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A Community Writing Itself: Conversations with Vanguard Writers of the Bay Area (Book)

Sarah Rosenthal

ISBN:9781564785848

A Community Writing Itself features internationally respected writers Michael Palmer, Nathaniel Mackey, Leslie Scalapino, Brenda Hillman, Kathleen Fraser...more details
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Henry Green

ISBN:9781564785442

One-legged Charley Summers is finally home from the war, after several years in a German prison camp, only to find he must now deal with the death of his lover Rose. A shell-shocked romantic-slow...more details
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Buenos Aires Affair (Book)

Manuel Puig

ISBN:9781564785800

Manuel Puig's masterful and ironic "detective novel" concerns the abduction of a woman, an impending murder, and the dim memories of a thousand old glamour queens-Garbo...more details
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Claude Ollier Carlos Fuentes, Vol. 8, No. 2 (Book)

Carlos Fuentes

ISBN:9781564781109

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Gilbert Sortentino: A Descriptive Bibliography (Book)

William McPheron

ISBN:9780916583675

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Gnomon: Essays on Contemporary Literature (Book)

Hugh Kenner

ISBN:9781564784308

The gnomon is the part of a sundial that casts its shadow, and Gnomon: Essays on Contemporary Literature represents, in its author's words,"a report on ten years' watching of shadows." Collecting the earliest short essays and reviews by a man who was arguably the greatest English-language critic-scholar of the twentieth century...more details
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God's Hazard (Book)

Nicholas Mosley

ISBN:9781564785404

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Heartbreak Tango (Book)

Manuel Puig

ISBN:9781564785534

Awash in small-town gossip, petty jealousy, and intrigues, Manuel Puig's Heartbreak Tango is a comedic assault on the fault lines between the disappointments of the everyday world...more details
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Hoppla! 1 2 3 (Book)

Gerard Gavarry

ISBN:9781564785367

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Inish (Book)

Bernard Share

ISBN:9781564785411

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Ishmael Reed: The Plays (Book)

Ishmael Reed

ISBN:9781564785510

Ishmael Reed's career as one of our great playwrights has long been eclipsed by his other work. Here published for the first time, Reed's plays follow the ancient tradition of using the theater as a forum in which the official versions of our history can be critiqued. Dealing with subjects that mainstream theatergoers might find disturbing-homelessness...more details
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News from the Empire (Book)

Fernando Del Paso

ISBN:9781564785336

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Paradoxes of Peace: Or, the Presence of Infinity (Book)

Nicholas Mosley

ISBN:9781564785398

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Review of Contemporary Fiction: Spring 2008--New Catalan Fiction (Book)

John O'Brien

ISBN:9781564785008

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Savage (Book)

Jacques Jouet

ISBN:9781564785350

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Stanley Elkin Alasdair Gray, Vol. 15, No. 2 (Book)

Diane Williams

ISBN:9781564781284

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The "Review of Contemporary Fiction": Dalkey Archive Annual: Fall 2009 (Book)

Jr O'Brien John

ISBN:9781564785916

The third edition of the Dalkey Archive Annual offers an advance look at some of the new writing the Dalkey Press will be publishing in the coming seasons...more details
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The "Review of Contemporary Fiction": Georges Perec Issue: Spring 2009 (Book)

David Bellos

ISBN:9781564785695

With the participation of editor and translator David Bellos, the Review's 1993 Georges Perec number is here updated to reflect the state of current Perec studies...more details
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The "Review of Contemporary Fiction": Special Fiction Issue, Herman Melville: Summer 2009 (Book)

Jr O'Brien John

ISBN:9781564785909

In 2007, Orion Press put out a series of abridged classics, including Moby-Dick In Half the Time. Adam Gopnik famously called the Melville abridgment "all Dick...more details
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The Loop (Book)

Jacques Roubaud

ISBN:9781564785466

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The Necessary Marriage (Book)

Dumitru Tsepeneag

ISBN:9781564785343

From these few elements, Romanian author Dumitru Tsepeneag builds a dreamlike world both ancient and contemporary, and as mesmerizing as that in his critically acclaimed Vain Art of the Fugue. Praised by Emil Cioran for its precise and masterly evocation of sensual detail...more details
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This Is Not a Tragedy: The Works of David Markson (Book)

Francoise Palleau-Papin

ISBN:9781564786074

This Is Not a Tragedy examines David Markson's entire body of work, ranging from his early tongue-in-cheek Western and crime novels to contemporary classics such as Wittgenstein's Mistress and Reader's Block. Having begun in parody...more details
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Transit (Book)

Bernard Share

ISBN:9781564785428

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Translation in Practice: A Symposium (Book)

Gill Paul

ISBN:9781564785480

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Upstaged (Book)

Jacques Jouet

ISBN:9781564785749

Two minutes into the second act, there is a knock on Nicolas Boehlmer's dressing-room door, just as he's smoking his last cigarette before having to go back on stage . . . and...more details
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What We Were Doing and Where We Were Going (Book)

Damion Searls

ISBN:9781564785473

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When Blackness Rhymes with Blackness (Book)

Rowan Ricardo Phillips

ISBN:9781564785831

In When Blackness Rhymes with Blackness, Rowan Ricardo Phillips pushes African American poetry to its limits by unraveling "our desire to think of African American poetry as African American poetry...more details
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With Dance Shoes in Siberian Snows (Book)

Sandra Kalniete

ISBN:9781564785459

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Aliss at the Fire (Book)

Jon Fosse

ISBN:9781564785732

In her old house by the fjord, Signe lies on a bench and sees a vision of herselfas she was more than twenty years earlier: standing by the window waiting forher husband Asle...more details
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Arriving in Avignon (Book)

Daniel Robberechts

ISBN:9781564785923

The Flemish writer Danie l Robberechts (1937-1992) refused to identify his books as novels, stories, or essays, according them all equal status as...more details
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Best European Fiction 2011 (Book)

Aleksandar Hemon

ISBN:9781564786005

The launch of Dalkey's Best European Fiction series was nothing short of phenomenal, with wide-ranging coverage in international media such as Time magazine...more details
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Dolly City (Book)

Orly Castel-Bloom

ISBN:9781564786104

"Dolly City--a city without a base, without a past, without an infrastructure. Themost demented city in the world." In the midst of a futuristic-primitive metropolis...more details
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Dying (Book)

Rene Belletto

ISBN:9781564785930

In this darkly playful novel, polymath Rene Belletto tells two complimentary stories: In one, a man finds himself paying a ransom demanded by the kidnappers of a woman he's never actually met; in the other...more details
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Friction (Book)

Eloy Urroz

ISBN:9781564785497

The "friction" of the title--one letter away from "fiction"--is what's generated when reality and the imagination begin to rub against one another...more details
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Isle of Dreams (Book)

Keizo Hino

ISBN:9781564786036

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Life on Sandpaper (Book)

Yoram Kaniuk

ISBN:9781564786135

Susan Sontag writes: "Of the novelists I have discovered in translation . . . the three for whom I have the greatest admiration are Gabriel Garci a Ma rquez...more details
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Making a Novel (Book)

Gerard Gavarry

ISBN:9781564785763

A literary exploration into the serendipitous convergences underpinning the writing of a novel (in this case, Gerard Gavarry's masterful Hoppla 1 2 3)...more details
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Modern Poetry of Pakistan (Book)

Iftikhar Arif

ISBN:9781564786050

Modern Poetry of Pakistan brings together not one but many poetic traditions indigenous to Pakistan, with 142 poems translated from seven major languages...more details
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Necropolis (Book)

Boris Pahor

ISBN:9781564786111

"[D]eserves a place alongside Primo Levi's and Imre Kerte sz's masterpieces of Holocaust literature."--La Repubblica...more details
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Night Soul and Other Stories (Book)

Joseph McElroy

ISBN:9781564786029

Best known for his complex and beautiful novels--regularly compared to those of Thomas Pynchon, William Gaddis, and Don DeLillo--Joseph McElroy is equally at home in the short story...more details
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On Elegance While Sleeping (Book)

Emilio Lascano Tegui

ISBN:9781564786043

The first English translation of the self-proclaimed "Viscount" Emilio Lascano Tegui-a friend of Picasso and Apollinaire, and a larger-than-life eccentric in his own right-On Elegance While Sleeping is the deliciously macabre novel...more details
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Sleepwalker (Book)

John Toomey

ISBN:9781564786012

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The Dolls' Room (Book)

Llorenc Villalonga

ISBN:9781564786128

A classic of contemporary Catalan literature, and a haunting and satirical portrait of a vanishing age, Llorenc Villalonga's The Dolls' Room concerns the decline of Don Toni and Dona Maria Anto nia Bearn: aristocrats...more details
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The Good-Bye Angel (Book)

Ignacio De Loyola Brandao

ISBN:9781564785947

There are no heroes in Igna cio de Loyola Branda o's world, only victims: not only of violence, but of deceit, desire, and fear. In The Good-Bye Angel...more details
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The House of Ulysses (Book)

Julian Rios

ISBN:9781564785978

Julian Rios's latest comic extravaganza is at once a serious literary excavation and a lecture as delivered by Groucho Marx on the subject of that great (and often imposing) cornerstone of world literature: James Joyce's Ulysses. Every book is born out of an earlier book (or books)...more details
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The Review of Contemporary Fiction: New Slovakian Fiction Issue: Summer 2010 (Book)

John O'Brien

ISBN:9781564786142

This issue of The Review of Contemporary Fiction presents new Slovak fiction in translation, congregating such significant writers as Dusan Dusek...more details
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The Review of Contemporary Fiction: The P.O.L. Issue: Fall 2010 (Book)

John O'Brien

ISBN:9781564786159

Editions P.O.L is perhaps the most innovative and important French publisher today, welcoming richly challenging and experimental literature into its fold to appear side by side with books belonging squarely in the mainstream. This issue of The Review of Contemporary Fiction pays tribute to this remarkable publisher with essays...more details
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The Review of Contemporary Fiction: Writings from Postcommunist Romania (Book)

John O'Brien

ISBN:9781564786081

A collection of short stories and essays by some of the greatestcontemporary Romanian writers--and featuring such acclaimedauthors as Andrei Codrescu and Dumitru Tsepeneag--this specialissue of The Review of Contemporary Fiction focuses on the realitiesof living and writing in Romania under communism...more details
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The Succubus (Book)

Vlado Zabot

ISBN:9781564785954

In an unnamed city shrouded in mist, Valent Kosmina is a retiree living quietly yet discontentedly with his doped-up, TV-addicted wife. To escape the claustrophobia of home and city...more details
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