Italo Calvino 1990 160p 5 x 8 Composed of five strikingly elegant ‘memory exercises’ about his life and work. With visionary passion, the author traces pieces of his childhood and adolescence, his experiences during WWII, and more. $4-10 Other works involving italo calvino, memoirs, fiction
B. Traven 1936 260p 5 x 8 The fifth of Traven’s six Jungle Novels which together form an epic of the birth of the Mexican Revolution. Set in the slave-labor mahogany plantations of tropical Mexico in 1910, at the time of the uprising against the rule of Porfirio Díaz … Continue reading The Rebellion of the Hanged
Jean Genet 1947 288p 5 x 8 The story of a dangerous man seduced by peril, Querelle deals in a startling way with the Dostoyevskian theme of murder as an act of total liberation. $3-10 Other works involving jean genet, fiction
Douglas Day 1991 270p 6 x 9 Part biography and part polemic directed against the failed opportunities of the Revolution, the book takes the form of notebooks scribbled by Flores Magon in the Leavenworth (Kansas) penitentiary where he is imprisoned for having violated United States neutrality laws. Flashbacks cover … Continue reading The Prison Notebooks of Ricardo Flores Magon
A Novel Barbara Kingslover The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it—from … Continue reading The Poisonwood Bible
Ursula K. Le Guin 1966 113p MMPB The fourth installment of the Hainish Cycle, this story is set on Werel, the third planet of the Gamma Draconis system. The planet has an orbital period of 60 Earth years, and is approaching its correspondingly long winter. The main characters belong to … Continue reading Planet of Exile
Italo Calvino 1947 192p 5 x 8 Italo Calvino was only twenty-three when he first published this bold and imaginative novel. It tells the story of Pin, a cobbler’s apprentice in a town on the Ligurian coast during World War II. He lives with his sister, a sex worker, … Continue reading The Path to the Nest of Spiders
Stories Ursula K. Le Guin 1976 240p MMPB Orsinia . . . a land of medieval forests, stonewalled cities, and railways reaching into the mountains where the old gods dwell. A country where life is harsh, dreams are gentle, and people feel torn by powerful forces and fight to … Continue reading Orsinian Tales
A Story of California Frank Norris 1901 400p MMPB Based on an actual, bloody dispute between wheat farmers and the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1880, this is the story of the waning days of the frontier West. This is the first of two books in the incomplete The Epic … Continue reading The Octopus
And Other Stories Italo Calvino 1993 288p 5 x 8 A volume of thirty-seven diabolically inventive stories, fables, and ‘impossible interviews’ from one of the great fantasists of the 20th century, displaying the full breadth of his vision and wit. Written between 1943 and 1984 and masterfully translated by … Continue reading Numbers in the Dark