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Xue Can, Wasmoen Annelise Finegan, Myles Eileen

ISBN: HB: 9780300224313, Yale University Press, January 2019
288 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 1 black&white illus.

In this darkly comic novel, a group of women inhabits a world of constant surveillance, where informants lurk in the flowerbeds and false reports fly. Conspiracies abound in a community that normalizes paranoia and suspicion. Some try to flee – wheth...

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Culture Studies

Social Life of Books Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home

Williams Abigail

ISBN: PB: 9780300240252, ISBN: HB: 9780300208290, Yale University Press, January 2019
360 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 57 black&white illus.

A vivid exploration of the evolution of reading as an essential social and domestic activity during the eighteenth century. Two centuries before the advent of radio, television, and motion pictures, books were a cherished form of popular entertainme...

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Guermantes Way In Search of Lost Time, Volume 3

Proust Marcel, Carter William C.

ISBN: PB: 9780300186192, Yale University Press, November 2018
680 pp., 23.5x19 cm, 3 black&white illus.

Marcel Proust's monumental seven-part novel "In Search of Lost Time" is considered by many to be the greatest novel of the twentieth century. This edition of volume three, "The Guermantes Way", is edited and annotated by noted Proust scholar William...

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Beowulf

Mitchell Stephen

ISBN: PB: 9780300236668, Yale University Press, October 2018
264 pp., 21x14 cm, 2 black&white illus.

<p>"Beowulf" tells the story of a Scandinavian hero who defeats three evil creatures – a huge, cannibalistic ogre named Grendel, Grendel's monstrous mother, and a dragon – and then dies, mortally wounded during his last enco...

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On My Aunt's Shallow Grave White Roses Have Already Bloomed

Mitsora Maria, Moe Jacob

ISBN: PB: 9780300215762, Yale University Press, September 2018
200 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

This collection assembles sixteen of Maria Mitsora's short stories in what adds up to be a retrospective of the author's work, spanning forty years. Moving across the urban netherworld of Athens to imagined Latin American towns and science-fiction dy...

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Women Studies

Devotion

Smith Patti

ISBN: PB: 9780300240221, ISBN: HB: 9780300218626, Yale University Press, September 2018
112 pp., 17.8x12.1 cm, 11 black&white illus.

A work of creative brilliance may seem like magic – its source a mystery, its impact unexpectedly stirring. How does an artist accomplish such an achievement, connecting deeply with an audience never met? In this groundbreaking book, one of our cultu...

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Desirable Body

Haddad Hubert, Waters Alyson

ISBN: PB: 9780300224368, Yale University Press, August 2018
232 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

A contemporary "Frankenstein" that defies expectations, this is a thrilling novel, couched in luminous, captivating prose about a journalist, Cedric Allyn-Weberson, who suffers a horrific accident, paralyzing him from the neck down. An ideal candidat...

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Mesopotamia

Zhadan Serhiy, Costigan-Humes Reilly, Phipps Wanda, Tkacz Virlana, Stackhouse Wheeler Isaac

ISBN: PB: 9780300223354, Yale University Press, July 2018
328 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

This captivating book is Serhiy Zhadan's ode to Kharkiv, the traditionally Russian-speaking city in Eastern Ukraine where he makes his home. A leader among Ukrainian post-independence authors, Zhadan employs both prose and poetry to address the disil...

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"Detecting" Patrick Modiano Yale French Studies, Number 133

Golsan Richard J., Higgins Lynn

ISBN: PB: 9780300228892, Yale University Press, June 2018
144 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

This volume of "Yale French Studies" offers new perspectives on the work of the 2014 Nobel laureate in literature, Patrick Modiano. Including critical reassessments of themes that have informed, indeed haunted, Modiano's fiction from the outset, this...

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Name Me a Word Indian Writers Reflect on Writing

Alexander Meena

ISBN: PB: 9780300222586, Yale University Press, June 2018
440 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

A major reexamination of the father of the Hudson River School in relation to his European roots and travels Thomas Cole (1801-1848), arguably the greatest American landscape artist of his generation, is presented here in a new light: as an internati...

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