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Author |
: Raymond Queneau |
Publisher |
: New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 212 |
Release |
: 1981 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0811207897 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780811207898 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis Exercises in Style by : Raymond Queneau
Queneau uses a variety of literary styles and forms in ninety-nine exercises which retell the same story about a minor brawl aboard a bus.
Author |
: Fran Ross |
Publisher |
: New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 156 |
Release |
: 2015-07-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780811223232 |
ISBN-13 |
: 081122323X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (32 Downloads) |
Synopsis Oreo by : Fran Ross
A pioneering, dazzling satire about a biracial black girl from Philadelphia searching for her Jewish father in New York City Oreo is raised by her maternal grandparents in Philadelphia. Her black mother tours with a theatrical troupe, and her Jewish deadbeat dad disappeared when she was an infant, leaving behind a mysterious note that triggers her quest to find him. What ensues is a playful, modernized parody of the classical odyssey of Theseus with a feminist twist, immersed in seventies pop culture, and mixing standard English, black vernacular, and Yiddish with wisecracking aplomb. Oreo, our young hero, navigates the labyrinth of sound studios and brothels and subway tunnels in Manhattan, seeking to claim her birthright while unwittingly experiencing and triggering a mythic journey of self-discovery like no other.
Author |
: Gabe Cyr |
Publisher |
: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. |
Total Pages |
: 148 |
Release |
: 2009 |
ISBN-10 |
: 160059543X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781600595431 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (3X Downloads) |
Synopsis Mixed-media Books by : Gabe Cyr
Previously published as New directions in altered books.
Author |
: László Krasznahorkai |
Publisher |
: New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 74 |
Release |
: 2021-11-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780811227988 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0811227987 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis Chasing Homer by : László Krasznahorkai
A classic escape nightmare, Chasing Homer is sped on not only by Krasznahorkai’s signature velocity, but also by a unique musical score and intense illustrations In this thrilling chase narrative, a hunted being escapes certain death at breakneck speed—careening through Europe, heading blindly South. Faster and faster, escaping the assassins, our protagonist flies forward, blending into crowds, adjusting to terrains, hopping on and off ferries, always desperately trying to stay a step ahead of certain death: the past did not exist, only what was current existed—a prisoner of the instant, rushing into this instant, an instant that had no continuation … Krasznahorkai—celebrated for the exhilarating energy of his prose—outdoes himself in Chasing Homer. And this unique collaboration boasts beautiful full-color paintings by Max Neumann and—reaching out of the book proper—the wildly percussive music of Szilveszter Miklós scored for each chapter (to be accessed by the reader via QR codes).
Author |
: Peter Gardner |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 308 |
Release |
: 2005-01-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521541727 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521541725 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Synopsis New Directions by : Peter Gardner
New Directions is a thematic reading-writing book aimed at the most advanced learners. It prepares students for the rigors of college-level writing by having them read long, challenging, authentic readings, from a variety of genres, and by having them apply critical thinking skills as a precursor to writing. This emphasis on multiple longer readings gives New Directions its distinctive character.
Author |
: Philippe Petit |
Publisher |
: New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 96 |
Release |
: 2019-06-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780811228657 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0811228657 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis On the High Wire by : Philippe Petit
“On the High Wire is fascinating to read. You will learn about the man, his work, his passion, his tenacity and lucidity” (Marcel Marceau) In this poetic handbook, written when he was just twenty-three, the world-famous high-wire artist Philippe Petit offers a window into the world of his craft. Petit masterfully explains how preparation and self-control contributed to such feats as walking between the towers of Notre Dame and the World Trade Center. Addressing such topics as the rigging of the wire, the walker’s first steps, his salute and exercises, and the work of other renowned high-wire artists, Petit offers us a book about the ecstasy of conquering our fears and reaching for the stars.
Author |
: Tennessee Willams |
Publisher |
: The Anglo Egyptian Bookshop |
Total Pages |
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: |
ISBN-10 |
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ISBN-13 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 ( Downloads) |
Synopsis The Glass Menagerie by : Tennessee Willams
Author |
: Miroslav Krleza |
Publisher |
: New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 176 |
Release |
: 2023-06-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780811226486 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0811226484 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis On the Edge of Reason by : Miroslav Krleza
From the great Croatian writer: a masterly work of literature—hilarious, unforgiving, and utterly reasonable Until the age of fifty-two, the protagonist of On the Edge of Reason suffered a monotonous existence as a highly respected lawyer. He owned a carriage and wore a top hat. He lived the life of “an orderly good-for-nothing among a whole crowd of neat, gray good-for-nothings.” But, one evening, surrounded by ladies and gentlemen at a party, he hears the Director-General tell a lively anecdote of how he shot four men like dogs for trespassing on his property. In response, our hero blurts out an honest thought. From this moment, all hell breaks loose. Written in 1938, On the Edge of Reason reveals the fundamental chasm between conformity and individuality. As folly piles upon folly, hypocrisy upon hypocrisy, reason itself begins to give way, and the edge between reality and unreality disappears.
Author |
: Doon Arbus |
Publisher |
: New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 129 |
Release |
: 2020-09-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780811229500 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0811229505 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (00 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Caretaker by : Doon Arbus
A lush, disorienting novel, The Caretaker takes no prisoners as it explores the perils of devotion and the potentially lethal charisma of things Following the death of a renowned and eccentric collector—the author of Stuff, a seminal philosophical work on the art of accumulation—the fate of the privately endowed museum he cherished falls to a peripatetic stranger who had been his fervent admirer. In his new role as caretaker of The Society for the Preservation of the Legacy of Dr. Charles Morgan, this restive man, in service to an absent master, at last finds his calling. The peculiar institution over which he presides is dedicated to the annihilation of hierarchy: peerless antiquities commune happily with the ignored, the discarded, the undervalued and the valueless. What transpires as the caretaker assumes dominion over this reliquary of voiceless objects and over its visitors is told in a manner at once obsessive and matter-of-fact, and in language both cocooning and expansive. A wry and haunting tale, The Caretaker, like the interplanetary crystal that is one of the museum’s treasures, is rare, glistening, and of a compacted inwardness. Kafka or Shirley Jackson may come to mind, and The Caretaker may conjure up various genres—parables, ghost stories, locked-room mysteries—but Doon Arbus draws her phosphorescent water from no other writer’s well.
Author |
: Emily Dickinson |
Publisher |
: New Directions Publishing Corporation |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2013 |
ISBN-10 |
: 081122175X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780811221757 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (5X Downloads) |
Synopsis The Gorgeous Nothings by : Emily Dickinson
Full-color facsimile publication of Emily Dickinson's manuscripts