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Jade Cabinet by Rikki Ducornet
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: American Literature (Dalkey Archive) Ser.
Made speechless by her eccentric father, the beautiful Etheria is traded for a piece of precious jade. Memory, her sister, tells her story, that of a childhood enlivened by Lewis Carroll and an orangutan named Dr. Johnson and envenomed by the pernicious courtship of Radulph Tubbs, Queen Victoria's own D ...Show more
The Recognitions by William Gaddis
$34.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: American Literature (Dalkey Archive)
The book Jonathan Franzen dubbed the ur-text of postwar ction and the rst great cultural critique, which, even if Heller and Pynchon hadn t read it while composing Catch-22 and V., managed to anticipate the spirit of both The Recognitions is a masterwork about art and forgery, and the increasingly thin ...Show more
Wittgenstein's Mistress by David Markson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: American Literature (Dalkey Archive) Ser.
Presumably she is mad. And yet so appealing is her character, and so witty and seductive her narrative voice, that we will follow her hypnotically as she unloads the intellectual baggage of a lifetime in a series of irreverent meditations on everything and everybody from Brahms to sex to Heidegger to He ...Show more
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