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Conventional fiction

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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1165 Collections and/or Records:

Special Issue: Uncorrected Proofs and Advance Copies / Lopez, Ken ; Ballard J ; Leary T., 1996

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Identifier: CC-28129-29291
Scope and Contents

In an introductory essay, Lopez discusses the significance of proof and advance copies of books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Species of Spaces and Other Pieces, 1999

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Identifier: CC-43946-46057
Scope and Contents This book is edited with an introduction and translated by John Sturrock. The initial story is about "domestic and urban space and how, these days, we are made to occupy it. This is pure topography: plain to the point of obviousness at times, yet forever veering off into jolly idiosyncrasies of the kind that make Perec so entertainig to read." For example in "Species of Spaces," Perec describes the page, the bed, the bedroom, the apartment, the apartment buildlng, the street, the neighborhood, the town, the countryside, Europe, the world and space.Alessandro M Angelini (New York, NY) - Reviewing this book for Amazon.com writes "As the author of the world's longest palindrome and other literary feats, Perec's phenomenal linguistic skills and imagination remain incomparable. His works, however, on not merely experiments within the constraints of language; I am not as impressed with his ability to write a 300-page novel without a single letter "e" as much as his endearing sense of...
Dates: 1999

Stations. No.1/Fall / Young K., 1972

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Identifier: CC-02559-2601
Scope and Contents

Edited by Karl Young. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

Stitches in Time / Crombie, John ; Bourne, Sheila., 1985

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Identifier: CC-20118-20513
Scope and Contents

The pages are designed to appear like embroidered quilts. The funny, macabre story is about Mary Ann who becomes a veritable human human torch as the tale unravels. The illustations and typography are both plays on the ideas of quilt-making. So named because each sheet looks like an old fashioned, cross-stitched sampler. It is about Mary Ann, born 1909. We meet her on the first page surrounded by dozens of cross-stitched pictures which later reappear as her gloomy story unfolds. They include a flatiron, a goat, a pig, a sinister man on a bicycle, etc., in a wide range of pastel colours: black is absent until her obituary on the last page. From her life and hard times, Mary Ann could have appropriately been called Calamity Jane but while her tale is desperate, its telling and illustrating is a frivolous delight. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Stories and Drawings / Topor, Roland ; Margaret Crosland, translator ; David Le Vay, translator., 1968

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Identifier: CC-28826-30144
Scope and Contents

The bizarre, imaginative stories by Topor are analogous to the themematic material of his drawings. The duplicate copy is signed by Peter Owens, the publisher. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968