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Marguerite Duras: WritingWriting, one of Marguerite Duras's last works, is a meditation on the process of writing and on her need for solitude in order to do it. In the five short pieces collected in this volume, she explores experiences that had an emotional impact on...
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Black SpringContinuing the subversive self-revelation begun in Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn, Henry Miller takes readers along a mad, free-associating journey from the damp grime of his Brooklyn youth to the sun-splashed cafes and squalid flats of Paris. With incomparable glee, Miller shifts...
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Learning to Talk: StoriesLearning to Talk is a dazzling collection of short stories from the two-time winner of the Man Booker Prize and #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Wolf Hall Trilogy. With a new foreword by Hilary Mantel.In the wake of Hilary Mantel's brilliant...
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The Blithedale RomanceAbjuring the city for a pastoral life, a group of utopians set out to reform a dissipated America. But the group is a powerful mix of competing ambitions and its idealism finds little satisfaction in farmwork. Instead, of changing the world, the members of...
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Run with the Hunted: Charles Bukowski Reader, aThe best of Bukowski's novels, stories, and poems, this collection reads like an autobiography, relating the extraordinary story of his life and offering a sometimes harrowing, invariably exhilarating reading experience. A must for this counterculture idol's legion of fans.Author: Charles BukowskiPublisher: Ecco PressPublished: 05/07/1994Pages:...
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My HeartA New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Calm and contemplative, softened by melancholy humor and always alive to beauty . . . Throughout My Heart, Mr. Mehmedinovic takes up the exile's perpetual investigation into memory, trying to reconcile the defining traumas of the...
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VilletteFrom the author of Jane Eyre, a strikingly modern story of a young woman starting over--with an introduction by Weike Wang, PEN/Hemingway Award-winning author of Chemistry "Villette Villette Have you read it?" exclaimed George Eliot when Charlotte Bront 's final novel appeared in 1853....
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ALA Izquierda, El (Cegador 1)Author: Mircea CartarescuPublisher: BatiscafoPublished: 10/04/2022Pages: 432Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.35lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.70w x 1.00dISBN: 9788417115869Language: Spanish
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The Dream of the Red ChamberFor more than a century and a half, Dream of the Red Chamber has been recognized in China as the greatest of its novels, a Chinese Romeo-and-Juliet love story and a portrait of one of the world's great civilizations. Chi-chen Wang's translation is skillful,...
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The Diary of a Teenage Girl, Revised Edition: An Account in Words and PicturesFirst released in 2002, this provocative, critically acclaimed novel is now a major motion picture starring Bel Powley, Kristen Wiig, and Alexander Skarsg rd. "I don't remember being born. I was a very ugly child. My appearance has not improved so I guess it...
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Sherston's Progress: The Memoirs of George SherstonThe third volume in Siegfried Sassoon's beloved trilogy, The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston, with a new introduction by celebrated historian Paul Fussell A highly decorated English soldier and an acclaimed poet and novelist, Siegfried Sassoon won fame for his trilogy of fictionalized autobiographies...
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The Farewell SymphonyFollowing A Boy's Own Story (now a classic of American fiction) and his richly acclaimed The Beautiful Room Is Empty, here is the eagerly awaited final volume of Edmund White's groundbreaking autobiographical trilogy. Named for the work by Haydn in which the instrumentalists leave...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: Introduction by Richard BrownIn his first and still most widely read novel, James Joyce makes a strange peace with the traditional narrative of a young man's self-discovery by respecting its substance while exploding its form, thereby inaugurating a literary revolution.Published in 1916 when Joyce was already at...
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Martin EdenSmitten with a beautiful and cultivated young woman, a bright but uncultured sailor determines to better himself intellectually and socially. Martin Eden turns his attention and energy from drinking and brawling to an aggressive pursuit of self-education through reading. Martin's determined striving leads to...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManA masterpiece of modern fiction, James Joyce's semiautobiographical first novel follows Stephen Dedalus, a sensitive and creative youth who rebels against his family, his education, and his country by committing himself to the artist's life. "I will not serve," vows Dedalus, "that in which...
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Music of the GhostsThis "novel of extraordinary humanity" (Madeleine Thien, author of Do Not Say We Have Nothing) from New York Times bestselling author Vaddey Ratner reveals "the endless ways that families can be forged and broken hearts held" (Chicago Tribune) as a young woman begins an...
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1996This fictionalized memoir of the award-winning author, Gloria Naylor, tells a story of a massive covert surveillance operation perpetrated against her by an official of the U.S. government.Author: Gloria NaylorPublisher: Third World PressPublished: 03/01/2007Pages: 175Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.63lbsSize: 8.96h x 6.66w x 0.54dISBN: 9780883782781About...
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AstragalAs if the reader were riding shotgun, this intensely vivid novel captures a life on the lam. "L'astragale" is the French word for the ankle bone Albertine Sarrazin's heroine Anne breaks as she leaps from her jail cell to freedom. As she drags herself...
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Seeing RedAn Entropy Magazine Best of 2016: Fiction Books selectionIncluded in World Literature Today's 75 Notable Translations of 2016A Foreword Reviews Reviewers' Choice Selection for 14 Favorites of 2016A penetrating autobiographical novel, and for English-language readers this work serves as a stunning introduction to a...
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Under KilimanjaroAn American literary treasure "The sun was not up but that was because of the flank of the mountain it had to rise over and the light was gray but good and Ngui and I were walking through the grass that was wet from...
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