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Verlag: McPherson & Co Publishers,U.S., New York, 1988
ISBN 10: 0914232908ISBN 13: 9780914232902
Anbieter: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, USA
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. This bilingual, revised, third edition of Higgins' best-selling translation presents the complete Athenaum version of Friedrich von Hardenberg's classic romantic long poem, and the substantially different manuscript version of the first section. The German text is en face. The six hymns comprise a deeply affecting poem that speaks across the centuries with unquestioned radiance. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: McPherson & Co Publishers,U.S., New York, 1991
ISBN 10: 092970116XISBN 13: 9780929701165
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. In these eight sparkling biographies, Stan Brakhage brings us into intimate acquaintance with some of America's most influential independent filmmakers. These filmmakers are members of one of the most radical of 20th-century art movements; and yet their films and their lives are a continuous source of inspiration, not only to young, developing film-artists, but to the makers of commercial movies and videos as well. In these eight sparkling biographies, Stan Brakhage brings us into intimate acquaintance with some of America's most influential independent filmmakers. We meet Jerome Hill, born to inherit railroads and banks but destined to forge his artistic vision into a lasting film statement. And Marie Menken who, against the odds of a miserable and brutal marriage, developed a film aesthetic that revolutionized the very essence of independent filmmaking.Then James Broughton, the inveterate San Franciscan, whose irrepressible sense of whimsy and profound grasp of classical symbols combined to create some of the most vital filmworks of the last four decades; Christopher MacLaine, the "Artaud of North Beach"; Maya Deren, known to independent filmmakers as "the mother of us all"; Sidney Peterson, sophisticated, erudite, shy, the gentleman of the avant-garde film world; and two of Brakhage's most prominent contemporaries, Bruce Conner and Ken Jacobs. These filmmakers are members of one of the most radical of 20th-century art movements; and yet as radical and individual as they are, their films and their lives are a continuous source of inspiration, not only to young, developing film-artists, but to the makers of commercial movies and videos as well. Brakhage presents them and their work in portraits that are at once critical and anecdotal. One comes away from Film at Wit's End as one leaves an enjoyable, lively evening among friends Brief career profiles of eight American avant-garde filmmakers. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: McPherson & Co Publishers,U.S., New York, 1996
ISBN 10: 0929701496ISBN 13: 9780929701493
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Vladimir Klavdievich Arseniev (1872-1930) undertook twelve major scientific expeditions between 1902 and 1930 in the Siberian Far East, and authored some sixty works from the geographical and ethnographic data. Among these, Dersu the Trapper has earned a special place in 20th century Russian literature. In this Russian counterpart to The Journals of Lewis and Clark and the novels of James Fenimore Cooper, Arseniev combines the precise observations of a naturalist with an exciting narrative of real-life adventure. Arseniev describes three explorations in the Ussurian taiga along the Sea of Japan above Vladivostok, beginning with his first encounter of the solitary aboriginal hunter named Dersu, a member of the Gold tribe, who thereafter becomes his guide. Each expedition is beset with hardship and danger; through blizzard and flood and assorted deprivations, these two men forge an exceptional friendship in their mutual respect for the immense grandeur of the wilderness. But the bridges across language, race and culture also have limitations, and the incursion of civilization exacts its toll.Dersu the Trapper is at once a witnessing of Russia's last frontier and a poignant memoir of rare cross-cultural understanding. This edition is the first reprinting of the 1941 English translation by Malcolm Burr, who was himself a noted traveller and linguist. True adventures of V. K. Arseniev and his guide Dersu in the Siberian outback at the turn of the last century. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: McPherson & Co Publishers,U.S., New York, 2004
ISBN 10: 0929701658ISBN 13: 9780929701653
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Until now, Maya Deren's essays on the art and craft of filmmaking have not been available in a comprehensive volume equally handy for students, film enthusiasts, and scholars. Essential Deren: Collected Writings on Film contains all of Deren's essays on her own films as well as more general essays on film theory, the relation of film to dance, various technical aspects of film production, the distinction between amateur and professional filmmaking, and the famous 1946 chapbook titled "An Anagram of Ideas on Art, Form and Film," which has been reset here for the first time. There are hard-to-find articles written for magazines and art journals, as well as lectures, Q&A sessions, program notes, and manifestoes. This book will be particularly welcomed by the large audience that saw Martina Kudlacek's documentary, "In the Mirror of Maya Deren," during its theatrical release in the U.S. and Europe in 2002. The importance of Maya Deren's films and writings is further evidenced by the American Film Institute's having named its highest award for independent filmmaking the "Maya Deren." All of Maya Deren's major writings on film, including the book-length essay "An Anagram of Ideas on Art, Form and Film." Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: McPherson & Co Publishers,U.S. 1998-03-12, New York, 1998
ISBN 10: 0914232851ISBN 13: 9780914232858
Anbieter: Blackwell's, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
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paperback. Zustand: New.
Verlag: McPherson & Co Publishers,U.S., New York, 1989
ISBN 10: 0929701003ISBN 13: 9780929701004
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. After twelve years a young woman returns home to settle accounts with her doformed twin sister Laura. But Laura is inexplicably absent, and the visiting daughter's parents are enmeshed in their own emotional warfare. With the deceptive simplicity that has become Molinaro's literary hallmark, the stage is set for an explosive confrontation as the parents and visiting daughter take their positions around the traditional family table, with its centerpiece, an elegant arrangement of white roses. After twelve years a young woman returns home to settle accounts with her doformed twin sister Laura. But Laura is inexplicably absent, and the visiting daughter's parents are enmeshed in their own emotional warfare. With the deceptive simplicity that has become Molinaro's literary hallmark, the stage is set for an explosive confrontation as the parents and visiting daughter take their positions around the traditional family table, with its centerpiece, an elegant arrangement of white roses. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: McPherson & Co Publishers,U.S., New York, 2010
ISBN 10: 0929701909ISBN 13: 9780929701905
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. A lonely man possessing special powers crosses into an unknown country. There he meets three mysterious figures: an alluring diva, a shape-shifting siren, and an oddly omniscient hunter. Gradually, the four-part variations of I, Benjamin assume the disquieting dimensions of a visionary passageway to that unknowable thing called a beautiful life. Theodore Enslin's poetic career spans 51 years since the publication of his first book, The Work Proposed in 1958; now, with his self-proclaimed swan song, he presents a "quasi-autobiographical" fable of an artist's life. A lonely man possessing special powers crosses into an unknown country. There he meets three mysterious figures: an alluring diva, a shape-shifting siren, and an oddly omniscient hunter. Gradually, the four-part variations of I, Benjamin assume the disquieting dimensions of a visionary passageway to that unknowable thing called a beautiful life. Theodore Enslin's poetic career spans 51 years since the publication of his first book, The Work Proposed in 1958; now, with his self-proclaimed swan song, he presents a "quasi-autobiographical" fable of an artist's life. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: McPherson & Co Publishers,U.S., New York, 1990
ISBN 10: 1878352075ISBN 13: 9781878352071
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Volume Two of The False Messiah Trilogy. A Saroff Publication.?The rabble-rousing Reuben Poole appears first in The Pooles of Pismo Bay. Now, reappearing fifteen years in this fast-paced narrative of mystical suspense, Reuben has washed up, literally and figuratively, on the shore of Lake Michigan - alone, adrift, a witness. It is a hot August morning in 1953 on Oak Street Beach, and the day begins with the attempted murder of a mysterious young man whom Reuben halfheartedly saves. Soon afterward, an outrageous group of picnickers make their habitual appearance on the beach. Reuben detects a political conspiracy in the offing, and soon enough the menagerie, along with various police agents (foreign and local), are caught up in a chase through the back streets of Chicago after a charismatic cult leader, Matthew Francis Lenart. But how exactly Reuben finds his destiny merged with this other false messiah's becomes a cabal of apocalyptic betrayal. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: McPherson & Co Publishers,U.S., New York, 1989
ISBN 10: 0929701011ISBN 13: 9780929701011
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: McPherson & Co Publishers,U.S., New York, 1993
ISBN 10: 0929701321ISBN 13: 9780929701325
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Subtitled "29 word portraits of notable women from different times and places, + 1 void of course," this book is a powerful, unsettling vision in the tradition of Anais Nin and Djuna Barnes of those heroines whose rebellious daring shaped the meaning of the feminine experience. In these miniature biographies of Charlotte Corday, Joan of Arc, Lucy Goodale Thurston, Clara Schumann, Simone Weil, Alice Neel, Zenobia, Mu-Lan Hwa, Adele Hugo, among many others, and naturally including Snow White, Molinaro's prose impacts with consistent force, resurrecting these forgotten or disparaged women in all their talent and suffering. Subtitled "29 word portraits of notable women from different times and places, + 1 void of course," this book is a powerful, unsettling vision in the tradition of Anais Nin and Djuna Barnes of those heroines whose rebellious daring shaped the meaning of the feminine experience. In these miniature biographies of Charlotte Corday, Joan of Arc, Lucy Goodale Thurston, Clara Schumann, Simone Weil, Alice Neel, Zenobia, Mu-Lan Hwa, Adele Hugo, among many others, and naturally including Snow White, Molinaro's prose impacts with consistent force, resurrecting these forgotten or disparaged women in all their talent and suffering. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: McPherson & Co Publishers,U.S., New York, 1986
ISBN 10: 0914232800ISBN 13: 9780914232803
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: McPherson & Co Publishers,U.S., New York, 1993
ISBN 10: 0929701291ISBN 13: 9780929701295
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. In a yearly ritual the citizens of ancient Athens chased a couple in wedding regalia through the streets under a hail of stones, to shouts of "Out with sickness and famine! In with health and wealth!" The broken bodies were left to decompose outside the city gates. Normally the victims would come from among society's downtrodden or outcasts, and exchange their lives for a year of luxury at the city's expense. But in defiance of tradition, and as an expression of protest, a poet from an aristocratic family volunteers her flawless 30-year-old body. This is her story. In a yearly ritual the citizens of ancient Athens chased a couple in wedding regalia through the streets under a hail of stones, to shouts of "Out with sickness and famine! In with health and wealth!" The broken bodies were left to decompose outside the city gates. Normally the victims would come from among society's downtrodden or outcasts, and exchange their lives for a year of luxury at the city's expense. But in defiance of tradition, and as an expression of protest, a poet from an aristocratic family volunteers her flawless 30-year-old body. This is her story. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: McPherson & Co Publishers,U.S., New York, 1988
ISBN 10: 0914232975ISBN 13: 9780914232971
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Seven interlocking stories follow the lives of four friends into a locus of nightmare -- the elusive boundary that separates TV from the real world of shady streets, withering suburbs, anxious children, random murder and bizarre mutilation. It is a zone invaded by the private dialogue of impossibly cruel sitcoms, the zone known also as the American neighborhood. Here, in an unnamed coastal community, we meet the expatriated Californian, Pam; her strange brother, Rudi (dark genius, or patsy for a serial killer?); Pam's inertial husband, Ted; Pam's deranged and extended family; and Rudi's best friend, Donald Green, highway drifter and compulsive freeloader. It's a long summer of lost jobs, asinine anniversaries, strange encouters, and garrulous gossip. A summer etched by the lucid delirium wich marks the frustration of untempered striving. In short, it's another creation of sensual immediacy, exploded familiarity, and haunting perversity from the authors of The Other Planet and The Menaced Assassin. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: McPherson & Co Publishers,U.S., New York, 1989
ISBN 10: 0929701038ISBN 13: 9780929701035
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. The fusion of hard-boiled dialogue, psychological relativism and slapstick satire make The Menaced Assassin a postModern answer to Through the Looking Glass. Anti-heroine Celeste is an aspiring fashion designer, but first she must create an identity for herself, an identity she approaches through some "other zone" -- a mirror-world pieced together from old Hollywood movie plots, scenes out of sleazy crime novels and melodramas, ads in trashy magazines, fuzzy AM radio shows, and a stream of great overheard conversations. The dazzling fusion of hard-boiled dialogue, psychological relativism and slapstick satire make The Menaced Assassin a postModern answer to Through the Looking Glass. Anti-heroine Celeste is an aspiring fashion designer, but first she must create an identity for herself, an identity she approaches through some "other zone" — a mirror-world pieced together from old Hollywood movie plots, scenes out of sleazy crime novels and melodramas, ads in trashy magazines, fuzzy AM radio shows, and a stream of great overheard conversations. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: McPherson & Co Publishers,U.S., New York, 1988
ISBN 10: 0914232983ISBN 13: 9780914232988
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Perhaps no one has reclaimed the indispensible value of creative fiction with greater verve, style and intellect than Paul West in this first of four collections which review a panoply of works written from around the world. These six essays and fifty reviews consider the works of such writers as Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Vargas Llosa, Herman Hesse, Hermann Broch, Christa Wolf and Blaise Cendrars. An essential book for lovers of the twentieth-century novel. "Sheer pleasure." "" Kirkus Reviews "Sheer joy." "" The New York Times "Compared to his, most literary criticism is a genteel snooze" "" Publishers Weekly "Accessible to ordinary readers" "" Small Press Book Review Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: McPherson & Co Publishers,U.S., New York, 1990
ISBN 10: 0929701046ISBN 13: 9780929701042
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. At once confined and liberated by his madness, the hero and narrator of I Hear Voices takes us on journeys through his private, transfigured city. The vehicle is his own deranged mind, fueled by the absurdities of modern life. Lovers of Beckett and Ionesco will recognize much in Paul Abelman's world, where the fantastic and the real coexist in a hilarious, disquieting detente. This edition brings to a new audience a literary masterpiece which was originally published in 1958 by Olympia Press in Paris; Maurice Girodias claimed that it was the book that gave him the greatest pleasure to publish. The mind of a schizophrenic captured in real time. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: McPherson & Co Publishers,U.S., New York, 1990
ISBN 10: 1878352032ISBN 13: 9781878352033
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. In the small town of Braddox, southwest of Chicago, Rose sets this drama of satanic horror. At first the surface of things seems perfectly normal, but soon crueler levels are exposed, and the mythic contest between a precocious young boy and an aging god recapitulates a universal journey through human loss toward redemption.??"A peripatetic Spirit of Darkness enters a Midwestern Anytown, takes a death hold on an already strange Jewish boy and his parents, transfigures certain townsfolk into witches, touches half the world, heaven and hell, and is battled in lonely desperation by the possessed: this is the perplexing, disturbing tour de force by a novelist of formidable talent, who handles narrative, imagery, characterization, and symbolism like a sorcerer of words himself . . . His world is reminiscent of those of Augie March, Rosemary's Baby, and The Magus, but it is genuine uncharted territory." - Wilson Library Bulletin Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: McPherson & Co Publishers,U.S., New York, 1988
ISBN 10: 0914232916ISBN 13: 9780914232919
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. In these twenty-seven stories: an apparently happily married woman burns a hole in her dress with an iron and disappears into it; a fundamentalist preacher meets the lords of Karma; a post-apocalyptic tribe of wanderers reconceive the possibilities of living life; a proposal for a society of Hypnogeographers to map the places we go in dreams; a smugly dysfunctional youth encounters an old gypsy with her weird "infinite tarot" . . . Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: McPherson & Co Publishers,U.S., New York, 1990
ISBN 10: 1878352059ISBN 13: 9781878352057
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. In this novel about the post-Wobbly American labor movement we meet the entrancing, hot-blooded Pooles: Cora Elliot, family matriarch and famous Wobbly leader; Reuben, her son, a rabble rouser and unrepentant idealist; and Roselle, Reuben's wife, self-styled princess and "a treacherous woman to snuggle up with." Most old Wobblies have faded away, but passions are still hot, the atmosphere charged with danger, and the memories of Joe Hill, Mother Jones, and Eugene Debs still fresh. Conflict between generations, struggle between mother and wife for the mind and heart of Reuben, their high-tempered populist dreams now failed: the drama of the Pooles matches the spirit of the times in this town called Pismo Bay on the coast just south of Boston. This is an engrossing tale written with panache and psychological precision, reminiscent of the novels of Walter Pater, Ronald Firbank, and Henry James. Volume One of The False Messiah Trilogy. A Raymond Saroff Publication Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: McPherson & Co Publishers,U.S., New York, 1992
ISBN 10: 1878352091ISBN 13: 9781878352095
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Volume Three of The False Messiah Trilogy.Although The Marrano was the last of the "False Messiah Trilogy" to be published, its action is mostly contemporaneous with Oak Street Beach, the volume immediately following The Pooles of Pismo Bay (both issued in 1990). The three novels together refract facets of Rose's preoccupation with the loss of ideals in American life, as represented through Matthew Lenart, Gordon Abul, and Reuben Poole. The story begins in Minneapolis ("There is much madness in Minneapolis," the narrator declares), where young Matthew Lenart, who tells the story, grew up as the wealthy son of a newspaper tycoon, and within sight of the estate of Shem Abul, Gordon's father, a wealthy Sephardic Jewish merchant. The Lenarts move on the highest rungs of Minneapolis society, and the Abuls contrive a similar station, but after Gordon steals Matthew's wife, appearances start to disintegrate, revealing a clandestine agenda. Two brutal murders set Lenart off in search of Gordie, whom he finds on Chicago's Oak Street Beach oscillating between a smart set of society hangers-on of polymorphous sexuality, and the tenderloin district riffraff. A mad mix of people and almost surreal events collide with subterranean Israeli espionage.Throughout, the Sybaritic satirist Rose creates vivid characters and unflinchingly ribald dialogue. The high style recalls Ronald Firbank, the language is resonant, and scenes such as Gordie reciting de Sade (at his most scatological) in Chicago's "Bughouse Square" lend a startling conclusion to Rose's radical vision of the Jew in American society. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: McPherson & Co Publishers,U.S., New York, 1994
ISBN 10: 0929701402ISBN 13: 9780929701400
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. In his fourth collection, Robert Kelly tracks the elusive subject of all narratives -- the self stripped bare, even -- into ever more personal territories. The stories (all but one composed in the past few years) share a common urge to break loose from the constraints of linear thought, employing cubist technique in the construction of experience. Gathered here are close to thirty works of varying style and length, but whether blazing a single page or sensuously occupying a novella's space, virtually every one tells of odd encounters with desire. The longest story, "The Red King," lies at the center of the book, a telling complement at twenty-five years' remove to the novella "Cities," collected in A Transparent Tree. Now, a man of gentle omnipotence, perhaps in the winter of life, reinherits his own body. A second long work, "In Irish America," explores the immigrant experience of displacement in thirty-two prose-poems meant to be read or sung aloud -- a species of image-filled music. As usual, this new collection will surprise even Kelly's most assiduous readers. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: McPherson & Co Publishers,U.S., New York, 1992
ISBN 10: 0929701224ISBN 13: 9780929701226
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. This first trade paperback edition of the critically acclaimed 1986 hardcover Classical Illusions has been expanded with the addition of 22 new short stories, "Siren Songs." A master satirist, Kessler writes with devastating precision on the ironies of contemporary life, transposing ancient stereoptypes into modern settings, and holding modern mores up to the test of time. This first trade paperback edition of the critically acclaimed 1986 hardcover Classical Illusions has been expanded with the addition of 22 new short stories, "Siren Songs." A master satirist, Kessler writes with devastating precision on the ironies of contemporary life, transposing ancient stereoptypes into modern settings, and holding modern mores up to the test of time. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: McPherson & Co Publishers,U.S., New York, 1993
ISBN 10: 0929701283ISBN 13: 9780929701288
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Slums of the American city of New Babylon provide an all-too-real setting for this prescient novel of homelessness, noble intentions, moral corruption, and social castoffs. Tenement of Clay tells of Papa Nick, a dwarf wrestler named Lazarus, and a derelict called Lacland. Slums of the American city of New Babylon provide an all-too-real setting for this prescient novel of homelessness, noble intentions, moral corruption, and social castoffs. Tenement of Clay tells of Papa Nick, a dwarf wrestler named Lazarus, and a derelict called Lacland. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: McPherson & Co Publishers,U.S., New York, 1992
ISBN 10: 0929701267ISBN 13: 9780929701264
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. This extremely "American" novel, albeit by an English author, presents a Yankee tycoon's explosive career paralleling the boom-and-bust Twentieth Century. By the author of the "I Hear Voices" and other novels, it was published originally in 1977. The eponymous main character is not likely to win kudos for political correctness, since his story is something of a fictional cross between Hunter Thompson and P.J. O'Rourke. This purportedly autobiographical narrative express train leaps out as one of the premier novels told in first-person deranged. The dying threnody of a legendary 20th-century American tycoon, told to his amanuensis Horace. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: McPherson & Co Publishers,U.S., New York, 1993
ISBN 10: 0929701232ISBN 13: 9780929701233
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. A tragi-comic story of rock'n'roll and madness, capturing the quintessential idealism of 1968 meeting the hard edge of American reality. Gilbert Green is an attuned but innocent genius, a dreamer, a poet and filmmaker, around whom a young entourage of adventurers gathers. Gilbert Green is a novel in the form of a dream in the form of a novel, much like the year 1968 itself. A tragi-comic story of rock'n'roll and madness, capturing the quintessential idealism of 1968 meeting the hard edge of American reality. Gilbert Green is an attuned but innocent genius, a dreamer, a poet and filmmaker, around whom a young entourage of adventurers gathers. Gilbert Green is a novel in the form of a dream in the form of a novel, much like the year 1968 itself. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: McPherson & Co Publishers,U.S., New York, 1993
ISBN 10: 0929701305ISBN 13: 9780929701301
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. A highly cinemagraphic, compulsively readable third novel by a wonderful young talent. Rickshaw Jones is a brash young blues artist definitely on the way up, when suddenly her life is turned upside down by the senseless death of her twin sister, Israellen. Beset with doubt and grief, she recalls their lives growing up in Minneapolis, their rites of passage. With insight from her inter-racial heritage, Ricki confronts the stereotypes that trouble America, and faces at the same time the identity formed by her music, and her love of women. Her mother, Liberty Jones, is Ricki's touchstone out of the past -- a woman who strove to give her daughters the one thing each would later need. But others also are crucial to their nurturing: Terry Cee and Siobhan, Mamie, Cherise, Emma. As the memories of Ricki and Liberty and Israellen are entered, their experiences resonate with the blues of Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday, Miles Davis and Motown, ringing with anger and sadness and rare triumph. Through these stories of women in underclass America, stretched from the beginning of the civil rights movement well into the 1980s, Blue weaves strands of memory into a tapestry which depicts, finally, possibility of reconciliation. A novel of a mixed race American blues singer and her family, from the time of the civil rights movement to the 1980s. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: McPherson & Co Publishers,U.S., New York, 2013
ISBN 10: 162054010XISBN 13: 9781620540107
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: McPherson & Co Publishers,U.S., New York, 1993
ISBN 10: 0929701348ISBN 13: 9780929701349
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Here is one of the finest comic novels to appear in the last half century, deserving comparison with that of the best of Flann O'Brien, Angela Carter, or Witold Gombrowicz. Upon its first publication in 1974, this novel quickly became an underground sensation.This "fantasy novel" occurs in what may be thought of as a dystopian parallel-universe, a world recognizable to ours but set in an odd remove where the hero's hunger for fame shows its mythic origin. Hughbury Shamp is the reluctant teen-age hero who becomes apprenticed to three "masters" at the West Poolesville Depot on the Sumpsky Prospect, across the River Sump from Big Yolk, the City-Solo. His education involves a series of preposterous and hilarious misadventures with the likes of the impresario Sergei Shipoff, Dr. Harry Analarge, and the World Friar Tapsvine, all the while he is being toward stardom as prize-winning speaker at the murderously competitive Arslevering Ox-Roast. Includes an introduction by the author. This "fantasy novel" occurs in what may be thought of as a dystopian parallel-universe, a world recognizable to ours but set in an odd remove where the hero's hunger for fame shows its mythic origin. Hughbury Shamp is the reluctant teen-age hero who becomes apprenticed to three "masters" at the West Poolesville Depot on the Sumpsky Prospect, across the River Sump from Big Yolk, the City-Solo. his education involves a series of preposterous and hilarious misadventures with the likes of the impresario Sergei Shipoff, Dr. Harry Analarge, and the World Friar Tapsvine, all the while he is being propelled toward stardom as prize-winning speaker at the murderously competitive Arslevering Ox-Roast. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: McPherson & Co Publishers,U.S., New York, 1984
ISBN 10: 0914232657ISBN 13: 9780914232650
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Written when the author was about 25 years old (the writing spanned three years), Anticipation is a book full of wisdom and the laughter of youth. It could be characterized as the emergence into the world of an intriguing mentality: like James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, it contains, as the author says, "all my youthful revery." For his discursive exploitation of all kinds of narrative devices, the author has been compared to other markedly innovative writers, such as Melville and Sterne. But Frederick Ted Castle's book is really unlike any other, and almost necessarily Anticipation waited eighteen years after its completion in 1966 to be first published. While full of poetry, it is written in a lively and readable prose style. Although abandoning many conventions, it affords compensating pleasures. Sometimes referred to as an "epic novel," Anticipation redefines both the epic and the novel: the character called "myself" becomes a modern hero not because his exploits are heroic but because of the scrutiny devoted to the interior of his psyche, especially as refracted through portraits of friends. Upon its first appearance, the reviewer for The New York Times Book Review predicted: "Anticipation will last. It is a presence one wants to have around." Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: McPherson & Co Publishers,U.S., New York, 2008
ISBN 10: 0929701852ISBN 13: 9780929701851
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Italo Calvino once remarked that in Giorgio Manganelli, "Italian literature has a writer who resembles no one else, unmistakable in each of his phrases, an inventor who is irresistible and inexhaustible in his games with language and ideas." Nowhere is this more true than in this Decameron of fictions, each composed on a single folio sheet of typing paper. Yet, what are they? Miniature psychodramas, prose poems, tall tales, sudden illuminations, malevolent sophistries, fabliaux, paranoiac excursions, existential oxymorons, or wondrous, baleful absurdities? Always provocative, insolent, sinister, and quite often funny, these 100 comic novels are populated by decidedly ordinary lovers, martyrs, killers, thieves, maniacs, emperors, bandits, sleepers, architects, hunters, prisoners, writers, hallucinations, ghosts, spheres, dragons, Doppelgngers, knights, fairies, angels, animal incarnations, and Dreamstuff. Each "novel" construes itself into a kind of Mbius strip, in which, as one crit "Despite the short length of his 'novels,' Manganelli not only provides a great range of genres--ghost stories, love stories, tall tales, and so on--but also manages to end each story satisfyingly. His economic and essential use of language cuts to the heart of the matter." -- Harvey Pekar "Bookforum" Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.