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Darnielle, John [design, Abby Kagan; jacket, Alex Merto]Biblio.com

Universal Harvester: A Novel

2017réf. 008456New York : Farrar Straus and Giroux 2017. 2017. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st ed. 1st printing ; 214 pages ; 22 cm ; ISBN 9780374282103 9781925321937 9781250159991 0374282102 1925321932 1250159997 ; OCLC 947147125 ; LCCn 2016025809 ; LOC no PS3604.A748 U55 2017 ; Dewey PS3604.A748 ; "The second novel from the author of Wolf in White Van inspired by his years living in a small town in Iowa"-- Provided by publisher.; Life in a small town takes a dark turn when mysterious footage begins appearing on VHS cassettes at the local Video Hut. So begins Universal Harvester the haunting and masterfully unsettling new novel from John Darnielle author of the New York Times Bestseller and National Book Award Nominee Wolf in White Van. Jeremy works at the Video Hut in Nevada Iowa. It's a small town in the center of the state-the first a in Nevada pronounced ay. This is the late 1990s and even if the Hollywood Video in Ames poses an existential threat to Video Hut there are still regular customers a rush in the late afternoon. It's good enough for Jeremy: it's a job quiet and predictable and it gets him out of the house where he lives with his dad and where they both try to avoid missing Mom who died six years ago in a car wreck. But when a local schoolteacher comes in to return her copy of Targets-an old movie starring Boris Karloff one Jeremy himself had ordered for the store-she has an odd complaint: "There's something on it" she says but doesn't elaborate. Two days later a different customer returns a different tape a new release and says it's not defective exactly but altered: "There's another movie on this tape." Jeremy doesn't want to be curious but he brings the movies home to take a look. And indeed in the middle of each movie the screen blinks dark for a moment and the movie is replaced by a few minutes of jagged poorly lit home video. The scenes are odd and sometimes violent dark and deeply disquieting. There are no identifiable faces no dialogue or explanation-the first video has just the faint sound of someone breathing- but there are some recognizable landmarks. These have been shot just outside of town. In Universal Harvester the once placid Iowa fields and farmhouses now sinister and imbued with loss and instability and profound foreboding. The novel will take Jeremy and those around him deeper into this landscape than they have ever expected to go. They will become part of a story that unfolds years into the past and years into the future part of an impossible search for something someone once lost that they would do anything to regain. "This chilling literary thriller follows a video store clerk as he deciphers a macabre mystery through clues scattered among the tapes his customers rent. A page-tuning homage to In Cold Blood and The Ring." -O: The Oprah Magazine ; "Universal Harvester is so wonderfully strange almost Lynchian in its juxtaposition of the banal and the creepy that my urge to know what the hell was going on caused me to go full throttle . . . But Darnielle hides so much beautiful commentary in the book's quieter moments that you would be remiss not to slow down." -Abram Scharf MTV News ; dark grey cloth in color pictorial dustjacket ; FINE/FINE New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017. hardcover

Joseph Valles - Books · États-Unis54,00 $US≈ 48,24 €

Spence, Jonathan D ; design, Antonina Krass, Terry Fehr; cartography, David LindrothBiblio.com

God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan Walls -- The Word -- Home Ground -- Sky War -- The Key -- Wandering -- The BASE -- Judgments -- Assembling -- Earth War -- The First City -- The Hunt -- The Earthly Paradise -- Three Ships -- The Split -- The Killing -- Family Circles -- The Wrong Man -- Priestking -- Snowfall -- Partings -- Notes -- Bibliography Of Works Cited

1996réf. 010344W.W. Norton & Company New York ©1996 1996. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. xxvii 400 p. : ill. maps ; 24 cm. OCLC 32394662 ; ISBN: 9780393315561 0393315568 LCCN 95017245 Classification - LC DS758.23.H85 S64 1996 Classification - Dewey 951.034092 ; embossed dark orange cloth in color pictorial price-clipped dustjacket ; "A magnificent tapestry . . . a story that reaches beyond China into our world and time: a story of faith hope passion and a fatal grandiosity."--Washington Post Book World ; Whether read for its powerful account of the largest uprising in human history or for its foreshadowing of the terrible convulsions suffered by twentieth-century China or for the narrative power of a great historian at his best God's Chinese Son must be read. At the center of this history of China's Taiping rebellion 1845-64 stands Hong Xiuquan a failed student of Confucian doctrine who ascends to heaven in a dream and meets his heavenly family: God Mary and his older brother Jesus. He returns to earth charged to eradicate the "demon-devils" the alien Manchu rulers of China. His success carries him and his followers to the heavenly capital at Nanjing where they rule a large part of south China for more than a decade. Their decline and fall wrought by internal division and the unrelenting military pressures of the Manchus and the Western powers carry them to a hell on earth. Twenty million Chinese are left dead. ; Jonathan D. Spence was born in Surrey England on August 11 1936. He received a B.A. in history from Clare College Cambridge University and a M.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University. He was Sterling Professor of History at Yale University from 1993 to 2008. As a historian specializing in Chinese history he wrote several books including The Search for Modern China The Death of Woman Wang and The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci. ; Contents: Walls -- The Word -- Home Ground -- Sky War -- The Key -- Wandering -- The BASE -- Judgments -- Assembling -- Earth War -- The First City -- The Hunt -- The Earthly Paradise -- Three Ships -- The Split -- The Killing -- Family Circles -- The Wrong Man -- Priestking -- Snowfall -- Partings -- Notes -- Bibliography Of Works Cited ; small nick on dustjacket else FINE/FINE W.W. Norton & Company, New York, ©1996 hardcover

Joseph Valles - Books · États-Unis54,00 $US≈ 48,24 €