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A Favourite of the Gods and a Compass Error by Sybille Bedford; Daniel Mendelsohn (Preface by)
$38.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: NYRB Classics Ser.
A Favourite of the Gods is the story of two generations of a single family, united by a strong matrilineal bond but divided by the customs of their differing nationalities. Anna Howland, the matriarch and American heiress, born in the 1870s to a prominent, liberal New England family marries an Italian p ...Show more
Cyclogeography: Journeys of a London Bicycle Courier by DAY JON
$46.95 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: NOTTING HILL EDITIONS NYRB
Cyclogeography is an essay about the bicycle in the cultural imagination and a portrait of London seen from the saddle. The bicycle enables us to feel a landscape, rather than just see it, and in the great tradition of the psychogeographers, Day attempts to depart from the map and reclaim the streets of ...Show more
Divorcing by Susan Taubes
$29.99 AUD
Category: Special Orders | Series: NYRB Classics | Reading Level: near fine
Now back in print for the first time since 1969, a stunning novel about childhood, marriage, and divorce by one of the most interesting minds of the twentieth century. Dream and reality overlap in Divorcing, a book in which divorce is not just a question of a broken marriage but names a rift that runs r ...Show more
Drafts, Fragments, And Poems by Murray, Joan
$26.99 AUD
Category: Special Orders | Series: NYRB Poets Ser.
The first appearance of this award-winning writer's work since the 1940s, this collection, which includes an introduction by John Ashbery, restores Joan Murray's striking poetry to its originally intended form. Though John Ashbery hailed Joan Murray as a key influence on his work, Murray's sole collecti ...Show more
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country by William H. Gass
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: NYRB Classics Ser.
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country is vintage William H. Gass: two novellas and three short stories, set in the Midwest, exhibiting Gass's characteristic and wildly original verbal brilliance and philosophical acuity. The volume includes The Pedersen Kid, a story originally published a few years b ...Show more
Inri by Raúl Zurita (Foreword by); William Rowe (Translator, Afterword by); Norma Cole (Introduction by)
$30.00 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: NYRB Poets Ser.
A harrowing meditation on tyranny, torture, and freedom by one of Chil 's most celebrated contemporary poets. In 2001, the president of Chile publicly acknowledged that many of the bodies of the people who had disappeared under the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet would never be recovered. The v ...Show more
Living by Henry Green; Adam Thirlwell (Introduction by)
$30.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: NYRB Classics Ser.
A timeless work of social satire, set in the 1920s and considered one of the most insightful Modernist depictions of England's working class Living is a book about life in a factory town and the operations of a factory, from the workers on the floor to the boss in his office. The town is Birmingham and ...Show more
Melville - A Novel by Jean Giono
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Category: Fiction | Series: NYRB Classics | Reading Level: near fine
Moby-Dick looms large in the world's imagination. But by the mid-1930s-eighty years after it first appeared in English, no one had yet translated Melville's great sea-novel into French. The Provencal novelist Jean Giono fell in love with the book. He inspired his friend Lucien Jacques to join him in the ...Show more
Notes Of A Crocodile by Qiu Miaojin
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Category: Fiction | Series: NYRB Classics Ser.
A New York Times Editors' Choice The English-language premiere of Qiu Miaojin's coming-of-age novel about queer teenagers in Taiwan, a cult classic in China and winner of the 1995 China Times Literature Award. An NYRB Classics Original Set in the post-martial-law era of late-1980s Taipei, Notes of a ...Show more
Party Going by Henry Green; Amit Chaudhuri (Introduction by)
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Category: Fiction | Series: NYRB Classics Ser.
A modernist "masterpiece" (The New York Times) that will appeal to fans of Downton Abbey and The Great Gatsby Party Going, published in 1939, is Henry Green's darkly comic valediction to what W. H. Auden famously described as the "low dishonest decade" of the 1930s. London is sunk in an impenetrable fo ...Show more
Pitch Dark by Renata Adler; Guy Trebay (Contribution by); Muriel Spark (Afterword by)
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Category: Fiction | Series: NYRB Classics Ser.
"Pitch Dark, Renata Adler's follow up to her prize winning book Speedboat, is a book of questions. It is also a book of false starts, red herrings, misunderstandings, and all-too-fleeting revelations. Kate Ennis is poised at a critical moment in her affair with a married lover, and moments (conversation ...Show more
Speedboat by Renata Adler
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: NYRB Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
"It has been more than thirty-five years since Renata Adler’s Speedboat charged through the literary establishment, blasting genre walls and pointing the way for a newly liberated way of writing. This unclassifiable work is simultaneously novel, memoir, commonplace book, confession, and critique. It is ...Show more