House Mother Normal
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| Author | Sawako Ariyoshi |
| ISBN | 0870118528 |
Tokyo, the seventies, years of affluence and social change in Japan. Through the eyes of the working mother Akiko we are confronted with the old age-problems of dementia and senility. Ariyoshi's way of writing is very descriptive and dry, and there's a lot of factual information on dementia and social...
| Author | Henry Green |
| ISBN | 1564782654 |
Blinded in an accident on his way home from boarding school, John Haye must reevaluate his life and the possibilities for his future. His stepmother—worried that, blind and dependent, he'll spend his life with her—wants to marry him off to anyone who will take him, provided she's of the "right"...
| Author | G.V. Desani |
| ISBN | 1590172426 |
Wildly funny and wonderfully bizarre, All About H. Hatterr is one of the most perfectly eccentric and strangely absorbing works modern English has produced. H. Hatterr is the son of a European merchant officer and a lady from Penang who has been raised and educated in missionary schools in Calcutta....
| Author | Paul Gallico |
| ISBN | 1558820213 |
Mrs Harris is a salt-of-the-earth London charlady who cheerfully cleans the houses of the rich. One day, when tidying Lady Dant's wardrobe, she comes across the most beautiful thing she has ever seen in her life - a Dior dress. In all the years of her drab and humble existence, she's never seen anything...
| Author | Stevie Smith |
| ISBN | 0811212394 |
Sometimes it's not what a book is about that keeps me reading, but how it's written. The trouble is, it's much harder to talk about how a book is written than to simply tell what it's about.
About, about. There are a lot of 'abouts' in the beginning of this review, aren't there? But 'about' is a word...
| Author | Gregory Rabassa |
| ISBN | 0811216659 |
A Los Angeles Times Favorite Book of the Year for 2005.
Gregory Rabassa's influence as a translator is tremendous. His translations of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude and Julio Cortazar's Hopscotch have helped make these some of the the most widely read and respected...
| Author | Thomas Deloney |
| ISBN | 0854170928 |
Publisher: London: Printed by Eliz Allde for R. Bird, Edinburgh, Printed by J. Ballantyne and co. Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com...
| Author | Horacio Castellanos Moya |
| ISBN | 0811219178 |
Castellanos Moya’s most thrilling book to date, about the senselessness of tyranny. The tyrant of Horacio Castellanos Moya’s ambitious new novel is the actual pro-Nazi mystic Maximiliano Hernández Martínez — known as the Warlock — who came to power in El Salvador in 1932. An attempted...
| Author | Walter Abish |
| ISBN | 0811207765 |
The question How German Is It underlies the conduct and actions of the characters in Walter Abish's novel, an icy panorama of contemporary Germany, in which the tradition of order and obedience, the patrimony of the saber and the castle on the Rhine, give way to the present, indiscriminate fascination...
The American Intellectual Tradition: Volume II: 1865 to the Present
| Author | David A. Hollinger |
| ISBN | 0195183401 |
Revised and updated, the fifth edition of this now standard two-volume anthology brings together some of the most historically significant writings in American intellectual history. Uniquely comprehensive, The American Intellectual Tradition includes classic works in philosophy, religion,...
| Author | Jim Crace |
| ISBN | 0140276009 |
Victor, an eighty-year-old multimillionaire, surveys his empire from the remoteness of his cloud-capped penthouse. Expensively insulated from the outside world, he nonetheless finds that memories of his impoverished childhood will not be kept so easily at bay. Focusing on the one area of vitality...
| Author | John Hawkes |
| ISBN | 0811216446 |
Skipper, an ex-World War II naval Lieutenant and the narrator of Second Skin, interweaves past and present—what he refers to as his "naked history"—in a series of episodes that tell the story of a volatile life marked by pitiful losses, as well as a more elusive, overwhelming, joy. The past: the...
| Author | Jonathan Coe |
| ISBN | 0826418465 |
In his heyday, during the 1960s and early 1970s, B. S. Johnson was one of the best-known young novelists in Britain. A passionate advocate for the avant-garde in both literature and film, he became famous -- not to say notorious -- both for his forthright views on the future of the novel and for his idiosyncratic...
| Author | Ciro Alegría |
| ISBN | 0850362822 |
La misma reseña en español e inglés.
Same review spanish and english.
Esta novela es fantástica!! no es solo un relato bien trabajado y logrado de la realidad indígena en latino-américa ,sino también del carácter firme y verdadero de los seres humanos que luchan por obtener paz...
| Author | Heruy Wolde Selassie |
Blattengeta Heruy Welde Sellase (8 May 1878 – 19 September 1938; ብላቴን፡ጌታ፡ኅሩይ፡ወልደ፡ሥላሴ Blatten-Geta Həruy Wäldä-səllase) was a Foreign Minister of Ethiopia and a writer in Amharic..
A finely nuanced exploration of responsibility, snobbery and culture clash from one of the twentieth centrury's finest novelists.
When Amy's husband dies on holiday in Istanbul, she is supported by the kindly but rather slovenly Martha, a young American novelist who lives in London. Upon...
| Author | Saunders Lewis |
| ISBN | 1854111957 |
Opinion on Monica has been deeply divided since its publication in 1930. Saunders Lewis's first novel was fiercely attacked by Welsh-speaking critics for its portrayal of sexual obsession and manipulation. For the first time the psychology which was such a feature of the work of contemporary authors...
| Author | Anthony Burgess |
| ISBN | 0070089736 |
Publishing the first edition under the pseudonym Joseph Kell allowed Burgess to review himself in The Yorkshire Post: “This is, in many ways, a dirty book. It is full of bowel-blasts and flatulent borborygyms, emetic meals (‘thin but over-savoury stews,’ Enderby calls them) and halitosis....
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
Roger Lewis, in his no-holds-barred biography, exposes a Peter Sellers the world little knows. Recognized as the greatest British comic since Charlie Chaplin, Sellers was the grand master of fifty-five films - from Dr. Strangelove, to Being There and the Pink Panther hits. But shadowing his phenomenal...
| Author | Wyndham Lewis |
| ISBN | 0140087028 |
2001-06-06
the Planet of the Apes of God
Wyndham Lewis's ( founder of VORTICISM= the only British Avant-Garde movement of the 20th century)Apes of God is a vicious satire exposing the posture and posuers of the art world then (circa 1920's London/Paris/New York et.al.)and's wholly applicable...
