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Conventional fiction

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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1165 Collections and/or Records:

Paragraph. No.3 / Rose D ; Saleh D., 2002

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Identifier: CC-38960-40896
Scope and Contents

Dan Rose aka Jabonera Porte-Savon contributes a paragraph under his nom de plume and describes how he came to select it. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Paris Review, The. No.105/Win / Kosuth J., 1987

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Identifier: CC-04757-4846
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Joseph Kosuth's work "Modus Operandi" is shown on pp. 121-131. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

People of the Book / Brooks, Geraldine., 2008

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Identifier: CC-48297-69322
Scope and Contents Brooks has written a fictionalized version of the story of the Sarajevo Haggadah. It traces the illuminated Hebrew manuscsript created in 15th century Spain to Venice in 1690 to Bosnia during WW II through the life of a contemporary Australian book conservationist. The author illuminates the essential historic details of the book with the fascinating fictional characters involved in the plot.Publishers Weekly: "Reading Geraldine Brooks's remarkable debut novel, Year of Wonders, or more recently March, which won the Pulitzer Prize, it would be easy to forget that she grew up in Australia and worked as a journalist. Now in her dazzling new novel, People of the Book, Brooks allows both her native land and current events to play a larger role while still continuing to mine the historical material that speaks so ardently to her imagination. Late one night in the city of Sydney, Hanna Heath, a rare book conservator, gets a phone call. The Sarajevo Haggadah, which disappeared during the...
Dates: 2008

Philosophical Egg, The. No.5/Aug., 1983

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Identifier: CC-04240-4319
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Edited by Ludwig Zeller and Susana Wald. This issue features contemporary, Scandinavian poets and artists. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Pilzer und Pelzer / Wolf, Ror., 1988

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Identifier: CC-52701-73837
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The book includes several surrealistic collage illustrations. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Pladoyer 1 (translation) , 1981

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Identifier: CC-21591-22002
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English translation of M. Badura's "Pladoyer 1" which is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

poems of life & death, 2003

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Identifier: CC-41737-43729
Scope and Contents Pie o provides a wonderful biography of Jas Duke and selects additional poems to those reprinted from Duke's "poems of life and death." The accompanying compact disc is Jas Duke reading poems from the latter. thalia (internet); Jas H. Duke was born in Ballarat, Australia in 1939. Son of two schoolteachers, Irish-Scottish ancestors. His family moved to Melbourne in the 1950s. He worked as a draftsman/ a laboratory assistant/ a technical writer and dreamed of becoming a chess champion (didnt quite make it). As a substitute he read every book that he could find. In the 60's he became an Anarchist. Wrote short stories, and was desperately looking for a way to break-out! Went to England via the U S of A, where he circulated in the politico-psychedelic underground. In England he sought the commraderie of Freedom Press; met Ted Kavanagh, Cohn Bendit, Yoko Ono, and Raoul Hausmann. Jas became a political activist, and an actor who appeared in many underground movies by filmmaker Jeff Keen....
Dates: 2003