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Conventional fiction

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1165 Collections and/or Records:

Maledicta Monitor. No.8/Sum / Reinhold Aman, editor., 1992

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Identifier: CC-06272-6387
Scope and Contents

Edited by Reinhold Aman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Man Steps into Space / Dawson, Fielding., 1965

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Identifier: CC-14862-15175
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This is #7 of a series called Different People and is the second publication of Shortstop Press. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Man / Wiz, Boom Boom., 1994

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Identifier: CC-28318-29496
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The pages iIlustrate on facing pages, in cartoon style, well known metaphors about "man and heart," e.g., Man with a heart of gold, Man who juggled the hearts of others, etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

McGrotty and Ludmilla, 1990

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Identifier: CC-42815-44855
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The theme of this novel is a parody of the making of a British prime minister modeled after Margaret Thatcher. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Meantime. No.1 / Finlay IH., 1977

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Identifier: CC-05816-5925
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Contains excerpt of Finlay's "Heroic Emblems." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Meanwhile Life Went on / Crombie, John ; Bourne, Sheila., 1987

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Identifier: CC-20112-20506
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The Sackner Archive holds a French language edition of the book, "Cependant la Vie Continuait." The theme of this absurd tale is the senses gone awry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Melo-Melodie / Berman, Laurent ; Quesemand, Anne., 1991

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Identifier: CC-50150-71212
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This book was written by Anne Quesemand and illustrated by her husband Laurent Berman. The story is based (apres Metamorphose d'une melodie de I.L. Peretz) after a metamorphoses on a melody by the famous Jewish author I.L. Peretz. Berman uses illuminated letters for each section and integrates Hebrew letters into his drawings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Middle C, 2013

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Identifier: CC-56658-10000053
Scope and Contents Amazon.com A literary event"”the long-awaited novel, almost two decades in work, by the acclaimed author of The Tunnel ("The most beautiful, most complex, most disturbing novel to be published in my lifetime.""”Michael Silverblatt, Los Angeles Times; "An extraordinary achievement""”Michael Dirda, The Washington Post); Omensetter's Luck ("The most important work of fiction by an American in this literary generation""”Richard Gilman, The New Republic); Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife; and In the Heart of the Heart of the Country ("These stories scrape the nerve and pierce the heart. They also replenish the language.""”Eliot Fremont-Smith, The New York Times). Gass's new novel moves from World War II Europe to a small town in postwar Ohio. In a series of variations, Gass gives us a mosaic of a life"”futile, comic, anarchic"”arranged in an array of vocabularies, altered rhythms, forms and tones, and broken pieces with music as both theme and structure, set in the key of middle C. It...
Dates: 2013