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1	Television more books like this by Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Jordan Stump (Translator), Warren Motte (Afterword by) The amusingly odd protagonist and narrator of Jean-Philippe Toussaint's novel is an academic on sabbatical in Berlin to work on his book about Titian. With his research completed, all he has left to do is sit down and write. Unfortunately, he can't decide how to refer to his subject, so instead he starts watching TV continuously, until one day he ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.20! \| SVS
2	The Wrong Side of Paris more books like this by Honore de Balzac, Jordan Stump (Translator), Adam Gopnik (Introduction by) The Wrong Side of Paris, the final novel in Balzac’s The Human Comedy, is the compelling story of Godefroid, an abject failure at thirty, who seeks refuge from materialism by moving into a monastery-like lodging house in the shadows of Notre-Dame. Presided over by Madame de La Chanterie, a noblewoman with a tragic past, the house is ... see all copies from $3.79! new only from $8.30! \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Waitress Was New more books like this by Dominique Fabre, Jordan Stump (Translator) "A tiny fragment of life, simply told and yet touching in the extreme."-French Book News Pierre, a lifelong Parisian waiter, watches people come and go, sizing them up with great accuracy and empathy. Pierre doesn't look outside too much; he prefers to let the world come to him. When the caf goes under, Pierre finds himself at a loss. As we ... see all copies from $4.93! new only from $7.65! \| first editions \| SVS
4	My Big Apartment more books like this by Christian Oster, Jordan Stump (Translator) Winner of the prestigious Prix Medicis and a bestseller in France, My Big Apartment is a humorous and ironic look at the serious subject of growing up. Always accessible but never facile, Christian Oster's books tell of the endless human quest for love and equilibrium in the world. Oster's gift is to make this timeless theme new through deadpan ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.94! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Hotel Splendid more books like this by Marie Redonnet, Jordan Stump (Translator) "Each features a commanding female protagonist trapped in her place of origin, neither able nor wanting to escape from the home that gave her life but which now threatens to destroy her. The narrator of "Hotel Splendid" never questions her doomed quest to keep the establishment running, the girl in "Forever Valley" leaves only when dam ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.20! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Rose Mellie Rose more books like this by Marie Redonnet, Jordan Stump (Translator) "Each features a commanding female protagonist trapped in her place of origin, neither able nor wanting to escape from the home that gave her life but which now threatens to destroy her. The narrator of "Hotel Splendid" never questions her doomed quest to keep the establishment running, the girl in "Forever Valley" leaves only when dam ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.11! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Out of the Dark more books like this by Patrick Modiano, Jordan Stump (Translator) Patrick Modiano, the author of more than twenty books, is one of France's most admired contemporary novelists. "Out of the Dark" is a moody, expertly rendered tale of a love affair between two drifters. The narrator, writing in 1995, looks back thirty years to a time when, having abandoned his studies and selling off old art books to get by, he ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.48! \| SVS
8	Minor Angels Minor Angels more books like this by Antoine Volodine, Jordan Stump (Translator) From Antoine Volodine comes a deeply disturbing and darkly hilarious novel whose full meaning, its author asserts, will be found not in the book's pages but in the dreams people will have after reading it. In "Minor Angels" Volodine depicts a post-cataclysmic world in which the forces of capitalism have begun to reestablish themselves. Sharply ... see all copies from $12.08! new only from $14.87!
9	Nevermore more books like this by Marie Redonnet, Jordan Stump (Translator) "A frenetic erotic thriller, "Nevermore" ...[is] a chilling portrait of mankind's vulgarity and duplicity." - "Times Literary Supplement". When Deputy Willy Bost arrives in the mysterious border town of San Rosa, he does not know why he has been sent there or what he will find. What he encounters, gradually, is an obscure network of private and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $21.88! \| SVS
10	Forever Valley more books like this by Marie Redonnet, Jordan Stump (Translator) "Each features a commanding female protagonist trapped in her place of origin, neither able nor wanting to escape from the home that gave her life but which now threatens to destroy her. The narrator of Hotel Splendid never questions her doomed quest to keep the establishment running, the girl in "Forever Valley" leaves only when dam construction ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.91! \| first editions
11 view cover	The Crab Nebula more books like this by Eric Chevillard, Jordan Stump (Translator), Eleanor Hardin (Translator) "The Crab Nebula" (La Nebuleuse du crabe) is comprised of fifty-two vivid chapters that provide startling insights into the existence of this nebulous man named Crab: his nightmarish - and none too solid - physique, his mysterious absence from the pages of history, his birth in prison, his never having been born at all. In his portrait of Crab, ... see all copies from $8.95! new only from $12.06! \| SVS
12 view cover	On the Ceiling more books like this by Eric Chevillard, Jordan Stump (Translator) "On the Ceiling" tells the story of a young man who wears a chair upside down on his head. He falls in love with a young woman named Meline, and soon he and his friends move in with her and her family. They are disappointed by the life they find at Meline's, however, and in search of something better they make the collective decision to move to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.61!
13 view cover	Place Names: A Brief Guide to Travels in the Book by Jean Ricardou, Jordan Stump (Translator) see all copies from $6.12! new only from $8.00! \| SVS
14 view cover	The Jardin Des Plantes more books like this by Claude Simon, Jordan Stump (Translator) Since his international breakthrough with 1960's La Route des Flandres, Claude Simon has captivated readers worldwide with his relentless examination of interior life - in particular his own. Breaking from realistic narrative, obsessed with the power (and betrayals) of memory, The Jardin des Plantes is nothing less than an inquiry into what ... see all copies from $6.99! new only from $28.73!
15 view cover	Letters, Numbers, Forms: Essays, 1928-70 more books like this by Raymond Queneau, Jordan Stump (Translator) The first English translation of essays from one of the twentieth century's most intriguing avant-garde writers Compiled from two volumes of Raymond Queneau's essays ("Batons, chiffres et lettres" and "Le Voyage en Grece"), these selections find Queneau at his most playful and at his most serious, eloquently pleading for a certain classicism even ... see all copies from $35.00! new only from $35.00!
16 view cover	Naming & Unnaming: On Raymond Queneau more books like this by Jordan Stump "Naming and Unnaming" is a dazzling study that centers on the work of Raymond Queneau, one of the most influential French novelists of the twentieth century. Jordan Stump takes as his subject the many implications - epistemological, political, literary, sometimes even physical- of naming in Queneau's remarkable novels. From the idea that the names ... see all copies from $20.00! new only from $20.00!

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