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Filling a significant gap in contemporary cultural studies, Musical Elaborations examines the intersection of the public and private meaning of music. Incorporating the music criticism of Adorno, musical ideas from literary works by Proust, and criticism by Benjamin and de Man into his work, noted critic Edward W. Said discusses performers such as Glenn Gould, Arturo Toscanini...(展开全部)

With influences ranging from 19th century atrocity prints to the Sex Pistols, and obsessions with horror, scatology and human freaks, Maruo has taken the "erotic-grotesque" (ero-guro) style of manga, a unique fusion of sex and violence to its ultimate extreme."Ultra-Gash Inferno "is the ultimate compendium of Suehiro Maruo's most shocking and graphically precise work, containin...(展开全部)

With influences ranging from 19th century atrocity prints to the Sex Pistols, and obsessions with horror, scatology and human freaks, Maruo has taken the "erotic-grotesque" (ero-guro) style of manga, a unique fusion of sex and violence to its ultimate extreme."Ultra-Gash Inferno "is the ultimate compendium of Suehiro Maruo's most shocking and graphically precise work, containin...(展开全部)

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY J.M. COETZEE A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold.Greene’s gripping thriller, exposes a world of loneliness and fear, of life lived on the ‘dangerous edge of th...(展开全部)

Penguin celebrates the centennial of Graham Greene's birth with commemorativeeditions of his greatest works.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY J.M. COETZEE A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold.Greene’s gripping thriller, exposes a world of loneliness and fear, of life lived on the ‘dangerous edge of th...(展开全部)

In these ten exquisite stories, first published by Atlantic Monthly Press in 1987 and now reissued as a Grove Press paperback, Richard Ford mines literary gold from the wind-scrubbed landscape of the American West—and from the guarded hopes and gnawing loneliness of the people who live there: a refugee from justice driving across Wyoming with his daughter and an unhappy girlfri...(展开全部)

In these ten stories， Ford mines literary gold from the wind-scrubbed landscape of the American West--and from the guarded hopes and gnawing loneliness of the people who live there. Rock Springs is a masterpiece of taut narration， cleanly chiseled prose， and empathy so generous that it feels like a kind of grace."Beautifully imagined and crafted stories， by turns heartrending a...(展开全部)