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How German Is It

By: Abish, Walter

Price: $5.00

Publisher: November 2011

Seller ID: 459140

ISBN: 0811207765

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The question How German Is It underlies the conduct and actions of the characters in Walter Abish's novel, an icy panorama of contemporary Germany, in which the tradition of order and obedience, the patrimony of the saber and the castle on the Rhine, give way to the present, indiscriminate fascination with all things American. On his return from Paris to his home city of W rtenburg, Ulrich Hargenau, whose father was executed for his involvement in the 1944 plot against Hitler, is compelled to ask himself, "How German am l?"--as he compares his own recent attempt to save his life, and his wife ...
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Ghosts

By: Aira, Cesar

Price: $6.50

Seller ID: 441318

ISBN: 0811217426

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Ghosts is about a construction worker's family squatting on a building site. They all see large and handsome ghosts around their quarters, but the teenage daughter is the most curious. Her questions about them become more and more heartfelt until the story reaches a critical, chilling moment when the mother realizes that her daughter's life hangs in the balance.
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Flowers of Evil

By: Baudelaire, Charles

Price: $6.50

Publisher: November 2015

Seller ID: 473606

ISBN: 0811211177

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Banned and slighted in his lifetime, the book that contains all of Baudelaire's verses has opened up vistas to the imagination and quickened sensibilities of poets everywhere. Yet it is questionable whether a single translator can give adequate voice to Baudelaire's full poetic range. In compiling their classic, bilingual edition of The Flowers of Evil, the late Marthiel and Jackson Mathews chose from the work of forty-one translators to create a collection that is "a commentary on the present state of the art of translation." The Mathews' volume is a poets' homage to Baudelaire as well. Among...
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Waiting for Godot: A tragicomedy in two acts

By: Beckett, Samuel

Price: $5.00

Publisher: June 2012

Seller ID: 363613

ISBN: E33

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Bernard Shaw

By: Bently, Eric

Price: $2.00

Seller ID: 333300

ISBN: 120SHAW

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Man Outside

By: Borchert, Wolfgang

Price: $3.00

Seller ID: 390139

ISBN: NDP319

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Life Being The Best & Other Stories

By: Boyle, Kay

Price: $4.00

Publisher: July 2010

Seller ID: 101715

ISBN: 0811210537

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Thirteen stories deal with three sisters, a young woman's dashed hopes, failed love, life's dissatisfactions, missed opportunities, and the search for identity.
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War Babies: Novel

By: Busch, Frederick

Price: $7.50

Publisher: New Directions: September 1989

Seller ID: 480172

ISBN: 0811211037

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Peter's father, a prisoner who turned traitor in a Korean War POW camp, might have had something to do with a fellow captive's death, the father of one Hilary Pennels--now a woman Peter's age who lives in Salisbury. When Peter and Hilary meet, they both want information from the other, and more, and find themselves engaged in a wary dance of attraction laced with mistrust. But it may be a third person, the sole remaining survivor of the camp--a Mr. Fox--who holds the key to the mystery of betrayal that haunts Peter and Hilary alike.
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Guignol's Band

By: Celine, Louis Ferdinand

Price: $6.00

Publisher: July 2015

Seller ID: 469807

ISBN: 0811200183

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The hero, the semi-autobiographical Ferdinand, moves through the nightmare of London's underworld during the years of World War I. In this distressing setting, he meets pimps and prostitutes, pawnbrokers and magicians, policemen and arsonists. He sees social and physiological decomposition as these processes unfold along parallel lines of development. The illusions of existence are nakedly exposed. The narrative erupts in C line's characteristic elliptical style. His splintered sentences and scatology reflect his fury at the fragmentation of experience and at his own impotence in the face of i...
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Windows

By: Creeley, Robert

Price: $4.00

Seller ID: 364919

ISBN: 0811211231

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Because I Was Flesh

By: Dahlberg, Edward

Price: $6.00

Publisher: July 2013

Seller ID: 244111

ISBN: 08112002991

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Edward Dahlberg Reader

By: Dahlberg, Edward

Price: $5.00

Seller ID: 389695

ISBN: NDP246

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Because I Was Flesh: The Autobiography of Edward Dahlberg

By: Dahlberg, Edward

Price: $4.00

Publisher: New Directions: January 1967

Seller ID: 471792

ISBN: 0811200299

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Because I Was Flesh is an authentic record from the inferno of modern city life, and a testament of American experience. Lizzie Dahlberg, separated from a worthless husband, works as a lady barber to keep herself and her son in shabby respectability amid the vice and brutality of Kansas City in the early 1900's. Her constant objective: to acquire a new husband who can give her security and help educate the child. She is attractive to men, but fate never brings her a good one. One suitor makes her put the boy in an orphanage--years of torment that are brilliantly described--and then be...
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No Longer Human

By: Dazai, Osamu

Price: $7.50

Publisher: December 2012

Seller ID: 471637

ISBN: 0811204812

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Portraying himself as a failure, the protagonist of Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human narrates a seemingly normal life even while he feels himself incapable of understanding human beings. Oba Yozo's attempts to reconcile himself to the world around him begin in early childhood, continue through high school, where he becomes a "clown" to mask his alienation, and eventually lead to a failed suicide attempt as an adult. Without sentimentality, he records the casual cruelties of life and its fleeting moments of human connection and tenderness.
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Seven Types of Ambiguity

By: Empson, William

Price: $7.00

Seller ID: 473255

ISBN: 081120037X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Revised twice since it first appeared, it has remained one of the most widely read and quoted works of literary analysis. Ambiguity, according to Empson, includes "any verbal nuance, however slight, which gives room for alternative reactions to the same piece of language." From this definition, broad enough by his own admission sometimes to see "stretched absurdly far," he launches into a brilliant discussion, under seven classifications of differing complexity and depth, of such works, among others, as Shakespeare's plays and the poetry of Chaucer, Donne, Marvell, Pope, Wordsworth, Gerard Man...
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End of Days

By: Erpenbeck, Jenny

Price: $6.00

Publisher: October 2014

Seller ID: 483893

ISBN: 081122192X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The End of Days, by acclaimed German writer Jenny Erpenbeck, consists essentially of five "books," each leading to a different death of an unnamed woman protagonist. How could it all have gone differently? the narrator asks in the intermezzos between. The first chapter begins with the death of a baby in the early twentieth-century Hapsburg Empire. In the next chapter, the same girl grows up in Vienna, but her strange relationship with a boy leads to another death. In the next scenario, she survives adolescence and moves to Russia with her husband. Both are dedicated Communists, but ou...
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Starting from San Francisco

By: Ferlinghetti, Lawrence

Price: $3.00

Seller ID: 339174

ISBN: NDP220

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Her

By: Ferlinghetti, Lawrence

Price: $5.00

Seller ID: 392069

ISBN: 0811200426

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Being thus very far from the kind of novels produced by Ferlinghetti's immediate contemporaries (whether Beat or academic) this book has met with little but bafflement among American critics. With well over 50,000 now in print Her nevertheless continues to make its own way.
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