Loveby David GrossmanISBN 0224026402 (0-224-02640-2)
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Slapstickby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0224013424 (0-224-01342-4)
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A Soldier's Embraceby Nadine GordimerISBN 0224017780 (0-224-01778-0)
Hardcover, J. Cape
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Sport of Natureby Nadine GordimerISBN 0224024477 (0-224-02447-7)
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The Story of a Non-Marrying Man, and Other Storiesby Doris May LessingISBN 0224007696 (0-224-00769-6)
Hardcover, Cape
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The Strange Genius of David Lindsay: An Appreciationby Colin Wilson, J. B. Pick, E. H. VisiakISBN 021298361X (0-212-98361-X)
Hardcover, John Baker
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Strange Meetingby Susan HillISBN 0241020697 (0-241-02069-7)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
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The Summer Before the Darkby Doris May LessingISBN 0224008323 (0-224-00832-3)
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The Sunlight Dialoguesby John Champlin GardnerISBN 0224009311 (0-224-00931-1)
Hardcover, Cape
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Swimming Pool Seasonby Rose TremainISBN 0241114969 (0-241-11496-9)
Hardcover, Hamish Hamilton
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Time After Timeby Molly KeaneISBN 023397587X (0-233-97587-X)
Hardcover, A. Deutsch
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To Letby John GalsworthyISBN 0233050701 (0-233-05070-1)
Hardcover, Andre Deutsch Ltd
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The Towers of Silence: A Novelby Paul ScottISBN 0226743438 (0-226-74343-8)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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White Fangby Pauline FrancisISBN 0237525321 (0-237-52532-1)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square Books
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The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six Moreby Roald DahlISBN 0224015478 (0-224-01547-8)
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Harry Potter Aur Azkaban Ka Qaidi / Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkabanby J. K. Rowling, Darakhshanda Asghar KhokharISBN 0195799151 (0-19-579915-1)
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