ISBN: 9780060175641 - identity: a novel (15 Ergebnisse)

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. "Kundera, master of the twosome, finds erotic and existential threads everywhere in daily behavior. Like his previous books, Identity is a cluster of jeweled observations. . . . But Identity has a special charm: suspense. . . . [It] gets us turning the pages in excitement and alarm, and Kundera's wit keeps us turning them to the very end." -- San Francisco Chronicle In a narrative as intense as it is brief, a moment of confusion sets in motion a complex chain of events which forces the reader to cross and recross the divide between fantasy and reality. Sometimes--perhaps only for an instant--we fail to recognize a companion; for a moment their identity ceases to exist, and thus we come to doubt our own. The effect is at its most acute in a couple, where our existence is given meaning by our perception of a lover, and theirs of us. With his astonishing skill at building on and out from the significant moment, Milan Kundera has placed such a situation and the resulting wave of panic at the core of this novel. Hailed as a "a fervent and compelling romance, a moving fable about the anxieties of love and separateness" (Baltimore Sun), it is not to be missed.…

Hardback. Zustand: Good. "Kundera, master of the twosome, finds erotic and existential threads everywhere in daily behavior. Like his previous books, Identity is a cluster of jeweled observations. . . . But Identity has a special charm: suspense. . . . [It] gets us turning the pages in excitement and alarm, and Kundera's wit keeps us turning them to the very end." -- San Francisco Chronicle In a narrative as intense as it is brief, a moment of confusion sets in motion a complex chain of events which forces the reader to cross and recross the divide between fantasy and reality. Sometimes--perhaps only for an instant--we fail to recognize a companion; for a moment their identity ceases to exist, and thus we come to doubt our own. The effect is at its most acute in a couple, where our existence is given meaning by our perception of a lover, and theirs of us. With his astonishing skill at building on and out from the significant moment, Milan Kundera has placed such a situation and the resulting wave of panic at the core of this novel. Hailed as a "a fervent and compelling romance, a moving fable about the anxieties of love and separateness" (Baltimore Sun), it is not to be missed.…

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Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. First Edition. With dust jacket. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Condition Notes: Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. No Jacket. Special Edition. Advance Reading Copies of Uncorrected Proofs in paperback, sold together, & both novels translated from the French by Linda Asher. Unread & in Fine condition. IDENTITY: "Following a brief holiday with her younger lover Jean-Marc, Chantal begins receiving letters from a secret admirer that are cryptically signed with the initials 'C.D.B.' Claiming to be hopelessly dazzled by her beauty, this mystery man follows her with the eyes of a spy--and a lover. Chantal suspects first one man, then another; but each proves to be a false lead. Meanwhile, the letters begin to have an effect on the couple's love life, and the two not only find themselves losing each other, but their individual sense of self as well. Realistic, tender, and darkly humorous, IDENTITY is disturbing in its wisdom about passion, friendship, and the human psyche; seductive, candidly physical, and always provocative; this is a literary triumph that deftly combines the page-turning quality of a mystery with a celebration of the ultimate enigma: love." [publisher copy] "A fervent, compelling romance, a moving fable about the anxieties of love and separateness."--Christopher Lehmann-Haupt. IGNORANCE (2002): "A man and a woman meet by chance while returning to their homeland, which they had abandoned twenty years earlier when they chose to become exiles. Will they manage to pick up the thread of their strange love story, interrupted almost as soon as it began and then lost in the tides of history? The truth is that after such a long absence 'their memories no longer match.' We always believe that our memories coincide with those of the person we loved, that we experienced the same thing. But this is just an illusion. Then again, what can we expect of our weak memory? It records only 'an insignificant, minuscule particle' of the past, 'and no one knows why it's this bit and not any other bit.' We live our lives sunk in a vast forgetting, a fact we refuse to recognize. Only those who return after twenty years, like Odysseus returning to his native Ithaca, can be dazzled and astounded by observing the goddess of ignorance firsthand. Milan Kundera is the only author today who can take such dizzying concepts as absence, memory, forgetting, and ignorance, and transform them into material for a novel, masterfully orchestrating them into a polyphonic and moving work." [publisher copy] "Erudite and playful. An impassioned account of the émigré as a character on the stage of European history."--Maureen Howard. Both ARCs are bright, clean & attractive paperbacks, unread, in Fine condition, w/sharp corners & crisp edges, square & tight bindings w/no creases in spines & no jackets as issued.…

Softcover. Zustand: Near Fine. First edition. Advance Reading Copy. Illustrated wrappers. Translated from the French by Linda Asher. Bumped spine foot else near fine with publisher's material laid in.

Zustand: vg/vg. ISBN: 0060175648 Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover. Stated first edition, one of a limited number flat signed by the author. Text clean, bright, unmarked. Small pen or pencil mark on dust jacket cover.

Hardcover. dj. Octavo, 168 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good condition dust jacket. Red spine with an orange painting design and white lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering, price is uncut "USA $23.00 - CANADA $33.50", has mild shelving wear, and a gilt "Autographed Copy" sticker on the front cover. Boards have mild age-toning along the spine head and tail edges. Textblock has mild wear along the edges, stains on the head edge, and mild age-toning along the edges. Signed by Milan Kundera on the publisher's limitation page. NOTE: Shelved in Room Z. 1391184. Special Collections - Downstairs. First American Edition, First Printing, Limited Edition. Signed.…