2009, ISBN: 214d17df998652a5ef8d9f3082f256f4

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Vintage, 2009. Trade Paperback. Very Good. GREAT BOOK! CLEAN PAGES, NO MARKINGS. MILD SHELF WEAR & BEND ON COVER. Description: Twenty-year-old Tassie Keltjin, the daughter of a … mais…

Vintage, 2009. Trade Paperback. Very Good. GREAT BOOK! CLEAN PAGES, NO MARKINGS. MILD SHELF WEAR & BEND ON COVER. Description: Twenty-year-old Tassie Keltjin, the daughter of a gentleman farmer, has come to a university town as a student. When she takes a job as a part-time nanny for a mysterious and glamorous family, she finds herself drawn deeper into their world and forever changed. Told through the eyes of this memorable narrator, A Gate at the Stairs is a piercing novel of race, class, love, and war in America., Vintage, 2009, 3, Pocket, 1-Mar-79. First Pocket Books Printing. Good. One spine crease & heavy shelf wear on turquoise cover. Aged pages, no writing or marks. Amazon: Garp was a natural storyteller,"""""""" says the narrator of John Irving's incandescent novel, referring to the book's hero, the novelist Garp, who has much in common with Irving himself. """"""""He could make things up one right after the other, and they seemed to fit."""""""" Irving packs wild characters and weird events into his classic--officially recognized as such in a Modern Library edition with a new introduction by the author--while amazingly maintaining the rough feel of realism in every scene and the pulse of life in every heart. Many novelists of his time might have populated a novel with a novelist protagonist whose life and books comment on each other and the novel we're reading. Transsexual football players, ball turret gunners lobotomized in battle, multiple adultery, unicycling bears, mad feminists who amputate their tongues in sympathy with the celebrated victim of a horrifying rape--Irving made them all people. Even the bear is a fitting character. In a crucial episode, Garp's wife's seduction of a young man coincidentally occurs at the moment when Garp is delighting their young sons with a reckless car trick (one of the few scenes beautifully, eerily, heartbreakingly captured in the film version as well). Many authors would have been content with the harsh comedy of the scene, but Irving respects its integrity, and he builds the rest of the book on the consequences of the event. How does he get away with his killer cocktail of slapstick and horror? Because it's simply what we all face daily, rearranged into soul-satisfying art. """"""""Life is an X-rated soap opera,"""""""" according to Garp, and who can contradict him? Rereading Garp 20 years later, one is struck by how elegantly Irving structures his bizarre and complex story. Take the two most celebrated bits in the book, the Under Toad and Garp's story """"""""The Pension Grillparzer,"""""""" which shimmers like an exquisite Kafkaesque insect in the amber of the novel. When Garp warns his son about the """"""""undertow"""""""" at the beach, the boy imagines a monster out of Beowulf who lurks beneath the waves to suck you under: the """"""""Under Toad."""""""" It's funny at first, but we soon find that the Under Toad is a metaphor with teeth--he connects with a prophetic dream of death in """"""""The Pension Grillparzer,"""""""" set in Vienna. Garp's son's last words are, """"""""It's like a dream!"""""""" And as Irving--who studied at the University of Vienna--can certainly tell you, the German word for """"""""death"""""""" sounds precisely like the English word """"""""toad."""""""" All that death, and yet Garp is mainly exuberant. This story is, as Garp's stuttering writing teacher puts it, """"""""rich with lu-lu-lunacy and sorrow."""""""" It enriches literature, and our lives. --Tim Appelo--From Library Journal:""""""""In the world according to Garp, we're all terminal cases."""""""" This sentence ends both Irving's comic and tragic novel and its wonderful audio adaptation, read disarmingly by Michael Prichard. We hear the familiar story of T.S. Garp; his mother, Jenny Fields; and Garp's wife, family, friends, and lovers. We also see Garp's efforts to establish himself as a serious author and his involvement in sexual politics. In contrast, Jenny's memoirs establish her as a feminist leader. This work is funny, sexual, serious, and sad. Prichard's narration adds a wonderful dimension to the story. Plus, Irving opens with a terrific introduction to mark the novel's 20th anniversary. This wise and unique tale is as fresh today as it was when first published in 1978. Obviously, a required purchase for all audio collections and required listening for all Irving fans. Irving's (A Son of the Circus, Audio Reviews, LJ 12/94) new novel echoes Garp through tracing the complicated life of novelist Ruth Cole. Divided into three parts, the book views Ruth's life and relationships at age four in 1958, age 36 in 1990, and age 41 in 1995. In the first part, Ruth's mother, devastated by the loss of two sons, leaves her daughter and womanizing husband after a brief love affair with a teenage boy. Part 2 focuses on Ruth's book tour in Europe while"""", Pocket, 1-Mar-79, 2.5, New York: Warner Books, 1983-09-01. Mass Market Paperback. Fair. 6x4x1. No Stock Photos! We photograph every item. Heavy spine and edge wear, cover creasing, surface tear from sticker. Finally returned to print in a beautiful new trade paperback edition, comes Joyce Carol Oates' lost classic: a satirical, often surreal, and beautifully plotted Gothic Romance that follows the exploits of the audacious Zinn sisters, whose 19th century pursuit of adventurous lives turns a lens on contemporary American culture. Set in a nineteenth century similar to our own, A Bloodsmoor Romance follows the beautiful Zinn sisters, five young women who refuse--for the most part--”the obligations of Christian marriage.” Full of Oates's mordant wit and breathlessly told in the Victorian style by an unnamed narrator shocked by the Zinn sisters' sexuality, impulsivity, and rude rejection of the mores of their time, A Bloodsmoor Romance is a delicious filigree of literary conventions, “a novel of manners” in the tradition of Austen, Dickens, and Alcott which Oates turns on its head. Oates's dark romp interweaves murder and mayhem, ghosts, and abductions, substance abuse and gender identity, women's suffrage, the American spiritualist movement, and sexual aberration, as the Zinn sisters come into contact with some of the 19th century's greatest characters, from Mark Twain to Oscar Wilde. A biting assessment of the American landscape and a virtuosic transformation of a literary genre, A Bloodsmoor Romance is a compelling, hilarious, and magical anti-romance--Little Women by way of Stephen King., Warner Books, 1983-09-01, 2, University Press. Good with no dust jacket; Good Minus condition. Some staining to cover. . Previous owners name inside. A good reading copy.. 1896,1897. Hardcover. The Book League of America; 8vo; 541 pages ., University Press, 1896,1897, 2.5<

1897, ISBN: 214d17df998652a5ef8d9f3082f256f4

Little, Brown, Company 1897/97, 1897-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. Ships daily., Little, Brown, Com… mais…

Little, Brown, Company 1897/97, 1897-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. Ships daily., Little, Brown, Company 1897/97, 1897-01-01, 3<

1898, ISBN: 214d17df998652a5ef8d9f3082f256f4

VG Hardback, History, Boston, [PU: Little Brown]