Urwind comprises fifty-three letters from Daniel Urwind, an aging bookseller, to his wife, who has left him for an indeterminate spell of greater freedom and study in the United States. The wife's absence haunts the letters, which are often tales of Daniel's daily rituals. Yet Daniel's narration of such mundanities--changing the bookshop window dressing, or housekeeping--approaches magical realism; memories of his wife, fantasies, bad dreams, monologues, and dialogues with the living and the dead coalesce in a complex ...
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Urwind comprises fifty-three letters from Daniel Urwind, an aging bookseller, to his wife, who has left him for an indeterminate spell of greater freedom and study in the United States. The wife's absence haunts the letters, which are often tales of Daniel's daily rituals. Yet Daniel's narration of such mundanities--changing the bookshop window dressing, or housekeeping--approaches magical realism; memories of his wife, fantasies, bad dreams, monologues, and dialogues with the living and the dead coalesce in a complex layering of experience, past and present. Urwind is a construct worthy of Bachelard's Poetics of Space, and a painful chronicle of the ending of a love.
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Add this copy of Urwind to cart. $78.08, very good condition, Sold by First Coast Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Eatonton, GA, UNITED STATES, published 1997 by Carcanet Press.
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Good+ jacket. Very Good-in Good+ dust jacket. Gently used with a couple of instances of ex-library stamp, but no other ex-library markings nor markings in text; binding is tight. Pasadena's finest independent new and used bookstore.
Add this copy of Urwind (Hydra Books) to cart. $53.50, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1998 by Northwestern University Press.
Add this copy of Urwind to cart. $64.20, like new condition, Sold by Book Forest rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from San Rafael, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1997 by Carcanet Press.
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Fine. Text block, wraps and binding are in like new condition, without markings of any kind. Well packaged and promptly shipped from California. Partnered with Friends of the Library since 2010.
Add this copy of Urwind to cart. $74.17, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1996 by Carcanet.
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Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 0810116189. Book and dust jacket both with light rubbing and toning overall. A tight and clean copy. Photos upon request. International shipping billed at cost.; Hydra Books; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 189 pages.
