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College of One
Melville House 2013; US$ 15.00The moving story of how F. Scott Fitzgerald?washed up, alcoholic and ill?dedicated himself to devising a heartfelt course in literature for the woman he loved. In 1937, on the night of her engagement to the Marquess of Donegall, Sheilah Graham met F. Scott Fitzgerald at a party in Hollywood. Graham, a British-born journalist, broke off her engagement,... more...
Smashed in the USSR
Old Street Publishing 2013; US$ 10.19For forty years Ivan Petrov careered, stumbled, staggered and rampaged all over the vast Soviet empire. Homeless (an illegal condition in the communist utopia), in and out of prison camps, almost always drunk, and with a gift for hilariously sending up the tragic absurdities of Soviet life, Ivan was a real-life Svejk. This is his unforgettable story,... more...
For a Song and a Hundred Songs
The Text Publishing Company 2013; US$ 32.99This is the extraordinary prison memoir of one of China's most prominent dissidents and author of the internationally acclaimed The Corpse Walker . Introduction by Herta Muller, recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature. In June 1989, Liao Yiwu witnessed the Tiananmen Square protest. The young poet, who had until then led an apolitical... more...
Seldom Disappointed
HarperCollins 2013; US$ 11.99When Tony Hillerman looks back at seventy-six years spent getting from hardtimes farm boy to bestselling author, he sees lots of evidence that Providence was poking him along. For example, when an absentminded Army clerk left him off the hospital ship taking the wounded home from France, the mishap put him on a collision course with a curing ceremony... more...
A Nearly Normal Life
Little, Brown and Company 2013; US$ 9.99In the summer of 1953 the author was a carefree, athletic boy of fourteen. But after he collapsed during a school dance one night, he was suddenly bedridden, drifting in & out of consciousness, as his body disintegrated into a shadow of its former self. He had been stricken with spinal polio. When he emerged from the grip of the disease, he was confronted... more...
The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll
Henry Holt and Co. 2013; US$ 17.99A glamorous, haunted life unfolds in the mesmerizing biography of the woman behind a classic children's book In 1957, a children's book called The Lonely Doll was published. With its pink-and-white-checked cover and photographs featuring a wide-eyed doll, it captured the imaginations of young girls and made the author, Dare Wright, a household... more...
Gertrude and Alice
Quercus Publishing 2013; US$ 18.99Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Tokas were the talk of pre-war Paris. Photographed by Cecil Beaton and Man Ray, painted by Picasso and written about by Hemingway, they were at the heart of Parisian cultural and literary life. Alice, convinced that Gertrude was a genius, cooked for her, typed her manuscripts and fought to obtain the fame she was convinced... more...
The Fading Smile
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2013; US$ 24.00"A beautiful and richly instructive book, a worthy and welcome sequel to Eileen Simpson's Poets in Their Youth." Louis S. Auchincloss An intimately perceptive account, by a poet who knew them all, of the brilliant circle of poets who lived and worked in Boston through the half-decade beginning in 1955. That was the year Peter Davison, coming to Boston... more...
Rabindranath Tagore
Penguin Books Ltd 2013; Not Available?The song that I came to sing remains unsung to this day. I have spent my days in stringing and in unstringing my instrument.? Gitanjali Born in 1861 in one of the foremost families of Bengal, Little Rabi grew up to become a great nationalist, a gifted writer, a talented artist, a brilliant visionary and a reformer of education. He was also Asia?s... more...
On Wheels
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2013; US$ 17.99From the bestselling author of A Book of Secrets , a brisk, charming, illustrated account of a motoring life As a child, Michael Holroyd spent his best hours in his family?s cramped garage, which contained a wealth of magical, exciting objects. But the most intriguing by far was the one in the middle of the room?the family?s eight-horsepower... more...









