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21 produkter
Cigarettes
Häftad, 2025
189 kr
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Cigarettes is a novel about the rich and powerful, tracing their complicated relationships from the 1930s to the 1960s, from New York City to Upper New York State.Though nothing is as simple as it might appear to be, we could describe this as a story about Allen, who is married to Maud but having …
Conceptualisms
The Anthology of Prose, Poetry, Visual, Found, E- & Hybrid Writing As Contemporary Art
Av Joe Amato, David Antin m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
507 kr
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A wide-ranging anthology of experimental writing—prose, poetry, and hybrid—from its most significant practitioners and innovators A variety of names have been used to describe fiction, poetry, and hybrid writing that explore new forms and challenges mainstream traditions. Those phrases include …
Tlooth
Häftad, 2026
214 kr
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A “comic extravaganza” (Washington Post Book World) from one of the most acclaimed voices in American avant-garde literature, Tlooth follows its narrator on a fantastical, globe-trotting quest for revenge.Opening on a baseball game in a Siberian prison camp, Harry Mathews’s Tlooth is absurdist from …
Mitt liv i CIA : en krönika över 1973
Inbunden, 2010
238 kr
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Genom en serie osannolika händelser under 1970-talets början kommer Harry Mathews, som vid tiden bor i Paris, att allmänt betraktas som CIA-agent. Till och med hans vänner har sina misstankar, vilka bara förstärks varje gång han nekar till anklagelserna. Med växande frustration inför att ingen vill …
Singular Pleasures
Häftad, 2026
205 kr
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A “cool, humorous, and affectionate” book of vignettes about a practice that is universal and universally taboo: masturbation.In sixty-one vignettes, Harry Mathews records the imaginative varieties of this solitary activity in prose that is playful, intimate, and humane. The soloists range in age …
My Life in CIA
A Chronicle of 1973
Häftad, 2015
204 kr
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"It's outrageous that an educated man and a gifted writer like Mr. Mathews could make such a public confession of such shameful activities." Q. Kuhlmann, author of The Eye of Anguish: Subversive Activity in the German Democratic Republic
Conversions
Häftad, 2025
217 kr
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A remarkable and unusual novel by “one of the most remarkable prose stylist presently writing in English.” —The San Francisco ChronicleAt a dinner party hosted by a wealthy New Yorker, a guest receives an ancient golden weapon as a prize. When the mysterious host of this party dies the next day, …
Human Country
New and Collected Stories
Häftad, 2002
204 kr
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Available For The First Time In One Volume, The Very Best Of Mathews's Short Fiction; This expertly designed original paperback presents a comprehensive collection of internationally renowned poet and novelist Harry Mathews' short prose. From the hilarious 'The Broadcast, ' in which the narrator …
Cigarettes
E-bok, 2025
253 kr
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Cigarettes is a novel about the rich and powerful, tracing their complicated relationships from the 1930s to the 1960s, from New York City to Upper New York State. Though nothing is as simple as it might appear to be, we could describe this as a story about Allen, who is married to Maud but having …
Tlooth
Häftad, 1998
156 kr
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This novel begins in a Russian prison camp at a baseball game featuring the defective Baptists versus the Fideists. There is a plot (of sorts), one of revenge surrounding a doctor who, in removing a bone spur from our narrator, manages to amputate a ring and index finger, a significant surgical …
Journalist
Häftad, 1997
159 kr
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A blend of postmodern metafiction and old-style bedroom farce, The Journalist explores the elusive, sometimes illusive, boundaries between facts and the fictions we weave around them. The novel's protagonist, living at a time that might be the present in a city that might be anywhere, has decided …
Conversions
Av Harry Mathews, Harry Matthews
Häftad, 1997
143 kr
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At a dinner party hosted by a wealthy New Yorker, a guest receives a gold adze, the coveted prize in a worm race. When the man dies the next day, he bequeaths, according to a stipulation in his will, the bulk of his fortune to the adze's possessor, provided he answer three mysterious questions …
20 Lines a Day
Häftad, 1990
130 kr
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For a period of just over a year, Harry Mathews set about following Stendhal’s dictum for writers of “twenty lines a day, genius or not.” What resulted is a book that is part journal, parts writer’s manual, and part genius. First undertaken as a kind of discipline, the work molds itself into a …
Sinking of the Odradek Stadium
Häftad, 1999
143 kr
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Composed of a series of letters between a husband and wife, ?"The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium"?is a brilliant comedy about love and longing, dashed hopes and frustrations, and trying to make connections. Newly wedded Zachary McCaltex (a librarian in Miami) and Twang Panattapam (originally from …
Singular Pleasures
Av Harry Mathews, Harry Matthews
Häftad, 2000
154 kr
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The subject of this unique book of short fiction is masturbation, a practice both universal and virtually taboo. In sixty-one vignettes, Mathews records the imaginative varieties of this solitary activity in prose that is playful, intimate, urgent, quirky, and humane.
Case of the Persevering Maltese
Collected Essays
Häftad, 2003
181 kr
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A companion to The Human Country: New and collected Stories, this volume collects all of Harry Mathews's non-fiction, including an astonishing range of essays which discuss everything from complex literary and musical forms to the works of Lewis Carroll, Raymond Roussel, Italo Calvino, Joseph …
Journalist
Inbunden, 1994
223 kr
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The narrator's desire to record all of his experiences gradually becomes an obsession that overwhelms his real life and generates distrust of all those around him.
Cigarettes
Häftad, 2023
197 kr
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Cigarettes is a novel about the rich and powerful, tracing their complicated relationships from the 1930s to the 1960s, from New York City to Upper New York State.Though nothing is as simple as it might appear to be, we could describe this as a story about Allen, who is married to Maud but having …
81 lättlagade recept för nybörjare / Lantlig kokkonst från centrala Frankri
Av Georges Perec, Harry Mathews
Inbunden, 2006
214 kr
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Lantlig kokkonst från centrala Frankrike : rostad urbenad rullad fylld lamm
Inbunden, 2006
214 kr
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