Human Country by Harry Mathews
Available For The First Time In One Volume, The Very Best Of Mathews's Short Fiction; This expertly designed original paperback presents a comprehensive collection of internationally renowned poet and novelist Harry Mathews' short prose. From the hilarious 'The Broadcast, ' in which the narrator learns from a radio program that everything he needs in life should fit into one sock, to 'Calibration of Latitude, ' which follows Sir Joseph Pernican on a meandering and seemingly aimless but deeply moving journey, this is a long-awaited addition to Mathew's beloved and masterful canon.-
Wittgenstein's Mistress
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Making of Americans
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Ladies Almanack
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The Dick Gibson Show
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Mulligan Stew
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Castle Keep
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Ryder
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Unbabbling
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Polish Complex
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Killoyle
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The End of the Road
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Jade Cabinet
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Storytown
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Some Instructions to My Wife
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Singular Pleasures
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Phosphor in Dreamland
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Requiem
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Tar Baby
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Presentable Art of Reading Absence
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Crystal Vision
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Log of the S.S. the Mrs Unguentine
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Pack of Lies
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Under the Shadow
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Franchiser
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Free City
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Aberration of Starlight
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Conjugating Hindi
".. a literary labyrinth that takes readers off the beaten path."--Publishers Weekly
Born in New York in 1930, Harry Mathews settled in Europe in 1952 and has since then lived in Spain, Germany, Italy, and (chiefly) France. When Mathews published his first poems in 1956, he was associated with the so-called New York School of poets, with three of whom (John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, and James Schuyler) he founded the review Locus Solus in 1961. Through his friendship with Georges Perec, he became a member of the Oulipo in 1972. The author of six novels and several collections of poetry, recent publications are THE NEW TOURISM (Sand Paper Press, 2010), Sainte Catherine, a novella written in French (Editions P.O.L, 2000), The Human Country: the Collected Short Stories (Dalkey Archive Press, 2002), The Case of the Persevering Maltese: Collected Essays (Dalkey Archive Press, 2003), OULIPO COMPENDIUM (co-edited with Alastair Brotchie; Atlas Press and Make Now Press, 2005), and My Life in CIA: A Chronicle of 1973 (Dalkey Archive Press, 2005).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781564783219 |
| ISBN 10 | 1564783219 |
| Title | Human Country |
| Author | Harry Mathews |
| Series | American Literature |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Dalkey Archive Press |
| Year published | 2002-10-17 |
| Number of pages | 186 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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