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The Agony and the Egoby Clare BoylanISBN 014016975X (0-14-016975-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Agony and the Ego'Book summary:Looks at the techniques, methods and philosophies of some of the leading writers of modern fiction as revealed in essays by and interviews with the authors. The book takes a look at the creative powers and techniques of writers such as William Boyd, Mary Wesley, Fay Weldon and Hilary Mantel. [via]
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Alcohol and the Writerby Donald W. GoodwinISBN 0140126554 (0-14-012655-4)
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Anais Nin: A Biographyby Deirdre BairISBN 0140255257 (0-14-025525-7)
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Anne of Avonleaby L.M. MontgomeryISBN 0140325654 (0-14-032565-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anne of Avonlea'Book summary:Anne Shirley, the redheaded girl of Green Gables returns.
Anne is home from Queen's. Now sixteen and a teacher, it is time to settle down and stay out of trouble. But trouble and Anne Shirley always seem to find each other.
Dolly, Anne's Jersey cow, is always getting in to Mr. Harrison's field. Mr. Harrision, a "crank" according to Rachel Lynde, was upset. So when Anne saw Dolly one day in his field Anne sold her on the spot. But when she arrived home there was Dolly. Anne had just sold Mr. Harrision's Jersey. Just the start of another quiet day for Anne.
Mark Twain described Anne as "the most moving and delightful child of fiction since the immortal Alice." The "Anne" books have been best sellers since 1908. [via]
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The Art of the Storyby Daniel HalpernISBN 0140296387 (0-14-029638-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Art of the Story'Book summary:A reader doesn't want to love every story in an anthology. A collection of short fiction by various authors should be just that: various. We want all the stories to be admirable, but not necessarily lovable. This is how anthologies do their job, which is to teach us to love new forms of fiction. And this is how Daniel Halpern, editor of The Art of the Story, does his job. Halpern previously brought us the successful and far-reaching collection The Art of the Tale. Now he has taken upon himself the task of creating an international sampling of the contemporary short story. Seventy-eight writers from 35 countries--including Banana Yoshimoto, Junot Díaz, Peter Hoeg, Julian Barnes, T.C. Boyle, Salman Rushdie, Peter Carey, Edwidge Danticat, and Tatyana Tolstaya--demonstrate that the story still brims with unrest and disharmony and, well, variousness. The classical form, the story that implies the world in a truncated scene or two, that implies a life in a single moment, is amply represented in this collection by writers like Ann Beattie ("In Amalfi") and Raymond Carver ("Are These Actual Miles?"). But the new story ranges farther than the personal, making inroads into the parodic, the fantastic, the speculative. As Halpern writes in the preface, "There seems to be a more investigative nature to the fiction of these stories written so close to the end of this century, a tendency, especially among writers from emerging nations, to use the story as a means of orientation, to restate for themselves their position--politically, socially, and artistically--as if for these writers there is radically less separation between reality and the imagination." Certainly this is an apt description of the fiction of Nigeria's Booker Prize winner Ben Okri ("In the Shadow of War") and of American newcomer Nathan Englander, whose "The Twenty-Seventh Man" describes the slaughter of Yiddish writers and contains the unforgettable dictate, "Never outlive your language." --Claire Dederer [via]
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Before Night Fallsby Reinaldo Arenas, Dolores M. KochISBN 0140157654 (0-14-015765-4)
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The Best of Granta TravelISBN 0140140417 (0-14-014041-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Boyby Roald DahlISBN 0140089179 (0-14-008917-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Boy'Book summary:In Boy, Roald Dahl recounts his days as a child growing up in England. From his years as a prankster at boarding school to his envious position as a chocolate tester for Cadbury's, Roald Dahl's boyhood was as full of excitement and the unexpected as are his world-famous, best-selling books. Packed with anecdotes -- some funny, some painful, all interesting -- this is a book that's sure to please. [via]
Bride of Dark and Stormyby Scott Rice, Bulwer-Lytton ContestISBN 014010304X (0-14-010304-X)
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Cape Codby Henry David ThoreauISBN 0140170022 (0-14-017002-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cape Cod'Book summary:Thoreau's classic account of his meditative, beach-combing walking trips to Cape Cod in the early 1850s, reflecting on the elemental forces of the sea[via]
Cape Cod chronicles Henry David Thoreaus journey of discovery along this evocative stretch of Massachusetts coastline, during which time he came to understand the complex relationship between the sea and the shore. He spent his nights in lighthouses, in fishing huts, and on isolated farms. He passed his days wandering the beaches, where he observed the wide variety of life and death offered up by the ocean. Through these observations, Thoreau discovered that the only way to truly know the seaits depth, its wildness, and the natural life it containedwas to study it from the shore. Like his most famous work, Walden, Cape Cod is full of Thoreaus unique perceptions and precise descriptions. But it is also full of his own joy and wonder at having stumbled across a new frontier so close to home, where a man may stand and put all America behind him.
Part of the Penguin Nature Library
Series Editor: Edward Hoagland
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Chasing the Monsoonby Alexander FraterISBN 0140105166 (0-14-010516-6)
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Come Along With Meby Shirley Jackson, Stanley Edgar HymanISBN 0140250379 (0-14-025037-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Come Along With Me'Book summary:If you were thrilled by Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" but aren't familiar with her other stories, don't miss the chance to pick up this important collection edited by the author's husband. In addition to "The Lottery," it includes classics like "The Beautiful Stranger" (body snatcher theme with a twist), "The Summer People" (a tale of sinister villagers), "A Visit" (a lyrical ghost story), "The Rock" (where death is a short, shy gentleman), and "The Bus" (Jackson's most overtly ghoulish and frightening story of all). The unfinished novel Come Along with Me is mesmerizing, and Jackson's "Biography of a Story" is an utterly hilarious account of readers' reactions when "The Lottery" was first published in the New Yorker in 1948. As the New York Times said, "Everything this author ... has in it the dignity and plausibility of myth ... Shirley Jackson knew better than any writer since Hawthorne the value of haunted things." [via]
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The Comediansby Graham GreeneISBN 0140184945 (0-14-018494-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Comedians'Book summary:One of Graham Greene's most chilling and prophetic novels, The Comedians is set in a Haiti ruled by Papa Doc and the Tontons Macoute, his sinister secret police. Just as The Quiet American offered a preview of the coming horrors of American involvement in Vietnam, this novel presages the chaos in Haiti. Classic Graham Greene. [via]
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The Complete Father Brownby G. K. ChestertonISBN 014009766X (0-14-009766-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Father Brown'Book summary:Immortalized in these famous stories, G.K. Chesterton's endearing amateur sleuth has entertained countless generations of readers. For, as his admirers know, Father Brown's cherubic face and unworldly simplicity, his glasses and his huge umbrella, disguise a quite uncanny understanding of the criminal mind at work. [via]
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The Confessions of Aleister Crowley : An Autobiographyby Aleister Crowley, John Symonds, Kenneth GrantISBN 0140191895 (0-14-019189-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Confessions of Aleister Crowley : An Autobiography'Book summary:One of the most famous books on the occult everwritten, this is a record of Crowley's journey into strange regions of consciousness: his initiation into magichis world-wide travels and mistresses, his experimerwith sex and drugs, and the philosophy of his famous Book of the Law. [via]
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The Cornish Trilogyby Robertson DaviesISBN 0140158502 (0-14-015850-2)
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Dolly Parton: Country Goin' to Townby Susan Saunders, Rodney PateISBN 0140321624 (0-14-032162-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dolly Parton: Country Goin' to Town'Book summary:A biography of the singer and writer of country music, with emphasis on her childhood and youth. [via]
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Don't Tread on Me: The Selected Letters of S.J. Perelmanby Prudence Crowther, Sidney J. PerelmanISBN 0140094822 (0-14-009482-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Don't Tread on Me: The Selected Letters of S.J. Perelman'Book summary:Spanning the period from the late '20s to his death in 1979, these letters reveal a man with the skill to transform his multifarious resentments, jealousies, and insecurities into high verbal art. 8 pages of black-and-white photographs. [via]
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Dorothy Parkerby Dorothy R. Parker, Brendan GillISBN 0140150749 (0-14-015074-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dorothy Parker'Book summary:Before there was Fran Leibowitz, there was Dorothy Parker. Before there was practically anyone, there was Dorothy Parker. When it comes to expressing the pleasure and pain of being just a touch too smart to be happy, she's winner and still champion after all these years. Along with Robert Benchley, Alexander Woollcott, and the rest of the Algonquin Round Table, she dominated American pop lit in the '20s and '30s; like Ginger Rogers, she did it all backwards. Parker's held up well--maybe the best of all of them.
This book is essential for any Parker fan, and an excellent way for new readers to make her acquaintance. It reprints her finest short stories and poems, some later articles, and all of her excellent "Constant Reader" book reviews from the Depression-era glory days of the New Yorker. The poetry, always light, has become brittle, sorry to say. But you've only to pick any story to be reminded that no middle-distance writer was better than Parker at her best. [via]
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Dorothy Parker, What Fresh Hell Is This?by Marion MeadeISBN 0140116168 (0-14-011616-8)
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Essaysby Michel De MontaigneISBN 014017897X (0-14-017897-X)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Essays'Book summary:Reflections by the creator of the essay form, display the humane, skeptical, humorous, and honest views of Montaigne, revealing his thoughts on sexuality, religion, cannibals, intellectuals, and other unexpected themes. Included are such celebrated works as "On Solitude," "To Philosophize Is to Learn How to Die," and "On Experience." [via]
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Et Cetera, Et Cetera: Notes of a Word-Watcherby Lewis ThomasISBN 0140158758 (0-14-015875-8)
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The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiographyby Philip RothISBN 014011405X (0-14-011405-X)
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Feature Filmmaking at Used-Car Pricesby Rick SchmidtISBN 0140291849 (0-14-029184-9)
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Fitzgerald Did It: The Writer's Guide to Mastering the Screenplayby Meg WolitzerISBN 0140275762 (0-14-027576-2)
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Forgotten Scripts: The Story of Their Deciphermentby Cyrus Herzl GordonISBN 0140213287 (0-14-021328-7)
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Genericaby Will FergusonISBN 014029984X (0-14-029984-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Generica'Book summary:An emotional balancing act of Herculean proportions, Will Ferguson's debut novel is somehow both caustically cynical and touchingly humane. Its message: there is no happiness without sadness. The pursuit of happiness is all--actually attaining it, if that were even possible, would be death. When Edwin de Valu, an editor at Panderic Press, finds What I Learned on the Mountain, a self-help book by an unknown author, Tupak Soiree, on his slush pile and publishes it, suddenly millions of people believe that pursuit is over. "Apocalypse Nice" has arrived, and Edwin's cynical side goes into high gear trying to save the world from itself. On this hysterical (in every sense of the word) quest, Edwin receives little help from his credulous wife, his plump co-worker (and sometime lover) May, or his ponytailed baby-boomer boss, Mr. Mead.
This wacky, lightweight novel mixes elements from Dilbert, Woody Allen, grainy art films, and P.J. O'Rourke. While Ferguson lines up a number of easy targets and can be way too obvious ("The Name of the Tulip" echoes a certain highbrow mystery), he can also write with flair, as in describing Edwin's city: "Here, in a miasma of fumes, trains rattle-bang on an endless Möbius strip of work, sweat, salt and grubby lucre. A merry-go-round where the horses have emphysema." --Mark Frutkin [via]
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Going to Ground: Simple Life on a Georgia Pondby Amy BlackmarrISBN 0140266925 (0-14-026692-5)
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The Grail Treeby Jonathan GashISBN 0140230157 (0-14-023015-7)
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Grammarby Frank PalmerISBN 0140135766 (0-14-013576-6)
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Granta 23: Homeby Bill BufordISBN 0140086048 (0-14-008604-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Granta 23: Home'Book summary:Devoted to autobiographical writing, Granta 23 is centered on the idea of home, with, James Baldwin, Robert McCrum and others. [via]
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Granta 24by Bill BufordISBN 0140086064 (0-14-008606-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Granta 24'Book summary:BANNED IN BRITAIN - "Her Majesty's Government does not want you to know about the life of Anthony Cavendish." Contains the controversial "Inside Intelligence," by Anthony Cavendish: "What finally did Cavendish see that we are not allowed to know now - forty years later? And why has the British government spent hundreds of thousands of pounds trying to keep us from finding out?" The issue also contains contributions from: Philip Roth Peter Carey Tobias Wolff Bruce Chatwin Jay McInerney Nik Cohn Mona Simpson E. L. Doctorow James Fenton in South Korea [via]
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Granta 25: Murderby Martin Amis, Bill BufordISBN 0140086080 (0-14-008608-0)
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Granta 28by Bill Buford, Lucretia Stewart, Tim AdamsISBN 0140123601 (0-14-012360-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Granta 28'Book summary:The anniversary edition of Granta features the works of Nadine Gordimer, Richard Ford, Russell Hoban, Louise Erdrich, George Steiner, Salmon Rushdie, and more. Each of the contributors has been previously featured in Granta. [via]
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Granta 30: New Europe!by Bill BufordISBN 0140132996 (0-14-013299-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Granta 30: New Europe!'Book summary:An issue of Granta devoted to all things Soviet, including fiction, non-fiction, photographs, interviews and an exclusive interview with Mikhail Gorbachev by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. [via]
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Granta 32by Bill BufordISBN 0140138560 (0-14-013856-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Granta 32'Book summary:eyewitness detailed account of the fall of Saigon [via]
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Granta 34: Death of a Harvard Manby Bill BufordISBN 0140138609 (0-14-013860-9)
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Granta 48 Africaby Bill BufordISBN 0140140840 (0-14-014084-0)
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Granta 53: Newsby Jack IanISBN 0140141332 (0-14-014133-2)
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Granta 54by Ian JackISBN 0140141359 (0-14-014135-9)
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Granta 65by Ian JackISBN 0140141588 (0-14-014158-8)
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How to Be Well-Versed in Poetryby E.O. ParrottISBN 0140112758 (0-14-011275-8)
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Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism, 1981-1991by Salman RushdieISBN 0140140360 (0-14-014036-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism, 1981-1991'Book summary:A record of one writer's intellectual and personal odyssey. The 75 essays collected here, written over the last ten years, cover a range of subjects - the literature of the received masters and of Rushdie's contemporaries; the politics of colonialism and the ironies of culture; film, politicians, the Labour Party, religious fundamentalism in America, racial prejudice; and the preciousness of the imagination and of free expression. [via]
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In Trouble Againby Bill BufordISBN 014008598X (0-14-008598-X)
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It Was a Dark and Stormy Nightby Scott Rice, Bulwer-Lytton ContestISBN 0140157913 (0-14-015791-3)
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Just So Storiesby Rudyard Kipling, Peter LeviISBN 0140183515 (0-14-018351-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Just So Stories'Book summary:Kipling's own drawings, with their long, funny captions, illustrate his hilarious explanations of How the Camel Got His Hump, How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin, How the Armadillo Happened, and other animal How's. He began inventing these stories in his American wife's hometown of Brattleboro, Vermont, to amuse his eldest daughter--and they have served ever since as a source of laughter for children everywhere. [via]
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Letters from Yellowstoneby Diane SmithISBN 0140291814 (0-14-029181-4)
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Leviathanby Paul AusterISBN 0140178139 (0-14-017813-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Leviathan'Book summary:So begins the story told by Peter Aaron and his best friend, Benjamin Sachs. Sachs had a marriage Aaron envied, an intelligence he admired, a world he shared. and then suddenly, after a near-fatal fall that might or night not have been intentional, Sachs disappeared. Now Aaron must piece together the life that led to Sach's death. His sole aim is to tell the truth and preserve it, before those who are investigating the case invent an account of their own.[via]Paul Auster's extraordinary seventh novel is about friendship and betrayal, sexual desire and estrangement, and the unpredictable instrusions of violence in the everyday. It is a daring and immensely moving story by an author whom The Times Literary Supplement has called "one of America's most spectacularly inventive writers."
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The Liar's Clubby Mary KarrISBN 0140179836 (0-14-017983-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Liar's Club'Book summary:In this funny, razor-edged memoir, Mary Karr, a prize-winning poet and critic, looks back at her upbringing in a swampy East Texas refinery town with a volatile, defiantly loving family. She recalls her painter mother, seven times married, whose outlaw spirit could tip into psychosis; a fist swinging father who spun tales with his cronies - dubbed the Liars' Club; and a neighborhood rape when she was eight. An inheritance was squandered, endless bottles emptied, and guns leveled at the deserving and undeserving. With a row authenticity stripped of self pity,and a poet's eye for the lyrical detail, Karr shows us a "terrific family of liars and drunks...redeemed by a slow unearthing of truth." [via]
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Linden Hillsby Gloria NaylorISBN 0140088296 (0-14-008829-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Linden Hills'Book summary:Linden Hills is an exclusive private residential estate in America. Intended as a symbol of black equality, it is in fact an infernal place, and the layers of hypocrisy and self-destruction which are its foundation become exposed. The author's other novels include "The Women of Brewster Place". [via]
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Literary Agents : The Essential Guide for Writersby Debby Mayer, Rosellen BrownISBN 0140268731 (0-14-026873-1)
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The Literature of the United Statesby Marcus CunliffeISBN 0140136266 (0-14-013626-6)
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Midnight's Childrenby Salman RushdieISBN 0140132708 (0-14-013270-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Midnight's Children'Book summary:Anyone who has spent time in the developing world will know that one of Bombay's claims to fame is the enormous film industry that churns out hundreds of musical fantasies each year. The other, of course, is native son Salman Rushdie--less prolific, perhaps than Bollywood, but in his own way just as fantastical. Though Rushdie's novels lack the requisite six musical numbers that punctuate every Bombay talkie, they often share basic plot points with their cinematic counterparts. Take, for example, his 1980 Booker Prize-winning Midnight's Children: two children born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947--the moment at which India became an independent nation--are switched in the hospital. The infant scion of a wealthy Muslim family is sent to be raised in a Hindu tenement, while the legitimate heir to such squalor ends up establishing squatters' rights to his unlucky hospital mate's luxurious bassinet. Switched babies are standard fare for a Hindi film, and one can't help but feel that Rushdie's world-view--and certainly his sense of the fantastical--has been shaped by the films of his childhood. But whereas the movies, while entertaining, are markedly mediocre, Midnight's Children is a masterpiece, brilliant written, wildly unpredictable, hilarious and heartbreaking in equal measure.
Rushdie's narrator, Saleem Sinai, is the Hindu child raised by wealthy Muslims. Near the beginning of the novel, he informs us that he is falling apart--literally:
I mean quite simply that I have begun to crack all over like an old jug--that my poor body, singular, unlovely, buffeted by too much history, subjected to drainage above and drainage below, mutilated by doors, brained by spittoons, has started coming apart at the seams. In short, I am literally disintegrating, slowly for the moment, although there are signs of an acceleration.
In light of this unfortunate physical degeneration, Saleem has decided to write his life story, and, incidentally, that of India's, before he crumbles into "(approximately) six hundred and thirty million particles of anonymous, and necessarily oblivious, dust." It seems that within one hour of midnight on India's independence day, 1,001 children were born. All of those children were endowed with special powers: some can travel through time, for example; one can change gender. Saleem's gift is telepathy, and it is via this power that he discovers the truth of his birth: that he is, in fact, the product of the illicit coupling of an Indian mother and an English father, and has usurped another's place. His gift also reveals the identities of all the other children and the fact that it is in his power to gather them for a "midnight parliament" to save the nation. To do so, however, would lay him open to that other child, christened Shiva, who has grown up to be a brutish killer. Saleem's dilemma plays out against the backdrop of the first years of independence: the partition of India and Pakistan, the ascendancy of "The Widow" Indira Gandhi, war, and, eventually, the imposition of martial law.We've seen this mix of magical thinking and political reality before in the works of Günter Grass and Gabriel García Márquez. What sets Rushdie apart is his mad prose pyrotechnics, the exuberant acrobatics of rhyme and alliteration, pun, wordplay, proper and "Babu" English chasing each other across the page in a dizzying, exhilarating cataract of words. Rushdie can be laugh-out-loud funny, but make no mistake--this is an angry book, and its author's outrage lends his language wings. Midnight's Children is Salman Rushdie's irate, affectionate love song to his native land--not so different from a Bombay talkie, after all. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Mind the Stopby CareyISBN 0140212701 (0-14-021270-1)
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The Movie That Changed My Lifeby David RosenbergISBN 0140169520 (0-14-016952-0)
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The New Penguin English Dictionaryby R.E. AllenISBN 0140293108 (0-14-029310-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The New Penguin English Dictionary'Book summary:Lexicographers have been arguing for centuries--since Dr Johnson produced his authoritative Dictionary of the English Language in 1755--about whether dictionaries should be arbiters of correctness or describers of living language. Refreshingly forward-looking and impressively comprehensive, The Penguin English Dictionary inclines to the latter.
In it you'll find definitions of "dot com company" as well as "dot com fever". Also there amongst the burgeoning computer and Internet vocabulary and its spin-off metaphors are "people carrier," "ring-fence" and "zero tolerance". But that is not to say this large, single-volume dictionary is not also strong and clear on standard English and English of earlier periods as well as on scientific and specialist terms--all with scholarly derivations. "Fugacious" ("lasting a short time, fleeting"--from Latin fugac--fugac from fuger to flee) is there along with "ollgoclase" ("a common feldspar mineral of the plagioclase series found in many rocks eg granite"--from German Oligoklas, from Greek OLIGO + klasis breaking").
Two features distinguish this attractive dictionary. First, like larger multi-volume rivals, it quotes from writers past and present--and people in the news today--to illustrate established, changing and modern language usage. Thus Shakespeare and John Locke rub shoulders with Eric Cantona and Germaine Greer. Second, the dictionary is liberally supplied with inset usage notes, which explain the complexities of, for example, shall and will, supplement and complement, effect and affect. There are also editorial notes and occasional very entertaining word histories. It makes for engrossing browsing. The (signed) editorial notes give supplementary information and have been written by a team of experts. Thus you get a useful elucidatory extra paragraph about film noir by film writer David Thomson, a comment about equality by Helena Kennedy QC and, by BBC economics correspondent Evan Davis, a piece about monetarism.
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The New Penguin Thesaurusby Rosalind Fergusson, David Pickering, Martin H. ManserISBN 0140293116 (0-14-029311-6)
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On Directing Filmby David MametISBN 0140127224 (0-14-012722-4)
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Poets at Work: The Paris Review Interviewsby George PlimptonISBN 0140117911 (0-14-011791-1)
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The Reader's Quotation Book: A Literary Companionby Steven GilbarISBN 0140158391 (0-14-015839-1)
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Real Man Tells All: Confessions of an Eligible Bachelorby Peter NelsonISBN 0140110755 (0-14-011075-5)
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Reflections in a Writer's Eye: Travel Piecesby Angus WilsonISBN 0140095802 (0-14-009580-2)
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Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities, and Meaning of Table Mannersby Margaret VisserISBN 0140170790 (0-14-017079-0)
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Robertson Davies Man of Mythby Judith Shelton GrantISBN 0140114521 (0-14-011452-1)
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Rosieby Anne LamottISBN 0140264795 (0-14-026479-5)
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Rotten Rejections: A Literary Companionby Andre BernardISBN 0140147861 (0-14-014786-1)
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Rotten Reviews: A Literary Companionby Bill HendersonISBN 0140101950 (0-14-010195-0)
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Rotten Reviews IIby Bill HendersonISBN 0140112480 (0-14-011248-0)
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The Seaby Ian JackISBN 0140141537 (0-14-014153-7)
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Selected Non-Fictionsby Jorge Luis BorgesISBN 0140290117 (0-14-029011-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Non-Fictions'Book summary:Jorge Luis Borges was our century's greatest miniaturist, perpetually cramming entire universes onto the head of a pin. Yet his splendid economy, along the wafer-thin proportions of such classic volumes as Ficciones and Labyrinths, has given readers the impression that Borges was miserly with his prose. In fact, he was something of a verbal spendthrift. His collected stories alone run to nearly 1,000 pages. And his nonfiction output was even more staggering: the young Borges cranked out hundreds of essays, book notes, cultural polemics, and movie reviews, and even after he lost his sight in 1955, he continued to dictate short pieces by the dozens. Eliot Weinberger has assembled just a fraction of this outpouring in Selected Non-Fictions, and the result is a 559-page Borgesian blowout, in which the Argentinean fabulist takes on being and nothingness, James Joyce and Lana Turner, and (surprisingly) racial hatred and the rise of Nazism. So much for our image of the mandarin bookworm! The very engagé author of this book seems more like a subequatorial Camus, with a dash of Siskel and Ebert on the side.
Selected Non-Fictions demonstrates just how quickly Borges began wrestling with such brainteasers as identity, time, and infinity. Indeed, the very first piece in the collection, "The Nothingness of Personality" (1922), already finds him fiddling with the self: "I, as I write this, am only a certainty that seeks out the words that are most apt to compel your attention. That proposition and a few muscular sensations, and the sight of the limpid branches that the trees place outside my window, constitute my current I." There are many such meditations here, including "A History of Eternity" (in which Borges maps out his own, disarmingly empty version of the eternal, "without a God or even a co-proprietor, and entirely devoid of archetypes"). But it's more fun--and more revelatory--to see the author venturing beyond his metaphysical stomping grounds. Borges on King Kong is a hoot, and a cornball masterpiece such as The Petrified Forest elicits this terrific nugget: "Death works in this film like hypnosis or alcohol: it brings the recesses of the soul into the light of day." His capsule biographies are a delight, his critiques of Nazi propaganda are memorably stringent, and nobody should miss him on the tango. True, the sheer variety and mind-boggling erudition of Selected Non-Fictions can be a little forbidding. But, taken as a whole, the collection surely meets the specifications that Borges laid out in a 1927 essay on literary pleasure: "If only some eternal book existed, primed for our enjoyment and whims, no less inventive in the populous morning as in the secluded night, oriented toward all hours of the world." Oh, but it does. --James Marcus [via]
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Shelley: The Pursuitby Richard HolmesISBN 0140158804 (0-14-015880-4)
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Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiographyby Jean RhysISBN 0140184058 (0-14-018405-8)
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Some of the Dharmaby Jack KerouacISBN 0140287078 (0-14-028707-8)
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Stolen Words: Forays into the Origins and Ravages of Plagiarismby Thomas MallonISBN 0140144404 (0-14-014440-4)
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Studies in Classic American Literatureby D. H. LawrenceISBN 0140183779 (0-14-018377-9)
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Swannby Carol ShieldsISBN 0140134298 (0-14-013429-8)
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Swann's Wayby Marcel ProustISBN 0140283269 (0-14-028326-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Swann's Way'Book summary:Swann's Way begins with one of the most famous incidents in all of literature -- the taste of a madeleine and tea that reawakens the elusive childhood memories of the narrator, Marcel. An image of Charles Swann, a wealthy and fashionable neighbor, precipitates Marcel's recollection of Swann's marriage to Odette de Crecy, a beautiful, manipulative woman far beneath him in social standing, and of the jealousy, aroused by Odette's many affairs with both men and women, that eventually destroys Swarm. Marcel recounts, too, his own initiation into the aesthetic pleasures and sexual intrigues of belle-epoque Paris. The themes introduced in Swann's Way -- the destructive force of obsessive love, the allure and the consequences of transgressive sex, and the selective eye that shapes memories -- form the threads that unite all the volumes of Remembrance of Things Past. [via]
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Tales from the Thousand and One Nightsby N. J. DawoodISBN 0140090231 (0-14-009023-1)
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Travels with Charley in Search of Americaby John Steinbeck, Jay PariniISBN 0140187413 (0-14-018741-3)
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The Tree Where Man Was Bornby Peter MatthiessenISBN 0140239340 (0-14-023934-0)
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The Viceroy of Ouidahby Bruce ChatwinISBN 0140112901 (0-14-011290-1)
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Ways of Seeingby John BergerISBN 0140135154 (0-14-013515-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ways of Seeing'Book summary:[via]John Bergers Classic Text on Art
John Berger's Ways of Seeing is one of the most stimulating and the most influential books on art in any language. First published in 1972, it was based on the BBC television series about which the (London) Sunday Times critic commented: "This is an eye-opener in more ways than one: by concentrating on how we look at paintings . . . he will almost certainly change the way you look at pictures." By now he has.
"Berger has the ability to cut right through the mystification of the professional art critics . . . He is a liberator of images: and once we have allowed the paintings to work on us directly, we are in a much better position to make a meaningful evaluation" Peter Fuller, Arts Review
"The influence of the series and the book . . . was enormous . . . It opened up for general attention to areas of cultural study that are now commonplace" Geoff Dyer in Ways of Telling
Winner of the 1972 Booker Prize for his novel, G., John Peter Berger (born November 5th, 1926) is an art critic, painter and author of many novels including A Painter of Our Time, From A to X and Bentos Sketchbook. 
Weby Clarence Brown, Evgenii Ivanovich ZamiatinISBN 0140185852 (0-14-018585-2)
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Winesburg, Ohioby Sherwood AndersonISBN 0140186557 (0-14-018655-7)
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The World of Zines: A Guide to the Independent Magazine Revolutionby Mike Gunderloy, Cari Goldberg JaniceISBN 014016720X (0-14-016720-X)
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Zen and the Art of Making a Living: A Practical Guide to Creative Career Designby Laurence G. BoldtISBN 0140195998 (0-14-019599-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Zen and the Art of Making a Living: A Practical Guide to Creative Career Design'Book summary:The bad old days of multiple-choice-test career counseling are over. It takes more than a #2 pencil and a computer to find your life's work, as career consultant Laurence G. Boldt tells us in Zen and the Art of Making a Living, a hefty but lighthearted tome that will help you find yourself and your place in the world. Boldt is quite up-front about it, though: it's a long, hard journey to get there. But his uplifting prose and liberal doses of inspirational quotes from wise men and women provide support for the weary traveler. Indeed, in between learning how to find the kind of work that strikes the right chord for you, figuring out what skills and talents you'll need to succeed at it, and righteously persisting until you get your reward, you may find lapses and stumbling blocks you hadn't expected--but Boldt has seen them all and finds the right words at the right time to keep you moving. Like a traditional career book, Zen and the Art of Making a Living includes résumé advice and worksheets for narrowing down and sticking with your goals; however, it takes off from there to guide the reader on a quest for spiritual fulfillment through work, something you won't find elsewhere. This updated edition contains plenty of Internet-related information and other resources unavailable in 1990 and is invaluable for anyone concerned about his or her future in the world of work. --Rob Lightner [via]
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