Knox, Elizabeth; Chr:Dreamhunter Duet 01 Dreamhunter
- hardcover ISBN: 9780670064311
Doubleday, Doran & company, inc, 1936-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. Doubleday, Doran & company, 1936. Hardcover, 322 pp. Stated First Edition [First American edition]… More...
Doubleday, Doran & company, inc, 1936-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. Doubleday, Doran & company, 1936. Hardcover, 322 pp. Stated First Edition [First American edition]. Acceptable+ in acceptable to poor dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards with blind-stamped illustration on front and gold lettering and design on spine. Moderate scuffing and fading to cloth along edges and spine. Binding tight. Pages aged but otherwise unmarked. Dust jacket is missing half of the paper over the spine and the remaining paper over the front and back cover is only held together by tape. Moderate chipping and tearing to remaining edges of jacket as well and moderate overall scuffing, aging and soiling to jacket. Price clipped. What remains is protected in a (removable) archival-quality Brodart cover. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. A solid reading copy. [From jacket flaps] The Last Landfall is one of those autobiographies by men who are not themselves famous but who have written of their lives so that every page combines reality with the quick fascination of fiction. Newest of the distinguished books on England's best-seller list, THE LAST LANDFALL is the story of a wanderer, the son of a studious London bobbin, recounting vivid scenes from his early childhood to the episode in a specialist's office when he was twenty-six. - "You will quickly and permanently become completely deaf," said the specialist, and the author's career ended its first stage. But in those 26 years Malone had seen life and the world, and in this book he tells of things known and seen, in a style distinguished by its beauty and power of evocation. The last paragraph is typical: "The siren hooted again, more distantly. As I heard it, disconnected pictures tumbled haphazardly back into my mind: the Galata Bridge at Constantinople, thronged with people, and beyond that the minarets of Sofia and the forest of masts on the Golden Horn: a fly-infested bazaar in the native quarter, reeling with the smell of durian: Waikiki Beach, with the surf shimmering beneath the moon: New York, with the 'L' clattering in the night and the lights winding and blazing on the Great White Way: the loom of the lone Falklands and the endless thunder of the grey Cape Horn seas." In the second part, "Voyaging," a small but far-travelling tramp steamer, in which he served as wireless operator, offers, in ship's company and ports of call, ample material for his descriptive gifts. The third part, "Landfall." begins with his being taken on board the German submarine which has, presumably, sunk his ship. In this his picture-gallery profits from sketches of Germans, afloat and ashore, and of fellow-prisoners in Germany. The fourth part, "Anchorage" is short, but the most impressive of all in exhibiting the effect of restraint. English reviews have been outstanding, and perhaps the best description possible of the book is in the review of the London Times: "In this autobiography there are landscapes from the Straits of Magellan; a gallery of portraits in which the staff of a Roman Catholic school and the crew of a tramp steamer compete for attention: a defence of games; a scholar's estimate of books; a war incident of sustained terror; and, what is rare in autobiography, a complete close." The Last Landfall is a singularly beautiful, compelling and exciting book, and should be as popular here as in England. It is certainly one of the most important books of personal reminiscences published here since Sheean's Personal History., Doubleday, Doran & company, inc, 1936-01-01, 2.5, New. Ships From Canada. New in new dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 176 p. Audience: General/trade. Product Description: A young man without prospects finds his place in the universe--as a young woman's slave. Poised somewhere between high school and adulthood, Leon Koch roams the bars and bedrooms of Bayside, Queens, twenty minutes and a thousand psychic miles from Manhattan--a multicultural landscape where the line dividing the middle class from the street gangs has been obliterated. With his two best friends just out of prison for pipe-bombing a house, Koch discovers that cocaine and alcohol have imbued him with "'"superpowers, "'" twisting his mind into a plexus where love, fear, violence, and intimacy are indistinguishable. As life becomes a waking nightmare spent fighting with police, predators, and the law-abiding, unscarred citizens he dismisses as "'"normals, "'" Koch drives relentlessly toward a fantasy zone. What he finds is a fetishistic realm of worship and ritual, 6, New. Ships From Canada. New in new dust jacket. From School Library Journal: Grade 5-9 Laura Hame and her cousin Rose, 14, live in a recognizable early-20th-century society, realistically portrayed but for one thing: the Place, discovered about 20 years earlier by Lauras father. It lies outside geographical boundaries, and only select people are able to enter and experience dreams there. These dreamhunters then perform their received dreams for large theater audiences, and those in attendance go to sleep and experience them. At the time of this story, dreams have become big business and are embroiled in issues of social control (especially the control of prisoners) and power politics. When Lauras father disappears, the girl takes enormous risks first to try to find him, and then to complete his mission. While the author leaves tantalizing clues throughout the novel, the plot moves slowly at first. However, patient readers will find themselves rewarded by the riveting action in the final th, 6<
