Catapult - Böcker

Having masterfully translated a wide range of ancient Chinese poets and philosophers, David Hinton is uniquely qualified to offer the definitive contemporary English version of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching. Like all of his translations, Hinton's transla...

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In an intricately linked series of poetic, short tales set in a 1983 suburb, Greg Bottoms portrays his life as one of two at-risk boys as they attempt to learn how to beand what it means to bemen. By turns funny, disquieting, and moving, Fight Sce...

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For more than 50 years, Leslie Fiedler played a pivotal role in the development of American literary culture. Despite his often unacknowledged influence, the academy, intellectuals, and the general audience in America and abroad still read his wor...

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From the shadows of the correspondences and the contradictions of biography, the elusive Salom emerges in this boldly revealing fiction to tell her own story through the three major relationships of her life: at twenty-one she meets the smitten ph...

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Jarring yet slyly comic, Waiting for Rescue evokes a world turned upside down after the events of 9/11 as seen through the eyes of a wry and observant American woman who, though far from the path of the hijacked planes, is thrown into turmoil neve...

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"e;Berry has become ever more prophetic . . . In the Sabbaths of 2005-08 published here, Berry angrily mourns the degradation of the nation wrought by destruction of the land and the pursuit of wealth and power. He says that we must prepare to...

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Advice on building a work of fiction, from ';a writer of great daring and skill to match' (Newsweek). From a highly acclaimed author who has spent many years teaching the craft of fiction writing, Architecture of the Novelis an ambitious blueprint...

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';[A] well-edited collection... More than friends and less than lovers, Salter and Phelps were literary soul mates.' Publishers Weekly It was James Salter's third novel, A Sport and a Pastimetogether with his filmThreeand a script he had written f...

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For his 65th birthday, acclaimed novelist Michael Mewshaw took a 4,000-mile overland trip across North Africa. Arriving in Egypt during food riots, he heads west into Libya, where billions in oil money have produced little except citizens eager to...

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From this best-selling author comes a magisterial new project: a dual biography of the preeminent figures of Judeo-Christian civilization overturning conventional views of Moses and Jesus as humble men of faith. By reanimating the biographies of M...

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In this collection about life as a twentysomething in the twenty-first century, Kathleen Rooney writes with the finesse of someone well beyond her years, but with fresh insights that reveal a girl still making discoveries at every turn. Varied and...

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"e;Berry's latest collection of essays is the reminiscence of a literary life. It is a book that acknowledges a lifetime of intellectual influences, and in doing so, positions Berry more squarely as a cornerstone of American literature . . . A...

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Walt Whitman was deeply interested in the American language as it was emerging in his time. He was fascinated by the vocabularies of the sciences and the streets, and was a regular visitor to the New York Public Library, where he loved to peer int...

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