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Conventional fiction

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1175 Collections and/or Records:

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

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Identifier: CC-50150-71212
Scope and Contents

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

Modche A Rezi / Hoffmeister, Adolf ; Rakous, Vojtech., 1968

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Identifier: CC-51752-72852
Scope and Contents

Hoffmeister did the cover and provided an illustration for the title page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Moral Tales / Laforgue, Jules ; William Jay Smith, translator., 1985

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Identifier: CC-07011-7148
Scope and Contents

Laforgue died in 1887. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Morning Star Folio, A: Heiligenanstalt. No.2 / Friederike Mayrocker ; Rosmarie Waldrop ; Wes Christiansen., 1992

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Identifier: CC-06704-6823
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Edited and designed by Alex Finlay. Translated from the German by Rosmarie Waldrop and illustrated by Wes Christensen. The periodical is wrapped in pages of a music score by Johannes Brahms. The text consists of fragments of a conversion among Clara Schumann, Schumann, and Brahms. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Morphinblaue Engel und andere halbseidene Geschicten / Putz, Claudia., 1988

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Identifier: CC-04900-4997
Scope and Contents

Claudia Putz is the editor/publisher of the assembling, PIPS. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Motherless Brooklyn / Lethem, Jonathan., 1999

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Identifier: CC-33988-35663
Scope and Contents

This novel deals with the youthful growing up of an orphan with Tourette's Syndrome who lives in Brooklyn and works unwitingly with mobsters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Mouvement Lettriste, Le: Lettre A La Banque. No.14 / Isidore Isou., 1988

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Identifier: CC-62771-55561
Scope and Contents

First Series. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Mouvement Lettriste, Le: Textes. No.13 / Isidore Isou., 1988

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Identifier: CC-62770-55560
Scope and Contents

First Series. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

My Body / Dunne, Jason., 1996

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Identifier: CC-27776-28905
Scope and Contents

Each page is typed with a single word to form a sentence when read as a whole, "my body has not clicked...". -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996