Josef Skvorecky, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $22 (192p) ISBN 978-0-374-28025-3
Skvorecky left his native Czechoslovakia in 1969—in the wake of the Soviet invasion—and has been living in Canadian exile ever since. For the last 30 years, he has published copiously in Czech and has fared well in English translation (
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Josef Skvorecky, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $24 (352p) ISBN 978-0-374-14975-8
Just before Skvorecky turned 70, his friends urged him to write his memoirs. He decided instead to publish this collection of short stories, in which "nearly everything worth telling," as he writes in his preface, is present in one form or...
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Josef Skvorecky, Author Knopf Publishing Group $25 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-44411-4
Toronto-based Czech writer Skvorecky's audacious, romantic, sprawling saga of Czech-Americans fighting and loving in the U.S. Civil War confirms his reputation as a risk-taking novelist. Here, as in Dvorak in Love and The Engineer of Human Souls, he
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Josef Skvorecky, Author Alfred A. Knopf $18.95 (322p) ISBN 978-0-394-54681-0
A foreigner's love affair with America is the central subject of this engaging new novel by the expatriate Czechoslovakian author ( The Bass Saxophone. In an elliptical style familiar to readers of his previous books, Skvorecky builds a polyphonic...
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Josef Skvorecky, Author, Kaca Polackova Henley, Translator Ecco Press $23 (0p) ISBN 978-0-88001-462-5
This short, hallucinatory memoir by Czech novelist Svorecky (The Bride of Texas), who emigrated to Canada in 1968, is a nonstop, free-associative outpouring, as daring and experimental as his novels. He reminisces on his political and sexual...
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Josef Skvorecky, Author, Paul Wilson, Translator W. W. Norton & Company $18.95 (185p) ISBN 978-0-393-02785-3
Unlike its lighthearted predecessor, Sins for Father Knox , Skvorecky's latest collection of detective stories is less concerned with style than with a grittily realistic tone. In a poignant introduction, the author notes that he wanted to examine...
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Josef Skvorecky, Author, Paul Wilson, Translator Ecco Press $21 (248p) ISBN 978-0-88001-371-0
Skvorecky's raucous account of life on a Czech army base brings to mind Catch - 22 and proves that the black humor of enlisted men is nearly universal. Written in 1971, the novel, whose title refers to the state to which the Czechs sank under Soviet
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Josef Skvorecky, Author, Kaca P. Henley, Translator W. W. Norton & Company $17.95 (268p) ISBN 978-0-393-02512-5
In 1929, Father Ronald A. Knox set down the guidelines for writing good detective fiction. His 10 ``commandments''no ``Chinamen'' allowed; only one secret passage; no supernatural agenciesto name a few, have been deliberately broken by Skvorecky,...
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Anselm Hollo, Translator, Josef Skvorecky, Author, Jeanne De Berg, Author Grove/Atlantic $15.95 (128p) ISBN 978-0-8021-0048-1
A sadomasochistic ""stroke-book'' dressed up in arty prose, this short, erotic tell-all lurches from New York S-M clubs to a public whipping on the banks of the Seine. The pseudonymous French author is identified as the wife of the pseudonymous Jean
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Josef Skorvecky, Author, Josef Skvorecky, Author, Paul Wilson, Translator Knopf Publishing Group $22.95 (436p) ISBN 978-0-394-57220-8
This big, lush political novel spans 20 years of recent Czech history, culminating in the Prague Spring and the Russian invasion of 1968. Shortly after the war, Danny Smiricky, the cynical hero of Skvorecky's novel The Engineer of Human Souls , is...
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