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  • Happiness, as Such

    Traduit par Minna Proctor ...
    **The hauntingly beautiful epistolary novel from “a glowing light of modern Italian literature” (New York Times Book Review)Longlisted for the PEN Translation Award**At the heart of Happiness, as Such is an absence—an abyss that pulls everyone to its brink—created by a family’s only son, Michele, who has fled from Italy to England to escape the dangers and threats of his radical political ties. ... En savoir plus

    $18.99 CAD

  • These Possible Lives

    par Fleur Jaeggy ...
    Traduit par Minna Proctor ...
    Brief in the way a razor’s slice is brief, remarkable essays by a peerless stylistNew Directions is proud to present Fleur Jaeggy’s strange and mesmerizing essays about the writers Thomas De Quincey, John Keats, and Marcel Schwob. A renowned stylist of hyper-brevity in fiction, Fleur Jaeggy proves herself an even more concise master of the essay form, albeit in a most peculiar and lapidary poetic ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • Landslide

    True Stories

    par Minna Proctor ...
    “Landslide is that rare book that somehow succeeds in being both knowing and open–hearted, both formally sly and emotionally direct. Its timeless subjects—grief, storytelling, the giving up of childish things—are rendered in ways that are as movingly honest as they are probing and unfamiliar. A swift, compelling read.” —Adam Haslett, author of Imagine Me GoneMinna Zallman Proctor's Landslide is a ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • Do You Hear What I Hear?

    An Unreligious Writer Investigates Religious Calling

    par Minna Proctor ...
    At age thirty, Minna Proctor, a child of the seventies and product of divorced parents—Jewish mother, Catholic father, had no religious orientation. In fact, her last “spiritual” foray was her perfunctory bat mitzvah. So when her father wants to become an Episcopal priest, Minna Proctor is flummoxed. Brought up primarily by her mother in a household without any religious expression or guidance, ... En savoir plus

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  • Footsteps

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    Richard Holmes’s great work of biographical exploration, published alongside its sister volume ‘Sidetracks’.In 1985, Richard Holmes published a small book of essays called ‘Footsteps’ and the writing of biography was changed forever. A daring mix of travel, biographical sleuthing and personal memoir, it broke all the conventions of the genre and remains ons of the most intoxicating, magical works ... En savoir plus

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  • This Long Pursuit

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