Rauch earl m (5 Ergebnisse)

254 pp. Rústica con solapas. Buen estado. 1ª edición.

MAC RAUCH, Earl NEW YORK, NEW YORK Librería Editorial Argos 1977 1ª edición Rústica editorial ilustrada con solapas -2KG Buen Estado Foto_Qu 254 pp Narrativa. Literatura. Cuentos y relatos. América. New York N2 (Ref.-3119) literaturaBarcelona.

254 pp. rústica Historia agridulce de amor en los años cuarenta al término de la segunda guerra mundial y en el ambiente de la música de jazz.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Good dj. First Edition. [good solid book with minor shelfwear; jacket is lightly soiled and a bit age-toned, and has been nibbled just a bit along the bottom edge by some insect]. The author's first novel, written when he was 19, which "describes the quest of an existential Candide, searching vainly for a search worth searching for, trapped by the paradox that destroys the distinction between freedom and restriction, acceptance and rejection, affirmation and despair." (You know -- the Sixties.) Given its current scarcity in the marketplace, I suspect this book -- described by one online critic/appreciator as "an erudite, strange, entertaining and love-filled novel from an extremely intelligent [then-] young man who has since felt no need to return to this sort of thing" -- enjoys a bit of a cult following, probably not unrelated to the author's known affinity for the work of Thomas Pynchon. Rauch, under his full name of Earl Mac Rauch, went on to write a handful of notable movies, including Martin Scorsese's NEW YORK, NEW YORK and the 1984 sci-fi oddity THE ADVENTURES OF BUCKAROO BANZAI (which has a very definite cult following, and in fact traces its origins to the friendship between Rauch and the film's director-producer W.D. Richter, which began with the latter's discovery of this very novel) . NOTE that several passages and pages throughout the book are X-ed out -- but this is the way the book was printed. Illustrated by (dj design) Alex Gotfryd (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: very good. First Edition. 392p octavo, A very good copy in a very good dust jacket, spine a bit dulled. A nice copy of an uncommon title.