<p>An incisive study of General George Patton probes the sensitivity, emotionality, and insecurities that were concealed behind the public facade of a macho military man and that also produced one of the world's greatest generals</p>

'PATTON: THE MAN BEHIND THE LEGEND, 1885-1945'

Engineering & Transportation

BLUMENSON, MARTIN

Engineering

Jonathon Cape

. with dustjacket, 1996 clean bright copy

LIFE OF PICASSO V 2 (RAN

JOHN RICHARDSON

Biographies & Memoirs

<p>This cute book is fun and silly, but kids love it. Silly looking people who have silly walks tuck into some very silly food. Slime from Mars arrives on our icky, slimy planet. Every imaginable smell is represented from camels and warthogs to still, stinky socks. And there is hair to be found everywhere from huge hairy gorillas to tiny hairy fleas.</p>

The Silly,Slimy,Smelly,Hairy Book

Children's Books

COLE, BABETTE

Literature & Fiction

The Big Questions in Science

Harriet Swain

Science & Math

Everything is over for Simon Axler, the protagonist of Philip Roth's startling new book. One of the leading American stage actors of his generation, now in his sixties, he has lost his magic, his talent and his assurance. His Falstaff and Peer Gynt and Vanya, all his great roles, 'are melted into air, into thin air'. When he goes on stage he feels like a lunatic and looks like an idiot. His confidence in his powers has drained away; he imagines people laughing at him; he can no longer pretend to be someone else. 'Something fundamental has vanished'. His wife has gone, his audience has left him, his agent can't persuade him to make a comeback. Into this shattering account of inexplicable and terrifying self-evacuation bursts a counterplot of unusual erotic desire, a consolation for the bereft life so risky and aberrant that it points not towards comfort and gratification but to a yet darker and more shocking end. In this long day's journey into night, told with Roth's inimitable urgency, bravura and gravity, all the ways that we persuade ourselves of our solidity, all our life's performances - talent, love, sex, hope, energy, reputation - are stripped off. Following the dark meditations on mortality and endings in "Everyman" and "Exit Ghost", and the bitterly ironic retrospect on youth and chance in "Indignation", Roth has written another in his haunting group of late novels. "The Humbling" is Roth's thirtieth book.

The Humbling (Import)

PHILIP ROTH

World Literature

The Collected Poems of A. E. Housman (Jonathan Cape Paperback, No. JCP51)

A.E. Housman

History & Criticism

John Lennon: In His Own Write

JOHN LENNON

Humor & Satire

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