0226893936 - Calamities of Exile: Three Nonfiction Novellas by Weschler, Lawrence (25 results)

Condition: Very Good. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Condition: Very Good. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Hardcover. Condition: VERY GOOD. Light rubbing wear to cover, spine and page edges. Very minimal writing or notations in margins not affecting the text. Possible clean ex-library copy, with their stickers and or stamp(s).

Condition: Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Printing. Very good hard cover edition with very good dust jacket. 1st Printing. Clean. Tight binding. 199 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Very good hardcover in a like DJ. Nice copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Unread book, tight, square corners, full numberline 5-1, very small red dot on bottom page block (likely a remainder mark). Dustjacket (priced at $25.00), no flaws in removable mylar protector. Book shipped well packed in a box.

Hardcover. Condition: very good. Dust Jacket Condition: near fine. First edition, complete line of . NOT an ex library book. Clean pages. Dust jacket has no chips or tears, price is not clipped.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. This 199 pp. indexed book contains 3 Nonfiction novellas. Each deals with an expatriate that is dealing with beginning life anew, after leaving totalitarian regimes. Genuinely signed by the author on the title page. Book and jacket are pristine other than a 3" crease on the front inner flap upper corner. Photos upon request. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 199 pages, crisp, clean copy with a very good dust jacket. Record # 406297.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition, First Printing. University Of Chicago Press, 1996. First Edition, First Printing. Fine/Fine. Fine First Edition, first printing in clean unclipped dust jacket. Clean unfaded black cloth boards with silver lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean endpapers - no previous owner markings. Preface by the author. 199 pages with index. Clean bright dust jacket is unchipped, no wear, no tears, not price clipped. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Three narratives about basically decent expatriates (the first an Iraqi, the second a Czech, the third an Afrikaner), each of whom tries to do the right thing with regard to the totalitarian regime holding sway over his homeland, to varyingly calamitous effect.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Included. hbk 199pp excellent in sleeve-protected dj as new.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition; First Printing. Inscribed by Weschler, "For Michael, at home in Colorado, Lawrence Weschler." Slight edgewear to the dust jacket. Three essays about excruciating modern themes: individual responsibility, national identity, and courage. ; 199 pages; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng.

Hardcover. Condition: F. Dust Jacket Condition: F. 1st edition. 8vo, black cloth-covered bds, bright silver title on spine, fine inside and out; silver matte eps, SIGNED on tp by author; pp.xii,199 incl. index; unclipped illus. dj, fine in archival cover. Three tales about expatriates.

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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 199 pages. Published in 1998. Retrospective collection of novella-like accounts. Now considered a contemporary classic. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with the Softcover Edition. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only by a University Press. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Lawrence Weschler's "Calamities of Exile: Three Nonfiction Novellas". Masterly accounts on exile. Possibly the protean and indefatigable Lawrence Weschler's best book. "The three essays engage directly with the theme of political exile by delving into the lives of three exiles: South African author Breyten Breytenbach, who would attempt to re-enter the country to participate more actively in the struggle against apartheid, only to be captured and imprisoned; Kanan Makiya, an Iraqi whose 'Republic of Fear' offered many Westerners their first in-depth knowledge of Saddam Hussein's regime; and Jan Karan, a participant in the 1968 Revolution in Prague who, after years of running a smuggling operation in and out of Czechoslovakia, would return to his liberated homeland only to be denounced for alleged collaboration with its Communist oppressors. Lawrence Weschler is one of the late-20th century's best journalists, a master of the profile format. He offers the reader tremendous amounts of information, including extensive historical backgrounds, without ever sacrificing any of his prose's immediacy or clarity. Given that his three subjects have each fought against oppressive regimes, it would be easy to portray them as simplistic heroes, but Weschler takes great pains to show the full complexities of their characters, even when it casts them in a less than flattering light. You will learn much about international politics but more important, you will learn much about people" (Ron Hogan). "His thorough accounting of the men's covert operations, assumed identities, and strained relationships with fathers, wives, and colleagues creates a disturbing triptych of the perils of totalitarianism" (The New York Times). An absolute "must-have" title for Lawrence Weschler collectors. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce copy thus. One of the finest journalist/writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER LAWRENCE WESCHLER TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0226893936. no.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First impression. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 199 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. Dust Jacket is in very good condition, without tears or chips or other damage. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. This book is available and ready to be shipped. Calamities of Exile combines three gripping narratives that afford a sort of double CAT scan into the natures of both modern totalitarianism and timeless exile. Beautiful but harrowing chronicles of three exiles that probe the moral and personal risks of their encounters with totalitarianism. . . . Piercing and timely. "[Weschler's] thorough accounting of the men's covert operations, assumed identities and strained relationships with fathers, wives, and colleagues creates a disturbing triptych of the perils of totalitarianism."-Lance Gould, New York Times Book Review Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Politics & Government, Current Affairs; United States; 20th century; Sociology & Culture. ISBN: 0226893936. ISBN/EAN: 9780226893938. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 8417.

hardcover. Condition: New. New.

Condition: New. New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Printing [Stated]. xii, 199, [3] pages. Illustrations. Index. Some sticker residue on the front and back of the DJ. Scuff on fep. Minor page soiling noted. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Inscription reads For Kate and Hesh at home in my heart Love Lawrence Weschler. The three narratives by Lawrence Weschler here joined together were conceived from the start as a sort of triptych: three tales about basically decent expatriates (the first an Iraqi, the second a Czech, the third an Afrikaner), each of whom tries to do the right thing with regard to the totalitarian regime holding sway over his homeland--the thing we readers, too, might have done, if only we were much more courageous than we are--only to end up thoroughly wracked and bollixed. Taken together, these gripping narratives afford a sort of double catscan into the natures of both modern totalitarianism and timeless exile. Like all drama, the battle for human rights has three unities. It also has three principal territories--the former Communist world, the former anti-Communist world, and the actually existing Third World. Not many guides are reliable in any of these terrains. Lawrence Weschler is without peer in having been prescient and morally exact about all three. Lawrence Weschler (born 1952) is an author of works of creative nonfiction. A graduate of Cowell College of the University of California, Santa Cruz (1974), Weschler was for over twenty years (1981-2002) a staff writer at The New Yorker, where his work shuttled between political tragedies and cultural comedies. He is a two-time winner of the George Polk Awardsâ "for Cultural Reporting in 1988 and Magazine Reporting in 1992â "and was also a recipient of the Lannan Literary Award (1998). His books of political reportage include The Passion of Poland (1984); A Miracle, A Universe: Settling Accounts with Torturers (1990); and Calamities of Exile: Three Nonfiction Novellas (1998). He recently graduated to director emeritus of the New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU, where he has been a fellow since 1991 and was director from 2001-2013, and from which base he had tried to start his own semiannual journal of writing and visual culture, Omnivore. He is also the artistic director emeritus, still actively engaged, with the Chicago Humanities Festival. He is a contributing editor to McSweeney's, The Threepenny Review, and The Virginia Quarterly Review. Derived from a Kirkus review: Beautiful but harrowing chronicles of three exiles that probe the moral and personal risks of their encounters with totalitarianism. Here are three tales about expatriates who attempt, with often disastrous results to themselves and their families, to oppose the totalitarian regimes of their homelands. A staff writer for the New Yorker, Weschler brings characteristic style and intelligence to bear on his portrayal of the manner in which totalitarianism corrupts everyone, including its most steadfast opponents. Weschler has chosen "very edgy guys" whose quirkiness bolsters them in their defiance. Kanan Makiya adopted the pseudonym Samir al-Khalil for his books attacking Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Aside from his record of Iraqi state terror, Makiya also penned a critique of those artists who collaborated with Saddam's regime. Prominent among them was his own father, Mohammed Makiya, Iraq's foremost architect, whom he loves and, in many ways, respects. While family ties lie most obviously at the center of Makiya's conflicted feelings, Weschler demonstrates that opposition to a regime often results in fragmented families. Jan Kavan, a former student activist, spent two decades smuggling opposition materials in and out of Czechoslovakia, only to find himself, incredibly, accused of collaboration when he came home following the collapse of the Communist regime. Weschler describes the Kafkaesque situation, illuminating the difficulties raised by society's need to both forgive and to find someone to punish for its own failures. The final and most stunning of these narratives focuses on Afrikaaner poet and painter Breyten Breytenbach. We follow his journey to exile, his foolhardy return to South Africa on a mission that gets him jailed, and his collapse while imprisoned. Breytenbach's poetry and comments are beautiful and penetrating, illuminating many of the painful issues activists face in exile. Piercing and timely essays that probe the profound ways in which modern totalitarianism "turned out to be evil in a confoundingly complicated way.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 0226893936.