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Conventional fiction

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1181 Collections and/or Records:

Extensions. No.1 / Suzanne Zavrian, Joseph Neugroschel, editors ; Williams E ; Weiner H ; Graham D ; Acconci V ; Katz S ; Schneeman G ; Perreault J ; Perniciaro T., 1968

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Identifier: CC-46849-49583
Scope and Contents

On pages 22-23, Dan Graham presents his plan for Schema, a set of poems whose component pages are specifically published as individual poems in various magazines. This invoves participation by the editor. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, 2005

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Identifier: CC-43955-46066
Scope and Contents This is a tender, sad, briliant story of the inner life of a young boy after the death of his beloved father in the 9/11 tragedy of the Twin towers destruction in New York.From Publishers Weekly: Oskar Schell, hero of this brilliant follow-up to Foer's bestselling Everything Is Illuminated, is a nine-year-old amateur inventor, jewelry designer, astrophysicist, tambourine player and pacifist. Like the second-language narrator of Illuminated, Oskar turns his naïvely precocious vocabulary to the understanding of historical tragedy, as he searches New York for the lock that matches a mysterious key left by his father when he was killed in the September 11 attacks, a quest that intertwines with the story of his grandparents, whose lives were blighted by the firebombing of Dresden. Foer embellishes the narrative with evocative graphics, including photographs, colored highlights and passages of illegibly overwritten text, and takes his unique flair for the poetry of miscommunication to...
Dates: 2005

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, 2005

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Identifier: CC-43956-46067
Scope and Contents This is a tender, sad, briliant story of the inner life of a young boy after the death of his beloved father in the 9/11 tragedy of the Twin towers destruction in New York.From Publishers Weekly: Oskar Schell, hero of this brilliant follow-up to Foer's bestselling Everything Is Illuminated, is a nine-year-old amateur inventor, jewelry designer, astrophysicist, tambourine player and pacifist. Like the second-language narrator of Illuminated, Oskar turns his naïvely precocious vocabulary to the understanding of historical tragedy, as he searches New York for the lock that matches a mysterious key left by his father when he was killed in the September 11 attacks, a quest that intertwines with the story of his grandparents, whose lives were blighted by the firebombing of Dresden. Foer embellishes the narrative with evocative graphics, including photographs, colored highlights and passages of illegibly overwritten text, and takes his unique flair for the poetry of miscommunication to...
Dates: 2005

Fall / Crombie, John., 1984

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Identifier: CC-17967-18337
Scope and Contents

Red colored text dipicts the outlines of leaves and the piling up of mounds of leaves as the story progresses. Often the color changes within s single letter. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Fantasies and the Great Writer / Depew, Wally., 2003

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Identifier: CC-53158-74310
Scope and Contents

This is a short story about a writer day-dreaming his sexual fantasies. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

FAT AGAIN / Depew, Wally; Armeaux JP., 2003

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Identifier: CC-53200-74352
Scope and Contents

This story is about a woman mired in poverty. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

Fine & Rare Books / Pacific Book Auction Galleries ; Joyce J., 1996

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Identifier: CC-04916-5013
Scope and Contents

Auction catalogue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996