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Talk by Linda Rosenkrantz
$32.00 AUD
Category: Special Orders | Series: NYRB
Friendships are built on chatter, on gossip, on revelations-on talk. Over the course of the summer of 1965, Linda Rosenkrantz taped conversations between three friends (two straight, one gay) on the cusp of thirty vacationing at the beach: Emily, an actor; Vince, a painter; and Marsha, a writer. The res ...Show more
The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
$72.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: NYRB Classics S.
One of the major documents of modern European civilisation, Robert Burton's astounding compendium, a survey of melancholy in its myriad forms, has invited nothing but superlatives since its publication in the seventeenth century. Lewellyn Powys called it 'the greatest work of prose of the greatest perio ...Show more
The Communist by Elizabeth McKenzie
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: NYRB Classics Ser.
Moody, potent, subtly apocalyptic, The Communist tells the story of Walter Ferranini, the earnest, intense, autodidact son of the working class become an Italian Communist MP who undergoes a crisis just after Khrushchev for the first time denounced the Stalinist dictatorship. Ferranini, worn-out after m ...Show more
The Door by Magda Szabo Len Rix (Translator); Ali Smith (Introduction by)
$37.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: NYRB Classics Ser.
Emerence is a domestic servant - strong, fierce, eccentric, and with a reputation for being a first-rate housekeeper. When Magda, a young Hungarian writer, takes her on she never imagines how important this woman will become to her. It takes twenty years for a complex trust between them to be slowly, ca ...Show more
The Fountain Overflows by Rebecca West
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: NYRB
The lives of the talented Aubrey children have long been clouded by their father's genius for instability, but his new job in the London suburbs promises, for a time at least, reprieve from scandal and the threat of ruin. Mrs. Aubrey, a former concert pianist, struggles to keep the family afloat, but th ...Show more
The Peregrine by J.A. Baker
$27.00 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment | Series: NYRB
From fall to spring, J.A. Baker set out to track the daily comings and goings of a pair of peregrine falcons across the flat fen lands of eastern England. He followed the birds obsessively, observing them in the air and on the ground, in pursuit of their prey, making a kill, eating, and at rest, activit ...Show more
Zama by Antonio Di Benedetto
$34.50 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: NYRB
First published in 1956, Zama is now universally recognized as one of the masterpieces of modern Argentine and Spanish-language literature. Written in a style that is both precise and sumptuous, weirdly archaic and powerfully novel, Zama takes place in the last decade of the eighteenth century and descr ...Show more