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Divorcing by Susan Taubes
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Category: No Category | Series: NYRB Classics | Reading Level: near fine
Now back in print for the first time since 1969, a stunning novel about childhood, marriage, and divorce by one of the most interesting minds of the twentieth century. Dream and reality overlap in Divorcing, a book in which divorce is not just a question of a broken marriage but names a rift that runs r ...Show more
Down Below by Leonora Carrington
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: NYRB Classics Ser.
Leonora Carrington is perhaps the most enchanting of the women Surrealists. The daughter of Anglo Irish privilege, she broke free of her manor-house upbringing and fled, first to art school, and then to the Continent. Though she is best known as a painter of the gothic fantastic, with a cult following a ...Show more
Melville - A Novel by Jean Giono
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Category: Fiction | Series: NYRB Classics | Reading Level: near fine
Moby-Dick looms large in the world's imagination. But by the mid-1930s-eighty years after it first appeared in English, no one had yet translated Melville's great sea-novel into French. The Provencal novelist Jean Giono fell in love with the book. He inspired his friend Lucien Jacques to join him in the ...Show more
Midnight in the Century by Victor Serge
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Category: Fiction | Series: NYRB Classics Ser.
In 1933, Victor Serge was arrested by Stalin's police, interrogated, and held in solitary confinement for more than eighty days. Released, he spent two years in exile in remote Orenburg. These experiences were the inspiration for Midnight in the Century, Serge's searching novel about revolutionaries liv ...Show more
Notes Of A Crocodile by Qiu Miaojin
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Category: Fiction | Series: NYRB Classics Ser.
A New York Times Editors' Choice The English-language premiere of Qiu Miaojin's coming-of-age novel about queer teenagers in Taiwan, a cult classic in China and winner of the 1995 China Times Literature Award. An NYRB Classics Original Set in the post-martial-law era of late-1980s Taipei, Notes of a ...Show more
Party Going by Henry Green; Amit Chaudhuri (Introduction by)
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Category: Fiction | Series: NYRB Classics Ser.
A modernist "masterpiece" (The New York Times) that will appeal to fans of Downton Abbey and The Great Gatsby Party Going, published in 1939, is Henry Green's darkly comic valediction to what W. H. Auden famously described as the "low dishonest decade" of the 1930s. London is sunk in an impenetrable fo ...Show more
Speedboat by Renata Adler
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Category: Fiction | Series: NYRB Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
"It has been more than thirty-five years since Renata Adler’s Speedboat charged through the literary establishment, blasting genre walls and pointing the way for a newly liberated way of writing. This unclassifiable work is simultaneously novel, memoir, commonplace book, confession, and critique. It is ...Show more
The Communist by Elizabeth McKenzie
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Category: Fiction | Series: NYRB Classics Ser.
Moody, potent, subtly apocalyptic, The Communist tells the story of Walter Ferranini, the earnest, intense, autodidact son of the working class become an Italian Communist MP who undergoes a crisis just after Khrushchev for the first time denounced the Stalinist dictatorship. Ferranini, worn-out after m ...Show more
The Wind on the Moon by Eric Linklater
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Category: Classics | Series: NYRB CHILDRENS CLASSICS
In the English village of Midmeddlecum, Major Palfrey asks his two daughters tobehave themselves while he is off at war. Sighing, Dinah says, I think that we arequite likely to be bad, however hard we try not to be, and her sister, Dorinda, addshelpfully, Very often, when we think we are behaving well, ...Show more
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