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Ellis Island by Georges Perec; Harry Mathews (Translator); Monica de la Torre (Afterword by)
$27.00 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Georges Perec, employing lyrical prose meditations, lists, and inventories, conjures up the sixteen million people who, between 1890 to 1954, arrived as foreigners and stayed on to become Americans. Perec (who by the age of nine was an orphan: his father was killed by a German bullet, and his mother per ...Show more
My Life in CIA: A Chronicle of 1973 by Harry Mathews
$18.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: American Literature Series
In the early 1970s, Harry Mathews, then living in France, was commonly reputed to be a CIA agent--and so he decided to act the part. Part spellbinding thriller, part gag, this memoir documents Mathews's experiences as a would-be spy during the coup in Chile, Watergate, and the close of the Vietnam War, ...Show more
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