MARION BOYARS

(P/B) SLEUTH
Sleuth has all the ingredients of a top-class thriller, which it undoubtedly is - a plot that twists and turns with fiendish cunning, an atmosphere of extreme suspense and a staggering denouement. It is also, however, a brilliant parody of the country house thriller, a dramatic portrayal of the conflict and jealosy between an older man and his younger rival, and a subtle psychological study of an inadequate and sexually obsessed man in his middle age. (ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΠΑΡΟΥΣΙΑΣΗ ΣΤΟ ΟΠΙΣΘΟΦΥΛΛΟ ΤΟΥ ΒΙΒΛΙΟΥ)...
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(P/B) CRONOPIOS AND FAMAS
Julio Cortazar once again demonstrates his power as the literary conjuror of the day. Presented to us as a series of dazzling fables and fantasies, Cronopios and Famas is an examination of times and objects, of mannerisms and events, fragmented and enacted in a world which seems strangely misplaced but which is uncomfortably close to our own. Cronopios and Famas is a collection of improvisations, where time and logic desert their singular path and jump back and forth over the brilliant thread of his themes. Described as a 'hardbound vaudev...
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(P/B) DESCHOOLING SOCIETY
Schools have failed our individual needs, supporting false and misleading notions of 'progress' and development fostered by the belief that ever-increasing production, consumption and profit are proper yardsticks for measuring the quality of human life. Our universities have become recruiting centers for the personnel of the consumer society, certifying citizens for service, while at the same time disposing of those judged unfit for the competitive rat race. In this bold and provocative book, Illich suggest some radical and exciting reform...
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SILENCE
John Cage, leading figure of the American musical avant-garde and lecturer and writer extraordinary, dedicated himself to the search for new horizons in musical composition - an amalgam of chance operations, latitude in performance, the use of electronic sound and the inclusion of ambient noise. His aim was to increase the territory of his art, and to celebrate the richness of life. Silence is a collection of some of the essays and lectures that have made John Cage's name synonymous with all that that is unpredictable and exciting in conte...
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(P/B) HIROSHIMA NOTES
A moving statement from Japan's most celebrated living writer on the meaning of the bombing and its terrible legacy. A sensitive portrayal of the people of the city. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) ALL FIRES THE FIRE
Cortazar's stories are like small time pieces, where each polished part moves relentlessly on its own particular path, exercising a crucial and perpetual influence on the mechanism as a whole. Moments jerk forward and retract, reflect and refract: an island at noon from an aeroplane - an aeroplane at noon from an island; the living deceiving the dying and also themselves, about death; fatality by fire in an ancient Roman arena and in a modern city apartment. It is a world that is constantly shifting, upsetting our balance and our peace of ...
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(P/B) THE CLOWN
The face of a clown is the face of innocence, and innocence goes to the wall in German society after the Second World War, when double-dealing and double standards have become a way of life. Heinrich Boll's clown is a professional entertainer in his late twenties who has reached the end of his tether: an unhappy drunk abandoned by the women he loves, too honest and disillusioned to compromise, he sits in his lonely flat and calls for help or consolation of any kind. For this is a study in hypocrisy - emotional, sexual, religious and politi...
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(P/B) FOUR WALLS
"The moment he closed his lips round the laden spoon, the honey exploded inside his mouth; he felt like he was under attack from some overwhelming force, striking him like a thunderbolt and leaving him dazed inside a cloud of mist. From within this mist, erupted a mischievous little cherub, which started fluttering around the ceiling, from corner to corner, while the opening bars of a triumphant march were heard in the distance. It did not take long for the aroma from the opened jar to pervade the entire room, like gas suddenly escaping fr...
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(P/B) STOLEN TIME
The second novel from the author of Four Walls, again stems from the author’s fascination with the way people act when confined or imprisoned in some way. A young and poverty-stricken student agrees to spend two weeks in a remote hotel with a group of strangers for the equivalent of five month’s rent. He is interviewed about his beliefs and his past by members of the group, who occasionally mock him but never resort to violence. The discovery of a list of names and dates written on a wardrobe drawer in his room makes the young man curious ...
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(P/B) TEACH US TO OUTGROW OUR MADNESS
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(H/B) OPERETTA
Witold Gombrowicz' last play, "Operetta", is a witty parody of the operetta form that combines the theme of personal identity explored in his previous plays (Princess Ivona, Playscript 13: The Marriage, Playscript 34) with a juxtaposition of both a capitalist and a Marxist society, making hilarious fun of both. Despite the play's basic seriousness of intent, it has a beautifully light touch and all the sparkle, glamour and glitter associated with the best Viennese operettas: and these qualities make it delightfully entertaining to read. (....
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(P/B) MEMOIRS OF A BEATNIK
Long regarded as an underground classic for its gritty and unabashedly erotic portrayal of a bohemian New York in the 1950s, Memoirs of a Beatnik is a moving account of a young artist coming of age sensually and intellectually. Written as fiction, the book grew out of di Prima's own experiences as a bold and independent woman who dropped out of Swarthmore in 1953, aged eighteen, in order to write. It evokes the heady world of cafes and jazz clubs, poets and artists, out of which the Beat movement emerged, and offers a fascinating narrative...
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(P/B) PORNOGRAFIA
Pornografia revolves around two old men visiting a country estate in the occupied Poland of 1943. They become entranced and obsessed by the seductiveness of youth. They observe with maniacal and indecent precision the actions and motives of Henia, their host's adolescent daughter, and Karol, the local bailiff's son. They insinuate, detect, analyze and dissect what they see as a physical attraction between them, and plot a culmination of their (imagined) love. While they become engrossed in the goings-on of the household, their own personal...
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(P/B) SATIE
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(P/B) EL TOPO
Part One / "El Topo" is a scene-by-scene, image-by-image narrative of the film by Alexandro Jodorowsky, the director, writer, composer and star of El Topo. In Part Two / "Conversations with Jodorowsky" Alexandro Jodorowsky talks about the making and meanings of El Topo, the quest for spiritual illumination and its symbols, his own future and past - in the course of which an interview is transformed into an act of visionary poetry. (from the publisher) "I think if that if you want a picture to change the world, you must first change the act...
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(P/B) THE DEMON
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(H/B) RUNNY BABBIT
So if you say, "Let's bead a rook That's billy as can se," You're talkin' Runny Babbit talk, Just like mim and he. RUNNY BABBIT is a previously unpublished collection of Pig Latin verses - meet Wormy Squirm, Goctor Doose, Snerry Jake and their friends the Funny Bamily. Hilarious and acutely observed animal characters from Shel Silverstein, one of America's best loved poets - think Spike Milligan meets Edward Lear: this is nonsense poetry that makes perfect sense. (From the publisher)...
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(H/B) A LIGHT IN THE ATTIC
Shel Silverstein is one of America’s best loved poets, whose work is read by every child in the USA but is almost unknown in the UK. Think Spike Milligan meets Edward Lear: it’s nonsense poetry that makes perfect sense. Of course you would sell your sister, who wouldn’t want to get rid of ‘This crying and spying young sister for sale?’ Shel Silverstein’s work is full of children who eat whales, who can kick footballs from here to Afghanistan, who know that thumb sucked thumbs taste the sweetest, and can’t go to school because their brains ...
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(P/B) QUINTESSENTIAL TARANTINO
When people ask me if I went to film school, I say 'No, I went to films.' - Quentin Tarantino From Reservoir Dogs in 1992 to the recent Kill Bill series, the films of Quentin Tarantino have always provoked a reaction from critics and audiences alike - many attracting a cult-like following.Edwin Page discusses each of the eight films which Tarantino has written, directed, or both - in an attempt to find out how the former video store clerk has realised his fantasy and become one of the world’s most successful and well-known directors. Exam...
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