This novel deals with self-revelations of an American academic who is trying to write an introduction for a book that he has just completed, "Guilt and Innocence in Hutler's Germany." The book can be opened to almost any page and read as fragments of self-contained poetry. It has many Joycean elements in its presentation. This version of the book has a collaged yellow Jewish star on page 30 with the inscription "JUDE" whereas the purchased version on its release did not. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The book consists of two novels. Things deals with a young French lower middle class couple in the post-WWII era who are marketing researchers. They want to be acquire possessions but do not have the necessary job skills or work ethnic to become wealthy. A Man Asleep is an existensionlist story about a nameless person that is written entirely in the second voice. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Amazon.com: Thoughts of Sorts, one of Georges Perec's final works, was published posthumously in France in 1985. With this translation, David Bellos, Perec's preeminent translator, has completed the Godine list of Perec's great works translated into English and has provided an introduction to this master of systematic versatility. Thoughts of Sorts; is a compilation of musings and essays attempting to circumscribe, in Perec's words, my experience of the world not in terms of the reflections it casts in distant places, but at its actual point of breaking surface. Perec investigates the ways by which we define our place in the world, reveling in list-making, orientating, classifying. This book employs all of the modes of questioning explored by his previous books, and, as the same time breaks new ground of its own, ending with a question mark in typical/atypical Perec fashion. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is a comic novel on Canadian military forces on WWII. It is the first British and American edition of the book first published in Canada in 1949. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This may be Katz's first book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is a collage novel dealing with the travels of Sweeny Todd alias Bertolli. The consist of copperplate engravings collages mostly taken from issues of the Illustrated London News 1860-1900. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The pages iIlustrate on facing pages, in cartoon style, well known metaphors about "woman and heart," e.g., Woman who held her heart prisoner, Woman whose heart had a mind of its own, etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The pages iIlustrate on facing pages, in cartoon style, well known advice given in astrology charts and fortune cookies; the texts are presented in a concrete poetic style, e.g., Today everything will seem LARGER than life, WARNING: There is a long road ahead of you, travel lightly. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.