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The Medusa Frequency

Author : Russell Hoban

Publisher : A&C Black

Page : 146 pages

File Size : 27,56 MB

Release : 2012-06-18

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1408835681

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An inexplicable message flashed onto the screen of his Apple II computer at 3 a.m. heralds the beginning of a startling quest for frustrated author Herman Orff. Taking up the offer of a cure for writer's block leads him 'to those places in your head that you can't get to on your own' - and plunges him into a semi-dreamland inhabited by a bizarre combination of characters from myth and reality: the talking head of Orpheus; a lost love; the young girl of Vermeer's famous portrait - and a frequency of Medusas.



The Medusa Frequency

Author : Russell Hoban

Publisher :

Page : 143 pages

File Size : 10,48 MB

Release : 1988

Category : Authorship

ISBN : 9780330301947

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Riddley Walker

Author : Russell Hoban

Publisher : A&C Black

Page : 258 pages

File Size : 14,3 MB

Release : 2012-05-24

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1408832240

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‘Walker is my name and I am the same. Riddley Walker. Walking my riddels where ever theyve took me and walking them now on this paper the same. There aint that many sir prizes in life if you take noatis of every thing. Every time will have its happenings out and every place the same. Thats why I finely come to writing all this down. Thinking on what the idear of us myt be. Thinking on that thing whats in us lorn and loan and oansome.’ Composed in an English which has never been spoken and laced with a storytelling tradition that predates the written word, RIDDLEY WALKER is the world waiting for us at the bitter end of the nuclear road. It is desolate, dangerous and harrowing, and a modern masterpiece.



Kleinzeit

Author : Russell Hoban

Publisher : A&C Black

Page : 194 pages

File Size : 22,5 MB

Release : 2012-06-18

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1408835754

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On a day like any other, Kleinzeit gets fired. Hours later he finds himself in hospital with a pair of adventurous pyjamas and a recurring geometrical pain. Here he falls instantly in love with a beautiful night nurse called Sister. And together they are pitched headlong into a wild and flickering world of mystery ... Kleinzeit. In German that means 'hero'. Or 'smalltime'. It depends on whom you ask. 'Russell Hoban is our Ur-novelist, a maverick voice that is like no other' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH



The Medusa Frequency

Author : Russell Hoban

Publisher :

Page : pages

File Size : 13,58 MB

Release : 2005

Category : Novelists

ISBN :

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Herman tries to break his writer's block by connecting to the electronic brain of his Apple computer. This begins some curious interchanges that create strange visions for Herman. Their conversations give him a clear understanding of his past, the true import of a book and of what it is to human.



Pilgermann

Author : Russell Hoban

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing

Page : 242 pages

File Size : 27,53 MB

Release : 2012-06-18

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1408835711

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He climbs a ladder to reach another man's wife and gives himself up to her beauty, but then Pilgermann descends into a mob of peasants inspired by the Pope to shed the blood of Jews. Alone on the cobblestones, mutilated and unmanned, he cries out to Israel, to the Lord his God, to Abraham and Isaac and Jacob. He is answered instead by Jesus Christ: 'I'm the one you talk to from now on.' Every day is the Day of Reckoning and the judgement Christ brings is the start of straight action. Pilgermann hears a voice from within and becomes a pilgrim. Through time and war and Death itself, he makes his way along the road to Jerusalem, struggling to find God in the horror that surrounds him.



Her Name was Lola

Author : Russell Hoban

Publisher : Arcade Publishing

Page : 228 pages

File Size : 34,20 MB

Release : 2004

Category : Authors

ISBN : 9781559707268

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Falling head over heels for the spirited Lola, who shares his musical tastes and complements him on every level, Max nevertheless pursues a secret second relationship when the unattainable high-school homecoming queen he loved years earlier reenters his life.



A Russell Hoban Omnibus

Author : Russell Hoban

Publisher : Indiana University Press

Page : 842 pages

File Size : 22,61 MB

Release : 1999

Category : English literature

ISBN : 9780253335869

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A Russell Hoban Omnibus presents four of Hoban's novels: the haunting The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz; the popular Turtle Diary (which was made into a movie starring Glenda Jackson and Ben Kingsley); Pilgermann; and his newest work, Mr Rinyo-Clacton's Offer, a brilliant Faustian comedy published here for the first time in the United States. Book jacket.



Linger Awhile

Author : Russell Hoban

Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher

Page : 154 pages

File Size : 47,40 MB

Release : 2007

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 9781567923261

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Irving Goodman, self-confessed dirty old man, is 83 years old and has just fallen in love. Unfortunately, Justine Trimble, star of 1950s cowboy B-movies, has been dead for 47 years. He saw her first in "Last Stage to El Paso", a lowlife black-and-whie Western, and has been unable to think of anything else since. Desperate, Goodman invokes the help of his old friend, Istvan Fallock, to see if they can't somehow coax a videotape to yield the 25-year-old Justine. So with a test tube, distillation of frog, a soupcon of primordial soup mixed with a suspension of disbelief, they summon her back to life. And to their surprise and consternation, she materializes. As a reward for lust and hubris, Irving gets a lot more than the affection and attention he'd bargained for. Thus beings an amazing tale of murder and mayhem in contemporary London, where sexy vampire cowgirls run amok, chased by men old enough to know better.



Explorations of Consciousness in Contemporary Fiction

Author : Grzegorz Maziarczyk

Publisher : BRILL

Page : 259 pages

File Size : 11,60 MB

Release : 2017-07-20

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 9004347852

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Explorations of Consciousness in Contemporary Fiction is a collection of essays examining the potential of the contemporary English-language novel to represent and inquire into various aspects of the human mind. Grounded in contemporary literary theory as well as consciousness studies, the essays consider both narrative techniques by means of which writers attempt to render various states of consciousness (such as multimodality in digital fiction or experimental typography in post-traumatic narratives), and novelistic interpretations of issues currently being investigated by neurobiologists, cognitive scientists and philosophers of the mind (such as the adaptive value of consciousness or the process of self-integration by means of self-narration). The volume thus offers critical reflection upon the novel’s cognitive accomplishment in this challenging area. Contributors are: Nathan D. Frank, Judit Friedrich, Justyna Galant, Marta Komsta, Péter Kristóf Makai, Ajitpaul Mangat, Grzegorz Maziarczyk, James McAdams, Daniel Panka, Barbara Puschmann-Nalenz, Joanna Klara Teske, Lloyd Issac Vayo, Dóra Vecsernyés, Sylwia Wilczewska