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  • Pierrot Mon Ami

    by Raymond Queneau ...
    Translated by Barbara Wright ...
    Series series Dalkey Archive Essentials
    Pierrot Mon Ami, considered by many to be one of Raymond Queneau’s finest achievements, is a quirky coming-of-age novel concerning a young man’s initiation into a world filled with deceit, fraud, and manipulation. From his short-lived job at a Paris amusement park where he helps to raise women’s skirts to the delight of an unruly audience, to his frustrated and unsuccessful love of Yvonne, to his ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Crow

    by Barbara Wright ...
    The summer of 1898 is filled with ups and downs for 11-year-old Moses. He's growing apart from his best friend, his superstitious Boo-Nanny butts heads constantly with his pragmatic, educated father, and his mother is reeling from the discovery of a family secret. Yet there are good times, too. He's teaching his grandmother how to read. For the first time she's sharing stories about her life as a ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Exercises in Style

    by Raymond Queneau ...
    Translated by Barbara Wright ...
    A new edition of a French modernist classic - a Parisian scene told ninety-nine different ways - with new material written in homage by the likes of Jonathan Lethem, Rivka Galchen, and many more.On a crowded bus at midday, Raymond Queneau observes one man accusing another of jostling him deliberately. When a seat is vacated, the first man appropriates it. Later, in another part of town, Queneau ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Anny in Love

    by Barbara Wright ...
    When Vanity Fair author William Thackeray dies without a will, his young adult daughter Anny is forced to support her sister and their mad mother in a Victorian world unfriendly to female talent and ambition. Anny develops a crush on Leslie Stephen, the future father of Virginia Woolf, but it is the prettier sister Minny who steals his heart. After their marriage, Anny finds solace on the Isle of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs

    by Simone Benmussa ...
    Translated by Barbara Wright ...
    Based on a short story by George Moore, which was recently adapted into a major Hollywood film starring Glenn Close, Benmussa's story releases a string of disturbing questions about the nature of women and society and is one of the most powerful and ground-breaking plays of the 1970s. ... Read more

    $5.69 USD

  • Seven Dada Manifestos and Lampisteries

    by Tristan Tzara ...
    Translated by Barbara Wright ...
    This volume contains Tristan Tzara’s famous manifestos, which first appeared between 1916 and 1921 and became essential texts of the modern movement and models for Breton’s Surrealist manifestos. Art for Tzara was both deadly serious and a game, and the playfulness of his character is apparent not only in his polemic, which often uses dadaist typography, but in the delightful drawings contributed ... Read more

    $8.19 USD

  • Translation and the Arts in Modern France

    by Sonya Stephens, Marshall C. Olds, Heather Williams, L. Cassandra Hamrick, Emma Wilson, Michael John Tilby, Barbara Wright, Wendelin Guentner, Robert D. Lethbridge, Juliana Starr0, Janet L. Beizer1, Mary Ann Caws2, Clive Scott3, Catherine Bernard4 ...
    Translation and the Arts in Modern France sits at the intersection of transposition, translation, and ekphrasis, finding resonances in these areas across periods, places, and forms. Within these contributions, questions of colonization, subjugation, migration, and exile connect Benin to Brittany, and political philosophy to the sentimental novel and to film. Focusing on cultural production from ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • The Blue Flowers

    by Raymond Queneau ...
    Translated by Barbara Wright ...
    A romp through the ages, by a writer “who inspires newsletters, fan clubs, and passionate exegeses” (Michael Dirda, The Washington Post)The Blue Flowers follows two unlikely characters: Cidrolin, who alternates between drinking and napping on a barge parked along the Seine in the 1960s, and the Duke d’Auge as he rages through history—about 700 years of it—refusing to crusade, clobbering his king ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Plain Language

    A Novel

    by Barbara Wright ...
    Virginia Mendenhall, a Quaker from North Carolina, is thirty-three years old when she travels to the arid plains of eastern Colorado in the mid-1930s to marry Alfred Bowen, ten years her senior. They have met only twice and have come to love each other through letters. Now, on an isolated ranch in the Dust Bowl, they must adjust to the harsh ranching life and the dangers of an untamed landscape, ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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    Crow

    by Barbara Wright ...
    Narrated by JD Jackson ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 24 min

    The summer of 1898 is filled with ups and downs for 11-year-old Moses. He's growing apart from his best friend, his superstitious Boo-Nanny butts heads constantly with his pragmatic, educated father, and his mother is reeling from the discovery of a family secret. Yet there are good times, too. He's teaching his grandmother how to read. For the first time she's sharing stories about her life as a ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    Honeymoon

    by Patrick Modiano ...
    Narrated by Bronson Pinchot ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 28 min

    Jean B. is submerged in a world where night and day, past and present have no demarcations. Having spent his entire adult life making documentary movies about lost explorers, Jean suddenly decides to abandon his wife and career and takes what seems to be a journey to nowhere. He spends his solitary days recounting or imagining the lives of Ingrid and Rigaud, a refugee couple he met more than ... Read more

    $13.95 USD

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    The Ocean at the End of the Lane

    A Novel

    by Neil Gaiman ...
    Narrated by Neil Gaiman ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 22 min

    A brilliantly imaginative and poignant fairy tale from the modern master of wonder and terror, The Ocean at the End of the Lane is Neil Gaiman’s first new novel for adults since his #1 New York Times bestseller Anansi Boys.This bewitching and harrowing tale of mystery and survival, and memory and magic, makes the impossible all too real... ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook