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Published by Granta Books 1997-01-04, US, 1997
ISBN 10: 1862070008ISBN 13: 9781862070004
Seller: Monroe Street Books, Middlebury, VT, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 219 pages. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 461702.
Published by Granta Books 1997-01-04, US, 1997
ISBN 10: 1862070008ISBN 13: 9781862070004
Seller: Monroe Street Books, Middlebury, VT, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 219 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 461701.
Published by Granta Books, US, 2013
ISBN 10: 1847080723ISBN 13: 9781847080721
Seller: Infinity Books Japan, Tokyo, TKY, Japan
Book
Paperback. Condition: Good. The final volume of the trilogy that began with The Smoking Diaries finds S imon Gray determined to give up smoking. Really. At last. Can he kick the h abit of sixty years? Will he, sometime soon, be able to leave his house wit hout nervously feeling for his two packets of twenty and his two lighters? As this wonderful, wayward record of Gray's life progresses, these question s are overtaken by much larger ones. What was sex like before 1963? Will hi s name be in lights on Broadway? Why leave the bedside of his dying mother? With their combination of comedy and serious reflection, of sharp observat ion and painful self-disclosure, Simon Gray's diaries reinvented the memoir form and are destined to become classics of autobiography.
Published by Granta Books, US, 1991
ISBN 10: 1862071357ISBN 13: 9781862071353
Seller: Infinity Books Japan, Tokyo, TKY, Japan
Book
Paperback. Condition: Good. Simon Schama, the author of The Embarrassment of Riches and Citizens, sets out to tell the history of two certainties, of two deaths. In discussing th e speculations surrounding them, he finds himself involved in a history he cannot classify - the unpredictable history of stories.
Published by Granta Books, US, 2019
ISBN 10: 1846276519ISBN 13: 9781846276514
Seller: Infinity Books Japan, Tokyo, TKY, Japan
Book
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Hubert Mingarelli's simple, powerful, and moving stories of men in combat have established him as one of the most exciting new voices in international fiction. In Four Soldiers he tells the story of four young soldiers in 1919, members of the Red Army during the Russian civil war. It is set in the harsh dead of winter, just as the soldiers set up camp in a forest in Galicia near the Romanian front line. Due to a lull in fighting, their days are taken up with the mundane tasks of trying to scratch together what food and comforts they can find, all the time while talking, smoking, and waiting. Waiting specifically for spring to come. Waiting for their battalion to move on. Waiting for the inevitable resumption of violence.
Published by Granta Books, US, 2020
ISBN 10: 1783784768ISBN 13: 9781783784769
Seller: Infinity Books Japan, Tokyo, TKY, Japan
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good/Very Good. First Edition. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 202000'What are you afraid of, he asks me and the answer of course is dentistry, humiliation, scarcity, then he says what are your most useful skills? People think I'm funny' Lizzie Benson slid into her job as a librarian without a traditional degree. But this gives her a vantage point from which to practise her other calling: as an unofficial shrink. For years, she has supported her God-haunted mother and her recovering addict brother. They have both stabilized for the moment, but then her old mentor, Sylvia Liller, makes a proposal. Sylvia has become famous for her prescient podcast, Hell and High Water, and wants to hire Lizzie to answer the mail she receives: from left-wingers worried about climate change and right wingers worried about the decline of western civilization. As she dives into this polarized world, she begins to wonder what it means to keep tending your own garden once you've seen the flames beyond its walls. When her brother becomes a father and Sylvia a recluse, Lizzie is forced to acknowledge the limits of what she can do. But if she can't save others, then what, or who, might save her? And all the while the voices of the city keep floating in--funny, disturbing, and increasingly mad.
Published by Granta Books, US, 2006
ISBN 10: 1862078416ISBN 13: 9781862078413
Seller: Infinity Books Japan, Tokyo, TKY, Japan
Book
Condition: Very Good. In the winter of 1996, the writer Janet Malcolm received a letter from a st ranger - a disbarred lawyer named Sheila McGough, who had recently been rel eased from prison, and who wrote that she been convicted of crimes she had not committed. McGough's was an obscure fraud case, just as McGough herself was obscure: a fifty-four- year- old woman who when Malcolm met her 'looke d and sounded like a blandly wholesome heroine of fifties movies', toiling in the lower reaches of the American legal profession. Malcolm, however, de cided to look into her alleged crime. Out of her investigations and her com pelling narration there emerges a startling portrait of American cupidity a nd American law, and of a woman too innocent to survive among either.
Published by Granta Books, US, 1991
ISBN 10: 0140140360ISBN 13: 9780140140361
Seller: Infinity Books Japan, Tokyo, TKY, Japan
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good/Very Good. Read every page of this book; better still, re-read them. The invocation me ans no hardship, since every true reader must surely be captivated by Rushd ie?fs masterful invention and ease, the flow of wit and insight and passion . How literature of the highest order can serve the interests of our common humanity is freshly illustrated here: a defence of his past, a promise for the future, and a surrender to nobody or nothing whatever except his own a ll-powerful imagination.?h-Michael Foot, Observer Salman Rushdie?fs Imaginary Homelands is an important record of one writer?fs intellectual and personal odyssey. The seventy essays collected here, written over the last ten years, cover an astonishing range of subjects -the literature of the received masters and of Rushdie?fs contemporaries; the politics of colonialism and the ironies of culture; film, politicians, the Labour Party, religious fundamentalism in America, racial prejudice; and the preciousness of the imagination and of free expression. For this paperback edition, the author has written a new essay to mark the third anniversary of the fatwa.
Published by Granta Books, US, 1997
ISBN 10: 1862070008ISBN 13: 9781862070004
Seller: Infinity Books Japan, Tokyo, TKY, Japan
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good/Very Good. First Edition. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Aboard the QE2 and under the stars, three lives converge. Two physicists - Jove, a married man, and Alice, a single woman - meet and commence an affair, only for Alice to fall in love with Jove's wife, Stella, a poet. Winterson captures all three sides of this triangle of desire - and the rich history that has brought them together - with her prodigious passion and intellect. Encompassing ideas that reach from the Greeks to the Grand Unified Theories (GUTs) of modern physics, Winterson incorporates the entire universe from Liverpool to New York, from quarks to cosmos - in a novel of sex and the spirit, the real and the fantastic, male and female, science and religion, and love in all its frailty and excess.
Published by Granta Books, US, 2016
ISBN 10: 1846276845ISBN 13: 9781846276842
Seller: Infinity Books Japan, Tokyo, TKY, Japan
Book
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Keiko Furukura had always been considered a strange child, and her parents always worried how she would get on in the real world, so when she takes on a job in a convenience store while at university, they are delighted for her. For her part, in the convenience store she finds a predictable world mandated by the store manual, which dictates how the workers should act and what they should say, and she copies her coworkers' style of dress and speech patterns so that she can play the part of a normal person. However, eighteen years later, at age 36, she is still in the same job, has never had a boyfriend, and has only few friends. She feels comfortable in her life, but is aware that she is not living up to society's expectations and causing her family to worry about her. When a similarly alienated but cynical and bitter young man comes to work in the store, he will upset Keiko's contented stasis--but will it be for the better? Sayaka Murata brilliantly captures the atmosphere of the familiar convenience store that is so much part of life in Japan. With some laugh-out-loud moments prompted by the disconnect between Keiko's thoughts and those of the people around her, she provides a sharp look at Japanese society and the pressure to conform, as well as penetrating insights into the female mind. Convenience Store Woman is a fresh, charming portrait of an unforgettable heroine that recalls Banana Yoshimoto, Han Kang, and Amélie.
Published by Published by Granta Books, Viking Penguin, 375 Hudson Street, New York First US Edition . New York 1991., 1991
Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
First Edition
First edition hard back binding in publisher's original blue paper covered boards, silver title and author lettering to the blue cloth spine, grey end papers. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Contains 432 printed pages of text. Black pen line across lower page edges, light marking to the closed page edges. Near Fine condition book in near Fine condition dust wrapper with rubs to the top spine end, not price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, this preserves and prolongs the life of the paper, it is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0670839523 LITERARY CRITICISM.