Richard Gatlin and the Confederate Defense of Eastern North Carolina, Gaddis James L. Jr.

Автор: Gaddis W
Название: Carpenter`s Gothic
ISBN: 0141182229 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141182223
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Автор: Gaddis, William
Название: Agape Agape
ISBN: 0142437638 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780142437636
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: William Gaddis published four novels during his lifetime, immense and complex books that helped inaugurate a new movement in American letters. Now comes his final work of fiction, a subtle, concentrated culmination of his art and ideas. For more than fifty years Gaddis collected notes for a book about the mechanization of the arts, told by way of a social history of the player piano in America.

In the years before his death in 1998, he distilled the whole mass into a fiction, a dramatic monologue by an elderly man with a terminal illness. Continuing Gaddis's career-long reflection on those aspects of corporate technological culture that are uniquely destructive of the arts, Agape Agape is a stunning achievement from one of the indisputable masters of postwar American fiction.

Автор: John Lewis Gaddis
Название: The Cold War
ISBN: 0141025328 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141025322
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: In 1945 war came to an end. But a whole new terror was only just beginning... In this book, the truth behind every spy thriller you`ve read: why America and the Soviet Union became locked in a deadly stalemate. It tells the story of crisis talks and subterfuge, tyrants and power struggles - and of ordinary people changing the course of history.

Автор: Steven Moore
Название: William Gaddis: Expanded Edition
ISBN: 1628926449 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781628926446
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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In 1989, Steven Moore published the first scholarly study of all three of William Gaddis's novels and since then it has been generally regarded as the best book on this difficult but major writer's work. This revised and expanded edition includes new chapters on the novels Gaddis published after 1989, the National Book Award-winning A Frolic of His Own and the posthumous novella Agape Agape, along with updated introductory and concluding chapters.

This introduction offers a clear discussion of all five of Gaddis's novels, providing essential biographical information, two chapters each on his most significant novels, The Recognitions and J R, and a chapter each devoted to his later three novels. A concluding chapter locates his place in American literature and notes his influence on younger writers. Each chapter focuses on the main themes of each novel and discusses the literary techniques Gaddis deployed to dramatize those themes. Since Gaddis is an erudite, allusive novelist, Moore clarifies his references and explains how they enhance his themes.

Автор: Gaddis William
Название: The Recognitions
ISBN: 1564786919 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781564786913
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Цена: 17430.00 T
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The book Jonathan Franzen dubbed the "ur-text of postwar fiction" and the "first great cultural critique, which, even if Heller and Pynchon hadn't read it while composing Catch-22 and V, managed to anticipate the spirit of both" The Recognitions is a masterwork about art and forgery, and the increasingly thin line between the counterfeit and the fake. Gaddis anticipates by almost half a century the crisis of reality that we currently face, where the real and the virtual are combining in alarming ways, and the sources of legitimacy and power are often obscure to us.

Автор: Gaddis William
Название: J R
ISBN: 1564784339 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781564784339
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Цена: 20190.00 T
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A great masterpiece by William Gaddis, with a new introduction by Rick Moody.

Автор: Gaddis William
Название: Letters of William Gaddis
ISBN: 1564788040 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781564788047
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Now recognized as one of the giants of postwar American fiction, William Gaddis (1922--98), author of "The Recognitions" and "J R," shunned the spotlight during his life, which makes this collection of his letters a revelation: an intimate look at one of the great literary minds of the 20th century.

Автор: John Lewis Gaddis
Название: George F. Kennan
ISBN: 1594203121 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781594203121
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
Цена: 18480.00 T
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Selected by "The New York Times Book Review" as a Notable Book of the Year

Drawing on extensive interviews with George Kennan and exclusive access to his archives, an eminent scholar of the Cold War delivers a revelatory biography of its troubled mastermind.

In the late 1940s, George Kennan wrote two documents, the "Long Telegram" and the "X Article," which set forward the strategy of containment that would define U.S. policy toward the Soviet Union for the next four decades. This achievement alone would qualify him as the most influential American diplomat of the Cold War era. But he was also an architect of the Marshall Plan, a prizewinning historian, and would become one of the most outspoken critics of American diplomacy, politics, and culture during the last half of the twentieth century. Now the full scope of Kennan's long life and vast influence is revealed by one of today's most important Cold War scholars.

Yale historian John Lewis Gaddis began this magisterial history almost thirty years ago, interviewing Kennan frequently and gaining complete access to his voluminous diaries and other personal papers. So frank and detailed were these materials that Kennan and Gaddis agreed that the book would not appear until after Kennan's death. It was well worth the wait: the journals give this book a breathtaking candor and intimacy that match its century-long sweep.

We see Kennan's insecurity as a Midwesterner among elites at Princeton, his budding dissatisfaction with authority and the status quo, his struggles with depression, his gift for satire, and his sharp insights on the policies and people he encountered. Kennan turned these sharp analytical gifts upon himself, even to the point of regularly recording dreams. The result is a remarkably revealing view of how this greatest of Cold War strategists came to doubt his strategy and always doubted himself.

This is a landmark work of history and biography that reveals the vast influence and rich inner landscape of a life that both mirrored and shaped the century it spanned.

Автор: Gaddis W
Название: Recognitions, The
ISBN: 0140187081 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140187083
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Автор: Gaddis W
Название: Jr
ISBN: 0140187073 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140187076
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 11620.00 T
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Описание: ABSURDLY LOGICAL,MERCILESSLY REAL,GATHERING ITS OWN TUMULTOUS MOMENTUM FOR THE ULTIMATE BRUSH WITH COMMODITY TRADING JR CAPTURES THE READER IN THE CACOPHONY OF VOICES THAT REVOLES AROUND THIS YOUNG CAPTIVE OF HIS OWN MYTHS. THE DISTURBING CLARITY WITH WHICH THIS FINISHED WRITER CAPTURES THE WAYS IN WHICH WE DEAL,DISSEMBLE,STUMBLE THROUGH OUR WORDS - THROUGH OUR LIVES - WHILE THE REAL PLANS ARE BEING MADE ELSEWHERE MAKES JR THE EXTRAORDI NARY NOVEL THAT IT IS.