Deep vellum publishing sep 2026 (5 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A "cool, humorous, and affectionate" book of vignettes about a practice that is universal and universally taboo: masturbation.In sixty-one vignettes, Harry Mathews records the imaginative varieties of this solitary activity in prose that is playful, intimate, and humane. The soloists range in age from nine to eighty; the locales from Australia to Zaire; the means from the commonplace to the bizarre. There is the young man in Gaza with his hair dryers, the woman in Manila with her cello bow, the long-eared bat, the charioteer, the candelabra."There is nothing pornographic, in the strict sense, about Mathews' text, since it does not seek to arouse the reader," wrote John Ash for?Artforum.?"His intention is to leave us deeply impressed by the ingenuity, tenacity, and inventiveness with which humans in all places and at all ages have pursued their own pleasure. He succeeds completely." The text is illustrated throughout with watercolors by Francesco Clemente that offer an intriguing counterpoint to Mathews's fictions. Clemente, Francesco (illustratore). …

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A first-of-its-kind history of Dallas told through the city's most significant buildings.With an exceptional blend of architectural history, social history, and critical writing,?Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Mark Lamster takes readers to the sun-scorched origins of Dallas as a remote outpost on the Texas frontier, then traces the city's development into the dynamic, if imperfect, metropolis we know today.?Welcome to Paradox City?is an illuminating, illustrated look at the often-invisible ways that architecture shapes a city and its culture from its founding, to the present, and onward into the future.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The Miraculous True History of Nomi Aliis a lyrical, gripping homage to those omitted from the collective memory.Nomi and Zee are Local Bornstheir father a convict condemned by the British to the Andaman Islands, their mother shipped off with him. When war descends upon this overlooked outpost of Empire, the British are forced out and the Japanese move in. The islandsand the seas surrounding thembecome a battlefield, resulting in tragedy for some and a brittle kind of freedom for others, who find themselves increasingly entangled in a mesh of alliances and betrayals.Ambitiously imagined and hauntingly alive,?Uzma Aslam Khanwrites into being the interwoven stories of people caught in the vortex ofcolonial collision, powerless save for their own braveryandempathy.The Miraculous True History of Nomi Ali?is an epic telling of alargely forgottenchapterin history.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A pioneering work of autofiction, Ralph Cusack's Cadenza tackles time and memory, life and death 'with an Anglo-Irish arrogance worthy of Beckett.' (Gilbert Sorrentino)'It's just like this: I don't want to go home and I can't stand Dublin nor any place between the two of them either or at all.'After a harrowing trip to the dentist, Desmond, the narrator of Ralph Cusack's Cadenza, boards a train, locks himself in cabin 304D, and decides to take up residence indefinitely. Between room service sandwiches and whiskey, he sifts through his faulty memories of childhood, family, friends, and past lovers.Cusack's fleet-footed prose carries us lightly from one vignette to the next, from gorgeous descriptions of Irish landscapes to hilarious character sketches and erotic incidents worthy of a screwball comedy. Interwoven temporalities fight for our attention in the second-ever title to be published by Dalkey Archive Press, written--as Gilbert Sorrentino says--'with an Anglo-Irish arrogance worthy of Beckett.' Dismissed as an autobiography when first published, Cadenza is a pioneering work of Irish autofiction. Toeing the line between what is real and imagined, memories and wish-fulfillments, Cusack's stream of consciousness prose begs to be followed to the very last page.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'I shall begin well before the beginning. And end after the end. That is how it should be. And most of it will be lies, fabrications, inexactitudes, approximations, near misses, botched hits.'Ralph Cusack published only one novel in his lifetime: Cadenza, a meandering, autofictional journey through one man's memory often compared to the work of Joyce and Beckett. A Hyphenated Childhood, Cusack's previously unpublished and unfinished memoir, paints a rich portrait of the young life that influenced that novel. In charismatic, evocative prose, Cusack imagines the plight of his mother's pregnancy, unfolds dreamlike descriptions of the foggy hills of the countryside where he grew up, reflects upon the aftermath of the fight for Irish independence, and recalls summiting Mount Vesuvius on a family trip to Italy.Though unfinished--hyphenated--this portrait of an early twentieth-century Irish childhood stands as a remarkable tribute to the talent of one of the first writers to ever be published by Dalkey Archive Press.…