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W. G. Sebald AUSTERLITZ First American Edition, First Print.
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A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including scuff marks, but no holes or tears. The dust jacket for hard covers may not be included. Binding has minimal wear. The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing or tearing, minimal pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages.
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Good
- Seller Notes
- “Used books, shipped from the USA. Satisfaction Guaranteed!”
- ISBN
- 9780375504839
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0375504834
ISBN-13
9780375504839
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1932751
Product Key Features
Original Language
German
Book Title
Austerlitz
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2001
Topic
General, Historical
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
22 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2001-019785
Reviews
"W. G. Sebald is a monster -- a gorgeous and unwaveringly assured writer, a bold formal innovator, and a man always plunging into the core of identity, singular and national. In Austerlitz, he's created his richest and most emotionally devastating story, and this book might be his finest." - Dave Eggers, "who has no right to be commenting on this man." "With untraceable swiftness and assurance, W. G. Sebald's writing conjures from the details and sequences of daily life, and their circumstances and encounters, from apparent chance and its unsounded calculus, the dimension of dream and a sense of the depth of time that make his books, one by one, indispensable. He evokes at once the minutiae and the vastness of individual existence, the inconsolable sorrow of history and the scintillating beauty of the moment and its ground of memory. Each book seems to be something that surely was impossible, and each (upon every re-reading) is unique and astonishing." - W. S. Merwin
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
833/.914
Synopsis
Over the course of a thirty-year conversation unfolding in train stations and travelers' stops across England and Europe, W.G. Sebald's unnamed narrator and Jacques Austerlitz discuss Austerlitz's ongoing efforts to understand who he is. An orphan who came to England alone in the summer of 1939 and was raised by a Welsh Methodist minister and his wife as their own, Austerlitz grew up with no conscious memory of where he came from. W.G. Sebald embodies in Austerlitz the universal human search for identity, the struggle to impose coherence on memory, a struggle complicated by the mind's defenses against trauma. Along the way, this novel of many riches dwells magically on a variety of subjects -- railway architecture, military fortifications; insets, plants, and animals; the constellations; works of art; the strange contents of the museum of a veterinary school; a small circus; and the three capital cities that loom over the book, London, Paris, and Prague -- in the service of its astounding vision.
LC Classification Number
PT2681.E18A9513 2001
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- e***s (171)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseLow price, good value for a large poetry collection.
- w***w (366)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseThank you!
- 6***6 (48)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseArrived quickly. In good condition. Great price. Thank you, D