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Books by Adam Thirlwell
  | | The Delighted States(1st Edition) A Book of Novels, Romances, & Their Unknown Translators, Containing Ten Languages, Set on Four Continents, & Accompanied by ... Illustrations, & a Variety of Helpful Indexes by Adam Thirlwell Paperback, 592 Pages, Published 2010 by Picador Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-312-42829-7, ISBN: 0-312-42829-4 "Having slept with a prostitute in Egypt, a young French novelist named Gustave Flaubert at last abandons sentimentality and begins to write. He influences the obscure French writer Édouard Dujardin, who is read by James Joyce on the train to Trieste, where he will teach English to the Italian novelist Italo Svevo. Back in Paris, Joyce asks Svevo to deliver a suitcase containing notes for Ulysses, a novel that will be viscerated by the e ..." |
 | | Politics(Updated) by Adam Thirlwell Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2004 by Vintage Books Usa ISBN-13: 978-0-09-945902-6, ISBN: 0-09-945902-7 "'In case you had not noticed,' writes Adam Thirlwell in his first novel, Politics, 'in this book I am not interested in anything so small as the history of the USSR. I am not writing anything so limited.' In this epic miniature, therefore, Politics tells the story of three kids in their twenties falling in love with each in London. And, simultaneously, it tells other, smaller stories: of Stalin on the phone, Mao in the bathroom, Osip Ma ..." |
 | | Politics >>>> A SIGNED UK 1ST PRINTING HARDBACK <<<<(1st Edition) by Adam Thirlwell Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2003 by Jonathan Cape Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-224-07104-8, ISBN: 0-224-07104-1 |
 | | Letters to Pauline(1st Edition) (Hesperus Classics) by Andrew Brown, Adam Thirlwell, Dr. Andrew Brown Paperback, 166 Pages, Published 2011 by Hesperus Press ISBN-13: 978-1-84391-167-8, ISBN: 1-84391-167-1 "Determined to take his deeply loved younger sister Pauline's education in hand, Henry Beyle - better known by the most famous of his scores of 'noms de plume', Stendhal - was obliged to continue her tuition in epistolary fashion on leaving Grenoble. In his letters to her he instructs her in what she should read (Plutarch, Moliere, Shakespeare); what to study (philosophy, logic, mathetmatics, music); whether or not to get married (and to ..." |
 | | Lurid & Cute by Adam Thirlwell Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 2016 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-09-953984-1, ISBN: 0-09-953984-5 "This yarn takes place in the suburbs of a giant city. In Brasilia they're coming off their night shift, in Tokyo they're having their first whisky sours - that's what's happening elsewhere in the world when our hero wakes up. Together with his wife and dog, he lives at home with his parents. He has had the good education and, until recently, the good job. In other words, the juggernaut of meaning was not parked heavily on our hero's law ..." |
 | | Lurid & Cute A Novel by Adam Thirlwell Hardcover, 368 Pages, Published 2015 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-29225-6, ISBN: 0-374-29225-6 "A dreamy and adrenaline-fueled new novel from a two-time Granta Best Young NovelistLurid & Cute is a kind of machine for the reader's corruption. It opens with all the things we've come to expect of Adam Thirlwell--"the playfulness of language, the way the mandarin wit, line by line, consorts with grisly or louche material," as Jeffrey Eugenides has said--when the narrator wakes confused in a seedy hotel room. He has had the good educat ..." |
 | | Lurid & Cute by Adam Thirlwell Hardcover, 368 Pages, Published 2015 by Jonathan Cape ISBN-13: 978-0-224-08913-5, ISBN: 0-224-08913-7 "Shortlisted for the 2015 Goldsmiths PrizeThis yarn takes place in the suburbs of a giant city. In Brasilia they’re coming off their night shift, in Tokyo they’re having their first whisky sours – that’s what’s happening elsewhere in the world when our hero wakes up. Together with his wife and dog, he lives at home with his parents. He has had the good education and, until recently, the good job. In other words, the juggernaut of meaning ..." |
 | | Kapow! by Adam Thirlwell Paperback, 190 Pages, Published 2012 by Visual Editions ISBN-13: 978-0-9565692-3-3, ISBN: 0-9565692-3-4 "Unfolding, turning and spinning, Kapow! is a new book by best-selling British writer Adam Thirlwell.Kapow! takes place in the thick of the Arab Spring, guided by the highspeed monologue of an unnamed narrator over-doped, over-caffeinated, over-weight trying to make sense of this history in real time: with 24 hour broadcasts, YouTube films, lesbian bars in London’s East End and far too many newspaper clippings. A clever, funny and bi ..." |
 | | The Escape A Novel in Five Parts by Adam Thirlwell Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2010 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-09-953983-4, ISBN: 0-09-953983-7 "Haffner is charming, morally suspect, sexually omnivorous, and vain. There are so many stories of Haffner: but this, the most secret, is the greatest of them all. In a forgotten spa town snug in the Alps, the 78-year-old Haffner is seeking a cure, redress, more women; and ignoring the will of his late wife. He is there to reclaim her villa, lost during the war, which Haffner will discover he would like very much to own. Harried by his f ..." |
 | | The Delighted States(1st Edition) A Book of Novels, Romances, & Their Unknown Translators, Containing Ten Languages, Set on Four Continents, & Accompanied by ... Illustrations, & a Variety of Helpful Indexes by Adam Thirlwell, Vladimir Vladimirovič Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov Hardcover, 592 Pages, Published 2008 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-13722-9, ISBN: 0-374-13722-6 "Having slept with a prostitute in Egypt, a young French novelist named Gustave Flaubert at last abandons sentimentality and begins to write. He influences the obscure French writer Édouard Dujardin, who is read by James Joyce on the train to Trieste, where he will teach English to the Italian novelist Italo Svevo. Back in Paris, Joyce asks Svevo to deliver a suitcase containing notes for Ulysses, a novel that will be viscerated by the e ..." |
 | | Miss Herbert(1st Edition) by Adam Thirlwell, Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, Edward L. Ayers Hardcover, 592 Pages, Published 2007 by Jonathan Cape Import ISBN-13: 978-0-224-08139-9, ISBN: 0-224-08139-X "The secret history of novelists is often a history of exile and tourism - a history of language learning. Like the story of Gustave Flaubert and Juliet Herbert, it is a history of loss and mistakes. As Flaubert finished Madame Bovary, Miss Herbert, his niece's governess, translated the novel into English. But this translation has since been lost. Miss Herbert provides a map to the imaginary country shared between writers and readers. Fo ..." |
 | | Politics(Reprint) A Novel by Adam Thirlwell Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2004 by Harper Perennial ISBN-13: 978-0-00-716367-0, ISBN: 0-00-716367-3 "Politics is about: a) a threesome; b) politicsMoshe loves Nana. But love can be difficult -- especially if you want to be kind. And Moshe and Nana want to be kind to someone else.They want to be kind to their best friend, Anjali. Politics explores crucial problems of sexual etiquette. What should the sleeping arrangements be in a ménage-à-trois? Is it polite to read while two people have sex beside you? Is it permissible to be jealous?" |
 | | Lurid & Cute(Reprint) A Novel by Adam Thirlwell Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 2016 by Picador ISBN-13: 978-1-250-08166-7, ISBN: 1-250-08166-1 "“The narrator of [Lurid & Cute] may be Thirlwell’s best creation yet.”―Andrew Ervin, The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice) “Lurid & Cute is a simple story of mayhem and ennui, almost a caper, but told with such satisfying ironies and verbal dexterity that everything is Technicolor again. So alive, so inventive, so very good.”―Joshua FerrisLurid & Cute takes place in the suburbs of a giant city, where our narrator lives at hom ..." |
 | | Living(Reprint) (NYRB Classics) by Henry Green, Adam Thirlwell Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2017 by Nyrb Classics ISBN-13: 978-1-68137-068-2, ISBN: 1-68137-068-9 "A timeless work of social satire, set in the 1920s and considered one of the most insightful Modernist depictions of England's working class Living is a book about life in a factory town and the operations of a factory, from the workers on the floor to the boss in his office. The town is Birmingham and the factory is an iron foundry, like the one that Henry Green worked in for some time in the 1920s after dropping out of Oxford, and the ..." |
 | | Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age (New York Review Books Classics) by Bohumil Hrabal, Adam Thirlwell, Michael Henry Heim Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2011 by Nyrb Classics Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-1-59017-377-0, ISBN: 1-59017-377-5 "Rake, drunkard, aesthete, gossip, raconteur extraordinaire: the narrator of Bohumil Hrabal’s rambling, rambunctious masterpiece Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age is all these and more. Speaking to a group of sunbathing women who remind him of lovers past, this elderly roué tells the story of his life—or at least unburdens himself of a lifetime’s worth of stories. Thus we learn of amatory conquests (and humiliations), of scandal ..." |
 | | The Escape A Novel in Five Parts by Adam Thirlwell Paperback, 321 Pages, Published 2009 by Jonathan Cape ISBN-13: 978-0-224-08912-8, ISBN: 0-224-08912-9 |
 | | Miss Herbert by Adam Thirlwell Paperback, 592 Pages, Published 2009 by Vintage Books Usa ISBN-13: 978-0-09-951322-3, ISBN: 0-09-951322-6 "The secret history of novelists is often a history of exile and tourism - a history of language learning. Like the story of Gustave Flaubert and Juliet Herbert, it is a history of loss and mistakes. As Flaubert finished Madame Bovary, Miss Herbert, his niece's governess, translated the novel into English. But this translation has since been lost. Miss Herbert provides a map to the imaginary country shared between writers and readers. Fo ..." |
 | | METAMORPHOSIS AND OTHE(Updated) (RE-ISSUE) by Franz Kafka, Edwin Muir, Adam Thirlwell, Willa Muir Paperback, 43 Pages, Published 2005 by Vintage Import ISBN-13: 978-0-7493-9953-5, ISBN: 0-7493-9953-8 "When the young salesman Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning transformed into a monstrous insect, his shock and incomprehension are coupled with the panic of being late for work and having to reveal his appearance to family and colleagues. Although over the following weeks he gradually becomes used to this new existence confined within the bounds of the apartment, and his parents and sister adapt to living with a grotesque bug, Gregor noti ..." |
 | | Politics by Adam Thirlwell Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2003 by Fourth Estate ISBN-13: 978-0-00-717061-6, ISBN: 0-00-717061-0 |
 | | Autobiography of a Corpse (New York Review Books Classics) by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, Joanne Turnbull, Adam Thirlwell, Nikolai Formozov Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2013 by Nyrb Classics ISBN-13: 978-1-59017-670-2, ISBN: 1-59017-670-7 "An NYRB Classics Original. Virtually unpublished during his lifetime, Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky's fantastic and blackly comic philosophical fables have since 1989 earned him a reputation as one of the greatest Russian writers of the twentieth century. Included in this collection of eleven newly translated tales are some of his strangest and most brilliant conceits: a provincial journalist who moves to Moscow finds his existence consumed ..." |
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