Kleinzeit Valancourt 20th Century Classics
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Kleinzeit Valancourt 20th Century Classics
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Author : Russell Hoban
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-05-12
Kleinzeit Valancourt 20th Century Classics written by Russell Hoban and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-12 with Fiction categories.
When Kleinzeit, an advertising copywriter whose name means either 'hero' or 'smalltime', depending on who you ask, picks up a sheet of yellow paper in the London Underground, he doesn't suspect that it will cause him to be fired from his job and admitted to hospital with geometrical pain in his hypotenuse. In Hospital Ward A4, Kleinzeit discovers he is not alone: his fellow patients also suffer from nonsensical but possibly deadly ailments which all have something strange in common. With the help of the beautiful night nurse and armed with a glockenspiel and a paperback of Thucydides, Kleinzeit escapes from hospital and finds himself plunged headlong into a wild and flickering netherworld of mystery involving the Underground, an enigmatic red-bearded man, a key, sheets of yellow paper, and Death himself ... A hilarious, surreal and completely unpredictable novel about one man's search for reality, "Kleinzeit" (1974) is one of Russell Hoban's best-loved works. 'Hoban is as funny and unusual as any writer around ... "Kleinzeit" is a sort of holy fool, a fierce, lonely intelligence desperately trying to make sense of a hopeless world. A tour de force.' - "Evening Standard" 'Hoban is an extraordinarily talented novelist, an original mind in the era of mass-produced philosophers.' - "Irish Times" 'Delightful ... "Kleinzeit"'s language is forever astonishing.' - "Boston Globe"
Turtle Diary
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Author : Russell Hoban
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2021-03-25
Turtle Diary written by Russell Hoban and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-25 with Fiction categories.
'Wonderful, life-saving ... places Russell Hoban among the greatest, timeless novelists' The Times Born to swim thousands of miles in the ocean, the giant sea turtles are now trapped in a tank of golden-green water at London Zoo. But not for much longer. Two lonely people, a bookseller and a children's illustrator, have begun thinking turtle thoughts. As they come together to hatch a plan to release the turtles into the sea, their diaries reveal how they find their own lives changing in imperceptible and quite unintended ways. 'Crackles with witty detail, mordant intelligence and self-deprecating irony' Time 'This lovely human fable seems to me one of the best things of its kind - a fine and touching achievement' John Fowles
The Six Queer Things Valancourt 20th Century Classics
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Author : Christopher St John Sprigg
language : en
Publisher: Valancourt Books
Release Date : 2018-02-06
The Six Queer Things Valancourt 20th Century Classics written by Christopher St John Sprigg and has been published by Valancourt Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-06 with Fiction categories.
Desperate to escape living with her miserly uncle, Marjorie Easton eagerly accepts a job offer from the strange Michael Crispin despite knowing nothing of the employment except that it is well-paid and includes some kind of research. Much to her surprise, the "research" involves sEances and requires Marjorie to develop her own psychic gifts to assist in communing with the dead. Soon she begins to suffer from terrible nightmares and seems on the verge of a nervous breakdown, but the real terror begins when Crispin dies under mysterious circumstances during one of the sEances. Who is responsible? And what is the significance of the "six queer things" the police discover among his belongings after his death? A Golden Age mystery with echoes of the occult, The Six Queer Things (1937) was Christopher St. John Sprigg's seventh and final novel, published after his death in the Spanish Civil War. This first-ever reprint of his scarcest novel features a reproduction of the original jacket art. "A rip-roaring tale of mediums, psychic research and the powers of darkness." - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "[A] hair-raising excursion into the occult, with trimmings of insanity, racketeering in souls, palpitating action, and efficient British-type sleuthing." - Saturday Review "Mystery and horror, laid on with a trowel." - New York Times
The Lion Of Boaz Jachin And Jachin Boaz
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Author : Russell Hoban
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2021-03-25
The Lion Of Boaz Jachin And Jachin Boaz written by Russell Hoban and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-25 with Fiction categories.
'A piece of invention as original as any of Tolkien's or C.S. Lewis's' New Statesman 'I have gone to look for a lion.' In a world where lions have become extinct, the map-maker Jachin-Boaz nevertheless abandons his wife and son to find one, leaving just this note. But his decision has unexpected consequences. He will be pursued by his son, Boaz-Jachin, and by something else: a tawny-skinned, amber-eyed beast from another place and time, a bringer of life and death. 'Magic at work ... Funny as well as beautiful' Irish Times 'Hoban is unclassifiable, thank goodness. His narrative is so minutely and compellingly realistic that after a time you cease to notice that he has stood reality on its head' Sunday Times
Kleinzeit
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Author : Russell Hoban
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2002-01-02
Kleinzeit written by Russell Hoban and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-01-02 with Fiction categories.
'Russell Hoban is one of our greatest, timeless novelists' The Times
Riddley Walker Expanded Edition
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Author : Russell Hoban
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 1998-09-22
Riddley Walker Expanded Edition written by Russell Hoban and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-09-22 with Fiction categories.
"A hero with Huck Finn's heart and charm, lighting by El Greco and jokes by Punch and Judy. . . . Riddley Walker is haunting and fiercely imagined and—this matters most—intensely ponderable." —Benjamin DeMott, The New York Times Book Review "This is what literature is meant to be." —Anthony Burgess "Russell Hoban has brought off an extraordinary feat of imagination and style. . . . The conviction and consistency are total. Funny, terrible, haunting and unsettling, this book is a masterpiece." —Anthony Thwaite, Observer "Extraordinary . . . Suffused with melancholy and wonder, beautifully written, Riddley Walker is a novel that people will be reading for a long, long time." —Michael Dirda, Washington Post Book World "Stunning, delicious, designed to prevent the modern reader from becoming stupid." —John Leonard, The New York Times "Highly enjoyable . . . An intriguing plot . . . Ferociously inventive." —Walter Clemons, Newsweek "Astounding . . . Hoban's soaring flight of imagination is that golden rarity, a dazzlingly realized work of genius." —Jane Clapperton, Cosmopolitan "An imaginative intensity that is rare in contemporary fiction.' —Paul Gray, Time Riddley Walker is a brilliant, unique, completely realized work of fiction. One reads it again and again, discovering new wonders every time through. Set in a remote future in a post-nuclear holocaust England (Inland), Hoban has imagined a humanity regressed to an iron-age, semi-literate state—and invented a language to represent it. Riddley is at once the Huck Finn and the Stephen Dedalus of his culture—rebel, change agent, and artist. Read again or for the first time this masterpiece of 20th-century literature with new material by the author.
The Mouse And His Child
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Author : Russell Hoban
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2012-09-20
The Mouse And His Child written by Russell Hoban and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-20 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Funny, thought-provoking and moving, this much loved story is a true classic. 'What are we, Papa?' the toy mouse child asked his father. 'I don't know,' the father answered. 'We must wait and see.' So begins the story of a tin father and son who dance under a Christmas tree until they break the ancient clockwork rules and are themselves broken. Thrown away, then rescued from a dustbin and repaired by a tramp, they set out on a dangerous quest for a family and a place of their own - the magnificent doll's house, the plush elephant and the tin seal they had once know in the toy shop. 'Hugely funny, provocative, pathetic and heroic.' TLS 'Brilliantly plotted . . . a spellbinder . . . it has a style that glows and crackles.' Spectator
Fremder
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Author : Russell Hoban
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2021-04-29
Fremder written by Russell Hoban and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-29 with Fiction categories.
'Recalls Orwell's 1984 and Wells's The Time Machine ... a revelation' Guardian On 4 November 2052, Fremder Gorn is discovered drifting in deep space. He has no spacesuit, no helmet, no oxygen, but he is still alive: the sole survivor from the mysteriously vanished ship Clever Daughter. How did he get here? To find out, Fremder must search through memory, dream and the unknowable fragments of his own mind. 'A wildly imaginative piece of science fiction' The Times 'Unputdownable, moving, ingenious ... it will remain in my head with troubling images and scenes for a long time' A. N. Wilson, Evening Standard
The Bat Tattoo
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Author : Russell Hoban
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2012-06-18
The Bat Tattoo written by Russell Hoban and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-18 with Fiction categories.
Recently widowed and increasingly lonely, Roswell Clark's life had arrived at the point when he felt he needed a tattoo. His ideal image was that of a bat featured on an eighteenth-century bowl in the Victoria and Albert Museum, but strangely, on a visit to the museum, he encountered a woman called Sarah Varley, who was clearly compelled by the same bat. What did it mean? Sarah dealt in antiques and Roswell soon ran into her stalls in Chelsea and Covent Garden. His calling, which grew out of an obsession with crash-test dummies, was a bit harder to explain. It led from the invention of a popular children's toy to lucrative commissions from a Parisian sybarite for wooden working models with very adult moving parts. Both Roswell and Sarah had lost their spouses and were still grieving in their different ways. And then Christ started putting a hand in - literally - when a fragment of an ancient crucifix fetched up in one of Sarah's antique lots. Between some compulsion conveyed by this hand and Sarah's natural urge to make improvements in people, Roswell's work took a surprising new turn... Russell Hoban's delicious new novel combines much about art - traditional and conceptual - with new angles on Christ, crash-test dummies, antiques, pornography and a charming tale of romance.
The Medusa Frequency
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Author : Russell Hoban
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2012-06-18
The Medusa Frequency written by Russell Hoban and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-18 with Fiction categories.
An inexplicable message flashed onto the screen of his Apple II computer at 3 a.m. heralds the beginning of a startling quest for frustrated author Herman Orff. Taking up the offer of a cure for writer's block leads him 'to those places in your head that you can't get to on your own' - and plunges him into a semi-dreamland inhabited by a bizarre combination of characters from myth and reality: the talking head of Orpheus; a lost love; the young girl of Vermeer's famous portrait - and a frequency of Medusas.