2017, ISBN: 9780316001946

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Toronto, Ontario: Toronto, ON: Knopf Canada / Division of Penguin Random House, 2017, 1st Edition, First Printing, 2017. ------------( 1st Printing of the First Edition ) ---hardcover, a… Plus…

Toronto, Ontario: Toronto, ON: Knopf Canada / Division of Penguin Random House, 2017, 1st Edition, First Printing, 2017. ------------( 1st Printing of the First Edition ) ---hardcover, a Near Fine/Fine example in a lightly rubbed Near Fine/Fine dustjacket, looks new and is likely unread, signed "To Kathy Martin Amis", 382 pages,---"For more than thirty years, Martin Amis has turned his keen intellect and unrivaled prose loose on an astonishing range of topics--politics, sports, celebrity, America, and, of course, literature. Now, at last, these incomparable essays have been gathered together. Here is Amis at the 2011 GOP Iowa Caucus, where, squeezed between "windbreakers and woolly hats," he pores over The Ron Paul Family Cookbook and laments the absence of "our Banquo," Herman Cain. He writes about finally confronting the effects of aging on his athletic prowess. He revisits, time and time again, the worlds of Bellow and Nabokov, his "twin peaks," masters who have obsessed and inspired him. Brilliant, incisive, and savagely funny, The Rub of Time is a vital addition to any Amis fan's bookshelf, and the perfect primer for readers discovering his fierce and tremendous talents for the first time"---, ---TABLE OF CONTENTS By Way of an Introduction / He’s Leaving Home / Twin Peaks 1 Vladimir Nabokov and the Problem from Hell / Saul Bellow, as Opposed to Henry James / Politics 1 / The Republican Party in 2011: Iowa / The Republican Party in 2012: Tampa, Florida / the Republican Party in 2016: Trump / Literature 1 Philip Larkin: His Work and Life / Larkin’s Letters to Monica / Iris Murdoch: Age Will Win / The House of Windsor / Princess Diana: A Mirror, Not a Lamp The Queen’s Speech, the Queen’s Heart / More Personal 1 You Ask the Questions 1 / The Fourth Estate and the Puzzle of Heredity / On the Road: The Multicity Book Tour / The King’s English / Twin Peaks 2 / Bellow’s Lettres / Nabokov’s Natural Selection / / Americana (Stepping Westward) Losing in Las Vegas / Travolta’s Second Act / In Pornoland: Pussies Are Bullshit / /Literature 2 Don DeLillo: Laureate of Terror / J. G. Ballard: From Outer Space to Inner Space / Early Ballard: The Drowned World / The Shock of the New: A Clockwork Orange Turns Fifty / Sport Three Stabs at Tennis / The Champions League Final, 1999 / In Search of Dieguito Maradona / On the Court: My Beautiful Game / More Personal 2 Deciding to Write Time’s Arrow / Marty and Nick Jr. Sail to America / You Ask the Questions 2 / Politics 2 Ivan Is Introduced to the USSR: All Together Now / Is Terrorism About Religion? / In Memory of Neda Soltan, 1983-2009: Iran / The Crippled Murderers of Cali, Colombia / Literature 3 Philip Roth Finds Himself / Roth the Elder: A Moralistic Investigation / John Updike’s Farewell Notes / Rabbit Angstrom Confronts Obamacare / Jane Austen and the Dream Factory / More Personal 3 Christopher Hitchens / Politics 3 On Jeremy Corbyn, Leader of Her Majesty’s Opposition / President Trump Orates in Ohio / Twin Peaks 3 Bellow: Avoiding the Void Véra and Vladimir: Letters to Véraany image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo ///SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE/// ---sizes are approximate (generally within 1/8 inch)---. Signed (see description). First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine (see description)/Near Fine (see description). Illus. by Photo Cover. 6.5w x 9.5h Inches. NOT Price Clipped., Toronto, ON: Knopf Canada / Division of Penguin Random House, 2017, 1st Edition, First Printing, 2017, 4, New York, N.Y.: Back Bay Books/Little Brown and Company, 2011. First Black Bay Paperback Edition [stated]. First printing [stated]. Trade paperback. Very good. xiv, [6], 394, [2], 13, [3] pages Signed by author sticker on front. Color illustrations of a reconstruction of Alexandia; an Aerial view of Alexandria; the inhabited world as Cleopatra knew it; 4 busts of Cleopatra; and a bust of Cleopatra as the goddess Isis. Signed by the author on the title page. Chapters cover That Egyptian Woman; Dead Men Don't Bite; Cleopatra Captures the Old Man by Magic; The Golden Age Never Was the Present Age; Man Is by Nature a Political Creature; We Must Often Shift the Sails When We Wish to Arrive in Port; An Object of Gossip for the Whole World; Illicit Affairs and Bastard Children; and The Wickedest Woman in History. Also includes Notes, Selected Bibliography, Index, and Reading Group Guide, Questions and Topics for discussion, as well as a map of Alexandria in Cleopatra's day and a map of the Mediterranean in Cleopatra's day. In Cleopatra: A Life, the author has managed to create a masterpiece: both a hugely readable portrait of a fascinating, unscrupulous, and powerful woman, and a brilliant explanation of the politics that lay behind her actions. Stacy Madeleine Schiff (born October 26, 1961) is an American former editor, essayist, and author of five biographies; her biography of Vera Nabokov, the wife and muse of the Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov, won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize in biography. Schiff has written biographies of French aviator Antoine de Saint-Exup, prime mover of America's founding, Benjamin Franklin, ancient Egyptian queen Cleopatra, and the key figures and events of the Salem Witch Trials of 1692-93 in colonial Massachusetts. Derived from a Kirkus review: A Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer presents a swift, sympathetic life of one of history's most maligned and legendary women. Schiff acknowledges that our image of Cleopatra VII arrives through the distorted lenses of biased (male, Roman) history, romanticized and melodramatic stage productions and films and the distortion of time itself. Cleopatra. During that time, she took into her bed some of the most powerful men in history (Julius Caesar, Mark Antony), maneuvered through a male world with intelligence, skill and sanguinary brutality, met and failed to charm Herod and bore children to both Caesar and Antony. Schiff reminds us that Cleopatra and her family were not related to the Egyptian pharaohs but descended from Ptolemy, a Macedonian general with Alexander the Great. She also reminds us that Caesar's Rome was not the Rome of later glories and depravities. The Coliseum did not yet stand, nor did the Pantheon or any number of other Roman architectural marvels. Born in 69 BCE, Cleopatra entered a family for whom the word internecine was surely invented-killing family members standing in the way was routine, and Cleopatra was not above it. The young girl was intellectually quick, savvy and willing to learn, and she soon made her first significant conquest: Caesar. She came to Rome to see him, causing uproar, for Rome was an empire that had a gender test for human rights (women need not apply). Schiff notes that Caesar's assassination was a political disaster for Cleopatra, but she quickly recovered, won Antony and enjoyed a number of amazingly powerful and profligate years before history and the forces of Octavian brought her down. Schiff finds a remarkably complex woman-brutal and loving, dependent and independent, immensely strong but finally vulnerable., Back Bay Books/Little Brown and Company, 2011, 3<

2011, ISBN: 9780316001946

New York/Boston: Back Bay Books, 2011. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Fine. 5x1x8. First printing. A fine copy. 2011 Trade Paperback. 394, 13 pp. The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer b… Plus…

New York/Boston: Back Bay Books, 2011. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Fine. 5x1x8. First printing. A fine copy. 2011 Trade Paperback. 394, 13 pp. The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer brings to life the most intriguing woman in the history of the world: Cleopatra, the last queen of Egypt. Her palace shimmered with onyx, garnets, and gold, but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Above all else, Cleopatra was a shrewd strategist and an ingenious negotiator. Though her life spanned fewer than forty years, it reshaped the contours of the ancient world. She was married twice, each time to a brother. She waged a brutal civil war against the first when both were teenagers. She poisoned the second. Ultimately she dispensed with an ambitious sister as well; incest and assassination were family specialties. Cleopatra appears to have had sex with only two men. They happen, however, to have been Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, among the most prominent Romans of the day. Both were married to other women. Cleopatra had a child with Caesar and--after his murder--three more with his protege. Already she was the wealthiest ruler in the Mediterranean; the relationship with Antony confirmed her status as the most influential woman of the age. The two would together attempt to forge a new empire, in an alliance that spelled their ends. Cleopatra has lodged herself in our imaginations ever since. Famous long before she was notorious, Cleopatra has gone down in history for all the wrong reasons. Shakespeare and Shaw put words in her mouth. Michelangelo, Tiepolo, and Elizabeth Taylor put a face to her name. Along the way, Cleopatra's supple personality and the drama of her circumstances have been lost. In a masterly return to the classical sources, Stacy Schiff here boldly separates fact from fiction to rescue the magnetic queen whose death ushered in a new world order. Rich in detail, epic in scope, Schiff's is a luminous, deeply original reconstruction of a dazzling life., Back Bay Books, 2011, 5<