by Peter Handke, Ralph Manheim, Jeffrey Eugenides
...disorder, cold, and silence drive me to distraction;... And so seven weeks after his mother's suicide at the age of 51, Handke makes himself sit down to write an account of her life, trying to avoid what he terms the "transformations" that would turn his story into art or allow him to distance hi...
NYRB not only has an amazing selection of books, but their cover design is invariably gorgeous, and in a few cases even seems reason enough to buy some of their titles. I loved the cover of [b:Stoner|166997|Stoner|John Edward Williams|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1320600716s/166997.jpg|1559207] and ...
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