ISBN: 9780151569311 - man in the holocene: a story (10 résultats)

paperback. Etat : Fair.

Etat : Good. 1st. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Etat : Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. 1st Edition.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Good. 3d. (Originally appeared in The New Yorker) (3d) Smaller, thin book, brown cloth spine, black boards, 113 pages. DJ has black background beneath mylar, two white illustrations on front of dinosaur and human skeletons, red and brown lettering, quotation from Francine du Plessix Gray on back. DJ has micronick at top front tip, light wear at bottom front tip, very tiny tear with slight wear at bottom front spine indentation, very slight wear at spine top right edge, two very tiny tears at top back edge, one at tip there, nick at spine bottom left edge, light wear at bottom back tip. Near Good DJ/Very Fine book. …

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. 2 bright, clean & tight copies, unread, in great condition & sold together. Both translated by Geoffrey Skelton. MAN IN THE HOLOCENE: "In this compact masterpiece, Max Frisch, one of Switzerland's most celebrated writers, re-creates with formidable depth and clarity the state of consciousness of an old man who projects onto Nature his sense of personal doom. Herr Geiser lives in a mountain valley in the Swiss canton Ticino, a region with a long history of avalanches, quakes, floods. Alone in his house--he is a widower--he looks and listens for any sign of disintegration caused by the torrential rains. The highway is blocked by rockslides, the village is isolated. Geiser expects the mountain to fall, burying his house and himself. But the threat he sees without is a reflection of what is happening within. Geiser suffers the double tragedy of losing his reason and being aware of it, step by helpless step. Max Frisch links his protagonist to biological and geological Nature, for Geiser becomes obsessed with patheontology as he slips away from himself toward reintegration into the age-old history of the earth, into the Holocene, that period when man evolved from the Neolithic stage." [publisher copy] Erstwhile remainder hardcover (black marker on text bottom edge) w/sharp corners & crisp edges, a square & tight binding, in an intact NF jacket. + MONTAUK (Tin House paperback reprint, 2016): "Max Frisch's candid story of his affair with a young woman illuminates a lifetime of relationships. Casting himself as both subject and observer, Frisch reflects on his marriages, children, friendships, and careers; a holiday weekend in Long Island is a trigger to recount and question events and aspects of his own life, along with creeping fears of mortality. He paints a bittersweet portrait that is sometimes painful and sometimes humorous, but always affecting. Emotionally raw and formally innovative, Frisch's novel collapses the distinction between art and life, but leaves the reader with a richer understanding of both." [] "In this spectacular melancholic novel Max Frisch perfects the art of understatement. His casual itemization of betrayals and losses is, at first, dry and brilliantly done. Slowly, statements like 'he was a friend of ours,' turn into bitter accusations and MONTAUK, the autobiography of a brief vacation, becomes a quiet and hugely subtle rendering of love's terrible disappointments. You will not be able to get this account of acceptance out of your mind."--Michael Silverblatt. Pristine & unread NEW paperback w/brilliant corners & crisp edges, a square & tight binding w/no creases in spine.…

paperback. Etat : Good.

Hard Cover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st. Hardcover first edition in very good condition with a mylar wrapped dust jacket.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Faint foxing along text block edges. 1/2 inch closed tear at top of front gutter.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 113 pages.

Paperback. Etat : new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed.