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STRANGER SHORES. Literary Essays. 1986-1999.
New York: Viking Penguin, (2001). First U. S. edition. Hardcover. This volume gathers together for the first time in book form twenty-six pieces on books and writing. His subjects range from great eighteenth, and nineteenth century writers Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, and Ivan Turgenev to the the great German modernists..... More
LANDSCAPE WITH ROWERS. Poetry From The Netherlands
Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, (2004). First edition. Hardcover. Though the Netherlands has been the site of vigorous literary activity since at least the Beweging van Vijftig (Movement of the Fifties) poets, the status of Dutch as a "minor" language spoken by only fifteen million people has kept its..... More
LIFE & TIMES OF MICHAEL K
New York: Viking Press, 1983. First American edition. Hardcover. In a South Africa torn by civil war, Michael K sets out to take his mother back to her rural home. On the way there she dies, leaving him alone in an anarchic world of brutal roving armies. Imprisoned, Michael is..... More
WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS. A Novel.
New York: Penguin, 1982. First edition thus. Paperback. An advance reading copy of a Penguin Paperback Original. Published in the U.S. for the first time. First published in 1980, it was chosen by Penguin for its series Great Books of the 20th Century and won both the James Tait Black..... More