New Directions
Author
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Amanda, a faded southern belle, abandoned wife, and dominating mother, hopes to match her daughter Laura with an eligible "gentleman caller" while her son Tom supports the family. Laura, lame and painfully shy, evades her mother's schemes and reality by retreating to the make-believe world of her glass animal collection. Tom eventually leaves home to become a writer but is forever haunted by the memory of Laura.
Author
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
In Primary Wonder, she writes: "And then / once more the quiet mystery / is present to me, the throng's clamor / recedes: the mystery / that there is anything, anything at all, / let alone cosmos, joy, memory, everything, / rather than void: and that O Lord, / Creator, Hallowed One, You still, / hour by hour sustain it."
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume 1595
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The book against death" is a collection of Elias Canetti's writings on death. He alternates between despair and fury, examining the inevitability and universality of death for all living beings, while also condemning the deaths caused by war and despotism, which he believed was the result of wielding death as a form of power.
Author
Series
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Pigeons on the Grass is told over a single day in Munich in 1948. The first new cinemas and insurance offices are opening atop the ruins, Korea and Persia are keeping the world in panic, planes rumble in the sky (but no one looks up), newspaper headlines announce war over oil and atomic bomb tests. Odysseus Cotton, a black man, alights at the station and hires a porter; Emilia sells the last of her jewelry; Philipp gives himself up to despair; with...
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