9780385538985 - The Folded Clock: A Diary von Julavits, Heidi (10 Ergebnisse)

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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

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

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine.

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Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. No Jacket. Special Edition. Advance reader copy of Bound Galley in paperback. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in FINE condition. "A raucous, stunningly candid, deliriously smart diary of two years in the life of the incomparable Heidi Julavits. [] Like many young people, Heidi Julavits kept a diary. Decades later she found her old diaries in a storage bin, and hoped to discover the early evidence of the person (and writer) she'd since become. Instead, 'The actual diaries revealed me to possess the mind of a paranoid tax auditor.' The entries are dull accountings of anxieties about grades, looks, boys, and popularity. After reading the confessions of her past self, writes Julavits, 'I want to good-naturedly laugh at this person. I want to but I can't. What she wanted then is scarcely different from what I want today.' [] Thus was born a desire to try again, to chronicle her daily life as a forty-something woman, wife, mother, and writer. The dazzling result is THE FOLDED CLOCK, in which the diary form becomes a meditation on time and self, youth and aging, betrayal and loyalty, friendship and romance, faith and fate, marriage and family, desire and death, gossip and secrets, art and ambition. Concealed beneath the minute obsession with 'dailiness' are sharply observed moments of cultural criticism and emotionally driven philosophical queries. In keeping with the spirit of a diary, the tone is confessional, sometimes shockingly so, as the focus shifts from the woman she wants to be to the woman she may have become. [] Julavits's spirited sense of humor about her foibles and misadventures, combined with her ceaseless intelligence and curiosity, explode the typically confessional diary form. THE FOLDED CLOCK is as playful as it is brilliant, a tour de force by one of the most gifted prose stylists in American letters." [publisher copy] "At once artful, concise, and forthcoming. . . Like E.B. White or David Foster Wallace before her, Julavits might be ashamed of her little vanities and obsessions . . . but that doesn't prevent her from laying them bare without sugarcoating a thing. . . There's not a single uninteresting anecdote or scrap of flabby prose throughout."--Heather Havrilesky. "Displays both charm and stark honesty . . . The diary angle makes for a clever hook, but masks what this really is--a compelling collection of intimate, untitled personal essays that reveal one woman's ever-evolving soul."--Publishers Weekly. "What can I tell you about reading Heidi Julavits' diary? I almost missed my subway stop because I got so engrossed by her description of waiting at a subway stop. These meditations shimmer like creatures, always feeling for the next surprise. They are ruthlessly attentive to particulars but always sniffing after bigger questions--the biggest--and I was utterly compelled by the big-hearted engine of rigor and wonder that drives them: her live electric mind."--Leslie Jamison. Fine & handy, pristine ARC paperback w/brilliant corners & crisp edges, a square & tight binding w/no creases in spine & no jacket as issued. Quite presentable.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 304 pages. 8.50x5.25x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 290 pages. In Very Good condition. Spine is white, cream and blue patterned with black lettering. Boards have mild rubbing wear along spine tail, mild shelving wear along spine head and tail. Textblock has mild bending wear along fore and tail edges pp.89-98. Signed flat on title page by Heidi Julavits. Shelved Room C overflow. 1405027. Special Collections.