Insect Dreams: The Half Life of Gregor Samsa
de Estrin, Marc
- Usado
- very good
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Very Good/Very Good
- Librería
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Lake Huntington, New York, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York: Blue Hen Books, 2002. 469 pp. Bibliography. A 1/2 inch remainder mark on bottom of pages. Not price-clipped. Two black marks on DJ. Marc Estrin is a writer, cellist, and activist living in Burlington, Vermont. This is his first novel. Gregor Samsa's adventures in America after he is swept into the dustbin. For those who have forgotten, 'Gregor Samsa awoke one morning after disturbing dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into an enormous cockroach.' Gregor runs into interesting folks: Musil, Wittgenstein, Spengler, Einstein, Rilke, Charles Ives, FDR and ends up in . . . well, you've got to read it.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Book Design By Marysarah Quinn. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Sinopsis
The metamorphosis of Kafka’s Gregor Samsa from fabric salesman to cockroach was surely one of the momentous transformations of the modern world. Now, in Marc Estrin’s astounding debut, Gregor undergoes yet another metamorphosis—one that propels him across the rocky and often ridiculous landscape of the early twentieth century. In these continuously surprising pages, Estrin’s Gregor—secretly sold to a Viennese sideshow by the Samsas’ chambermaid—comes to sharpen his mind against those of Wittgenstein, Spengler and Einstein; dance to the crazy rhythm of American Prohibition; appear as a surprise witness at the Scopes trial; become intimately involved in Alice Paul’s feminist movement (and with Alice Paul); encounter the KKK; and confer with FDR, and Robert Oppenheimer—and emerge from it all as the very essence of modern conscience.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Veery Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 000115
- Título
- Insect Dreams: The Half Life of Gregor Samsa
- Autor
- Estrin, Marc
- Ilustrador
- Book Design By Marysarah Quinn
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very Good
- Edición
- First Edition
- Editorial
- Blue Hen Books
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 2002
- Palabras clave
- Fiction, Philosophy, Twentieth Century American Fiction, Gregor Samsa, Franz Kafka, Marc Estrin, 469 pp. Bibliography. A 1/2 inch remainder mark on bottom of pages. Not price-clipped. Two black marks on DJ. Marc Estrin is a writer, cellist, and activist l
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Fiction; Philosophy; Twentieth Century American Fiction;
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