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Lightning Rods by Helen Dewitt
$21.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
"All I want is to be a success. That's all I ask." Joe fails to sell a single set of the Encyclopedia Britannica in six months. Then fails to sell a single Electrolux and must eat 126 pieces of homemade pie, served up by his would-be customers who feel sorry for him. Holed up in his trailer, Joe finds a ...Show more
Some Trick: Thirteen Stories by Helen Dewitt
$42.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
At last a new book: a baker's dozen of stories all with Helen DeWitt's razor-sharp genius For sheer unpredictable brilliance, Gogol may come to mind, but no author alive today takes a reader as far as Helen DeWitt into the funniest, most yonder dimensions of possibility. Her jumping-off points might be ...Show more
The English Understand Wool (Storybook ND series) by Helen DeWitt
$31.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Series: Storybook ND Ser.
Maman was exigeante--there is no English word-and I had the benefit of her training. Others may not be so fortunate. If some other young girl, with two million dollars at stake, finds this of use I shall count myself justified.Raised in Marrakech by a French mother and English father, a 17-year-old girl ...Show more
The Last Samurai by Helen Dewitt
$32.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Helen DeWitt's 2000 debut, The Last Samurai, was "destined to become a cult classic" (Miramax). The enterprising publisher sold the rights in twenty countries, so "Why not just, 'destined to become a classic?'" (Garth Risk Hallberg) And why must cultists tell the uninitiated it has nothing to do with To ...Show more
The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Original...witty...playfulaa wonderfully funny book' James Wood'Fiercely intelligent, very funny and unlike anything else I've ever read' Mark Haddon'A triumph - a genuinely new story' A. S. Byatt'Destined to become a classic' Garth Risk HallbergEleven-year-old Ludo is in search of a father. Raised sin ...Show more
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