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Seller: James F. Balsley, Bookseller, Williamsburg, VA, U.S.A.James F. Balsley, Bookseller
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Seller Inventory # 16083
- Title
- The Prince
- Author
- Koster, R.M.
- Publisher
- W.W. Norton (1989), New York
- Publication year
- 1989
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Trade paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 039330650X
- ISBN 13
- 9780393306507
- Seller catalogs
- American Literature, Fiction
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Review
"The most extraordinary novel." --"Life"
"Pynchon, Barth, Vonnegut, and Koster may be an acquired taste, but once the palate is trained, other American novelists can seem bland and pallid." --"Los Angeles Times"
"Koster's creation of Tinieblas is a remarkable achievement." --"The New York Times Book Review" "The value of a well-chosen reprint should go beyond merely reminding us of a good book that we might have forgotten---it should reengage us with a former state of the world and that world's reflection in literature...It may be odd to call extreme violence in literary fiction "refreshing," but reading "The Prince" reminds us of its notable absence in much of today's work." --"The Daily Beast"
"The writing is tender, careful and smart -- Koster's attention to tone extends even to some awkward English dialogue that mirrors natural-sounding Spanish -- and the satire hits its mark...In these stories, Koster's touch for the absurd and ear for pith come out...It's unclear at what point you start to feel the depth behind Koster's acrobatic balance of elegant narration, disgusting violence and acerbic satire. It's the subtlety that takes the book beyond caricature and into complexity." --"Full Stop"
""The Prince" got to me. I liked its swaggering adventuresomeness, its magnificent vanity, its almost comic sense of cruelty." --Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, "The New York Times"
"The most extraordinary novel." --"Life"
"Pynchon, Barth, Vonnegut, and Koster may be an acquired taste, but once the palate is trained, other American novelists can seem bland and pallid." --"Los Angeles Times"
"Koster's creation of Tinieblas is a remarkable achievement." --"The New York Times Book Review"
"The value of a well-chosen reprint should go beyond merely reminding us of a good book that we might have forgotten---it should reengage us with a former state of the world and that world's reflection in literature...It may be odd to call extreme violence in literary fiction "refreshing," but reading "The Prince" reminds us of its notable absence in much of today's work." --"The Daily Beast"
"The writing is tender, careful and smart Koster's attention to tone extends even to some awkward English dialogue that mirrors natural-sounding Spanish and the satire hits its mark In these stories, Koster's touch for the absurd and ear for pith come out It's unclear at what point you start to feel the depth behind Koster's acrobatic balance of elegant narration, disgusting violence and acerbic satire. It's the subtlety that takes the book beyond caricature and into complexity." "Full Stop"
""The Prince" got to me. I liked its swaggering adventuresomeness, its magnificent vanity, its almost comic sense of cruelty." --Christopher Lehmann Haupt, "The New York Times"
"The most extraordinary novel." --"Life"
"Pynchon, Barth, Vonnegut, and Koster may be an acquired taste, but once the palate is trained, other American novelists can seem bland and pallid." --"Los Angeles Times"
"Koster's creation of Tinieblas is a remarkable achievement." --"The New York Times Book Review"
"The value of a well-chosen reprint should go beyond merely reminding us of a good book that we might have forgotten -it should reengage us with a former state of the world and that world s reflection in literature It may be odd to call extreme violence in literary fiction refreshing, but reading "The Prince" reminds us of its notable absence in much of today s work." --"The Daily Beast""
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