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Blues for a Black Cat and Other Stories by Boris Vian
14.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: French Modernist Library
Ten of Vian's best jazzy, outrageous short stories, evoking the seamy side of '50s Parisian night life
I Spit on Your Graves by Boris Vian
26.95 AUD
Category: Graphic Novels
Fiction. In the tradition of Karl May and Franz Kafka, Boris Vian imagines an America even more amazing than the land he has never visited. I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVES is the first novel to put the quotation marks around the hardboiled thriller--a vivid and startling performance (J. Hoberman). The book is Bor ...Show more
Mood Indigo by Vian Boris
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
This is a forgotten classic of life, love and lost innocence, now a major motion picture directed by Michel Gondry. The world of Mood Indigo is a stained-glass cartoon kind of a place, where the piano dispenses cocktails, the kitchen mice dance to the sound of sunbeams, and the air is three parts jazz. ...Show more
Mood Indigo (Film Tie-in) by Boris Vian
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
This is a forgotten classic of life, love and lost innocence, now a major motion picture directed by Michel Gondry. The world of Mood Indigo is a stained-glass cartoon kind of a place, where the piano dispenses cocktails, the kitchen mice dance to the sound of sunbeams, and the air is three parts jazz. ...Show more
Red Grass by Boris Vian
15.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Boris Vian (1920-1959) was a magnificent jack-of-all-trades--actor, jazz critic, engineer, musician, playwright, songwriter, translator--not to mention the leading social light of the Saint-Germain-des-Pres scene. His third major novel, "Red Grass "is a provocative narrative about an engineer, Wolf, who ...Show more
Trouble in the Swaths by Boris Vian; Terry Bradford (Introduction by)
31.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
A rollicking adventure caper satirizing the soon-to-be ubiquitous aspects of spy sagas First published posthumously in 1966, Trouble in the Swaths was written by Boris Vian for a small audience of family and friends during the Nazi Occupation of Paris. It is a flippant, at times outrageous parody of gen ...Show more
Vercoquin and the Plankton by Boris Vian; Terry Bradford (Introduction by, Translator)
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A nonconformist satire of both bureaucracy and nonconformism from the French polymath and author of Foam of the Days Written at the age of 23 for his friends in the winter of 1943-44, Vercoquin and the Plankton was the first of Vian's novels to be published under his own name. Published in 1947, the bo ...Show more
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