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The Sacred Fount is a novel by Henry James, first published in 1901. This strange, often baffling book concerns an unnamed narrator who attempts to discover the truth about the love lives of his fellow guests at a weekend party in the English countryside. He spurns the "detective and keyhole" methods as ignoble, and instead tries to decipher these relationships purely from the behavior and appearance of each guest. He expends huge resources of energy...
2) Nausea
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English
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French writer Antoine Roquentin is disgusted at his own existence and catalogs his every thought and feeling.
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New Directions paperbook volume no. 66
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J. Laughlin/New Directions
Pub. Date
1957
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English
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New Directions paperbook volume 222
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Published for J. Laughlin by New Directions
Pub. Date
1967, c1966
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English
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New Directions paperbook volume NDP310
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New Directions Pub. Corp
Pub. Date
1971]
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English
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New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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"Three generations (grandmother, mother, son) of polar bears are famous, both as circus performers and writers in East Germany: they are polar bears who move in human society, stars of the ring and of the literary world. In Chapter One, the grandmother matriarch in the Soviet Union accidentally writes a bestselling autobiography. In Chapter Two, Tosca, her daughter (born in Canada, where her mother had emigrated) moves to the DDR and takes a job in...
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New Directions paperbook volume NDP1463
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New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"A novel about obsessive love and madness set in postwar Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggy's eerily beautiful novel begins innocently enough: "At fourteen I was a boarder in a school in the Appenzell." But there is nothing innocent here. With the off-handed remorselessness of a young Eve, the narrator describes her potentially lethal designs to win the affections of Fréderique, the apparently perfect new girl."--Amazon.com.
14) Kick the latch
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A New Directions paperbook volume 1540
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New Directions Books
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Kathryn Scanlan's Kick the Latch vividly captures the arc of one woman's life at the racetrack--the flat land and ramshackle backstretch; the bad feelings and friction; the winner's circle and the racetrack bar; the fancy suits and fancy boots; and the "particular language" of "grooms, jockeys, trainers, racing secretaries, stewards, pony people, hotwalkers, everybody"--with economy and integrity. Based on transcribed interviews with Sonia, a horse...
15) Francisco
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New Directions paperbook volume NDP1554
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New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Alison Mills Newman's innovative, genre-bending novel has long been out of print and impossible to find. A "fluently funky mix of standard and nonstandard English," as the poet and scholar Harryette Mullen once put it, Francisco is the first-person account of a young actress and musician and her growing disillusionment with her success in Hollywood. Her wildly original and vivid voice chronicles a free-spirited life with her filmmaker lover, visiting...
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New Directions paperbook volume 1558
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Set in and around the Mexican city of Veracruz, This Is Not Miami delivers a series of devastating stories-spiraling from real events-that bleed together reportage and the author's rich and rigorous imagination. These narrative nonfiction pieces probe deeply into the motivations of murderers and misfits, into their desires and circumstances, forcing us to understand them-and even empathize-despite our wish to simply label them monsters. As in her...