Harry Mathews, Author . Dalkey Archive $14.50 (186p) ISBN 978-1-56478-321-9
Acclaimed poet, novelist and essayist Mathews's idiosyncratic short fictions make up a literary labyrinth that takes readers off the beaten path. Mathews, the only American member of Oulipo, a French avant-garde literary movement that included...
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Harry Mathews, Author . Dalkey Archive $13.95 (203p) ISBN 978-1-56478-392-9
Leading a life of letters and leisure in Paris in the late 1960s and early '70s, Mathews (Cigarettes
; The Human Country
; etc.) wanted to "play a part in the grand conspiracy of poetic subversion," but people mistook him for "an...
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Harry Mathews, Author David R. Godine Publisher $21.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-56792-007-9
This low-key novel is not, as one might expect, about a member of the press. Instead, its unnamed protagonist is a middle-aged manic-depressive who, encouraged by his wife and doctor, begins to keep a journal. Before long, he's off his medicine and...
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Harry Mathews, Author Collier Books $8.95 (292p) ISBN 978-0-02-013971-3
The author examines the patterning of his characters' lives as they form and reform themselves into conspiratorial pairs, in this novel of four couples and their assorted offspring. ``Mathews manages to tinge familiar objects and places, such as New
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Harry Mathews, Author, Olivier Rolin, With, Florence Delay, With Brookline Books $12.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-57129-043-4
Suzanne (aka Susie, Suze, Anna) is a wanted woman--wanted, that is, by men from Belgium to Cuba in these seven fast-paced vignettes from seven authors. Each chronicles another moment in the sly, petite brunette's eventful life, including her careers
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Harry Mathews. New Directions, $15.95 trade paper (160p) ISBN 978-0-8112-2754-4
A psychologist and a publisher join forces to untangle the secret behind the “obstinate separation” between two identical twins in this jaunty novel from the lauded experimentalist Mathews (1930–2017). Berenice and Andreas fall in love immediately...
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