|
Showing 1 - 3 of
3 matches in All Departments
|
S. (Hardcover, New)
J. J. Abrams; Doug Dorst
|
R1,289
R1,027
Discovery Miles 10 270
Save R262 (20%)
|
Ships in 10 - 15 working days
|
One book. Two readers. A world of mystery, menace, and desire.
A young woman picks up a book left behind by a stranger. Inside it
are his margin notes, which reveal a reader entranced by the story
and by its mysterious author. She responds with notes of her own,
leaving the book for the stranger, and so begins an unlikely
conversation that plunges them both into the unknown.
The book: "Ship of Theseus," the final novel by a prolific but
enigmatic writer named V.M. Straka, in which a man with no past is
shanghaied onto a strange ship with a monstrous crew and launched
onto a disorienting and perilous journey.
The writer: Straka, the incendiary and secretive subject of one of
the world's greatest mysteries, a revolutionary about whom the
world knows nothing apart from the words he wrote and the rumors
that swirl around him.
The readers: Jennifer and Eric, a college senior and a disgraced
grad student, both facing crucial decisions about who they are, who
they might become, and how much they're willing to trust another
person with their passions, hurts, and fears.
"S.," conceived by filmmaker J. J. Abrams and written by
award-winning novelist Doug Dorst, is the chronicle of two readers
finding each other in the margins of a book and enmeshing
themselves in a deadly struggle between forces they don't
understand, and it is also Abrams and Dorst's love letter to the
written word.
|
S. (Hardcover, Main)
J. J. Abrams, Doug Dorst; Created by J. J. Abrams
1
|
R1,190
R924
Discovery Miles 9 240
Save R266 (22%)
|
Ships in 5 - 10 working days
|
One book. Two readers. A world of mystery, menace and desire A
young woman picks up a book left behind by a stranger. Inside it
are his margin notes, which reveal a reader entranced by the story
and by its mysterious author. She responds with notes of her own,
leaving the book for the stranger, and so begins an unlikely
conversation that plunges them both into the unknown. THE BOOK:
Ship of Theseus, the final novel by a prolific but enigmatic writer
named V. M. Straka, in which a man with no past is shanghaied onto
a strange ship with a monstrous crew and launched on a disorienting
and perilous journey. THE WRITER: Straka, the incendiary and
secretive subject of one of the world's greatest mysteries, a
revolutionary about whom the world knows nothing apart from the
words he wrote and the rumours that swirl around him. THE READERS:
Jennifer and Eric, a college senior and a disgraced grad student,
both facing crucial decisions about who they are, who they might
become, and how much they're willing to trust another person with
their passions, hurts and fears. S., conceived by filmmaker J.J.
Abrams and written by award-winning novelist Doug Dorst, is the
chronicle of two readers finding each other in the margins of a
book and enmeshing themselves in a deadly struggle between forces
they don't understand. It is also Abrams and Dorst's love letter to
the written word.
|
The Alcoholics (Paperback)
Jim Thompson; Foreword by Doug Dorst
|
R510
R441
Discovery Miles 4 410
Save R69 (14%)
|
Ships in 10 - 15 working days
|
Dr. Peter S. Murphy needs fifteen thousand dollars by the end of
the day, or the city of Los Angeles can say goodbye to the El
Healtho clinic. A recovery center for the most severe cases of
alcoholism in the state--even if no one ever does quite seem to get
dry there--El Healtho has been the bane of Dr. Murphy's existence
ever since he started running it. But now that its doors are about
to close forever, Dr. Murphy finds he'll do anything to keep it
open.
Up to and including admitting Humphrey Van Twyne III, a patient
with an extremely violent past whose wealthy family has the means
to keep El Healtho open for business. Sure, the man isn't "exactly"
an alcoholic. And yes, what he really needs is to be under the care
of the surgeons who performed the lobotomy that's rendered Van
Twyne all but a vegetable. But the money's good--until the rag-tag
group of ne'er-do-wells at El Healtho begin to wreak havoc with Dr.
Murphy's plans, and suddenly no one day has ever seemed so long.
A literary precursor to "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," THE
ALCOHOLICS is Thompson like you've never read him before, a
pitch-black, mad-cap portrait of deviant behavior that is at once
darkly comic, humane and harrowing.
|
You may like...
Hampstead
Diane Keaton, Brendan Gleeson, …
DVD
R49
Discovery Miles 490
|