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Acoustic Mirror: The Female Voice in Psychoanalysis and Cinemaby Kaja SilvermanISBN 0253204747 (0-253-20474-7)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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The Aleph and Other Storiesby Jorge Luis Borges, Andrew HurleyISBN 0142437883 (0-14-243788-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Aleph and Other Stories'Book summary:[via]Full of philosophical puzzles and supernatural surprises, these stories contain some of Borgess most fully realized human characters. With uncanny insight he takes us inside the minds of an unrepentant Nazi, an imprisoned Mayan priest, fanatical Christian theologians, a woman plotting vengeance on her fathers killer, and a man awaiting his assassin in a Buenos Aires guest house. This volume also contains the hauntingly brief vignettes about literary imagination and personal identity collected in The Maker, which Borges wrote as failing eyesight and public fame began to undermine his sense of self.
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The Alice B. Toklas Cookbookby Alice B. ToklasISBN 0061818763 (0-06-181876-3)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Autumn of the Patriarchby Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gregory RabassaISBN 0060932678 (0-06-093267-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Autumn of the Patriarch'Book summary:Gabriel Garcia Marquez, renowned as a master of magical realism, creates stories that grip the imagination. Set in exotic locals, peoples with unforgettable characters, and crafted with exquisite prose, his stories transport the reader to a world that is at once fanciful and real.
One of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's most intricate and ambitious works, The Autumn of the Patriarch is a brilliant tale of a Caribbean tyrant and the corruption of power. Employing an innovative, dreamlike style, the novel is overflowing with symbolic descriptions as it vividly portrays the dying tyrant caught in the prison of his own dictatorship. From charity to deceit, benevolence to violence, fear of God to extreme cruelty, the dictator embodies at once the best and the worst of human nature.
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Beautiful Losersby Leonard CohenISBN 0224618334 (0-224-61833-4)
Hardcover, Cape
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beautiful Losers'Book summary:Leonard Cohen's 1966 Beautiful Losers is ambitiously filthy. Few Canadian novels before or since are as sexual, but there's more filth here than just squirming bodies. It is in fact the novel's psychological intimacy that will make you want a long, hot shower with astringent soap. Beautiful Losers is devoted exclusively to four characters, three of them points in a love triangle--the scholarly narrator, his Aboriginal wife Edith, and his lifelong "friend" and mentor F.--and the fourth a 17th-century Iroquois saint whose life the narrator obsessively researches. The protean, mercurial, and intense F. is a kind of artist of existence, one hopefully found more often in fiction than in reality. Though capable of buying a factory or winning an election, F. is often destitute and glad to rob sustenance and sex from his friends. He has taken the narrator as a protégé (or a victim) of his increasingly dangerous tests of desire. Surviving the hedonistic, self-destructive deaths of F. and the unfaithful Edith, the unnamed scholar even seems humiliated as narrator, as if he's cleaning up his own apartment after a party he didn't plan.
Canada has had a bumper crop of poet-novelist switch hitters: Margaret Atwood, Robert Kroetsch, Anne Michaels, Michael Ondaatje. Their novels are sure to dazzle with their language, but some readers may lower their expectations of plot and character. Similarly, Cohen the poet will snare you with his introverted, confessional prose, so easily lent to the aphorism. "Grief makes us precise." "What is most original in a man's nature is often that which is most desperate." "I am not enjoying sunsets, then for whom do they burn?" These dagger-like pensées, along with the sheer inscrutability of F., will sustain those readers who don't like sunshine (again, it's very claustrophobic inside this book), while plot purists may find the masturbatory plot, well, masturbatory. --Darryl Whetter [via]
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Between the Actsby Virginia WoolfISBN 015611870X (0-15-611870-X)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Between the Acts'Book summary:In Woolf's last novel, the action takes place on one summer's day at a country house in the heart of England, where the villagers are presenting their annual pageant. A lyrical, moving valedictory.
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Blake Complete Writings With Variant Readingsby Geoffrey KeynesISBN 0192810502 (0-19-281050-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Breakfast of Championsby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0224008889 (0-224-00888-9)
Hardcover, Cape
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Breakfast of Champions'Book summary:"We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane." So reads the tombstone of downtrodden writer Kilgore Trout, but we have no doubt who's really talking: his alter ego Kurt Vonnegut. Health versus sickness, humanity versus inhumanity--both sets of ideas bounce through this challenging and funny book. As with the rest of Vonnegut's pure fantasy, it lacks the shimmering, fact-fueled rage that illuminates Slaughterhouse-Five. At the same time, that makes this book perhaps more enjoyable to read.
Breakfast of Champions is a slippery, lucid, bleakly humorous jaunt through (sick? inhumane?) America circa 1973, with Vonnegut acting as our Virgil-like companion. The book follows its main character, auto-dealing solid-citizen Dwayne Hoover, down into madness, a condition brought on by the work of the aforementioned Kilgore Trout. As Dwayne cracks, then crumbles, Breakfast of Champions coolly shows the effects his dementia has on the web of characters surrounding him. It's not much of a plot, but it's enough for Vonnegut to air unique opinions on America, sex, war, love, and all of his other pet topics--you know, the only ones that really count. [via]
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The Broom of the Systemby David Foster Wallace, Robert Boswell, Dale Peterson, Andrew Parker, Gerald Howard, Bonnie Nadell, William KennickISBN 0142002429 (0-14-200242-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Broom of the System'Book summary:[via]Published when Wallace was just twenty-four years old, The Broom of the System stunned critics and marked the emergence of an extraordinary new talent. At the center of this outlandishly funny, fiercely intelligent novel is the bewitching heroine, Lenore Stonecipher Beadsman. The year is 1990 and the place is a slightly altered Cleveland, Ohio. Lenores great-grandmother has disappeared with twenty-five other inmates of the Shaker Heights Nursing Home. Her beau, and boss, Rick Vigorous, is insanely jealous, and her cockatiel, Vlad the Impaler, has suddenly started spouting a mixture of psycho-babble, Auden, and the King James Bible. Ingenious and entertaining, this debut from one of the most innovative writers of his generation brilliantly explores the paradoxes of language, storytelling, and reality.
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Claire Denisby Judith MayneISBN 0252072383 (0-252-07238-3)
Softcover, Univ of Illinois Pr
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A Clockwork Orangeby Anthony BurgessISBN 0091683815 (0-09-168381-5)
Softcover, Hutchinson
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Collected Fictionsby Andrew Hurley, Jorge Luis BorgesISBN 0140286802 (0-14-028680-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Collected Fictions'Book summary:Although Jorge Luis Borges published his first book in 1923--doling out his own money for a limited edition of Fervor de Buenos Aires--he remained in Argentinian obscurity for almost three decades. In 1951, however, Ficciones appeared in French, followed soon after by an English translation. This collection, which included the cream of the author's short fictions, made it clear that Borges was a world-class (if highly unclassifiable) artist--a brilliant, lyrical miniaturist, who could pose the great questions of existence on the head of pin. And by 1961, when he shared the French Prix Formentor with Samuel Beckett, he seemed suddenly to tower over a half-dozen literary cultures, the very exemplar of modernism with a human face.
By the time of his death in 1986, Borges had been granted old master status by almost everybody (except, alas, the gentlemen of the Swedish Academy). Yet his work remained dispersed among a half-dozen different collections, some of them increasingly hard to find. Andrew Hurley has done readers a great service, then, by collecting all the stories in a single, meticulously translated volume. It's a pleasure to be reminded that Borges's style--poetic, dreamlike, and compounded of innumerable small surprises--was already in place by 1935, when he published A Universal History of Iniquity: "The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it." (Incidentally, the thrifty author later recycled the second of these aphorisms in his classic bit of bookish metaphysics, "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Teris.") The glories of his middle period, of course, have hardly aged a day. "The Garden of the Forking Paths" remains the best deconstruction of the detective story ever written, even in the post-Auster era, and "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote" puts the so-called death of the author in pointed, hilarious perspective.
But Hurley's omnibus also brings home exactly how consistent Borges remained in his concerns. As late as 1975, in "Avelino Arredondo," he was still asking (and occasionally even answering) the same riddles about time and its human repository, memory: "For the man in prison, or the blind man, time flows downstream as though down a slight decline. As he reached the midpoint of his reclusion, Arredondo more than once achieved that virtually timeless time. In the first patio there was a wellhead, and at the bottom, a cistern where a toad lived; it never occurred to Arredondo that it was the toad's time, bordering on eternity, that he sought." Throughout, Hurley's translation is crisp and assured (although this reader will always have a soft spot for "Funes, the Memorious" rather than "Funes, His Memory.") And thanks to his efforts, Borgesians will find no better--and no more pleasurable--rebuttal of the author's description of himself as "a shy sort of man who could not bring himself to write short stories." --James Marcus [via]
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The Complete Writings of William Blake With Variant Readingby William Blake, Geoffrey KeynesISBN 0192541579 (0-19-254157-9)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Crashby J.G. BallardISBN 0224007823 (0-224-00782-3)
Hardcover, Cape
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Even Dogs Go Home to Dieby Linda St. JohnISBN 0060933860 (0-06-093386-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Experiments in Modern Physicsby Adrian Constantin Melissinos, Jim NapolitanoISBN 0124898513 (0-12-489851-3)
Hardcover, Academic Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Experiments in Modern Physics'Book summary:A revision of the leading text on experimental physics. The feature of this book that has made it one of the most loved texts on the subject is that it goes far beyond a mere description of key experiments in physics. The author successfully provides the reader with an understanding and appreciation of the 'physics' behind the experiments. The second edition will be an extensive revision introducing many new devices, including the use of computers and software programs, that have come into use since the publication of the first edition. In addition the important areas of condensed matter physics and optical physics will be added, including two entirely new chapters on lasers and optics. · modern analysis and acquisition techniques· integration with matlab for data analysis and display· new experiments include fundamentals of lasers [via]
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Factotumby Charles BukowskiISBN 006113127X (0-06-113127-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Factotum'Book summary:One of Charles Bukowski's best, this beer-soaked, deliciously degenerate novel follows the wanderings of aspiring writer Henry Chinaski across World War II-era America. Deferred from military service, Chinaski travels from city to city, moving listlessly from one odd job to another, always needing money but never badly enough to keep a job. His day-to-day existence spirals into an endless litany of pathetic whores, sordid rooms, dreary embraces, and drunken brawls, as he makes his bitter, brilliant way from one drink to the next.
Charles Bukowski's posthumous legend continues to grow. Factotum is a masterfully vivid evocation of slow-paced, low-life urbanity and alcoholism, and an excellent introduction to the fictional world of Charles Bukowski.
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Ferdydurkeby Witold GombrowiczISBN 0140085769 (0-14-008576-9)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Freewillby Chris LynchISBN 0064472027 (0-06-447202-7)
Softcover, Avon Tempest
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Ghazals of Ghalib: Versions from the Urduby Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, Aijaz AhmadISBN 0231034784 (0-231-03478-4)
Hardcover, Columbia University Press
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Girly Manby Charles BernsteinISBN 0226044068 (0-226-04406-8)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Hard Lifeby Flann O'BrienISBN 0140045171 (0-14-004517-1)
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The Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the Worldby Haruki MurakamiISBN 0241131448 (0-241-13144-8)
Hardcover, Hamish Hamilton
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World'Book summary:By the author of "A Wild Sheep Chase", which won the Noma Literary Award for New Writers, this novel combines science-fiction, satire and a warning of the dangerous powers of corporations. [via]
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House in Parisby Elizabeth BowenISBN 0140183035 (0-14-018303-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'House in Paris'Book summary:Two children, strangers, wait in a house in Paris: Leopold for his mother, whom he has never seen; Henrietta for a train. Upstairs an old woman lies dying and her sad unfulfilled daughter flutters hopelessly round her...
Slowly exposing the apprehensions of the children and the reasons for their presence in the house, Elizabeth Bowen releases all her psychological insight, her charmed prose and unerring feel for atmosphere into a masterpiece of delicacy and restraint. [via]
How Experiments Endby Peter Louis GalisonISBN 0226279154 (0-226-27915-4)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How Experiments End'Book summary:Histories of three experimental episodes: the measurement of the gyromagnetic ratio of the electron, the discovery of the mu meson, or muon, and the discovery of weak neutral currents. These studies of actual experiments will provide valuable material for both philosophers and historians of science. [via]
The Human Abstractby Elizabeth Willis, Ann LauterbachISBN 0140249354 (0-14-024935-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Ibid: A Lifeby Mark DunnISBN 0156031000 (0-15-603100-0)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ibid: A Life'Book summary:Mark Dunn's early forays into the novel, Ella Minnow Pea and Welcome to Higby, were praised by critics and relished by bibliophiles for their linguistic gamesmanship. But Ibid: A Life easily outdoes its predecessors for literary audacity. The novel purports to be not a novel at all, but the endnotes of a biography. The main text of the supposed life of Jonathan Bashette was destroyed by a careless editor, and, as the wearied author reports in the letters which begin the book, his publisher has decided that the notes can stand alone.
At first, the conceit makes for difficult reading, but Dunn does a remarkable job of slowly revealing three-legged Jonathan Blashette and his odd world without ever departing from the footnote form. Readers learn that Blashette, born in Pettiville, Arkansas, in 1888, was doomed by his extra leg to become a sideshow attraction. But the boy escapes the circus to become a soldier in World War I. There, in the trenches, he first glimpses (or smells) his future calling: male underarm deodorants. Upon his return to the States, he launches the Dandy-de-odor-o Corporation and marries several times (each wife meeting a bizarre end in the cursed city of Boston). Though rocked by adversity, the fictional Blashette lives a rich life full of encounters with the writers, politicians, artists, and celebrities that marked the 20th Century.
Rather than being a limitation in this quirky Horatio Alger story, the notes offer Dunn freedom to explore the diversity of his imagination with brief sketches and "back-story" that are, in fact, all the story there is. The novel becomes a pastiche of parodies of famous documents, speeches, and poems. Dunn includes the "full text" of Lou Gehrig's farewell speech at Yankee Stadium (which includes thanks for a "'Waldorf' Wardrobe Trunk with vulcanized fiber binding and built-in shoe pockets!") and an alternate version of the Alcoholics Anonymous 12 steps, complete with consideration of Dolores Del Rio as a "power greater than ourselves." Throughout, Dunn references one obscure fictional book after another, from Ringleader: A Life in Circus Management, with a Foreword by the Bastard Ringling Brother "Skippy" to a collection of letters sent to a urologist, Confessions to a Pee Pee Doctor.
Ibid's humor, an odd mix of Monty Pythonesque potty jokes and highbrow political and literary satire, may not be for everyone. But Dunn's deft contortion of the usual elements of storytelling into this odd formal experiment proves to be a perfect showcase for his unique wit and intellect. Ibid may not be the Great American Novel, but it is certainly the cleverest American endnotes ever to see print. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
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The Ice-Shirtby William T. VollmannISBN 0140131965 (0-14-013196-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ice-Shirt'Book summary:The time is the tenth century A.D. The newcomers are a proud and bloody-minded people whose kings once changed themselves into wolves. The Norse have advanced as implacably as a glacier from Iceland to the wastes of Greenland ?and from there to the place they call ?Vinland the Good.? The natives are a bronze-skinned race who have not yet discovered iron and still see themselves as part of nature.[via]As William T. Vollmann tells the converging stories of these two peoples?and of the Norsewomen Freydis and Gudrid, whose venomous rivalry brings frost into paradise?he creates a tour-de-force of ?speculative history,? a vivid amalgam of Icelandic saga, Inuit creation myth, and contemporary travel writing that yields a new an utterly original vision of our continent and its past.
The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Storiesby Gene WolfeISBN 009926580X (0-09-926580-X)
Hardcover, Arrow Books
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Jimmy Corriganby Chris WareISBN 0224063979 (0-224-06397-9)
Softcover, Jonathan Cape
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jimmy Corrigan'Book summary:Jimmy Corrigan has rightly been hailed as the greatest comic/graphic novel ever to be published. It won the Guardian First Book Award 2001, the first graphic novel to win a major British literary prize. It is now available for the first time in paperback. [via]
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Journey from Jim Crow: The Desegregation of Southern Transitby Catherine A. BarnesISBN 0231053800 (0-231-05380-0)
Hardcover, Columbia University Press
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Jrby William GaddisISBN 0140187073 (0-14-018707-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Junkyby William S. Burroughs, Allen GinsbergISBN 0140043519 (0-14-004351-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Junky'Book summary:[via]Before his 1959 breakthrough, Naked Lunch, an unknown William S. Burroughs wrote Junk, his first book, a candid, eyewitness account of times and places that are now long gone. This book brings them vividly to life again; it is an unvarnished field report from the American postwar underground. For this definitive 50th-anniversary edition, eminent Burroughs scholar Oliver Harris has painstakingly re-created the author's original text, word by word, from archival typescripts. Here for the first time are Burroughs's own unpublished Introduction and an entire omitted chapter, along with many "lost" passages and auxiliary texts by Allen Ginsberg and others. Harris's comprehensive Introduction reveals the composition history of Junk's text and places its contents against a lively historical background.
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Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings [translated from the Spanish]by Jorge Luis Borges, Donald A. Yates, James East IrbyISBN 0140029818 (0-14-002981-8)
Hardcover, Penguin
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Lanarkby Alasdair GrayISBN 0156003619 (0-15-600361-9)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lanark'Book summary:Written under the influence of World War II, the British welfare state, the Scottish education system, Poe, Carroll, Joyce, Kafka, Pinocchio, and the Bible, this cult classic paints a surreal portrait of the modern world. "It should be widely read" (New York Times). Illustrated by the Author.[via]More editions of Lanark:
The Lime Twig, Second Skin, Travestyby John HawkesISBN 0140189823 (0-14-018982-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Little Girlsby Elizabeth BowenISBN 0140057854 (0-14-005785-4)
Softcover, Penguin Books
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Lying: A Metaphorical Memoirby Lauren SlaterISBN 014200006X (0-14-200006-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Moby Dickby Herman Melville, Nathaniel PhilbrickISBN 0142000086 (0-14-200008-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moby Dick'Book summary:Avec Moby Dick, Melville a donné naissance à un livre-culte et inscrit dans la mémoire des hommes un nouveau mythe : celui de la baleine blanche. Fort de son expérience de marin, qui a nourri ses romans précédents et lui a assuré le succès, l'écrivain américain, alors en pleine maturité, raconte la folle quête du capitaine Achab et sa dernière rencontre avec le grand cachalot. Véritable encyclopédie de la mer, nouvelle Bible aux accents prophétiques, parabole chargée de thèmes universels, Moby Dick n'en reste pas moins construit avec une savante maîtrise, maintenant un suspense lent, qui s'accélère peu à peu jusqu'à l'apocalypse finale. L'écriture de Melville, infiniment libre et audacieuse, tour à tour balancée, puis hachée au rythme des houles, des vents et des passions humaines, est d'une richesse exceptionnelle. Il faut remonter à Shakespeare pour trouver l'exemple d'une langue aussi inventive, d'une poésie aussi grandiose. --Scarbo [via]
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Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Moby Dick: ISBN 0205514081 (0-205-51408-1)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group - Moby Dick: ISBN 0192781537 (0-19-278153-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Moby Dick: ISBN 0192817809 (0-19-281780-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Moby Dick: ISBN 0140430822 (0-14-043082-2)
Hardcover, Penguin - Moby Dick: ISBN 0192100416 (0-19-210041-6)
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Moby Dick Or, the Whaleby Herman Melville, Tom QuirkISBN 0140390847 (0-14-039084-7)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moby Dick Or, the Whale'Book summary:Avec Moby Dick, Melville a donné naissance à un livre-culte et inscrit dans la mémoire des hommes un nouveau mythe : celui de la baleine blanche. Fort de son expérience de marin, qui a nourri ses romans précédents et lui a assuré le succès, l'écrivain américain, alors en pleine maturité, raconte la folle quête du capitaine Achab et sa dernière rencontre avec le grand cachalot. Véritable encyclopédie de la mer, nouvelle Bible aux accents prophétiques, parabole chargée de thèmes universels, Moby Dick n'en reste pas moins construit avec une savante maîtrise, maintenant un suspense lent, qui s'accélère peu à peu jusqu'à l'apocalypse finale. L'écriture de Melville, infiniment libre et audacieuse, tour à tour balancée, puis hachée au rythme des houles, des vents et des passions humaines, est d'une richesse exceptionnelle. Il faut remonter à Shakespeare pour trouver l'exemple d'une langue aussi inventive, d'une poésie aussi grandiose. --Scarbo [via]
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Monsterby Walter Dean Myers, Christopher MyersISBN 0064407314 (0-06-440731-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Monster'Book summary:"Monster" is what the prosecutor called 16-year-old Steve Harmon for his supposed role in the fatal shooting of a convenience-store owner. But was Steve really the lookout who gave the "all clear" to the murderer, or was he just in the wrong place at the wrong time? In this innovative novel by Walter Dean Myers, the reader becomes both juror and witness during the trial of Steve's life. To calm his nerves as he sits in the courtroom, aspiring filmmaker Steve chronicles the proceedings in movie script format. Interspersed throughout his screenplay are journal writings that provide insight into Steve's life before the murder and his feelings about being held in prison during the trial. "They take away your shoelaces and your belt so you can't kill yourself no matter how bad it is. I guess making you live is part of the punishment."
Myers, known for the inner-city classic Motown and Didi (first published in 1984), proves with Monster that he has kept up with both the struggles and the lingo of today's teens. Steve is an adolescent caught up in the violent circumstances of an adult world--a situation most teens can relate to on some level. Readers will no doubt be attracted to the novel's handwriting-style typeface, emphasis on dialogue, and fast-paced courtroom action. By weaving together Steve's journal entries and his script, Myers has given the first-person voice a new twist and added yet another worthy volume to his already admirable body of work. (Ages 12 and older) --Jennifer Hubert [via]
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Mr. Maniby A. B. Yehoshua, Hillel HalkinISBN 0156627698 (0-15-662769-8)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mr. Mani'Book summary:A six-generation family saga, extending from nineteenth-century Europe to British-occupied Palestine to German-occupied Crete and ultimately to modern Israel. Named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, chosen as one of the 50 Best Books of 1992 by Publishers Weekly, awarded the National Jewish Book Award and the first Israeli Literature Prize. Translated by Hillel Halkin.[via]More editions of Mr. Mani:
Mr. Palomarby Italo CalvinoISBN 0156627809 (0-15-662780-9)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mr. Palomar'Book summary:Mr Palomar is a delightful eccentric whose chief activity is looking at things. He is seeking knowledge; 'it is only after you have come to know the surface of things that you can venture to seek what is underneath'. Whether contemplating a fine cheese, a hungry gecko, a woman sunbathing topless or a flight of migrant starlings, Mr Palomar's observations render the world afresh. [via]
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Mrs Dallowayby Virginia WoolfISBN 0099470454 (0-09-947045-4)
Softcover, Random House Uk Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mrs Dalloway'Book summary:As Clarissa Dalloway walks through London on a fine June morning, a sky-writing plane captures her attention. Crowds stare upwards to decipher the message while the plane turns and loops, leaving off one letter, picking up another. Like the airplane's swooping path, Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway follows Clarissa and those whose lives brush hers--from Peter Walsh, whom she spurned years ago, to her daughter Elizabeth, the girl's angry teacher, Doris Kilman, and war-shocked Septimus Warren Smith, who is sinking into madness.
As Mrs. Dalloway prepares for the party she is giving that evening, a series of events intrudes on her composure. Her husband is invited, without her, to lunch with Lady Bruton (who, Clarissa notes anxiously, gives the most amusing luncheons). Meanwhile, Peter Walsh appears, recently from India, to criticize and confide in her. His sudden arrival evokes memories of a distant past, the choices she made then, and her wistful friendship with Sally Seton.
Woolf then explores the relationships between women and men, and between women, as Clarissa muses, "It was something central which permeated; something warm which broke up surfaces and rippled the cold contact of man and woman, or of women together.... Her relation in the old days with Sally Seton. Had not that, after all, been love?" While Clarissa is transported to past afternoons with Sally, and as she sits mending her green dress, Warren Smith catapults desperately into his delusions. Although his troubles form a tangent to Clarissa's web, they undeniably touch it, and the strands connecting all these characters draw tighter as evening deepens. As she immerses us in each inner life, Virginia Woolf offers exquisite, painful images of the past bleeding into the present, of desire overwhelmed by society's demands. --Joannie Kervran Stangeland [via]
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Mrs. Dalloway Readerby Francine ProseISBN 0151010447 (0-15-101044-7)
Hardcover, Harvest Books
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The New York Trilogy: City Of Glass, Ghosts, The Locked Roomby Paul AusterISBN 0140131558 (0-14-013155-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The New York Trilogy: City Of Glass, Ghosts, The Locked Room'Book summary:Three stories on the nature of identity. In the first a detective writer is drawn into a curious and baffling investigation, in the second a man is set up in an apartment to spy on someone, and the third concerns the disappearance of a man whose childhood friend is left as his literary executor. [via]
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Nightwalker: (Le Paysan De Paris)by AragonISBN 0136224806 (0-13-622480-6)
Hardcover, Prentice-Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nightwalker: (Le Paysan De Paris)'Book summary:Paris Peasant (1926) is one of the central works of Surrealism, yet Exact Change's edition is the first U.S. publication of Simon Watson Taylor's authoritative translation, completed after consultations with the author. Unconventional in form--Aragon consciously avoided recognizable narration or character development--Paris Peasant is, in the author's words, "a mythology of the modern." The book uses the city of Paris as a stage or framework, and Aragon interweaves his text with images of related ephemera: café menus, maps, inscriptions on monuments and newspaper clippings. A detailed description of a Parisian arcade (nineteenth-century precursor to the mini-mall) and another of the Buttes-Chaumont park, are among the great set pieces within Aragon's swirling prose of philosophy, dream and satire. André Breton wrote of this work: "no one could have been a more astute detector of the unwonted in all its forms; no one else could have been carried away by such intoxicating reveries about a sort of secret life of the city. . . ." [via]
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Paradiseby Donald BarthelmeISBN 0140103589 (0-14-010358-9)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Paradise'Book summary:"No other word for it: a charming book."Peter S. Prescott, Newsweek
Simon, a middle-aged architect separated from his wife, is given the chance to live out a stereotypical male fantasy: freed from the travails of married life, he ends up living with three nubile lingerie models who use him as a sexual object.
Set in the 1980s, there's a further tension between Simon's desire to exploit this stereotypical fantasy and his (as well as the author's) desire to treat the women as human beings, despite the women's claims that Simon can't distinguish between their personalities.
Employing a variety of forms, Barthelme gracefully plays with this setup, creating a story that's not just funnyalthough it's definitely thatbut actually quite melancholy, as Simon knows that the women's departure is inevitable, that this "paradise" will come to an end, and that he'll be left with only an empty house, booze, and regrets about chances not taken. [via]More editions of Paradise:
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Princess Brideby William GoldmanISBN 0151730857 (0-15-173085-7)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Princess Bride'Book summary:The Princess Bride is a true fantasy classic. William Goldman describes it as a "good parts version" of "S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure." Morgenstern's original was filled with details of Florinese history, court etiquette, and Mrs. Morgenstern's mostly complimentary views of the text. Much admired by academics, the "Classic Tale" nonetheless obscured what Mr. Goldman feels is a story that has everything: "Fencing. Fighting. Torture. Poison. True love. Hate. Revenge. Giants. Hunters. Bad men. Good men. Beautifulest ladies. Snakes. Spiders. Beasts of all natures and descriptions. Pain. Death. Brave men. Coward men. Strongest men. Chases. Escapes. Lies. Truths. Passion. Miracles."
Goldman frames the fairy tale with an "autobiographical" story: his father, who came from Florin, abridged the book as he read it to his son. Now, Goldman is publishing an abridged version, interspersed with comments on the parts he cut out.
Is The Princess Bride a critique of classics like Ivanhoe and The Three Musketeers, that smother a ripping yarn under elaborate prose? A wry look at the differences between fairy tales and real life? Simply a funny, frenetic adventure? No matter how you read it, you'll put it on your "keeper" shelf. --Nona Vero [via]
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Sadnessby Donald BarthelmeISBN 0224008978 (0-224-00897-8)
Hardcover, Cape
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See the Old Lady Decentlyby B.S. JohnsonISBN 0091237300 (0-09-123730-0)
Hardcover, Hutchinson
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Selected Poemsby Paul CelanISBN 0140421467 (0-14-042146-7)
Hardcover, Penguin
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Solid-State Chemistry: Techniquesby A.K. Cheetham, Peter DayISBN 0198552866 (0-19-855286-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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Stephen Hero:Part of the First Draft of 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man'by James JoyceISBN 0224603604 (0-224-60360-4)
Hardcover, Cape
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Story of an African Farmby Olive SchreinerISBN 0140431845 (0-14-043184-5)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Story of an African Farm'Book summary:This pioneering work was a cause celebre when it appeared in London, transforming the shape and course of the late Victorian novel. Lynall, Schreiner's articulate young feminist, marks the entry of the controversial New Woman into nineteenth-century fiction. From the haunting plains of South Africa's high Karoo, Schreiner boldly addresses her society's greatest fears: the loss of faith, the dissolution of marriage, and women's social and political independence. [via]
Story of an African Farmby Joseph Bristow, Olive SchreinerISBN 0192836641 (0-19-283664-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Three Livesby Gertrude SteinISBN 0140181849 (0-14-018184-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Three Lives'Book summary:Gertrude Stein, as a college student at Radcliffe and a medical student at Johns Hopkins Medical School, was a privileged woman, but she was surrounded by women who were trapped by poverty, class, and race into lives that offered little choice. Her portraits of Anna and Lena are examples of realistic depictions of immigrant women who had no occupational choice but to become domestic workers. This collection of documents from the history of women's suffrage, medical history, modernist art, and literature enables readers to see how radical Stein's subject was. [via]
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Three Tragedies [of] Federico Garcia Lorcaby Federico Garcia LorcaISBN 014048020X (0-14-048020-X)
Hardcover, Penguin
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Time's Arrow, Or, The Nature of the Offenceby Martin AmisISBN 0224030930 (0-224-03093-0)
Hardcover, Jonathan Cape
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The Tunnelby William H. GassISBN 0060976861 (0-06-097686-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Propby Robert CooverISBN 0246639822 (0-246-63982-2)
Hardcover, Hart-Davis
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A Universal History of Iniquityby Andrew Hurley, Jorge Luis BorgesISBN 0142437891 (0-14-243789-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Universal History of Iniquity'Book summary:[via]In his writing, Borges always combined high seriousness with a wicked sense of fun. Here he reveals his delight in re-creating (or making up) colorful stories from the Orient, the Islamic world, and the Wild West, as well as his horrified fascination with knife fights, political and personal betrayal, and bloodthirsty revenge. Sparkling with the sheer exuberant pleasure of story-telling, this collection marked the emergence of an utterly distinctive literary voice.
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Up the Down Staircaseby Bel KaufmanISBN 0060973617 (0-06-097361-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Up the Down Staircase'Book summary:Bel Kaufman's Up the Down Staircase is one of the best-loved novels of our time. It has been translated into sixteen languages, made into a prize-winning motion picture, and staged as a play at high schools all over the United States; its very title has become part of the American idiom.
Never before has a novel so compellingly laid bare the inner workings of a metropolitan high school. Up the Down Staircase is the funny and touching story of a committed, idealistic teacher whose dash with school bureaucracy is a timeless lesson for students, teachers, parents--anyone concerned about public education. Bel Kaufman lets her characters speak for themselves through memos, letters, directives from the principal, comments by students, notes between teachers, and papers from desk drawers and wastebaskets, evoking a vivid picture of teachers fighting the good fight against all that stands in the way of good teaching.
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The Waste Landby T. S. Eliot, Valerie EliotISBN 0156948702 (0-15-694870-2)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Waste Land'Book summary:After sitting through T.S. Eliot's reading of "The Waste Land," listeners may be inclined to hang up the earphones for a spell. There are no flaws to Eliot's steady-toned interpretation; in fact, his delivery is quite remarkable in its ability to match the poem's constant, somber mood. It's just that 25-plus minutes of Eliot's desolate landscapes--rendered even more real by the author's incessant tones--can wear on the emotions.
In addition to the full-length version of "The Waste Land," this recording includes Eliot's stirring narration of "The Hollow Men," "Sweeney Among the Nightingales," and "Macavity the Mystery Cat." Listen to Eliot read from "The Waste Land." Visit our audio help page for more information. (Running time: 47 minutes, 1 cassette) --Rob McDonald [via]
Weby Clarence Brown, Evgenii Ivanovich ZamiatinISBN 0140185852 (0-14-018585-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Woman Warriorby Maxine Hong KingstonISBN 0072435194 (0-07-243519-4)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminismby Trinh T. Min-HaISBN 0253205034 (0-253-20503-4)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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Women And Experimental Filmmakingby Virginia Wright Wexman, Jean PetrolleISBN 0252072510 (0-252-07251-0)
Softcover, Univ of Illinois Pr
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The Yearsby Virginia WoolfISBN 0156997010 (0-15-699701-0)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Years'Book summary:The principal theme of this ambitious book is Time, threading together three generations of an upper-class English family, the Pargiters. The characters come and go, meet, talk, think, dream, grow older, in a continuous ritual of life that eludes meaning.[via]More editions of The Years:
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