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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Good Books In The Woods.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2002. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0375411429 . First American Edition. Translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein. "...Baricco's wildly inventive story, set in the United States, describes the improbable relationship between two untethered souls: Gould, a thirteen-year old genius, and Shatzy Shell, his thritysomething governess...City's quicksilver prose flows unpredictably between the whimsy of childhood conjuring and the serpentine realm of metaphysics, cunningly reminding us how the imaginings of children can harbor the stuff of tragedy, while the grandest ideas of adults are often strictly for kids..." Ships same or next business day. Spine and top corners are lightly bumped. Dust jacket has very light shelf and edge wear. Book and dust jacket are in like new condition. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 326 pages .

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contemporary,education and reference,fiction,foreign language fiction,literary,literature and fiction,world literature, Ocean Sea, In Alessandro Baricco's celebrated debut, it was silk that exerted a fatal attraction. This time it's the ocean, whose watery charms cause an entire cast of characters to convene at the isolated Almayer Inn. The guests include a seductress, an eccentric professor, and a painter with a pronounced penchant for metaphysics. They're soon joined by the beautiful young daughter of a local aristocrat, who's been stricken with a mysterious illness. In a sense, however, all these characters are suffering from maladies--psychological, existential, erotic--which makes the Almayer Inn a kind of Magic Mountain with beachfront footage. The author is a renowned opera critic in his native Italy. Perhaps this accounts for his love of linguistic arias, which can overpower the plot of Ocean Sea. When Baricco gets rolling, of course, his intricately worked prose is a delight. Even the inn itself, situated alone on a promontory, gets the red carpet treatment: "So alone it was there, it seemed a thing forgotten. It was almost as if a procession of inns, of every kind and vintage, had passed by there one day, skirting the coast, when, out of tiredness, one had detached itself from the rest, and, as its travelling companions filed past, it decided to stop on that slight rise, yielding to its own weakness, bowing its head and waiting for the end." At his best, Baricco recalls Italo Calvino--there's the same pleasure in elegant riddles and rococo storytelling. Here and there the narrative O.

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From the author of the international bestseller "Silk" ("A riveting, lyrical love story" --Alan Cheuse, NPR) and the acclaimed" Ocean Sea" ("Astonishing . . . vividly erotic"--Richard Eder, "Los Angeles Times") comes an entirely new species of fiction: a panoramic Cartesian comic book of a novel--with superheroes, boxers, cowboys, and one bed-wetting prodigy expected to win the Nobel Prize. Baricco's wildly inventive story, set in the United States, describes the improbable relationship between two untethered souls: Gould, a thirteen-year-old genius, and Shatzy Shell, his thirtysomething governess. Except for each other, they abide beyond human connection, each in a private world of serial imagination: in Shatzy's case, the violent Wild West show she has been improvising into a tape recorder since the age of six; in Gould's, the mock-heroic tale of an underdog boxer, which the boy tells to his imaginary friends, a giant and a mute. With the narrative logic of a comic strip, "City's" quicksilver prose flows unpredictably between the whimsy of childhood conjuring and the serpentine realm of metaphysics, cunningly reminding us how the imaginings of children can harbor the stuff of tragedy, while the grandest ideas of adults are often strictly for kids. By turns hilarious and deeply sad, "City" is an American original, penned by a brilliant Italian.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, chimerabooksandmusic.
From the author of the international bestseller Silk (“A riveting, lyrical love story” —Alan Cheuse, NPR) and the acclaimed Ocean Sea (“Astonishing . . . vividly erotic”—Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times) comes an entirely new species of fiction: a panoramic Cartesian comic book of a novel—with superheroes, boxers, cowboys, and one bed-wetting prodigy expected to win the Nobel Prize. Baricco’s wildly inventive story, set in the United States, describes the improbable relationship between two untethered souls: Gould, a thirteen-year-old genius, and Shatzy Shell, his thirtysomething governess. Except for each other, they abide beyond human connection, each in a private world of serial imagination: in Shatzy’s case, the violent Wild West show she has been improvising into a tape recorder since the age of six; in Gould’s, the mock-heroic tale of an underdog boxer, which the boy tells to his imaginary friends, a giant and a mute. With the narrative logic of a comic strip, City’s quicksilver prose flows unpredictably between the whimsy of childhood conjuring and the serpentine realm of metaphysics, cunningly reminding us how the imaginings of children can harbor the stuff of tragedy, while the grandest ideas of adults are often strictly for kids. By turns hilarious and deeply sad, City is an American original, penned by a brilliant Italian. Hardcover, Ausgabe: 1 Amer ed, Format: Poster Calendar, Label: Knopf, Knopf, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 2002-06-04, Freigegeben: 2002-06-04, Studio: Knopf, Verkaufsrang: 2768639.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, BookOutlet USA.
From the author of the international bestseller Silk (“A riveting, lyrical love story” —Alan Cheuse, NPR) and the acclaimed Ocean Sea (“Astonishing . . . vividly erotic”—Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times) comes an entirely new species of fiction: a panoramic Cartesian comic book of a novel—with superheroes, boxers, cowboys, and one bed-wetting prodigy expected to win the Nobel Prize. Baricco’s wildly inventive story, set in the United States, describes the improbable relationship between two untethered souls: Gould, a thirteen-year-old genius, and Shatzy Shell, his thirtysomething governess. Except for each other, they abide beyond human connection, each in a private world of serial imagination: in Shatzy’s case, the violent Wild West show she has been improvising into a tape recorder since the age of six; in Gould’s, the mock-heroic tale of an underdog boxer, which the boy tells to his imaginary friends, a giant and a mute. With the narrative logic of a comic strip, City’s quicksilver prose flows unpredictably between the whimsy of childhood conjuring and the serpentine realm of metaphysics, cunningly reminding us how the imaginings of children can harbor the stuff of tragedy, while the grandest ideas of adults are often strictly for kids. By turns hilarious and deeply sad, City is an American original, penned by a brilliant Italian. Hardcover, Ausgabe: 1 Amer ed, Format: Poster Calendar, Label: Knopf, Knopf, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 2002-06-04, Freigegeben: 2002-06-04, Studio: Knopf, Verkaufsrang: 2768639.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Motor_City_Books.
From the author of the international bestseller Silk (“A riveting, lyrical love story” —Alan Cheuse, NPR) and the acclaimed Ocean Sea (“Astonishing . . . vividly erotic”—Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times) comes an entirely new species of fiction: a panoramic Cartesian comic book of a novel—with superheroes, boxers, cowboys, and one bed-wetting prodigy expected to win the Nobel Prize. Baricco’s wildly inventive story, set in the United States, describes the improbable relationship between two untethered souls: Gould, a thirteen-year-old genius, and Shatzy Shell, his thirtysomething governess. Except for each other, they abide beyond human connection, each in a private world of serial imagination: in Shatzy’s case, the violent Wild West show she has been improvising into a tape recorder since the age of six; in Gould’s, the mock-heroic tale of an underdog boxer, which the boy tells to his imaginary friends, a giant and a mute. With the narrative logic of a comic strip, City’s quicksilver prose flows unpredictably between the whimsy of childhood conjuring and the serpentine realm of metaphysics, cunningly reminding us how the imaginings of children can harbor the stuff of tragedy, while the grandest ideas of adults are often strictly for kids. By turns hilarious and deeply sad, City is an American original, penned by a brilliant Italian. Hardcover, Ausgabe: 1 Amer ed, Format: Poster Calendar, Label: Knopf, Knopf, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 2002-06-04, Freigegeben: 2002-06-04, Studio: Knopf, Verkaufsrang: 2768639.

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Ocean-Sea~~Alessandro-Baricco, Ocean Sea, Hardcover.

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City~~Alessandro-Baricco, City.