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THE BOX: TALES FROM THE DARKROOM
by Grass, Gunter (Translated by Krishna Winston)
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine Dust Jacket.
- ISBN 10
- 0547245033
- ISBN 13
- 9780547245034
- Seller
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CHICAGO, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York City, NY: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing, 2010. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine Dust Jacket.. New York City, NY: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing, 2010. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition/First Printing. 210 pages. Collection of intertwined tales. One of Gunter Grass' finest achievements. The first appearance of the title in English and in the United States. Precedes and should not confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Gunter Grass' "Die Box" in a felicitous English translation. A novel on photography, as only the author can conceive it. "Eight adult children assemble over several months to recall memories of their father, a famous writer, and Marie, a photographer, whose pictures inspired his work. The children, born of several women, recall an emotionally distant father, moving from household to household, with some of the children not learning of their siblings until adulthood. The one constant was Marie and her miraculous box of a camera, an old-fashioned Agfa, that 'knew what had been and what was to be, and what people wish for'. The children, among them a photographer, a nurse, and an actress, now parents themselves, review their parents' turbulent relationships and their father's fame and constant work, and speculate on the magic wrought by Marie. Delivers a fictionalized, engaging, and meandering look at his own life through the eyes of his children" (Vanessa Bush) . An absolute "must-have" title for Gunter Grass collectors. This title is a late-modern classic. This is one of few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing (American) still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce copy thus. Gunter Grass' "The Tin Drum" is widely regarded to be the greatest German postwar novel of the 20th century. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1999. One of the greatest writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER GUNTER GRASS TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0547245033.
Synopsis
“Once upon a time there was a father who, because he had grown old, called together his sons and daughters—four, five, six, eight in number—and finally convinced them, after long hesitation, to do as he wished. Now they are sitting around a table and begin to talk . . .” In an audacious literary experiment, Günter Grass writes in the voices of his eight children as they record memories of their childhoods, of growing up, of their father, who was always at work on a new book, always at the margins of their lives. Memories contradictory, critical, loving, accusatory—they piece together an intimate picture of this most public of men. To say nothing of Marie, Grass’s assistant, a family friend of many years, perhaps even a lover, whose snapshots taken with an old-fashioned Agfa box camera provide the author with ideas for his work. But her images offer much more. They reveal a truth beyond the ordinary detail of life, depict the future, tell what might have been, grant the wishes in visual form of those photographed. The children speculate on the nature of this magic: was the enchanted camera a source of inspiration for their father? Did it represent the power of art itself? Was it the eye of God? Recalling J. M. Coetzee’s Summertime and Umberto Eco’s The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, The Box is an inspired and daring work of fiction. In its candor, wit, and earthiness, it is Grass at his best.
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- Bookseller
- Modern Rare
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17728
- Title
- THE BOX: TALES FROM THE DARKROOM
- Author
- Grass, Gunter (Translated by Krishna Winston)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine Dust Jacket.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition. First Printing.
- ISBN 10
- 0547245033
- ISBN 13
- 9780547245034
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing
- Place of Publication
- New York City, NY
- Date Published
- 2010
- Pages
- 210
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