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By: Anonymous
ISBN: 9789629966621
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: New York Review Books
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Su Jishi, the adolescent son of the head of the Chinese traders' association, the men licensed to deal with foreign merchants in the port, is suddenly burdened with responsibility for his powerful family after his father's unexpected death.
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By: Henri Michaux
ISBN: 9781590170014
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2004
UK Publication Date: 1st April 2002
Publisher: New York Review Books
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In Miserable Miracle, the great French poet and artist Henri Michaux, a confirmed teetotaler, tells of his life-transforming first encounters with a powerful hallucinogenic drug.
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By: Yvan Alagb
ISBN: 9781681379180
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2025
UK Publication Date: 8th July 2025
Publisher: New York Review Books
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By: Fumiko Takano
ISBN: 9781681379401
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2025
UK Publication Date: 24th June 2025
Publisher: New York Review Books
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"A classic of Japanese manga, Miss Ruki is a warm and vivid portrait of the lives of two young women in Tokyo during Japan's 1980s bubble economy. The titular Miss Ruki spurns the fast-paced consumer culture of the era in favor of a lighthearted life dedicated to her hobbies, her books, and spending time with her anxious but far more pragmatic friend Ecchan"--
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By: Blutch
ISBN: 9781681374444
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2020
UK Publication Date: 7th April 2020
Publisher: New York Review Books
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By: David R. Bunch
ISBN: 9781681372549
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2018
UK Publication Date: 25th October 2018
Publisher: New York Review Books
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By: Celeste Albaret
ISBN: 9781590170595
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2004
UK Publication Date: 15th October 2003
Publisher: New York Review Books
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This lovely book is as close as we can come to meeting Proust in person.
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By: Paul Valry
ISBN: 9781681378923
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2025
UK Publication Date: 3rd December 2024
Publisher: New York Review Books
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"Although not autobiographical in any usual sense, Valery's novel is profoundly personal. Monsieur Teste reflects Valery's preoccupation with the phenomenon of a mind detached from sensibility, yet he is also an ordinary fictional character. This volume includes "Snapshots of Monsieur Teste," excerpts from Valery's Cahiers"--
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By: Edward Mendelson
ISBN: 9781590177761
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2015
Publisher: New York Review Books
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In Lives of the Intellectuals one of contemporary America's leading critics and scholars offers a provocative reassessment of the lives and work of eight influential twentieth- century American writers: Lionel Trilling, Dwight Macdonald, W.H. Auden, William Maxwell, Saul Bellow, Alfred Kazin, Norman Mailer and Frank O'Hara.
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By: Blaise Cendrars
ISBN: 9781590170632
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2004
UK Publication Date: 31st August 2004
Publisher: New York Review Books
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Includes the author's afterword How I wrote Moravagine.
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By: Eleanor Pernyi
ISBN: 9781590179499
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2016
UK Publication Date: 21st April 2016
Publisher: New York Review Books
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In 1937, at the age of nineteen, in the midst of a European tour with her mother, Perenyi falls in love with a poor Hungarian baron and in short order acquires both a title and a struggling country estate at the edge of the Carpathians.
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By: J.F. Powers
ISBN: 9780940322233
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2006
UK Publication Date: 1st May 2000
Publisher: New York Review Books
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This beautifully observed, often hilarious tale of a most unlikely Knight of Faith is among the finest achievements of an author whose singular vision assures him a permanent place in American literature.
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By: Adalbert Stifter
ISBN: 9781681375205
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2021
UK Publication Date: 4th May 2021
Publisher: New York Review Books
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By: George Bernanos
ISBN: 9781590171516
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2004
UK Publication Date: 18th March 2012
Publisher: New York Review Books
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Mouchette is a tale of "tragic solitude" in which despair and salvation appear to be inextricably intertwined.
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By: Nina Berberova
ISBN: 9781590171370
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2004
UK Publication Date: 30th June 2005
Publisher: New York Review Books
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Translated into English for the first time, this is a portrait of the Baroness Budberg, who was intimately involved in the Lockhart affair--a conspiracy which almost brought down the fledgling Soviet state--and also a mistress to Maxim Gorky and then to H.G. Wells. B&W photos.
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By: Marjorie Winslow
ISBN: 9781590173688
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Aug 2011
Publisher: New York Review Books
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With Mud Pies and Other Recipes, you'll never be at a loss for something to do in your own backyard or by the seashore...
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By: Maxime Rodinson
ISBN: 9781681374925
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2021
UK Publication Date: 2nd March 2021
Publisher: New York Review Books
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Copyright 1968 by Maxime Rodinson, Translation Copyright 1971 by Anne Carter.
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By: Aleksander Wat
ISBN: 9781590170656
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2004
UK Publication Date: 15th November 2003
Publisher: New York Review Books
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The great Polish poet Aleksander Wat's memoirs provide a powerful and moving account of life in Eastern Europe in the terrible twentieth century.
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By: Lisa Tuttle
ISBN: 9781681377728
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2023
UK Publication Date: 10th October 2023
Publisher: New York Review Books
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By: Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
ISBN: 9781590174142
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2010
UK Publication Date: 24th August 2010
Publisher: New York Review Books
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J.R. Ackerley's German shepherd Tulip was skittish, possessive, and wild, but he loved her deeply. This clear-eyed and wondering, humorous and moving book, described by Christopher Isherwood as one of the "greatest masterpieces of animal literature," is her biography.
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By: J.R. Ackerley
ISBN: 9780940322127
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2006
UK Publication Date: 14th September 2006
Publisher: New York Review Books
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Ackerley's pursuit of his father is also an exploration of the self, making My Father and Myself a pioneering record, at once sexually explicit and emotionally charged, of life as a gay man.
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By: Emmanuel Bove
ISBN: 9781681373133
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2019
UK Publication Date: 20th June 2019
Publisher: New York Review Books
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By: Renee Gladman
ISBN: 9781948980234
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
UK Publication Date: 17th September 2024
Publisher: New York Review Books
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By: Nachoem M. Wijnberg
ISBN: 9781681376523
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
UK Publication Date: 20th September 2022
Publisher: New York Review Books
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