New Directions Pearls
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On Booze
$10.95 Add to cart“First you take a drink,” F. Scott Fitzgerald once noted, “then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.” Fitzgerald wrote alcohol into almost every one of his stories. On Booze gathers debu… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Pearls #0
- Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: June 28 2011
- ISBN10: 0811219267
- Language: English
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The Bridegroom Was a Dog
$10.95 Add to cartThe Bridegroom Was a Dog is perhaps the Japanese-German writer Yoko Tawada’s most famous story. Its initial publication in 1998 garnered admiration from The New Yorker, who praised it as, “fast-movin
- Series: New Directions Pearls #0
- Author: Tawada, Yoko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: November 27 2012
- ISBN10: 0811220370
- Language: English
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Tropisms
$11.95 Read moreHailed as a masterpiece by Jean Genet, Marguerite Duras, and Jean-Paul Sartre, Tropisms is considered one of the defining texts of the nouveau roman movement. Nathalie Sarraute has defined her work as… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Pearls
- Author: Sarraute, Nathalie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: November 09 2015
- ISBN10: 0811222764
- Language: English
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The Walk
$12.95 Read moreA pseudo-biographical “stroll” through town and countryside rife with philosophical musings, The Walk has been hailed as the masterpiece of Walser’s short prose. Walking features heavily in his writin… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Pearls #0
- Author: Walser, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 23 2012
- ISBN10: 811219925
- Language: English
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Morphine
$11.95 Read moreYoung Dr. Bromgard has come to a small country town to assume a new practice. No sooner has he arrived than he receives word that a colleague, Dr. Polyakov, has fallen gravely ill. Before Bromgard can… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Pearls #0
- Author: Bulgakov, Mikhail Afanasevich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: September 26 2013
- ISBN10: 0811221687
- Language: English
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In Search of Duende
$11.95 Add to cartThe notion of “duende”–a demonic earth spirit embodying irrationality, earthiness, and a heightened awareness of death–became a cornerstone of Lorca’s poetics. In Search of Duende gathers Lorca’s wr… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Pearls #0
- Author: Garcia Lorca, Federico
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0811218554
- Language: English
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Everything and Nothing
$11.95 Read moreEverything and Nothing collects the best of Borges’ highly influential work–written in the 1930s and ’40s–that foresaw the internet (“Tl?, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius”), quantum mechanics (“The Garden of F… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Pearls #0
- Author: Borges, Jorge Luis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 25 2010
- ISBN10: 081121883X
- Language: English
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Spring and All
$14.95 Read moreSpring and All is a manifesto of the imagination — a hybrid of alternating sections of prose and free verse that coalesce in dramatic, energetic, and beautifully cryptic statements of how language re… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Pearls
- Author: Williams, William Carlos
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: July 13 2011
- ISBN10: 0811218910
- Language: English
