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Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick
$28.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: New York Review Books Classics | Reading Level: near fine
In Sleepless Nights a woman looks back on her life-the parade of people, the shifting background of place-and assembles a scrapbook of memories, reflections, portraits, letters, wishes, and dreams. An inspired fusion of fact and invention, this beautifully realized, hard-bitten, lyrical book is not only ...Show more
Stoner by WILLIAMS JOHN EDWARD
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Category: Fiction | Series: New York Review Books Classics
William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar's life, so different from the hardscrabble existence he has known. And yet as the ...Show more
Summer Cooking by Elizabeth David; Molly O'Neill (Foreword by)
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Category: Food & Cooking | Series: New York Review Books Classics
Summer Cooking - first published in 1955 - is Elizabeth David's wonderful selection of dishes, for table, buffet and picnic, that are light, easy to prepare and based on seasonal ingredients. Elizabeth David shows how an imaginative use of herbs can enhance even the simplest meals, whether egg, fish or ...Show more
That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana by Carlo Emilio Gadda & William Weaver (transl.)
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Category: Special Orders | Series: New York Review Books Classics
In a large apartment house in central Rome, two crimes are committed within a matter of days: a burglary, in which a good deal of money and precious jewels are taken, and a murder, as a young woman whose husband is out of town is found with her throat cut. Called in to investigate, melancholy Detective ...Show more
The Book of Ebenezer le Page by G.B. Edwards
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Category: Fiction | Series: New York Review Books Classics
Ebenezer Le Page, cantankerous, opinionated, and charming, is one of the most compelling literary creations of the late twentieth century. Eighty years old, Ebenezer has lived his whole life on the Channel Island of Guernsey, a stony speck of a place caught between the coasts of England and France yet a ...Show more
The Cost of Living: Early and Uncollected Stories by Mavis Gallant
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Category: Fiction | Series: New York Review Books Classics
A New York Review Books OriginalMavis Gallant is renowned as one of the great short-story writers of our day. This new gathering of long-unavailable or previously uncollected work presents stories from 1951 to 1971 and shows Gallant's progression from precocious virtuosity, to accomplished artistry, to ...Show more
The Day of the Owl by Leonardo Sciascia
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Category: Fiction | Series: New York Review Books Classics
A man is shot dead as he runs to catch the bus in the piazza of a small Sicilian town. Captain Bellodi, the detective on the case, is new to his job and determined to prove himself. Bellodi suspects the Mafia, and his suspicions grow when he finds himself up against an apparently unbreachable wall of si ...Show more
The Glass Bees by Ernst Junger; Bruce Sterling (Introduction by); Louise Bogan (Translator); Elizabeth Mayer (Translator)
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Category: Special Orders | Series: New York Review Books Classics
In The Glass Bees the celebrated German writer Ernst J nger presents a disconcerting vision of the future. Zapparoni, a brilliant businessman, has turned his advanced understanding of technology and his strategic command of the information and entertainment industries into a discrete form of global domi ...Show more
The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares; Ruth L. C. Simms (Translator); Jorge Luis Borges (Prologue by); Suzanne Jill Levine (Introduction by)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: New York Review Books Classics
Jorge Luis Borges declared The Invention of Morel a masterpiece of plotting, comparable to The Turn of the Screw and Journey to the Center of the Earth. Set on a mysterious island, Bioy's novella is a story of suspense and exploration, as well as a wonderfully unlikely romance, in which every detail is ...Show more
The Long Ships by Frans Gunnar Bengtsson
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Category: Fiction | Series: New York Review Books Classics
Frans Gunnar Bengtsson's "The Long Ships" resurrects the fantastic world of the tenth century AD when the Vikings roamed and rampaged from the northern fastnesses of Scandinavia down to the Mediterranean. Bengtsson's hero, Red Orm--canny, courageous, and above all lucky--is only a boy when he is abducte ...Show more
The Mad and the Bad by Jean-Patrick Manchette
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Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers | Series: New York Review Books Classics
The One Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka; Larry Korn (Translator); Wendell Berry (Preface by); Frances Moore Lappe (Introduction by)
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Category: Natural History and Environment | Series: New York Review Books Classics
Call it "Zen and the Art of Farming" or a "Little Green Book," Masanobu Fukuoka's manifesto about farming, eating, and the limits of human knowledge presents a radical challenge to the global systems we rely on for our food. At the same time, it is a spiritual memoir of a man whose innovative system of ...Show more