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In The Making of Americans Gertrude Stein sets out to tell a history of a familys progress radically reworking the traditional family saga novel to encompass her vision of personality and psychological relationships As the history progresses over three generations Stein also meditates on her own writing on the making of The Making of Americans and on America
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Hailed as the best comic fantasy since Tristram Shandy upon its publication in 1964 The Dalkey Archive is Flann OBriens fifth and final novel or rather as OBrien wrote to his editor The book is not meant to be a novel or anything of the kind but a study in derision various writers with their styles and sundry modes attitudes and cults being the rats in the cageAmong the targets of OBriens derision are religiosity intellectual abstractions J W Dunnes and Albert Einsteins views on time and relativity and the lives and works of Saint Augustine and James Joyce both of whom have speaking parts in the novel Bewildering Yes but as OBrien insists a measure of bewilderment is part of the job of literatureSet in the late 1940s in the village of Dalkey some twelve miles south of Dublin The Dalkey Archive also includes in its cast the mad scientist De Selby featured in OBriens novel The Third Policeman the magniloquent Sergeant Fottrell whose mollycule theory holds that a man can turn into a bicycle and the local da Vinci a looderamawn named Teague McGettigan Doing his damnedest to find order in this metaphysical chaos is Mick Shaughnessy whowith the aid of strong drink his friend Hackett and Mary the young woman for whom they both competeundergoes a crisis of faith both sublime and ridiculous
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Described by Stanley Elkin as this countrys bestkept literary secret and a lost American classic W M Spackman is one of the finest writers of the twentieth centuryThis omnibus edition includes all five of the authors previously published novels Heyday and here presented with revisions the author made shortly before his death and the critically acclaimed novels published between 1978 and 1985 An Armful of Warm Girl 1978 A Presence with Secrets 1980 A Difference of Design 1983 and A Little Decorum for Once 1985 The novel As I Sauntered Out One Midcentury Morning is published here for the first time as well as the authors only two short stories
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Raoul de Noget an overthehill singer and his younger pal Buddy The World s Greatest Piano Player find themselves in a small town in the Midwest They become friends with the son and daughter of the local sheriff and the four hatch a plan to do something that if they are caught will be seen as a crime but if they are not will be art they will rob the town bank take the money over the border into Indiana and then return it all the next day With this story at its center Robert Ashley s inimitable Perfect Lives goes on to demolish every narrative convention in the book taking in conflicting perspectives texts tones narrators and philosophies roping in Midwestern ennui pop songs selfhelp tapes heist movies the lost city of Atlantis dirty jokes the history of American immigration the preternatural flatness of Illinois boogiewoogie Giordano Bruno and finally an elegy for thought itself Perfect Lives is as much a summation of America as All in the Family or Paterson and is every bit as essential
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InThe StainRikki Ducornet tells the story of a young girl named Charlotte branded with a furry birthmark in the shape of a dancing hare regarded as the mark of Satan Sadistic nuns scatology butchered animals monkish rapists and Satan Kirkus as well as the village exorcist inhabit this bawdy tale of perversion power possession and the rape of innocence Ducornet weaves an intricate design of fantasy and reality at once surreal hilarious and terrifying
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With his usual lucidity Etienne Gilson addresses the idea that art is the making of beauty for beautys own sake By distinguishing between aesthetics which promotes art as a form of knowledge and philosophy which focuses on the presence of the artists own talent or genius Gilson maintains that art belongs to a different category entirely the category of making Gilsons intellectually stimulating meditation on the relation of beauty and art is indispensable to philosophers and artists alike
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First paperback edition In this engaging companion to Arts of the Beautiful Etienne Gilson turns his attention toward the creative process Distinguishing the arts of the beautiful from the merely functional Gilson proceeds to argue that the limits of art are imposed only by the materials which the artist uses to create A worldrenowned philosopher and historian Etienne Gilson was a Professor of Medieval Philosophy at the Sorbonne and at the College de France He helped to found the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto He is the author of many works including Painting and Reality The Philosopher and Theology and The Spirit of Medieval Philosophy First published by Charles Scribners Sons 1966
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Folks This here is the story of the Loop Garoo Kid A cowboy so bad he made a working posse of spells phone in sick A bullwhacker so unfeeling he left the print of winged mice on hides of crawling women A desperado so onery he made the Pope cry and the most powerful of cattlemen shed his head to the Executioners swineAnd so begins the HooDoo Western by Ishmael Reed author of Mumbo Jumbo and one of Americas most innovative and celebrated writers Reed demolishes white American history and folklore as well as Christian myth in this masterful satire of contemporary American lifeIn addition to the black satanic Loop Garoo Kid Yellow Back Radio BrokeDown features Drag Gibson a rich slovenly cattleman Mustache Sal his nymphomaniac mailorder bride Thomas Jefferson and many others in a hilarious parody of the old Western
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Cigarettes is a novel about the rich and powerful tracing their complicated relationships from the 1930s to the 1960s from New York City to Upper New York State Though nothing is as simple as it might appear to be we could describe this as a story about Allen who is married to Maud but having an affair with Elizabeth who lives with Maud Or say it is a story about fraud in the art world horse racing and sexual intrigues Or as one critic did compare it to a Jane Austen creation or to an Aldous Huxley novel and be right and wrong on both counts
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It takes a long time to see you are a slave muses one character in Aurelie Sheehans first collection of stories lyrical sometimes bitingly funny chronicles of women breaking out of imposed roles Here are the dreams of misplaced waitresses prostitutes and other working girls the survival techniques of secretaries too smart to take orders In the title story a woman yearns to be like Jack Kerouac but is held back by a litany of rules teaching her to be a submissive girl a pansy The main character in Look at the Moon is bored to distraction by her receptionist job but is still half under the influence of a Catholic upbringing when she hooks up with a flamboyant stranger and goes on a lifealtering road trip with her In The Dove a wealthy widow who was pressured by her family to marry a rich man spends her life fixated on an affair she had a week before her wedding Women young and old rich and poor make soulthreatening sacrifices to adhere to societal or familial strictures Love is passionately evoked here as are the myths and illusions that sustain it Sheehan uses narrative elements poetically these kaleidoscopic stories subvert the linear notion of storytelling creating momentum and effect instead through ellipses layering and contrast Jack Kerouac Is Pregnant is the impressive debut of a beguiling assured writer
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