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Literature & Fiction

Au,Cormac McCarthy

Literary

Picador Hardbacks

'Editing Answering Back, in which living poets replied to poems from the past, I was astonished to see how many of the poems, old and new, referred to the moon. I then started to keep a record of such references, and from my notebook, I see that in one morning alone I came across no fewer than nine poems, from the likes of Coleridge, Graves, Rosetti and Rowe and it was this selection that initially inspired To the Moon. There's something incredibly moving, and electrifying, to read a poem from the Chinese Book of Odes, written around 500 BC, and to feel both our distance from and our closeness to the past, and the Moon itself: I climbed the hill just as the new moon showed, I saw him coming on the southern road. My heart lays down its load. In collecting together poems such as these poems that span continents and centuries To the Moon shows what it is to be human; to love, to lose, to dream and to hope. The poems it contains give us a real and profound sense of our time on this planet, and the pleasures they offer are like space itself infinite.'

To the Moon: An Anthology of Lunar Poems

Carol Ann Duffy

Poetry

The Skating Rink

ROBERTO BOLAÑO

Chris Andrews (Translator)

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Very Good, 1st Edition, Picador 2009. Very Thick Royal 8vo. xx + 412pp. Very good clean tight sound square, no bookpalte, inscriptions or marks of any kind. In bright white lettered pubple cloth boards, together with original unclipped portrait pictorial dustwrapper, featuring Thompson with gun, one very short closed chip to head of spine not detracting, now housed and protected in removeable transparent Mylar wrapper. 'He introduced a halucinatory element into nonfiction writing, his own kind of magic realism. He took the American realist tradition and ran it through a wood chipper.' New York Times

Ancient Gonzo Wisdom

HUNTER S. THOMPSON

<p>It's 1995 and Evan has embarked on an adventure that will change his life. Having grown up in Dublin, a relative innocent, he arrives in San Francisco with his friend, Milo, just as the city is on the cusp of a revolution: the Internet is booming and there is a new drug in town. The shiny new worlds of Apple and Microsoft illuminate the city and the rave scene coexists alongside Deadheads and hippies. But soon Evan's savings start to disappear and his friends tire of him sleeping on their floors, so he needs to take any work he can find. A chance encounter takes him to ForwardSlash, an Internet company run by the charismatic Sam Couples, a surrogate father figure but also the object of very confused emotions for the naive Evan. When Roisin, Milo's ex-girlfriend, also pitches up to remind him of their own brief encounter, Evan's confusion about his sexuality and his future is complete. Will he continue to live vicariously through his friends, or can he finally summon up the courage to act on his impulses? "The Tenderloin" is a freshly narrated, beautifully observed and emotionally affecting story of young man's struggle for self-definition, told with equal parts charm, humour and lyricism from a wonderful new Irish talent. "John Butler already has a legion of fans who enjoy his insightful, funny and never less than brutally honest weekly column in the "Irish Times". He is a refreshingly modern Irishman who regards the world from beneath a raised eyebrow ...infectious". (Conor McPherson, playwright and director).</p>

Tenderloin

John Butler

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Eventide

Kent, Haruf

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