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Published by Brand: Faber n Faber, 1998
ISBN 10: 0571199402ISBN 13: 9780571199402
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Softcover. Condition: Good. A little girl lives with her family in a picturesque seaside community near San Francisco. An American neighborhood like any other, sheltered in the seeming tranquillity of the 1950s. Except it exists on the island of Alcatraz, the Rock, where a looming cellhouse imprisons the most vicious and irredeemable of America's criminals.Olivia grows up here and watches as her family slowly falls apart, trapped in its own prison rules and silences. She watches the disintegration of her mother, a brilliant woman isolated in a role that closes in on her as inexorably as the metallic crash of any cell door. Olivia can only watch, and retreat into herself, for she's only a little girl; there's no escape for her from the island she calls home.
Published by Brand: Faber n Faber, 1995
ISBN 10: 057119852XISBN 13: 9780571198528
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Book by Dawson, Jim.
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Published by Brand: Faber and Faber, 2001
ISBN 10: 057119706XISBN 13: 9780571197064
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Softcover. Condition: Good. F First Paperback Edition Used. In-depth interviews with the maverick British choreographer best known for his revolutionary, tony award-winning Swan LakeIn the ten years since Matthew Bourne started his dance company, Adventures in Motion Pictures, he has earned a reputation as one of the most exciting choreographers at work today. His experimental style can be seen in his original dances-such as Town and Country, a work that includes a pas de deux that Bourne describes as "a Fred and Ginger number for two men"-and in his new versions of ballet classics, including his groundbreaking Swan Lake, with its cast of male swans, and The Nutcracker, set in a Dickensian orphanage. Drawing on his years of studying all varieties of dance as well as on his vast knowledge of dance history, theater, and popular culture, Bourne has been able to fuse elements of classical and modern dance, theatrical innovation, and sexual expression in a new way, reflecting a uniquely ironic, postmodern sensibility in his playing with the elements of classical dance and reexamining the traditional relationships between-and within-the sexes.In these interviews with the distinguished dance and theater critic Alastair Macaulay, Bourne demonstrates persuasively just how he has synthesized these disparate elements to create an experience that audiences around the world have found mesmerizing and startling in its beauty and originality.
Published by Brand: Faber n Faber, 1989
ISBN 10: 0571144403ISBN 13: 9780571144402
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Reprint. Gathers essays by the Czech playwright, and includes writings by other authors in his honor.
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Published by Brand: Faber n Faber, 1995
ISBN 10: 0571151787ISBN 13: 9780571151783
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Softcover. Condition: Good. 2. A guide designed to enable the reader to engage in Burgundy-buying with confidence and delight. The author includes a revised tasting chapter and has expanded this edition to cover wine-making in the region, from Chablis down to Beaujolais, with the insight of an experienced trader and consumer.
Published by Brand: Faber n Faber, 1984
ISBN 10: 0571132707ISBN 13: 9780571132706
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Percy, Graham (illustrator). 1st Edition, 2nd Printing. Captain Beaky and his Band set out to spread the teachings of Jesus to the creatures of the forest.
Published by Brand: Faber n Faber, 1986
ISBN 10: 0571137474ISBN 13: 9780571137473
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Offers parodies of William Wordsworth, T.S. Eliot, and Emily Dickinson, and humorous sonnets, haiku, and love poems.
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Published by Brand: Faber n Faber, 1996
ISBN 10: 0571179630ISBN 13: 9780571179633
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Winner of the Academy Award as the best Original Screenplay of 1996.Set in the midst of the bleak midwinter snow drifts of the American Midwest, Fargo is a story of murder and mayhem.Stylistically, Fargo-in its observation of a specific Minnesota community-is at the opposite end of the spectrum from the post-modernism of The Hudsucker Proxy and the baroque hallucinations of Barton Fink. Fargo exposes the dark side of existence, but the grimness of the tale is alleviated by the laconic humor with which the characters greet their fates. The plot is executed with brilliance, and yet the writing also reveals a humanity at its core.
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Published by Brand: Faber n Faber, 1994
ISBN 10: 0571198295ISBN 13: 9780571198290
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. "Exile itself can be a country to explore," wrote the exiled South African essayist Breyten Breytenbach. More than forty writers prove his point in Altogether Elsewhere, an anthology of diverse reflections by notable literary exiles. Classic and contemporary writers from Europe, the United States, Latin America, Africa, and the Caribbean deepen our understanding of exile, meditating on the tension between lost and found languages, between fortifying memory and debilitating nostalgia, between the joys of freedom and the sense of entrapment within that freedom. Contributors include Mary Antin, Austin Clarke, Janet Frame, Czeslaw Milosz, Es'kia Mphahlele, Petrarch, Darryl Pinckney, and Marina Tsvetaeva, among others.Taken together, these essays, letters, journals, and memoirs of writers displaced by either choice or circumstance present a rich, ever expanding portrait of exile literature, one that includes the resilience of the political exile, the adventurousness of the voluntary expatriate, the ingenious adaptability of the emigre, and the perpetual dissatisfaction of the nomad. Altogether Elsewhere acknowledges the fear and wariness of expatriates as well as the sardonic side of displacement once suggested by Joseph Brodsky, who has termed the exile's life a "tragicomedy" where "the democracy into which he has arrived provides him with physical safety but renders him socially insignificant." Yet this anthology also embodies Gertrude Stein's reassuring reminder that "writers have to have two countries, the one where they belong and the one in which they live really."
Published by Brand: Faber Press, 2005
ISBN 10: 0976876302ISBN 13: 9780976876304
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Softcover. Condition: Good. 2nd. Because of Romek is a nonfiction, autobiographical narrative from the point of view of a teenager during the Holocaust of World War II. This is the riveting, true story of a young boy's survival in the face of Nazi atrocities. David Faber survived nine concentration camps between the ages of 13-18, including Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and Bergen-Belsen. Because of Romek fulfills his promise to his dead mother to tell the world what happened.
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Published by Brand: Faber n Faber, 1999
ISBN 10: 0571195490ISBN 13: 9780571195497
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Softcover. Condition: Good. John Drummond, one of the great post-war impresarios, made two documentary films on Diaghilev in the 1960s for the BBC. Many of the protagonists of the Ballets Russes were still alive, and Drummond interviewed more than twenty of them, including Karsavina, Massine, Ninette de Valois and Marie Rambert. What emerges from this book is a picture of an extraordinary man: told with passionate advocacy and placed in the context of the author's own intense commitment to the arts.
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Published by Brand: Faber n Faber, 1992
ISBN 10: 0571146228ISBN 13: 9780571146222
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Softcover. Condition: Good. 3. In this third edition, the book has been expanded and brought up-to-date to cover all the leading wine growers of the Rhone Valley and added to the vintage notes is a detailed assessment of what has happened in the 1980s with regard to wines of the Rhone valley.
Published by Brand: Faber Faber, 2024
ISBN 10: 0571199909ISBN 13: 9780571199907
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Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Paperback. Very good condition. Pages tanned. RB.
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Published by Brand: Faber Faber, 2001
ISBN 10: 0571203329ISBN 13: 9780571203321
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Softcover. Condition: Good. The first in-depth examination of the popular and controversial Danish film movement.The future of filmmaking starts here. What began as a ripple of discontent in Denmark has turned into a full-fledged new wave. In 1995, when Lars von Trier, not yet the award-winning director of Breaking the Waves, and three comrades issued a tenpoint "Vow of Chastity" for the making of simpler, more truthful movies, cynics in the film business refused to take it seriously. Five years later, the international success of the raw, uncompromising Dogme95 films -- most notably The Celebration and The Idiots -- has fired a volley of shots across the bows of a staid and bloated Hollywood-driven industry. Richard Kelly's investigation of the Dogme95 movement is a piece of "gonzo journalism" in which Kelly sallies forth in search of the Dogme brothers and their accomplices, seeking to hammer out truth from rumor in what is itself an appropriately austere and anarchic piece of cinematic mischief. Composed of interviews with the filmmakers, discursive overviews of the films and shooting, and Kelly's own diaries, The Name of This Book Is Dogme95 is nothing short of a piece of instant film history.
Published by Brand: Faber n Faber Poetry, 2001
ISBN 10: 0571209556ISBN 13: 9780571209552
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. 1st ed. If I Don't Know.
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Published by Brand: Faber Faber, 1981
ISBN 10: 0571117597ISBN 13: 9780571117598
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Softcover. Condition: Good. A Bridge classic. The book teaches how to master an art of being lucky while playing Bridge.
Published by Brand: Faber n Faber, 1988
ISBN 10: 0571151205ISBN 13: 9780571151202
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Book by De LA Mare, Walter.
Published by Brand: Faber n Faber, 1971
ISBN 10: 0445003774ISBN 13: 9780445003774
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. An Adam Dalgliesh mystery by an award-winning, internationally acclaimed novelist.<br><br>Two student nurses lie dead, the great hospital nursing school of Nightingale House is shadowed with terror, and a secret medical world of sex, shame, and scandal is about to be exposed. It is the job of Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard to probe even deeper into the macabre mystery and unmask a killer who operates as skillfully as a surgeon -- before the epidemic of evil gets completely out of hand.<br><br><br><i>From the Paperback edition.</i>
Published by Brand: Faber n Faber, 2000
ISBN 10: 0571197825ISBN 13: 9780571197828
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Main. For well over thirty years, Tom Stoppard has consistently held his position as one of England's most admired dramatists. And for this edition of Faber Critical Guides, Jim Hunter examines four of Stoppard's finest works in the context of his entire oeuvre. Hunter writes, "Stoppard's plays present a unique interplay between fun today and the most basic and serious challenges to human understanding. He writes jokes and comic routines; but at the same time he is also writing about moral responsibility, about goodness, and about our scientific, mathematical, or philosophical understanding of reality.
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Published by Brand: Faber n Faber, 2024
ISBN 10: 0571215394ISBN 13: 9780571215393
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 0. This book is about a simple measurement of the human the 'finger ratio', or the length of the ring finger relative to the index finger. John Manning uses a tiny difference between the sexes - that men tend to have a greater finger ratio than women - to examine a dizzying group of questions about human behaviour, from sexuality, to musical ability, to predisposition to disease. Controversial, but unfailingly clear and balanced, John Manning's cutting-edge research poses many fruitful questions about what makes us as we are.
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Published by Brand: Faber n Faber Poetry, 1968
ISBN 10: 0571086144ISBN 13: 9780571086146
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Originally published in 1957, Hawk in the Rain was the first collection of poems by Ted Hughes. The book won the New York Poetry Center First Publication Award, for which the judges were W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, and Marianne Moore; it also won the Somerset Maugham Award. Indeed, Hawk in the Rain was acclaimed by every reviewer from A. Alvarez to Edwin Muir, and in its pages we can still see the promising brilliance of one of the most important English-speaking poets of the modern age.
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Published by Brand: Faber n Faber, 2003
ISBN 10: 0571211372ISBN 13: 9780571211371
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Softcover. Condition: Good. 1. A volume of interviews with the director Peter Brook that explores his work and the innovations that helped forge a new kind of theaterPeter Brook is one of the giants of twentieth-century theater, having started as a stage director at the age of twenty before being named the primary director at the Covent Garden opera house and, eventually, becoming the unique creative genius who virtually reinvented the way actors and directors think about theater, through his groundbreaking productions of King Lear, Marat/Sade, A Midsummer Nights Dream, and, especially, The Mahabharata. Since the creation in the 1970s of his International Center for Theater Research in Paris, he has sought to focus on teaching and researching as well as directing-always looking for new ways to illuminate the truth of a text so that actors and audiences alike are challenged to question both the performance of the piece and the larger truth surrounding it.Margaret Croyden has followed Peter Brooks career from 1970 up to the present. As a result, her perspective on the evolution of his work is unparalleled, and she brings to the interview process the acuity of a critic and the knowledgeability of a devoted observer. As she says in her introduction, The most important aspect of Brooks character and his artistry is that he is a searcher . . . a questioner, a teacher. In this book, Brook-with Croydens able assistance-shares some of his most insightful thoughts and deepest feelings about the theater and the world.Margaret Croyden has written for The New York Times, among other publications, and is the author of In the Shadow of the Flame: Three Journeys and Lunatics, Lovers, and Poets: The Contemporary Experimental Theater. She lives in New York City.Peter Brook is one of the giants of twentieth-century theater, a uniquely creative genius who, through his groundbreaking productions of King Lear, Marat/Sade, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and especially The Mahabharata, has virtually reinvented the way actors and directors think about theater. Margaret Croyden has followed Peter Brook's career from 1970 to the present, gaining unparalleled perspective on the evolution of his work. Throughout the interviews in this book, she uses that knowledge to elicit from Peter Brook some of his insightful thoughts and deepest feelings about theater and the world."Here is the fascinating and provocatively stimulating distillation of three decades of intense, but sometimes gossipy, conversations between one of the 20th century's few true theater innovators and America's leading writer on the theatrical avant-garde. A splendid book. A great read. I loved it."-Clive Barnes"A success . . . Challenging and fearless in her questions, Croyden also conveys such vivid vignettes of the plays and their often beautiful or striking settings that a pang is evoked for every missed chance to say 'I was there' . . . Croyden's ability to put questions in a fitting way allows Brook to share with her some astonishingly authentic impressions and observations . . . The conversations between Croyden and Brook . . . stand as proof that Croyden was talking to an artist who 'is interested in something more than his art,' an artist whose aim, among others, is to 'reach the point in a common service where everything is charged and a rewarding experience begins to shape.'"-Parabola"Again and again in this fascinating collection of interviews with Brook about his extraordinary body of work Croyden shows how the craft of journalism can rise to the level of art itself by challenging an artist to reveal himself . . . Croyden tracks Brook through his spiritual and geographic travels, asking challenging questions and refusing to back down until the answer Brook gives has the ring of personal truth. The resulting work will illuminate and enthrall anyone who loves the theater-and everyone interested in what it can mean to live fearlessly an.
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Published by Brand: Faber n Faber, 1991
ISBN 10: 0571162843ISBN 13: 9780571162840
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Revised. A collection of four Alan Bennett plays, with an introduction by the author which describes the background to their writing and performance.
Published by Brand: Faber n Faber, 1985
ISBN 10: 0571136028ISBN 13: 9780571136025
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Boxer, Mark (illustrator). First Edition. Think-tanks and political review committees have confirmed that the Foreign Office is indeed a timeless institution. Antrobus, narrator of these tales of diplomatic misadventure, is the embodiment of everything that makes it what it is. The author's previous works include "The Avignon Quartet".
Published by Brand: Faber Faber, 2023
ISBN 10: 0571197078ISBN 13: 9780571197071
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Introduction by Bernard O'Donaghue.Bold, contemporary verse adaptations of the medieval Mystery Plays by England's greatest modern theatrical poet.This first collection of Tony Harrison's poetry for the stage compiles his masterly adaptations of various medieval mystery plays. Rendered in highly alliterative verse, Harrison's plays are, as were their medieval counterparts, intended to make colloquial Northern English language and form a vehicle for the profound religious texts that describe the biblical epic of salvation. Original documents from the Middle Ages are the basis for Harrison's three-part cycle: The Nativity encompasses Creation, The Expulsion, The Flood, Abraham and Isaac, and The Birth of Christ; The Passion covers The Life and Crucifixion of Christ; and Doomsday takes in The Harrowing of Hell and The Last Judgment. Traditionally, mystery plays were acted and produced by the trade guilds, and Harrison recalls this in his use of props: a forklift transports God, a screwdriver serves as Christ's scepter, and a manhole cover is the mouth of Hell.Drawing on pre-Renaissance English religious, linguistic, and theatrical tradition, these plays are part of a movement to celebrate English literature as it existed before the widespread cultural influence of continental Europe. In addition, this volume contains an Introduction that places these classic works in the context both of their medieval origins and of Harrison's own poetry.
Published by Brand: Faber Faber, 1988
ISBN 10: 0571147275ISBN 13: 9780571147274
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Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Book by Bennett, Alan.
Published by Brand: Faber Faber, 1986
ISBN 10: 0905209680ISBN 13: 9780905209685
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Book by Jervis, Simon, Tomlin, Maurice.
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Published by Brand: Faber n Faber, 2004
ISBN 10: 0571209033ISBN 13: 9780571209033
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. An evocative and unique exploration of the most important era in international filmmakingIn film history, the sixties are commonly known as the golden age of international cinema. The period from 1958 to 1969 saw a brilliant explosion of talent not just in Europe but throughout the world. From Sweden and Poland to India and Japan, from Brazil and Hungary to Spain and Czechoslovakia, young filmmakers seemingly sprang out of nowhere, challenging the stale conservativism of fifties cinema. With films like Jules et Jim, 8 1/2, and Breathless, to name but a few, they flouted taboos both sexual and political while bringing sharper, fresher, franker, more violent, and more personal visions to the screen than ever before.In Revolution!, Peter Cowie discusses the themes, trends, and creative filmmakers of the period-including Antonioni, Bergman, Cassavetes, Fellini, Godard, Kurosawa, and Truffaut-while focusing on those whose voices still evoke the struggles and achievements of the sixties and set the creative and intellectual standard by which today's finest films are still held.
Published by Brand: Faber n Faber, 2023
ISBN 10: 0571199542ISBN 13: 9780571199549
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. The forty-year reign of New Orleans "madam" Norma Wallace is chronicled here, with plentiful accounts from the prostitutes, "johns," local celebrities, and cops who were part of this colorful drama set in the city's notorious Red Light District.
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Published by Brand: Faber n Faber, 2024
ISBN 10: 0571199852ISBN 13: 9780571199853
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. The voices of Mrs. Midas, Queen Kong, and Frau Freud, to say nothing of the Devil's wife herself, reveal their wit, imagination, and incisiveness in a collection of poems written from the perspectives of the wives of famous--and infamous--male personages.