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Almost a Womanby Esmerelda SantiagoISBN 037570521X (0-375-70521-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Almost a Woman'Book summary:"Not only for readers who share [Santiago's] experiences but for North Americans who seek to understand what it means to be the other."--The Boston Globe
In her new memoir, the acclaimed author of When I Was Puerto Rican continues the riveting chronicle of her emergence from the barrios of Brooklyn to the theaters of Manhattan.
"Negi," as Santiago's family affectionately calls her, leaves rural Macún in 1961 to live in a three-room tenement apartment with seven young siblings, an inquisitive grandmother, and a strict mother who won't allow her to date. At thirteen, Negi yearns for her own bed, privacy, and a life with her father, who remains in Puerto Rico. Translating for Mami at the welfare office in the morning, starring as Cleopatra at New York's prestigious Performing Arts High School in the afternoons, and dancing salsa all night, she yearns to find balance between being American and being Puerto Rican. When Negi defies her mother by going on a series of hilarious dates, she finds that independence brings its own set of challenges.
At once a universally poignant coming-of-age tale and a brave and heartfelt immigrant's story, Almost a Woman is Santiago's triumphant journey into womanhood.
"A universal tale familiar to thousands of immigrants to this country, but made special by Santiago's simplicity and honesty."
--The Miami Herald
"A courageous memoir. . . . One witnesses. . .the blessings, contradictions and restraints of Puerto Rican culture."
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American Women Artistsby Charlotte RubensteinISBN 0380611015 (0-380-61101-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Women Artists'Book summary:Avon Books, 1986. Paperback. Book Condition: Escellent. Light shelf wear [via]
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Anais Nin Readerby Philip JasonISBN 0380000741 (0-380-00074-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anais Nin Reader'Book summary:Fictional Novel, Literary Fiction, Literary Studies [via]
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The Apprenticeby Pilar Molina Llorente, Juan Ramon AlonsoISBN 0374404321 (0-374-40432-1)
Softcover, Sunburst
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Art : A Field Guideby Robert CummingISBN 037541312X (0-375-41312-X)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Art : A Field Guide'Book summary:Your eyes will indeed be opened, and what you see in works of art will come newly alive when you have Robert Cumming, the former chairman of Christie's International Art Studies, as your guide.
With tremendous erudition and tart, provocative opinions, Cumming zeroes in on the essential characteristics of more than 770 painters, showing us, for example, what it was that made Rembrandt's art unique. He explains the conventions of narrative and iconography in Western art, such as the representation of St. Lawrence, who is always seen lying on a hot griddle. And Cumming defines several hundred terms-- both technical (gouache, sfumato, craquelure) and critical/historical (Expressionism, Mannerism, the Hudson River School)-- that so often mystify a viewer.
Cumming's no-nonsense guide is enlightening and entertaining; lavishly illustrated with the key works of hundreds of artists; concise and portable enough to use in the "field" (museums and galleries); and so substantial you will refer to it often at home.
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Aurora Leighby Margaret Reynolds, Elizabeth Barrett BrowningISBN 0393962989 (0-393-96298-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aurora Leigh'Book summary:This Norton Critical Edition of Elizabeth Barrett Brownings 1856 verse-novel is based on Margaret Reynolds variorum edition, which the British Academy awarded the 1993 Rose Mary Crawshay Prize and which is reprinted here by special arrangement with the Ohio University Press.
The text is accompanied by both explanatory annotations and textual notes.
"Backgrounds and Contexts" includes thirty letters or letter excerpts by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning that trace Aurora Leighs inception, evolution, and publication.
Seven contemporary documentson the "woman question," prostitution, socialism, and poetic theoryplace the text historically.
"Criticism" collects twenty-five assessments of Aurora Leigh from the period 18991993.
A wide range of opinion is provided by George Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Ellen Moers, Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, Angela Leighton, Deirdre David, Dorothy Mermin, and Margaret Reynolds, among others.
A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included. [via]More editions of Aurora Leigh:
Beloved Prophet: The Love Letters of Kahlil Gibran and Mary Haskell and Her Private Journalby Virginia Hilu, Kahlil Gibran, Mary HaskellISBN 0394432983 (0-394-43298-3)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Between Lives: An Artist and Her Worldby Dorothea TanningISBN 0393050408 (0-393-05040-8)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Biography of Alice B. Toklasby Linda SimonISBN 0385081405 (0-385-08140-5)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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The Blue Mirrorby Kathe KojaISBN 0374308497 (0-374-30849-7)
Hardcover, Frances Foster Books
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A Boy Named Giottoby Jonathan Galassi, Paolo Guarnieri, Bimba LandmannISBN 0374309310 (0-374-30931-0)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Brave on the Rocks : If You Don't Go, You Don't Seeby Sabrina Ward HarrisonISBN 0375756639 (0-375-75663-9)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brave on the Rocks : If You Don't Go, You Don't See'Book summary:"In the continuum of life and trying to discover my true self, Sabrina reminds me, through her brave, insightful, and heartfelt honesty, that we are all connected in this journey. We are connected through an intertwining sameness called the struggles and joys of finding and becoming our authentic selves. When I read her words, I felt acknowledged for my journey and for being a woman in these complex times... Thank you, Sabrina, for sharing your gift with us. May we all continue to share our journeys together so we know we are not alone."
--from the Foreword by Hilary Swank, actor
From the acclaimed twenty-five-year-old author/artist of the stunning visual memoir Spilling Open comes the all-new multimedia installment of her intimate journey Brave on the Rocks: If You Don't Go, You Don't See.
Picking up where Spilling Open left off, Sabrina Ward Harrison tells us about the surprising reaction to her first book. Via her readers' letters and e-mails, she realized that through her journal she had become an identifying voice for women around the world. However, along with recognition came a certain pressure to uphold her new image. Overwhelmed by her attempt to live up to what she thought she had to become, Sabrina decided to head out on her own. She chose as her destination Italy, a place she had always dreamed and written about, a place she felt she could go to "recolor" herself. In her journey she discovered a universal identity with other travelers and a particular kinship with the women she met. But back home she struggled to keep her newfound confidence intact as she navigated her life.
Harrison writes and illustrates with a powerful and creative voice. Her thoughts are real and brave. She explores with sensitivity questions of love, faith, growing pains, being true to oneself, and what it means to be unique. With unfaltering honesty, she allows us to witness and share in her reconnection with herself, her growing and reaching, and, ultimately, her voyage home again. [via]More editions of Brave on the Rocks : If You Don't Go, You Don't See:
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The Captiveby Marcel Proust, C. K. Scott-Moncrieff, D. J. Enright, Terence KilmartinISBN 0375753117 (0-375-75311-7)
Softcover, Modern Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Captive'Book summary:The Modern Librarys fifth volume of In Search of Lost Time contains both The Captive (1923) and The Fugitive (1925). In The Captive, Prousts narrator describes living in his mothers Paris apartment with his lover, Albertine, and subsequently falling out of love with her. In The Fugitive, the narrator loses Albertine forever. Rich with irony, The Captive and The Fugitive inspire meditations on desire, sexual love, music, and the art of introspection.
For this authoritative English-language edition, D. J. Enright has revised the late Terence Kilmartins acclaimed reworking of C. K. Scott Moncrieffs translation to take into account the new definitive French editions of Á la recherché du temps perdu (the final volume of these new editions was published by the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade in 1989). [via]More editions of The Captive:
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Carl's Afternoon in the Parkby Alexandra DayISBN 0374311048 (0-374-31104-8)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The Carl board books are sure to be baby's best friends!
Titles in this series:
Carl Goes Shopping
Carl's Christmas
Carl's Afternoon in the Park
Carl's Masquerade
Carl Goes to Daycare
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The City, Not Long Afterby Pat MurphyISBN 038524925X (0-385-24925-X)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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The Collector of Momentsby Peter F. Neumeyer, Quint BuchholzISBN 0374315205 (0-374-31520-5)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Crochet:Discovery and Design: Discovery and Designby Del Pitt FeldmanISBN 0385051336 (0-385-05133-6)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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Day of the Beesby Thomas SanchezISBN 037570177X (0-375-70177-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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de Kooning: An American Masterby Mark Stevens, Annalyn SwanISBN 0375711163 (0-375-71116-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'de Kooning: An American Master'Book summary:Willem de Kooning is one of the most important artists of the twentieth century, a true painters painter whose protean work continues to inspire many artists. In the thirties and forties, along with Arshile Gorky and Jackson Pollock, he became a key figure in the revolutionary American movement of abstract expressionism. Of all the painters in that group, he worked the longest and was the most prolific, creating powerful, startling images well into the 1980s.
The first major biography of de Kooning captures both the life and work of this complex, romantic figure in American culture. Ten years in the making, and based on previously unseen letters and documents as well as on hundreds of interviews, this is a fresh, richly detailed, and masterful portrait. The young de Kooning overcame an unstable, impoverished, and often violent early family life to enter the Academie in Rotterdam, where he learned both classic art and guild techniques. Arriving in New York as a stowaway from Holland in 1926, he underwent a long struggle to become a painter and an American, developing a passionate friendship with his fellow immigrant Arshile Gorky, who was both a mentor and an inspiration. During the Depression, de Kooning emerged as a central figure in the bohemian world of downtown New York, surviving by doing commercial work and painting murals for the WPA. His first show at the Egan Gallery in 1948 was a revelation. Soon, the critics Harold Rosenberg and Thomas Hess were championing his work, and de Kooning took his place as the charismatic leader of the New York schooljust as American art began to dominate the international scene.
Dashingly handsome and treated like a movie star on the streets of downtown New York, de Kooning had a tumultuous marriage to Elaine de Kooning, herself a fascinating character of the period. At the height of his fame, he spent his days painting powerful abstractions and intense, disturbing pictures of the female figureand his nights living on the edge, drinking, womanizing, and talking at the Cedar bar with such friends as Franz Kline and Frank OHara. By the 1960s, exhausted by the feverish art world, he retreated to the Springs on Long Island, where he painted an extraordinary series of lush pastorals. In the 1980s, as he slowly declined into what was almost certainly Alzheimers, he created a vast body of haunting and ethereal late work.
This is an authoritative and brilliant exploration of the art, life, and world of an American master.
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The Dinner Partyby Judy ChicagoISBN 0385145675 (0-385-14567-5)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Dinner Party: A Symbol of Our Heritageby Judy ChicagoISBN 0385145667 (0-385-14566-7)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Edie: An American Biographyby Jean SteinISBN 0385297912 (0-385-29791-2)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Embroidering Our Heritage: The Dinner Party Needleworkby Judy ChicagoISBN 0385145691 (0-385-14569-1)
Softcover, Bookthrift Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Embroidering Our Heritage: The Dinner Party Needlework'Book summary:Book documenting the making of a dinner party, an installation which opened at San Francisco Museum of Art, 16 March - 17 June 1979 and was circulated by Through the Flower. [via]
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A Fine Madnessby Elliott BakerISBN 0393303950 (0-393-30395-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Fly On The Wall: How One Girl Saw Everythingby E. LockhartISBN 0385732813 (0-385-73281-3)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fly On The Wall: How One Girl Saw Everything'Book summary:At the Manhattan School for Art and Music, where everyone is different and everyone is special, Gretchen Yee feels ordinary. Shes the kind of girl who sits alone at lunch, drawing pictures of Spider-Man, so she wont have to talk to anyone; who has a crush on Titus but wont do anything about it; who has no one to hang out with when her best (and only real) friend Katya is busy.
One day, Gretchen wishes that she could be a fly on the wall in the boys locker roomjust to learn more about guys. What are they really like? What do they really talk about? Are they really cretins most of the time?
Fly on the Wall is the story of how that wish comes true. [via]More editions of Fly On The Wall: How One Girl Saw Everything:
Following Fake Manby Barbara W. Holmes, Sarah HokansonISBN 0375812660 (0-375-81266-0)
Hardcover, Random House Children's Books
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The Fortress of Solitudeby Jonathan LethemISBN 0375724885 (0-375-72488-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fortress of Solitude'Book summary:This is the story of two boys, Dylan Ebdus and Mingus Rude. They are friends and neighbors, but because Dylan is white and Mingus is black, their friendship is not simple. This is the story of their Brooklyn neighborhood, which is almost exclusively black despite the first whispers of something that will become known as "gentrification."
This is the story of 1970s America, a time when the most simple human decisionswhat music you listen to, whether to speak to the kid in the seat next to you, whether to give up your lunch moneyare laden with potential political, social and racial disaster. This is the story of 1990s America, when no one cared anymore.
This is the story of punk, that easy white rebellion, and crack, that monstrous plague. This is the story of the loneliness of the avant-garde artist and the exuberance of the graffiti artist.
This is the story of what would happen if two teenaged boys obsessed with comic book heroes actually had superpowers: They would screw up their lives.
This is the story of joyous afternoons of stickball and dreaded years of schoolyard extortion. This is the story of belonging to a society that doesn't accept you. This is the story of prison and of college, of Brooklyn and Berkeley, of soul and rap, of murder and redemption.
This is the story Jonathan Lethem was born to tell. This is THE FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE. [via] -
The Guermantes Wayby Marcel ProustISBN 0375752331 (0-375-75233-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Guermantes Way'Book summary:The Guermantes Way, in this the third volume of In Search of Lost Time, refers to the path that leads to the Duc and Duchess de Guermantess château near Combray. It also represents the narrators passage into the rarefied social kaleidoscope of the Guermantess Paris salon, an important intellectual playground for Parisian society, where he becomes a party to the wit and manners of the Guermantess drawing room. Here he encounters nobles, officers, socialites, and assorted consorts, including Robert de Saint Loup and his prostitute mistress Rachel, the Baron de Charlus, and the Prince de Borodino.
For this authoritative English-language edition, D. J. Enright has revised the late Terence Kilmartins acclaimed reworking of C. K. Scott Moncrieffs translation to take into account the new definitive French editions of Á la recherché du temps perdu (the final volume of these new editions was published by the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade in 1989). [via]More editions of The Guermantes Way:
Harley's Ninthby Cat BauerISBN 0375837361 (0-375-83736-1)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Hogarth: A Life and a Worldby Jennifer S. UglowISBN 0374528519 (0-374-52851-9)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Howards Endby E. M. ForsterISBN 0375753761 (0-375-75376-1)
Softcover, Modern Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Howards End'Book summary:Margaret Schlegel, engaged to the much older, widowed Henry Wilcox, meets her intended the morning after accepting his proposal and realizes that he is a man who has lived without introspection or true self-knowledge. As she contemplates the state of Wilcox's soul, her remedy for what ails him has become one of the most oft-quoted passages in literature:
Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer.
Like all of Forster's work, Howards End concerns itself with class, nationality, economic status, and how each of these affects personal relationships. It follows the intertwined fortunes of the Schlegel sisters, Margaret and Helen, and the Wilcox family over the course of several years. The Schlegels are intellectuals, devotees of art and literature. The Wilcoxes, on the other hand, can't be bothered with the life of the mind or the heart, leading, instead, outer lives of "telegrams and anger" that foster "such virtues as neatness, decision, and obedience, virtues of the second rank, no doubt, but they have formed our civilization." Helen, after a brief flirtation with one of the Wilcox sons, has developed an antipathy for the family; Margaret, however, forms a brief but intense friendship with Mrs. Wilcox, which is cut short by the older woman's death. When her family discovers a scrap of paper requesting that Henry give their home, Howards End, to Margaret, it precipitates a spiritual crisis among them that will take years to resolve.Forster's 1910 novel begins as a collection of seemingly unrelated events--Helen's impulsive engagement to Paul Wilcox; a chance meeting between the Schlegel sisters and an impoverished clerk named Leonard Bast at a concert; a casual conversation between the sisters and Henry Wilcox in London one night. But as it moves along, these disparate threads gradually knit into a tightly woven fabric of tragic misunderstandings, impulsive actions, and irreparable consequences, and, eventually, connection. Though set in the early years of the 20th century, Howards End seems even more suited to our own fragmented era of e-mails and anger. For readers living in such an age, the exhortation to "only connect" resonates ever more profoundly. --Alix Wilber [via]
The Illuminated Blake: All of William Blake's Illuminated Works with a Plate-By-Plate Commentaryby William Blake, David V. ErdmanISBN 0385078218 (0-385-07821-8)
Hardcover, Anchor Press/Doubleday
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In the Country of the Youngby Lisa CareyISBN 0380976757 (0-380-97675-7)
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Incredible Painting of Felix Clousseauby Jon AgeeISBN 0374435820 (0-374-43582-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Incredible Painting of Felix Clousseau'Book summary:When Felix Clousseau enters his simple portrait of a duck in the Royal Palace's annual art contest, the judges are scandalized. Then the painting quacks, and they realize they are in the presence of genius. Full-color illustrations. [via]
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John James Audubon: The Making of an Americanby Richard RhodesISBN 037571393X (0-375-71393-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'John James Audubon: The Making of an American'Book summary:From the Pulitzer Prizewinning historian Richard Rhodes, the first major biography of John James Audubon in forty years, and the first to illuminate fully the private and family life of the master illustrator of the natural world.
Rhodes shows us young Audubon arriving in New York from France in 1803, his illegitimacy a painful secret, speaking no English but already drawing and observing birds. We see him falling in love, marrying the wellborn English girl next door, crossing the Appalachians to frontier Kentucky to start a new life, fashioning himself into an American just as his adopted country was finding its identity.
Here is Audubon exploring the wilderness of birdspelicans wading the shallows of interior rivers, songbirds flocking, passenger pigeons darkening the skiesand teaching himself to revivify them in glorious life-size images. Now he finds his calling: to take his hundreds of watercolor drawings to England to be engraved in a great multivolume work called The Birds of America. Within weeks of his arrival there in 1826, he achieves remarkable celebrity as the American Woodsman. He publishes his major work as well as five volumes of bird biographies enhanced by his authentic descriptions of pioneer American life.
Audubons story is an artists story but also a moving love story. In his day, communications by letter across the ocean were so slow and uncertain that John James and his wife, Lucy, almost lost each other in the three years when the Atlantic separated themuntil he crossed the Atlantic and half the American continent to claim her. Their letters during this time are intimate, moving, and painful, and they attest to an enduring love.
We examine Audubons legacy of inspired observationthe sonorities of a wilderness now lost, the brash life of a new nation just inventing itselfprecisely, truthfully, lyrically captured. And we see Audubon in the fullness of his years, made rich by his magnificent work, winning public honor: embraced by writers and scientists, fêted by presidents and royalty.
Here is a revelation of Audubon as the major American artist he is. And here he emerges for the first time in his full humanityhandsome, charming, volatile, ambitious, loving, canny, immensely energetic. Richard Rhodes has given us an indispensable portrait of a true American icon. [via]More editions of John James Audubon: The Making of an American:
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Jose Clemente Orozco in the United States, 1927-1934by James Oles, Jacquelynn Baas, Reiman, Karen, Cordero, Francisco Reyes Palma, Alicia Azuela, Rita Eder, Renato Gonzalez Mello, Diane Miliotes, Victor Alejandro Sorell, Dawn AdesISBN 039304176X (0-393-04176-X)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jose Clemente Orozco in the United States, 1927-1934'Book summary:The complete North American work of one of Mexico's greatest muralists.
Among the Mexican muralists working in this country during the 1920s and 1930s, including the giants Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros, the paintings of José Clemente Orozco are arguably the strongest and most politically charged. This important and profusely illustrated volume is proof. From his first commission, Prometheus, at Pamona College and his highly political work at the New School for Social Research in New York to what some feel is his masterpiece, The Epic of American Civilization, at Dartmouth College, Orozco's stinging characterizations of hypocrisy, greed, and oppression challenged conventional conservative views, to such an extent that in certain instances demands were made for the destruction of his works.
All of Orozco's North American work is presented here, with discussions on his life and influences as well as his place among the other Mexican artists and his impact on the exuberant art of the 1960s and 1970s. 250 illustrations, over half in color [via]More editions of Jose Clemente Orozco in the United States, 1927-1934:
Joseph Beuys: Early Watercolorsby Joseph BeuysISBN 0393307670 (0-393-30767-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Letters to a Young Poetby Rainer Maria Rilke, Franz Xaver Kappus, Herter NortonISBN 0393310396 (0-393-31039-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Letters to a Young Poet'Book summary:It would take a deeply cynical heart not to fall in love with Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet. At the end of this millennium, his slender book holds everything a student of the century could want: the unedited thoughts of (arguably) the most important European poet of the modern age. Rilke wrote these 10 sweepingly emotional letters in 1903, addressing a former student of one of his own teachers. The recipient was wise enough to omit his own inquiries from the finished product, which means that we get a marvelously undiluted dose of Rilkean aesthetics and exhortation.
The poet prefaced each letter with an evocative notation of the city in which he wrote, including Paris, Rome, and the outskirts of Pisa. Yet he spends most of the time encouraging the student in his own work, delivering a sublime, one-on-one equivalent of the modern writing workshop:
Go into yourself and test the deeps in which your life takes rise; at its source you will find the answer to the question whether you must create. Accept it, just as it sounds, without inquiring into it. Perhaps it will turn out that you are called to be an artist. Then take that destiny upon yourself and bear it, its burden and its greatness, without ever asking what recompense might come from outside.
Every page is stamped with Rilke's characteristic grace, and the book is free of the breathless effect that occasionally mars his poetry. His ideas on gender and the role of the artist are also surprisingly prescient. And even his retrograde comment on the "beauty of the virgin" (which the poet derives from the fact that she "has not yet achieved anything") is counterbalanced by his perception that "the sexes are more related than we think." Those looking for an alluring image of the solitary artist--and for an astonishing quotient of wisdom--will find both in Letters to a Young Poet. --Jennifer Buckendorff [via]More editions of Letters to a Young Poet:
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Losing Juliaby Jonathan HullISBN 0385333757 (0-385-33375-7)
Hardcover, Dell Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Losing Julia'Book summary:Jonathan Hull's debut novel is an epic story of love found and lost, of life in all its joy and tragedy, that takes readers as far as a French battlefield during World War I and as near as a California nursing home. Spanning the twentieth century in time, and forever in heartfelt emotion, Losing Julia is storytelling prowess at its most sublime.
Through the eyes of Patrick Delaney, both bright as a nineteen-year-old American soldier off to fight the Great War and dim as an eighty-one-year-old man, Jonathan Hull shows readers one man's world of discovery, of love, and ultimately, of regret.
Julia was the beautiful lover of Patrick's best friend, Daniel. Patrick knew he was meant to be with her the moment he first saw her at a memorial service in eastern France, on the tenth anniversary of the battle in which Daniel died. Though married, Patrick falls desperately in love with Julia during the brief but unforgettable time they spend together exploring the still-battle-scarred countryside and grappling to make sense of what took place there. Struggling to reconcile their love with the havoc of war and life's obligations, Julia and Patrick cling to each other until one faltered step, when Patrick loses Julia, perhaps never to find her again.
From the vicious savagery of trench warfare to the sometimes comic and often tragic indignities of life in a nursing home, readers will make an unforgettable journey through Patrick Delaney's memories as he questions whether the joy he shared with Julia can outweigh the losses of a lifetime.
Julia was the beautiful wife of Patrick's best friend, Daniel. Patrick knew he was meant to be with her the moment he first saw her at a memorial service at Verdun, France, on the tenth anniversary of the battle that made her a widow. Though married, Patrick falls desperately in love with Julia during the brief but unforgettable time they spend together exploring the still battle-scarred countryside and grappling to make sense of what took place there. Struggling to reconcile their love with the havoc of war and life's obligations, Julia and Patrick cling to each other until one faltered step when Patrick loses Julia, perhaps never to find her again. --> [via]More editions of Losing Julia:
The Lost Paintingby Jonathan HarrISBN 0375759867 (0-375-75986-7)
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The Lost Painting : The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpieceby Jonathan HarrISBN 0375431535 (0-375-43153-5)
Hardcover, Random House Large Print
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lost Painting : The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece'Book summary:In 1992 a young art student uncovered a clue in an obscure Italian archive that led to the discovery of Caravaggio's original The Taking of the Christ, a painting that had been presumed lost for over 200 years. How this clue--a single entry in an old listing of family possessions--led to a residence in Ireland and the subsequent restoration of this Italian Baroque masterpiece is the subject of this brisk and enthralling detective story. The Lost Painting reads more like a historical novel than art history, as Harr smoothly weaves several narratives together to bring the story alive. Though he does not provide an in-depth examination of the painting itself--the book is not aimed specifically at art experts--Harr does include many details for lay readers about restoration, the various methods used to track artwork through history, how originals are distinguished from copies, and an inside view of the art world, past and present. He also discusses various forensic approaches, including X ray, infrared reflectography, chemical analysis of the paints and canvas, and other modern techniques. But most of the book is focused on more primitive methods, including dogged research through dusty archives and meticulous attention to detail.
This entertaining book boasts an engaging cast of characters, all of whom are inflicted with the "Caravaggio disease," including some of the foremost Caravaggio scholars in the world, persistent students, obsessive restorers, and most of all, the artist himself. Mercurial, supremely gifted, and prone to violence, Caravaggio lived like an outlaw and a pauper most of his troubled life. Yet even when he attained wealth and fame--and briefly, respectability--he was still hounded by the law (for murder) and numerous vengeful enemies. Harr does an admirable job of bringing the man alive in these pages while keeping his long-lost painting at the center of the action. --Shawn Carkonen [via]
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Man and His Symbolsby C. G. JungISBN 0385052219 (0-385-05221-9)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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The Marble Faun : Or the Romance of Monte Beniby Nathaniel Hawthorne, Peter RobbISBN 037575928X (0-375-75928-X)
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Master Pieces: The Curator's Gameby Thomas Hoving, Lori Stein, Kate LearsonISBN 0393328384 (0-393-32838-4)
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Michelangelo Buonarrotiby Ernest RaboffISBN 038501998X (0-385-01998-X)
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Middlemarchby George Eliot, Bert G. HornbackISBN 0393974529 (0-393-97452-9)
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Monumentby Gary PaulsenISBN 0385305184 (0-385-30518-4)
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Narcissus and Goldmundby Hermann Hesse, Ursule MounaroISBN 0374506841 (0-374-50684-1)
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New Illustrated Just So Storiesby Rudyard Kipling, NicolasISBN 0385261330 (0-385-26133-0)
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Palladioby Jonathan DeeISBN 0375726411 (0-375-72641-1)
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Period Pieceby Gwendolen Mary Darwin RaveratISBN 0393008223 (0-393-00822-3)
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Picasso and Doraby James LordISBN 0374528357 (0-374-52835-7)
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The Picture of Dorian Grayby Oscar WildeISBN 0375751513 (0-375-75151-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'Book summary:This Norton Critical Edition is the only edition available that includes both the 1890 Lippincotts and the 1891 book versions of The Picture of Dorian Gray, allowing students to compare the two published versions with the editorial guidance of Michael Patrick Gillespie.
Backgrounds and Reviews and Reactions allow readers to gauge the novels sensational reception and to consider the heated public debate over art and morality that the novel engendered.
Criticism includes seven new essays on the novel that reflect key changes in interpretive theory in recent years and reveal the broad range of interpretive perspectives on Wilde and The Picture of Dorian Gray. Michael Patrick Gillespie, Simon Joyce, Donald L. Lawler, Sheldon W. Liebman, Maureen OConnor, Elli Ragland-Sullivan, and John Paul Riquelme provide their varied assessments.
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Pictures Of Hollis Woodsby Patricia Reilly GiffISBN 0385326556 (0-385-32655-6)
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Plays Well With Othersby Allan GurganusISBN 0375702032 (0-375-70203-2)
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Portraits : Talking with Artists at the Met, the Modern, the Louvre and Elsewhereby Michael KimmelmanISBN 0375754830 (0-375-75483-0)
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A Profound Secret: May Gaskell, Her Daughter Amy, and Edward Burne-Jonesby Josceline DimblebyISBN 0385603231 (0-385-60323-1)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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A Rare And Curious Giftby Pauline HoldstockISBN 0393327477 (0-393-32747-7)
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Red Dust: A Path Through Chinaby Ma Jian, Flora DrewISBN 0385720238 (0-385-72023-8)
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Regarding the Fountainby Kate Klise, M. Sarah KliseISBN 0380793474 (0-380-79347-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Regarding the Fountain'Book summary:How could a simple request for a new water fountain go so very, very off-track? When Principal Wally Russ writes to fountain designer Florence Waters to ask her to replace Dry Creek Middle School's busted drinking fountain, he little suspects that he is sparking the imagination of an artiste. Kate Klise's charming mystery novel is told entirely in letters and faxes, as the glamorous Florence visits Dry Creek and becomes friends with Mr. Sam N.'s fifth-grade class. The class helps Florence design the most outrageous water fountain ever, and along the way uncovers the dirty (and rather wet) secret that dwells underneath Dry Creek Middle School. Writes Florence to her new fifth-grade friends, "Your drawings are hanging in my studio. Pure inspiration. Of course a drinking fountain should have tropical fish and chocolate shakes!" The book reads like an inspired combination of the epistolary novels Daddy-Long-Legs and Griffin & Sabine. Line drawings by M. Sarah Klise adorn every page, with "snapshots" of the fifth-grade class, pages from the local paper, and coffee-stained While You Were Out notices thickening the stew. The emphasis on visual elements should make the book a hit with kids who claim they don't like to read. Author Klise knows her audience: bad puns flow as freely as water and the plot is just convoluted enough to challenge kids without frustrating them. The Klise sisters have created a classic of comic children's literature. (Ages 8 and older) --Claire Dederer [via]
Rembrandt's Eyesby Simon SchamaISBN 0375709819 (0-375-70981-9)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Seekers: The Story of Man's Continuing Quest to Understand His Worldby Daniel J. BoorstinISBN 0375704752 (0-375-70475-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Seekers: The Story of Man's Continuing Quest to Understand His World'Book summary:Renowned historian Daniel J. Boorstin completes the trilogy he began with The Discoverers and The Creators. The first volume covered explorers, scientists, and historians in their quest for raw knowledge, while the second book describes writers, painters, and composers in their pursuit of inspiring art; The Seekers describes people searching for an understanding of human existence--"Man is the asking animal," notes Boorstin. It's a big, bold theme, and although The Seekers is the shortest work in the trilogy, it's still vintage Boorstin: incredibly learned, richly anecdotal, and casually profound. It begins with the prophets of the Holy Land and the philosophers of ancient Greece, continues through the Renaissance, and concludes with the modern era of the social sciences. "In this long quest [for understanding], Western culture has turned from seeking the end or purpose to seeking causes--from the Why to the How," writes Boorstin. That's a neat summary of Western intellectual development over several thousand years. What other author could put it so succinctly? Boorstin is generally stronger with material that is more recent and more secular, but this is an accomplished book and a worthy capstone to an outstanding three-volume effort. --John J. Miller [via]
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Set in Stoneby Linda NewberyISBN 0385751028 (0-385-75102-8)
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Sitaby Kate MillettISBN 0374265461 (0-374-26546-1)
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Spilling Open: The Art of Becoming Yourselfby Sabrina Ward HarrisonISBN 0375756485 (0-375-75648-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Spilling Open: The Art of Becoming Yourself'Book summary:Readers of both genders and all generations will find timeless innocence and age-old wisdom in the scrawling, sprawling words of Sabrina Ward Harrison. The format here is a personal journal in which Harrison allows readers to be privy to her colorful pages of free-flowing collages, photographs, and wildly handwritten words. Harrison explores many of the typical questions, confusions, and insights that accompany the journey from adolescence to womanhood. At times her angst feels a tad clichéd ("I am afraid to show you who I really am, because if I show you who I really am, you might not like it--and that's all I got."), but her gutsy presentation and honesty make her words feel fresh and hard-earned, especially in passages such as this:
I think God leaves me alone to let me find my own strength because no one else can give it to me. Sometimes it is very lonely. But I know the lonely times teach me the most. I must let go in order to let anything in. No one can love me, for me. Take a big walk protected in the trees. I miss the time before today.
Harrison is a gifted writer with an inspiring amount of heart-on-her-sleeve honesty. She even has the maturity to quote two of the big Ws--Walt Whitman and Woody Allen--with equal panache. But more importantly, she earns her readers' trust and hearts. As a result, Harrison is a woman to watch and a writer to follow. --Gail Hudson [via]More editions of Spilling Open: The Art of Becoming Yourself:
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Stravinsky's Lunchby Drusilla ModjeskaISBN 0374270899 (0-374-27089-9)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stravinsky's Lunch'Book summary:A moving, deeply insightful study of two artists-both twentieth-century Australian women-who lived and worked in divergent realms[via]
Drusilla Modjeska's title derives from an anecdote about the composer who, while creating a piece of music, ordered his family to remain silent while taking a meal with him-so Stravinsky could preserve his concentration on his work. Modjeska's book investigates the life patterns of women artists, most of whom have been unable to manage such a neat compartmentalization of daily life and creativity.
Stravinsky's Lunch tells the stories of two extraordinary women, both born close to the turn of the century in Australia and both destined to make important contributions to Australian painting. Stella Bowen went to London to make her career, then became a bohemian and the longtime mistress of Ford Madox Ford. Grace Cossington Smith, a spinster who never strayed far from her childhood home on the outskirts of Sydney, became one of the first Australian modernists. Their distinctive stories speak volumes about how love, art, and life intersect.
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The Tattoo Artistby Jill CimentISBN 0375423257 (0-375-42325-7)
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Through the Flower: My Struggle As a Woman Artistby Judy ChicagoISBN 0385180845 (0-385-18084-5)
Softcover, Anchor Books
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Through the Year With Thomas Merton: Daily Meditations from His Writingsby Thomas P. McDonnellISBN 0385232349 (0-385-23234-9)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Time of Our Singing: A Novelby Richard PowersISBN 0374277826 (0-374-27782-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Time of Our Singing: A Novel'Book summary:In some respects, Richard Powers's The Time of Our Singing is just a big, absorbing drama about an American family, with the typical ingredients of an immigrant parent and some social obstacles--in this case, a biracial marriage in the Civil Rights era--to be overcome by the talented children. But Powers's lyrical gifts lift this material far above its familiar subject matter. His descriptions of music alone will transport the reader. The Strom family were raised with this common language: "Our parents' Crazed Quotations game played on the notion that every moment's tune had all history's music box for its counterpoint. On any evening in Hamilton Heights, we could jump from organum to atonality without any hint of all the centuries that had died fiery deaths between them." The central figure of this novel is the dazzling Jonah, who makes a life from singing, and who may be the only person around him who regards his racial heritage as irrelevant to his ambitions. Powers's is such a fertile writer, however, that he can't stay with any single story, but plunges into pages and pages of family and social histories. The result is a rambling, resonant, fearless novel that pulls the reader along in its wake. --Regina Marler [via]
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Time Regainedby D.J. Enright, Marcel Proust, Andreas Mayor, Joanna Kilmartin, Terence KilmartinISBN 0375753125 (0-375-75312-5)
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The Tin Drumby Günter GrassISBN 0375420576 (0-375-42057-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tin Drum'Book summary:Meet Oskar Matzerath, "the eternal three-year-old drummer." On the morning of his third birthday, dressed in a striped pullover and patent leather shoes, and clutching his drumsticks and his new tin drum, young Oskar makes an irrevocable decision: "It was then that I declared, resolved, and determined that I would never under any circumstances be a politician, much less a grocer; that I would stop right there, remain as I was--and so I did; for many years I not only stayed the same size but clung to the same attire." Here is a Peter Pan story with a vengeance. But instead of Never-Never Land, Günter Grass gives us Danzig, a contested city on the Polish-German border; instead of Captain Hook and his pirates, we have the Nazis. And in place of Peter himself is Oskar, a twisted puer aeternis with a scream that can shatter glass and a drum rather than a shadow. First published in 1959, The Tin Drum's depiction of the Nazi era created a furor in Germany, for the world of Grass's making is rife with corrupt politicians and brutal grocers in brown shirts:
There was once a grocer who closed his store one day in November, because something was doing in town; taking his son Oskar by the hand, he boarded a Number 5 streetcar and rode to the Langasser Gate, because there as in Zoppot and Langfuhr the synagogue was on fire. The synagogue had almost burned down and the firemen were looking on, taking care that the flames should not spread to other buildings. Outside the wrecked synagogue, men in uniform and others in civilian clothes piled up books, ritual objects, and strange kinds of cloth. The mound was set on fire and the grocer took advantage of the opportunity to warm his fingers and his feelings over the public blaze.
As Oskar grows older (though not taller), portents of war transform into the thing itself. Danzig is the first casualty when, in the summer of 1939, residents turn against each other in a pitched battle between Poles and Germans. In the years that follow, Oskar goes from one picaresque adventure to the next--he joins a troupe of traveling musicians; he becomes the leader of a group of anarchists; he falls in love; he becomes a recording artist--until some time after the war, he is convicted of murder and confined to a mental hospital.The Tin Drum uses savage comedy and a stiff dose of magical realism to capture not only the madness of war, but also the black cancer at the heart of humanity that allows such degradations to occur. Grass wields his humor like a knife--yes, he'll make you laugh, but he'll make you bleed, as well. There have been many novels written about World War II, but only a handful can truly be called great; The Tin Drum, without a doubt, is one. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Tolstoyby Henri TroyatISBN 0374980101 (0-374-98010-1)
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The Unknown Matisse: A Life of Henri Matisse The Early Years, 1869-1908by Hilary SpurlingISBN 0375711333 (0-375-71133-3)
Softcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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Virginia Woolfby Hermione LeeISBN 0375701362 (0-375-70136-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Virginia Woolf'Book summary:"A majestic literary biography, a truly new, surprisingly fresh portrait. --
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"A biography wholly worthy of the brilliant woman it chronicles. . . . It rediscovers Virginia Woolf afresh."
--The Philadelphia Inquirer
While Virginia Woolf--one of our century's most brilliant and mercurial writers--has had no shortage of biographers, none has seemed as naturally suited to the task as Hermione Lee. Subscribing to Virginia Woolf's own belief in the fluidity and elusiveness of identity, Lee comes at her subject from a multitude of perspectives, producing a richly layered portrait of the writer and the woman that leaves all of her complexities and contradictions intact. Such issues as sexual abuse, mental illness, and suicide are brought into balance with the immensity of her literary achievement, her heroic commitment to her work, her generosity and wit, and her sanity and strength.
It is not often that biography offers the satisfactions of great fiction--but this is clearly what Hermione Lee has achieved. Accessible, intelligent, and deeply pleasurable to read, her Virginia Woolf will undoubtedly take its place as the standard biography for years to come.
"One of the most impressive biographies of the decade: moving, eloquent, powerful as both literary and social history."
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"The most distinguished study of Woolf yet." --The New Republic [via]More editions of Virginia Woolf:
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The Waste Landby T. S. Eliot, Michael NorthISBN 0393974995 (0-393-97499-5)
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For ease of reading, this Norton Critical Edition presents The Waste Land as it first appeared in the American edition (Boni & Liveright), with Eliots notes at the end. "Contexts" provides readers with invaluable materials on The Waste Lands sources, composition, and publication history. "Criticism" traces the poems reception with twenty-five reviews and essays, from first reactions through the end of the twentieth century. Included are reviews published in the Times Literary Supplement, along with selections by Virginia Woolf, Gilbert Seldes, Edmund Wilson, Elinor Wylie, Conrad Aiken, Charles Powell, Gorham Munson, Malcolm Cowley, Ralph Ellison, John Crowe Ransom, I. A. Richards, F. R. Leavis, Cleanth Brooks, Delmore Schwartz, Denis Donoghue, Robert Langbaum, Marianne Thormählen, A. D. Moody, Ronald Bush, Maud Ellman, and Tim Armstrong. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are included. [via]More editions of The Waste Land:
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A Widow for One Year : A Novelby John IrvingISBN 037570289X (0-375-70289-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Widow for One Year : A Novel'Book summary:John Irving fans will not be startled to find that A Widow for One Year is a sprawling farce-tragedy crawling with characters who are writers. In the opening scene, 4-year-old Ruth Cole walks in on her melancholy mother, Marion, who is in flagrante with 16-year-old Eddie, the driver for drunken Ted (Ruth's dad and Marion's estranged, womanizing husband).
Eddie spends the rest of his life obsessively writing novels like Sixty Times, his roman à clef about his 60 seductions by Marion. Ted is a failed novelist who gets rich and famous writing creepy children's stories based on tales he tells Ruth (such as The Mouse Crawling Between the Walls). Marion abandons Ruth, Ted, and Eddie and becomes a successful pseudonymous novelist. And Ruth becomes the most richly celebrated writer of them all because of her early training by Ted, who not only told her stories, but also helped her craft narratives to explain their home's many photographs of her brothers, who died in a gory car wreck the year before she was born. Grief over the boys is why Ruth's mother does not dare to love her.
Ruth, Irving's first female main character, works brilliantly, first as an imaginative, almost Salingeresque child coming to terms with her bewildering family, then as a grownup striving to understand her mother's motives--or at least to track her down. Ted is a mordantly funny caricature, interestingly sinister and plausibly self-justifying when most inexcusable. Eddie is a lovable schlemiel, yet not too sentimentally drawn. And what set pieces Irving can write! The story of the boys' death is horrific and effective in dramatizing the character of Ted, who narrates it. Ted's attempted murder by a spurned lover is as hilarious as the VW-down-the-marble-stairway scene in A Prayer for Owen Meany (which has been adapted by Disney Studios), though not quite on a par with the celebrated "Pension Grillparzer" episode in The World According to Garp (reissued in a 20th anniversary edition by Modern Library).
Irving has the effrontery to get away with practically any scene that comes into his head--Ruth winds up an eyewitness to a hooker's murder in Amsterdam, a Dutch detective starts tracking her down (just as Ruth is hunting Marion), and the multiple plot strands all converge in a finale that neatly echoes the opening scene. It's all done with the outrageously coincidental yet minutely realistic brio of Charles Dickens, with a sad, self-conscious jokiness like that of Irving's mentor, Kurt Vonnegut. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Casi Una Mujer / Almost a Womanby Esmeralda Santiago, Nina Torres-VidalISBN 0375705260 (0-375-70526-0)
Softcover, Random House Espanol
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Nina Torres-Vidal
In her new memior, the acclaimed author of When I Was Puerto Rican continues the riveting chronicle of her life.
"Negi," as Santiago's family affectionately calls her, leaves rural Macun in 1961 to live in a three-bedroom tenement apartment with seven siblings, and inquisitive grandmother, and a strict mother who won't allow her to date. At thirteen, Negi yearns for her own bed, for privacy, and her father, who remains in Puerto Rico. Translating for Mami at the welfare office in the morning, starring as Cleopatra at New York's Performing Arts High School in the afternoon, and dancing salsa all night, she also seeks to find balance between being an American and Puerto Rican. When Negi defies her mother by going on a series of dates, she finds that independence brings challenges.
At once a universally poignant coming-of-age tale and a heartfelt immigrant's story, Almost a Woman is Santiago's triumphant journey into womanhood. [via]More editions of Casi Una Mujer / Almost a Woman:
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