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This book is printed in the form of the writer's corrected typewritten manuscript. It is the English translation of "Abend mit Goldrand: eine MarchenPosse 55 Bilder aus der La/endlichkeit fur Gronner der Verschreibkunst," a book that is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This copy is the first edition, first printing of the book. The book was reviewed by Publishers Weekly:What would it sound like if a foreigner wrote a novel in broken English? Foer answers this question to marvelous effect in his inspired though uneven first novel. Much of the book is narrated by Ukrainian student Alex Perchov, whose hilarious and, in their own way, pitch-perfect malapropisms flourish under the influence of a thesaurus. Alex works for his family's travel agency, which caters to Jews who want to explore their ancestral shtetls. Jonathan Safran Foer, the novel's other hero, is such a Jew an American college student looking for the Ukrainian woman who hid his grandfather from the Nazis. He, Alex, Alex's depressive grandfather and his grandfather's "seeing-eye bitch" set out to find the elusive woman. Alex's descriptions of this "very rigid search" and his accompanying letters to Jonathan are interspersed with Jonathan's own mythical history of his...

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One copy with a green colored image of a feline is stored in box booklets. Three copies with images in red, green and black colors, respectively, are stored in a Depew box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The content of the fiction in this book is deemed experimental by the editor. In general, it does not fall under the classifications of postmodernist fiction as we know it today (2003). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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...

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...

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Amazon.com: FIELDNOTES, A FORENSIC charts one forensic anthropologist's series of descents in the first decade of the new millennium--a decade when forensic discourses and experts became ubiquitous in popular culture and on the daily news. But the edgy, passionate and erudite writer of these fieldnotes is no Temperance Brennan or Kathy Reichs. Part parody of popular discourses on the forensic anthropologist, part exegesis of the fieldnote genre, and part response to the natural and human catastrophes that unfolded during the writing of this book, Eichhorn's second collection continues to explore the poetics and affective dimensions of knowledge making at the edges of poetry and fiction. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is the only full-length study of Finnegans Wake to outline and catalog the immense amount of naturalistc detail from which Joyce built the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Also designated publication #21. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book is published as a sequel to "Flatland" by Edwin Abbott Abbott, published in 1884, in which all the inhabitants are two dimensional. Stewart, who is a professor of mathematics, created this contemporary guide of a journey through Mathiverse. His main character, Victoria Line, explores the "present understanding of the shape and origins of the universe, the nature of space, time and matter and modern geometrics and their applications." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The first edition also held by the Sackner Archive was published in 1971. From the Preface by Matthews: "While rummagine in my attic recently I discovered the manuscript which is presented here. Unfortunately the top half had been seriously corroded by what forensic experts assure me is black treacle, and much is illedgible. The book was clearly some sort of autobiographical sketch (whose we don't know) written in a somehwat poetical style. Footnotes had been added in ink by someone who obviously knew the author fairly well; these have survived because the treacle did not affect the bottom part of the manuscript. They are presented together with the fragments which remain, plus the original index which mercifully survived complete. In my opinion all one ever writes is footnotes to what one might have been.". -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The second edition also held by the Sackner Archive was published in 1975. From the Preface by Matthews: "While rummagine in my attic recently I discovered the manuscript which is presented here. Unfortunately the top half had been seriously corroded by what forensic experts assure me is black treacle, and much is illedgible. The book was clearly some sort of autobiographical sketch (whose we don't know) written in a somehwat poetical style. Footnotes had been added in ink by someone who obviously knew the author fairly well; these have survived because the treacle did not affect the bottom part of the manuscript. They are presented together with the fragments which remain, plus the original index which mercifully survived complete. In my opinion all one ever writes is footnotes to what one might have been.". -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.