NEW DIRECTIONS BOOKS
Spring 2000
NINA BERBEROVA
THE LADIES FROM ST. PETERSBURG. Tr. by Schwartz. Three novellas. "One of the
Best Books of 1998"
-The New York Times.
Now in paper. $12.95 pbk. Available in May.
JULIO CORTAZAR
62: A MODEL KIT. Tr. by Rabassa. The classic 1968 novel about an unnamed European
"city" is finally back in print. "Beautifully written"
-The N .Y Times.
$14.00 pbk. April.
H.D.
PILATE'S WIFE. Ed. w /intro. by Burke. Never before published 1929 novel. A feminist,
spiritual version of the crucifixion of Jesus. $12.95 pbk. original. June.
SHUSAKU ENDO
FIVE BY ENDO. Tr. by Gessel. Stories by the great Japanese writer. "A master of the inte–
rior monologue" -Robert Coles,
The N.Y Times Book Rev.
An NO
Bibelot.
$7.00 pbk. June.
THALIA FIELD
POINT AND LINE. New poetry. "Singular, uncompromising, eccentric. ..radiantly intel–
ligent, beautiful in ways we can scarcely imagine" -Carole Maso. $14.95 pbk. orig. April.
LARS GUSTAFSSON
ELEGIES AND OTHER POEMS. Ed. by Middleton. A selection from the poet's books, a
companion vol. to
The Stillness of the World before Bach
(ND, '88). $13.95 pbk. orig. June.
JAVIER MARIAS
WHEN I WAS MORTAL. Tr. by Jull Costa. A dozen elegant stories by MarIas, "justly con–
sidered the most talented Spanish author alive"
(ll Messaggero).
$21.95 cl. April.
TOBY OLSON
HUMAN NATURE. A first book of new poetry in 16 years. "A master's work without
question, his own defining; time out of mind" -Robert Creeley. $14.95 pbk. orig. April.
MICHAEL PALMER
THE PROMISES OF GLASS.
A first new collection of poetry since
At Passages
(NO,
'95). "[His) visionary new poems recall Paul Celan" - Marjorie Perloff. $21.95 cl. April.
VICTOR PELEVIN
THE BLUE LANTERN. Tr. by Bromfield. Eight of Pelevin's best stories now avail. in pbk.
"A finger-clickingly contemporary voice"
-The New York Times Mag.
$12.95 pbk. May.
W. G. SEBALD
VERTIGO. Tr. by Hulse. Now in English, Sebald's
(The Emigrants)
first novel. "One of
the most exciting...of contemporary European writers"-New
Republic.
$23.95 d. May.
MURIEL SPARK
MEMENTO MORl. Novel. Something uncanny besets a group of elderly friends in '50s
London. "Chillingly brilliant" - Tennessee Williams.
An
NO
Classic.
$11.95 pbk. June.
PAUL WEST
THE DRY DANUBE: A HITLER FORGERY. Hitler's "memoir" of his years as a failed art
student in Vienna. "West is a master"
- Washington Post Book World.
$21.95 cl. April.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
STAIRS TO THE ROOF. Ed. w / intro. by Hale. First pubHcation of an early Depression
play, "a prayer for the wild of heart who are kept in cages" (TW). $11.95 pbk. orig. May.
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