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Conventional fiction

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1165 Collections and/or Records:

The Bluebird Cafe Again a fantastic fiction / Depew, Wally., 2003

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Identifier: CC-53151-74303
Scope and Contents

This is a sex story that includes eight constellations of mostly unrelated nouns with most off the them beginning with the same letter. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

The Blues a fiction / Depew, Wally., 2003

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Identifier: CC-53150-74302
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This story is a riff on the word 'blue.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

The Cheese Monkeys / Kidd, Chip., 2001

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Identifier: CC-37753-39631
Scope and Contents Booklist reviewed this book. "Kidd is a pioneer in book cover art, but this novel marks his first attempt to write the words between his magnificent covers. It tells the story of one boy's discovery of graphic design in college and his talented and cruel professor. The "novel in two semesters" follows our narrator through his first year at the ubiquitous "State U." In the first semester, he meets Himillsy Dodd, a precociously brilliant fellow art major with a great disdain for art, and takes "Introduction to Drawing," which includes such inane exercises as drawing a still life of a large, brown, and dead bird named Renaldo. Then they take graphic design with the enigmatic William Sorbeck, and life changes forever. Sorbeck shines in three dimensions on the page, a living representation of the larger-than-life professor that luckier college students have a chance to know. This is a fascinating, funny, and wonderfully written novel of graphic design that manages to deepen the...
Dates: 2001

The Congress of the World / Borges, Jorge ; Alberto Manguel, translator., 1981

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Identifier: CC-20981-21390
Scope and Contents

Introduction by A. Danielou deals with tantric cosmology, its 118 worlds, and maps, charts, and wheels. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

The Contemporary Canadian Poem Anthology Vol. 2, 1983

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Identifier: CC-23014-23451
Scope and Contents

Volume includes selection of each poet's work as well as a brief biography, bibliography and photograph. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

The Ends of our Tethers: 13 Sorry Stories, 2003

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Identifier: CC-42814-44854
Scope and Contents The dust jacket depicts a naked self portrait of Gray and a muse that appears to be Morag McAlpine, his wife. The Sackners met them in Glasgow in 2004. Kirkus Reviews stated: "A most curious collection of semiautobiographical stories, from the veteran Scots author (the Whitbread-winner Poor Things, 1993; etc.) and graphic artist. The tales feature different protagonists and narrators, but the dominant one is a long-married (sometimes divorced) male approaching old age, taking stock of his (disappointing) life, and drawing resentful contrasts between vigorous youth and enfeebled age. There are terse, flimsy vignettes like "Pillow Talk," which portrays a husband trying to goad his wife into leaving him; a memory of "failures of common decency" that blighted a schoolboy's childhood ("Sinkings"); and a description of a peace march ("15 February 2003") that's only an excuse for lambasting Bush-and-Blair's Iraq policies. Several stories address the volume's themes more directly, and...
Dates: 2003

The Enormous Room / cummings, e.e. ; Kennedy R ; Firmage G., 1978

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Identifier: CC-18893-19271
Scope and Contents

This is a reprint with corrections and additions from the original manuscript of this novel first published in 1922. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

The Erring Sister ( One of a Cruel Tales by Villiers De L'Isle-Adam) / Crombie, John ; Bourne, Sheila ; John Crombie, translator., 1980

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Identifier: CC-46391-49116
Scope and Contents

Villiers De L'Isle-Adam (1838-1885) was a author ivolved in the French symbolist movement who wrote a number of Cruel Tales. This story translated by Crombie has to do with one of a hard working spinster sister who errs by falling in love. It is illustrated with drawings by Sheila Bourne. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

The Exquisite Corpse / Chester, Alfred., 1967

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Identifier: CC-33858-35529
Scope and Contents

This novel is based on the Surrealist and Dada game called Exquisite Corpse in which each player draws a section of the human body on a pleated piece of paper so that no one knows until it is unfolded what creature will emerge. It has been called a landmark for gay literature. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

The Forgetting Room / Bantock, Nick., 1997

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Identifier: CC-30626-32066
Scope and Contents

Bantock, author of the Griffen & Sabine trilogy, tells the story of the protagonist creating a collage-painting while rediscovering his grandfather's artistic influences. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997