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Arrabal, Fernando. Translated by Andrew Hurley. The Compass Stone. First Edition. New York, Grove Press, 1987. 22 cm. 165 pages. Original hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in Protective covering. Excellent condition first English edition with only very minor signs of external wear. Signed / Inscribed by Fernando Arrabal on the halftitle. In The Compass Stone, his second novel to be published in English, Fernando Arrabal creates a narrative counterpart to his theater of panic, which has won him a reputation as one of the most significant dramatists of our time. The Compass Stone is in the form of a memoir by an unnamed chronicler, a twenty-year-old woman who lives in a greenhouse of a mansion occupied by her crippled father, the Maimed One, and his two grotesque handmaidens, the Sisters. The high walls surrounding the mansion enclose a world unique to Arrabal's imagination, a Boschian allegory world in which guilt, sadism, bodage and murder all fit together to form a surprisingly coherent universe (from the dustjacket). Fernando Arrabal Terán (born August 11, 1932) is a Spanish playwright, screenwriter, film director, novelist and poet. Arrabal was born in Melilla, Spain, but settled in France in 1955; he describes himself as desterrado, or half-expatriate, half-exiled. (Amazon).
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The Compass Stone
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Grove Press January 1987, 1987
ISBN 10: 0802100023
ISBN 13: 9780802100023
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Book is complete and intact with minor defects. Seller Inventory # 509906
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The Compass Stone
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Condition: Good. 1st. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. Seller Inventory # 2497465-6
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The Compass Stone
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Condition: Very Good. 1st. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. Seller Inventory # 12949921-6
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Condition: good. The book is in good condition with all pages and cover intact, including the dust jacket if originally issued. The spine may show light wear. Pages may contain some notes or highlighting, and there might be a "From the library of" label. Boxed set packaging, shrink wrap, or included media like CDs may be missing. Seller Inventory # BSM.1D41A
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Translated from the Spanish by Andrew Hurley. 165 pages. Fine copy in a near fine dust jacket in a mylar protector. Seller Inventory # 089843
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Hardcover. Condition: As New. First Edition. Publisher: Grove Press, New York, 1987. FINE hardcover book in FINE- mylar-protected dust-jacket. First Edition, First Printing. Slight curl on inside flap of DJ's front panel, otherwise as new. Seller Inventory # 000651
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Seller: Browsing Is Arousing, Middlebury, VT, U.S.A.
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Condition: Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 165 pages. Cast as an accidentally discovered memoir written by a nameless young woman, the Spanish dramatist's newly translated work is more fable and parable than conventional novel. Its 18-year-old narrator/heroine, a kind of beautiful, seductive queen bee, shares a crumbling mansion with her aged father, the "Maimed One," and two women called "The Sisters." She has two principal activities: one is speculation on hierarchies in nature and societya persistent inquiry into the relation of human and insect behavior; the other is the dexterous use of a barber's straight razor, slashing the throats of casual acquaintances just as they reach the throes of sexual rapture. Her few friendsan adoring suma wrestler, a painter with bizarre tastesreveal their own oddities. To pass the time, they plan an orgy featuring paranoics, "depraved couples," sado-masochists and even the notorious Marquis de Sade. The reader never doubts that the speaking voice and questioning mind belong not to the beguiling and terrifying girl but to Arrabal himself. Clean copy. Record # 378606. Seller Inventory # 378606