Mark Jung Books

Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. In this wildly imaginative debut collection, whimsical fairy tales of princesses and farm girls turn dark, and dark tales of mistreated sideshow freaks turn whimsical An itinerant marionette falls prey to a lusty mesmerist An alcoholic camp counselor is haunted by her dead best friend A j…

Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. The long-awaited follow-up from the author of the Flannery O'Connor Award-winning collection, Silent Retreats, Forty Martyrs follows the intertwining lives of the people of Tuscola, Illinois, a small Midwestern college town that, over the course of the book, collectively experiences a spe…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Bertolt Brecht is widely considered the greatest German playwright of the twentieth century, and to this day remains best known as a dramatist, the author of Mother Courage, The Threepenny Opera, and The Caucasian Chalk Circle, among so many other works Ho…

Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. At age 18 Alysia Sawchyn was diagnosed with bipolar I Seven years later she learned she had been misdiagnosed A Fish Growing Lungs takes the form of linked essays that reflect on Sawchyn's diagnosis and its unraveling, the process of withdrawal and recovery, and the search for identity as…

Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. "KINO is a fast, complex, exhilarating roadster ride through history and time, a mystery, a documentary, a remarkable remix of reality and imagination It is the story of a woman who becomes obsessed with her grandfather, a visionary film director in the Germany of the nineteen-twenties th…

Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. An existential yelp examining individual choices and our all-too-human response to unexpected events Fans of George Saunders and Aimee Bender will delight in Gillis' surprising surrealist twists in the heart of painfully real emotion and interpersonal relationships From a tightrope walker…

Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. This one's all comics It is edited by Chris Ware (author of Jimmy Corrigan: Smartest Kid on Earth), and features so many artists to know and love: Lynda Berry, Mark Beyer, Chester Brown, Jeffrey Brown, Ivan Brunetti, Charles Burns, Malachi B Cohen, Daniel Clowes, David Col…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. In his first novel, Dave Eggers has written a moving and hilarious tale of two friends who fly around the world trying to give away a lot of money and free themselves from a profound lossIt reminds us once again what an important, necessary talent Dave Egg…

Soft cover. Condition: New. New, unread copy "World music" emerged as a commercial and musical category in the 1980s, but in some sense music has always been global Through the metaphor of encounters, Music and Globalization explores the dynamics that enable or hinder cross-cultural communication through music In the stories tol…

Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. In two artfully crafted novellas, Colin Winnette offers a sly and sinister portrayal of lineage and loss, and the roles we all play in writing our own family history Written in a seamless, entrancing style, Gainesville follows the twisted branches of a restless family tree in a small Texa…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. In Nativity Poems six superb poets in English have come together to translate the ten of Brodsky's as yet untranslated poems from this sequence, and the poems are presented in English in their entirety for the first time, in a beautiful, pocket-sized editi…

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, People ? ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Esquire, Good Housekeeping, The Christian Science Monitor, Marie Claire, Ms magazine, BookPage, Kirkus Rev…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. The year 2010 marks the 100th anniversary of Twain's death In celebration of this important milestone and in honor of the cherished tradition of publishing Mark Twain's works, this is his uncensored autobiography in its entirety and exactly as he left it T…