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Conventional fiction

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 74 Collections and/or Records:

Almost All Lies Are Pocket Size, 1990

 Item — Box 205: [Barcode: 31858072460110]
Identifier: CC-00032-31
Scope and Contents

Colophon is initialled by A.C.S. Rower who did the photography and design, and, by Dion Macellari who did the artwork. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Animal Spirits Stories to Live By, 1983

 Item
Identifier: CC-59086-55380
Scope and Contents

Greg Curnoe made the line drawings and David McFadden wrote the text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Biobibliographique, 1986

 Item
Identifier: CC-17959-18329
Scope and Contents

The type becomes progressively smaller on each page so that more words appear. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Bon Voyage Freddie!, 2009

 Item
Identifier: CC-60094-10003113
Scope and Contents

The first French edition of Bon Voyage Freddie! was printed by hand by the artist and author in 1980 in 95 examples by Editions Kickshaw. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2009

Catalogue 42 - Covent Garden Bookshop, 1968

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Cobbing, Bob (1 of 3): [Barcode: 31858072491305]
Identifier: CC-54998-990399

Curvd H&Z, No. 434: Smokes: A Novel Mystery, 1996

 Item — Box 301: [Barcode: 31858072460912]
Identifier: CC-28164-29327
Scope and Contents

Each chapter is printed on a small loose sheet which has been rolled to resemble a cigarette. The "novel" is a detective story. The printed box resembles the shape of a cigarette box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Deus Ex Skatola: Entwicklungsroman, 1975

 Item — Box 150: [Barcode: 31858072458031]
Identifier: CC-39602-41561
Scope and Contents

This object consists of a box tightly packed with scrolls printed with one sentence of a novel. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Lotterie Romane 1, Second edition, revised and enlarged. Original published in 1964.

Dates: 1975

Dunkler Fruhling, 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-34651-36352
Scope and Contents

This book contains three illustrations by Hans Bellmer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

einschlafgeschichten, 2003

 Item
Identifier: CC-55220-9998982
Scope and Contents The title of this book translated to bedtime.Neue Zurcher Zeitung review: Dangerous is the sedative effect of reading and literature. Who "bedtime" at twilight Friedrich Achleitner takes at hand is to find the confession on the flyleaf might innocently: "I look so much to make of the stories." But be careful. Friedrich Achleitner comes from the legendary "Vienna Group", and the thus united destroyer of decency and literary forms are known to have been found already in the fifties, as wide awake. 79 "bedtime" Friedrich Achleitner has now written. They are all short (some only a few lines long), as is often enough reason incident medium grade: "I decided to use my history with if on wednesday (...) to start, but discovered with dismay that I decided to I had begun, "it says under the heading" if on wednesday. " In the "hall history" a loud coughing old lady rushes "with its popping doppler» by Brunico and Innsbruck. Whether in Innsbruck or Zurich or Bern Possnitz - one in this world...
Dates: 2003

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, 2005

 Item
Identifier: CC-43955-46066
Scope and Contents This is a tender, sad, briliant story of the inner life of a young boy after the death of his beloved father in the 9/11 tragedy of the Twin towers destruction in New York.From Publishers Weekly: Oskar Schell, hero of this brilliant follow-up to Foer's bestselling Everything Is Illuminated, is a nine-year-old amateur inventor, jewelry designer, astrophysicist, tambourine player and pacifist. Like the second-language narrator of Illuminated, Oskar turns his naïvely precocious vocabulary to the understanding of historical tragedy, as he searches New York for the lock that matches a mysterious key left by his father when he was killed in the September 11 attacks, a quest that intertwines with the story of his grandparents, whose lives were blighted by the firebombing of Dresden. Foer embellishes the narrative with evocative graphics, including photographs, colored highlights and passages of illegibly overwritten text, and takes his unique flair for the poetry of miscommunication to...
Dates: 2005

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, 2005

 Item
Identifier: CC-43956-46067
Scope and Contents This is a tender, sad, briliant story of the inner life of a young boy after the death of his beloved father in the 9/11 tragedy of the Twin towers destruction in New York.From Publishers Weekly: Oskar Schell, hero of this brilliant follow-up to Foer's bestselling Everything Is Illuminated, is a nine-year-old amateur inventor, jewelry designer, astrophysicist, tambourine player and pacifist. Like the second-language narrator of Illuminated, Oskar turns his naïvely precocious vocabulary to the understanding of historical tragedy, as he searches New York for the lock that matches a mysterious key left by his father when he was killed in the September 11 attacks, a quest that intertwines with the story of his grandparents, whose lives were blighted by the firebombing of Dresden. Foer embellishes the narrative with evocative graphics, including photographs, colored highlights and passages of illegibly overwritten text, and takes his unique flair for the poetry of miscommunication to...
Dates: 2005