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La Batarde by Violette LeDuc; Derek Coltman (Translator)
Category: Fiction | Series: Dalkey Essentials Ser.
An obsessive and revealing self-portrait of a remarkable woman humiliated by the circumstances of her birth and by her physical appearance, La Bâtarde relates Violette Leduc's long search for her own identity through a series of agonizing and passionate love affairs with both men and women. When first ...Show more
Langrishe, Go Down by Aidan Higgins
Category: Fiction | Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials Ser.
An eminently poetic book, Langrishe, Go Down (Higgins's first novel) traces the fall of the Langrishes--a once wealthy, highly respected Irish family--through the lives of their four daughters, especially the youngest, Imogen, whose love affair with a self-centered German scholar resonates throughout th ...Show more
Pierrot Mon Ami by Raymond Queneau; Barbara Wright (Translator)
Category: Fiction | Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials Ser.
Pierrot Mon Ami, considered by many to be one of Raymond Queneau's finest achievements, is a quirky coming-of-age novel concerning a young man's initiation into a world filled with deceit, fraud, and manipulation. From his short-lived job at a Paris amusement park where he helps to raise women's skirts ...Show more
Point Counter Point by Aldous Huxley
Category: Classics | Series: Dalkey Essentials Ser.
Aldous Huxley's lifelong concern with the dichotomy between passion and reason finds its fullest expression both thematically and formally in his masterpiece Point Counter Point. By presenting a vision of life in which diverse aspects of experience are observed simultaneously, Huxley characterizes the ...Show more
Trilogy by Jon Fosse
Category: Fiction | Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials Ser.
Trilogy is Jon Fosse's critically acclaimed, luminous love story about Asle and Alida, two lovers trying to find their place in this world. Homeless and sleepless, they wander around Bergen in the rain, trying to make a life for themselves and the child they expect. Through a rich web of historical, cul ...Show more
Wittgenstein's Mistress by David Markson
Category: No Category | Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials Ser.
Wittgenstein's Mistress is a novel unlike anything David Markson or anyone else has ever written before. It is the story of a woman who is convinced and, astonishingly, will ultimately convince the reader as well that she is the only person left on earth. Presumably she is mad. And yet so appealing is h ...Show more
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