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With My Dog Eyes » Melville House Books
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List price: $12.95. Request a desk copy. Request an exam copy. With My Dog Eyes. Translated by Adam Morris. Like her friend and admirer Clarice Lispector, Hilda Hilst was a passionate explorer of the sacred and the profane, the pure and the obscene. Benjamin Moser. A stunning book by a master of the avant-garde. Is a PhD candidate in Latin American literature at Stanford University. An excerpt from his translation of With My Dog-Eyes won the 2012 Susan Sontag Foundation Prize for Literary Translation.
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Wolf Among Wolves » Melville House Books
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List price: $18.95. Request a desk copy. Request an exam copy. Translated by Philip Owens. Restored and with additional translations by Thorsten Carstensen and Nicholas Jacobs. His most ambitious novel deeply moving he has evoked more than one can bear, but not more than it is necessary to learn, to keep and to understand. Alfred Kazin,. The New York Times. The Year of Living Dangerously. In a European setting. Is the equal of Fallada’s acclaimed. Every Man Dies Alone. No matter the format. Were internat...
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A Highly Unlikely Scenario » Melville House Books
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List price: $16.95. Request a desk copy. Request an exam copy. A Highly Unlikely Scenario. Or a Neetsa Pizza Employee's Guide to Saving the World. In the spirit of. A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Super Sad True Love Story,. A debut novel about a pizza delivery hotline employee’s adventures in time travel, love, and toppings. Plus, Neetsa Pizza doesn’t like it when you go off script. New York Times Book Review. A] dizzying fabulist debut. Cantor’s] imagination is exhilarating. Cantor’s first novel ne...
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Bag » Melville House Books
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Bag - AVAILABLE FOR BACKORDER $20.00. Black, all-cotton totes sporting, on the front, the phrase that made Bartleby the Scrivener famous, and, on the back, the Melville House logo. Roomy, with a sturdy and slightly-longer-than-usual white cotton strap that will allow you to wear it comfortably over your shoulder. A random list of things you can carry in the new, improved bag:. A good chunk of the Art of the Novella Series. A complete French bulldog. Two full-sized cats, or eight to ten kittens. Why I Am ...
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The Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Torture » Melville House Books
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List price: $16.95. Request a desk copy. Request an exam copy. The Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Torture. Committee Study of the Central Intelligence Agency's Detention and Interrogation Program. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. The most extensive review of U.S. intelligence-gathering tactics in generations. Los Angeles Times. Guantanamo Bay prisoner's book released. A portrait of depravity that is hard to comprehend and even harder to stomach. The New York Times. This massive chronicle...
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An Exaggerated Murder » Melville House Books
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List price: $16.95. Request a desk copy. Request an exam copy. How can you solve a murder when the clues are so dumb? Private investigator Trike Augustine may be a brainiac with deductive skills to rival Sherlock Holmes, but they’re not doing him any good at solving the case of a missing gazzilionaire because the clues are so stupefyingly well, stupid. Meanwhile, the clock is ticking as the astronomical reward being offered diminishes drastically every day. An Indie Next List pick for March 2015! One of ...
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Bartleby the Scrivener » Melville House Books
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List price: $10.00. Request a desk copy. Request an exam copy. Part of The Art of the Novella. 8220;I would prefer not to.”. Academics hail it as the beginning of modernism, but to readers around the world—even those daunted by. The tale is one of the final works of fiction published by Melville before, slipping into despair over the continuing critical dismissal of his work after. 8212; maps, photographs, illustrations, and further writing about the author and the book. No matter the format. Purchasers ...
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33 Days » Melville House Books
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List price: $16.00. Request a desk copy. Request an exam copy. Translated by Austin D. Johnston. Part of The Neversink Library. A rare eyewitness account by an important author of fleeing the Nazis’ march on Paris in 1940, featuring a never-before-published introduction by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. In June of 1940, Leon Werth and his wife fled Paris before the advancing Nazis Army. 33 Days. Is his eyewitness account of that experience, one of the largest civilian dispacements in history. 1878-1955) was a...
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Sandokan » Melville House Books
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List price: $13.00. Contemporary Art of the Novella. Request a desk copy. Request an exam copy. Translated by Antony Shugaar. Is literature, capable of prying open, like a powerful crowbar, the grates of history in our part of Italy…. a work of literature with enormous power of moral and civic denunciation. Roberto Saviano. Though fiction, . Ldquo;Dark and unforgiving …. Is a masterful Italian tragedy, blunt and never romantic.”. The Death of the Author. The Illusion of Return.
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The Utopia of Rules » Melville House Books
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List price: $26.95. Request a desk copy. Request an exam copy. The Utopia of Rules. From the author of the international bestseller. Debt: The First 5,000 Years. Comes a revelatory account of the way bureaucracy rules our lives. Where does the desire for endless rules, regulations, and bureaucracy come from? How did we come to spend so much of our time filling out forms? And is it really a cipher for state violence? An essential book for our times, The Utopia of Rules is sure to start a million conversat...