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  • Walkabout

    Crash-landed in the Australian outback, two child survivors encounter an Aboriginal boy on ‘walkabout’ in this “haunting” story of culture clash and survival “in the same vein as A High Wind in Jamaica” (Time).A plane crashes in the vast Northern Territory of Australia, and the only survivors are two children from Charleston, South Carolina, on their way to visit their uncle in Adelaide. Mary and ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Are You Serious?

    How to Be True and Get Real in the Age of Silly

    de Lee Siegel ...
    LeeSiegel, author of Falling Upwards, Not RemotelyControlled, and Against the Machinedelivers a provocative critique ofmodern lightness and frivolity, and a timely guide to being serious in an unserious age. In the vein of The Culture of Narcissism, Shop Class as Soulcraft, and How Proust Can Change Your Life,Siegel offers a revelatory look at how a serious bearing is vital toaccomplishing any ... Leer más

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  • Against the Machine

    Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob

    de Lee Siegel ...
    From the author hailed by the New York Times Book Review for his “drive-by brilliance” and dubbed by the New York Times Magazine as “one of the country’s most eloquent and acid-tongued critics” comes a ruthless challenge to the conventional wisdom about the most consequential cultural development of our time: the Internet.Of course the Internet is not one thing or another; if anything, its ... Leer más

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  • Trance-Migrations

    Stories of India, Tales of Hypnosis

    de Lee Siegel ...
    Listen to what I am about to tell you: do not read this book alone. You really shouldn’t. In one of the most playful experiments ever put between two covers, every other section of Trance-Migrations prescribes that you read its incantatory tales out loud to a lover, friend, or confidant, in order to hypnotize in preparation for Lee Siegel’s exploration of an enchanting India. To read and hear this ... Leer más

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  • The Lost Girl

    A Novel

    de D.H. Lawrence ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    The Lost Girl, D. H. Lawrence’s forgotten novel, is a passionate tale of longing and sexual defiance, of devastation and destitution.Alvina Houghton, the daughter of a widowed Midlands draper, comes of age just as her father’s business is failing. In a desperate attempt to regain his fortune and secure his daughter’s proper upbringing, James Houghton buys a theater. Among the traveling performers ... Leer más

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  • Why Argument Matters

    de Lee Siegel ...
    Series series Why X Matters Series
    An impassioned case for argument’s central role in human life, by one of America’s most distinguished cultural critics“Perhaps more than any other commentary, Why Argument Matters illuminates the root causes of our partisan, venomous, irrational times—and yet somehow rescues from the morass the true nature of argument, its power and beauty.”—Michael Wolff, author of Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump ... Leer más

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  • Not Remotely Controlled

    Notes on Television

    de Lee Siegel ...
    Television has taken firm hold of American life ever since the first flickering images replaced the disembodied voices innocently crackling from the radio. Ever present and evolving, television thrives at the crossroads of commerce, art, and entertainment. In Not Remotely Controlled cultural critic Lee Siegel collects his reportage and musings on this most hybrid medium. Whether chronicling the ... Leer más

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  • Falling Upwards

    Essays in Defense of the Imagination

    de Lee Siegel ...
    Sex and the City, Saul Bellow, Eyes Wide Shut, Dante and the American self, Barbara Kingsolver, acting in Hollywood, Soviet painting in Soho, Angels in America, Jane Austen in the present, J.K. Rowling -- nothing escapes Lee Siegel's incandescent eye. Siegel possesses an intellectual range and independent perspective unmatched by his peers, and Falling Upwards brings together the best of his ... Leer más

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  • Groucho Marx

    The Comedy of Existence

    de Lee Siegel ...
    Series series Jewish Lives
    Born Julius Marx in 1890, the brilliant comic actor who would later be known as Groucho was the most verbal of the famed comedy team, the Marx Brothers, his broad slapstick portrayals elevated by ingenious wordplay and double entendre. In his spirited biography of this beloved American iconoclast, Lee Siegel views the life of Groucho through the lens of his work on stage, screen, and television. ... Leer más

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  • The Draw

    A Memoir

    de Lee Siegel ...
    A "What We're Reading This Summer" Pick by The AtlanticThe Draw is a "spellbinding, coming-of-age tour de force" (New York Times Book Review) about a boy striving to make his way up through society and out of a family that has been emotionally and psychologically devastated by economic misfortune.Lee Siegel’s father, Monroe, a kind and decent man, accumulates a crushing debt to the company he work ... Leer más

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  • Audiolibro

    The Draw

    A Memoir

    de Lee Siegel ...
    Narrado por George Guidall ...

    Completo

    8 hora 13 minutos

    A young boy's awakening to the conflict between innate gifts and social class is at the center of this searing memoir about the unforgiving sovereignty of money Hoping to make a killing in New Jersey real estate, the author's father, Monroe Siegel, takes a draw from his employer against unearned commission. When the recession hits in the 1970s, Monroe finds himself owing a small fortune to his ... Leer más

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  • Audiolibro

    Why Argument Matters

    de Lee Siegel ...
    Narrado por Chris Monteiro ...

    Completo

    3 hora 27 minutos

    An impassioned case for argument's central role in human life, by one of America's most distinguished cultural criticsFrom Eve's crafty exchange with the serpent, to Martin Luther King's soaring, subtle ultimatums, to the throes of Twitter—argument's drainpipe—the human desire to prevail with words has been not just a moral but an existential compulsion. In this dazzling reformulation of argument, ... Leer más

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