Tony Duvert (209 results)
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Seller: Midtown Scholar Bookstore, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.Midtown Scholar Bookstore
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Seller: Midtown Scholar Bookstore, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.Midtown Scholar Bookstore
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Seller: Midtown Scholar Bookstore, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.Midtown Scholar Bookstore
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Seller: Montana Book Company, Fond du Lac, WI, U.S.A.Montana Book Company
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 213 pp. Tightly bound. Spine not compromised. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings. Remainder mark bottom fore-edge.
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Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Bensenville, IL, U.S.A.Grand Eagle Retail
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. District describes, in ten vignettes, the sad, sordid and sinister aspects of a section of an unnamed French city, and the manners in which the ghostlike human entities that live and wither within it are molded, moved and absorbed by its spaces.A noisy metro station, old tenements, buildings… going up, along with the fixtures of French communal life: the open-air market, the public garden; the little shops and bars, the lively town squarethe ugly and mundane, the coarse and unmentionable sit side by side with the occasionally burgeoning bit of beauty. With a sense of voyeuristic tension and queasy complicity, the reader is taken on an outcasts tour of city lifefrom construction site to metro, from bar to brothelan analysis of communal living in the conditional tense from the perspective of the absolute exile. One of Duverts last books, it is also one of his shortest: an unexpected return to the roving, fractured eye of the Nouveau Roman that had informed his earliest work. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Seller: GreatBookPrices, Columbia, MD, U.S.A.GreatBookPrices
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Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Bensenville, IL, U.S.A.Grand Eagle Retail
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A forgotten gem of French literature, Duvert's version of The Lord of the Flies- an indictment against the violence embedded in a middle-class community.Tony Duvert's novel Atlantic Island (originally published in French in 1979) takes place in the soul-crushing suburbs of a remote island of…f the coast of France. It is told through the shifting perspectives of a group of pubescent and prepubescent boys, ages seven to fourteen, who gather together at night in secret to carry out a series of burglaries throughout their neighborhood. The boys vandalize living rooms and kitchens and make off with, for the most part, petty objects of no value. Their exploits leave the adult community perplexed and outraged, especially when a death occurs and the stakes grow more serious.Duvert's portrayal of adult life on this Atlantic Island is savage to the point of satire, but the boys and their thieving and sexuality are explored with sympathy. A novel on the loneliness of childhood and the solitude induced by geographical space, it is also an empathetic and generous homage to youth, a crime novel without suspense, and an unsettling fairytale for adults.Atlantic Island today is a forgotten gem of French literature- Duvert's own version of The Lord of the Flies, it is attentive to details and precise in its depiction of French mores and language. An indictment against the violence embedded in a middle-class community, it is also a love letter to childhood, incorporating the heroic vistas in which a child needs only a fertile imagination to become the secret hero of his or her own life. A forgotten gem of French literature, Duvert's version of The Lord of the Flies: an indictment against the violence embedded in a middle-class community. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Seller: GreatBookPrices, Columbia, MD, U.S.A.GreatBookPrices
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Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.
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Seller: Inquiring Minds, Saugerties, NY, U.S.A.Inquiring Minds
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Seller: Big River Books, Powder Springs, GA, U.S.A.Big River Books
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Condition: like_new. This book is in Like New condition. It is unused, but has a remainder mark on the edge of the pages. Otherwise it is a new book.
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Seller: Rarewaves USA, OSWEGO, IL, U.S.A.Rarewaves USA
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Seller: Whitledge Books, Austin, TX, U.S.A.Whitledge Books
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Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. ATLANTIC ISLAND, a novel by Tony Duvert, translated from the French by Purdey Lord Kreiden and Michael Thomas Taren, softcover, 2017 (1979). BOOK CONDITION: near fine. The text block is in fine condition with no dog ears, tears, or marks. There is no bookplate nor signature of a prior… owner. This is not a library book nor a remainder. Tight binding. The wraps are in near fine condition (slight chipping along top and bottom edges). 9 x 6, 301 pages, 16 ounces. NOTE THAT SINCE THE BOOK WEIGHS ONE POUND, THERE MAY BE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING CHARGES IF YOU REQUIRE PRIORITY MAIL OR LIVE OUTSIDE THE USA. XX [From the back cover] Tony Duvert's novel Atlantic Island (originally published in French in 1979) takes place in the soul-crushing suburbs of a remote island off the coast of France. It is told through the shifting perspectives of a group of pubescent and prepubescent boys, ages seven to fourteen, who gather together at night in secret to carry out a series of burglaries throughout their neighborhood. The boys vandalize living rooms and kitchens and make off with, for the most part, petty objects of no value. Their exploits leave the adult community perplexed and outraged, especially when a death occurs and the stakes grow more serious. Duvert's portrayal of adult life on this Atlantic Island is savage to the point of satire, but the boys and their thieving and sexuality are explored with sympathy. A novel on the loneliness of childhood and the solitude induced by geographical space, it is also an empathetic and generous homage to youth, a crime novel without suspense, and an unsettling fairytale for adults. Atlantic Island today is a forgotten gem of French literature: Duvert's own version of Lord of the Flies, it is attentive to details and precise in its depiction of French mores and language. An indictment against the violence embedded in a middle-class community, it is also a love letter to childhood, incorporating the heroic vistas in which a child needs only a fertile imagination to become the secret hero of his or her own life. "A writer criminally undertranslated and consequently barely known in the primarily English-speaking areas of the world. Duvert is one of the more significant and idiosyncratic contemporary French fiction writers. He's also one of the most mysterious." —Dennis Cooper. Tony Duvert (1945-2008) is the author of fourteen books of fiction and nonfiction. His fifth novel, Strange Landscape, won the prestigious Prix Médicis in 1973. Other books translated into English include the novels When Jonathan Died and Diary of an Innocent as well as the essay Good Sex Illustrated.
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Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Bensenville, IL, U.S.A.Grand Eagle Retail
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Now in English, Duvert's shocking novel about a sexual adventurer among a tribe of adolescent boys in Northern Africa."I'd find it amusing if, in a few centuries, the only thing that our descendents condescend to retain of our artistic production, the only thing in which they'll see worlds t…o admire, to penetrate, the only thing that they'll show off as precious in immense museums after having flushed down the toilet all our acknowledged masterpieces, the only thing that will give them nostalgia and love for us will be our porn."-from Diary of an InnocentExiled from the prestigious French literary circles that had adored him in the 1970s, novelist Tony Duvert's life ended in anonymity. In 2008, nineteen years after his last book was published, Duvert's lifeless body was discovered in the small village of Thore-la-Rochette, where he had been living a life of total seclusion.Now for the first time, Duvert's most highly crafted novel is available in English. Poetic, brutally frank, and outright shocking, Diary of an Innocent recounts the risky experiences of a sexual adventurer among a tribe of adolescent boys in an imaginary setting that suggests North Africa. More reverie than narrative, Duvert's Diary presents a cascading series of portraits of the narrator's adolescent sexual partners and their culture, and ends with a fanciful yet rigorous construction of a reverse world in which marginal sexualities have become the norm.Written with gusto and infused with a luminous bitterness, this novel is more unsettling to readers today than it was to its first audience when published in French in 1976. In his openly declared war on society, Duvert presents a worldview that offers no easy moral code and no false narrative solution of redemption. And yet no reader will remain untouched by the book's dazzling language, stinging wit, devotion to matters of the heart, and terse condemnation of today's society. Now in English, Duvert's shocking novel about a sexual adventurer among a tribe of adolescent boys in Northern Africa. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Seller: Massive Bookshop, Greenfield, MA, U.S.A.Massive Bookshop
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Seller: Solr Books, Lincolnwood, IL, U.S.A.Solr Books
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Condition: very_good. This books is in Very good condition. There may be a few flaws like shelf wear and some light wear.
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Seller: Roundabout Books, Greenfield, MA, U.S.A.Roundabout Books
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Seller: Roundabout Books, Greenfield, MA, U.S.A.Roundabout Books
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Seller: Whitledge Books, Austin, TX, U.S.A.Whitledge Books
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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. DIARY OF AN INNOCENT, a novel by Tony Duvert, translated from the French and with an introduction by Bruce Benderson, softcover, 2nd printing, 2010 (1976). BOOK CONDITION: fine. The text block is in fine condition with no dog ears, tears, or marks. There is no bookplate nor signature of a…prior owner. This is not a library book nor a remainder. The illustrated wraps are in fine condition. 9 x 6, 255 pages, 14 ounces.
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Seller: Books Puddle, New York, NY, U.S.A.Books Puddle
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Condition: good. Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.
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Seller: Revaluation Books, Exeter, , United KingdomRevaluation Books
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Seller: The Next Page, Calgary, AB, CanadaThe Next Page
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Seller: Russell Books, Victoria, BC, CanadaRussell Books
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