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Soft cover. Condition: Good. Good Condition paperback 339 pages.

Pb. Condition: VG. 151pp. Extremities lightly rubbed.

Pb. Condition: VG. 187 pp. Rubbing, small scratch front.

Paperback. Condition: VG-. 177pp. Wear wraps, soiling.

Trade Paperback. Condition: As New. First English Edition. Dalkey Archive Press, November 2003. Trade Paperback. First English Edition (stated). As New. Not a remainder. Not damaged. 221 pages. A biting critique of book publishing: agents, subagents, and scouts, supermarket-like bookstores, Joan Collins, book fairs that have little to do with books, authors promoted because of sex appeal instead of merit, and editors trying to look like writers by having their photograph taken against a background of bookshelves. One of the most interesting and paradoxical comparisons coming out of Ugresic's dissection of book culture is the similarity between the art of socialist realism (as prescribed by the Soviets) and the nature of contemporary marketplace to produce and promote art that appeals to every-one.…

Pb. Condition: VG. 353pp. Corners lightly rubbed & bumped; sticker remnants bottom spine.

softcover. Condition: Fine copy. 1st. 8vo, 182 pp.

softcover. Condition: Fine copy. 1st. 8vo, 191 pp., Introduction by John Wyse Jackson.

softcover. Condition: Fine copy. 1st. 8vo, 192 pp., British Literature Series.

softcover. Condition: Fine copy. 2nd prt. 8vo, 158 pp., Afterword by the author.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Trade softcover format journal of 220 pages plus ads at end, clean tight and unmarked; includes Vargas Llosa checklist.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The Family of Pascual Duarte is the story of Pascual Duarte--a Spanish peasant born into a brutal world of poverty, hatred, and depravity--as told from his prison cell, where he awaits execution for the murders he's committed throughout his lifetime. Despite his savage and cruel impulses, Pascual retains a childlike sense of the world and a groping desire to understand the blows of fate that led him down his bloody path. Originally published in the same year as Camus's The Stranger--to which it has been compared--The Family of Pascual Duarte is closer in tone to the works of Curzio Malaparte and Louis-Ferdinand C line. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Softbound. Condition: Very Good. Octavo, paper covers, xiv, 303 pp., b/w photo, notes With a foreword by Gilbert Sorrentino and an afterword by Paul Zukofsky.

Softbound. Condition: Very Good. Octavo, paper covers, 312 pp.

Softbound. Condition: Very Good. Octavo, paper covers, x, 170 pp. Translation by William J. Hannaher. Introduction by Aleksandar Hemon.

Softbound. Condition: Very Good. Octavo, paper covers, 387 pp.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 107 pp. Tightly bound. Spine not compromised. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 157 pages. Top corners bumped, lower front corner peeling and creased. Text is clean.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The anonymous narrator in Alf MacLochlainn's Out of Focus has more than blurred vision when he looks at the world around him as he recuperates from his many minor accidents. His visual perception or skewed perspective is a working out of the author's theory taken from William Molyneux's statement in 1692 "that an object may be seen in two places yet not seen double." / Whether he is on his bed looking through the crystal of his watch, or in a hospital bathtub peering into the overflow opening, or sitting on a chaise lounge with an empty barrel of a ballpoint pen or ring from a beer can to his eye, or back in his bed looking through a gauze bandage, this very accident-prone hero/victim manages to see inside what appears to be real-life scenes going on outside. / And when he is not playing the voyeur, his mind runs on zany inventions (natural/non-natural bust supports and shot-proof crystal eye protectors, for example) and pseudo-pedantic discussions about optics, clocks and cycling designs. / Although everything about this novel is original--plot, style, illustrations--it tips its hat in passing to some of those who have gone before: Beckett's Malone Dies and Molloy, and the narrators of At Swim-Two-Birds and Cadenza. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The amusingly odd protagonist and narrator of Jean-Philippe Toussaint's novel is an academic on sabbatical in Berlin to work on his book about Titian. With his research completed, all he has left to do is sit down and write. Unfortunately, he can't decide how to refer to his subject Titian, le Titien, Vecellio, Titian Vecellio so instead he starts watching TV continuously, until one day he decides to renounce the most addictive of twentieth-century inventions. As he spends his summer still not writing his book, he is haunted by television, from the video surveillance screens in a museum to a moment when it seems everyone in Berlin is tuned in to Baywatch. One of Toussaint's funniest antiheroes, the protagonist of Television turns daily occurrences into an entertaining reflection on society and the influence of television on our lives. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A literary magazine devoted to discussions of contemporary fiction and authors, including selections from works-in-progress and interviews, as well as a lengthy book-review section. A literary magazine devoted to discussions of contemporary fiction and authors, including selections from works-in-progress and interviews, as well as a lengthy book-review section. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. For nearly 20 years, the Review of Contemporary Fiction has celebrated and promoted the study of innovative fiction by featuring some of the most influential authors of the twentieth century.Recently the Review changed its format, and instead of several essays on the work of one or two authors the Review now features three or four authors with one long essay apiece devoted to the discussion of their writing careers.Still providing both an introduction to experimental fiction writers and interpretive strategies for reading their work, this new format allows for the inclusion of younger writers and those whose work has not been widely studied.Occasionally, the Review will feature special issues devoted to new fiction from around the world or to essays and fiction by important novelists and critics. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. This issue of The Review of Contemporary Fiction presents new Slovak fiction in translation, congregating such significant writers as Dusan Dusek, Brano Hochel, Michal Hvorecky, Jan Johanides, Daniela Kapitanova, Monika Kompanikova, and Dusan Simko, among others most of whom have never before been translated into English to form a literary portrait of contemporary Slovak identity, framed by traditionalism and yet striving to engage the modern world with a voice all its own. The Review of Contemporary Fiction was founded in 1981 to promote a vision of literary culture that is not limited to the immediately popular, and to ensure that important world writers outside popular attention continue to be written about and discussed. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Curtis White and Milorad Pavic Number Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Softbound. Condition: Very Good. Octavo, paper covers, 121 pp. Translated by Dominic Di Bernardi.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Stated First Edition. Bumping Of Lower Edges At The Corner.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. A clean and sound copy. Careful packing and fast, efficient shipping including delivery confirmation. International Priority Air Mail shipping available for this item.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Over the past twenty years, the Review of Contemporary Fiction has earned a reputation for being one of the most important journals covering contemporary literature. Through essays, excerpts and an extensive book review section, the Review is dedicated to the discussion and celebration of innovative fiction, and some of the most influential authors of the twentieth century have been featured in its pages. The spring issue of the Revew of Contemporary Fiction features a casebook study on Gilbert Sorrentino's Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things--a darkly comic recreation of the New York artistic and literary world of the 1950s and 60s told in the weary voice of a cynical and sardonic narrator. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. George Garrett, "'Once More unto the Breach, Dear Friends, Once More': The Publishing Scene and American Literary Art"/John Barth, "Postmodernism Revisited"/Gilbert Sorrentino, "Writing and Writers: Disjecta Membra"/David Foster Wallace, "Fictional Futures and the Conspicuously Young"/Claude Ollier, "Conflictual Inscriptions"/Christine Brooke-Rose, "Ill Locutions"/Robert Creeley, "Thinking of You"/Harry Mathews, "Notes on the Threshold of a Book"/Harry Mathews, "Les Marveilleux Nuages"/Robert Kelly, "Poundian Romance: Investigating Thomas McEvilley's Novel, North of Yesterday"/Keith Abbott, "Shadows and Marble: Richard Brautigan"/Paul West, "Inspector Javert's Moment of Pure Aeschylus"/James McCourt, "Strange Attractions: Exaltation and Calculation in the Poetry of James Schuyler"/Thomas McGonigle, "Reactionary"/Mary McCarthy, "Felipe Alfau's Locos" Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Joseph Dewey, "Rick Moody" Brian Evenson & Joanna Howard, "Ann Quin" Zachary Hammerman, Ed., "Casebook Study of Silas Flannery" Joseph Dewey, "Rick Moody" Brian Evenson & Joanna Howard, "Ann Quin" Zachary Hammerman, Ed., "Casebook Study of Silas Flannery" Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …