![]() ![]() The inspiration for the film Enemy starring Jake Gyllenhaal and directed by Denis Villeneuve, The Double is a timeless novel from a writer John Updike described in The New Yorker as “like Faulkner, so confident of his resources and ultimate destination that he can bring any impossibility to life by hurling words at it.” ![]() Can we be reduced to our outward appearance, rather than the sum of our experiences? ![]() As he roots out the man’s identity, what begins as a whimsical chase becomes a probing investigation into what makes us human. But during the night, when he is awakened by noise, he finds the VCR replaying the video and watches in astonishment as a man who looks exactly like him-or, more specifically, exactly like he did five years earlier, mustachioed and fuller in the face-appears on the screen.Īgainst his own better judgment, Tertuliano decides to pursue his double. Tertuliano watches the film, unimpressed. To lift his spirits, a colleague suggests he rent a certain video. A “wonderfully twisted meditation on identity and individuality” from a Nobel Prize–winning author who pushes fiction to its very limits ( The Boston Globe).Īs this novel by the author of Blindness and All the Names begins, Tertuliano Máximo Afonso is a divorced, depressed history teacher. ![]()
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![]() ![]() It has one of the most jaw-breaking subtitles I’ve seen in modern fiction: “The Very Private Life of Hortense, Stepdaughter of Napoleon I, mother of Napoleon III.” trilogy.Ī Rose for Virtue (named for a school prize that gets destroyed inadvertently when Hortense wears it) follows Hortense from the time of her mother and stepfather’s marriage to Hortense’s departure from Paris following Napoleon’s final downfall. ![]() I’ve been rather interested in Josephine and her circle ever since I read Sandra Gulland’s Josephine B. I hadn’t heard of this novel before, so I was delighted to pick it up and find that it was about Hortense, daughter of Josephine Bonaparte and stepdaughter (and sister-in-law) to Napoleon. ![]() Over the New Year’s weekend, I went into a used bookstore on the coast and spotted A Rose for Virtue, a 1971 historical novel by Norah Lofts, waiting patiently on the shelf. ![]() ![]() ![]() Directed by Tony Speciale and featuring music by Duncan Sheik, the show is produced by special arrangement with Darren Bagert and Daryl Roth. The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey comes to Bay Street following a 2015 off-Broadway run at the Westside Theatre. Bay Street artistic director Scott Schwartz shares a photo with Leonard Pelkey creator and performer James Lecesne. The solo play, written and performed by James Lecesne (writer of the Academy Award-winning film Trevor), runs through 24. The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey celebrated its opening night at Sag Harbor's Bay Street Theater. Edie Windsor and James Lecesne celebrate The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey. ![]() ![]() ![]() I wish the publishers wouldn't dole out the Scandinavian lists like this, but I suppose it does give one something to look forward to. She has published four novels in Swedish, of which only this one is available in English (another is due in the UK next month). The "translated" bit matters, because Ohlsson - like several other of these writers - has a longer list in her native language than in English. The plot was compelling, though the ending was a bit too easy to see in advance.I look forward eagerly to more novels in translation by Ms. The characters have assumptions about each other that get tested, and they don't fall into the "character actor" slots that people in police novels often do. The plot, of course, thickens.For me, the compelling thing about this book was the characterization, and the interplay among the investigators. They are trying to find out what happened to a little girl who went missing from a train. This is a police procedural centered on three interesting and three-dimensional investigators. ![]() Top-notch new entry in the rapidly growing field of Scandinavian crime novels that have been translated into English. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Reoffered to coincide with the ABSOLUTE RONIN HC, this oversized, slipcased hardcover collects both THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS and THE DARK KNIGHT STRIKES AGAIN, along with bonus sketch material and more. This Absolute edition features an extended sketch section from THE DARK KNIGHT STRIKES AGAIN with commentary by Miller, a look at the plot and pencils from. This Absolute edition collects THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS 1-4 and THE DARK KNIGHT STRIKES AGAIN 1-3. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He also discusses how to convert JavaScript into a pure functional language and why you really don't want to. ![]() He also compares the programmer's approach to functions and the mathematician's approach. On the way he discusses first class functions and JavaScript's role in making them commonplace. In this talk, Crockford attempts to break the long-standing Monad tutorial curse by explaining the concept and applications of monads in a way that is actually understandable to the audience. In addition to it begin useful, it is also cursed and the curse of the monad is that once you get the epiphany, once you understand - "oh that's what it is" - you lose the ability to explain it to anybody. In this evening keynote from YUIConf 2012, Douglas Crockford discusses one of the most elusive of all programming concepts: Monads. Doug Crockford, author of "JavaScript The Good Parts", stars in a video explaining functional programming and monads in general. If you have wondered what monads are all about. ![]() ![]() ![]() In these pages you will come to know Kvothe the notorious magician, the accomplished thief, the masterful musician, the dragon-slayer, the legend-hunter, the lover, the thief and the infamous assassin. So begins the tale of Kvothe - currently known as Kote, the unassuming innkeepter - from his childhood in a troupe of traveling players, through his years spent as a near-feral orphan in a crime-riddled city, to his daringly brazen yet successful bid to enter a difficult and dangerous school of magic. I have talked to Gods, loved women, and written songs that make the minstrels weep. I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day. ![]() I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. ![]() 'I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. The Name of the Wind is fantasy at its very best, and an astounding must-read title. Dymocks Booklovers voted for it as one of their favourite reads and we hope you enjoy it too! Discover all the winning titles in the 2022 Top 101 list. ![]() ![]() But is she? Sometimes, only the direst need can teach us our own depths, and Sarai, the muse of nightmares, has not yet discovered what she's capable of.Īs humans and godspawn reel in the aftermath of the citadel's near fall, a new foe shatters their fragile hopes, and the mysteries of the Mesarthim are resurrected: Where did the gods come from, and why? What was done with thousands of children born in the citadel nursery? And most important of all, as forgotten doors are opened and new worlds revealed: Must heroes always slay monsters, or is it possible to save them instead? ![]() Lazlo faces an unthinkable choice-save the woman he loves, or everyone else?-while Sarai feels more helpless than ever. One a god, the other a ghost, they struggle to grasp the new boundaries of their selves as dark-minded Minya holds them hostage, intent on vengeance against Weep. ![]() In the wake of tragedy, neither Lazlo nor Sarai are who they were before. ![]() She believed she knew every horror, and was beyond surprise. Sarai has lived and breathed nightmares since she was six years old. ![]() The highly anticipated, thrilling sequel to the New York Times bestseller, Strange the Dreamer, from National Book Award finalist Laini Taylor, author of the bestselling Daughter of Smoke & Bone trilogy. ![]() ![]() “ The Trouble with Love is a heartwarming read I devoured in one sitting and haven't been able to stop smiling over since.” - New York Times bestselling author Violet Duke The trouble is, Alex has never wanted her more. Unlike the innocent girl he remembers, this Emma is chic, sophisticated, and assertive - and she wants absolutely nothing to do with him. And Alex can't help wondering what might have been. right? But when Emma moves in next door, it's no accident. It's just a coincidence that he happens to pick a job in the same field, and the same city, as his former fiancée. Now he's hanging up his cleats and giving journalism a shot. Now Emma's latest article forces her to face her demons - namely, the devilishly sexy guy who ditched her at the altar.Īfter giving up everything for a pro-soccer career, Alex Cassidy watches his dreams crumble as a knee injury sidelines him for good. ![]() Emma left her sultry Southern drawl behind, but not even her closest friends know that with it she left her heart. Now she's the ice queen of the Manhattan dating scene. Five years ago, Emma was Charlotte, North Carolina's darling debutante and a blushing bride-to-be. ![]() ![]() As Lauren Layne's salacious Sex, Love & Stiletto series returns, a jaded columnist discovers a steamy way to get over an old flame: falling for him all over again.Īs Stiletto magazine's authority on all things breakup-and-heartache, Emma Sinclair writes from personal experience. ![]() ![]() A tight clean first edition, first printing, signed and inscribed by George RR Martin on the title page. Imagine Bram Stoker, Stephen King and Mark Twain all rolled into one for George RR Martin's third novel published back in 1982, way before steampunk became its own genre. Fevre Dream by Martin George R. DJ is bright with an open chip at upper front flap-fold and shallow chipping at base of spine. Original DJ with $14.95 price intact on flap. On the bottom page edges of this edition, Simon & Schuster's sower emblem is stamped. Simon & Schuster, parent company of Poseidon Press, uses their famous sower emblem as their logo. A tale of vampires haunting the American South during the lead up to the Civil War, Fevre Dream focused upon moral ambiguity, the brutality of power, and other narrative aspects that would. Pages lay tight in seemingly unread condition. Martins 'Fevre Dream' is a haunting tale set in the late 19th century, following the story of two men, Abner Marsh and Joshua York, who embark. ![]() ![]() Pages and endpapers are bright and clean. Minor shelf-rubbing to one corner tip with one bumped corner-tip on rear board otherwise about fine. Red cloth binding over black paper-covered boards. Martin on the title page: To _, Warm Regards -Keep Your Steam Up. ![]() Signed and inscribed by author George R.R. First edition, first printing with a full numberline down to 1. ![]() |