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Danielewski, Mark Z.

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Dates

  • Existence: 1966-03-05-

Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:

House of Leaves 2nd Printing / Danielewski, Mark Z.., 2000

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Identifier: CC-40347-42318
Scope and Contents The number of copies in this signed, second printing of the book is not stated. The copyright page differs from the first edition, that is also held by the Sackner Archive, in colored annotations and its text. A label on the dust jacket states "Signed by the author." he following reviews of the book appeared on the Amazon.com WEB site.Amazon.com. Had The Blair Witch Project been a book instead of a film, and had it been written by, say, Nabokov at his most playful, revised by Stephen King at his most cerebral, and typeset by the futurist editors of Blast at their most avant-garde, the result might have been something like House of Leaves. Mark Z. Danielewski's first novel has a lot going on: notably the discovery of a pseudoacademic monograph called The Navidson Record, written by a blind man named Zampanò, about a nonexistent documentary film--which itself is about a photojournalist who finds a house that has supernatural, surreal qualities. (The inner dimensions, for example,...
Dates: 2000

House of Leaves / Danielewski, Mark Z.., 2000

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Identifier: CC-34618-36319
Scope and Contents This is the first edition, first printing of the British edition of the book that was only printed in soft cover format. Its cover is completely different from the American edition. It was signed in blue ink by Danielewski at a reading on 9/26/06 he gave for the launch of "Only Revolutions" held at Books & Books, Coral Gables FL. He further embellished his signature with a fownward arrow in green ink. The Sackners were present at this reading. The following reviews of the book appeared on the Amazon.com WEB site:Amazon.com. Had The Blair Witch Project been a book instead of a film, and had it been written by, say, Nabokov at his most playful, revised by Stephen King at his most cerebral, and typeset by the futurist editors of Blast at their most avant-garde, the result might have been something like House of Leaves. Mark Z. Danielewski's first novel has a lot going on: notably the discovery of a pseudoacademic monograph called The Navidson Record, written by a blind man named...
Dates: 2000

Only Revolutions (Advance Reader's Edition) / Danielewski, Mark Z.., 2006

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Identifier: CC-62647-48575
Scope and Contents Danielewski signed this book in green ink at a reading on 9/27/06 he gave for its launch held at Books & Books, Coral Gables FL. The Sackners were present at this reading. In this book, Danielewski deals with irrelevance of time in a fashion similar to Patchen's "Journal of Albion Moonlight." From Publishers Weekly: "A pastiche of Joyce and Beckett, with heapings of Derrida's Glas and Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 thrown in for good measure, Danielewski's follow-up to House of Leaves is a similarly dizzying tour of the modernist and postmodernist heights"”and a similarly impressive tour de force. It comprises two monologues, one by Sam and one by Hailey, both "Allmighty sixteen and freeeeee," each narrating the same road trip, or set of neo-globo-revolutionary events"”or a revolution's end: "Everyone loves the Dream but I kill it." Figuring out what's happening is a big part of reading the book. The verse-riffs narrations, endlessly alliterative and punning (like Joyce)...
Dates: 2006

Only Revolutions / Danielewski, Mark Z.., 2006

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Identifier: CC-60653-10003524
Scope and Contents The end papers, one in gold and the other in green, contain mutiple circles of lists of alphabetical words. Each circle varies in fonts and shape. The book cover is a richly colored photographic landscape of objects such as yellow roses, butterflies, insects, a white mouse, and plant material. The Sackners were present at the author's reading at Books & Books in Coral Gables , Florida on 9/27/06. In this book, Danielewski deals with irrelevance of time in a fashion similar to Patchen's "Journal of Albion Moonlight." From Publishers Weekly: "A pastiche of Joyce and Beckett, with heapings of Derrida's Glas and Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 thrown in for good measure, Danielewski's follow-up to House of Leaves is a similarly dizzying tour of the modernist and postmodernist heights"”and a similarly impressive tour de force. It comprises two monologues, one by Sam and one by Hailey, both "Allmighty sixteen and freeeeee," each narrating the same road trip, or set of...
Dates: 2006

Only Revolutions / Danielewski, Mark Z.., 2006

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Identifier: CC-60905-10003763
Scope and Contents The end papers, one in gold and the other in green, contain mutiple circles of lists of alphabetical words. Each circle varies in fonts and shape. The book cover is a richly colored photographic landscape of objects such as yellow roses, butterflies, insects, a white mouse, and plant materials. Danielewski deals with irrelevance of time in a fashion similar to Patchen's "Journal of Albion Moonlight." From Publishers Weekly: "A pastiche of Joyce and Beckett, with heapings of Derrida's Glas and Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 thrown in for good measure, Danielewski's follow-up to House of Leaves is a similarly dizzying tour of the modernist and postmodernist heights"”and a similarly impressive tour de force. It comprises two monologues, one by Sam and one by Hailey, both "Allmighty sixteen and freeeeee," each narrating the same road trip, or set of neo-globo-revolutionary events"”or a revolution's end: "Everyone loves the Dream but I kill it." Figuring out what's happening is...
Dates: 2006

Only Revolutions / Danielewski, Mark Z.., 2006

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Identifier: CC-62648-48576
Scope and Contents The end papers, one in gold and the other in green, contain mutiple circles of lists of alphabetical words. Each circle varies in fonts and shape. The book cover is a richly colored photographic landscape of objects such as yellow roses, butterflies, insects, a white mouse, and plant materials. Danielewski signed and inscribed this book in green ink in Sam's section and in orange ink in Hailey's section at a reading on 9/27/06 he gave for its launch held at Books & Books, Coral Gables FL. The Sackners were present at this reading. In this book, Danielewski deals with irrelevance of time in a fashion similar to Patchen's "Journal of Albion Moonlight." From Publishers Weekly: "A pastiche of Joyce and Beckett, with heapings of Derrida's Glas and Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 thrown in for good measure, Danielewski's follow-up to House of Leaves is a similarly dizzying tour of the modernist and postmodernist heights"”and a similarly impressive tour de force. It comprises...
Dates: 2006

The Familiar: Into the Forest - Volume 2 / Danielewski, Mark Z.., 2015

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Identifier: CC-61043-10003817
Scope and Contents Amazon.com: NATIONAL BEST SELLER From the author of the international best seller House of Leaves and National Book Award-nominated Only Revolutions comes a monumental new novel as dazzling as it is riveting. The Familiar (Volume 1) ranges from Mexico to Southeast Asia, from Venice, Italy, to Venice, California, with nine lives hanging in the balance, each called upon to make a terrifying choice. They include a therapist-in-training grappling with daughters as demanding as her patients; an ambitious East L.A. gang member contracted for violence; two scientists in Marfa, Texas, on the run from an organization powerful beyond imagining; plus a recovering addict in Singapore summoned at midnight by a desperate billionaire; and a programmer near Silicon Beach whose game engine might unleash consequences far exceeding the entertainment he intends. At the very heart, though, is a twelve-year-old girl named Xanther who one rainy day in May sets out with her father to get a dog, only to...
Dates: 2015

The Familiar: One Rainy Day in May - Volume 1 / Danielewski, Mark Z.., 2015

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Identifier: CC-60489-10003395
Scope and Contents Lydia Millet Los Angeles Times review: "Mark Z. Danielewski's newest novel, reportedly the first volume of many, is an 880-page tome that, through some curious printer's alchemy, feels even heavier than even this surfeit of pages would seem to warrant "” as though a leaden object had been secreted craftily within its spine. And that wouldn't shock, for "The Familiar: Volume 1: One Rainy Day in May" is a sprawling postmodern monument to semantic encryption, part paean and part parody, whose action takes place over the course of a day.Danielewski is known for his unwavering commitment to so-called experimental fiction "” that is, nonlinear or difficult fiction "” and has had a significant following since his acclaimed first novel, "House of Leaves," was published in 2000. "The Familiar" will be a delight to fans of "Leaves" for its characteristically elaborate, even baroque physical production as well as its cryptogrammatic content: This, like all of Danielewski's work, is a verbal...
Dates: 2015

The Familiar: One Rainy Day in May - Volume 1 / Danielewski, Mark Z.., 2015

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Identifier: CC-60495-10003403
Scope and Contents This is the first edition signed one week after publication.Lydia Millet Los Angeles Times review: "Mark Z. Danielewski's newest novel, reportedly the first volume of many, is an 880-page tome that, through some curious printer's alchemy, feels even heavier than even this surfeit of pages would seem to warrant "” as though a leaden object had been secreted craftily within its spine. And that wouldn't shock, for "The Familiar: Volume 1: One Rainy Day in May" is a sprawling postmodern monument to semantic encryption, part paean and part parody, whose action takes place over the course of a day.Danielewski is known for his unwavering commitment to so-called experimental fiction "” that is, nonlinear or difficult fiction "” and has had a significant following since his acclaimed first novel, "House of Leaves," was published in 2000. "The Familiar" will be a delight to fans of "Leaves" for its characteristically elaborate, even baroque physical production as well as its cryptogrammatic...
Dates: 2015

The Famkiliar: One Rainy Day in May / Danielewski, Mark Z.., 2015

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Identifier: CC-60864-10003721
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This is the first volume of an announced 27 volumes that Dnaielewski proposes to produce.The plot takes place on a single rainy day and follows the story of a girl named Xanther.The plot ranges in time, in place and with characters in bewildering, creative typography, design, language and poetry. As Tom LeClair wrote in his New York Times Book Review,"To reinforce the exoticism of his material Danielewski invents a nearly opaque pidgen English, interspersed with Russian and Chinese printed characters..two other story lines...Los Angeles subcultures." John Williams adds in his review, "Danielewski's novels are brillintly produced, with text that curves away from the page margins, piles on itself until it becomes unintelligible blocks, and changes colores to represent different charctrers or themes." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2015

The Fifity Year Sword / Danielewski, Mark Z.., 2012

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Identifier: CC-55530-7779
Scope and Contents Dispersed throughout the textual pages are 68 reproduction pages of stitched and/or pricked pages. In this story set in East Texas, a local seamstress named Chintana finds herself responsible for five orphans who are not only captivated by a storyteller's tale of vengeance but by the long black box he sets before them. As midnight approaches, the box is opened, a fateful dare is made, and the children as well as Chintana come face to face with the consequences of a malice retold and now foretold.Alan Cheuse Dallas Morning News review: This is A seriously experimental confection of modern horror literature. . . . Composed mostly of dialogue, some attributed to various speakers, some not, some near-abstract drawings of needlework constructions, and a lot of white space"”all wrapped in the pages of a very classy piece of book production"”The Fifty Year Sword might be the oddest book of the year. In certain ways, it might be the most interesting and enjoyable. . . . I imagine people...
Dates: 2012

The Fifity Year Sword / Danielewski, Mark Z.., 2012

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Identifier: CC-55732-224466
Scope and Contents This is a signed deluxe limited edition copy. Dispersed throughout the textual pages are 68 reproduction pages of stitched and/or pricked pages. In this story set in East Texas, a local seamstress named Chintana finds herself responsible for five orphans who are not only captivated by a storyteller's tale of vengeance but by the long black box he sets before them. As midnight approaches, the box is opened, a fateful dare is made, and the children as well as Chintana come face to face with the consequences of a malice retold and now foretold.Alan Cheuse Dallas Morning News review: This is A seriously experimental confection of modern horror literature. . . . Composed mostly of dialogue, some attributed to various speakers, some not, some near-abstract drawings of needlework constructions, and a lot of white space"”all wrapped in the pages of a very classy piece of book production"”The Fifty Year Sword might be the oddest book of the year. In certain ways, it might be the most...
Dates: 2012

The Whalestoe Letters / Danielewski, Mark Z.., 2000

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Identifier: CC-37342-39194
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The letters are from Danielewski's monumental novel, "House of Leaves," published as a separate work that demonstrates a mother's love for her son. The letters are written by the fictional character, Pelatina H. Lieve to her son Johnny Truant. The typography changes and fluctates as the mental status of Pelatina deteriorates. These letters are just one of many levels of creative, experimental fiction in Danielewski's remarkable story. The Sackner Archive contains the first edition hard and soft cover bookls of "House of Leaves." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000