Book of Illusions
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His waking hours spent in a blur of alcoholic grief and self-pity six months after losing his wife and two young sons in an airplane crash, Vermont professor David Zimmer, while zoning TV in the wee hours, stumbles upon a clip from a lost film by the `silent era' comedian, Hector Mann, who vanished in 1929. His obsession with this mysterious figure sends him fast-forwarding on a journey headlong into a shadow world of lies and illusions. Then, one night, a strange woman appears on his doorstep, changing his life forever. 321p.
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Double Game
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(London). (1999). 1st edition. Light shelfwear to edges and corners. Price sticker affixed to tail of rear board. Silk ribbon slightly worn and just beginning to fray. VG.
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Here and Now: Letters, 2008 - 2011
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Presents the correspondence between two great friends, one a New York Times best-selling author and the other a Nobel laureate, disclosing their conversations about sports, film, fatherhood, philosophy, art, death, love and of course, friendship.
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One hundred eighty personal, true-life accounts - from people of all ages, backgrounds and walks of life, from cities, suburbs, and rural areas representing forty-two states. Most of the stories are short, vivid bits of narrative, combining the ordinary and the extraordinary; most describe a single incident in the writer's 'rare glimpse into the American soul.' 383p.
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Invisible
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Sinuously constructed in four interlocking parts, Paul Auster's fifteenth novel opens in New York City in the spring of 1967, when twenty-year-old Adam Walker, an aspiring poet and student at Columbia University meets the enigmatic Frenchman Rudolf Born and his silent and seductive girlfriend, Margot. Before long, Walker finds himself caught in a perverse triangle that leads to a sudden, shocking act of violence that will alter the course of his life. Three differentnarrators tell the story of the novel, which travels in time from 1967 to 2007 and moves from Morningside Heights to the Left Bank of Paris to a remote island in the Caribbean.
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Mr. Vertigo
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This extraordinary and exuberant eighth novel presents a couple of classic entrepreneur adventurers, circa 1927; what they sell is 'Walt the Wonderman' and his famous featsof levitation. What Auster does sublimely is to create the story of these lives long after the magic has been lost and forgotten.
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Samuel Beckett : The Grove Centenary Edition
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(2006). 4 volumes. 8vo. 1st edition of this collection. Slight shelfwear to d.j. NF in NF slipcase. THE SET:
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Sophie Calle: Double Game
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The original edition first published in 1999 , was the first important book by Calle to be published in English. This new edition, published to coincide with the 2007 Venice Biennale (Calle will represent France), is identical in content to the first and reprises all of the cherished qualities of it in a more compact, hardcover format - including the signature ribbon around its middle. The story begins with Maria, a character in Auster's novel, 'Leviathan.' Double Games' first section takes readers through the few original works by Maria that Calle makes her own...& by the third section, Auster is taking Calle as his subject, and for her, invents the Gotham Handbook.
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The Book of Illusions
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(2002). 8vo. 1st edition. SIGNED by the author. Faint spot of soiling to foot of front board. General, light rubbing to d.j. panels. VG/VG.
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The Book of Illusions : A Novel
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Having lost his family in a devastating plane crash, Vermont professor David Zimmer journeys around the world to research the life of a presumed-dead silent film actor, and he finds his life changed forever when his subsequent writings get unexpected attention. 75,000 first printing. BOMC. QPB.
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The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry, with Translations by American and British Poets
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A dual-language edition.
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Twenty Days with Julian and Little Bunny by Papa
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An 1851 extract from Hawthorne's diaries concerning his relationship with his son, Julian.
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