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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Mark TwainISBN 0804115710 (0-8041-1571-0)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'Book summary:A seminal work of American Literature that still commands deep praise and still elicits controversy, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is essential to the understanding of the American soul. The recent discovery of the first half of Twain's manuscript, long thought lost, made front-page news. And this unprecedented edition, which contains for the first time omitted episodes and other variations present in the first half of the handwritten manuscript, as well as facsimile reproductions of thirty manuscript pages, is indispensable to a full understanding of the novel. The changes, deletions, and additions made in the first half of the manuscript indicate that Mark Twain frequently checked his impulse to write an even darker, more confrontational book than the one he finally published. [via]
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The Adventures of Lucky Pierre: Directors' Cutby Joe OrtonISBN 0802140416 (0-8021-4041-6)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Lucky Pierre: Directors' Cut'Book summary:A virtuosic performance, The Adventures of Lucky Pierre is a masterpiece. It is set in Cinecity, the frozen capital of an unnamed utopia or is it dystopia? where Lucky Pierre plies his trade. Part porn star, part clown, part everyman, Lucky has no life outside his films. Through the lenses of his nine female muse-directors, Lucky becomes a naive castaway, a submissive slave, a child star in a barnyard frolic, a love-struck suburban hubby, a dirty cartoon, a sex-pilgrim in virtual reality, and much much more. A sparkling love song to the magic of moving pictures, and a meditation both joyous and serious on how sex compels and invents us, The Adventures of Lucky Pierre is a spectacular tour de force from an American master.[via]More editions of The Adventures of Lucky Pierre: Directors' Cut:
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Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essaysby William CalinISBN 0802092721 (0-8020-9272-1)
Hardcover, Univ of Toronto Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays'Book summary:Northrop Frye was one of the most influential 20th-century literary scholars, and Anatomy of Criticism is his most influential book. In this rigorous and readable work of scholarship, Frye feistily champions literary criticism's legitimacy and independence--both by differentiating criticism from other academic disciplines, and by banishing any conception of the critic as "parasite or jackal" (this latter view, Frye notes, is still quite popular, "especially among artists"). The book began as something quite different, and took nearly a decade to write. Frye published his first major work--Fearful Symmetry, on the Romantic poet William Blake--in 1947 and had set out to produce a second tome on Edmund Spencer. But the critical insights accumulating in his fertile mind were too insistent, so the book on Spencer became Anatomy of Criticism.
Anatomy of Criticism remains provocative and enlightening in no small part because of its ambitious breadth. Frye's comprehension of literary history is breathtaking, as is the complexity but also the clarity of his thought. Four chapters treat historical, ethical, archetypal, and rhetorical modes of criticism, bracketed by a "Polemical Introduction" and a "Tentative Conclusion." Frye's ultimate aim is to confirm for the reader that literary criticism is a science in its own right: "Criticism," he says, "is to art what history is to action and philosophy is to wisdom.... And just as there is nothing which the philosopher cannot consider philosophically, and nothing which the historian cannot consider historically, so the critic should be able to construct and dwell in a conceptual universe of his own." Rather than promote any particular critical approach over another, he tries to construct a theoretical structure sturdy and expansive enough to accommodate and inter-relate a broad range of critical approaches. --Russell Prather [via]
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An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943by Rick AtkinsonISBN 0805062882 (0-8050-6288-2)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943'Book summary:In An Army at Dawn,, a comprehensive look at the 1942-1943 Allied invasion of North Africa, author Rick Atkinson posits that the campaign was, along with the battles of Stalingrad and Midway, where the "Axis ... forever lost the initiative" and the "fable of 3rd Reich invincibility was dissolved." Additionally, it forestalled a premature and potentially disastrous cross-channel invasion of France and served as a grueling "testing ground" for an as-yet inexperienced American army. Lastly, by relegating Great Britain to what Atkinson calls the status of "junior partner" in the war effort, North Africa marked the beginning of American geopolitical hegemony. Although his prose is occasionally overwrought, Atkinson's account is a superior one, an agile, well-informed mix of informed strategic overview and intimate battlefield-and-barracks anecdotes. (Tobacco-starved soldiers took to smoking cigarettes made of toilet paper and eucalyptus leaves.) Especially interesting are Atkinson's straightforward accounts of the many "feuds, tiffs and spats" among British and American commanders, politicians, and strategists and his honest assessments of their--and their soldiers'--performance and behavior, for better and for worse. This is an engrossing, extremely accessible account of a grim and too-often overlooked military campaign. --H. O'Billovich [via]
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The Balconyby Jean GenetISBN 0802150349 (0-8021-5034-9)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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The Beginning of Springby Penelope FitzgeraldISBN 0805009817 (0-8050-0981-7)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Berlin Alexander Platzby Alfred DoblinISBN 080446121X (0-8044-6121-X)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Berlin Alexander Platz'Book summary:Released from jail, Franz Biberkopf tries to live an honest life, but fate is against him as he enters the world of gangsters, thieves, and young nazis in 1920s Berlin. [via]
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Black Springby Henry MillerISBN 0802131824 (0-8021-3182-4)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Blind Owlby Sadegh HedayatISBN 0802131808 (0-8021-3180-8)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blind Owl'Book summary:Considered one of the most important works of modern Iranian literature, The Blind Owl is a haunting tale of loss and spiritual degradation. Replete with potent symbolism and terrifying surrealistic imagery, Sadegh Hedayat's masterpice details a young man's despair after losing a mysterious lover. As the narrator gradually drifts into madness, the reader becomes caught in the sandstorm of Hedayat's bleak vision of the human condition.[via]More editions of Blind Owl:
The Caretaker and the Dumb Waiterby Harold PinterISBN 080215087X (0-8021-5087-X)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Cities of the Red Nightby William S. BurroughsISBN 0805017631 (0-8050-1763-1)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cities of the Red Night'Book summary:While young men wage war against an evil empire of zealous mutants, the population of this modern inferno is afflicted with the epidemic of a radioactive virus. An opium-infused apocalyptic vision from the legendary author of Naked Lunch is the first of the trilogy with The Places of the Dead Roads and his final novel, The Western Plains.
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City of Nightby John RechyISBN 0802130836 (0-8021-3083-6)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'City of Night'Book summary:John Rechy, recipient of the Publishing Triangles William Whitehead Lifetime Achievement Award, wrote City of Night in 1963. This radical and daring work, which launched Rechys reputation as one of Americas most courageous novelists, remains the classic document of the garish neon-lit world of hustlers, drag queens, and men on the make who inhabited the homosexual underground of the early sixties.[via]More editions of City of Night:
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Collected Shorter Playsby Samuel BeckettISBN 0802150551 (0-8021-5055-1)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Collected Shorter Plays'Book summary:Contains Beckett's less than full-length works for stage, radio and television, in chronological order of composition. [via]
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The Coming of the Nightby John RechyISBN 0802137423 (0-8021-3742-3)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Coming of the Night'Book summary:John Rechy's new novel is a return to the themes and scenes of his classic, best-selling City of Night and a bittersweet memorial to a lost world -- gay Los Angeles in the moment before AIDS. It is 1981, a summer night, and an unscripted ritual is about to take place. Young, beautiful Jesse is celebrating one year on the dazzling gay scene and plans to lose himself completely in its transient pleasures. He is joined by Dave, a leatherman bent on testing limits. A young hustler, an opera lover lost in fantasies of youth, a gang of teenagers looking for trouble -- as the Santa Ana winds breathe fire down the hills of Los Angeles, stirring up desires and violence, these men circle ever closer to a confrontation as devastating as it is inevitable. Lyrical, humorous, and compassionate, The Coming of the Night proves again that as a novelist and chronicler of gay life John Rechy has no equal. "The question Rechy asks is still potent: Would you die for sex? Rechy's sizzling literary response, The Coming of Night is as exciting as it is chilling." -- Pamela Warrick, Los Angeles Times; "[Rechy] very nearly touches greatness . . . feeling his way toward that place within each of us where the ecstatic teeters on the edge of psychic abyss. . . . A substantial artist." -- Frank Browning, Salon.[via]More editions of The Coming of the Night:
The Complete Plays: The Ruffain on the Stair, Entertaining Mr. Sloan, the Good and Faithful Servant, Loot, the Erpingham Camp, Funeral Games, What the Butler Sawby Joe OrtonISBN 0802132154 (0-8021-3215-4)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Conspiracy And Imprisonment, 1940-1945by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Mark S. Brocker, Ulrich Kabitz, Wolf Krotke, Jorgen GlenthojISBN 0800683161 (0-8006-8316-1)
Hardcover, Augsburg Fortress Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Conspiracy And Imprisonment, 1940-1945'Book summary:This volume, published in the year of the one hundredth anniversary of Bonhoeffer's birth, documents Bonhoeffer's life under the increasing restraints and fateful events of World War II Germany. In hundreds of letters, including ten never-before-published letters to his fiancee, Maria von Wedemeyer, as well as official documents, short original pieces, and a few final sermons, the volume sheds light on Bonhoeffer's active resistance to and increasing involvement in the conspiracy against the Hitler regime, his arrest, and his long imprisonment. Finally, Bonhoeffer's many exchanges with his family, fiancee, and closest friends, demonstrate the affection and solidarity that accompanied Bonhoeffer to his prison cell, concentration camp, and eventual death. [via]
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The Creative Mind: An Introduction to Metaphysicsby Henri BergsonISBN 0806504218 (0-8065-0421-8)
Softcover, Citadel Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Creative Mind: An Introduction to Metaphysics'Book summary:This masterly autobiography of Bergson's philosophical method: how he became a philosopher, why he is a philosopher, and what philosophy must be These, the man and his work, constitute a definitive critique of philosophy. [via]
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Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifestoby Vine DeloriaISBN 0806121297 (0-8061-2129-7)
Softcover, Univ of Oklahoma Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto'Book summary:In his new preface to this quality paperback edition, the author observes, 'The Indian world has changed so substantially since the first publication of this book that some things contained in it seem new again.' Indeed, it seems that each generation of whites and Indians will have to read and reread Vine Deloria s Manifesto for some time to come, before we absorb his special, ironic Indian point of view and what he tells us, with a great deal of humor, about U.S. race relations, federal bureaucracies, Christian churches, and social scientists. This book continues to be required reading for all Americans, whatever their special interest. [via]
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Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckettby James KnowlsonISBN 0802141250 (0-8021-4125-0)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett'Book summary:Damned to Fame is the brilliant and insightful portrait of Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett, mysterious and reclusive master of twentieth-century literature. Professor James Knowlson, Beckett's chosen biographer and a leading authority on Beckett, vividly re-creates Beckett's life from his birth in a rural suburb of Dublin in 1906 to his death in Paris in 1989, revealing the real man behind the literary giant. Scrupulously researched and filled with previously unknown information garnered from interviews with the author and his friends, family, and contemporaries, Knowlson's unparalleled work is the definitive Beckett biography of our time.[via]More editions of Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett:
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Dinner at the Homesick Restaurantby Anne TylerISBN 080410882X (0-8041-0882-X)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant'Book summary:"A book that should join those few that every literate person will have to read."
THE BOSTON GLOBE
Pearl Tull is nearing the end of her life but not her memory. Ever since 1944 when her husband left her, she has raised her three very different children on her own. Now grown, they have gathered together--with anger, with hope, and with a beautiful, harsh, and dazzling story to tell.... [via]More editions of Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant:
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Discipleshipby Dietrich BonhoefferISBN 0800683242 (0-8006-8324-2)
Softcover, Fortress Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Discipleship'Book summary:With that sharp warning to his own church, which was engaged in bitter conflict with the official nazified state church, Dietrich Bonhoeffer began his book Discipleship (formerly entitled The Cost of Discipleship). Originally published in 1937, it soon became a classic exposition of what it means to follow Christ in a modern world beset by a dangerous and criminal government. At its center stands an interpretation of the Sermon on the Mount: what Jesus demanded of his followers--and how the life of discipleship is to be continued in all ages of the post-resurrection church.
Every call of Jesus is a call to death, Bonhoeffer wrote.
His own life ended in martyrdom on April 9, 1945.
Freshly translated from the German critical edition, Discipleship provides a more accurate rendering of the text and extensive aids and commentary to clarify the meaning, context, and reception of this work and its attempt to resist the Nazi ideology then infecting German Christian churches. [via]
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Doctor Saxby Jack KerouacISBN 0802130496 (0-8021-3049-6)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Doctor Sax'Book summary:In this haunting novel of intensely felt adolescence, jack kerouac tells the story of jack duluoz, a french-canadian boy growing up, as kerouac himself did, in the dingy factory town of lowell, massachusetts. Dr. Sax, with his flowing cape, slouch hat, and insinuating leer, is chief among the many ghosts and demons that populate jack's fantasy world. Deftly mingling memory and dream, kerouac captures the accents and texture of his boyhood in lowell as he relates jack's adventures with this cryptic, apocalyptic hipster phantom. "kerouac dreams of america in the authentic rolling rhythms of a whitman or a thomas wolfe, drunk with eagerness for life." - john k. Hutchens; "kerouac's peculiar genius infects every page." - the new york times [via]
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Escape from Freedomby Erich FrommISBN 0805031499 (0-8050-3149-9)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Escape from Freedom'Book summary:If humanity cannot live with the dangers and responsibilities inherent in freedom, it will probably turn to authoritarianism. This is the central idea of Escape from Freedom, a landmark work by one of the most distinguished thinkers of our time, and a book that is as timely now as when first published in 1941. Few books have thrown such light upon the forces that shape modern society or penetrated so deeply into the causes of authoritarian systems. If the rise of democracy set some people free, at the same time it gave birth to a society in which the individual feels alienated and dehumanized. Using the insights of psychoanalysis as probing agents, Fromms work analyzes the illness of contemporary civilization as witnessed by its willingness to submit to totalitarian rule.[via]More editions of Escape from Freedom:
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Fishing the Sloe-Black River: Storiesby Colum McCannISBN 0805041079 (0-8050-4107-9)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fishing the Sloe-Black River: Stories'Book summary:In Songdogs, his first novel, Colum McCann, who divides his time between Ireland and America, explores the tensions created by movement between such different worlds. The thematic thread in this collection of short stories is much the same--the longing to escape from, and the pull toward, a fixed and central point. Sometimes the theme is explored through travel: a survivor of Hiroshima emigrates to western Ireland, but always feels the blast of that defining moment; a young Irishwoman moves frenetically through America in search of tranquillity. Sometimes the motion is within the mind, as it is for the paralyzed cyclist who discards his bike after realizing that "the only thing it could be ridden with was a perfect cadence of the imagination." [via]
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Four Novelsby Marguerite DurasISBN 0802151116 (0-8021-5111-6)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafeby Fannie FlaggISBN 0804115613 (0-8041-1561-3)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Gilles and Jeanne/21094by Michel TournierISBN 080210021X (0-8021-0021-X)
Hardcover, Grove Pr
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The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novelby Salman RushdieISBN 0805053085 (0-8050-5308-5)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel'Book summary:Salman Rushdie's most ambitious and accomplished novel, sure to be hailed as his masterpiece. At the beginning of this stunning novel, Vina Apsara, a famous and much-loved singer, is caught up in a devastating earthquake and never seen again by human eyes. This is her story, and that of Ormus Cama, the lover who finds, loses, seeks, and again finds her, over and over, throughout his own extraordinary life in music. Their epic romance is narrated by Ormus's childhood friend and Vina's sometime lover, her "back-door man," the photographer Rai, whose astonishing voice, filled with stories, images, myths, anger, wisdom, humor, and love, is perhaps the book's true hero. Telling the story of Ormus and Vina, he finds that he is also revealing his own truths: his human failings, his immortal longings. He is a man caught up in the loves and quarrels of the age's goddesses and gods, but dares to have ambitions of his own. And lives to tell the tale. Around these three, the uncertain world itself is beginning to tremble and break. Cracks and tears have begun to appear in the fabric of the real. There are glimpses of abysses below the surfaces of things. The Ground Beneath Her Feet is Salman Rushdie's most gripping novel and his boldest imaginative act, a vision of our shaken, mutating times, an engagement with the whole of what is and what might be, an account of the intimate, flawed encounter between the East and the West, a brilliant remaking of the myth of Orpheus, a novel of high (and low) comedy, high (and low) passions, high (and low) culture. It is a tale of love, death, and rock 'n' roll. [via]
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Historical Atlas of World Mythology, Vol II Part 1: The Sacrificeby Joseph CampbellISBN 0792445651 (0-7924-4565-1)
Softcover, Bdd Promotional Book Co
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The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Financeby Ron ChernowISBN 0802138292 (0-8021-3829-2)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance'Book summary:The winner of the National Book Award and now considered a classic, The House of Morgan is the most ambitious history ever written about an American banking dynasty. Acclaimed by The Wall Street Journal as "brilliantly researched and written," the book tells the rich, panoramic story of four generations of Morgans and the powerful, secretive firms they spawned. It is the definitive account of the rise of the modern financial world. A gripping history of banking and the booms and busts that shaped the world on both sides of the Atlantic, The House of Morgan traces the trajectory of the J. P. Morgan empire from its obscure beginnings in Victorian London to the crash of 1987. Ron Chernow paints a fascinating portrait of the private saga of the Morgans and the rarefied world of the American and British elite in which they moved. Based on extensive interviews and access to the family and business archives, The House of Morgan is an investigative masterpiece, a compelling account of a remarkable institution and the men who ran it, and an essential book for understanding the money and power behind the major historical events of the last 150 years.[via]More editions of The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance:
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How the Dead Liveby Will SelfISBN 0802138489 (0-8021-3848-9)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How the Dead Live'Book summary:In April 1988, 65-year-old Lily Bloom quickly succumbs to cancer in the Royal Ear Hospital. ("Where do they keep the Royal Ear, I wonder? I think of it as very large--as big as a dinner tray--and very red, angrily red.") But after life there's death. Guided by an aborigine named Phar Lap Jones, she is transported by a Greek Cypriot minicab driver to the North London dead neighborhood of Dulston. There, accompanied by her dead son, Rude Boy, she's introduced to the 12-step Personally Dead meetings, and she watches over her living daughters--the cold, ambitious Charlotte, and her favorite, the heroin-addicted Natasha. "Natasha is peculiarly charged by the drug--and even by the mere anticipation of its effects. She shifts from being vulnerable and skittish and withdrawn to being strong and steady and extrovert. She's told me before that it makes her feel 'complete' and 'confident,' and I can see what she means. When she's off heroin she's a fucking nightmare--when she's on it she's a peach."
Since Will Self's face, voice, and, notoriously, life story are familiar to many who will never pick up his fiction, there's always the risk of reading How the Dead Live as autobiography. In which case, he's clearly based Lily on his New York-born Jewish mother, and he's wittily retooled large chunks of his own much-publicized addictions, transmuting himself into the beautiful and glamorously doomed Natasha. But Lily is feisty and articulate, with a complex history spanning two continents, two husbands, and a constantly re-created personality--a great literary creation. Self's sympathetic account of Lily's decline into her morphine-laden deathbed is deeply affecting, and his long-term obsession with London provides us with the utterly convincing Dulston. His treatment of modern Jewish life in North London (rather than New York) will find its fans and critics, but the novel grows beyond such local concerns. Ultimately, it is about the vexed relationship between the worries of contemporary Western life and a more transcendent spirituality--signaled by Self's opening gesture to The Tibetan Book of the Dead and by the all-seeing Phar Lap Jones. How the Dead Live is a big book with big ideas, and quite definitely Will Self's most ambitious and mature work to date. --Alan Stewart [via]
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Isaiah Berlin: A Lifeby Michael IgnatieffISBN 0805063005 (0-8050-6300-5)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Isaiah Berlin: A Life'Book summary:Russian by birth, Jewish by descent, English by choice, Isaiah Berlin (1909-97) knit together three identities into a cosmopolitan sensibility that informed his contributions as one of the 20th century's most influential and important intellectuals. Based on his experiences as a child during the Russian Revolution and his friendships with such beleaguered writers as Boris Pasternak and Anna Akhmatova, Berlin affirmed the superiority of individual freedom and judgment to Marxist totalitarianism. But he made fellow liberals uncomfortable with his unwelcome reminders that their ideals--liberty, equality, social justice--inevitably conflicted and required painful tradeoffs. London-based journalist Michael Ignatieff, who spent 10 years interviewing Berlin before his death, adeptly captures an appealing man: lighthearted, spontaneous, a brilliant conversationalist and lecturer (one of Oxford University's most popular professors), able to savor private happiness despite an essentially tragic view of political life. Ignatieff admires Berlin's views without accepting them uncritically; similarly, he acknowledges personal failings while appreciating the serenity Berlin achieved against considerable odds. This lucidly written, thoughtfully argued work is a model of the well-balanced biography, carefully evaluating the complex interplay of character and conviction in one remarkable individual. --Wendy Smith [via]
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The Izu Dancer and Other Storiesby Edward SeidenstickerISBN 0804811415 (0-8048-1141-5)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Izu Dancer and Other Stories'Book summary:Originally published in The Atlantic Monthly, in 1958, The Izu Dancer, a story about a young man's travels through the Izu Peninsula, introduced Kawabata's prodigious talent to the West. Since its first printing, Kawabata, winner of the 1968 Nobel Prize, has been recognized as one of Japan's most distinguished writers. Also included in this collection are three stories by the prolific author Yasushi Inoue, the recipient of every major prize in Japanese literature: "The Counterfeiter," "Obasute," and "The Full Moon." Inoue's stories, each of which are at least partially autobiographical, all reveal his great compassion for his fellow human being. [via]
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John Brown's Bodyby Stephen Vincent BenetISBN 0805013180 (0-8050-1318-0)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Jurassic ParkISBN 0793527775 (0-7935-2777-5)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
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Jurassic Park Piano Solosby John WilliamsISBN 0793526892 (0-7935-2689-2)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jurassic Park Piano Solos'Book summary:Arrangements for the intermediate-advanced player. Includes the themes by the great John Williams written for the blockbuster movie. Besides the main theme this folio includes: Journey to the Island
* Welcome to Jurassic Park
* My Friend, the Brachiosaurus
* A Tree for My Bed
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Ladders to Fireby Anais Nin, Gunther StuhlmannISBN 0804001812 (0-8040-0181-2)
Softcover, Ohio Univ Pr
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Lancelotby Walker PercyISBN 0804103801 (0-8041-0380-1)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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The Last Gentlemanby Walker PercyISBN 0804103798 (0-8041-0379-8)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Like Water for Chocolateby Thomas Christensen, Laura Esquivel, Carol ChristensenISBN 0792717848 (0-7927-1784-8)
Softcover, Chivers North Amer
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A Little Princessby Frances Hodgson Burnett, Lucy Coats, Tim ClaryISBN 0789466791 (0-7894-6679-1)
Hardcover, Dk Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Little Princess'Book summary:This retelling of the well-known classic is both charming and accessible to younger readers. "I do sometimes pretend I am a princess, so that I can try and behave like a proper one." When wealthy Sara Crewe first arrives at Miss Minchin's Select Seminary for Young Ladies, she is treated like a princess. But when Sara descends into poverty and is forced to work as a lowly servant, she needs all her courage and imagination to remain a princess at heart. This Young Classics edition explores the real world behind A Little Princess. Photography sets the scene without intruding on the story, and brings A Little Princess to life for a new generation of children. [via]
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A Little Princessby Susanna Davidson, Kate AldousISBN 0794511236 (0-7945-1123-6)
Hardcover, Edc Pub
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Lonesome Travelerby Jack KerouacISBN 0802130747 (0-8021-3074-7)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lonesome Traveler'Book summary:In his first frankly autobiographical work, Jack Kerouac tells the exhilarating story fo the years when he was writing th books that captivated and infuriated the public, restless years of wandering during which he worked as a railway brakeman in California, a steward on a tramp steamer, and a fire lookout on the crest of Desolation Peak in the Cascde Mountains.[via]More editions of Lonesome Traveler:
Love in the Ruinsby Walker PercyISBN 080410378X (0-8041-0378-X)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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The Man Who Loved Childrenby Christina Stead, Randall JarrellISBN 0805004998 (0-8050-0499-8)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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Miracle of the Roseby Jean Genet, Bernard FrechtmanISBN 0802130887 (0-8021-3088-7)
Softcover, Atlantic Monthly Pr
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Mooby Jane SmileyISBN 0804117683 (0-8041-1768-3)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Moon Tigerby Penelope LivelyISBN 0802135331 (0-8021-3533-1)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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National Geographic Eyewitness to the 20th Centuryby National GeographicISBN 0792270495 (0-7922-7049-5)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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National Geographic Eyewitness to the 20th Century: An Illustrated Historyby National GeographicISBN 0792280636 (0-7922-8063-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'National Geographic Eyewitness to the 20th Century: An Illustrated History'Book summary:Using photographs, maps, charts, and time lines, this comprehensive volume portrays this centurys incredible events and developments from the Wright Brothers first flight to Neil Armstrongs walk on the moon, up to the events of today. Organized conveniently by decade, each section begins by highlighting a prevailing issue of the dayAmerica and Big Business, Womens Suffrage, the 1924 Immigrations Restriction Act, the Great Depression, the Atomic Age, McCarthyism, Civil Rights, the Explosion of Mass Culture, the Rise of Conservatism, and the End of the Cold War. The 20th century brought forth the most dramatic advances ever made in a single century. No one tells it better than National Geographic Society. [via]
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Nova Expressby William S. BurroughsISBN 0802133304 (0-8021-3330-4)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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The Ogreby Barbara Bray, Michel TournierISBN 080185590X (0-8018-5590-X)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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One of Oursby Willa Cather, Frederick M. Link, Kari Ronning, Richard C. HarrisISBN 0803214316 (0-8032-1431-6)
Hardcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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Painted Birdby Jerzy KosinskiISBN 080213422X (0-8021-3422-X)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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The Palm-Wine Drinkardby Amos TutuolaISBN 0802150489 (0-8021-5048-9)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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The Palm-Wine Drinkard and My Life in the Bush of Ghostsby Amos TutuolaISBN 0802133630 (0-8021-3363-0)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Palm-Wine Drinkard and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts'Book summary:When Amos Tutuola's first novel, The Palm-Wine Drinkard, appeared in 1952, it aroused exceptional worldwide interest. Drawing on the West African Yoruba oral folktale tradition, Tutuola described the odyssey of a devoted palm-wine drinker through a nightmare of fantastic adventure. Since then, The Palm-Wine Drinkard has been translated into more than 15 languages and has come to be regarded as a masterwork of one of Africa's most influential writers. Tutuola's second novel, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, recounts the fate of mortals who stray into the world of ghosts, the heart of the tropical forest. Here, as every hunter and traveler knows, mortals venture at great peril, and it is here that a small boy is left alone.[via]More editions of The Palm-Wine Drinkard and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts:
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A Peace to End All Peace: Creating the Modern Middle East, 1914-1922by David FromkinISBN 0805008578 (0-8050-0857-8)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Peace to End All Peace: Creating the Modern Middle East, 1914-1922'Book summary:Peopled with larger-than-life figures such as Winston Churchill (around whom the story is structured), General Kitchener and T.E. Lawrence, Gertrude Bell, Attaturk, Emir Feisal and Lloyd George the book describes the showdown with the Ottoman Empire which erupted into the devastating Eastern campaign of World War I and led to the formation - by bureaucracy and subterfuge by Americans and Europeans - of the states known collectively as the Middle East. The years 1914-1922 were the creative, formative years when everything seemed possible, but the events of 1922, the pivotal year, set the course for a future of endless wars and acts of terrorism that became the legacy of this period. Issues such as The Allenby Declaration establishing nominal independence for Egypt, the Palestine Mandate and the Churchill White Paper (from which Israel and Jordan sprang), the installing of Hashemite leaders of predominantly Shi'ite teritories, new leaders for Egypt and Iraq, the Russian declaration of a Soviet Union intent on re-establishing her rule over Moslem Central Asia - David Fromkin shows how all these changed the Middle East (and Europe) forever. [via]
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Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle Eastby David FromkinISBN 0805068848 (0-8050-6884-8)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East'Book summary:The critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling account of how the modern Middle East came into being after World War I, and why it is in upheaval today[via]
In our time the Middle East has proven a battleground of rival religions, ideologies, nationalisms, and dynasties. All of these conflicts, including the hostilities between Arabs and Israelis that have flared yet again, come down, in a sense, to the extent to which the Middle East will continue to live with its political inheritance: the arrangements, unities, and divisions imposed upon the region by the Allies after the First World War.
In A Peace to End All Peace, David Fromkin reveals how and why the Allies came to remake the geography and politics of the Middle East, drawing lines on an empty map that eventually became the new countries of Iraq, Israel, Jordan, and Lebanon. Focusing on the formative years of 1914 to 1922, when all-even an alliance between Arab nationalism and Zionism-seemed possible he raises questions about what might have been done differently, and answers questions about why things were done as they were. The current battle for a Palestinian homeland has its roots in these events of 85 years ago.More editions of Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East:
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Pedro Paramoby Juan Rulfo, Margaret Sayers PedenISBN 0802133908 (0-8021-3390-8)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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The Philosophy of Existentialismby Gabriel Marcel, Jean-Paul SartreISBN 0806509015 (0-8065-0901-5)
Softcover, Kensington Publishing Corporation
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The Physicistsby Friedrich DurrenmattISBN 0802150888 (0-8021-5088-8)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Physicists'Book summary:The worlds greatest physicist, Johann Wilhelm Möbius, is in a madhouse, haunted by recurring visions of King Solomon. He is kept company by two other equally deluded scientists: one who thinks he is Einstein, another who believes he is Newton. It soon becomes evident, however, that these three are not as harmlessly lunatic as they appear. Are they, in fact, really mad? Or are they playing some murderous game, with the world as the stake? For Möbius has uncovered the mystery of the universeand therefore the key to its destructionand Einstein and Newton are vying for this secret that would enable them to rule the earth.[via]More editions of The Physicists:
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The Pilgrim's Regress: Library Editionby C. S. Lewis, Michael HagueISBN 0802806414 (0-8028-0641-4)
Softcover, Eerdmans Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Pilgrim's Regress: Library Edition'Book summary:One of C.S. Lewis's works of fiction, or more specifically allegory, this book is modelled upon Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress", as Lewis satirizes different sections of the Church. Included in the tale is the City of Claptrap, and the far-off marsh of the Theosophists. [via]
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The Radiant Wayby Margaret DrabbleISBN 0804103658 (0-8041-0365-8)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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The Railway Childrenby E. Nesbit, Shirley HughesISBN 0805031294 (0-8050-3129-4)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Rashamon and Other Storiesby Ryunosuke AkutagawaISBN 0804814570 (0-8048-1457-0)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rashamon and Other Stories'Book summary:This fascinating collection gave birth to a new paradigm when Akira Kurosawa made famous Akutagawa's disturbing tale of seven people recounting the same incident from shockingly different perspectives.
Writing at the beginning of the twentieth century, Ryunosuke Akutagawa created disturbing stories out of Japan's cultural upheaval. Whether his fictions are set centuries past or close to the present, Akutagawa was a modernist, writing in polished, superbly nuanced prose subtly exposing human needs and flaws. "In a Grove," which was the basis for Kurosawa's classic film Rashomon, tells the chilling story of the killing of a samurai through the testimony of witnesses, including the spirit of the murdered man. The fable-like "Yam Gruel" is an account of desire and humiliation, but one in which the reader's sympathy is thoroughly unsettled. And in "The Martyr," a beloved orphan raised by Jesuit priests is exiled when he refuses to admit that he made a local girl pregnant. He regains their love and respect only at the price of his life. All six tales in the collection show Akutagawa as a master storyteller and an exciting voice of modern Japanese literature. [via]More editions of Rashamon and Other Stories:
Red Star over Chinaby Edgar SnowISBN 0802150934 (0-8021-5093-4)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writingsby Walter Benjamin, Peter DemetzISBN 080520802X (0-8052-0802-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings'Book summary:A companion volume to Illuminations, the first collection of Walter Benjamin's writings, Reflections presents a further sampling of his wide-ranging work. Here Benjamin evolves a theory of language as the medium of all creation, discusses theater and surrealism, reminisces about Berlin in the 1920s, recalls conversations with Bertolt Brecht, and provides travelogues of various cities, including Moscow under Stalin. He moves seamlessly from literary criticism to autobiography to philosophical-theological speculations, cementing his reputation as one of the greatest and most versatile writers of the twentieth century. Also included is a new preface by Leon Wieseltier that explores Benjamin's continued relevance for our times. [via]
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The Road Not Taken: An Introduction to Robert Frostby Robert Frost, Louis Untermeyer, John O'Hara CosgraveISBN 0805069836 (0-8050-6983-6)
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The Roverby Joseph ConradISBN 0805062637 (0-8050-6263-7)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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From Joseph Conrad, one of the modern masters of literature, comes this tale of intrigue in the opening days of the Napoleonic wars. Peyrol, a French pirate from the Indian seas, returns to his home country to find himself threatened by both British and French forces. His flight through Imperial France, his daring mission carrying dispatches through the British blockade, and his doomed love affair with the daughter of a French sailor are all related in Conrad's irresistibly atmospheric and suspenseful style.More editions of The Rover:
The Scarlet Pimpernelby OrczyISBN 0804900280 (0-8049-0028-0)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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The Sea-Wolfby Jack LondonISBN 0804900647 (0-8049-0064-7)
Softcover, Alex m Yudkin Assoc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sea-Wolf'Book summary:In The Sea-Wolf, London's most gripping novel, Humphrey Van Weyden is rescued from the freezing waters of San Francisco Bay by a demonic sea captain and introduced to fates far worse that death. Through this story London recalls his own adventures on a sealing vessel at the age of seventeen. John Sutherland's notes include a history of pelagic seal hunting and an account of the many cinematic versions of this novel.
About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. [via]More editions of The Sea-Wolf:
A Small Town in Germanyby John Le CarreISBN 0792713613 (0-7927-1361-3)
Hardcover, Chivers North Amer
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Smilla's Sense of Snowby Peter HoegISBN 0792720245 (0-7927-2024-5)
Softcover, Chivers North Amer
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Smilla's Sense of Snow'Book summary:In this international bestseller, Peter Høeg successfully combines the pleasures of literary fiction with those of the thriller. Smilla Jaspersen, half Danish, half Greenlander, attempts to understand the death of a small boy who falls from the roof of her apartment building. Her childhood in Greenland gives her an appreciation for the complex structures of snow, and when she notices that the boy's footprints show he ran to his death, she decides to find out who was chasing him. As she attempts to solve the mystery, she uncovers a series of conspiracies and cover-ups and quickly realizes that she can trust nobody. Her investigation takes her from the streets of Copenhagen to an icebound island off the coast of Greenland. What she finds there has implications far beyond the death of a single child. The unusual setting, gripping plot, and compelling central character add up to one of the most fascinating and literate thrillers of recent years. [via]
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Solaris: Romanby Stanisaw LemISBN 0802755267 (0-8027-5526-7)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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A Spell of Winterby Helen DunmoreISBN 0802138764 (0-8021-3876-4)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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A Spy in the House of Loveby Anais NinISBN 0804002800 (0-8040-0280-0)
Softcover, Ohio Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Spy in the House of Love'Book summary:A Spy in the House of Love, whose heroine Sabina is deeply divided between her drive for artistic and sexual expression and social restrictions and self-created inhibitions, echoes Anaïs Nins personal struggle with sex, love, and emotional fragmentation. Although Nin found in her diaries a profound mode of self-creation and confession, she could not reveal this intimate record of her own experiences during her lifetime. Instead, she turned to fiction, where her stories and novels became artistic distillations of her secret diaries. Written when Nins own life was taut with conflicting loyalties, her protagonist Sabina repeatedly asks herself, can one idulge ones sensual restlessness, the fantasies, the relentless need for adventure without devastating consequences? [via]
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The Spy Who Came in from the Coldby John Le CarreISBN 0802714544 (0-8027-1454-4)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold'Book summary:It would be an international crime to reveal too much of the jeweled clockwork plot of Le Carré's first masterpiece, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. But we are at liberty to disclose that Graham Greene called it the "finest spy story ever written," and that the taut tale concerns Alec Leamas, a British agent in early Cold War Berlin. Leamas is responsible for keeping the double agents under his care undercover and alive, but East Germans start killing them, so he gets called back to London by Control, his spy master. Yet instead of giving Leamas the boot, Control gives him a scary assignment: play the part of a disgraced agent, a sodden failure everybody whispers about. Control sends him back out into the cold--deep into Communist territory to checkmate the bad-guy spies on the other side. The political chessboard is black and white, but in human terms the vicinity of the Berlin Wall is a moral no-man's land, a gray abyss patrolled by pawns.
Le Carré beats most spy writers for two reasons. First, he knows what he's talking about, since he raced around working for British Intelligence while the Wall went up. He's familiar with spycraft's fascinations, but also with the fact that it leaves ideals shaken and emotions stirred. Second, his literary tone has deep autobiographical roots. Spying is about betrayal, and Le Carré was abandoned by his mother and betrayed by his father, a notorious con man. (They figure heavily in his novels Single & Single and A Perfect Spy.) In a world of lies, Le Carré writes the bitter truth: it's every man for himself. And may the best mask win. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Lifeby C. S. LewisISBN 0802725368 (0-8027-2536-8)
Softcover, Walker Large Print
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The Thanatos Syndromeby Walker PercyISBN 0804102201 (0-8041-0220-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Thanatos Syndrome'Book summary:When Dr. Tom More is released on parole from state prison, he returns to Feliciana, Louisiana, the parish where he was born and bred, where he practiced psychiatry before his arrest. He immediately notices something strange in almost everyone around him: unusual sexual behavior in women patients, a bizarre loss of inhibition, his own wife's extraordinary success as bridge tournaments, during which her mind seems to function like a computer. With the help of his attractive cousin, Dr. Lucy Lipscomb, Dr. More begins to uncover a criminal experimentto "improve" people's behavior by drugging the local water supply. But beyond this scheme are activities so sinister that Dr. More can only wonder if the whole world has gone crazy -- or he has . . . [via]
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Tono-bungayby H. G. WellsISBN 0803297017 (0-8032-9701-7)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tono-bungay'Book summary:Tono-Bungay (1909), the bridge between H.G. Wells 's comic novels and his novels of ideas, was regarded by Wells himself as perhaps his most ambitious work of fiction. It was, he said, "the novel as I imagined it, on Dickens-Thackeray lines." The hero-narrator, George Ponderevo, begins life in the servants' hall of a great house, Bladesover, earns a pharmaceutical society scholarship, and is apprenticed to his uncle Edward Ponderevo, a druggist in a small country town. Uncle Teddy concocts a patent medicine, Tono-Bungay ("The Secret of Vigour"), and together they build the colossal Tono-Bungay property "out of human hope and a credit for bottles and printing." The meteoric career of Uncle Teddy, Napoleon of commerce and precursor of twentieth-century hucksters, is narrated against the background of his nephew's life.[via] 
White Fangby Jack LondonISBN 0804900361 (0-8049-0036-1)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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Zodiacby Neal StephensonISBN 0802143156 (0-8021-4315-6)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Zodiac'Book summary:Believe it or not, some readers find Zodiac even more fun than Neal Stephenson's defining 1990s cyberpunk novel, Snow Crash. Zodiac is set in Boston, and hero Sangamon Taylor (S. T.) ironically describes his hilarious exploits in the first person. S. T. is a modern superhero, a self-proclaimed Toxic Spiderman. With stealth, spunk, and the backing of GEE (a non-profit environmental group) as his weapons, S. T. chases down the bad guys with James Bond-like Zen.
Cruising Boston Harbor with lab tests and scuba gear, S. T. rides in with the ecosystem cavalry on his 40-horsepower Zodiac raft. His job of tracking down poisonous runoff and embarrassing the powerful corporations who caused them becomes more sticky than usual; run-ins with a gang of satanic rock fans, a deranged geneticist, and a mysterious PCB contamination that may or may not be man-made--plus a falling-out with his competent ("I adore stress") girlfriend--all complicate his mission.
Stephenson/S. T.'s irreverent, facetious, esprit-filled voice make this near-future tale a joy to read. [via]
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