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“joel agee”

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  • Letters on Cézanne

    by Rainer Maria Rilke ...
    Translated by Joel Agee ...
    Rilke's prayerful responses to the french master's beseeching artFor a long time nothing, and then suddenly one has the right eyes.Virtually every day in the fall of 1907, Rainer Maria Rilke returned to a Paris gallery to view a Cezanne exhibition. Nearly as frequently, he wrote dense and joyful letters to his wife, Clara Westhoff, expressing his dismay before the paintings and his ensuing ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Pledge

    by Friedrich Dürrenmatt ...
    Translated by Joel Agee ...
    Set in a small town in Switzerland, The Pledge centers around the murder of a young girl and the detective who promises the victim’s mother he will find the perpetrator. After deciding the wrong man has been arrested for the crime, the detective lays a trap for the real killer—with all the patience of a master fisherman. But cruel turns of plot conspire to make him pay dearly for his pledge. Here ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • The Inspector Barlach Mysteries

    The Judge and His Hangman and Suspicion

    by Friedrich Dürrenmatt ...
    Translated by Joel Agee ...
    This volume offers bracing new translations of two precursors to the modern detective novel by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, whose genre-bending mysteries recall the work of Alain Robbe-Grillet and anticipate the postmodern fictions of Paul Auster and other contemporary neo-noir novelists. Both mysteries follow Inspector Barlach as he moves through worlds in which the distinction between crime and justice ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Agathe

    Or, The Forgotten Sister

    by Robert Musil ...
    Translated by Joel Agee ...
    From the author of 'A Man without Qualities,' a novel about spirituality in the modern world.Agathe is the sister of Ulrich, the restless and elusive “man without qualities” at the center of Robert Musil’s great, unfinished novel of the same name. For years Agathe and Ulrich have ignored each other, but when brother and sister find themselves reunited over the bier of their dead father, they are ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Stone World

    by Joel Agee ...
    A Washington Post Best Fiction Book of 2022From the son of acclaimed author James Agee, a haunting novel depicting an American boy’s childhood in Mexico, ensconced in a world comprised of communist European exiles, local union activists, street children, and avant-garde artists like Frida Kahlo.Joel Agee’s hallucinatory first novel begins in a house with a large garden in an unnamed Mexican town ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Prometheus Bound

    by Aeschylus ...
    Translated by Joel Agee ...
    Prometheus Bound is the starkest and strangest of the classic Greek tragedies, a play in which god and man are presented as radically, irreconcilably at odds. It begins with the shock of hammer blows as the Titan Prometheus is shackled to a rock in the Caucasus. This is his punishment for giving the gift of fire to humankind and for thwarting Zeus’s decision to exterminate the human race. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • Friedrich Dürrenmatt

    Selected Writings, Volume 3, Essays

    by Friedrich Dürrenmatt ...
    Translated by Joel Agee ...
    These translations of Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s essays introduce the writer to a new generation of readers.The Swiss writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–90) was one of the most important literary figures of the second half of the twentieth century. During the years of the cold war, arguably only Beckett, Camus, Sartre, and Brecht rivaled him as a presence in European letters. Yet outside Europe, this ... Read more

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  • Friedrich Dürrenmatt

    Selected Writings, Volume 1, Plays

    by Friedrich Dürrenmatt ...
    Translated by Joel Agee ...
    These translations of Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s plays introduce the writer to a new generation of readers.The Swiss writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–90) was one of the most important literary figures of the second half of the twentieth century. During the years of the cold war, arguably only Beckett, Camus, Sartre, and Brecht rivaled him as a presence in European letters. Yet outside Europe, this ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Friedrich Dürrenmatt

    Selected Writings, Volume 2, Fictions

    by Friedrich Dürrenmatt ...
    Translated by Joel Agee ...
    These translations of Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s fiction introduce the writer to a new generation of readers.The Swiss writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–90) was one of the most important literary figures of the second half of the twentieth century. During the years of the cold war, arguably only Beckett, Camus, Sartre, and Brecht rivaled him as a presence in European letters. Yet outside Europe, this ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Assignment

    or, On the Observing of the Observer of the Observers

    by Friedrich Dürrenmatt ...
    Translated by Joel Agee ...
    In Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s experimental thriller The Assignment, the wife of a psychiatrist has been raped and killed near a desert ruin in North Africa. Her husband hires a woman named F. to reconstruct the unsolved crime in a documentary film. F. is soon unwittingly thrust into a paranoid world of international espionage where everyone is watched—including the watchers. After discovering a recent ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    The Stone World

    A Novel

    by Joel Agee ...
    Narrated by Armando Durán ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 44 min

    From the son of acclaimed author James Agee comes a haunting novel depicting an American boy’s childhood in Mexico, ensconced in a world comprised of communist European exiles, local union activists, street children, and avant-garde artists like Frida Kahlo.Joel Agee’s hallucinatory first novel begins in a house with a large garden in an unnamed Mexican town in the late 1940s, where six-and-a-half ... Read more

    $16.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Execution of Justice

    Translated by John E. Woods ...
    by Friedrich Duerrenmatt ...
    Series Book 22 - Pushkin Vertigo
    A captivating neo-noir classic from one of the masters of the genreA respected professor is dead—shot in a crowded Zurich restaurant, in front of dozens of witnesses. The murderer calmly turned himself in to the police. So why has he now hired a lawyer to clear his name? And why has he chosen the drink-soaked, disreputable Spät to defend him?As he investigates, Spät finds himself obsessed, drawn ... Read more

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