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Gary, Romain: Hissing Tales
Book Number: 35413
London, Joseph 1964 first edition 8vo. hardcover. 189pp. very good. / very good d/w.
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Byatt, A. S.: Biographer's Tale
Book Number: 34955
London Random House of Canada, Limited August 2000 8vo hardcover 257pp. very good+ / very good+ d/w. Phineas G. is fed up with stultifying criticism and decides to study the messiness of 'real life". Doing nothing by halves he sets out to write a biography of a great biographer. But a "whole life" is hard to find. How do we put the idea of a person together? Everywhere he looks he finds fragments and gaps. Trails run cold and mysteries are unresolved.nnnThe pages in which Byatt reconstructs, or rather constructs this imaginary biography of an imaginary great man, are dazzling, captivating, utterly convincing. Readers of lively curiosity and wide interests will revel in it.
Keywords: Biography as a literary form Fiction Biographer's Tale Byatt A S
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Jean Stafford: Boston Adventure
Book Number: 35115
HOGARTH PRESS (ENGLAND) 1986 8vo softcover 538pp. very good.
Keywords: Fiction Boston Adventure Jean Stafford
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Morrissy, Mary: MOTHER OF PEARL
Book Number: 35183
New York Scribner 1995 first edition 8vo hardcover 282pp, b/w illus. very good / very good d/w with small tear rear top corner.
Keywords: Literature Fiction World Literature British Contemporary MOTHER OF PEARL Morrissy Mary
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Adams, Richard: The Iron Wolf and Other Stories
Book Number: 35750
London Lane 1980 large 8vo. hardcover 141pp, b/w illus. very good, large owner's inscription on fep. / very good d/w. Tales & legends.
Keywords: Fiction Tales legends Anthologies The Iron Wolf and Other Stories Adams Richard
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Tim Heald (selected by); Illustrated by Paul Cox: The Best After-Dinner Stories
Book Number: 36187
Folio Society 2003 8vo. hardcover. 268pp. b/w illus. fine in slipcase.
Keywords: fiction literature short stories
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Hynes, Samuel Lynn: Graham Greene: a collection of critical essays
Book Number: 36288
Englewood Cliffs, N.J. Prentice-Hall 1973 8vo softcover 183pp. very good.
Keywords: Literature Fiction World Literature British Graham Greene a collection of critical essays Hynes Samuel Lynn
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Calvino, Italo: Mr.Palomar
Book Number: 36416
Picador 1986 8vo softcover 113pp. very good, page edges browned.
Keywords: Fiction Mr Palomar Calvino Italo
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Calvino, Italo: Adam, One Afternoon: And Other Stories
Book Number: 36415
Picador 1984 8vo softcover 190pp. very good, owner's name on fep. page edges browned.
Keywords: Literature Fiction General Contemporary Adam One Afternoon And Other Stories Calvino Italo
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Smart, Elizabeth: The Assumption of the Rogues & Rascals
Book Number: 36440
London Harpercollins 1995 8vo softcover 112pp. very good. From Publishers WeeklynSmart's much-admired 1945 novel, By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept, was inspired by her longtime love affair with poet George Barker. This 1978 novel picks up where that earlier book left off, with the narrator, like Smart, meditating on the leavings of love?among them four children. It is a despairing look at life by a woman whose chance at love has come and gone, and though very little happens in the way of plot, the prose is gorgeous. Smart's narrative calls to mind some of the greatest modernists, as when her narrator, overwhelmed by the trivialities of her mundane life as a mother, sinks into a paralysis reminiscent of that of Eliot's Prufrock. "After I had given birth to my first child, I felt time and space come whorling back into the empty space where it had lain. And Einsteinian demons came rushing to attack me with the terrible nature of the naked truth. But now I sit in country kitchens, discussing the minor discomforts of childbirth, and the domestic details of love." This is a somewhat bitter meditation on love and loneliness, but Smart's poetic prose makes it a book of high literary merit. nCopyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Keywords: Literature Fiction General Contemporary The Assumption of the Rogues Rascals Smart Elizabeth
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