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Missing Persons, Animals, and Artists
ISBN: PB: 9780997228717, University of Chicago Press, Swan Isle Press, February 2018
180 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
Elegant prose and imaginative ironies bring these compelling short stories to life in this first English-language collection from Mexican author Roberto Ransom. Each of the ten stories is filled with fascinating, yet enigmatic and sometimes elusive c...
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£15,00
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Seal Named Patches
ISBN: HB: 9781602233317, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2017
40 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 39 colour plates
Scientists Roxanne Beltran and Patrick Robinson set off on a polar adventure, traveling to Antarctica to study the lives of Weddell seals. By finding Patches, a wily seal they've been tracking since its birth, they'll be able to learn a lot about ho...
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£12,00
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Safe House A Novel
ISBN: HB: 9780226449197, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
240 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 10 halftones
In Paris's exclusive Saint-Germain neighborhood is a mansion. In that mansion lives a family. Deep in that mansion. The Bolts are that family, and they have secrets".The Safe House" tells their story. When the Nazis came, Etienne Boltanski divorce...
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£18,00
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All Passion Spent
ISBN: HB: 9789385932199, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, August 2017
168 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
In the mid-nineties, Birjees Dawar Ali returns to Pakistan to seek out a history left unfinished long ago; one from which, nursing heartbreak and betrayal, she had previously fled home to partitioned India. Will she find the family that so generously...
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India and Beyond The Selected Writings of Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay
ISBN: HB: 9789384757830, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, August 2017
350 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 12 halftones
Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay was a remarkable woman – a gifted writer and an activist central to the making of the modern Indian nation. India's representative to the Global South for many years after independence, Kamaladevi figured prominently in discu...
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River Runs through It and Other Stories
ISBN: PB: 9780226472065, ISBN: HB: 9780226475592, University of Chicago Press, May 2017
240 pp., 21.6x14 cm
When Norman Maclean sent the manuscript of "A River Runs through It and Other Stories" to New York publishers, he received a slew of rejections. One editor, so the story goes, replied, "it has trees in it". Forty years later, the title novella is rec...
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£11,50
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Young Men and Fire Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition
ISBN: PB: 9780226450353, ISBN: HB: 9780226475455, University of Chicago Press, May 2017
352 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 12 halftones, 6 line drawings
A devastating and lyrical work of nonfiction, "Young Men and Fire" describes the events of August 5, 1949, when a crew of fifteen of the US Forest Service's elite airborne firefighters, the Smokejumpers, stepped into the sky above a remote forest fir...
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£13,50
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"Catarina the Wise" and Other Wondrous Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales
ISBN: PB: 9780226462790, University of Chicago Press, May 2017
304 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 10 halftones
Well, gentlemen, here's a tale that people have told time and again... So begins the title story in this collection of fifty Sicilian folk and fairy tales edited and translated by noted folklore scholar Jack Zipes. But while some of the stories may...
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Echo of Ice Letting Go
ISBN: PB: 9781602233119, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2017
112 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
Rooted in the harsh, yet beautiful landscape of Alaska, this collection of poems is at once comforting and disquieting, permeated with wisdom, darkness, and resilience. Taken together, the poems form a powerful narrative, as Julie Hungiville LeMay re...
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Human Being Songs Northern Stories
ISBN: PB: 9781602233133, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2017
136 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing
The public image of Alaska for those who live elsewhere tends to be bound up with the outdoors. But while that's not necessarily false, it's a far from complete picture. This collection of stories shows us what we're missing: set in Alaska's cities a...
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£12,00
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