ISBN: 9780811219594 - the cardboard house (10 resultados)

Paperback. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Published in 1928 to great acclaim when its author was just twenty years old, The Cardboard House is sweeping, kaleidoscopic, and passionate. The novel presents a stunning series of flashes ? scenes, moods, dreams, and weather? as the narrator wanders through Barranco (then an exclusive seaside resort outside Lima). In one beautiful, radical passage after another, he skips from reveries of first loves, South Pole explorations, and ocean tides, to precise and unashamed notations of class and of race: an Indian woman ?with her hard,shiny, damp head of hair?a mud carving,? to a gringo gobbling ?synthetic milk,canned meat, hard liquor.? Adán?s own aristocratic family was in financial freefall at the time, and, as the translator notes, The Cardboard House is as ?subversive now as when it was written: Adán?s uncompromising poetic vision and the trueness and poetry of his voice constitute a heroic act against cultural colonialism..…

Paperback. Condición: Fair. Published in 1928 to great acclaim when its author was just twenty years old, The Cardboard House is sweeping, kaleidoscopic, and passionate. The novel presents a stunning series of flashes ? scenes, moods, dreams, and weather? as the narrator wanders through Barranco (then an exclusive seaside resort outside Lima). In one beautiful, radical passage after another, he skips from reveries of first loves, South Pole explorations, and ocean tides, to precise and unashamed notations of class and of race: an Indian woman ?with her hard,shiny, damp head of hair?a mud carving,? to a gringo gobbling ?synthetic milk,canned meat, hard liquor.? Adán?s own aristocratic family was in financial freefall at the time, and, as the translator notes, The Cardboard House is as ?subversive now as when it was written: Adán?s uncompromising poetic vision and the trueness and poetry of his voice constitute a heroic act against cultural colonialism..…

Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Originally published in Peru in 1928.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Published in 1928 to great acclaim when its author was just twenty years old, The Cardboard House is sweeping, kaleidoscopic, and passionate. The novel presents a stunning series of flashes ? scenes, moods, dreams, and weather? as the narrator wanders through Barranco (then an exclusive seaside resort outside Lima). In one beautiful, radical passage after another, he skips from reveries of first loves, South Pole explorations, and ocean tides, to precise and unashamed notations of class and of race: an Indian woman ?with her hard,shiny, damp head of hair?a mud carving,? to a gringo gobbling ?synthetic milk,canned meat, hard liquor.? Adán?s own aristocratic family was in financial freefall at the time, and, as the translator notes, The Cardboard House is as ?subversive now as when it was written: Adán?s uncompromising poetic vision and the trueness and poetry of his voice constitute a heroic act against cultural colonialism..…

Paperback. Condición: Fair. Published in 1928 to great acclaim when its author was just twenty years old, The Cardboard House is sweeping, kaleidoscopic, and passionate. The novel presents a stunning series of flashes ? scenes, moods, dreams, and weather? as the narrator wanders through Barranco (then an exclusive seaside resort outside Lima). In one beautiful, radical passage after another, he skips from reveries of first loves, South Pole explorations, and ocean tides, to precise and unashamed notations of class and of race: an Indian woman ?with her hard,shiny, damp head of hair?a mud carving,? to a gringo gobbling ?synthetic milk,canned meat, hard liquor.? Adán?s own aristocratic family was in financial freefall at the time, and, as the translator notes, The Cardboard House is as ?subversive now as when it was written: Adán?s uncompromising poetic vision and the trueness and poetry of his voice constitute a heroic act against cultural colonialism..…

Condición: New. Brand New.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Pages clean; binding tight; very minor wear to covers. 127 pages. English translation by Katherine Silver. Size: 5 1/2" x 8".

Soft cover. Condición: As New. 1st Edition. New Directions, New York, 2012. First edition. First printing. Softbound, trade paperback original, with French flaps. Very Fine.

Paperback. Condición: Brand New. original edition. 120 pages. 8.00x5.25x0.50 inches. In Stock.