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  • Cigarettes

    by Harry Mathews ...
    Cigarettes is a novel about the rich and powerful, tracing their complicated relationships from the 1930s to the 1960s, from New York City to Upper New York State.Though nothing is as simple as it might appear to be, we could describe this as a story about Allen, who is married to Maud but having an affair with Elizabeth, who lives with Maud. Or say it is a story about fraud in the art world, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Conversions

    by Harry Mathews ...
    A remarkable and unusual novel by “one of the most remarkable prose stylist presently writing in English.” —The San Francisco ChronicleAt a dinner party hosted by a wealthy New Yorker, a guest receives an ancient golden weapon as a prize. When the mysterious host of this party dies the next day, his fortune is left to whomever it was that received the prize at the party. The only requirement: the ... Read more

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  • Singular Pleasures

    by Harry Mathews ...
    A “cool, humorous, and affectionate” book of vignettes about a practice that is universal and universally taboo: masturbation.In sixty-one vignettes, Harry Mathews records the imaginative varieties of this solitary activity in prose that is playful, intimate, and humane. The soloists range in age from nine to eighty; the locales from Australia to Zaire; the means from the commonplace to the ... Read more

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  • The Journalist

    by Harry Mathews ...
    A blend of postmodern metafiction and old-style bedroom farce, The Journalist explores the elusive, sometimes illusive, boundaries between facts and the fictions we weave around them.The novel's protagonist, living at a time that might be the present in a city that might be anywhere, has decided for reasons of mental hygiene to keep a detailed record of his thoughts, words, and deeds. Very quickly ... Read more

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  • The Solitary Twin

    by Harry Mathews ...
    Harry Mathews’s last novel is one of his most accessible—and perhaps one of his bestHarry Mathews's brilliant final work, The Solitary Twin, is an engaging mystery that simultaneously considers the art of storytelling. When identical twins arrive at an unnamed fishing port, they become the focus of the residents' attention and gossip. The stories they tell about the young men uncover a dizzying ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Tlooth

    by Harry Mathews ...
    A “comic extravaganza” (Washington Post Book World) from one of the most acclaimed voices in American avant-garde literature, Tlooth follows its narrator on a fantastical, globe-trotting quest for revenge.Opening on a baseball game in a Siberian prison camp, Harry Mathews’s Tlooth is absurdist from the jump.  The narrator, a three-fingered dental assistant who escapes from Russia to find the ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

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  • Blue of Noon

    by Georges Bataille ...
    Translated by Harry Mathews ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    Set against the backdrop of Europe's slide into Fascism, Blue of Noon is a blackly compelling account of depravity and violence. As its narrator lurches despairingly from city to city in a surreal sexual and mental nightmare of squalor, sadism and drunken encounters, his internal collapse mirrors the fighting and marching on the streets outside. Exploring the dark forces beneath the surface of ... Read more

    $12.59 USD

  • Ellis Island

    by Georges Perec, Mónica de la Torre ...
    Translated by Harry Mathews ...
    A moving hybrid work about Ellis Island and immigration by the marvelous Georges PerecGeorges Perec, employing lyrical prose meditations, lists, and inventories, conjures up the sixteen million people who, between 1890 to 1954, arrived as foreigners and stayed on to become Americans. Perec (who by the age of nine was an orphan: his father was killed by a German bullet, and his mother perished in ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Sport Policy Across the United Kingdom

    A Comparative Analysis

    Edited by Mathew Dowling, Spencer Harris, Chris Mackintosh ...
    Series series Routledge Focus on Sport, Culture and Society
    This book provides a comparative analysis of sport and physical activity policies, processes, and practices across the home nations (England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland) of the United Kingdom.Drawing upon in-depth analysis by internationally recognised experts within the sport policy and management field, and applying a novel analytical framework, this book offers the first ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Sport Participation and Olympic Legacies

    A Comparative Study

    Edited by Spencer Harris, Mathew Dowling ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sport Politics and Policy
    This book examines claims that the Olympic Games are a vehicle to inspire and increase mass sport participation. It focuses on the mass sport participation legacy of the most recent hosts of the summer Olympics, including Atlanta, Sydney, Athens, Beijing, London, Rio, and Tokyo.It is organised by host city/country and applies an analytical framework to each, addressing the socio-political context ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • A Neurodiverse Journey in Social Entrepreneurship

    Embracing the Spectrum

    by Mathew Townsend, Dr Drew Harris, PhD ...
    Series series Emergent Entrepreneurship
    What can the lived experience of a neurodiverse social entrepreneur teach us about the strength and innovation that comes from diversity?Through candid storytelling, social entrepreneur and author Mathew Townsend takes readers on a captivating exploration of the entrepreneurial landscape, offering a rare glimpse into the mind of a neurodivergent leader.Delving into the unique challenges, triumphs, ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Silences, or a Woman's Life

    by Marie Chaix ...
    Translated by Harry Mathews ...
    Series series French Literature
    A woman falls into a coma. Perhaps she's going to die. Becoming the sleeper's shadow, the woman's daughter will accompany her mother through six weeks of agony, bearing witness to the prolonged death imposed upon her by the monstrous machine of modern medicine. During this final voyage through the fog, the narrator attempts to recover the vivacious woman she knew before this illness: the mad lover ... Read more

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