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Wraps (Paperback). Condición: Mildly Edgeworn. Pages are clean and binding is tight.

Softcover. Condición: Near Fine. Uncorrected Galleys.; Octavo.

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. A daring collaborative celebrity autobiography by two of America's finest poets, D.A. Powell and David Trinidad A daring collaborative celebrity autobiography by two of America's finest poets, D.A. Powell and David Trinidad Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. This two-part collection by the beloved, award-winning poet looks at mortality, celebrity, pop culture, poetry, dreams, and otherworldliness in often disarming ways."Bedrock at Night" (think The Flintstones) is the title poem of the first section, with tributes to Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Hollywood idols, and more. The second part is an extended Neruda-esque ode to a life cut short: that of singer Buddy Holly.The Young PoetI want what you haveonly I want itnowwhen I'm youngnot when I'm oldlike youDavid Trinidad is known for the masterful use of popular culture in his poems. His work is also associated with the innovative formalism of the New York School. Originally from Los Angeles, Trinidad lives in Chicago, where he is a professor and Director of Graduate Programs in the Creative Writing Department at Columbia College. Swinging on a Star is his fifth poetry collection with Turtle Point Press. He has also published two collaborative works with the press. Fame, ambition, idols, spirituality, and death. Trinidad seamlessly blends his obsessions into lucid, inventive, memorable poems. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. "As adept working with the sonnet and sestina as with loose-fitting lines, Howard produces poems of great immediacy that stir with emotional depth. . . . [His] vision of our post-9/11 culture is offbeat, yet 'wisdomtight.'"-David Trinidad Eric Howard's debut poetry collection reveals the secrets that bind office work to war, Gidget to the damned, the Bible to popular song, mythology to fact, and Los Angeles to Ovid. On a bicycle ride through heavy traffic, it versifies the last days of a failed pimp, gives a tarot reading to warplanes, and deciphers the hieroglyphics of lost empire.Eric Howard is an LA-based poet and editor. His work has appeared in the Birmingham Poetry Review, Caveat Lector, Conduit, Gulf Stream Magazine, Hawaii Pacific Review, Plainsong, The Sun, and in the anthology Wide Awake: Poets of Los Angeles and Beyond. Taliban Beach Party dances with the muse of history on the streets of Los Angeles, leaping from parody to prophecy. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Continues Glancy's signature poetic investigation of suffering, identity, and Indigenous history, as in her 2020 work, Island of the Innocent: A Consideration of the Book of Job, and her 1998 novel, Pushing the Bear.Glancy's status as a mentor and teacher of generations of native writers working today.This is a story of Arctic exploration, of bravery, strength, will, and danger, told from the point of view of a woman and a mother.Published upon the 100th anniversary of the expedition.It is the story of an Indigenous Inuit woman.A meditation on history, memory, writing, and the archive, which includes a creative use of historical materials, including passages and facsimile pages from the real diary.Cover artwork by Anne Kingsbury, who cofounded and directs the Woodland Pattern Book Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. "Easily ranks among the best fiction I've read this year." -David Abrams"If you've come to look for America, it's here in The Big Impossible. Taut, urgent, emotionally powerful stories about the families, workers, and dreamers who are our neighbors, and Delaney's range and sense of history make him the perfect writer to illuminate their lives." -Christopher Castellani, author of Leading MenThe short fiction in Ted Delaney's new collection explores guilt and redemption, aspiration and failure, and the stubbornness of modest hopes. The usual mileposts are fading, and choice is in the context of institutions and assumptions that are no longer holding steady.In "Clean," a man waits for inevitable justice to come, as much as it will play against him. In "House of Sully," a working-class family navigates the tumultuous year that 1968 was, as new perceptions shake long-held and dependable, if sometimes misguided, beliefs. Other stories examine the inner life of a school shooter, the comical posturing of writers at a literary party, a British veteran of The Great War living at a Florida retirement home but haunted by his losses, and a man's bittersweet visits to past lives via Google Street View. In the sequence set in the West, an itinerant worker moves across the Great Plains, navigating stark landscapes, trying for foothold.The Atlantic's C. Michael Curtis praised Ted Delaney's debut collection for its "moral intensity . . . in the tradition of writers as varied as Ethan Canin and William Trevor." Two decades later Delaney returns to the short fiction form with utter mastery. In prairie towns and backwaters, and in the big cities, people search for themselves and their lost way. Is the American dream still possible in this big, harsh land? Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. A New York Times Book Review New & Noteworthy Selection"Grace Schulman makes me want to live to be four hundred years old, because she makes me feel there is so much out there, and it's unbearable to miss any of it."-Wallace ShawnGrace Schulman is an award-winning poet and the author of seven collections of poems. She has had long posts as Poetry Editor of the Nation magazine, Director of the Poetry Center at the 92nd Street Y, and Distinguished Professor at CUNY's Baruch College, where she still teaches. But her love for her scientist husband and her care for him through his long illness proved to be among her greatest inspirations. It called forth her deepest grief at his loss.How did Schulman maintain the independence, solitude, and freedom she required within the bounds of marriage? And what made her marriage endure through a decade of living apart? "In my experience, the phrase 'happy marriage' is a term of opposites, like 'friendly fire' or 'famous poet.' My marriage has been a feast of contradiction . . . " Strange Paradise looks at this, Schulman's remarkable career, her friendships with great writers, her work as an historic impresario at the Y, her religious and philosophical leanings, and her grand love affair with New York-all in her magical prose. The acclaimed poet mines the mystery of marriage. A stunningly brave memoir of profound love, pain, and loss. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. The year is 2024. Climate change has altered the world's wave patterns. Drones crisscross the sky, cars drive themselves, and surfing is a new Olympic sport. Mafuri Long, UCSD marine biology grad, champion surfer, and only female to dominate a record eighty-foot wave, still has something to prove. Having achieved Internet fame, along with sponsorship from Google and Nike, she's intent on winning Olympic gold. But when her father, a clinically depressed former Navy captain and widower, learns that his beloved supercarrier, the USS Hillary Rodham Clinton, is to be sunk, he draws Mafuri into a powerful undertow. Conflicts compound as Mafuri's personal life comes undone via social media, and a vicious Aussie competitor levels bogus doping charges against her. Mafuri forms an unlikely friendship with an awkward teen, a Ferrari-driving professional gamer who will prove to be her support and ballast. Authentic, brutal, and at times funny, Mafuri lays it all out in a sprightly, hot-wired voice. From San Diego to Sydney, Key West, and Manila, That Crazy Perfect Someday goes beyond the sports/surf cliche to explore the depths of sorrow and hope, yearning and family bonds, and the bootstrap power of a bold young woman climbing back into the light.Michael Mazza is a San Francisco-area fiction writer whose stories have appeared in Other Voices, WORDS, Blue Mesa Review, TINGE, and ZYZZYVA. He is also an internationally acclaimed art and creative director working in the advertising industry. That Crazy Perfect Someday is his first novel. A gutsy female surf pro pushes against wild odds for what she wants-with deep surprises about who she is. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. "A masterpiece of women's frontier experience!" -KATHY SCHULZ, author of The Underground Railroad in Ohio"This is an amazingbook, and I couldn't stop reading it." -JOAN SILBER, PEN/Faulkner and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Secrets of Happiness and Improvement"An awesome account of female survival at a horrific time." -BOOKLISTAmost unusual portrait of early America based on a rare family document, in which a young mother's years in captivity with the Shawnee prove to be the best years of her life.It's 1779 and a young white woman named Margaret Erskine is venturing west from Virginia, on horseback, with her baby daughter and the rest of her family. She has no experience of Indians, and has absorbed most of the prejudices of her time, but she is open-minded, hardy, and mentally strong, a trait common to most of her female descendants-Sallie Bingham's ancestors.Bingham had heard Margaret's story since she was a child but didn't see the fifteen pages Margaret had dictated to her nephew a generation after her captivity until they turned up in her mother's blue box after her death. Devoid of most details, this restrained account inspired Bingham to research and imagine and fill the gaps in her story and to consider the tough questions it raises. How did Margaret, our narrator, bear witnessing the murder of her infant? How did she survive her near death at the hands of the Shawnee after the murder of the chief? Whose father was her baby John's, born nine months after her taking? And why did her former friends in Union, Virginia, turn against her when, ransomed after four years, she reluctantly returned?This is the seldom told story of the making of this country in the years of the Revolution, what it cost in lives and suffering, and how one woman among many not only survived extreme hardship, but flourished. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. An intimate look at Trinidad's early yearsFirst prose work by a widely published poet whose career spans nearly four decadesWealth of '60s and '70s pop culture trivia will delight fansBeloved, well-connected, prize-winning author This suburban California coming of age navigates Trinidad's personal history in the shadow of Hollywood, against the dramas of the 1960s and '70s. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. A candid look at an extraordinary life of privilegeAn inside look at the family life of one of America's greatest business leadersOne woman's struggle for happiness and the techniques she found to help herNearly 80 illustrations: photos, private letters, and memorabilia, most of which have never before been published. by Lynne Tillman (Harcourt, 1999) can learn the "before" and "after" in this book. Jeannette many former colleagues from the bookselling community are sure to support the book. The favored granddaughter of IBM's Thomas J. Watson reveals a life of glamour, depressive battles, and hard-won joy and peace. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. "Part memoir, part history and part travelogue, Havana without Makeup . take[s] you places you would never find in a guide book."-Mimi Whitefield, Miami Herald"The story Portocarero weaves here is rich and fascinating, and vital to understanding an often mysterious place."-Patrick Oppmann, CNN Havana Correspondent and Bureau ChiefHavana without Makeup is the ultimate insider's view of Havana, a wide-ranging exploration of its complex facets as seen by few. Its aim is to capture the soul of a city and a society that have evolved on their own terms at the moment before they face inevitable transformations.Opening on the eve of the announcement of reconciliation between the U.S. and Cuba, the book then looks back at the cultural, political, economic, and religious influences that led up to this historic moment and beyond. Readers are led by a brilliant renaissance man and writer who has been at the vanguard of the city's struggles for more than twenty years. Portocarero's anti-tourist guide to Havana examines the built environment of "the most sensual ruin on the planet": why are large parts of the city so neglected, and what changes may we see over the coming years? Examining all things Cubania--racial issues, la revolucin, baseball, Hemingway, communism, synagogues, Santeria, Cimarron culture, and much more--Portocarero overturns every stone in his endeavor to bring us inside the city he loves.Illustrated with original photographs, this is a unique and essential account of Havana's history, its present, and what its future may hold.Herman Portocarero). Between 1995 and 2017, he was ambassador in Havana for his native country and later for the European Union, where he developed a deep professional and personal relationship with Cuba, Havana, and her people. A diplomat and writer with decades of unparalleled knowledge delivers an intimate, unconventional portrait: the single must-read book about Cuba. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. "Aquiver of eclogues, couplets, Zen epigrams, and you-name-it literary mischief. The fun is all ours."Foreword Reviews"Mott's whiplash insights are as provocative as coiled springs." -Douglas Crase"Mott's lyrical antics embody poetry at its most earnest and parodic, a deadly potion stolen from the fountain of imagination." -Yunte HuangGlenn Mott's Eclogues recast a classic pastoral form, making it uniquely suited to our times. He considers the inheritance of authority with a mixture of candor and humor in observations on social, natural, and metaphysical transactions. Inspired by China's Manual of the Mustard Seed Garden, these epigrams, poems, and prose meditations achieve a heightened perception, transcending the garden variety truths of both East and West. Transcendent, paradoxical, exuberant with contrariety, Glenn Mott's epigrams mix the sacred with the profane, humor with compassion, recasting pastoral verse for twenty-first century readers. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. "Tense, abundantly researched, and heartbreaking . . . Coles makes sense of the unique forces that shaped women in the twentieth century." -Foreword ReviewsWalter Link and Miriam Wollaeger, a young geologist couple in 1920s Wisconsin, set out to find oil to supply the surging U.S. demand. This exciting work will allow them to build their lives in South and Central America, Indonesia, and Cuba. But from the first posting in Columbia, they quickly discover that no women are working in the field in these places. While Walter faces the hardships and thrills of exploration in the jungles and mountains, and eventually becomes chief geologist for Standard Oil, Miriam is left behind in the colonial capitals during Walter's often lengthy times away. She defines herself through the limited means left to a woman within their small societies: playing bridge or polo by day and dancing into the wee hours with early KLM pilots, diplomats, and the footloose sons of moneyed Americans and the European aristocracies. She also raises three children, has intimate involvements, learns the local languages, and takes up teaching. But she is not satisfied. And finally she does something about it. Following in her grandparents' footsteps, author Katharine Coles looks backward and forward, through documents and imagination. She looks at their journeys and hers, and mingling their words with her own, examines the delicate balances that must exist in a successful marriage and a feminist life. Two young geologists embark on faraway lives amidst the strictures of their time; their granddaughter blends their story and hers in this one-of-a-kind account. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Four generations of an extended mixed-race family live with the problems we've all heard about, yet thrive amidst hardship, turning the myth of the Old West on its head.Prize-winning story writer Sallie Bingham's latest group of tales reverse commonly held assumptions about the American West. The Hispanic, Native, and white members of this rough and tumble family pivot around an outrageously funny and fallible rodeo rider known as Cowboy. They live with alcohol and drug addiction, dependency on a fraying welfare system, poverty, violence, and deep-held loyalties. Unlikely learning and unlikely sources of wisdom abound. "During those long winter nights when Dad took off for Sheridan-no liquor allowed on the rez but Sheridan is only about twenty miles west," Fat Annie tells the boy known as Sure Enough some truths about women that will guide him for the rest of his life. Running away on horseback from the imposition of ashes at his Jesuit boarding school, eleven-year-old Jimmy James finds "this little lady priest" in the town park. She makes the cross with ashes on his horse's head, then turns to him, and he feels the cross "burn into him worse than any brand." A bizarre accident in "How Daddy Lost His Ear" results in an equally bizarre wedding. And one of the many "white ladies" who appear briefly and disappear fast finally gets Cowboy to tell the truth.These men, women, and kids don't just endure. They thrive in their own peculiar style, turning seemingly tragic outcomes into sources of madcap humor, and nourishing indelible family ties. This is the West as it was and is, a complex web of traditions and surprising, even shocking, ways of finding triumph. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. "[W]itness the sharp, wry play of a dazzling mind."-COLE SWENSEN, author of And And AndMajestic, playful, brainy, heart-wrenching, Katharine Coles's tenth collection of poems at once celebrates and elegizes: her teachers and parents-both dead at ninety-who still issue advice (some good, some not) from beyond the grave; the creatures who pass through her canyon quarter-acre; the moon as it rises and sets; even her Levi's shrink-to-fits, when she realizes she'll never wear out another pair. The poems "guide us with their empathy, sometimes yoked with a wry irony, around the physics of interactions." [John Kinsella]More than anything, this is a book about presence: haunted by the past yet firmly rooted in the also-haunting now, Coles keeps spinning, finding herself in words, in her body, in time. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Have a talk with a ghost or a duck or contest the destroyers of the land, listen to the roos and slow worms, marvel and question and rage and love the language with John Kinsella's Aporia.Aporia is a collectionsearching for logic where logic is hard to find or maybe can't be found. Fromthe death of the poet's father, to considering the complex, troubled, and oftendistressing relationship between humans and non-human life, and through a senseof ghosts being materially present even when we doubt their existence, weundertake a journey in which reality and creative conception are in tension.This tension is embodied in the figure of the poet Hlderlin, and also throughmoments in Ovid's Metamorphosis, ongoing obsessions for Kinsella whichhe constantly circles back to, reconsiders, and departs from. Whetherconversing with ghosts or the living, with animals or plants, these are poemsconcerned with transformative relationships with and within the "natural world."Kangaroos, echidnas, ducks, owls, deer, slow worms, and many other creaturesfrom around the world inhabit these pages, finding their own way through toautonomy and self-declaration as the poet argues with himself over the dynamicsof life and death. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

PB. Condición: very good+, wraps (softcover). 103pp ISBN 1885983468 A book about a special kind of bliss, the bliss of invention, and collecting, and above all valuing the bits and pieces of popular detritus that constitute our lives.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. "[Delaney] cares about details and understands their importance to the larger themes of loss, desperation, and betrayed loyalties. His characters are . . . fully realized, familiar people, whose failures are heartbreakingly authentic." -The Boston GlobeA Bureau of Indian Affairs agent in a remote Wyoming reservation reckons with the clash of cultures, his own failings, and the attempted destruction of a people.Five teenagers take a joyride through the barren landscape of Wyoming's small Towuk Indian Reservation. Only four survive.It's 1958, and the horrific accident cracks open a heart of darkness tainted by years of betrayal and anger. Danny Hubbard, a Korean War vet and troubled agent from the Bureau of Indian Affairs, races to find the driver before the sheriff of nearby Suncreek can use the accident to bring a century-old tension to a violent head.The nomadic Towuk once lived on horseback and without property lines. That changed forcibly in the 1870s, as recorded in a series of dusty reports over which Hubbard pores. Now petroleum found on the reservation has brought in just enough money to change the Towuks' lives a little, but with the windfall comes dangerous resentment from the white residents of Suncreek. As the margin between reservation and town grows more rigid by the day, Hubbard witnesses both the last vestiges of the Towuk's way of life and the tribe's likely future.Book II looks back almost a century to Agent Dorrance, author of the reports in Hubbard's office. A protege of Horace Greeley and his Utopianism, Dorrance tries to persuade, then to force, the roaming tribe to give up their horses and settle down to farming-saving their lives at the expense of their culture.Morally complex and as relevant to today's issues of freedom and land occupation as ever, Hard Margins is about captive people and their desire to escape their fates, and the captors who desire equally to escape theirs. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. "Charles North is the master of multitasking-all experience opens to him at every moment-as well as the master tout court. He belongs on the summit of the American Parnassus."-Harry Mathews"North is a younger compatriot of O'Hara and Ashbery, and his nonchalance aspiring to greatness finds the same 'risks inside art' that other poets found in the city. Juggling a satiric self-consciousness with a 'strange mischief,' North pulls death-defying propositions and playful mockeries from thin air."-Publishers Weekly"The business of examining exactly what one means is central to North's concept of the role of the poet, and he is especially alert to the way particulars and ideas interact in our constructions of meaning. The urge to hold out 'particulars' to the reader is mediated through an alert, sophisticated consciousness insistently aware of convention and genre."-Mark Ford"The challenge of writing about the sensual qualities of New York City which seems so tired, by North's pen becomes transcendent again. And that's only one of the things his poetry accomplishes. He is witty when wit seems all but lost, gorgeous when gorgeousness is supposed to have crawled off to wherever Frank O'Hara's odes come from."-Ange MlinkoCharles North's poetry has received high praise from a wide variety of aesthetic camps. Among his awards are a Foundation for Contemporary Arts grant, two National Endowment for the Arts grants, four Fund for Poetry Awards, and a Poets Foundation Award. James Schuyler on Charles North: "To me, he is the most stimulating poet of his generation." Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. "A triumph, a contemporary satyrican."-D.A. PowellThis three-way, groundbreaking, e-mail deconstruction of All About Eve is a treasure-trove of poetic forms, cinephile gossip and literary visitations. The longest poem of the century was called "brilliant" by Toronto Globe and SF Chronicle Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Softcover. Condición: Very Good. Signed by the author on the title page, dated November 8, 2001.

Softcover. Condición: Very Good. Lightly rubbed else fine.; Octavo.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Born to great riches, lord of vast feudal estates and many palaces, Felix Youssoupoff led the life of a Grand Lord in the days before the Russian Revolution. Married to a niece of Czar Nicholas II, he could observe at close range the rampant corruption and intrigues of the imperial court, which culminated in the rise to power of the sinister monk Rasputin. Finally, impelled by patriotism and his love for the Romanoff dynasty, which he felt was in danger of destroying itself and Russia, he killed Rasputin in 1916 with the help of the Grand Duke Dimitri and others. More than any other single event, this deed helped to bring about the cataclysmic upheaval which ended in the advent of the Soviet regime. Here is an unforgettable true story of intrigue, murder, and revenge. The autobiography of the man who killed Rasputin. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condición: new. Hardcover. ERIC HOFFER BOOK AWARD CATEGORY FINALISTRavens in Berlin . . . Parakeets in Brooklyn . . . Chickensin Tel Aviv . . . Spiders in Cognac. City creatures spark the imagination andintellect in words and art by this father-daughter team. Odd Birds & Fat Cats (An Urban Bestiary)is anillustrated collection of brief observations on city creatures. Inspiredbythe tradition of the medieval bestiary, bestiarum vocabulum,a12th-century bestselling genrethat chronicled animals and beings bothreal and fantastical, the book features pithy impressions of birds and animalsthat delight, confound, and edify, writtenby Peter Wortsman, coupledwithdetailed naturalist artwork by his daughter, AurelieBernard Wortsman.Featured creatures include:Pigeons:"When, finally, it takes flight . . . thisasphalt-colored bird is like a piece of the pavement which by some fluke ofgravity broke loose and is foolishly falling upward by mistake."Seagulls:"Fallen splinters of eternity, they hangoverhead with the equanimity and mild disdain of angels in a medievalaltarpiece, and unlike pigeons, refuse any direct contact with man."Ants:"Micro-managers in three-piece bodies,antsparody human antics to a tee. Or is it the other way around?"Dust mites:"Every time you scratch yourself or combyour hair, you are feeding the tiny intruders with the detritus of self."With four-color images throughout, printed in a beautifulhardboundedition, this one-of-a-kind volume will please the discerning animal lover,traveler, art lover, iconoclast, and literati on your gift list-and, of course,also you! Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. ISBN:1885983166, Hardback, 1st edition, presentation copy, inscribed, dated in year of publication, and signed by author, Fine in a Very Good Plus to Fine Minus DJ; middle of front panel of DJ has 1/16" (tiny) closed tear/hole adjacent to spine, trace of light wear to DJ edges , 8vo., 600 pages., 0.0 0.0 0.0. Signed by Author.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Told as much through images as through words, a young Nepalese man's globe-spanning relationship with "the father of American surrealism" changes the course of his life and gives him a new set of roots.In 1973, poet, photographer, collage artist, and sculptorCharles Henri Ford convinced ayoung Nepalese waiter at his hotel in Kathmandu to come work as his all-purposehelper. Nineteen-year-old Indra Tamang, who spoke minimal English, was soonenjoying an education and a life he could not have imagined. He quicklygraduated from cooking and running errands to attending social engagements withCharles, to accompanying the artist on his international travels, eventuallybecoming his collaborator, and more of a son than an employee.Charles was a magnet for creative people, and during the '70s,'80s, and '90s, Indra found himself at the center of seemingly every fantasticlittle universe in New York, Paris, Crete, and Kathmandu, often as a quietobserver taking photographs and making mental notes. There was Studio 54, AndyWarhol's Factory, the teas that Charles would host at the Dakota, attended byregulars such as Tennessee Williams, Quentin Crisp, Patti Smith, and HenryGeldzahler; there were special dinners at the United Nations; visits to MaryMcCarthy and Leonor Fini; and chats in the elevator with neighbors like Johnand Yoko and Lauren Bacall. Charles gave Indra a second upbringing, one thatIndra absorbed with tremendous curiosity and enthusiasm. In turn, Indra broughtCharles into his family's village in Nepal, introducing him to a world that notmany Westerners were privileged to see, especially then. Indra managed to shuttlebetween these two vastly different worlds, marrying and having children inNepal, though not revealing this to Charles for quite some years.In 2010, Indra Tamang became the object of globalfascination after inheriting two apartments from Charles's sister, the actressRuth Ford. The story in the Wall Street Journal described a Nepalese "butler"who "grew up in a mud hut" and ended up owning property in one of New York'smost famous buildings. The attention that followed inspired Indra to write thisricher and more accurate account of his life. Illustrated with more than 100 photographs and ephemera from the private collections of Charles and Indra,some never before shown, andgathered together for the first time,readers will discover that nothing about Indra's "curious years" with Charlesand his friends was ordinary or predictable in anyway. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

1st printing of 1st edition. Claverol's photos capture the history & essence of Andorra & Andorran daily life between 1930 and 1970; 143 pages, illustrated (most of the photographs are annotated). Oversized book that requires additional shipping costs for Priority Mail & all international orders. Fine exhibition catalog in decorative wrappers (soft cover book).