Alice B. Toklas: The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book

UK 2021, 368 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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HarperPerennial
When Alice B. Toklas was asked to write a memoir, she initially refused. Instead, she wrote »The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book«, a sharply written, deliciously rich cookbook memorializing meals and recipes shared by Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Wilder, Matisse, and Picasso - and of course by Alice and Gertrude themselves. While »The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas« - penned by ... Weiterlesen

Dennis Cooper: Ugly Man: Stories

USA 2009, 240 pp., pb., € 24.95
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HarperPerennial
Internationally acclaimed writer Dennis Cooper continues to study the material he's always explored honestly, but does so now - in stories - with a sense of awareness and a satirical touch that exploits and winks at his mastery of this world. As it has done for decades, Cooper's taut, controlled prose lays bare the compulsions and troubling emptiness of the ... Weiterlesen

Michael Cunningham: The Hours

UK 2006, 230 pp., pb,, € 17.95
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HarperPerennial
In 1920s London, Virginia Woolf is fighting against her rebellious spirit as she attempts to make a start on her new novel. A young wife and mother, broiling in a suburb of 1940s Los Angeles, yearns to escape and read her precious copy of »Mrs Dalloway.« And Clarissa Vaughan steps out of her smart Greenwich village apartment in 1990s New ... Weiterlesen

Scott Heim: Mysterious Skin

USA 2005, 292 S., brochure, € 19.95
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HarperPerennial
At the age of 8 Brian Lackey is found bleeding under the crawl space of his house, having endured something so traumatic that he cannot remember it for long. During the following years he slowly recalls details from that night, but these fragments are not enough to explain what happened to him, and he begins to believe that he may ... Weiterlesen