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A Doomsday Machine
This novel unfolds like ananke.Everything that happens must happen, by a logic that sane men like us can feel but not enunciate.
The most refreshing thing about the novel, so many years after the unspeakable atrocities of Nazi Germany, is the approach to the history lesson.After being inundated with images of the nasty camps, this novel picks up years later, in New York City, with survivors and their families.Instead of the flat numbers of those who survived at the end of 'Schindler's List', we have the story of a man -- a number -- who survived, and continues to survive.And, we have the story of another man who has never left those camps -- a man who forbids his own escape so many years after freedom.
Fascinating, and brutal.
Daniel Stern is an unfortunately unknown writer among young readers like me, despite his extremely high quality and strong heart.I have yet to find him in my local (bookstore).That saddens me. ... Read more

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A scandalous bestseller of mid-nineteenth-century France, translated here for the first time into English. ... Read more

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"In "Duet for Past and Future," inspired by Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken," Reubenfine, a lawyer in Indianapolis, having lost his musical career (along with his wife and child), thinks he recognizes the very cello he had sold to finance his legal education and new life. He and the young woman who plays that cello become involved in a relationship that threatens to tie them together for a moment or forever."--BOOK JACKET. "In "A Man of Sorrows and Acquainted with Grief," inspired by Johann Sebastian Bach's "The Passion According to St. John," Kraft, an exiled New Yorker and a Jew, is the conductor of a high school orchestra in a small Texas town. He talks his way out of a traffic ticket by telling the born-again state trooper of his own special relationship with Jesus; Kraft tells the credulous lawman that the reason he exceeded the speed limit was that he'd been carried away by Bach's "Passion" on the car radio. The resulting comic - and serious - imbroglio turns Kraft's life upside down."--BOOK JACKET. "In the title story, inspired by another poem by Robert Frost, a dying stage director and his new Russian-born wife, who has acute but temporary arthritis, are confined to a sickroom from which only one of them will ultimately emerge (alive). Determined to escape their fate, if only for one perfect spring day, they make a comic and touching game of weighing their mutual and personal woes."--BOOK JACKET. ... Read more

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stern tells it twice again
Daniel Stern has done it again with this next volume of his "twice told tales," re-visitations of poems and stories and symphonies which he manages to transform into gorgeous fictions.These are not meredramatizations; they are full metamorphoses.In a hilarious example, thestory "A Man of Sorrows and Acquainted with Grief," Stern usesBach's THE PASSION ACCORDING TO ST. JOHN to leap into, of all things,small-town born-again Christian Texas...as seen from the point-of-view of aJewish high-school orchestra director who gets pulled over for speeding onthe interstate.

The stories also "riff" off of Robert Frostpoems, Wallace Stevens' "The Man on the Dump", W.B. Yeats'"The Second Coming" and even Borges.

These are stylish andsmart, always moving and masterfully composed.Bravo, Stern! ... Read more

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Daniel Stern has been leaving his individual mark on the American short story for the last dozen years in four distinguished collections, starting with the acclaimed Twice Told Tales. Now in his fifth, Stern has offered a novella and seven stories dealing with his major themes: the life of the senses, the life of art-with special emphasis on the art of music-and the comic and lyric results when the two lives cross paths. From contemporary Paris to the New York of the fifties, from the way the mind works to the way the heart sinks or sings, these stories wend their magical way.

"Stories by a man who has told many, and the telling of those others has shaped these new ones. He wants, now, to articulate contradictions, not resolve them. No resolutions here, only the wisdom of hindsight and the comedy of loss. 'Afterwards,' Stern says, 'that unavoidable word when telling about sex afterwards I lay listening. . . .' These stories are what is heard-overheard."-Richard Howard ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR’d book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Excllant Book!
This book is a great find that anyone would love if you like to read abouthistoric events!I reccomend this book to anyone interested in history. ... Read more

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This Book Is In French. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more