Penguin Press HC, The, March 2011. Hardcover. "Highly entertaining." --Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker "Funny, curious, erudite, and full of useful details about ancient techniques of training memory." --The Boston Globe The blockbuster phenomenon that charts an amazing journey of the mind while revolutionizing our concept of memory An instant..... More
Library of America, October 2001. Cloth. When The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter was published in 1940, Carson McCullers was instantly recognized as one of the most promising writers of her generation. The novels that followed established her as a master of Southern Gothic. This Library of America volume collects..... More
Algonquin Books, September 2010. Trade Paperback. Chaim Skibelski was a successful businessman, husband, and father before he was shot along with the other Jews from his small village. Instead of resting peacefully in the World to Come, Chaim wanders the earth and encounters a world that is at once absurd..... More
Ballantine Books, January 1989. Trade Paperback. More
Penguin Books, June 2021. First Edition. Trade Paperback. A bestselling and award-winning debut collection from one of South Korea's most prominent young writers. In crisp, unembellished prose, Eun-young Choi paints intimate portraits of the lives of young women in South Korea, balancing the personal with the political. In the title..... More
W W Norton & Co Inc, October 1987. Trade Paperback. More
Penguin Books, July 1982. Trade Paperback. Light toning. Very minor shelf wear. More
North Atlantic Books, December 2009. First Edition. Cloth. ***Winner of Poetry Society of America's 2010 Shelley Memorial Award Kenneth Irby has practiced his craft at the center of the American poetry scene for decades, yet is little known to the mainstream. An associate of the legendary Black Mountain poets as..... More
Semiotext(e), August 2012. Trade Paperback. A new and radical reexamination of today's neoliberalist "new economy" through the political lens of the debtor/creditor relation. The debtor-creditor relation, which is at the heart of this book, sharpens mechanisms of exploitation and domination indiscriminately, since, in it, there is no distinction between workers..... More
Penguin Classics, January 1970. Mass Market PaperBack. Sir Thomas Malory's richly evocative and enthralling version of the Arthurian legend Recounting Arthur's birth, his ascendancy to the throne after claiming Excalibur, his ill-fated marriage to Guenever, the treachery of Morgan le Fay and the exploits of the Knights of the Round..... More
Penguin Classics, August 1993. Mass Market PaperBack. Volume two of Le Morte D'Arthur, Sir Thomas Malory's powerful and elegaic version of the Arthurian legend, recounts the adventures of Sir Tristram de Liones and the treachery of Sir Mordred, and follows Sir Launcelot's quest for The Holy Grail, his fatally divided..... More
Re/Search Publications, December 2014. Paper Back. RE/Search has been fortunate to have had several visits from Penny Rimbaud and fellow-CRASS founder, Gee Vaucher over the past decade. They come to the United States and to San Francisco full of ideas, creative impulses, energy and the know-how to reach their audience..... More
Ebury Press, January 2015. Trade Paperback. More
Bantam, December 1995. Trade Paperback. When the stock market crashes on the Thursday before Easter, you - an ambitious, though ineffectual and not entirely ethical young broker - are convinced you're facing the Weekend From Hell. You don't know the half of it! This is, after all, a Tom Robbins..... More
University of Georgia Press, January 1995. Trade Paperback. Set during the Depression in the depleted farmlands surrounding Augusta, Georgia, Tobacco Road was first published in 1932. It is the story of the Lesters, a family of white sharecroppers so destitute that most of their creditors have given up on them..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, July 1995. Trade Paperback. In 1952, Delmore Schwartz, the most influential critic in postwar America, wrote of Patrick O'Brian's first novel, Testimonies: "a triumph...drawn forward by lyric eloquence and the story's fascination, [the reader] discovers in the end that he has encountered in a new..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, January 1992. Trade Paperback. Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are ordered home by dispatch vessel to bring the news of their latest victory to the government. But Maturin is a marked man for the havoc he has wrought in the French intelligence network in the..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, July 1993. Trade Paperback. Shipwrecked on a remote island in the Dutch East Indies, Captain Aubrey, surgeon and secret intelligence agent Stephen Maturin, and the crew of the Diane fashion a schooner from the wreck. A vicious attack by Malay pirates is repulsed, but the..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, August 1992. Trade Paperback. Captain Jack Aubrey sets sail for the South China Sea, shepherding a diplomatic mission to prevent links between Bonaparte and the Malay princes. Stephen Maturin climbs the Thousand Steps of the sacred crater of the orangutans; a killer typhoon catches Aubrey..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, August 1992. Trade Paperback. Captain Jack Aubrey, a brilliant and experienced officer, has been struck off the list of post-captains for a crime he did not commit. His old friend Stephen Maturin, usually cast as a ship's surgeon to mask his discreet activities on behalf..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, August 1991. Trade Paperback. Commissioned to rescue Governor Bligh of "Bounty" fame, Captain Jack Aubrey and his friend and surgeon Stephen Maturin sail the "Leopard" to Australia with a hold full of convicts. Among them is a beautiful and dangerous spy - and a treacherous..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, July 1993. Trade Paperback. A British whaler has been captured by an ambitious chief in the sandwich islands at French instigation, and Captain Aubrey, R. N., Is dispatched with the Surprise to restore order. But stowed away in the cable-tier is an escaped female convict..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, August 1992. Trade Paperback. Captain Jack Aubrey, R. N., ashore after a successful cruise, is persuaded by a casual acquaintance to make certain investments in the City. This innocent decision ensnares him in the London criminal underground and in government espionage--the province of his friend..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, March 1992. Trade Paperback. The war of 1812 continues, and Jack Aubrey sets course for Cape Horn on a mission after his own heart: intercepting a powerful American frigate outward bound to play havoc with the British whaling trade. Stephen Maturin has fish of his..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, March 1992. Trade Paperback. All of Patrick O'Brian's strengths are on parade in this novel of action and intrigue, set partly in Malta, partly in the treacherous, pirate-infested waters of the Red Sea. While Captain Aubrey worries about repairs to his ship, Stephen Maturin assumes..... More
