New Books
The Living Thing is the tragicomic story of a woman in her late 40s, approaching menopause, who is sent by her doctor to a spa town where she falls into a crisis and has to re-evaluate her life while dealing with a number of strange characters, among them the restrictive owner of a B&B, an older man making unwelcome advances, a hag trying to make the woman her servant, and the unsettling appearance of a young homeless woman.
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A biography about the graphic designer Max Hertwig who worked at the beginning of the 20th century with and for such masters of design as Peter Behrens, Walter Gropius, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Chamelion- and Zelig-like he happened to be in the right places at the right time without getting much attention for his substantial contributions to the discipline and profession of graphic design. This book, by Hertwig's grandson C. Arthur Croyle—a well-known illustrator and painter—provides a comprehensive and exhaustive study of Hertwig's amazing, yet almost forgotten work.
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Have We Possibly Met Before? And Other Stories is a collection of seventeen texts that readers may find shocking, funny, and disturbing but never boring. The author knows how to draw us into her story telling, and only toward the end of each narrative do we get an answer to the questions that have been building up to an unexpected climax or a surprising twist.
All stories contained in this book were previously published in German but have been translated expertly by Guy Stern for our American audience.
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