Doris Kaplan Katz (7 results)

Softcover. Condition: Fine. Leichte Rillen / Abschurfungen / Risse / Knicke; Gebrochener Buchrucken. During the space of a day in Rome in 1933, a ten-lira coin passes through the hands of nine people--including an aging artist, a prostitute, and a would-be assassin of Mussolini. The coin becomes the symbol of contact between human beings, each lost in private passions and nearly impenetrable solitude." A Coin in Nine Hands has . . . passages that move close to poetry and a story that belongs in both literature and history."--Doris Grumbach, Los Angeles Times Book Review"What lingers at the end of A Coin in Nine Hands is the shadowiness and puppetlike vagueness of the Dictator, and the compelling specificity of the so-called 'common people' revolving all around him."--Anne Tyler, The New Republic"Within a few pages we have met half the major characters in this haunting, brilliantly constructed novel. . . . The studied perfection, the structural intricacy and brevity remind one of Camus. Yet by comparison, Yourcenar's prose is lavish, emotional and imagistic."--Cynthia King, Houston Post"Transcends its specific time and place to become a portrait of vividly delineated characters caught in the vise of a tragically familiar political situation."-- Publisher's WeeklyBest known as the author of Memoirs of Hadrian and The Abyss, Marguerite Yourcenar (1903-87) achieved countless literary honors and was the first woman ever elected to the Academie Francaise.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Riss größer als 1 cm. Autobiography of a spy for the pro-Israel anti-British forces. Published only a few years after Israel's creation, the book describes her work and the lives of her partners in resistance, who were part of an illegal movement of mostly young people in Palestine who fought against British control of the territory.

Hardcover. Octavo; Third printing; G-/Fair-; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine, orange with black print; DJ has edgewear with tears at spine ends and flap corners, punctures to front hinge, tears to edges of rear panel, toning to spine, peripheral toning; Boards in black cloth with gold print, wear to spine caps and corners, else clean and strong; Text block has date in ink on front flyleaf, penciled marginal notation with notes on rear flyleaf; xv, 192 pages. 1368808. FP New Rockville Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

x,192pp. 8vo. Dust Jacket Condition: dj. Second Edition. Second Edition. x,192pp. 8vo. Blue cloth. In orange dj, chipped.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.