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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
My Life in CIA: A Chronicle of 1973 by Harry Mathews
$18.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: American Literature Series
In the early 1970s, Harry Mathews, then living in France, was commonly reputed to be a CIA agent--and so he decided to act the part. Part spellbinding thriller, part gag, this memoir documents Mathews's experiences as a would-be spy during the coup in Chile, Watergate, and the close of the Vietnam War, ...Show more
Princess of 72nd Street by Elaine Kraf
$21.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: American Literature Ser.
This remarkable novel by Elaine Kraf received almost no attention when it was first published in 1979. For whatever reasons, America was not ready for this dream-like look at life inside the head of a young woman, a struggling artist, living in New York's Upper West Side and coping with the ravages of m ...Show more
The Longcut by Emily Hall
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: American Literature Ser.
The narrator of The Longcut is an artist who doesn't know what her art is. As she gets lost on her way to a meeting in an art gallery, walking around in circles in a city she knows perfectly well, she finds herself endlessly sidetracked and distracted by the question of what her work is and how she'll k ...Show more
Tunnel by William Gass
$32.00 AUD
Category: Special Orders | Series: American Literature Ser.
Thirty years in the making, William Gass's second novel first appeared on the literary scene in 1995, at which time it was promptly hailed as an indisputable masterpiece. The story of a middle aged professor who, upon completion of his massive historical study, "Guilt and Innocence in Hitler's Germany," ...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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