Ruins von farrell trace (7 Ergebnisse)

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

Zustand: Fine. New York and London: New York University Press, (1998)., (1998). Fine. - Octavo, 7-1/2 inches high by 4-3/4 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in blue cloth titled in gilt on the spine in a color pictorial dust wrapper by Bascove. The rear panel of the dust wrapper is lightly rubbed. [ix] & 269 pages. Near fine. First edition of the author's first book. A nice association copy inscribed to the author Amy Hempel on the title page and signed "Farrell". …

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. 1998. hardcover. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 269 pages. 7.50x4.75x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Gebunden. Zustand: New. When a high-minded and formerly half-starved shoeshine boy rises to greatness in the dazzling and treacherous world of a lavish dinner club for the gastronomical elect he finds himself unprepared for the collapse of the grand and glittering world he helpe.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Set among the spinning cogs and wheels of a lavish dinner club for the 'gastronomical Elect,' The Ruins is a black-eyed, Machiavellian fairy tale for adults, a gleeful cautionary discourse on ambition and ingratitude, and the penalties for disbelief in those forces within oneself. Like all fairy tales, it turns on subjection-the increasingly comic and catastrophic subjection of 'our hero, Tom,' a high-minded and half-starved shoeshine boy. Tom shifts for himself in a dank and vaguely apocalyptic city where 'the days come and go in a flat, lurid tide, noon and midnight like sullen twins, so indifferently does light distinguish itself from darkness.' Easily enticed from the artless squalor of his past into the dazzling and treacherous table politics of TheRuins, our hero soon finds himself at escalating odds with the diabolical proprietor, Jones, 'an extravagant if charismatic crackpot.' Tom's ill-fated efforts to reform The Ruins-finally and improbably rewarded at the glittering Fool's Ball-lead him on a devastating rise and illustrious tumble to humility, humanity, and practical grace. In the tradition of Thomas Pynchon and Kurt Vonnegut, Trace Farrell delivers this highly original first novel with the arch rhetoric and insinuating charm of a seasoned carnival barker. Slyly drawing the eye to a world teeming with life, after all, no more horrid than gorgeous, The Ruins marks the arrival of a major new literary talent.…