Edité par Vintage Canada, 2011
ISBN 10 : 0307398781 ISBN 13 : 9780307398789
Vendeur : WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Royaume-Uni
Paperback. Etat : Fair. A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration.
Edité par Vintage Books Canada, 2011
ISBN 10 : 0307398781 ISBN 13 : 9780307398789
Vendeur : ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, Etats-Unis
Paperback. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.55.
Edité par Vintage Books Canada, 2011
ISBN 10 : 0307398781 ISBN 13 : 9780307398789
Vendeur : ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, Etats-Unis
Paperback. Etat : As New. No Jacket. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.55.
Edité par Vintage Books Canada, 2011
ISBN 10 : 0307398781 ISBN 13 : 9780307398789
Vendeur : Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Etats-Unis
Softcover. Etat : Good. 0. Henrys second novel, written, like his first, under a pen name, had done well.Yann Martels astonishing new novel begins with a successful writer attempting to publish his latest book, made up of a novel and an essay. Henry plans for it to be a flip book that the reader can start at either end, reading the novel or the essay first, because both pieces are equally concerned with representations of the Holocaust. His aim is to give the most horrifying of tragedies a new choice of stories, in order that it be remembered anew and in more than one way.But no one is sympathetic to his provocative idea. What is your book about? his editor repeatedly asks. Should it be placed in the fiction section of a bookstore or with the non-fiction books? a bookseller asks. And where will the barcode go? To them, Henrys book is an unpublishable disaster. Faced with severe and categorical rejection, Henry gives up hope. He abandons writing, moves with his wife to a foreign city, joins a community theatre, becomes a waiter in a chocolatería. But then he receives a package containing a scene from a play, photocopies from a short story by Flaubert - about a man who hunts animals down relentlessly - and a short note: I need your help.Intrigued, Henry tracks down his correspondent, and finds himself in a strange part of the city, walking past a stuffed okapi into a taxidermists workshop. The taxidermist - also named Henry - says he has been working on his play, A 20th-Century Shirt, for most of his life, but now he needs Henrys help to describe his characters: the plays protagonists are a stuffed donkey and a howler monkey named Beatrice and Virgil, respectively, and Henrys successful book was in part about animals. He wants help to finish his play and, we may suspect, free himself from it. And though his new acquaintance is austere, abrupt and almost unearthly, Henry the writer is drawn more and more deeply into Henry the taxidermists uncompromising world.The same goes for the reader. The more we read of the play within the novel, the more we find out about the lives of Beatrice and Virgil - in a series of initially funny, and then increasingly harrowing dialogues - the more troubling their story becomes. As we are drawn deeper into their disturbing moral fable, the relationship between the two faltering writers named Henry becomes more and more complex until it can only be resolved in an explosive, unexpected catastrophe.ThoughBeatrice & Virgilis initially as wry and engaging as anything Yann Martel has written, this book gradually grows into something more, a shattering and ultimately transfixing work that asks searching questions about the nature of our understanding of history, the meaning of suffering and the value of art. Together itis a pioneeringly original and profoundly moving accomplishment, one that meets Kafkas description of what a book should be: the axe for the frozen sea within us.From the Hardcover edition.
Edité par Vintage Canada, 2011
ISBN 10 : 0307398781 ISBN 13 : 9780307398789
Vendeur : HPB Inc., Dallas, TX, Etats-Unis
paperback. Etat : Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!.
Edité par Vintage Canada, 2011
ISBN 10 : 0307398781 ISBN 13 : 9780307398789
Vendeur : medimops, Berlin, Allemagne
Etat : very good. Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages.
Edité par Vintage Canada, 2011
ISBN 10 : 0307398781 ISBN 13 : 9780307398789
Vendeur : A Good Read, Toronto, ON, Canada
Paperback. Etat : Very Good. Crease to bottom corner of an interior page. A Good Read ships from Toronto and Niagara Falls, NY - customers outside of North America please allow two to three weeks for delivery.; 7.90 X 5.10 X 0.70 inches; 224 pages.
Edité par Vintage Canada, 2011
ISBN 10 : 0307398781 ISBN 13 : 9780307398789
Vendeur : Better World Books Ltd, Dunfermline, Royaume-Uni
Etat : Good. 0th Edition. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
Edité par Vintage Canada, 2011
ISBN 10 : 0307398781 ISBN 13 : 9780307398789
Vendeur : Pages Books on Kensington, Calgary, AB, Canada
Paperback. Etat : Very Good.
Edité par Vintage Canada, 2011
ISBN 10 : 0307398781 ISBN 13 : 9780307398789
Vendeur : GF Books, Inc., Hawthorne, CA, Etats-Unis
Etat : Good. Book is in Used-Good condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain limited notes and highlighting. 0.5.
Edité par Vintage Canada, 2011
ISBN 10 : 0307398781 ISBN 13 : 9780307398789
Vendeur : Books Unplugged, Amherst, NY, Etats-Unis
Etat : Fair. Buy with confidence! Book is in acceptable condition with wear to the pages, binding, and some marks within 0.5.