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Peter Esterhazy
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Not Art: A Novel |
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No copies available |
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English |
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Paperback |
| Pages: |
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240 |
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2010-03-01 |
| ISBN: |
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0061792969 |
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Ecco |
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0.4 pounds |
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0.54 x 5.31 x 8.0 inches |
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1 |
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| Previous givers: |
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2 Robert Wechsler (USA: CT), chris (Japan) |
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2 chris (Japan), JessicaG (Japan) |
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Product Description
Pub Date: 2010-02-16 Pages: 240 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins US 'I WILL WRITE ABOUT ALL THAT IN MORE DETAIL LATER.' The final sentence of Helping Verbs of the Heart - was it a promise. a threat. a quote In 1985. when Pter Esterhzy's book came out on unnumbered. black-edged pages. this much-cited sentence seemed most likely to be the manifestation of authorial posturing. After the publication of his books on his father Celestial Harmonies and Revised Edition . this sentence and the preceding book on his mother's death. broken up into auxiliary verbs. now gain new meaning twenty-three years later in Not Art. Not Art is the book of the reawakened mother. a mother who knows the offside rule . and whose language. which determines her relationship to the world. is the language of football. The son only exists in relation to it. just as everything and everyone else on...
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