Vatican. The small but scrappy principality of Liechtenstein. And of course, the incredible, electric, bizarre and wildly erotic imagination of Terry Southern -- make up a hip and hilarious spoof of Hollywood at its finest, funniest and filthiest. (257239-47.95)
D BUFFALO GALS AND OTHER ANIMAL PRESENCES by Ursula K. LeGuin.
A collection of stories and poems from the National Book Award-Winning Author. "An imaginative transformation of the world sometimes called magical realism, science fiction, or fantasy." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review
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D INVISIBLE MENDING by Frederick Busch. Zimmer's wife Lil says their love is dead. He says ifs just tired. Divorcing, he feels as if his whole love life is passing before him -- and part of it really is, in the still-sexy form of old flame Rhona Glinsky. Caught between these two women Zimmer proves that opposites still attract, by falling in love again -- with both of them. (256798 -- $6.95)
D AT SWIM-TWO BIRDS by Flann O'Brien. "A fantastic, parodistic stew of drunken banter, journalese, pulp fiction, and Celtic myth. Like Beckett, O'Brien ... has the gift of the perfect sentence, the art, which they both learned from Joyce, of turning plain language to a lyric pitch." -- John Updike
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D 0, HOW THE WHEEL BECOMES IT! by Anthony Powell. In this new novel Powell introduces the aging G.FH. Shadbold, a minor man of letters majoring in media exposure. But his self-satisfied glow is suddenly overshadowed by reappearances from his past, and with a turn of fortune's wheel, his scheming is about to bring him, quite hilariously, low. (257565 -- $5.95)*
D THE GRASS IS SINGING by Doris Lessing. Both a riveting chronicle of human disintegration and a beautifully understated social critique where the heroine, Mary Turner, deteriorates from a self-confident, independent young woman into the depressed, frustrated wife of an ineffectual farmer. "Passion, piercing accuracy." -- The New York Times (261198 -- $9.95)
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Ursula K. Le Guin does hear the animals' voices, and as she shows us in this luminous collection of one novella, ten stories and eighteen poems, they are magical, fascinating, and terrifying. In the novella of the title, Buffalo Gals, a child survives a plane crash and enters the Dream Time of primitive myths, where the coyote knows secrets about that world-and this one. In other stories we journey further into unknown realms, like the deep space planet where only fear dwells, or the unfamiliar worlds of wolves, rats, and horses whose realities make us question our own.
Ursula K. Le Guin is pne of America's best storytellers, and here accompanied by the author's candid and intriguing commentary, we are treated to the finest examples of her art.
"Her elegant wild eye shameless, funny and intelligent...this book is a bundle of unrefined delights." -GarySnyder
"A vivid expression of Le Guin's mind and personality... her fans will admire this new book."
-Mythpnnt
