NADA (9781681373171)

This tour de force political thriller, told in Manchette's signature noir style, follows a group of far left extremists in the throes of post-1968 disillusionment. The thrill of 1968 is long over, and the heavy fog of the 1970s has settled in. In Paris, however, the Nada gang--or groupuscule--still retains a militant attachment to its revolutionary dreams. Bringing together an anarchist orphaned by the Spanish Civil War, a Communist veteran of the French resistance, a frustrated high-school teacher of philosophy, a timid office worker, a terminal alcoholic, and one uncompromising young woman with a house in the country, Nada sets out to kidnap the American ambassador and issue a call to arms. What could possibly go wrong?

Product details

• Format Paperback | 200 pages
• Dimensions 124 x 201 x 15mm | 227g
• Publication date 27 Aug 2019
• Publisher NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
• Language English
• ISBN10 1681373173
• ISBN13 9781681373171
• Bestsellers rank 159,021

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Dimestore: a Writers Life (9781616206468)

"A memoir that shines with a bright spirit, a generous heart and an entertaining knack for celebrating absurdity."--The New York Times Book Review

"This is Smith at her finest."--Library Journal, starred review

Set deep in the mountains of Virginia, the Grundy of Lee Smith's youth was a place of coal miners, tent revivals, mountain music, drive-in theaters, and her daddy's dimestore. When she was sent off to college to gain some "culture," she understood that perhaps the richest culture she would ever know was the one she was leaving. Lee Smith's fiction has always lived and breathed with the rhythms and people of the Appalachian South. But never before has she written her own story.
Dimestore's fifteen essays are crushingly honest, wise and perceptive, and superbly entertaining. Together, they create an inspiring story of the birth of a writer and a poignant look at a way of life that has all but vanished.

Product details

• Format Paperback | 224 pages
• Dimensions 139 x 209 x 17.78mm | 226.8g
• Publication date 04 Apr 2017
• Publisher Algonquin Books (division of Workman)
• Publication City/Country New York, United States
• Language English
• Edition Statement Reprint
• ISBN10 1616206462
• ISBN13 9781616206468
• Bestsellers rank 1,828,548

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