Author: Galway Kinnell
Publisher: Mariner Book
Keywords: mortal, words, past, acts, three, rags, books
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2002-04-17
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0618219110
ISBN-13: 9780618219117
This volume brings together BODY RAGS and MORTAL ACTS, MORTAL WORDS and THE PAST, three books that are central to the life"s work of one of the masters of contemporary poetry. Included here are many of Galway Kinnell"s best-loved and most anthologized poems. Kinnell has revised some of the poems for this new edition, and comments on his working method in a prefatory note.
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Publisher: Sony Pictures
Keywords: thoughts, mortal
Published:
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 0767815122
ISBN-13: 9780767815123
Best friends do something about one’s bad husband.
Author: Javier Marías
Publisher: New Directions
Keywords: mortal
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2009-04-14
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0811215164
ISBN-13: 9780811215169
A dozen stories by Javier Marías —"the most subtle and gifted writer in contemporary Spanish literature" (Boston Sunday Globe). Victims of mistaken identity, sponging relatives, amateur sleuths, eavesdroppers, professional liars, assassins, and failed bodyguards populate the short stories in When I Was Mortal. Plots turn on curious exigencies—a woman about to star in her first porn film; a night doctor who adds new meaning to "specialist"; a ghost whose neglect is greatly resented. "In the space of ten or twenty pages," as the Nouvel Observateur remarked, "Marías contrives to write a
Author: Stanislaw Lem
Publisher: Mariner Books
Keywords: engines, mortal
Number of Pages: 239
Published: 1992-05-15
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0156621614
ISBN-13: 9780156621618
These fourteen science fiction stories reveal Lem’s fascination with artificial intelligence and demonstrate just how surprisingly human sentient machines can be. “Astonishing is not too strong a word for these tales” (Wall Street Journal). Translated and with an Introduction by Michael Kandel.
Author: Aldous Huxley
Publisher: Wildside Press
Keywords: coils, mortal
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2004-01-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0809592312
ISBN-13: 9780809592319
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), the world-famous author of BRAVE NEW WORLD, was one of the great literary visionaries of the 20th century. The grandson of Thomas H, Huxley (Darwin’s famous defender), he was born in England and educated at Eton and Oxford. He traveled widely in his youth and lived in Italy for a while in the 1920s. He began his literary career with poetry and critical essays, then turned to novels. Having been born just too late to participate in World War I, he was able, in his early works, such as CROME YELLOW (1921), ANTIC HAY (1923), THOSE BARREN LEAVES (1925), and POINT C
Author: Robin Cook
Publisher: Berkley
Keywords: mortal
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 1989-02-01
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0425113884
ISBN-13: 9780425113882
"A chilling odyssey into the origins of life-and death." (USA Weekend)
Author: Phyllis Bottome
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Keywords: storm, mortal
Number of Pages: 357
Published: 1998-09-02
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0810114712
ISBN-13: 9780810114715
