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Conventional fiction

 Subject

Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 76 Collections and/or Records:

The Marvels of Professor Pettingruel, 1978

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Identifier: CC-38292-40188
Scope and Contents

Peter Koch illustrated this surrelistic novel with six visual poetic images and Shelly Hoyt made the binding. Nations drew two small boxes next to his signature, one designated yes, the other no; the yes box is checked. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

The Marvels of Professor Pettingruel, 1978

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Identifier: CC-32699-34285
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Peter Koch illustrated this surrelistic novel with six visual poetic images and Shelly Hoyt made the binding. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

The Thing, No. 21: Ben Marcus - Thompson Cream, 2013

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Identifier: CC-58014-10001270
Scope and Contents The Thing Quarterly is a periodical in the form of an object. It's like a magazine, except that each issue is conceived of by a different contributor and then published as a useful object. Internet (The Thing): Ben Marcus is the author of the novels THE FLAME ALPHABET and NOTABLE AMERICAN WOMEN and the story collection, THE AGE OF WIRE AND STRING. His new book, LEAVING THE SEA, will be published by Knopf in January of 2014. His writing has appeared in Harper's, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Granta, The Believer, The New York Times, McSweeney's, Time, Conjunctions, and Tin House. He is the editor of The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories, and the fiction editor of The American Reader. He is the recipient of a Whiting Writers Award, a Creative Capital Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in fiction, a literature award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and three Pushcart Prizes. He is a 2013 Guggenheim Fellow, and 2013 Berlin Prize Fellow at the...
Dates: 2013

The Tunnel, 1995

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Identifier: CC-10643-10852
Scope and Contents This novel deals with self-revelations of an American academic who is trying to write an introduction for a book that he has just completed, "Guilt and Innocence in Hutler's Germany." The book can be opened to almost any page and read as fragments of self-contained poetry. It has many Joycean elements in its presentation.Reviews in Dalkey Archive at their Web site:by H. L. HixWilliam H. Gass's The Tunnel, whatever its virtues, is not an inviting book. Even a reader willing to endure its length and its narrator's unrelenting bitterness must overcome its subordination of plot to other concerns: the book does not proceed from a to b along a "straight line" of narrative or exposition, revealing all relevant information before or as it is needed, but moves in a less ordered (or differently ordered) way that its author conceives as a more accurate replication of human consciousness. Its releasing and withholding information with little regard for plot means that The Tunnel offers more to...
Dates: 1995

The Tunnel, 1995

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Identifier: CC-10644-10853
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This novel deals with self-revelations of an American academic who is trying to write an introduction for a book that he has just completed, "Guilt and Innocence in Hutler's Germany." The book can be opened to almost any page and read as fragments of self-contained poetry. It has many Joycean elements in its presentation. This version of the book has a collaged yellow Jewish star on page 30 with the inscription "JUDE" whereas the purchased version on its release did not. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Things / A Man Asleep, 1990

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Identifier: CC-31441-32931
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The book consists of two novels. Things deals with a young French lower middle class couple in the post-WWII era who are marketing researchers. They want to be acquire possessions but do not have the necessary job skills or work ethnic to become wealthy. A Man Asleep is an existensionlist story about a nameless person that is written entirely in the second voice. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Thoughts of Sorts, 2009

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Identifier: CC-59712-10002770
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Amazon.com: Thoughts of Sorts, one of Georges Perec's final works, was published posthumously in France in 1985. With this translation, David Bellos, Perec's preeminent translator, has completed the Godine list of Perec's great works translated into English and has provided an introduction to this master of systematic versatility. Thoughts of Sorts; is a compilation of musings and essays attempting to circumscribe, in Perec's words, my experience of the world not in terms of the reflections it casts in distant places, but at its actual point of breaking surface. Perec investigates the ways by which we define our place in the world, reveling in list-making, orientating, classifying. This book employs all of the modes of questioning explored by his previous books, and, as the same time breaks new ground of its own, ending with a question mark in typical/atypical Perec fashion. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2009

Turvey: A Picaresque Novel, 1958

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Identifier: CC-21485-21896
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This is a comic novel on Canadian military forces on WWII. It is the first British and American edition of the book first published in Canada in 1949. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1958

Urnas / Metal, 1960

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Identifier: CC-44484-46634
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This may be Katz's first book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1960

Voyages, 1978

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Identifier: CC-15036-15353
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This is a collage novel dealing with the travels of Sweeny Todd alias Bertolli. The consist of copperplate engravings collages mostly taken from issues of the Illustrated London News 1860-1900. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Woman / Wiz, Boom Boom., 1994

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Identifier: CC-28320-29498
Scope and Contents

The pages iIlustrate on facing pages, in cartoon style, well known metaphors about "woman and heart," e.g., Woman who held her heart prisoner, Woman whose heart had a mind of its own, etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Your Fortune / Wiz, Boom Boom., 1994

 Item — Box 621: [Barcode: 31858072461084]
Identifier: CC-28321-29499
Scope and Contents

The pages iIlustrate on facing pages, in cartoon style, well known advice given in astrology charts and fortune cookies; the texts are presented in a concrete poetic style, e.g., Today everything will seem LARGER than life, WARNING: There is a long road ahead of you, travel lightly. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994