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Zadie Smith Introduces the Burned Children of America [Paperback]
Posted by admin on August 5th, 2010
This volume brings together the most promising young American authors, with a penchant for writing about such slippery subjects as snakes, letter-writing dogs, chicken livers and indoor shopping malls. Bookmark It Hide Sites $$(‘div.d7144′).each( function(e) { e.visualEffect(‘slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) });
The Ermine of Czernopol (New York Review Books Classics) [Paperback]
Posted by admin on August 5th, 2010
Review “The last great remembrancer of a region that has vanished from the map and mind of Europe.” –Michael Ignatieff, The New York Review of Books“The novelist and memoirist Gregor von Rezzori was one of the last and most redoubtable links with a Mid-to-Eastern European world, rich in history and character, complex in nationality and [...]
Best European Fiction 2010 (Best European Fiction) [Paperback]
Posted by admin on August 5th, 2010
From Publishers Weekly Hemon (The Lazarus Project) edits the inaugural volume of an anthology of European short fiction, and while the maiden outing has many fine moments, there’s room for improvement in upcoming years. The mix of authors—35 writers from 30 countries—is excellent and includes better knowns with unknowns, though each piece is allotted an [...]
Martha and Hanwell [Import] [Paperback]
Posted by admin on August 5th, 2010
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Changing My Mind (Kindle Edition)
Posted by admin on August 5th, 2010
How did George Eliot?s love life affect her prose? Why did Kafka write at three in the morning? In what ways is Barack Obama like Eliza Doolittle? Can you be over-dressed for the Oscars? What is Italian Feminism? If Roland Barthes killed the Author, can Nabokov revive him? What does ?soulful? mean? Is Date Movie [...]
On Beauty [Hardcover]
Posted by admin on August 5th, 2010
Howard Belsey, a Rembrandt scholar who doesn’t like Rembrandt, is an Englishman abroad and a long-suffering Professor at Wellington College. He has been married for thirty years to Kiki, an American woman who no longer resembles the sexy activist she once was. Their three children passionately pursue their own paths, and faced with the oppressive [...]
On Beauty (Kindle Edition)
Posted by admin on August 5th, 2010
Set in New England mainly and London partly, On Beauty concerns a pair of feuding families – the Belseys and the Kipps – and a clutch of doomed affairs. It puts low morals among high ideals and asks some searching questions about what life does to love. For the Belseys and the Kipps, the\nconfusions – [...]
Zadie Smith: Critical Essays [Paperback]
Posted by admin on August 5th, 2010
Zadie Smith: Critical Essays is a timely collection of critical articles examining how Zadie Smith?s novels and short stories interrogate race, postcolonialism, and identity. Essays explore the various ways Smith approaches issues of race, either by deconstructing notions of race or interrogating the complexity of biracial identity; and how Smith takes on contemporary debates concerning [...]
Zadie Smith’s White Teeth: A Reader’s Guide (Continuum Contemporaries) [Paperback]
Posted by admin on August 5th, 2010
Review “?invaluable for gathering out-of-the-way or ephemeral comment from TV and radio interviews?the web?[and] literary reviews.” — The Times Higher Education Supplement, May 31, 2002 This is part of a new series of guides to contemporary novels. The aim of the series is to give readers accessible and informative introductions to some of the most [...]