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1.		Swann's Way: In Search of Lost Time, Vol. 1 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) from Penguin Classics Price: $10.40 Customer Review: This new translation of Marcel Proust's French masterpiece makes it an English masterpiece. While all complain of Proust's long sentences and paragraphs, I didn't find them a problem, as I did when I read Henry James late novels (e.g. "The Golden Bowl"). I first read de Botton's "How Proust Can... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


2.		Swann's Way from Viking Adult Customer Review: Swann's Way is the ax that chops into your frozen sea by plunging and penetrating deep into your soul. Proust's mellifluous prose flows into you and you flow into it and the outcome is a intimate connection with the characters in the book, the narrator, and the author. It is nothing short of a... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


3.		The End of the Story: A Novel from Picador Price: $10.20 Customer Review: This is an astonishing novel. I have more or less given up writing reviews for Amazon, because (as Nicholson Baker points out) they don't seem to add to anything or create any kind of community, they just sink into the general accumulation of texts. (He was comparing Amazon with Wikipedia, where... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


4.		Almost No Memory: Stories from Picador Price: $10.40 Customer Review: After having stumbled upon Lydia Davis three years ago, I read every one of her books, and fell quite in love with them. I proceed, as though I am reading a list. Every detail is a full bite. There are no flowers; it is not sentimental. Her prose is simple and clear. When I am finished, there is... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


5.		Samuel Johnson Is Indignant: Stories from Picador Price: $11.20 Customer Review: Begin with the not completely irrelevant observation that I plunked down $17 to buy my copy of this book, having been seduced at least in part by McSweeney's hype. Seventeen dollars. Next, observe that here are some of the book's contents: (Note that each page is quoted in its entirety.)*more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


6.		Varieties of Disturbance: Stories from Farrar, Straus and Giroux Price: $10.40 Customer Review: Those with a particular fondness for linguistics will find themselves quite taken with this collection, but unfortunately I am not one of them. These stories read like Dr Seuss for the adult reader, minus character development, and sometimes nary a character at all. The concepts behind this... more info	Customer Rating: 2.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


7.		Death Sentence from Barrytown Limited Price: $13.45 Customer Review: I've been a fan of Maurice Blanchot for years, and this novel is probably his masterpiece. I've read it now three times, and I'm looking forward to my fourth reading. It's that kind of book. You can't read it too often. It's relatively short, but extremely intense. When I finished reading the last... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


8.		Break It Down: Stories from Farrar, Straus and Giroux Price: $11.05 Customer Review: Break it down by Lydia Davis is a great book of short stories. I appreciate her bare bones approach to each story. She has little staging and dialogue. The way she introduces many of her characters is through interior thoughts using the character, or an authorial voice as she looks from the outside... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


9.		The Rules of the Game: Scraps (Leiris, Michel, Regle Du Jeu. 2.) from The Johns Hopkins University Press	Click here for more information


10.		The Life of Henry Brulard (New York Review Books Classics) from NYRB Classics Price: $11.66 Customer Review: I didn't look forward to trying this book---memoirs of childhood seldom do much for me---but there being so little Stendhal out there in translation, I couldn't overlook it. Well, long book tho it is, H.B. is very readable and a lot of fun for those who love Stendhal's style and persona. Chatty,... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


11.		The Rules of the Game: Scratches (Leiris, Michel, Regle Du Jeu. 1.) from The Johns Hopkins University Press	Click here for more information


12.		Break It Down (High Risk Books) from Serpent's Tail Customer Review: but one of Dave Eggers' books referred me to her. And if Dave Eggers commented on her as "terrifyingly good" then I suspose she's pretty damn good. I will comment again after I've read the book.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


13.		Hecate: The Adventure of Catherine Crachat: I (Adventure of Catherine Crachat/Pierre Jean Jouve, 1) from Marlboro Press Price: $30.00	Click here for more information


14.		Vagadu: The Adventure of Catherine Crachat: II (Adventure of Catherine Crachat/Pierre Jean Jouve, 2) from Marlboro Press Price: $30.00	Click here for more information


15.		The Spirit of Mediterranean Places (Marlboro Travel) from Marlboro Press Price: $13.95	Click here for more information


16.		The RENDEZVOUS Customer Review: ...The author does an wonderful job of making the protagonist sympathetic without vilefying the mother. My heart went out to the girl as she sat and waited for her mother, knowing, on some level, that she wasn't going to arrive. The use of flashbacks to tell the story of the girl's childhood neglect... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


17.		Proust, Blanchot and a Woman in Red (Cahier Series) from Sylph Editions	Click here for more information


18.		A Convergence of Birds: Original Fiction and Poetry Inspired by Joseph Cornell - Limited Edition from D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc. Price: $425.00 Customer Review: I too am a big fan of Joseph Cornell, and this sort of new book, A Convergence of Birds, is one that I was eager to read. The first short story, Emory Bear Hands' Birds, by Barry Lopez is powerful and worthy of being placed in this anthology. But the rest of the collection, pa-tooey. Even the Joyce... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


19.		The Station Hill Blanchot Reader from Barrytown Limited Price: $22.76	Click here for more information


20.		Transition Mathematics Teacher's Edition Part 1 Chapters 1-6 from Scott Foresman	Click here for more information

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