books by Harvill Pr

books by Harvill Pr

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Gospel According to Jesus Christ (Panther)

Jose Saramago

Harvill Pr, 1999

Imaginative and Provocative
This is a wonderful work of fiction that is creatively devised and unique. It is certainly, as has previously been forewarned by others, not for the devout reader who will take offense when faced with a work of fiction that does not accurately depict Jesus and those ...

Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow (Harvill Panther)

Peter Hoeg

Harvill Pr, 2000

An unforgettable read
I have just completed my fourth reading of this novel in two years. For anyone serious about his or her personal library this piece of literature is an essential. Much has to be credited to the quality of the translation as well as the intentions of the author. Yes, ...

Killing Mister Watson (Panther)

Peter Matthiessen

Harvill Pr, 1998

Review of "Killing Mister Watson"
Killing Mr. Watson is a historical fiction based on the 1910 vigilante murder of Edgar Watson in the Everglades of southwest Florida. Mr. Watson is a shadowy character who appears in the south Florida town of Chokoloskee at the turn of the century, when south Florida ...

A Void

Georges Perec

Harvill Pr, 1997

Highly good book, ya
Six plus six plus four months ago, I bought a book: A Void. Originally, an author (G. P*r*c) first thought of A Void (or La Disparition) in 1967. In 1994, it was brought out from a country at a north Atlantic location in which Français is usually a normal way of ...

1030 From Marseille

Sebastien Japrisot

Harvill Pr, 1998

All Aboard!
All but one of the passengers on the Marseille express got off in Paris; Georgette Thomas stayed in her compartment....dead. Her murderer was swift and efficent, striking in the brief interval after the other passengers had left but before the clean-up man went through ...

Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis (Panther)

Jose Saramago

Harvill Pr, 1998

A supplement to the previous review
The previous reviewer suggested that the "ghost" character Pessoa may have been based on an actual person. It's true. Fernando Pessoa was an outstanding Portuguese poet. What's interesting here is that Pessoa wrote under several pen-names, and in some cases he would ...

Folded Leaf (Panther)

William Maxwell

Harvill Pr, 1999

An understated masterpiece about an intensely intimate friendship
Long before he was editing the likes of Nabokov, Updike, Salinger, Welty, and Cheever at The New Yorker, William Maxwell had established himself as a moderately successful novelist and story writer. Although "The Folded Leaf" is not his most acclaimed or famous novel, ...

So Long, See You Tomorrow (Panther)

William Maxwell

Harvill Pr, 1998

Reconstructing a lost world
William Maxwell, in So Long, See You Tomorrow, performs one of the prime directives of literature, reconstructing a lost world. And Maxwell is patient and rigorous. We get the feeling, when reading this novel, that Maxwell is writing his work more to assuage his sense ...

Will You Please Be Quiet, Please (Panther)

Raymond Carver

Harvill Pr, 1999

Very good
The book was in very good condition, with no missing pages or any markings that I could see.

All of Us the Collected Poems

Raymond Carver

Harvill Pr, 1997

Minimal is a Good Thing
Those who have stated that Carver was a minimalist seem to feel minimalism is a negative. Minimalism is a form of expression, but it reflects merely the form, not the content. These are not minimal poems. The impact comes from straight language in simple grammatical ...

Soundings
Anita Brookner

Harvill Pr, 1999

The essays and articles on art and literature assembled here have been written over the last twenty-five years by a writer who has earned recognition as much for her academic achievements as for the accomplishments of her literary career. Anita Brookner begins with the lives and work of the three great nineteenth-century French painters Gricault, ...

About This Life: Journeys on the Threshold of Memory

Barry Lopez

Harvill Pr, 1999

Excells all
This book is full of beautiful imagry, a must for people who crave to go places and see things. His essays/memoirs excell above all others. The writing reflects his thoughts so vividly you would swear you were there. If you like reading about far away places and the ...

American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America

Robert Hughes

Harvill Pr, 1997

New World Symphony
I have been a fan of Robert Hughes since I fist saw the television show "Ths Shock of the New" and also his criticism in Time Magazine. In this book, he takes as his subject the epic of the American artisitc experience. In lesser hands this could be a dull topic, but ...

A Country Doctor's Notebook

Mikhail Bulgakov

Harvill Pr, 1995

Bulgakov the genius does it again
This is Bulgakov's own personal journey as a doctor recently graduated and sent to the countryside to practice. This is something that is still common in a number of developing countries and is used both to even up the social balance of city and country and also to ...

W, or the Memory of a Childhood

Georges Perec

Harvill Pr, 2000

A Stunner, Folks
With all due respect to the previous reviewer, I really don't see the use in contrasting Perec and Clancy. They're not just in different ballparks, but they play different games. Clancy's job is to tell a good story and make things simple; he does it well, and I'm a ...