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10: 01by Lance OlsenISBN 0970321260 (0-9703212-6-0)
Softcover, Chiasmus Pr
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American Magus : Harry Smith a Modern Alchemistby Paola IglioriISBN 0962511994 (0-9625119-9-4)
Softcover, Inanout Press
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Arcadeby Erica Hunt, Alison SaarISBN 0932716393 (0-932716-39-3)
Softcover, Small Pr Distribution
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The Autobiography of Albert Einsteinby Gerhard Roth, Malcolm GreenISBN 0947757473 (0-947757-47-3)
Hardcover, Atlas Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Autobiography of Albert Einstein'Book summary:Gerhard Roths first "novel," originally published in 1972, is a triumphant refutation of the death of modernism: a lucid, morbid and impossible account of what cannot be said, a deranged existence pieced together, an individual at total odds not only with the world and its structures, but with the chemical and biological basis of his own thought. [via]
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Bell X-1 Variants Datagraph No 3by Jay Miller, Ben GuentherISBN 094254840X (0-942548-40-X)
Softcover, Motorbooks Intl
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Blown Awayby Ronald SukenickISBN 0940650649 (0-940650-64-9)
Softcover, Sun & Moon Pr
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The Body in Four Partsby Janet KauffmanISBN 1555971792 (1-55597-179-2)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Breaking the Rules: The Wooster Groupby David SavranISBN 0930452828 (0-930452-82-8)
Softcover, Theatre Communications Group
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Can't Get Noby Rick VeitchISBN 1401210597 (1-4012-1059-7)
Softcover, Vertigo
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The Cayman Islands: The Beach & Beyondby Martha K. SmithISBN 0965034909 (0-9650349-0-9)
Softcover, Cuchipanda Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cayman Islands: The Beach & Beyond'Book summary:From the author of the critically acclaimed "The Handmaid's Tale" comes this 2000 novel-within-a-novel centering on entangled relationships in 1930s-40s Ontario, Canada. [via]
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The Cellby Lyn HejinianISBN 1557130213 (1-55713-021-3)
Softcover, Sun & Moon Pr
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Charismaby Margaret ChristakosISBN 0968188494 (0-9681884-9-4)
Hardcover, Pedlar Press
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Concordanceby Kiki Smith, Mei-Mei BerssenbruggeISBN 0932716679 (0-932716-67-9)
Softcover, Kelsey Street Pr
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Cunt-Upsby Dodie BellamyISBN 0927920093 (0-927920-09-3)
Softcover, Tender Buttons Books
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Timeby Mark HaddonISBN 1400032717 (1-4000-3271-7)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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The Dada Almanacby Richard Huelsenbeck, Malcolm Green, James Kirkup, Barbara Wright, Derk WynandISBN 0947757627 (0-947757-62-7)
Hardcover, Atlas Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dada Almanac'Book summary:First published in 1920 in a mixture of French and German, the Dada Almanac was truly international in scope. With substantial sections from the Swiss and French sections of the movement, it embodies Dada's failings as well as its successes, its excesses, its seriousness, its idiocy, but above all the anarchic vitality which made it such a vital precondition for so much that followed in the fields of art, literature and general cultural terrorism. The editors of this first English translation have added dozens of other relevant texts, documents, portraits etc. as well as explaining contemporary references and events and providing biographies of the numerous personalities involved. [via]
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Datagraph Two: North American X-15 X-15A-2by Ben GuentherISBN 0942548345 (0-942548-34-5)
Softcover, Aerofax
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Decreation: Opera, Essays, Poetryby Anne CarsonISBN 1400043492 (1-4000-4349-2)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Decreation: Opera, Essays, Poetry'Book summary:In her first collection in five years, Anne Carson contemplates decreation an activity described by Simone Weil as undoing the creature in us an undoing of self. But how can we undo self without moving through self, to the very inside of its definition? Where else can we start?
Anne Carsons Decreation starts with formthe undoing of form. Form is various here: opera libretto, screenplay, poem, oratorio, essay, shot list, rapture. The undoing is tender, but tenderness can change everything, or so the author appears to believe. [via]More editions of Decreation: Opera, Essays, Poetry:
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Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Operaby Anne CarsonISBN 1400078903 (1-4000-7890-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera'Book summary:Simone Weil described decreation as undoing the creature in us an undoing of self. In her first collection in five years, Anne Carson explores this idea with characteristic brilliance and a tantalizing range of reference, moving from Aphrodite to Antonioni, Demosthenes to Annie Dillard, Telemachos to Trotsky, and writing in forms as varied as opera libretto, screenplay, poem, oratorio, essay, shot list, and rapture. As she makes her way through these forms she slowly dismantles them, and in doing so seeks to move through the self, to its undoing. [via]
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The Divinity Studentby Michael Cisco, Harry O. MorrisISBN 096522001X (0-9652200-1-X)
Softcover, Buzzcity Pr
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Doors of Perception & Heaven And Hellby Aldous HuxleyISBN 1417628596 (1-4176-2859-6)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Doors of Perception & Heaven And Hell'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Two classic texts in one volume reveal Huxley's explorations into the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human consciousness. [via]
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Double or Nothingby Raymond FedermanISBN 093251149X (0-932511-49-X)
Softcover, Univ of Alabama Pr
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Dust and Conscienceby Truong TranISBN 0966993780 (0-9669937-8-0)
Softcover, Apogee Pr
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Ecstasy Shieldby Christopher NealonISBN 0967514452 (0-9675144-5-2)
Softcover, Black Square Editions
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Einstein's Dreamsby Alan LightmanISBN 140007780X (1-4000-7780-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Einstein's Dreams'Book summary:If you liked the eerie whimsy of Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, Steven Millhauser's Little Kingdoms, or Jorge Luis Borges's Labyrinths, you will love Alan Lightman's ethereal yet down-to-earth book Einstein's Dreams. Lightman teaches physics and writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, helping bridge the light-year-size gap between science and the humanities, the enemy camps C.P. Snow famously called The Two Cultures.
Einstein's Dreams became a bestseller by delighting both scientists and humanists. It is technically a novel. Lightman uses simple, lyrical, and literal details to locate Einstein precisely in a place and time--Berne, Switzerland, spring 1905, when he was a patent clerk privately working on his bizarre, unheard-of theory of relativity. The town he perceives is vividly described, but the waking Einstein is a bit player in this drama.
The book takes flight when Einstein takes to his bed and we share his dreams, 30 little fables about places where time behaves quite differently. In one world, time is circular; in another a man is occasionally plucked from the present and deposited in the past: "He is agonized. For if he makes the slightest alteration in anything, he may destroy the future ... he is forced to witness events without being part of them ... an inert gas, a ghost ... an exile of time." The dreams in which time flows backward are far more sophisticated than the time-tripping scenes in Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, though science-fiction fans may yearn for a sustained yarn, which Lightman declines to provide. His purpose is simply to study the different kinds of time in Einstein's mind, each with its own lucid consequences. In their tone and quiet logic, Lightman's fables come off like Bach variations played on an exquisite harpsichord. People live for one day or eternity, and they respond intelligibly to each unique set of circumstances. Raindrops hang in the air in a place of frozen time; in another place everyone knows one year in advance exactly when the world will end, and acts accordingly.
"Consider a world in which cause and effect are erratic," writes Lightman. "Scientists turn reckless and mutter like gamblers who cannot stop betting.... In this world, artists are joyous." In another dream, time slows with altitude, causing rich folks to build stilt homes on mountaintops, seeking eternal youth and scorning the swiftly aging poor folk below. Forgetting eventually how they got there and why they subsist on "all but the most gossamer food," the higher-ups at length "become thin like the air, bony, old before their time."
There is no plot in this small volume--it's more like a poetry collection than a novel. Like Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time, it's a mind-stretching meditation by a scientist who's been to the far edge of physics and is back with wilder tales than Marco Polo's. And unlike many admirers of Hawking, readers of Einstein's Dreams have a high probability of actually finishing it. [via]
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Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Lifeby Amy Krouse Rosenthal, Jeffrey MiddletonISBN 1400080460 (1-4000-8046-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Endocrinologyby Kiki Smith, Mei-Mei BerssenbruggeISBN 0932716423 (0-932716-42-3)
Hardcover, Kelsey Street Pr
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Endocrinology: poetryby Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge, Kiki SmithISBN 0932716415 (0-932716-41-5)
Softcover, Kelsey Street Pr
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Essential Brakhage: Selected Writings on Film-Makingby Stan Brakhage, Bruce R. McPhersonISBN 092970164X (0-929701-64-X)
Softcover, McPherson & Co
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Eunoiaby Christian BokISBN 1552450929 (1-55245-092-9)
Softcover, Coach House Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eunoia'Book summary:Christian Bök embarks on an ambitious exercise in Eunoia, an avant-garde work in which each chapter uses only one vowel, creating a text that fluctuates between poetry and prose. To make things more difficult, Bök constrained himself further: all chapters must allude to the art of writing, and they must describe a culinary banquet, a bawdy episode, a pastoral tableau, and a nautical voyage. This aesthetic style pays tribute to French writer Georges Perec, whose novel A Void was written (and then translated) without the letter "e."
Ultimately, Eunoia--the shortest word in the English language to contain all five vowels, it literally means "beautiful thinking"--is a taxing reading experience rife with repetition, although the author's vocabulary is nothing short of extraordinary. Chapter "E" comes across the smoothest: "Whenever Helen enters Hell's deepest recesses, she sees Hell's meekest dwellers. She meets the repenters, never redeemed." "U" is entertaining: "Ubu fluffs Lulu's tutu. Ubu cups Lulu's dugs; Ubu rubs Lulu's buns; thus Lulu must pull Ubu's pud." Despite the feeling of constraint that permeates the work, there are episodes of perfectly manicured and musical prose sprinkled with endearing onomatopoeia. At the end, the author explains that the text makes a "Sisyphean spectacle of its labour, wilfully crippling its language in order to show that, even under such improbable conditions of duress, language can still express an uncanny, if not sublime, thought." His assertion is true: Bök's technique draws the reader's attention away from the narrative to the form and then back again, conveying real ideas with a mathematical beauty of language. --Leah Eichler [via]
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The Fall of the Towersby Samuel R. DelanyISBN 140003132X (1-4000-3132-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Family Archaeologyby Ian MonkISBN 0974355410 (0-9743554-1-0)
Softcover, Make Now
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The Favorite Game: A Novelby CohenISBN 1400033624 (1-4000-3362-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Forces of Imagination: Writing on Writingby Barbara GuestISBN 093271661X (0-932716-61-X)
Softcover, Kelsey Street Pr
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Four-Year-Old Girlby Mei-Mei BerssenbruggeISBN 093271644X (0-932716-44-X)
Softcover, Kelsey Street Pr
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Gorgeous Mourningby Alice JonesISBN 0974468711 (0-9744687-1-1)
Softcover, Apogee
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Great Expectationsby Kathy AckerISBN 0940642018 (0-940642-01-8)
Softcover, Re/Search Productions
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Hannibal Lecter, My Fatherby Kathy AckerISBN 0936756683 (0-936756-68-3)
Softcover, Semiotext
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Hoggby Samuel R. DelanyISBN 0932511880 (0-932511-88-0)
Hardcover, Fiction Collective Two, Incorporated
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How We Are Hungryby Dave EggersISBN 1400095565 (1-4000-9556-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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"What It Means When a Crowd in a Faraway Nation Takes a Soldier Representing Your Own Nation, Shoots Him, Drags Him from His Vehicle and Then Mutilates Him in the Dust"
"The Only Meaning of the Oil-Wet Water"
"On Wanting to Have Three Walls Up Before She Gets Home"
"Climbing to the Window, Pretending to Dance"
"She Waits, Seething, Blooming"
"Quiet"
"Your Mother and I"
"Naveed"
"Notes for a Story of a Man Who Will Not Die Alone"
"About the Man Who Began Flying After Meeting Her"
"Up the Mountain Coming Down Slowly"
"After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned"
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If Languageby Gregory BettsISBN 0973718161 (0-9737181-6-1)
Softcover, Bookthug
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› Find signed collectible books: 'If Language'Book summary:Gregory Betts' If Language takes the one-time parlour game of the anagram to its evolutionary extreme - constructing 56 paragraph-long perfect anagrams of an original seed-text. Each poem is exactly 525 letters; the same letters that echo throughout the book is radically different forms. If Language asks the question: what are the limits of individuality within a closed system? Betts uses his own experiences, relationships and uncertainties to explore this question - with humour, with intellect, and with a manic obsession capable of turning a simple game into this wildly original exploration. If language can be nihilistic in its wit, if language can be simplistic in its fun - then this book truly uncovers all the abracadabras hidden deep a million ages ago within even the most unmagical of all grammatical limitations. -- Christian Bök. [via]
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Imagination Versesby Jennifer MoxleyISBN 0927920077 (0-927920-07-7)
Softcover, Tender Buttons Books
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The Little Girlsby Elizabeth BowenISBN 1400034795 (1-4000-3479-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Magnetic Fieldsby Andre Breton, Philippe Soupault, David GascoyneISBN 0947757023 (0-947757-02-3)
Hardcover, Atlas Press
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The Magnetic Fieldsby David Gascoyne, Andre Breton, Philippe SoupaultISBN 0947757031 (0-947757-03-1)
Softcover, Serpents Tail
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Mauve Desertby Nicole Brossard, Susanne De Lotbiniere-HarwoodISBN 1552451720 (1-55245-172-0)
Softcover, Northwestern Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mauve Desert'Book summary:Nicole Brossard is Canada's most important, and most prolific, writer of experimental fiction and poetry. Writing in French, she has twice won the Governor General's Award and has published more than 20 books. Mauve Desert, translated into English by Susanne de Lotbinière-Harwood, is "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma," as Churchill once said of Russia. Set in the desert of the American Southwest (site of early atomic bomb testing and about as far as you can get on the continent from Brossard's homeland of Quebec), the novel comprises three related sections: one tells the story of the mysterious adventures of 15-year-old Melanie, her mother, and her mother's lover; one traces the writing and reading of that story; and one relates the story's ultimate translation.
Heavily influenced by the French philosophical traditions of the 20th century, Brossard sees the world as an intellectual playground, stating, "Reality is what we invent." All her characters, as well as the natural world, are elements in that created, fictionalized universe: "Very young I learned to love the fire from the sky, torrential lightning branched out over the city like thinking flowing in the mind." Every action of her unpredictable characters takes on the feel of ritual. Each scene is a tableau, each ordinary object (a revolver, an auto maintenance book) wrapped in an aura of mystery as if it represents all revolvers, all books. An atmosphere of hyperreality informs the work, which at times feels highly filmic. (Wim Wenders's Paris, Texas comes to mind.) In the end, Brossard's subject is language itself: she explores the idea of "the text" in a way that is highly charged, profoundly unsettling, and at times suggestively apocalyptic. --Mark Frutkin [via]
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McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Talesby Michael ChabonISBN 140003339X (1-4000-3339-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Jim Shepard's "Tedford and the Megalodon"
Glen David Gold's "The Tears of Squonk, and What Happened Thereafter"
Dan Chaon's "The Bees"
Kelly Link's "Catskin"
Elmore Leonard's "How Carlos Webster Changed His Name to Carl and Became a Famous Oklahoma Lawman"
Carol Emshwiller's "The General"
Neil Gaiman's "Closing Time"
Nick Hornby's "Otherwise Pandemonium"
Stephen King's "The Tale of Gray Dick"
Michael Crichton's "Blood Doesnt Come Out"
Laurie King's "Weaving the Dark"
Chris Offutt's "Chucks Bucket"
Dave Eggers's "Up the Mountain Coming Down Slowly"
Michael Moorcock's "The Case of the Nazi Canary"
Aimee Bender's "The Case of the Salt and Pepper Shakers"
Harlan Ellison's "Goodbye to All That"
Karen Joy Fowler's "Private Grave 9"
Rick Moody's "The Albertine Notes"
Michael Chabon's "The Martian Agent, a Planetary Romance"
Sherman Alexie's "Ghost Dance" [via]More editions of McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales:
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The Mezzanineby Nicholson BakerISBN 1555842585 (1-55584-258-5)
Hardcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mezzanine'Book summary:In his startling, witty, and inexhaustibly inventive novel, bestselling author Nicholson Baker uses a one-story escalator ride as the occasion for a dazzling reappraisal of everyday objects and rituals. From the humble milk carton to the act of tying ones shoes, The Mezzanine at once defamiliarizes the familiar world and endows it with loopy and euphoric poetry. At first glance, The Mezzanine appears to be a book about nothing. In reality, it is a brilliant celebration of things, simultaneously demonstrating the value of reflection and the importance of everyday human experiences. Captures the spirit of American corporate life and invests it with a passion and sympathy that is entirely unexpected. The Seattle Times A constant delight . . . among the years best. The Boston Globe Baker writes with appealing charm . . . [He] clowns and shows off . . . rambles and pounces hard; he says acute things, extravagant things, terribly funny things. Los Angeles Times Book Review [via]
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Misshapen Bananaby Richard MorrisISBN 0938979361 (0-938979-36-1)
Softcover, E G Booksellers & Pub
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Moby Dickby Herman MelvilleISBN 1557011958 (1-55701-195-8)
Softcover, Cyber Classics Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moby Dick'Book summary:A unique adaptation of the Melville Classic designed for young readers. Graphic book. Moby Dick 150th Anniversary Edition. [via]
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Moby Dick Or, the Whaleby Herman MelvilleISBN 1419134736 (1-4191-3473-6)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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Motive for Mayhemby Abigail ChildISBN 0937013269 (0-937013-26-9)
Softcover, Potes & Poets Pr
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Mrs Dallowayby Virginia WoolfISBN 155111397X (1-55111-397-X)
Softcover, Broadview Pr
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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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Muse and Drudgeby Harryette MullenISBN 0935162151 (0-935162-15-1)
Softcover, Singing Horse Pr
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My Emily Dickinsonby Susan HoweISBN 0938190520 (0-938190-52-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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My Lifeby Lyn NejinianISBN 1557130248 (1-55713-024-8)
Softcover, Sun & Moon Pr
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Nestby Mei-Mei BerssenbruggeISBN 0932716636 (0-932716-63-6)
Softcover, Kelsey Pub
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The New Sins/Los Nuevos Pecadosby David ByrneISBN 097033558X (0-9703355-8-X)
Hardcover, McSweeneys Books
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Novels 1930-1935by William Faulkner, Joseph BlotnerISBN 0940450267 (0-940450-26-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Novels 1930-1935'Book summary:Between 1930 and 1935, William Faulkner came into full possession of the genius and creativity that made him America's greatest writer of the twentieth century. "As I Lay Dying" is a dark comedy, full of horror and compassion, of a rural Mississippi family bearing the corpse of their matriarch to burial in town. "Sanctuary," a violent novel of sex and social class that moves from Mississippi back roads to the flesh-pots of Memphis, features a sadistic gangster named Popeye and a debutante with an affinity for evil. "Light in August," a near-religious vision of the hopeful stubbornness of ordinary life, is perhaps Faulkner's most moving work. "Pylon," a tale of barnstorming aviators, examines the bonds of loyalty and desire among three men and a woman. All are presented in restored texts as part of The Library of America's new, authoritative edition of Faulker's complete works. [via]
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Other Words for Graceby Margaret ChristakosISBN 1551280175 (1-55128-017-5)
Softcover, Litdistco
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Palace of Reptilesby Maggie O'SullivanISBN 0968529429 (0-9685294-2-9)
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Paris, When It's Nakedby Etel AdnanISBN 0942996208 (0-942996-20-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Paris, When It's Naked'Book summary:Fiction. Etel Adnan's novel "PARIS, WHEN IT'S NAKED amazes our retinas, ears, lips, fingertips, and noses with sensing, talking, and envisioning the city of Baudelaire and Delacroix, Mallarme and Picasso, Sartre and Djuna Barnes, Miller and Nin, Vietnamese and African refugees, revolutions and Bohemia. This tale of the Creative Now is told through the fine-tuned sensibility of Etel Adnan, the expatriate poet-painter who knows the French Capital as wholly as she does Beirut and San Francisco, her other homes. She is also the author of SITT MARIE-ROSE, an underground novel of the Lebanese Civil War, and many books of poetry. Her new work is a philosophically charged lyric in prose. The elan vital of every word evokes the eternal present of this wise woman. A highly personal, life-enhancing masterpiece in a deathly age of impersonality. An indespensable book by an indispensable writer" -Morgan Gibson. [via]
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Placing the Accentsby Truong TranISBN 0966993713 (0-9669937-1-3)
Softcover, Apogee Pr
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Poem from a Single Palletby Fanny HoweISBN 0932716105 (0-932716-10-5)
Softcover, Kelsey Street Pr
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Portfolio Milieu 2004: An Anthologyby Morgan Chojnacki, Christine LeclercISBN 0973333715 (0-9733337-1-5)
Softcover, Sumach Pr
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The Precipice And Other Catastrophesby Raymond FedermanISBN 0974355402 (0-9743554-0-2)
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Razor Wire Pubic Hairby Carlton MellickISBN 0972959815 (0-9729598-1-5)
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Re-Search: William S. Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Throbbing Gristleby V. ValeISBN 0940642050 (0-940642-05-0)
Softcover, Re-Search Pubns
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Re/Search #4/5: W.S. Burroughs, Brion Bysin, Throbbing Gristleby V. ValeISBN 0965046915 (0-9650469-1-5)
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A Readingby Beverly DahlenISBN 0937013331 (0-937013-33-1)
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Recidivistby Zak SallyISBN 0976525518 (0-9765255-1-8)
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S*Perm**K*Tby Harryette MullenISBN 0935162127 (0-935162-12-7)
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Seanceby Christine Wertheim, Matias ViegnerISBN 0974355453 (0-9743554-5-3)
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Second Lawby Elizabeth WillisISBN 0939691086 (0-939691-08-6)
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Self-titledby Geoffrey BrownISBN 1552451445 (1-55245-144-5)
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Small Salvationsby Patricia DienstfreyISBN 0932716229 (0-932716-22-9)
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Sphericityby Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge, Richard TuttleISBN 093271630X (0-932716-30-X)
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Story of an African Farmby Olive SchreinerISBN 1406801747 (1-4068-0174-7)
Softcover, Echo Library
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Subjects And Sequences: A Margaret Tait Readerby Peter ToddISBN 0954856902 (0-9548569-0-2)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Symbiosisby Barbara Guest, Laurie ReidISBN 0932716520 (0-932716-52-0)
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Tales From 2 A.m.by John SchreiberISBN 1413463967 (1-4134-6396-7)
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Tender Buttonsby Gertrude SteinISBN 140650999X (1-4065-0999-X)
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Three Livesby Gertrude SteinISBN 1406510106 (1-4065-1010-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Three Lives'Book summary:By the American writer, poet, feminist, playwright, and catalyst in the development of modern art and literature. Increasingly, she developed her own highly idiosyncratic, playful, sometimes repetitive and sometimes humorous style. Three Lives (1909) was her first published work, followed by Matisse, Picasso and Gertrude Stein (1912) - which includes the stories "A Long Gay Book" and "Many Many Women". Many of her experimental, stream-of-consciousness works such as Tender Buttons (1914) have since been interpreted by critics as a feminist reworking of patriarchal language. These works were loved by the avant-garde, but mainstream success initially remained elusive. [via]
To Whom It May Concernby Raymond FedermanISBN 0932511325 (0-932511-32-5)
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The Weatherby Kenneth GoldsmithISBN 0974355429 (0-9743554-2-9)
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The Woman Warrior China Menby Maxine Kingston, Mary GordonISBN 1400043840 (1-4000-4384-0)
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Herefor the first time in one volumeare two classic, brilliantly original works on the experience of Chinese immigrants in America. In both books Maxine Hong Kingston mines her familys past and her cultures stories, weaving myth and memory to fashion works of enormous revelatory power.
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, is Kingstons disturbing and fiercely beautiful account of growing up Chinese-American in California. The young Kingston lives in two worlds: the America to which her parents have emigrated, a place inhabited by white ghosts, and the China of her mothers talk stories, a place haunted by the ghosts of the past. Her mother, who had been a doctor in China but in the United States is reduced to running a laundry, tells her daughter traditional tales of strong, wily women warriorstalesthat clash puzzlingly with the real oppression of Chinese women. Kingston learns to fill in the mystifying spaces in her mothers stories with stories of her own, engaging her familys past and her own present with anger, imagination, and dazzling passion.
China Men, a National Book Award winner for fiction, is Kingstons unforgettable imaginative journey into the hearts and minds of generations of Chinese men in America, from those who worked on the transcontinental railroad in the 1840s to those who fought in Vietnam. Mixing vivid fables and legends, personal stories from her own family, and details of the historical hardships faced by Chinese immigrants in different times and places, Kingston illuminates their long, arduous search for the Gold Mountain. [via]More editions of The Woman Warrior China Men:
Writings for the Oulipoby Ian MonkISBN 0974355445 (0-9743554-4-5)
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Yes Manby Danny WallaceISBN 1416918345 (1-4169-1834-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Yes Man'Book summary:'I, Danny Wallace, being of sound mind and body, do hereby write this manifesto for my life. I swear I will be more open to opportunity. I swear I will live my life taking every available chance. I will say Yes to every favour, request, suggestion and invitation. I will swear to say yes where once I would so no.' Danny Wallace had been staying in. Far too much. Having been dumped by his girlfriend, he really wasn't doing the young, free and single thing very well. Instead he was avoiding people.Texting them instead of calling them. Calling them instead of meeting them. That is until one fateful date when a mystery man on a late-night bus told him to 'say yes more'. These three simple words changed Danny's life forever. "Yes Man" is the story of what happened when Danny decided to say yes to everything, in order to make his life more interesting. And boy, did it get more interesting. This is the tie-in book that goes with the 2008 film of the Danny Wallace book - "Yes Man" - starring Jim Carrey and Zooey Deschanel, which is being released by Warner Bros in December 2008. [via]
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