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4 Fantastic Novelsby Daniel Pinkwater, Scott SimonISBN 0689834888 (0-689-83488-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Advanced Sex Tips for Girls: This Time It's Personalby Cynthia HeimelISBN 068485645X (0-684-85645-X)
Softcover, Fireside
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All Quiet on the Orient Express: A Novelby Magnus MillsISBN 0684871688 (0-684-87168-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essaysby Northrop FryeISBN 0691069999 (0-691-06999-9)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays'Book summary:Northrop Frye was one of the most influential 20th-century literary scholars, and Anatomy of Criticism is his most influential book. In this rigorous and readable work of scholarship, Frye feistily champions literary criticism's legitimacy and independence--both by differentiating criticism from other academic disciplines, and by banishing any conception of the critic as "parasite or jackal" (this latter view, Frye notes, is still quite popular, "especially among artists"). The book began as something quite different, and took nearly a decade to write. Frye published his first major work--Fearful Symmetry, on the Romantic poet William Blake--in 1947 and had set out to produce a second tome on Edmund Spencer. But the critical insights accumulating in his fertile mind were too insistent, so the book on Spencer became Anatomy of Criticism.
Anatomy of Criticism remains provocative and enlightening in no small part because of its ambitious breadth. Frye's comprehension of literary history is breathtaking, as is the complexity but also the clarity of his thought. Four chapters treat historical, ethical, archetypal, and rhetorical modes of criticism, bracketed by a "Polemical Introduction" and a "Tentative Conclusion." Frye's ultimate aim is to confirm for the reader that literary criticism is a science in its own right: "Criticism," he says, "is to art what history is to action and philosophy is to wisdom.... And just as there is nothing which the philosopher cannot consider philosophically, and nothing which the historian cannot consider historically, so the critic should be able to construct and dwell in a conceptual universe of his own." Rather than promote any particular critical approach over another, he tries to construct a theoretical structure sturdy and expansive enough to accommodate and inter-relate a broad range of critical approaches. --Russell Prather [via]
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And More by Andy Rooneyby Andrew A. RooneyISBN 0689113161 (0-689-11316-1)
Hardcover, Atheneum
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› Find signed collectible books: 'And More by Andy Rooney'Book summary:This collection of essays is almost 30 years old, but the late AndyRooney is still right on about the state of the world both as it is and as it was. Rooney always had the courage to say something about whatever was on his mind and this book of essays is just that--his thoughts and humor. I love it...He will be missed...his writings and his wisdom. [via]
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The Annotated Shakespeareby William Shakespeare, A. L. RowseISBN 0681322608 (0-681-32260-8)
Hardcover, Longmeadow Press
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Battle Linesby Hans-Georg RauchISBN 0684151391 (0-684-15139-1)
Hardcover, Scribner
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The Complete Odes and Satires of Horaceby Horace, Richard HoraceISBN 0691004277 (0-691-00427-7)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The Complete Odes and Satires of Horaceby Sidney Alexander, Richard HoraceISBN 0691004285 (0-691-00428-5)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Complete Works of William Shakespeareby William ShakespeareISBN 0681410035 (0-681-41003-5)
Hardcover, Longmeadow Pr
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Creatorby Jeremy LevenISBN 0698110129 (0-698-11012-9)
Hardcover, Coward, McCann & Geoghegan
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The Cynic's Dictionaryby Rich BayanISBN 0688151256 (0-688-15125-6)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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Dancer from the Danceby Andrew HolleranISBN 0688033571 (0-688-03357-1)
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Death of a Mystery Writerby Robert BarnardISBN 0684162806 (0-684-16280-6)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Demolished Manby Alfred BesterISBN 0679767819 (0-679-76781-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Demolished Man'Book summary:In a world policed by telepaths, Ben Reich plans to commit a crime that hasn't been heard of in 70 years: murder. That's the only option left for Reich, whose company is losing a 10-year death struggle with rival D'Courtney Enterprises. Terrorized in his dreams by The Man With No Face and driven to the edge after D'Courtney refuses a merger offer, Reich murders his rival and bribes a high-ranking telepath to help him cover his tracks. But while police prefect Lincoln Powell knows Reich is guilty, his telepath's knowledge is a far cry from admissible evidence. [via]
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Direct Dialingby Carol RumensISBN 0701129115 (0-7011-2911-5)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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The Divine Comedyby Dante AlighieriISBN 0691018952 (0-691-01895-2)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Divine Comedy'Book summary:This splendid verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum provides an entirely fresh experience of Dante's great poem of penance and hope. As Dante ascends the Mount of Purgatory toward the Earthly Paradise and his beloved Beatrice, through "that second kingdom in which the human soul is cleansed of sin, " all the passion and suffering, poetry and philosophy are rendered with the immediacy of a poet of our own age. With extensive notes and commentary prepared especially for this edition.
"The English Dante of choice."--Hugh Kenner.
"Exactly what we have waited for these years, a Dante with clarity, eloquence, terror, and profoundly moving depths."--Robert Fagles, Princeton University.
"Tough and supple, tender and violent . . . vigorous, vernacular . . . Mandelbaum's Dante will stand high among modern translations."-- "The Christian Science Monitor" [via]
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Double Snaps: For Advanced Snappers and Those Who Like the Dozens Raw... an All New Book of More Than 500 of the Funniest, Rudest, and Most Creative Snaps, Caps, and Insults for Playing the Dozensby James Percelay, Monteria Ivey, Stephen Dweck, Geneva SmithermanISBN 0688140114 (0-688-14011-4)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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Your father is so stupid, he saw a sign that said wet floor, so he took a piss.
Your sister is so nasty, she has more clap than an auditorium.
Your mother is so fat, she can do the wave by herself.
Your mother is so fat, when she goes to the beach kids yell, "Free Willy! Free Willy!"
You're so ugly, your parents rent out your baby videos for horror films.
You're so White, you think Malcolm X's name is Malcolm the tenth.
Your mother's breath is so bad, she sucks on Odor-Eaters.
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Eating the Cheshire Catby Helen EllisISBN 068486441X (0-684-86441-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eating the Cheshire Cat: A Novel'Book summary:In Eating the Cheshire Cat, three little girls are born into the rigorous tradition of Southern womanhood, with all its standards of grace, beauty, and cutthroat competitiveness. Sarina, mean from birth and pretty as love, has the best chance of achieving Southern queenhood. Bitty Jack and Nicole are the two girls she leaves in her perfumed wake in this novel of friendship gone sour. Sweet-natured Bitty Jack attends summer camp with Sarina, who accuses Bitty Jack's father, the camp handyman, of being a pervert and ruins his life. Bitty Jack quietly nurtures a grudge. Nicole, meanwhile, suffers a frenzied obsession with Sarina throughout their adolescence and college years, an obsession that results in uniquely macabre expressions of love.
Helen Ellis's first novel tries to walk with its two feet simultaneously in three different territories, and if that sounds a little uncomfortable, well, it is. Eating the Cheshire Cat plays at the Southern Gothic surreal: Bitty Jack's first love affair is with a circus freak and the novel ends in an unsurprising sororal bloodbath. But it also toys with the comic: Sarina hatches elaborate plans to cover her reputation-building lies. And, at its best, it casts a cold, even a sociological, eye on the doings of Southern American princesses: Ellis describes the pledging of the Tri Delt sorority in loving detail. If, for instance, a girl doesn't make the Tuscaloosa chapter, she could "rush Auburn two weeks later. Maybe the girl would make Tri Delt there. But everyone knew that wasn't as good. It was an agricultural college, for crying out loud. At the Alabama-Auburn football games, those girls were known as Delta Dogs." It's a relief when Ellis lets her cattiness run wild--and doesn't goop it up with fake gore. --Claire Dederer [via]
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Edith Whartonby Edith WhartonISBN 068100570X (0-681-00570-X)
Softcover, Octopus Publishing Group
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The Emperor Jones, "Anna Christie", the Hairy Apeby Eugene Gladstone O'Neill, Luann WaltherISBN 0679763953 (0-679-76395-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Eugene Oneginby Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, Aleksandr Sergeevich PushkinISBN 0691018375 (0-691-01837-5)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Eugene Oneginby Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, Vladimir Vladimirovich NabokovISBN 0691019053 (0-691-01905-3)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eugene Onegin'Book summary:"In an era of inept and ignorant imitations, whose piped-in background music has hypnotized innocent readers into fearing literality's salutary jolt, some reviewers were upset by the humble fidelity of my version. . . ." Such was Vladimir Nabokov's response to the storm of controversy aroused by the first edition of his literal translation of Eugene Onegin. This bold rendering of the Russian masterpiece, together with Nabokov's detailed and witty commentary, is itself a work of enduring literary interest, and reflects a lifelong admiration for Pushkin on the part of one of this century's most brilliant stylists.
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A Few Minutes with Andy Rooneyby Andrew A. RooneyISBN 0689111940 (0-689-11194-0)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Five-Minute Iliad and Other Instant Classicsby Greg NaganISBN 0684867672 (0-684-86767-2)
Softcover, Fireside
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Gertrude of Stony Island Avenueby James PurdyISBN 068815901X (0-688-15901-X)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gertrude of Stony Island Avenue'Book summary:In 1956, James Purdy published Don't Call Me By My Right Name and Other Stories, and in the years since, he has produced some of the most remarkable stories, novels, and plays in the English language. Praised by artists as diverse as Dame Edith Sitwell, Gore Vidal, and John Waters for his evocative diction, emotional subtlety, and disturbingly baroque narratives, Purdy has created an emotional, psychological landscape uniquely American in its depiction of fear, love, loss, and violence. In Gertrude of Stony Island Avenue--his 14th novel and 46th book--he charts the life of Carrie Kinsella, a stifled, repressed woman who suddenly realizes the emptiness of her own life after the death of her daughter Gertrude, a brilliant artist. In her search for the "real" Gertrude, Carrie realizes that it is actually herself she is attempting to find. As in his classics Eustace Chisolm and the Works and In a Shallow Grave, Purdy's understanding of the horrors of the human heart--and the slim but possible potential for salvation--shines through here in ways that are devastating and sublime. Gertrude of Stony Island Avenue is James Purdy at his best, which is to say magnificent. --Michael Bronski [via]
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God's Other Sonby Don ImusISBN 0684801663 (0-684-80166-3)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Great Expectationsby Charles Dickens, Monica Kulling, Cindy AlvarezISBN 0679874666 (0-679-87466-6)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Great Expectations'Book summary:An absorbing mystery as well as a morality tale, the story of Pip, a poor village lad, and his expectations of wealth is Dickens at his most deliciously readable. The cast of characters includes kindly Joe Gargery, the loyal convict Abel Magwitch and the haunting Miss Havisham. If you have heartstrings, count on them being tugged. [via]
Hammerhead Ranch Motelby Tim DorseyISBN 0688167837 (0-688-16783-7)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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Happy to Be Hereby Garrison KeillorISBN 0689112017 (0-689-11201-7)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Happy to Be Here'Book summary:Contains the author's reflections on life in the 20th century. Garrison Keillor is the author of "Leaving Home" and "We Are Still Married". [via]
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The House of Mirthby Edith Wharton, Anita BrooknerISBN 068480123X (0-684-80123-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The House of Mirth'Book summary:"The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth," warns Ecclesiastes 7:4, and so does the novel by Edith Wharton that takes its title from this call to heed. New York at the turn of the century was a time of opulence and frivolity for those who could afford it. But for those who couldn't and yet wanted desperately to keep up with the whirlwind, like Wharton's charming Lily Bart, it was something else altogether: a gilded cage rather than the Gilded Age.
One of Wharton's earliest descriptions of her heroine, in the library of her bachelor friend and sometime suitor Lawrence Selden, indicates that she appears "as though she were a captured dryad subdued to the conventions of the drawing room." Indeed, herein lies Lily's problem. She has, we're told, "been brought up to be ornamental," and yet her spirit is larger than what this ancillary role requires. By today's standards she would be nothing more than a mild rebel, but in the era into which Wharton drops her unmercifully, this tiny spark of character, combined with numerous assaults by vicious society women and bad luck, ultimately renders Lily persona non grata. Her own ambivalence about her position serves to open the door to disaster: several times she is on the verge of "good" marriage and squanders it at the last moment, unwilling to play by the rules of a society that produces, as she calls them, "poor, miserable, marriageable girls.
Lily's rather violent tumble down the social ladder provides a thumbnail sketch of the general injustices of the upper classes (which, incidentally, Wharton never quite manages to condemn entirely, clearly believing that such life is cruel but without alternative). From her start as a beautiful woman at the height of her powers to her sad finale as a recently fired milliner's assistant addicted to sleeping drugs, Lily Bart is heroic, not least for her final admission of her own role in her downfall. "Once--twice--you gave me the chance to escape from my life and I refused it: refused it because I was a coward," she tells Selden as the book draws to a close. All manner of hideous socialite beasts--some of whose treatment by Wharton, such as the token social-climbing Jew, Simon Rosedale, date the book unfortunately--wander through the novel while Lily plummets. As her tale winds down to nothing more than the remnants of social grace and cold hard cash, it's hard not to agree with Lily's own assessment of herself: "I have tried hard--but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. I can hardly be said to have an independent existence. I was just a screw or a cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else." Nevertheless, it's even harder not to believe that she deserved better, which is why The House of Mirth remains so timely and so vital in spite of its crushing end and its unflattering portrait of what life offers up. --Melanie Rehak [via]
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Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - The House of Mirth: ISBN 0684719282 (0-684-71928-2)
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The Infernoby Dante Alighieri, Charles Southward SingletonISBN 0691018324 (0-691-01832-4)
Softcover, Princeton University Press
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John's Wifeby Robert CooverISBN 0684830434 (0-684-83043-4)
Softcover, Scribner
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The Joy of Stressby Pamela PettlerISBN 0688026184 (0-688-02618-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Le Pere Goriot/Pbn 757by BalzacISBN 0685114864 (0-685-11486-4)
Softcover, French & European Pubns
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollowby Washington Irving, Arthur RackhamISBN 0688052762 (0-688-05276-2)
Hardcover, William Morrow & Co
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Magic Mountainby Thomas Mann, John E. Woods, Luann WaltherISBN 0679772871 (0-679-77287-1)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Magic Mountain'Book summary:In this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps--a community devoted exclusively to sickness--as a microcosm for Europe, which in the years before 1914 was already exhibiting the first symptoms of its own terminal irrationality. The Magic Mountain is a monumental work of erudition and irony, sexual tension and intellectual ferment, a book that pulses with life in the midst of death. [via]
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The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Storiesby Tim BurtonISBN 0688156819 (0-688-15681-9)
Hardcover, William Morrow & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories'Book summary:This unassuming hardcover in black buckram with a dark lavender title plate is the door into a world of twisted pleasures. Filmmaker Tim Burton (Edward Scissorhands, Beetlejuice, The Nightmare Before Christmas) tells 23 winsomely macabre stories about boys and girls who don't fit in. Their bodies are misshapen, their habits are odd, and their parents are appalled by them. But they do try hard to be human, like poor unwanted Mummy Boy, who's "a bundle of gauze": he goes for a walk in the park with his mummy dog. Some kids are having "a birthday party for a Mexican girl." They think Mummy Boy is a piñata: "They took a baseball bat and whacked open his head. Mummy Boy fell to the ground; he finally was dead. Inside of his head were no candy or prizes, just a few stray beetles of various sizes." For all its simple humor, The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories is a peculiarly disturbing book about the violence that children suffer. It is illustrated in pen and ink, watercolor, and crayon. The themes and imagery are at a young-adult to adult level. [via]
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Miss Marjoribanksby OliphantISBN 0701115033 (0-7011-1503-3)
Hardcover, Chatto & Windus (Zodiac P.)
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The Mother's Recompenseby Edith Wharton, Louis AuchinclossISBN 0684825317 (0-684-82531-7)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mother's Recompense'Book summary:Opening on the French Riviera among a motley community of American expatriates, The Mother's Recompense tells the story of Kate Clephane and her reluctant return to New York society after being exiled years before for abandoning her husband and infant daughter.
Oddly enough, Kate has been summoned back by that same daughter, Anne, now fully grown and intent on marrying Chris Fenno, a war hero, dilettante, and social opportunist. Chris's questionable intentions toward her daughter are, however, the least of Kate's worries since she was once, and still is, deeply in love with him. Kate's moral quandary and the ensuing drama evoke comparison with Oedipus and Hamlet and lead to an ending that startled the mores of the day. [via]
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The Mouse on Wall Streetby Leonard WibberleyISBN 0688025951 (0-688-02595-1)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mouse on Wall Street'Book summary:Never has "the money game" been more deliciously exposed than in this ingenious comedy-satire. Grand Fenwick's secret weapon this time is its Grand Pinot chewing gum. At the conclusion of its victorious war against the United States, the duchy had lodged manufacturing rights to the product in an American company, where they had lain dormant. But now the anti-smoking campaign is in full tilt, gum sales have boomed, and Grand Fenwick receives a check, unheralded and unwanted, for one million dollars-its 40 per cent share of the first annual profit. What consternation! For surely nothing good can result from the influx of those unneeded dollars into the tidy economy of Grand Fenwick (15 square miles; 5000 souls). And indeed the consternation is well founded. One year later, the ills of inflation already afflicting every Grand Fenwickian, high or low, Conservative or Labor, the profit check is not one million dollars, but ten million. Now only the benign Gloriana XII can save her people, and inspiration is equal to the perilous moment. Determining to lose the money by investing it on Wall Street, she closes her eyes-a classic method-and jabs at the financial page with her embroidery needle. Then, having airmailed off to the States a purchase order for stock in the company her needle has skewered, she settles back comfortably and confidently to her embroidery. Clearly Gloriana XII is no financial genius, and, of course, her scheme goes awry. But just how so is a matter for Mr. Wibberley's risible ingenuity and for his readers. Suffice it to say here that mergers merge, conglomerates conglomerate, and in due course all the money markets of the world begin to wobble. For what if Grand Fenwick should liquidate its billions-yes, they're billions now-of American assets and demand payment in gold? [via]
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Mouse That Saved the Westby Leonard WibberleyISBN 0688003648 (0-688-00364-8)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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Mumbo Jumboby Ishmael ReedISBN 0684824779 (0-684-82477-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Mumbo Jumbo is Ishmael Reed's brilliantly satiric deconstruction of Western civilization, a racy and uproarious commentary on our society. In it, Reed, one of our preeminent African-American authors, mixes portraits of historical figures and fictional characters with sound bites on subjects ranging from ragtime to Greek philosophy. Cited by literary critic Harold Bloom as one of the five hundred most significant books in the Western canon, Mumbo Jumbo is a trenchant and often biting look at black-white relations throughout history, from a keen observer of our culture. [via]
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Music for Torchingby A. M. HomesISBN 068817762X (0-688-17762-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Music for Torching'Book summary:As Quentin Crisp used to say, "Don't keep up with the Joneses! Drag them down to your level!" This could be the motto of the suburbanites in A.M. Homes's fourth novel, Music for Torching. Homes has a subtle eye and ear for suburban reality, but beware: she is no mere satirist of what James Joyce called the "muddle crass." Behind each neat, bright lawn, vile lives writhe in darkness. On the surface, Paul and Elaine are conventionally competitive middle-aged, middle-class people with banal yearnings for French doors and a new deck. They have two strapping boys. Their neighbors Pat and George are prodigies of efficient family life. But alone with Elaine, Pat drops the Stepford Wife mask and stages loveless orgies atop the throbbing washer, amid the Downy and Fantastik and Bon Ami. Meanwhile, Paul beds a local wife and a sinister mistress. The nice old man down the street downloads Internet child porn. Local kids join the Boy Scouts and bite off teachers' fingers. It's all about lurid misery and false fronts: a minor character is named Claire Roth, surely alluding to the bitter relationship in Claire Bloom's Leaving a Doll's House and Philip Roth's I Married a Communist.
Paul and Elaine first popped up in Homes's collection The Safety of Objects, as a couple having the happiest night of their lives smoking crack while the kids are away. Their happiest night here is when they tip the barbecue and burn their house halfway down. The story proceeds with a nightmare zombie logic from there, with a funny-scary ironic tone. "Paul notices that the color of her eye shadow is Fiction, and her lipstick is called Sheer Fraud.... 'What happened to the dining-room table, Elaine? Why'd you chop it to pieces?'" he wonders. "The damage was irreparable," his wife replies. Homes describes nice people doing not-so-nice deeds in luminous, precise prose way better than Bret Easton Ellis, as well as Joyce Carol Oates, and occasionally within range of John Updike. But Homes is really the evil spawn of Grace Metalious and Quentin Tarantino. --Tim Appelo [via]
The New Chastity and Other Arguments Against Women's Liberation.by Midge DecterISBN 0698104501 (0-698-10450-1)
Hardcover, Coward, McCann & Geoghegan
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The New Yorker Book of Lawyer CartoonsISBN 0679765743 (0-679-76574-3)
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Nights in Arubaby Andrew HolleranISBN 0688016731 (0-688-01673-1)
Hardcover, W. Morrow
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Noblesse Oblige: An Enquiry into the Identifiable Characteristics of the English Aristocracyby Nancy MitfordISBN 0689707045 (0-689-70704-5)
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Oh's Profitby John GouletISBN 0688029353 (0-688-02935-3)
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Oliver Twistby Charles Dickens, Les Martin, Jean Day ZallingerISBN 0679803912 (0-679-80391-2)
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Pieces of My Mindby Andy RooneyISBN 0689114923 (0-689-11492-3)
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Pride and Promiscuity : The Lost Sex Scenes of Jane Austenby Dennis Ashton, Arielle EckstutISBN 068487265X (0-684-87265-X)
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Reckless Eyeballingby Ishmael ReedISBN 0689707282 (0-689-70728-2)
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The Red Badge of Courageby Stephen CraneISBN 0679783202 (0-679-78320-2)
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Road Killby Kinky FriedmanISBN 068480378X (0-684-80378-X)
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Robinson Crusoeby Daniel DefoeISBN 0689844085 (0-689-84408-5)
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The Royal Beasts and Other Worksby William Empson, John HaffendenISBN 0701130849 (0-7011-3084-9)
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Scum Manifestoby Valerie SolanasISBN 0700410309 (0-7004-1030-9)
Hardcover, Olympia Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Scum Manifesto'Book summary:The focus of this edition is on Avital Ronells incisive introduction.
SCUM Manifesto was considered one of the most outrageous, violent and certifiably crazy tracts when it first appeared in 1968. Valerie Solanas, the woman who shot Andy Warhol, self-published this work just before her rampage against the king of Pop Art made her a household name and resulted in her confinement to a mental institution. But the Manifesto, for all its vitriol, is impossible to dismiss as just the rantings of a lesbian lunatic. In fact, the work has indisputable prescience, not only as a radical feminist analysis light-years ahead of its timepredicting artificial insemination, ATMs, a feminist uprising against under-representation in the artsbut also as a stunning testament to the rage of an abused and destitute woman.
The focus of this edition is not on the nostalgic appeal of the work, but on Avital Ronell's incisive introduction, "Deviant Payback: The Aims of Valerie Solanas." Here is a reconsideration of Solanas's infamous text in light of her social milieu, Derrida's "The Ends of Man" (written in the same year), Judith Butler's Excitable Speech, Nietzsche's Ubermensch and notorious feminist icons from Medusa, Medea and Antigone, to Lizzie Borden, Lorenna Bobbit and Aileen Wournos, illuminating the evocative exuberance of Solanas's dark tract.
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Senor Vivo and the Coca Lordby Louis De BernieresISBN 0688111300 (0-688-11130-0)
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Snapsby James Percelay, Monteria Ivey, Stephan DweckISBN 0688128963 (0-688-12896-3)
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Stickin: Case for Loyaltyby James CarvilleISBN 0684857731 (0-684-85773-1)
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Strange Stains and Mysterious Smells: Based on Quentin Cottingtons Journal of Faery Researchby Terry Jones, Brian FroudISBN 0684832062 (0-684-83206-2)
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The Sun Also Risesby Ernest HemingwayISBN 0684830515 (0-684-83051-5)
Hardcover, Scribner
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sun Also Rises'Book summary:The Sun Also Rises first appeared in 1926, and yet it's as fresh and clean and fine as it ever was, maybe finer. Hemingway's famously plain declarative sentences linger in the mind like poetry: "Brett was damned good-looking. She wore a slipover jersey sweater and a tweed skirt, and her hair was brushed back like a boy's. She started all that." His cast of thirtysomething dissolute expatriates--Brett and her drunken fiancé, Mike Campbell, the unhappy Princeton Jewish boxer Robert Cohn, the sardonic novelist Bill Gorton--are as familiar as the "cool crowd" we all once knew. No wonder this quintessential lost-generation novel has inspired several generations of imitators, in style as well as lifestyle.
Jake Barnes, Hemingway's narrator with a mysterious war wound that has left him sexually incapable, is the heart and soul of the book. Brett, the beautiful, doomed English woman he adores, provides the glamour of natural chic and sexual unattainability. Alcohol and post-World War I anomie fuel the plot: weary of drinking and dancing in Paris cafés, the expatriate gang decamps for the Spanish town of Pamplona for the "wonderful nightmare" of a week-long fiesta. Brett, with fiancé and ex-lover Cohn in tow, breaks hearts all around until she falls, briefly, for the handsome teenage bullfighter Pedro Romero. "My God! he's a lovely boy," she tells Jake. "And how I would love to see him get into those clothes. He must use a shoe-horn." Whereupon the party disbands.
But what's most shocking about the book is its lean, adjective-free style. The Sun Also Rises is Hemingway's masterpiece--one of them, anyway--and no matter how many times you've read it or how you feel about the manners and morals of the characters, you won't be able to resist its spell. This is a classic that really does live up to its reputation. --David Laskin [via]
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The Terrible Threesby Ishamael ReedISBN 0689121164 (0-689-12116-4)
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Thus Was Adonis Murderedby Sarah CaudwellISBN 0684172941 (0-684-17294-1)
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Tough Cookieby David WisniewskiISBN 0688153372 (0-688-15337-2)
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Travels in Nihilonby Alan SillitoeISBN 0684130041 (0-684-13004-1)
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Underworldby Don DelilloISBN 0684848155 (0-684-84815-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Underworld'Book summary:While Eisenstein documented the forces of totalitarianism and Stalinism upon the faces of the Russian peoples, DeLillo offers a stunning, at times overwhelming, document of the twin forces of the cold war and American culture, compelling that "swerve from evenness" in which he finds events and people both wondrous and horrifying. Underworld opens with a breathlessly graceful prologue set during the final game of the Giants-Dodgers pennant race in 1951. Written in what DeLillo calls "super-omniscience" the sentences sweep from young Cotter Martin as he jumps the gate to the press box, soars over the radio waves, runs out to the diamond, slides in on a fast ball, pops into the stands where J. Edgar Hoover is sitting with a drunken Jackie Gleason and a splenetic Frank Sinatra, and learns of the Soviet Union's second detonation of a nuclear bomb. It's an absolutely thrilling literary moment. When Bobby Thomson hits Branca's pitch into the outstretched hand of Cotter--the "shot heard around the world"--and Jackie Gleason pukes on Sinatra's shoes, the events of the next few decades are set in motion, all threaded together by the baseball as it passes from hand to hand.
"It's all falling indelibly into the past," writes DeLillo, a past that he carefully recalls and reconstructs with acute grace. Jump from Giants Stadium to the Nevada desert in 1992, where Nick Shay, who now owns the baseball, reunites with the artist Kara Sax. They had been brief and unlikely lovers 40 years before, and it is largely through the events, spinoffs, and coincidental encounters of their pasts that DeLillo filters the Cold War experience. He believes that "global events may alter how we live in the smallest ways," and as the book steps back in time to 1951, over the following 800-odd pages, we see just how those events alter lives. This reverse narrative allows the author to strip away the detritus of history and pop culture until we get to the story's pure elements: the bomb, the baseball, and the Bronx. In an epilogue as breathless and stunning as the prologue, DeLillo fast-forwards to a near future in which ruthless capitalism, the Internet, and a new, hushed faith have replaced the Cold War's blend of dread and euphoria.
Through fragments and interlaced stories--including those of highway killers, artists, celebrities, conspiracists, gangsters, nuns, and sundry others--DeLillo creates a fragile web of connected experience, a communal Zeitgeist that encompasses the messy whole of five decades of American life, wonderfully distilled. [via]
Voyage to the Red Planetby Terry BissonISBN 0688094953 (0-688-09495-3)
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Why We Watch: Killing the Gilligan Withinby Will MillerISBN 0684831066 (0-684-83106-6)
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Your World and Welcome to It: A Rogue's Gallery of Interior Designby Patrick Mauries, Christian Lacroix, Christopher PhillipsISBN 0684844206 (0-684-84420-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Your World and Welcome to It: A Rogue's Gallery of Interior Design'Book summary:After paying homage to LES STYLES by Philippe Jullian, an early sixties cult classic which offers a wicked look at the pretentions of domestic decor from CroMagnon man to Wallis Windsor, YOUR WORLD AND WELCOME TO IT traces interior design styles chronologically from the sixties through the nineties. Among the terms skewered by the Mauries/Lacroix team are 'Loft living', that perfect expression of the 1980's wherein 'size bespeaks wealth and location bespeaks independence of spirit;' 'Happy Habitat,' the choice of "people who use Peter Mayle's A YEAR IN PROVENCE as their guide to the art of living," and 'Shaker Style,' described as "an orgy of racks for hanging up stools and utensils, an avalanche of plain wardrobes, baskets, and oval wooden boxes." Styles in design, the authors suggest, encapsulate the hopes, fantasies, and ideals of a particular moment in time and YOUR WORLD AND WELCOME TO IT takes an uncompromising, but never unkind look at the past and present. Lacroix and Mauries's catalogue of design obsessions teach us to follow not fads but our own fancy, lest we find ourselves the target of their rapier wit. [via]
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