9780807114803 - Of Memory and Desire: Stories di Swan, Gladys (11 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Hardcover with dust jacket. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show minor shelving wear. Binding is tight, hinges strong. Dust jacket shows edge wear. Ex-library with usual markings.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. Hb. As New/As New. Still in shrinkwrap.

Hard Cover. First Edition, First printing. FINE IN FINE DJ.

Cloth. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good +. First Edition.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First Edition. Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S.A.: Louisiana State Univ Pr, 1989. First Edition.166pp Fine in like jacket. clph.

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Like New. First Edition. Publisher: LSU Press, Baton Rouge, 1989.First Edition, First Printing. FINE hardcover book in FINE dust-jacket. As new. Unread. Not remainder marked. Not price-clipped. Not a book club edition. Not an ex-library copy. All of our books with dust-jackets are shipped in fresh, archival-safe mylar protective sleeves.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDVery good in very good little chipped creased dust jacket. First edition *.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Kris Hotvedt, dj art (illustratore). 1st Edition. Signed by Author(s). The dust jacket has fading to the spine panel and is unclipped ($16.95). 5 4 3 2 1 number line. Signed by the author on the title page.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good+. First Edition. INSCRIBED by author on half-title page, "For Rolland Comstock. Re 'voluntary reader' every writer remembers and desires. Warm regards, Gladys Swan 12/7/89." Publisher's letter and author's card laid in. "These eleven compelling stories reveal the interplay and varying hues of two basic elements of human experience - memory and desire." Ships same or next business day. Bookplate of noted collector, Rolland Comstock, on front paste-down endpaper. Spine is slightly tilted, minor edge wear, small bumps on spine ends; overall, pages are clean and tight. Dust jacket protected in archival plastic cover. DJ has minor edge wear, lightly faded on spine, creases on front flap. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 166 pages; Signed by Author.

Condizione: New. These eleven compelling stories reveal the interplay and varying hues of two basic elements of human experience - memory and desire. Gladys Swan s characters are frequently forced to shed their illusions as they struggle to shape their lives.Klappen.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - These eleven compelling stories reveal the interplay and varying hues of two basic elements of human experience - memory and desire, Gladys Swan's characters are frequently forced to shed their illusions as they struggle to shape their lives.The title story, like many of the others in the collection, has as its backdrop the beautiful but sometimes harsh landscape of the American Southwest. There a reclusive farmer known as Goat Man takes in a young Mexican boy as his companion. When the greed of a tax collector and the complicity of a community destroy Goat Man, the boy vanishes into the night but returns in the form of a legend, a reminder to the residents of the valley of their changing, crueler world. In another story a traveling carnival breaks down when a sandstorm does final damage to the dreams of the company, and a tired, almost defeated woman attempts to regroup and continue what has been so hopefully called ''Carnival for the Gods.'' An older couple, carrying their Jewish past to a ''Land of Promise.'' Discovers instead an alien territory and must struggle from day to day, one leaning to the past, the other inclining toward an unattainable vision of the future.In ''The Ink Feather'' a small, lonely girl, witness to endless quarrels between her mother and her much older brother, draws comfort from the world of her dolls and the prospect of adventure outside the mist-covered windows of her house. In ''Getting an Education'' a diffident young woman, ''trying to be a student and to discover what she ought to be learning,'' finds insight in the details of the lives around her, especially the secretive, eccentric existence of one of her professors. A widowed grandmother, in ''Black Hole,'' is impregnated during a chance encounter with a nameless stranger and shocks her family when she determines to give birth to and raise her child.Like that grandmother, all of the characters in these fictions - whether from the comfortable middle class or the fringes of society - are at odds with themselves and their world. It is Gladys Swan's special gift that she can so seamlessly depict the particular terrors and wonders of their lives. This is a mesmerising collection.