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The Lost Americans
Christopher Bollen
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R505
R399
Discovery Miles 3 990
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A young woman finds herself in the crosshairs of powerful and very
dangerous enemies when she travels to Cairo to uncover the truth
about her brother's mysterious death in this smart, atmospheric,
and propulsive literary thriller from the acclaimed author of A
Beautiful Crime and Orient "Bollen writes expansive,
psychologically probing novels in the manner of Updike, Eugenides
and Franzen, but he is also an avowed disciple of Agatha
Christie."--Daily Telegraph (UK) When the lifeless body of Eric
Castle, a weapons technician for a major American defense
contractor, is found under his hotel balcony, both his employer and
the Egyptian authorities quickly declare his death a suicide. But
the dead man's sister, Cate, doesn't believe Eric took his own life
and is determined to get to the truth. Traveling to Egypt she
begins to piece together her brother's life in Cairo with the help
of a handsome, young, gay Egyptian man named Omar, who yearns to
escape the brutality of his nation's harsh, restrictive government.
Unfortunately, Cate's quest raises more questions--and
problems--than she ever imagined, as she takes on not only the arms
company's top brass but the Egyptian military, secret police, and a
slew of American expats with their own reasons to keep the dead
buried once and for all. Soon she's in over her head, and it's not
clear if either she or Omar will get out alive. This riveting
thriller of set in loud, boisterous Cairo of Americans lost and
found showcases Bollen's depth of characterization and haunting
descriptive powers.
'The Destroyers is a smart, sophisticated literary thriller; for
all its originality, it invokes the shades of Lawrence Durrell and
Graham Greene' Jay McInerney, author of Bright, Precious Days When
Charlie and I were young, we played a game called Destroyers . . .
We were sharpening our instincts, jettisoning attachments. We were
honing strategies for survival ... Ian Bledsoe is on the run, broke
and humiliated, fleeing the emotional and financial fallout of his
father's death. His childhood friend Charlie - rich, exuberant and
basking in life on the Greek island of Patmos - is his last hope.
At first, Patmos is like a dream - sun-soaked days on Charlie's
yacht and the reappearance of a girlfriend from Ian's past - and
Charlie readily offers the lifeline he desperately needs. But, like
Charlie himself, this beautiful island conceals a darkness beneath.
When he vanishes leaving behind his murky business affairs, Ian
finds himself caught in a terrifying labyrinth of deceits. As boys,
the pair played a game called Destroyers - a game, he now realizes,
they may never have stopped playing. Expansive, vivid and
suspenseful, in the vein of Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch, The
Destroyers is a mesmerizing drama of power and fate, fathers and
sons, self-invention and self-deception. 'Equal parts Graham
Greene, Patricia Highsmith and F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Destroyers
is at once lyrical and suspenseful, thoughtful and riveting' Garth
Greenwell, author of What Belongs to You 'The Destroyers manages to
be both fast-paced and contemplative, an excellent entertainment
and also something more lasting, a haunting meditation on
friendship and desperation' Guardian, Best Holiday Reads of 2017
Joseph Guiteau is a working actor who moved to New York to escape a
tragic family history in the Midwest. Wandering through a city
transformed by the attacks of September 2001, he frequents
gatherings of conspiracy groups, trying to make sense of world
events and his own personal history. Looming over his life is a
secret that threatens to undermine his new marriage to Del, a snake
expert at a city park, whose work visa is the only thread keeping
her from deportation back to her native Greece. The new marriage
influences the lives of those around them: William, a dark and
troubled actor whose sanity is fading as quickly as his career,
leading him to perform increasingly desperate acts; Madi, a young
entrepreneur who will have to face the moral complications of a
business made successful by the outsourcing of American jobs to
India; and her brother Raj, Del s former lover, a promising
photographer whose work details the empty rooms of an increasingly
alienated city. Christopher Bollen s first novel captures the
atmosphere of anxiety and loss that exists in Manhattan."
Artists II is the second volume of Jason Schmidt's ongoing
photographic documentation of today's most significant artists.
From young to old, emerging to career peaking, world famous or
as-of-yet-known, the creative forces that the New York-based
photographer has managed to capture over a period of 12 years has
come to serve as perhaps the most incisive look into the art world
as it stands today. Artists II captures 166 artists, including John
Baldessari, Ai Weiwei, Glenn Ligon and Cindy Sherman, in their
studios or work environments and the resultant images reveal the
context in which the art was made or conceived and the artists in
their most intimate moment--in the process of creation. A text by
each artist in their own words accompanies each photograph: some
are literal descriptions of the encounter, others are poetic or
enigmatic; each is a window into their artistic methods and
perspectives. The strength of this artists series lies not solely
in its individual compositions but in its value as a comprehensive
archive of contemporary artistic practice. Situated between
portraiture and landscape, Schmidt's photographs show art and
artist in a constant moment of transformation.
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Sarah Morris: All Systems Fail
Bettina Funcke, Asad Raza, Christopher Bollen; Designed by Büro Otto Sauhaus
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R1,522
R1,210
Discovery Miles 12 100
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Ships in 9 - 15 working days
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The Psycho-Geography of Our Urban Existence Since the 1990s, artist
and filmmaker Sarah Morris has created a body of work that has been
inspired by her interest in the psychology of urban environments.
Her complex abstractions, which derive their vivid colors from each
city’s unique vocabulary and palette, trace the social and
bureaucratic topologies of contemporary cities to reveal the
architecturally encoded politics. In her films—a parallel
practice intimately intertwined with her painting—Morris further
explores the psycho-geography and the dynamic nature of cities in
flux through multi-layered and fragmented narratives. She purposely
leaves her work open for interpretation, conveying a heightened
sense to the viewer of both our complicity in a larger system and
an increasingly disorienting experience of modern urban existence.
Featuring more than 60 paintings, including impressions of the 15
films to date, drawings, as well as an in-depth interview with the
artist and two major essays, the catalogue offers the first
comprehensive overview of Morris’s oeuvre.
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