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Alexandra's Travel Adventure: Making Friends in Mexicoby Sally BrownISBN 9781578602 (978-157-860-2)
Hardcover, Emmis Books
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American Psychoby Bret Easton EllisISBN 0679735771 (0-679-73577-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Psycho'Book summary:Patrick Bateman moves among the young and trendy in 1980s Manhattan. Young, handsome, and well educated, Bateman earns his fortune on Wall Street by day while spending his nights in ways we cannot begin to fathom. Expressing his true self through torture and murder, Bateman prefigures an apocalyptic horror that no society could bear to confront.
Blurb in Spanish: Mucho se ha hablado de American Psycho. Y lo cierto es que había razón para tanta polémica, pues esta novela de Bret Easton Ellis constituye una de las críticas más feroces que un escritor norteamericano ha hecho a su propio país: una sociedad autocomplaciente y orgullosa de si misma. Para su denuncia, el autor ha escogido un camino arriesgado: Patrick Bateman, el protagonista, no es un rebelde ni un paria; Patrick es un joven de éxito que, sin embargo, también es capaz de violar, torturar y asesinar. Como dijo Fay Weldom, American Psycho es de alguna forma el oscuro complemento de La hoguera de las vanidades, por cuanto descubre aquellos puntos negros de la vida de los supuestos triunfadores que la novela de Tom Wolfe quiso obviar. [via]
Armed and Dangerous: From Undercover Struggle to Freedomby Ronald KasrilsISBN 1868420639 (1-86842-063-9)
Hardcover, Mayibuye Books
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Back to Barbary Lane: The Final Tales of the City Omnibusby Armistead MaupinISBN 0060166495 (0-06-016649-5)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Back to Barbary Lane: The Final Tales of the City Omnibus'Book summary:"An old fashioned pleasure... there's been nothing like it since the heyday of the serial novel 100 years ago... Tearing through [the tales] one after the other, as I did, allows instant gratification; it also lets you appreciate how masterfully they're constructed. No matter what Maupin writes next, he can look back on the rare achievement of having built a little world and made it run."
--Walter Kendrick, Village Voice Literary SupplementBy turns hilarious and heartbreaking, Armistead Maupin's bestselling Tales of the City series stands as an incomparable blend of great storytelling and incisive social commentary. These six classic comedies, some of which originally appeared as serials in San Francisco newspapers, have won Maupin critical acclaim around the world and enthralled legions of devoted fans.
Back to Barbary Lane comprises the second trilogy of the series--Babycakes (1984), Significant Others (1987), and Sure of You (1989) -- concluding the saga of the tenants, past and present, of Mrs. Madrigal's beloved apartment house on Russian Hill. While the first trilogy celebrated the carefree excesses of the seventies, this volume tracks its hapless, all-to-human cast across a decade troubled by plague, deceit and overweening ambition.
Like its companion volume, 28 Barbary Lane, Back to Barbary Lane is distinguished by what The Guardian of London has called "some of the sharpest and most speakable dialogue you are ever likely to read." It promises hours of literate entertainment for readers old and new.
With a foreword by the author. [via]
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Black Swan Greenby David MitchellISBN 1400063795 (1-4000-6379-5)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Swan Green'Book summary:From award-winning writer David Mitchell comes a sinewy, meditative novel of boyhood on the cusp of adulthood and the old on the cusp of the new.
Black Swan tracks a single year in what is, for thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor, the sleepiest village in muddiest Worcestershire in a dying Cold War England, 1982. But the thirteen chapters, each a short story in its own right, create an exquisitely observed world that is anything but sleepy. A world of Kissingeresque realpolitik enacted in boys games on a frozen lake; of nightcreeping through the summer backyards of strangers; of the tabloid-fueled thrills of the Falklands War and its human toll; of the cruel, luscious Dawn Madden and her power-hungry boyfriend, Ross Wilcox; of a certain Madame Eva van Outryve de Crommelynck, an elderly bohemian emigré who is both more and less than she appears; of Jasons search to replace his dead grandfathers irreplaceable smashed watch before the crime is discovered; of first cigarettes, first kisses, first Duran Duran Lps, and first deaths; of Margaret Thatchers recession; of Gypsies camping in the woods and the hysteria they inspire; and, even closer to home, of a slow-motion divorce in four seasons.
Pointed, funny, profound, left-field, elegiac, and painted with the stuff of life, Black Swan Green is David Mitchells subtlest and most effective achievement to date. [via]More editions of Black Swan Green:
The Bonfire of the Vanitiesby Tom WolfeISBN 0553275976 (0-553-27597-6)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bonfire of the Vanities'Book summary:After Tom Wolfe defined the '60s in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers and the cultural U-turn at the turn of the '80s in The Right Stuff, nobody thought he could ever top himself again. In 1987, when The Bonfire of the Vanities arrived, the literati called Wolfe an "aging enfant terrible."
He wasn't aging; he was growing up. Bonfire's pyrotechnic satire of 1980s New York wasn't just Wolfe's best book, it was the best bestselling fiction debut of the decade, a miraculously realistic study of an unbelievably status-mad society, from the fiery combatants of the South Bronx to the bubbling scum at the top of Wall Street. Sherman McCoy, a farcically arrogant investment banker (dubbed a "Master of the Universe," Wolfe's brilliant metaphorical co-opting of a then-important toy for boys), hits a black guy in the Bronx with his Mercedes and runs--right into a nightmare peopled by vicious mistresses, thin wives like "social x-rays," slime-bag politicos, tabloid hacks, and Dantesque denizens of the "justice" system. If the Coen and Marx brothers together dramatized The Great Gatsby, Wolfe's Bonfire would probably be funnier. Many think his second novel, A Man in Full, is deeper, but Bonfire will never die down.
You might find it interesting to compare the film The Bonfire of the Vanities, a fascinating calamity perpetrated by the geniuses Brian De Palma and Tom Hanks, with The Right Stuff, one of the very best films of the '80s. --Tim Appelo [via]
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- The Bonfire of the Vanities: ISBN 0553381342 (0-553-38134-2)
Softcover, Dell Publishing - The Bonfire of the Vanities: ISBN 0816147450 (0-8161-4745-0)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr - The Bonfire of the Vanities: ISBN 0374115346 (0-374-11534-6)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux - The Bonfire of the Vanities: ISBN 0374115354 (0-374-11535-4)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux - The Bonfire of the Vanities: ISBN 0374115370 (0-374-11537-0)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux - The Bonfire of the Vanities: ISBN 0553275976 (0-553-27597-6)
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- The Bonfire of the Vanities: ISBN 0553381342 (0-553-38134-2)
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Bright Lights, Big Cityby Jay McInerneyISBN 0394726413 (0-394-72641-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bright Lights, Big City'Book summary:The hero of this novel is sleepwalking through his job on a chic New Yorker-style magazine by day; by night he pursues pleasure in the coke-fuelled clublands of Manhattan. But pleasure is elusive and his wife, a glamorous model, has left him. By the author of "Story of My Life". [via]
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Callahan's Crosstime Saloonby Spider RobinsonISBN 0894900145 (0-89490-014-5)
Hardcover, Enslow Pub Inc
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Carmen Dogby Carol EmshwillerISBN 1931520089 (1-931520-08-9)
Softcover, Small Beer Pr
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Christineby Stephen KingISBN 8484505987 (84-8450-598-7)
Softcover, Debolsillo
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The City Observed: Los Angeles A Guide to Its Architecture and Landscapesby Charles Moore, Peter Becker, Regula CampbellISBN 0940512149 (0-940512-14-9)
Softcover, Hennessey & Ingalls
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Cujoby Stephen KingISBN 0881037273 (0-88103-727-3)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cujo'Book summary:Cujo is so well-paced and scary that people tend to read it quickly, so they mostly remember the scene of the mother and son trapped in the hot Pinto and threatened by the rabid Cujo, forgetting the multifaceted story in which that scene is embedded. This is definitely a novel that rewards re-reading. When you read it again, you can pay more attention to the theme of country folk vs. city folk; the parallel marriage conflicts of the Cambers vs. the Trentons; the poignancy of the amiable St. Bernard (yes, the breed choice is just right) infected by a brain-destroying virus that makes it into a monster; and the way the "daylight burial" of the failed ad campaign is reflected in the sunlit Pinto that becomes a coffin. And how significant it is that this horror tale is not supernatural: it's as real as junk food, a failing marriage, a broken-down car, or a fatal virus. [via]
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Das Parfum: Die Geschichte Eines Mordersby Patrick SuskindISBN 3257016786 (3-257-01678-6)
Hardcover, Diogenes
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Das Parfum: Die Geschichte Eines Morders'Book summary:An acclaimed bestseller and international sensation, Patrick Suskind's classic novel provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one man's indulgence in his greatest passion-his sense of smell-leads to murder. In the slums of eighteenth-century France, the infant Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime gift-an absolute sense of smell. As a boy, he lives to decipher the odors of Paris, and apprentices himself to a prominent perfumer who teaches him the ancient art of mixing precious oils and herbs. But Grenouille's genius is such that he is not satisfied to stop there, and he becomes obsessed with capturing the smells of objects such as brass doorknobs and frest-cut wood. Then one day he catches a hint of a scent that will drive him on an ever-more-terrifying quest to create the "ultimate perfume"-the scent of a beautiful young virgin. Told with dazzling narrative brillance, Perfume is a hauntingly powerful tale of murder and sensual depravity. [via]
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The Dead Zoneby Stephen KingISBN 0881037214 (0-88103-721-4)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dead Zone'Book summary:In the St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost & Gothic Writers, Gary Westfahl predicts that "King has already earned himself a place in the history of literature.... At the very least, he will enjoy the status of a latter-day Anthony Trollope, an author respected for his popularity and social commentary.... More likely, he will be enshrined as the Charles Dickens of the late 20th century, the writer who perfectly reflected, encapsulated, and expressed the characteristic concerns of his era."
If any of King's novels exemplifies his skill at portraying the concerns of his generation, it's The Dead Zone (1979). Although it contains a horrific subplot about a serial killer, it isn't strictly a horror novel. It's the story of an unassuming high school teacher, an Everyman, who suffers a gap in time--like a Rip Van Winkle who blacks out during the years 1970-75--and thus becomes acutely conscious of the way that American society is rapidly changing. He wakes up as well with a gap in his brain, the "dead zone" of the title. The zone gives him crippling headaches, but also grants him second sight, a talent he doesn't want and is reluctant to use. The crux of the novel concerns whether he will use that talent to alter the course of history.
The Dead Zone is a tight, well-crafted book. When asked in 1983 which of his novels so far was "the best," Stephen King answered, "The one that I think works the best is Dead Zone. It's the one that [has] the most story." --Fiona Webster [via]
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Dragonflightby Anne McCaffreyISBN 1560600748 (1-56060-074-8)
Softcover, Eclipse Books
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El Perfumeby Patrick SuskindISBN 8432215244 (84-322-1524-4)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Perfume'Book summary:A thriller, unique in its genre: a perfume maker in 18th-century Paris turns out to be an obsessive killer looking for the ultimate fragrance. [via]
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Excess: Fashion and the Underground in the 80sby Maria Luisa Frisa, Stefano TonchiISBN 8881584654 (88-8158-465-4)
Softcover, Distributed Art Pub Inc
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Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80sby Hunter S. ThompsonISBN 0743250443 (0-7432-5044-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80s'Book summary:A running tally of the folly of the 80's, the decade known for men of "huge brains, small necks, weak muscles and fat wallets.." - NYT Book Review [via]
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- Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80's: ISBN 0679722378 (0-679-72237-8)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group - Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80s: ISBN 0517075040 (0-517-07504-0)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub - Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80s: ISBN 0671661477 (0-671-66147-7)
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Generation Xby Douglas CouplandISBN 1417706643 (1-4177-0664-3)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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Get In The Vanby Henry RollinsISBN 1880985764 (1-880985-76-4)
Softcover, 2 13 61
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Get in the Van: On the Road With Black Flagby Henry RollinsISBN 1880985241 (1-880985-24-1)
Softcover, Pub Group West
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Get in the Van: On the Road With Black Flag'Book summary:A day-by-day journal from the journals of the ever-volatile Henry Rollins on tour from 1981 to 1986 that captures the irrationality and violence of punk specifically, and the stresses of being on the road in a rock band generally. [via]
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Here Is Greenwoodby William Flanagan, Yukie NasuISBN 1591166055 (1-59116-605-5)
Softcover, Viz
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Here Is Greenwoodby Yukie NasuISBN 1591167795 (1-59116-779-5)
Softcover, Viz Media
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Here Is Greenwood'Book summary:Collectible Comic. Long out of print. Comes shipped in protective comic bag. [via]
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Here Is Greenwood 9by William Flanagan, Yukie NasuISBN 1591166047 (1-59116-604-7)
Softcover, Viz
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The Hunt For Red Octoberby Tom ClancyISBN 0870212850 (0-87021-285-0)
Hardcover, Naval Inst Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hunt For Red October'Book summary:Somewhere under the Atlantic, a Soviet sub commander has just made a fateful decision: the Red October is heading west. The Americans want her. The Russians want her back. And the most incredible chase in history is on....
The Hunt for Red October is the runaway bestseller that launched Tom Clancy's phenomenal career. A military thriller so accurate and convincing that the author was rumored to have been debriefed by the White House. Its theme: the greatest espionage coup in history. Its story: the chase for a runaway top secret Russian missile sub. [via]
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Journey into Chinaby National Geographic Society EditorsISBN 0870444379 (0-87044-437-9)
Hardcover, Natl Geographic Society
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Jumping the Cracksby Rebecca O'RourkeISBN 0860687716 (0-86068-771-6)
Softcover, Virago
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Kampuchea: Politics, Economics, and Societyby Michael VickeryISBN 0931477743 (0-931477-74-3)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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LA Zona Muertaby Stephen KingISBN 8497593138 (84-9759-313-8)
Softcover, Debolsillo
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Less Than Zeroby Bret Easton EllisISBN 0679781498 (0-679-78149-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Less Than Zero'Book summary:Clay comes home to L.A. for Christmas vacation and re-enters a landscape of limitless privilege and moral entropy, where everyone drives Porsches, dines at Spago, and snorts mountains of cocaine. He tries to renew feelings for his girlfriend, Blair, and for his best friend from high school, Julian, who is careering into hustling and heroin. Clay's holiday turns into a dizzying spiral of desperation that takes him through the relentless parties in glitzy mansions, seedy bars, and underground rock clubs. Morally barren, ethically bereft and tinged with implicit violence, "Less Than Zero" is a shocking coming-of-age novel about the casual nihilism that comes with youth and money. "An extraordinarily accomplished first novel." - "New Yorker." "One of the most disturbing novels I've read in a long time. It possesses an unnerving air of documentary reality." - Michiko Kakutani, "New York Times." "The Catcher in the Rye for the MTV generation." - "USA Today." "Remarkable. A killer - sexy, sassy, sad." - "Village Voice." [via]
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- Less Than Zero: ISBN 0140088946 (0-14-008894-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada) - Less Than Zero: ISBN 0517642727 (0-517-64272-7)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub - Less Than Zero: ISBN 0671543296 (0-671-54329-6)
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The Line Of Beautyby Alan HollinghurstISBN 1582346100 (1-58234-610-0)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Line Of Beauty'Book summary:Interview with Alan Hollinghurst
Alan Hollinghurst's extraordinarily rich novel The Line of Beauty. has garnered a new level of acclaim for the author after winning the 2004 Man Booker Prize. Hollinghurst speaks about his work in our interview.More editions of The Line Of Beauty:
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Little Nightmares, Little Dreamsby Rachel SimonISBN 0899199526 (0-89919-952-6)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Mastering The Universe: He-man And The Rise And Fall Of A Billion-dollar Ideaby David Wecker, Roger SweetISBN 1578602238 (1-57860-223-8)
Softcover, Emmis Pr
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Neuromancerby William GibsonISBN 1569564116 (1-56956-411-6)
Softcover, William a Thomas Braille
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Nicaragua: The Threat of a Good Exampleby Oxfam, Dianna MelroseISBN 0855980702 (0-85598-070-2)
Softcover, OXFAM
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The Official Preppy Handbookby Lisa BirnbachISBN 0894801406 (0-89480-140-6)
Softcover, Workman Pub Co
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Okhota Za"Krasnym Oktiabrem"by Tom ClancyISBN 0914481274 (0-914481-27-4)
Hardcover, Time & We
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Perfume: The Story of a Murdererby Patrick SuskindISBN 1557360200 (1-55736-020-0)
Hardcover, ABC-CLIO
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Perfume: The Story of a Murderer'Book summary:Antes del tacto, sucede el olor, como mensajero de una esencia que sabe desaparecer en el aire y ser agente de un gran poder. La seduccion que despliega el olor es implacable: se instala en nosotros y sella su poderio en los tejidos de la memoria. Jean-Baptiste Grenouille tiene su marca de nacimiento: no despide ningun olor. Al mismo tiempo posee un don excepcional: un olfato prodigioso que le permite percibir todos los olores del mundo. Desde la miseria en que nace, Grenouille lucha contra su condicion y escala posiciones sociales convirtiendose en un afamado perfumista. Crea perfumes capaces de hacerle inspirar simpatia, amor, compasion Para obtener estas formulas magistrales debe asesinar a jovenes muchachas virgenes, obtener sus fluidos corporales y licuar sus olores intimos. Su arte se convierte en una suprema e inquietante prestidigitacion. Patrick Süskind nos transmite una vision acida y desenganada del hombre y nos propone una inmersion literaria en el arco iris de los olores y en los abismos del espiritu humano. Convertida en una de las mayores producciones cinematograficas europeas de la historia, El perfume es un libro repleto de sabiduria olfativa, imaginacion y amenidad. [via]
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- Perfume: The Story of a Murderer: ISBN 8432205311 (84-322-0531-1)
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Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp - Perfume: The Story of a Murderer: ISBN 8432216062 (84-322-1606-2)
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Pet Semataryby Stephen KingISBN 1416524347 (1-4165-2434-7)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pet Sematary'Book summary:Renowned for its superior productions, BBC radio may have outdone itself by adapting Stephen King's Pet Sematary to audio. A clamorous cacophony of talking, whining, whistling, and howling, Pet Sematary is a quick, entertaining earful for those who don't have other auditory distractions to contend with, such as a car full of talking whining, whistling, howling children. However, the melodramatic prose marries well with the acting; such is the case when one reader--whose voice bears an uncanny resemblance to Kramer's from Seinfeld--tells another about the effects of the Pet Sematary: "Heroin makes junkies feel good when they put it in their arms, but all the time it's poisoning their mind and body--this place can be like that and don't you ever forget it!" (Running time: three hours, two cassettes) [via]
Rotary Spokesby Fiona CooperISBN 1852425075 (1-85242-507-5)
Softcover, Serpents Tail
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The Rules of Attractionby Bret Easton EllisISBN 067978148X (0-679-78148-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rules of Attraction'Book summary:The author of Less Than Zero delivers a startling novel about three students entangled in a loveless sexual triangle. Wealthy upperclass students, they indulge in a routine of happy hours, parties, late night drinking bouts, drug abuse, and casual sex fueled by a desperate desire for love. [via]
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Significant Othersby Armistead MaupinISBN 0060924810 (0-06-092481-0)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Significant Others'Book summary:Tranquillity reigns in the ancient redwood forest until a women-only music festival sets up camp downriver from an all-male retreat for the ruling class. Among those entangled in the ensuing mayhem are a lovesick nurseryman, a panic-stricken philanderer, and the worlds most beautiful fat woman. Significant Others is Armistead Maupins cunningly observed meditation on marriage, friendship, and sexual nostalgia.
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- Significant Others: ISBN 0060964081 (0-06-096408-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins - Significant Others: ISBN 0060961260 (0-06-096126-0)
Softcover, Perennial Library - Significant Others: ISBN 0060550864 (0-06-055086-4)
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So80s : A Photographic Diary of the Decadeby Patrick McMullan, Jay McInerneyISBN 1576871878 (1-57687-187-8)
Hardcover, powerHouse Cultural Entertainment, Incorporated
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The Spirit of Allah: Khomeini and the Islamic Revolutionby Amir TaheriISBN 091756104X (0-917561-04-X)
Hardcover, Woodbine House
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Stephen King's Danse Macabreby Stephen KingISBN 0896960765 (0-89696-076-5)
Hardcover, Bookthrift Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stephen King's Danse Macabre'Book summary:In the fall of 1978 (between The Stand and The Dead Zone), Stephen King taught a course at the University of Maine on "Themes in Supernatural Literature." As he writes in the foreword to this book, he was nervous at the prospect of "spending a lot of time in front of a lot of people talking about a subject in which I had previously only felt my way instinctively, like a blind man." The course apparently went well, and as with most teaching experiences, it was as instructive, if not more so, to the teacher as it was to the students. Thanks to a suggestion from his former editor at Doubleday, King decided to write Danse Macabre as a personal record of the thoughts about horror that he developed and refined as a result of that course.
The outcome is an utterly charming book that reads as if King were sitting right there with you, shooting the breeze. He starts on October 4, 1957, when he was 10 years old, watching a Saturday matinee of Earth vs. the Flying Saucers. Just as the saucers were mounting their attack on "Our Nation's Capital," the movie was suddenly turned off. The manager of the theater walked out onto the stage and announced, "The Russians have put a space satellite into orbit around the earth. They call it ... Spootnik."
That's how the whole book goes: one simple, yet surprisingly pertinent, anecdote or observation after another. King covers the gamut of horror as he'd experienced it at that point in 1978 (a period of about 30 years): folk tales, literature, radio, good movies, junk movies, and the "glass teat". It's colorful, funny, and nostalgic--and also strikingly intelligent. --Fiona Webster [via]
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Sure of Youby Armistead MaupinISBN 0060924845 (0-06-092484-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sure of You'Book summary:A fiercely ambitious TV talk show host finds she must choose between national stardom in New York and a husband and child in San Francisco. Caught in the middle is their longtime friend, a gay man whose own future is even more uncertain. Wistful and compassionate, yet subversively funny, Sure of You could only come from Armistead Maupin.
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Surviving the Blues: Growing Up in the Thatcher Decadeby Joan ScanlonISBN 1853811998 (1-85381-199-8)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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Tape Delay: Confessions from the Eighties Undergroundby Charles NealISBN 0946719020 (0-946719-02-0)
Softcover, S. A. F. Publishing Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tape Delay: Confessions from the Eighties Underground'Book summary:Contributors to Tape Delay include: Marc Almond - Dave Ball - Cabaret Voltaire - Nick Cave - Chris & Cosey - Coil - Einsturzende Neubauten - The Fall - Diamanda Galas - Genesis P. Orridge - Michael Gira - The Hafler Trio - Matt Johnson (The The) - Laibach - Lydia Lunch - New Order - Psychic TV - Boyd Rice - Henry Rollins - Clint Ruin - Sonic Youth - Stevo - Mark Stewart - Swans - Test Dept. - David Tibet (Current 93)
In 1984 author Charles Neal set about interviewing the major protagonists working in sound, word and image. Concentrating on the most challenging and confrontational, he deliberately chose those individuals and groups most at odds with the mainstream. His aim to produce a collection that reflected the cutting edge of the Eighties underground.
With only his tape recorder as defence, he solicited hundreds of hours of interview material, as well as photos, original writing and illustrations. His findings were as intriguing and diverse as the artists included. Often encompassing the taboo and perverse, the opinions of Nick Cave, Genesis P.Orridge and Michael Gira now read like lone voices against the tide of creeping commerciality that abounded in the Eighties music scene.
Those such as Coil, Einsturzende Neubauten and Lydia Lunch are still gnawing away at the boundaries of respectability, while New Order, Sonic Youth and Henry Rollins have become internationally renowned. Clearly, the confrontational legacy of the artists included within Tape Delays myriad pages is still visible in todays musical world, whether it be in the industrial rhythms of Nine Inch Nails or the ambient undercurrents of Orbital or Underworld. Years later, this invaluable collection still makes for fascinating reading both as historical document and as signpost to future actions. [via]
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A Tourist's Guide to Japanby ProteusISBN 0862761727 (0-86276-172-7)
Softcover, Proteus Pub Co
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The Udf: A History of the United Democratic Front in South Africa, 1983-1991by Jeremy SeekingsISBN 0864864035 (0-86486-403-5)
Hardcover, James Currey Ltd
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Underworldby Don DelilloISBN 1416548645 (1-4165-4864-5)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Underworld'Book summary:While Eisenstein documented the forces of totalitarianism and Stalinism upon the faces of the Russian peoples, DeLillo offers a stunning, at times overwhelming, document of the twin forces of the cold war and American culture, compelling that "swerve from evenness" in which he finds events and people both wondrous and horrifying. Underworld opens with a breathlessly graceful prologue set during the final game of the Giants-Dodgers pennant race in 1951. Written in what DeLillo calls "super-omniscience" the sentences sweep from young Cotter Martin as he jumps the gate to the press box, soars over the radio waves, runs out to the diamond, slides in on a fast ball, pops into the stands where J. Edgar Hoover is sitting with a drunken Jackie Gleason and a splenetic Frank Sinatra, and learns of the Soviet Union's second detonation of a nuclear bomb. It's an absolutely thrilling literary moment. When Bobby Thomson hits Branca's pitch into the outstretched hand of Cotter--the "shot heard around the world"--and Jackie Gleason pukes on Sinatra's shoes, the events of the next few decades are set in motion, all threaded together by the baseball as it passes from hand to hand.
"It's all falling indelibly into the past," writes DeLillo, a past that he carefully recalls and reconstructs with acute grace. Jump from Giants Stadium to the Nevada desert in 1992, where Nick Shay, who now owns the baseball, reunites with the artist Kara Sax. They had been brief and unlikely lovers 40 years before, and it is largely through the events, spinoffs, and coincidental encounters of their pasts that DeLillo filters the Cold War experience. He believes that "global events may alter how we live in the smallest ways," and as the book steps back in time to 1951, over the following 800-odd pages, we see just how those events alter lives. This reverse narrative allows the author to strip away the detritus of history and pop culture until we get to the story's pure elements: the bomb, the baseball, and the Bronx. In an epilogue as breathless and stunning as the prologue, DeLillo fast-forwards to a near future in which ruthless capitalism, the Internet, and a new, hushed faith have replaced the Cold War's blend of dread and euphoria.
Through fragments and interlaced stories--including those of highway killers, artists, celebrities, conspiracists, gangsters, nuns, and sundry others--DeLillo creates a fragile web of connected experience, a communal Zeitgeist that encompasses the messy whole of five decades of American life, wonderfully distilled. [via]
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Vietnam: Politics, Economics and Societyby Melanie BeresfordISBN 0861874498 (0-86187-449-8)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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War For The Oaks: The Screenplayby Will Shetterly, Emma BullISBN 1932983082 (1-932983-08-2)
Softcover, Black Coat Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'War For The Oaks: The Screenplay'Book summary:Eddi McCandry has just left her boyfriend and their band when she finds herself drafted against her will in a faerie war between the Summer and Winter Courts, the WAR FOR THE OAKS. While trying to cope with her new otherworldly bodyguyard, the Pooka, Eddi also struggles to build a new life, a new band, survive the schemes of the Queen of Air and Darkness -- and discover the magic that is truly her own. Emma Bull and Will Shetterly write novels, short stories, screenplays, comic books, poetry and essays. Emma was a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy Award for Bone Dance. Will won the Minnesota Book Award for Elsewhere. In film and television, thousands of fine scripts by established writers are never produced. The Black Coat Script Library is dedicated to presenting some of those scripts. [via]
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Whores On The Hillby Colleen CurranISBN 1400079950 (1-4000-7995-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Allerlei-Rauh: Eine Chronikby Sarah KirschISBN 3421063818 (3-421-06381-8)
Hardcover, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt
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Einfach Unwiderstehlichby Ellis Bret EastonISBN 3462030000 (3-462-03000-0)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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Generation Golf: Eine Inspektionby Florian IlliesISBN 3870245123 (3-87024-512-3)
Hardcover, Argon
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Hotel City: Fotografien 1980-1984by Helmut Friedel, Ute Eskildsen, Stadtische Galerie Im Lenbachhaus Munchen, Museum Folkwang Essen, Sigrun Thiessen, Vladimir VinskiISBN 3925835709 (3-925835-70-9)
Hardcover, Edition Braus
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Parfumby Patrick SuskindISBN 3257228007 (3-257-22800-7)
Softcover, Diogenes Verlag AG
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LA Caza Del Submarino Ruso/the Hunt for Red Octoberby Tom ClancyISBN 9500405490 (950-04-0549-0)
Softcover, Lectorum Pubns Inc
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Cementerio De Animales/pet Cemetaryby Stephen KingISBN 8497930991 (84-9793-099-1)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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Eso / Itby Stephen King, Edith ZilliISBN 8401474639 (84-01-47463-9)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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El Perfume/ the Perfum: Historia De Un Asesionoby Patrick Suskind, Pilar Giralt GorinaISBN 8432228036 (84-322-2803-6)
Hardcover, Seix Barral
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Les Amants Mauditsby Katia GranoffISBN 2264002190 (2-264-00219-0)
Hardcover, Union generale d'editions
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American Psycho-Frenchby Bret Easton EllisISBN 2020253801 (2-02-025380-1)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Psycho-French'Book summary:Patrick Bateman est un jeune homme riche, beau et intelligent. Un golden boy de Wall Street à qui tout réussit. Il est par ailleurs parfaitement au fait des techniques de nettoyage et désincrustage de la peau les plus efficaces, il s'applique les meilleures crèmes pour le visage, ne porte que des vêtements de grands couturiers, utilise les derniers gadgets technologiques et passe ses soirées au Tunnel, la boîte branchée du moment. Bien sûr, tous ses amis sont comme lui.
La seule différence, c'est qu'en plus Patrick Bateman viole, torture et tue. Mais il ne ressent jamais rien. Juste une légère contrariété lorsque ses scénarii ne se déroulent pas exactement comme prévu. À sa sortie en 1991, le roman d'Ellis suscita une vive émotion, aussi bien à cause de ses scènes d'horreur décrites quasi cliniquement que de son principal personnage, Bateman, symbole de la réussite économique, enfant prodige travesti en tueur sadique et immoral. Il faut dire qu'Ellis s'attaque de front à tous les excès de superficialité de l'Occident contemporain : sexe, culte du corps, de la richesse et de la jeunesse. Une entreprise de destruction commencée très tôt avec son premier roman Moins que zéro écrit alors qu'il avait 22 ans et que l'on retrouve dans Glamorama. Bret Easton Ellis ou l'art de mettre de l'acide sur les plaies béantes de la société. --Stellio Paris [via]
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Les Lois De L'Attractionby Ellis Bret EastonISBN 2264033487 (2-264-03348-7)
Hardcover, Distribooks Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Les Lois De L'Attraction'Book summary:Le roman le moins connu de B.E. Ellis est peut-être le meilleur sinon le plus hypnotique. La précision stylistique plus aboutie que dans Moins que zéro se love dans une méthode narrative mûrie : faire se fondre les personnages dans la chimère de ce qu'ils veulent se croire. Croisant les existences fantomatiques d'étudiants pendant l'année universitaire 1985/86, Ellis en étale cliniquement les aventures, frustrations et errances, les peignant en poissons avariés s'incrustant dans du papier journal, un journal intime collectif schizoïde et momifié. Il n'est que drague morne, drogue triste et sexe froid, parsemant l'évolution de ces pantins (parfois rencontrés dans Moins que zéro) dans le néant dévorant de leur vie.
340 pages de :SEAN- Vais dans la chambre de Denton. Nous descendons quelques bières, on fume de l'herbe, on discute, mais je ne saque pas l'histoire de la mort de son copain, pas davantage la musique de Duran Duran ni ses regards torves, si bien que nous continuer de parler et que je me sens de plus en plus raide
. Chronique hébétée sous forme de succession de monologues intérieurs et démonstration d'écriture, Les Lois de l'attraction captive, amuse et terrifie. Parfait vaccin contre toute nostalgie pour les années 80, c'est le pendant partouze-valium de l'autre grand roman d'Ellis, American Psycho, centré lui sur un seul personnage pour mieux en sonder les abysses. --Florian Pittion-Rossillon [via]More editions of Les Lois De L'Attraction:
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