Peter Filkins (158 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good.

Condition: good. The item shows wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact including the dust cover, if applicable . Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Very good condition. Minimal wear. Clean and all intact. No writing or marking. Not Ex-Library.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as Issued. CA5 - A trade paperback withdrawn ex-library book in very good condition. A tight, clean, sound copy in color illustrated black and white wraps with very minor overall shelf wear with the usual library stamps, label, and pocket on the top outside paper edges, the copyright page, and the back endpaper. Translated from the German and with a foreword by Peter Filkins. The main character is a young engineer involved in a highway accident that kills a middle-aged couple and puts their adult daughter in a coma. He flees the scene and his guilt drives him to quit his job and joun an ambulance service in order to gain contact to the comatose young woman. He becomes closely involved in her life by helping with her therapies and exploring her life searching for people who knew her. After more than a year,k she rrecovers from her coma but is a very different woman than the engineer has reconstructed in his mind. The author is a winner of the Anna Seghers Prize and the Carinthia Prize. By the author of "What She Knew." 146p. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. …

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Very Good - Crisp, clean, unread book with some shelfwear/edgewear, may have a remainder mark - NICE Standard-sized.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. 62pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Condition Notes: Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.

Hardcover. Condition: Used.

Condition: New.

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Augustine's Vision. Book.

Condition: Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: Good. Good condition ex-library book with usual library markings and stickers.

Condition: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. 0.3 x 7.8 x 4.8 Inches; 48 pages.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The Journey (Modern Library Classics) (Modern Library Classics (Paperback)) This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .…

Soft cover. Condition: New.

Condition: good. The book is in good condition with all pages and cover intact, including the dust jacket if originally issued. The spine may show light wear. Pages may contain some notes or highlighting, and there might be a "From the library of" label. Boxed set packaging, shrink wrap, or included media like CDs may be missing.…

paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Condition Notes: Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.

Hardback. Condition: Good. The biography of H.G. Adler (1910-88) is the story of a survivor of Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, and two other concentration camps who not only lived through the greatest cataclysm of the 20th century, but someone who also devoted his literary and scholarly career to telling the story of those who perished in over two dozen books of fiction, poetry, history, sociology, and religion. And yet for much of his life he remained almost entirely unknown. A writer's writer, a scholar of seminal, pioneering works on the Holocaust, a renowned radio essayist in postwar Germany, a last representative of the Prague Circle of literature headed by Kafka, a key contributor to the prosecution in the trial of Adolf Eichmann, Adler was a man of his time whose times lived through him. His is the story of many others, but also one that is singularly his own. And at its heart lies a profound story of love and perseverance amid the loss of his first wife, Gertrud Klepetar, who accompanied her mother to the gas chamber in Auschwitz, and the courtship and extended correspondence with Bettina Gross, a Prague artist who escaped to the Britain, only to later learn that her mother had also been in Theresienstadt with Adler before her eventual death in Auschwitz. His delivery of a lecture in Theresienstadt commemorating Kafka's sixtieth birthday, and with Kafka's favorite sister present; the nurturing of a younger generation of artists and intellectuals, including the Israeli artist Jehuda Bacon and the Serbian novelist Ivan Ivanji; the preservation of Viktor Ullmann's compositions and his opera The Emperor of Atlantis, only to see them premiered decades later to world acclaim; and the penury of postwar life while churning out the novels, poetry, and scholarship that would make his reputation - all of these are part of a life survived in the moment, but dedicated to the future, and that of a man committed to helping human dignity survive in his time and that to come.…

Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. (Modern Library Classics). Adler, a survivor of Theresienstadt and Auschwitz, wrote The Journey in 1950, after his emigration in England, though it was not published in Germany until 1962. Depictingthe Holocaust in a unique and deeply moving way, and avoiding specific mention of country or camps - even of Nazis or Jews - the book is a poetic nightmare of a family's ordeal and one member's survival. Led by the doctor patriarch Leopold, the Lustig family finds itself 'forbidden' to live, enduring in a world in which 'everyone was crazy, and once they finally recognized what was happening, it was too late.' A portrait of the unimaginable. 292p.…

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Johns Hopkins: Poetry And Fiction; The book is in great overall condition, showing only minor cosmetic wear.; - We offer free returns for any reason and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your order will be packaged with care and ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st. 62 pages. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Clean, tight copy.