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| Ming, Wu: 54
Book Number: 44921
William Heinemann May 5, 2005 8vo softcover 640pp very good. The midlife crisis of Cary Grant, the founding of the KGB and the Neapolitan years of mafioso Lucky Luciano are just three of the plot lines woven into this dense, playful and always surprising literary behemoth set mostly in the year of the book's title, at the height of the Cold War. Anchoring the tale with a relatively conventional narrative is a young Bolognese man named Robespierre (Pierre), who embarks on a transcontinental odyssey to find his father, Vittorio Capponi, a former Mussolini loyalist who left the Italian army to join the Communists in Yugoslavia.
Keywords: 54 Ming Wu
Price: $16.00 |
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| Sparks, Nicholas: The Notebook
Book Number: 44983
Warner Books First Printing October 1996 8vo. Hardcover in d/w, very good, very good, small mark along bottom board, po name on ffl. Uncut page edges.
Keywords: Man Woman Relationships, Oral Reading
Price: $25.00 |
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| Rees, Celia: Sorceress
Book Number: 45093
BLOOMSBURY CHILDREN' March 3, 2003 8vo softcover 304
pp very good.
Keywords: Sorceress Rees Celia
Price: $10.00 |
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| Wilson, A.N.: Winnie and Wolf
Book Number: 45179
Hutchinson September 25, 2007 8vo softcover 384pp near fine. Veteran British biographer and novelist Wilson's plodding latest concerns the private life of Adolf Hitler (Wolf) and his friendship and affair with Winnie, the daughter-in-law of Richard Wagner. The novel opens in 1925 and is composed by an unnamed secretary to Winnie's husband. Wilson offers a new way of viewing the charismatic (though sweating and flatulent) leader, who appears to the Wagner family as the savior who will raise up a starving and humiliated interwar Germany and who made you feel that the struggle would not have been worth it unless it had gone too far.
Keywords: booker prize short list 2007 Winnie and Wolf Wilson A N
Price: $16.00 |
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| Coover, Robert: Gerald's Party
Book Number: 45188
Paladin 1988 8vo softcover 336pp near fine.
Keywords: Gerald's Party Coover Robert
Price: $8.00 |
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| Shapcott, Thomas W: Theatre of darkness: A Novel of Music, Obsession, Fame and Love - Lillian Nordica
Book Number: 45196
Vintage 1998 8vo softcover 282pp near fine. The Operatic diva Lillian Nordica travels to Batavia after her Australiasian tour. On the way she is shipwrecked on Thursday Island. Illwith pneumonia, Lillian settles into the island's small hospital. her arrival is greeted with wonder, much to the chargrin of visiting phrenologist ( a doctor who reads lumps and bumps on the head) Dr Siegfried Fomorian, who struggles to attract attention to himself and his work.
Keywords: Theatre of darkness Lillian Nordica as opera Shapcott Thomas W
Price: $11.00 |
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| Delahunt, Meaghan: The Red Book
Book Number: 45301
Granta Books 3 Mar 2008 8vo softcover 256pp very good. Three strangers meet in Bhopal, India: Francoise, an Australian photographer; Naga, a Tibetan refugee, and Arkay, a Scottish alcoholic drawn to Buddhism. Their stories are prompted by the photographs which Francoise assembles into an album - The Red Book - as testament to their time together. The photographs are witness to the traces they have left, the people they have been and the surprising connections between them - in Delhi, Rajasthan, Varanasi, and above all, in Bhopal. Twenty years earlier, a gas leak at Bhopal's Union Carbide factory killed thousands and the city's trauma reverberated through each of their lives. Francoise struggles to successfully bear witness to the event which shaped her life's path; Arkay is brought up against 'the old story' of his discarded alcoholic life; Naga fights his anger at his family's death. Through their meeting in Bhopal and the relationship's that develop between them, each is led to an unexpected resolution of their restless personal search.
Keywords: The Red Book Delahunt Meaghan
Price: $16.00 |
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| Briscoe, Joanna: Skin - The Beauty Myth Redefined
Book Number: 45320
Weidenfeld & Nicholson February 10, 1997 8vo softcover 288pp very good. Adele's career as an author of erotic novels is on the wane, as are her legendary looks. In an attempt to defy age, she retreats into a series of cosmetic surical procedures that, as her fear builds, become increasingly abusive and disturbing. After each operation, a layer of Adele's complex life is peeled away, exposing her most private passions and fears, until they young, brilliant girl is revealed, already sowing the seeds of her destiny.
Keywords: Skin Briscoe Joanna
Price: $12.00 |
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| Van Arnim, Elizabeth (author of: The Caravaners
Book Number: 45350
MacMillan1915 12mo. cream paper covered boards, hardcover.255pp. b/w frontis. good-, spine split on edges, owner's name on fep.
Keywords: fiction novel
Price: $12.00 |
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| Shaw, Irwin: Nightwork
Book Number: 45443
Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London1975 8vo hardcover 296pp. very good / good chipped d/w.
Keywords: Nightwork Shaw Irwin
Price: $12.00 |
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