Search Results: Authors starting with L from Zeno's

New York. 1989. Pantheon Books. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket. 0394572335. Translated from the French by Barbara Bray. 113 pages. hardcover. Jacket illustration by John Martinez. Jacket design by Louise Fili. keywords: Literature Translated France Women. FROM THE PUBLISHER - It's the end of summer in a French port town. A French couple sit in a bar. At the same bar are a British yachtsman and his aging - perhaps infirm, perhaps simply dissolute - wife. What has brought the British couple to this port? What binds them together, and what keeps them apart from their native land? The French couple use the Englishman and his wife to examine their own lives, piecing together - or simply making up - a past for them that mirrors the course of their own relationship. What has kept each couple intact? What are their real feelings for each other? What, indeed, is love? Through these questions Marguerite Duras produces an exquisitely poetic exploration of the themes of love and… Read More

Berkeley. 2004. University Of California Press. 1st Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0520223519. 331 pages. paperback. keywords: Mexico Religion. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Luis D. Leon's compelling, innovative exploration of religion in the U.S.-Mexican borderlands issues a fundamental challenge to current scholarship in the field and recharts the landscape of Chicano faith. La Llorona's Children constructs genealogies of the major traditions spanning Mexico City, East Los Angeles, and the southwestern United States: Guadalupe devotion, curanderismo, espiritualismo, and evangelical/ Pentecostal traditions. Leon theorizes a religious poetics that functions as an effective and subversive survival tactic akin to crossing the U.S.-Mexican border. He claims that, when examined in terms of broad categorical religious forms and intentions, these traditions are remarkably alike and resonate religious ideas and practices developed in the ancient Mesoamerican world. Leon proposes what he calls a… Read More

Fayetteville. 2018. February 2018. University of Arkansas Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9781682260524. 376 pages. paperback. keywords: Sport History Los Angeles California. FROM THE PUBLISHER - LA Sports brings together sixteen essays covering various aspects of the development and changing nature of sport in one of America's most fascinating and famous cities. The writers cover a range of topics, including the history of car racing and ice skating, the development of sport venues, the power of the Mexican fan base in American soccer leagues, the intersecting life stories of Jackie and Mack Robinson, the importance of the Showtime Lakers, the origins of Muscle Beach and surfing, sport in Hollywood films, and more. inventory #43443 ISBN: 9781682260524.

New York. 1994. July 1994. Simon & Schuster. 1st Printing. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0671796313. 320 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Lawrence Ratzkin. keywords: Labor Newspapers New York Strikees America History. FROM THE PUBLISHER - It was war on the streets of New York. Trucks and stores firebombed, workers beaten and stabbed, shop owners terrorized by goons using strongarm tactics. While public officials and politicians looked the other way, a brilliant but ruthless business empire squared off against nine desperate unions - one with mafia ties - convinced they must fight or die. It was a war for one of America's great newspapers. And both sides seemed willing to destroy the paper to save it. The Daily News strike of 1990 was one of the most expensive, viciously fought, dramatic actions in American labor history. But it was also one battle in a larger and far more important war over the future of the American workplace, one episode in an economic, social, and moral revolution changing the… Read More

Tribeca. 2018. September 2018. Four Way Books. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9781945588198. 6 x 9. 90 pages. paperback . keywords: poetry . FROM THE PUBLISHER - The title Blood Labors is a double entendre: labors as both the thing and the action. Split into four sections, which act as musical movements more than section breaks, there are poems about space and matter, the human impulse to create, and the artist's work. . Tobin weaves the deep-world-time of Charles Olson with the Irish Catholic lyricism of Seamus Heaney . written with uncanny, terrifying beauty. dazzles with its brilliance. Barbara Ras, author of The Last Skin. inventory #43952 ISBN: 9781945588198.

New York. 1955. Knopf. 1st American Edition. Very Good. No Dustjacket. Published In England Under The Title The Priest Among The Pigeons. Translated from the Italian by Stuart Hood. 257 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature Translated Italy . FROM THE PUBLISHER - Unsentimental but deeply tender, rowdy, raucous and heartbreaking by turns, Don Gastone and the Ladies celebrates the inexhaustible theme of all great Italian art: the human condition. The best Italian novels, like the best Italian movies, have a quality that is inimitable because it derives as much from the genius of the people as from the skill of a particular artist. This quality is a realism so profound that it embraces tragedy and farce, impropriety and innocence without the least incongruity. The narrator of this novel is a ten-year-old boy, precocious in the ways of the world - the world of back alleys and crowded tenements. He accepts his family with affectionate contempt; the one creature he loves is his pal and contemporary, Cena;… Read More

New York. 1992. Soho Press. 1st Printing. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0939149710. 1st Novel. 225 pages. hardcover. Cover art bu Allison Hunter. Signed by the Author. keywords: Mystery Korea Military Asia America. FROM THE PUBLISHER - The bizarre killing of Miss Pak should have belonged to the Korean police. But her amorous associations with American servicemen in Seoul also made her death the business of the U.S. Army's criminal investigation arm, of which Sgt. Ernie Bascom and Sgt. George Sueno were prized digits. George is from East L.A., Ernie is from another planet. In the army, going after the truth is usually seen as a criminal waste of time, so they are well suited to the case. The Eighth Army command is anxious only to squelch the bad press, and the boys are really only interested in enjoying their tour of duty. The two of them know Korea, they like Korea (George even speaks the language), and they are all too happy to check the tawdry dives the woman had trawled for customers. Even if they… Read More

New York. 1992. Soho Press. 1st Printing. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0939149710. 1st Novel. 225 pages. hardcover. Cover art by Allison Hunter. keywords: Mystery Korea Military Asia America. FROM THE PUBLISHER - The bizarre killing of Miss Pak should have belonged to the Korean police. But her amorous associations with American servicemen in Seoul also made her death the business of the U.S. Army's criminal investigation arm, of which Sgt. Ernie Bascom and Sgt. George Sueno were prized digits. George is from East L.A., Ernie is from another planet. In the army, going after the truth is usually seen as a criminal waste of time, so they are well suited to the case. The Eighth Army command is anxious only to squelch the bad press, and the boys are really only interested in enjoying their tour of duty. The two of them know Korea, they like Korea (George even speaks the language), and they are all too happy to check the tawdry dives the woman had trawled for customers. Even if they don't find the… Read More

New York. 1992. Soho Press. 1st Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 1569470200. 225 pages. paperback. Cover design by Cheryl L. Cipriani. keywords: Mystery America Korea Military. FROM THE PUBLISHER - The bizarre killing of Miss Pak should have belonged to the Korean police. But her amorous associations with American servicemen in Seoul also made her death the business of the U.S. Army's criminal investigation arm, of which Sgt. Ernie Bascom and Sgt. George Sueno were prized digits. George is from East L.A., Ernie is from another planet. In the army, going after the truth is usually seen as a criminal waste of time, so they are well suited to the case. The Eighth Army command is anxious only to squelch the bad press, and the boys are really only interested in enjoying their tour of duty. The two of them know Korea, they like Korea (George even speaks the language), and they are all too happy to check the tawdry dives the woman had trawled for customers. Even if they don't find the… Read More

New York. 1979. Potter. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0517537451. 144 pages. hardcover. keywords: Shakespeare Literary Criticism . FROM THE PUBLISHER - When Shakespeare's Sonnets appeared in 1609, the world was introduced to a dark and musical lady who was tyrannical, temperamental, promiscuous and unfaithful. Shakespeare was not the only one she was to drive 'frantic-mad', as the many scholars who have since tried to identify her would agree. A. L. Rowse shows in his Introduction that in bringing together all the known facts about the life of Emilia Lanier, and relating these, by dates, circumstances and evidence of character, to what we know about Shakespeare and his patron, the Earl of Southampton, during the 1590s, the Dark Lady of the Sonnets may be seen to have given up her secret. inventory #6356 ISBN: 0517537451.

Carson City. 2013. Trees By The River Publishing Trust. Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9780935174113. Illustrated by Dave Comstock. Nevada California History Series. 6 x 9, color cover, 15 black & white photographs, 9 drawings, 1 map. 32 pages. paperback. keywords: California History. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Convict Lake sits below majestic Eastern Sierra peaks, serene and inviting today. But in 1871 a terrible shootout occurred there between escaped convicts and a posse, leaving several men dead and wounded. That year 29 convicts broke out of prison in Carson City. Six of them fled more than 200 miles south into Inyo County, pledging to kill anyone who got in their way. When they were cornered at Convict Lake, they killed several posse members, then fled to Bishop. There three of them were captured and two were lynched. Williams tells the gruesome story of the escape, man hunt and murders based on news accounts of the day. inventory #46543 ISBN: 9780935174113.

Saint Paul. 1994. Graywolf Press. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 1555972187. 272 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature America Women. FROM THE PUBLISHER - This evocative, heart-grabbing novel has all the ingredients of an American classic: young people falling in love, a family falling apart, tragedy, and survival. In Rainy Lake, Mary Francois Rockcastle invites the reader to savor the sights, sounds, and smells of seven summers in a lake community where young Danny Fillian's family purchased a lopsided cabin in the 1960s. From the landscape of her memory, Danny paints a sensitive and wise family portrait of summers filled with fly-fishing, swimming, waterskiing, friendships, and a deepening first love. But things start to go wrong with this American dream as the intrusions of the wider world change all their lives forever. Problems that begin with a stubborn infestation of bats in their new home and culminate with angry discussions over Vietnam threaten to tear the Fillian family apart.… Read More

New York. 1981. Grove Press. 1st Printing. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0394519523. 111 pages. hardcover. GP-845. Jacket design by Roy Colmer. keywords: Drama America Literature. FROM THE PUBLISHER - In LAKEBOAT, eight crew members aboard a merchant ship exchange their wild fantasies about sex, gambling, and violence. inventory #7903 ISBN: 0394519523.

Berkeley. 2013. University of California Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 9780520269729. Edited By Garrett Caples, Andrew Joron, and Nancy Joyce Peters, with a Foreword By Lawrence Ferlinghetti. 6 x 9. 8 b/w photos. 500 pages . hardcover. keywords: American Literature Poetry . FROM THE PUBLISHER - The Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia represents the lifework of the most visionary poet of the American postwar generation. Philip Lamantia (1927-2005) played a major role in shaping the poetics of both the Beat and the Surrealist movements in the United States. First mentored by the San Francisco poet Kenneth Rexroth, the teenage Lamantia also came to the attention of the French Surrealist leader AndrE Breton, who, after reading Lamantia's youthful work, hailed him as a voice that rises once in a hundred years. Later, Lamantia went on the road with Jack Kerouac and shared the stage with Allen Ginsberg at the famous Six Gallery reading in San Francisco, where Ginsburg first read… Read More

Rochester. 2013. July 2013. Open Letter. 1st American Edition of This Translation. Very Good in Wrappers. 9781934824795. Translated from the French by Kazim Ali and Libby Murphy. 112 pages. paperback. keywords: Literature France Translated Women. FROM THE PUBLISHER - A man - the traveler - arrives in the seaside town of S. Thala with the intent to abandon his present, and instead finds himself abruptly reintroduced to his past. Through his subsequent interactions with ‘her,' the woman to whom he was briefly engaged as a young man over twenty years ago, and ‘him,' the man who walks and keeps watch over ‘her,' the traveler is soon drawn back in and acclimated to the strange timelessness and company that is S. Thala. Written in a stark and cinematic narrative style, this sequel to Duras's 1964 novel The Ravishing of Lol Stein is a curious, yet haunting representation of the human memory: what we choose to recall, what we choose to forget, and how reliable we ultimately… Read More

New York. 1981. Harper & Row. 1st American Edition. Wear and Discoloration to the Spine and Some Brown Internal Taping Front to Bind Free Endpaper, Otherwise Very Good in Slightly Worn Wrappers. Remainder Stamp on Bottom Edge. 0060908629. Paperback Original. 560 pages. paperback. keywords: Literature Scotland . FROM THE PUBLISHER - Lanark, a modern vision of hell, is set in the disintegrating cities of Unthank and Glasgow, and tells the interwoven stories of Lanark and Duncan Thaw. A work of extraordinary imagination and wide range, its playful narrative techniques convey a profound message, both personal and political, about humankind's inability to love, and yet our compulsion to go on trying. inventory #4255 ISBN: 0060908629.

New York. 1996. May 1996. Knopf. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket . 0679445897. 307 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Chip Kidd. keywords: Literature Chinese America Ethnic Women. FROM THE PUBLISHER - It is 1968, the dawn of the age of ethnicity: African Americans are turning Chinese, Jews are turning black, and though some nice Chinese girls are turning more Chinese, teenaged Mona Chang is turning Jewish, much to her parents' chagrin. The Chang family has just moved to posh Scarshill, New York, where the rhododendrons are as big as the Chang family's old bathroom, and no one trims the forsythia into little can shapes. This takes some getting used to, especially since there's also a new social landscape, with a hot line, a mystery caller, and a Temple Youth Group full of radical ideas. Mona quickly bleaches her bell-bottoms; then it's off with her friends to reform race relations. They find a cause in Alfred, the handsome black number-two cook at Mona's parents'… Read More

London. 2015. Eland Publishing. Reprinted Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9781906011635. 233 pages. paperback. keywords: Travel. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Mother Land is an autobiographical novel, a minutely remembered description of childhood on an Aegean island, marked by the furious opposition between Greek and Turk, which is mirrored by the rows between the bewildered nine-year-old Dmetri's parents. Before the family emigrates to Australia, leaving behind their beautiful, if impoverished, homeland, Kakmi reveals with chilling clarity how violence begets violence, in even the most unexpected of people. But it is only when he returns as an adult that he uncovers family secrets which allow the final piece of the jigsaw to fall into place. inventory #46233 ISBN: 9781906011635.

New York. 1961. Scribners. 1st American Edition. Very Good. No Dustjacket. 128 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Ronald Clyne. keywords: Literature South Africa . FROM THE PUBLISHER - Ten stories of the problems of apartheid in South Africa, by author of Cry the Beloved Country. inventory #6026

Boston. 1998. Little Brown. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0316392154. Paintings by Kathy Jakobsen. With A Tribute by Pete Seeger. CD unfortunately is missing from this copy. unpaginated. hardcover. Cover art by Kathy Jakobsen. keywords: Childrens Music . FROM THE PUBLISHER - Honor America-and Woodie Guthrie's 90th birthday-with this beautiful gift package. Featuring the complete lyrics and musical notation to the beloved anthem ‘This Land is Your Land,' as well as a photo-essay about Woody, a note from his daughter Nora Guthrie, and a tribute by beloved folk singer Pete Seeger, this stunning book paints an unforgettable picture of our diverse land. The CD containing nine popular folk songs performed by Woody and Arlo Guthrie is MISSING from this copy. inventory #27771 ISBN: 0316392154.