NEW DIRECTIONS BOOKS
Spring 1999
NINA BERBEROVA
THE BOOK OF HAPPINESS. Tr. by M. Schwartz. A novel by the great Russian
writer. "As graceful and subtle as Chekhov." -Anne Tyler. $23.95 doth. April.
JORGE LUIS BORGES
EVERYTHING
&
NOTHING. Var. Trans. Intro by D. Yates. Favorite fictions by
Borges, celebrating the centennial of his birth. ND
Bibelot.
$7.50 pbk April.
JULIO CORTAZAR
CRONOPIOS AND FAMAS. Tr. by P. Blackburn. His best-loved fiction. "Any–
one who doesn't read Cortazar is doomed." -Pablo Neruda. $12.95 pbk. April.
YOEL HOFFMANN
KATSCHEN
&
THE BOOK OF JOSEPH. Var. Trans. Novellas. "Israel's cele–
brated avant-garde genius-in English at last.
"-Forward.
$11 .95 pbk. May.
SUSAN HOWE
PIERCE-ARROW. New poetry exploring the dark side of America's
fin -de-sie–
ele
intelligentsia through the life of Charles
W.
Peirce. $14.95 pbk. orig. June.
DENISE LEVERTOV
THIS GREAT UNKNOWING: LAST POEMS. Poems found after her death in
1997."A remarkable and transforming poet."-Robert Creeley. $19.95 d . April.
BERNADETTE MAYER
MIDWINTER DAY. Epic poem. "As radical as it is Horatian, able as little else
is both to delight and instruct."-Edwin Frank.
Boston Review.
$12.95 pbk. May.
JAMES MUNVES
ANDES RISING. A new American novel about a physicist missing in
Colombia, SA, an early 20th-C ornithologist, and a rabbi from SF. $17.95 d . May.
KENNETH PATCHEN
THE MEMOIRS OF A SHY PORNOGRAPHER. Intro. by Jonathan Williams.
A reissue of Patchen's 1945 cornic masterpiece.
An
ND
Classic.
$14.00 pbk. June.
PO CHU-I
THE SELECTED POEMS. Tr. by D. Hinton. A first English selection of works
by Po Chii-i (772-846 C.E.) one of the formulators of Zen. $14.95 pbk. orig. June.
W. G. SEBALD
THE RINGS OF SATURN. Tr. by M. Hulse. A fictional walking tour. "A dream
you want to last
forever."-The N.Y. Times Book Rev.
$14.00 first pbk. ed. April.
MURIEL SPARK
THE BALLAD OF PECKHAM RYE. A farcical fable of the devil afoot in a small
British town."Startiingly original."-The
Wash .Post. An
ND
Classic.
$11.95. May.
EMMA TENNANT
STRANGERS. A Family Romance. Lit. memoir. "A brilliant book about the
extraordinary and eccentric Tennant farnily."-Antonia Fraser. $22.95 d . May
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
THE GLASS MENAGERIE. Inds. "The Catastrophe of Success" and his own
"Production Notes." Intro. by Robert Bray. The
only
edition. $6.95 pbk. April.
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