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“james brydon”

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  • The Moment Before Drowning

    A Novel

    by James Brydon ...
    "A stunning and intelligent debut novel; powerful, intense and raw . . . an insightful psychological portrait of a man on the edge." — NB MagazineDecember 1959: A furious anticolonial war rages in Algeria. Captain Jacques le Garrec, a former detective and French Resistance hero, returns to France in disgrace. Traumatized after two years of working in the army intelligence services, he's now ... Read more

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  • The Moment Before Drowning

    by James Brydon ...
    "Brydon's provocative and unsettling first novel...is a remarkably assured debut by a gifted new writer."--Publishers Weekly, STARRED review, Pick of the Week"James Brydon's brilliant The Moment Before Drowning isn't an easy read. Not because of its style, which is sensuous and elegant, but because of its subject matter: the brutality behind war's front lines...After reading The Moment Before ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

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    Henry Miller's famously banned book is "a matter-of-fact celebration of chucking one's dreary life and following your heart to Paris" (Richard Price).Now hailed as an American classic, Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller's masterpiece, was banned as obscene in this country for twenty-seven years after its first publication in Paris in 1934. Only a historic court ruling that changed American censorship ... Read more

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  • An Unnecessary Woman

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    by Rabih Alameddine ...
    A happily misanthropic Middle East divorcee finds refuge in books in a "beautiful and absorbing" novel of late-life crisis ( The New York Times).Aaliya is a divorced, childless, and reclusively cranky translator in Beirut nurturing doubts about her latest project: a 900-page avant-garde, linguistically serpentine historiography by a late Chilean existentialist. Honestly, at seventy-two, should she ... Read more

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  • The Tobacconist

    by Robert Seethaler ...
    Translated by Charlotte Collins ...
    From The Man Booker International Prize finalist Robert Seethaler comes a tender, heartbreaking story of one young man and his friendship with Sigmund Freud during the Nazi occupation of Vienna.Seventeen-year-old Franz Huchel journeys to Vienna to apprentice at a tobacco shop. There he meets Sigmund Freud, a regular customer, and over time the two very different men form a singular friendship. ... Read more

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  • The Last Days of New Paris

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    by China Miéville ...
    A thriller of war that never was—of survival in an impossible city—of surreal cataclysm. In The Last Days of New Paris, China Miéville entwines true historical events and people with his daring, uniquely imaginative brand of fiction, reconfiguring history and art into something new.“Beauty will be convulsive. . . .”In the chaos of wartime Marseille, American engineer—and occult disciple—Jack ... Read more

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  • The Department of Missing Persons

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    by Ruth Zylberman ...
    Translated by Grace McQuillan ...
    A startling debut novel about the burden of Holocaust memory and the implacable zest for life.Thirty-six years after her mother was liberated from Bergen-Belsen, the unnamed narrator lives a comfortable life in Paris. Her mother sees ghosts at every turn, longing to find the family that disappeared behind the miasma of the Holocaust, but she cannot reconcile her mother’s trauma to the cheery ... Read more

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  • War and Turpentine

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    by Stefan Hertmans ...
    Translated by David McKay ...
    Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2017A New York Times Top 10 Best Book of the YearAn Economist Best Book of the YearThe life of Urbain Martien—artist, soldier, survivor of World War I—lies contained in two notebooks he left behind when he died in 1981. In War and Turpentine, his grandson, a writer, retells his grandfather’s story, the notebooks providing a key to the locked ... Read more

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  • The Worm in Every Heart

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    by Gemma Files ...
    The second collection from the author of Kissing Carrion, whose stories "overwhelm the reader with a true sense of wonder, awe, and horror" ( Paul Tremblay, award-winning author of A Head Full of Ghosts).As two-time Bram Stoker Award winner Paula Guran said in Horror Garage, "Nobody in a Gemma Files story puts a hand on a doorknob and opens the door they shouldn't—these folks are already in the ... Read more

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  • These Dividing Walls

    Shortlisted for the 2018 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award

    by Fran Cooper ...
    Step into Paris as you have never seen it before. . .SHORTLISTED FOR THE HAYES & JARVIS FICTION WITH A SENSE OF PLACE, 2018 EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL WRITING AWARD'An engaging debut that throws light on a hidden side of Paris' Woman and Home'A sensitive, necessary, brave book.' Laura Barnett, author of The Versions of UsWhat building doesn't have secrets?<... ... Read more

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  • The Life of an Unknown Man

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    by Andreï Makine ...
    Translated by Geoffrey Strachan ...
    A deeply moving meditation on memory, history, love, and art by the author of Dreams of My Russian SummersIn The Life of an Unknown Man, Andreï Makine explores what truly matters in life through the prism of Russia's past and present.Shutov, a disenchanted writer, revisits St. Petersburg after twenty years of exile in Paris, hoping to recapture his youth. Instead, he meets Volsky, an old man who ... Read more

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  • Disaster Was My God

    A Novel of the Outlaw Life of Arthur Rimbaud

    by Bruce Duffy ...
    The author of the critically acclaimed novel The World as I Found It brilliantly reimagines the scandalous life of the pioneering, proto-punk poet Arthur Rimbaud.Arthur Rimbaud, the enfant terrible of French letters, more than holds his own with Lord Byron and Oscar Wilde in terms of bold writing and salacious interest. In the space of one year—1871—with a handful of startling poems he transformed ... Read more

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