search for books and compare prices
Michael Emmerich has written 20 work(s)
Search for other authors with the same name
displaying 1 to 20 |
at end
show results in order: alphabetically | oldest to newest | newest to oldest
Paperback:
9781629373133 | Rev upd edition (Triumph Books, October 15, 2016), cover price $14.95
9781600787898 | Triumph Books, October 1, 2013, cover price $14.95
Paperback:
9781905583577 | Carcanet Pr, April 9, 2015, cover price $15.99
Paperback:
9781629370705 | Triumph Books, April 1, 2015, cover price $14.95
Paperback:
9781782270027 | Pushkin Pr Ltd, March 10, 2015, cover price $18.00
Product Description: Michael Emmerich thoroughly revises the conventional narrative of the early modern and modern history of The Tale of Genji. Exploring iterations of the work from the 1830s to the 1950s, he demonstrates how translations and the global circulation of discourse they inspired turned The Tale of Genji into a widely read classic, reframing our understanding of its significance and influence and of the processes that have canonized the text...read more
Hardcover:
9780231162722 | Columbia Univ Pr, October 1, 2013, cover price $60.00
Paperback:
9780231162739 | Reprint edition (Columbia Univ Pr, May 12, 2015), cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Michael Emmerich thoroughly revises the conventional narrative of the early modern and modern history of The Tale of Genji.
9780425067468, titled "The Piercing" | Reissue edition (Berkley Pub Group, September 1, 1983), cover price $3.50 | also contains The Piercing
Paperback:
9781782270010 | Italian edition edition (Pushkin Pr Ltd, September 23, 2014), cover price $16.00
Paperback:
9781905881772 | Granta Books, April 24, 2014, cover price $16.99
Paperback:
9781782270003 | Italian edition edition (Pushkin Pr Ltd, December 10, 2013), cover price $18.00
Hardcover:
9789004233539, titled "Genjiâs World in Japanese Woodblock Prints: From the Paulette and Jack Lantz Collection" | Hotei Pub, September 1, 2012, cover price $122.00
Product Description: Now in paperback: a quietly stunning tour de force about the redemptive power of love.While The Lake shows off many of the features that have made Banana Yoshimoto famous—a cast of vivid and quirky characters, simple yet nuanced prose, a tight plot with an upbeat pace—it’s also one of the most darkly mysterious books she’s ever written...read more
Hardcover:
9781933633770 | Melville Pub House, May 3, 2011, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: A PORTION OF THE PROCEEDS FROM THIS BOOK WILL GO TO JAPAN DISASTER RELIEFA major literary sensation is back with a quietly stunning tour de force about a young woman who falls for a cult escapee.
Paperback:
9781612190891 | Melville Pub House, January 24, 2012, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Now in paperback: a quietly stunning tour de force about the redemptive power of love.
Product Description: The Apprenticeship of Big Toe P is a highly acclaimed work of fiction that won Japans most prestigious literary prize for women writers. A provocative, picaresque spin on a coming-of-age story, the novel tells of a young Japanese woman who wakes up one afternoon to discover that her big toe has turned into a penis...read more
Hardcover:
9784770031167, titled "The Apprenticeship of Big Toe P" | 1 edition (Kodansha Amer Inc, January 2, 2010), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The Apprenticeship of Big Toe P is a highly acclaimed work of fiction that won Japans most prestigious literary prize for women writers.
Paperback:
9781568365299 | Pap/com bl edition (Kodansha Amer Inc, June 21, 2013), cover price $24.00
9784770030580 | Pap/com bl edition (Kodansha Amer Inc, June 2, 2008), cover price $24.00
Product Description: Rei Hayakawa, a lonely, bulimic freelance writer with a drinking problem, wanders into a convenience store. She's swaddled in her coat and scarf, while her thoughts  of alienation, of hunger, of the need for gin and white wine  drift in via stream-of-consciousness...read more
Paperback:
9781933368610 | Soft Skull Pr, March 28, 2007, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Rei Hayakawa, a lonely, bulimic freelance writer with a drinking problem, wanders into a convenience store.
A woman, who won't reveal her identity, is trying to contact Kasama Tsuneo at a crisis point in his life. His arranged marriage is looming, and he's seized by a strange emotional fit. All Tsuneo can do is desperately chase this woman, and the mystery behind what happened eight years earlier over the sea.
Paperback:
9780571229727 | New edition (Gardners Books, March 1, 2007), cover price $11.50 | About this edition: A woman, who won't reveal her identity, is trying to contact Kasama Tsuneo at a crisis point in his life.
Hardcover:
9780802117991, titled "Hardboiled And Hard Luck" | Italian edition edition (Grove Pr, July 10, 2005), cover price $21.00 | About this edition: Presents two novellas, one about a young woman's dream about an ex-lover while on a hiking trip, and the other about the sister of a woman lying in a coma.
Paperback:
9780802142627 | Reprint edition (Grove Pr, September 10, 2006), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: The author of Lizard, Amrita, Asleep and Goodbye Tsugumi offers two novellas, one about a young woman's dream about an ex-lover while on a hiking trip, and the other about the sister of a woman lying in a coma.
Paperback:
9780571227846 | Gardners Books, August 3, 2006, cover price $11.90 | About this edition: Exploring the ghosts of love, memory, and intimate secrets, this work features two stories - 'Hardboiled' and 'Hard Luck.
Hardcover:
9781932234053 | Vertical Inc, May 1, 2004, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The post-modern Japanese writer serves up a novel that is written in chapters as short as a few paragraphs that tells the story of a gang that kills American presidents.
Having grown up by the sea alongside her charismatic invalid cousin Tsugumi, Maria moves to Tokyo and encounters an entirely different world of university enrollment and impending adulthood, and spending a last summer with her cousin, she comes to a new understanding about home and family. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.
Hardcover:
9780802116383 | Grove Pr, August 1, 2002, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Having grown up by the sea with her invalid cousin Tsugumi, Maria moves to Tokyo and encounters university life and impending adulthood, and spending a last summer with her cousin, she comes to a new understanding about home and family.
Paperback:
9780802139917 | Reprint edition (Grove Pr, July 1, 2003), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Having grown up by the sea alongside her charismatic invalid cousin Tsugumi, Maria moves to Tokyo and encounters an entirely different world of university enrollment and impending adulthood, and spending a last summer with her cousin, she comes to a new understanding about home and family.
9780070674547, titled "Western Civilization Since 1600" | Revised edition (McGraw-Hill, November 1, 1995), cover price $9.95 | also contains Western Civilization Since 1600 | About this edition: A comprehensive review of Western Civilization from 1500, formatted in such a way as to present college students with the essentials of the subject to supplement the regular assigned reading.
Prebinding:
9781417818433 | Turtleback Books, June 1, 2003, cover price $23.35 | About this edition: Maria is the only daughter of an unmarried woman.
Three extraordinary novellas narrate the individual stories of three women, all bewitched into a spiritual sleep--a sleepwalker mourning a lost love, a woman unable to remain awake who is involved in an affair with a man whose wife is in a coma, and a woman whose dreams are haunted by a woman she once confronted in a love triangle. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.
(view table of contents)
Hardcover:
9780802116697 | Grove Pr, June 1, 2000, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: Three novellas narrate the individual stories of three women, all bewitched into a spiritual sleep--a sleepwalker mourning a lost love, a woman unable to remain awake who is involved in an affair with a man whose wife is in a coma, and a woman whose dreams are haunted by a woman she once confronted in a love triangle
Paperback:
9780802138200 | Grove Pr, August 1, 2001, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Three novellas narrate the individual stories of three women, all bewitched into a spiritual sleep--a sleepwalker mourning a lost love, a woman unable to remain awake who is involved in an affair with a man whose wife is in a coma, and a woman whose dreams are haunted by a woman she once confronted in a love triangle
First published in 1958, this collection of stories by the Nobel Prize-winning Japanese author explores characters broken by war, loss, and longing. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.
(view table of contents)
Hardcover:
9781582430225 | Counterpoint, September 1, 1999, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: A collection of stories explores characters broken by war, loss, and longing
Paperback:
9781582431055 | Reprint edition (Counterpoint, October 12, 2000), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A collection of stories explores characters broken by war, loss, and longing
displaying 1 to 20 |
at end