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Katharine Coles's (Solve for) X opens a window in a room we did not realize was stuffy. The rigidity of knowledge yields to the beauty of the search, which is both captivating and mysterious...

A witty, poignant account of Eton, early adolescence, awakining to the spell of Wagner.Author: Lord Gerald Hugh Tyrwitt-Wilson BernersPublisher: Turtle Point PressPublication Date: Apr 01, 2000Number...

A Line Of Driftwood: The Ada Blackjack StoryAuthor: Diane GlancyPublisher: Turtle Point PressPublication Date: September 28, 2021Number of Pages: 128 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

This 120-page novel was published by Turtle Point Press on October 15th, 2002. Charles-Louis Philippe's story of a Parisian sex worker had great influence on the estimable TS Eliot; radiating society...

At stately novel about an English brother and sister who grow up in a holiday colony in France. The colony depicted in the auto-biographical novel is in fact Le Touquet Paris-Plage, which was founded...

In compact and vivid prose, Devin Johnston's Creaturely makes forays across the border between humans and animals, seeking out intersections between culture and nature. These eight essays describe...

This suburban California coming of age navigates Trinidad's personal history in the shadow of Hollywood, against the dramas of the 1960s and '70s.Author: Katharine ColesPublisher: Turtle Point...

Author: WILLIAM BUTLER. YEATSPublisher: Turtle Point PressPublication Date: Nov 09, 2021Number of Pages: 78 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: Misc. SuppliesISBN-10: 1933527455ISBN-13: 9781933527451

"These are stories to cherish, as brilliant and charming as the writer himself."-Olivia Laing "The sensibility of a magician, a trickster's dark humor, and a formidable musical and literary erudition...

Author: Glenn MottPublisher: Turtle Point PressPublication Date: March 23, 2021Number of Pages: 256 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1885983859ISBN-13: 9781885983855

Tightly focused, European in feel, portraits of men and women in distress. A fearless investigation into the fundamental eccentricity of life.Author: Robert BoyersPublisher: Turtle Point...

"Quietly remarkable autobiography alive with unforgotten terrors, unforgiven indignities"...Alan HollingsworthAuthor: Lord Gerald Hugh Tyrwitt-Wilson BernersPublisher: Turtle Point PressPublication...

Four Tales by ZelideAuthor: Geoffrey ScottPublisher: Turtle Point PressPublication Date: Oct 05, 2009Number of Pages: 304 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1933527412ISBN-13: 9781933527413

A frivolous masterpiece set in New York, Paris and London in the Twenties starring Princesse Angele de Villfranche, Comtesse Fervante de Contrecoeur, Pisa Barteau and Napier Knightsbridge.Price: $16...

Author: Herman PortocareroPublisher: Turtle Point PressPublication Date: September 05, 2017Number of Pages: 304 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1933527889ISBN-13: 9781933527888

This is the story of Alma, a 14 year old girl coming of age in a city ravaged by war and anarchy. Alma is a plain but precocious adolescent, a daydreamer who has taken up residence with a group of...

The favored granddaughter of IBM's Thomas J. Watson reveals a life of glamour, depressive battles, and hard-won joy and peace.Author: Jeannette WatsonPublisher: Turtle Point PressPublication Date:...

"A strange, welcome surprise which reads like Beckett or modernist play."...Stacey D'ErasmoAuthor: Joan Of ArcPublisher: Turtle Point PressPublication Date: May 01, 1996Number of Pages: 188...

This fullyupdated edition of James Schuyler's letters to three dozen intimates, publishedon the 100th anniversary of the writer's birth, offers unparalleled insightsinto the lives, friendships, and...

Two young geologists embark on faraway lives amidst the strictures of their time; their granddaughter blends their story and hers in this one-of-a-kind account.Author: Katharine ColesPublisher:...

PEN Faulkner Award winner; "Bennett is a New York Genet." New StatesmanAuthor: Hal BennettPublisher: Turtle Point PressPublication Date: Apr 01, 2000Number of Pages: 285 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

Told as much through images as through words, a young Nepalese man's globe-spanning relationship with "the father of American surrealism" changes the course of his life and gives him a new set of...

Ravens in Berlin . . . Parakeets in Brooklyn . . . Chickensin Tel Aviv . . . Spiders in Cognac. City creatures spark the imagination andintellect in words and art by this father-daughter team. Odd...

"A triumph, a contemporary satyrican."--D.A. PowellThis three-way, groundbreaking, e-mail deconstruction of All About Eve is a treasure-trove of poetic forms, cinephile gossip and literary...

Dedicated to the glory of literature, reading and writing are joined and transformed in exquisite continuity.Author: Julien GracqPublisher: Turtle Point PressPublication Date: Sep 01, 2006Number of...

Professors are being murdered in a way that suggests a sexual motive in a novel that occupies in imaginative space an area homologous to the area occupied by Columbia University in actual space...

The story of a Parisian school boy belonging to a Protestant bourgeois family, who, though fascinated by the intelligence and ardor of a Jewish schoolmate, bows to the prejudices of his milieu, and...

Family and urban stories that portray loss and the inexact communication of feelings among friends, family members, and coworkers.Author: Daniel ScottPublisher: Turtle Point PressPublication Date:...

The acclaimed poet mines the mystery of marriage. A stunningly brave memoir of profound love, pain, and loss.Author: Grace SchulmanPublisher: Turtle Point PressPublication Date: Aug 21, 2018Number of...

Fame, ambition, idols, spirituality, and death. Trinidad seamlessly blends his obsessions into lucid, inventive, memorable poems.Author: David TrinidadPublisher: Turtle Point PressPublication Date:...