The principal longer stories of this collection alternate with shorter stories. All the stories are about paradoxes - the sense of being foreign in a city that insists on assimilation, the borders between art and life, between religion and sex and between memory and the future.
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The principal longer stories of this collection alternate with shorter stories. All the stories are about paradoxes - the sense of being foreign in a city that insists on assimilation, the borders between art and life, between religion and sex and between memory and the future.
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Good. Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. With remainder mark. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
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The item shows wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact (including the dust cover, if applicable). Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.
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Like New. Size: 5x1x8; Hardcover with dust jacket. Dust Jacket shows very minor shelving wear, otherwise an unblemished copy. Inscribed to previous owner and signed by author.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!
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Good in Good jacket. Illustrated white wraps. EX-LIBRARY COPY with usual stamps, card pocket and taped on mylar cover over dustjacket. Just slight shelfwear to jacket and boards.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped ($17.95 price intact). Published by Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. Octavo. Black cloth over blue/gray boards stamped in gold. Book is very good; clean with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Spotting to page ends. Dust jacket is very good with light shelf wear. 173 pages. ISBN: 9780394574493. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York. We Buy Books! Individual titles, libraries, collections. Message us if you have books to sell!
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Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Alfred A Knopf, New York. 1990. 173 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Dybek ( Childhood and Other Neighborhoods ) here evokes the bizarre mysteries of everyday life in Chicago's gritty ethnic enclaves, the territory of the 14 stories in his second collection. The author's memorable characters lead odd, fairy-tale existences. Marcy in "Chopin in Winter" returns home from college pregnant and disgraced, and plays her way through Chopin's piano oeuvre before moving without warning (her note reads simply "Ma, don't worry") to a black neighborhood on the city's South Side. In "Nighthawks, " a suite of meditations on love and loss, Choco, a conga drummer, is led through the subways on a hauntingly surreal trip inspired by a vision of his dead girlfriend. Dybek's fiction is not without a comic edge: Ziggy Zilinski in "Blight" suffers from a recurring nightmare in which atomic bombs drop on Chicago when the White Sox win the pennant. A quote from the Spanish poet Antonio Machado provides the phantasmagoric book with an apt epigraph: "Out of the whole of memory, there's one thing worthwhile: the great gift of calling back dreams." EB; 7.6 X 5.0 X 0.9 inches; 173 pages.