Tristan Tzara—poet, literary iconoclast, and catalyst—was the founder of the Dada movement that began in Zürich during World War I. His ideas were inspired by his contempt for the bourgeois values and traditional attitudes towards art that existed at the time. This volume contains the famous manifestos that first appeared between 1916 and 1921 that would become the basic texts upon which Dada was based. For Tzara, art was both deadly serious and a game. The playfulness of Dada is evident in the manifestos, both in Tzara's polemic—which often uses dadaist typography—as well as in the delightful doodles and drawings contributed by Francis Picabia. Also included are Tzara's Lampisteries, a series of articles that throw light on the various art forms contemporary to his own work. Post-war art had grown weary of the old certainties and the carnage they caused. Tzara was on the cutting edge at a time when art was becoming more subjective and abstract, and beginning to reject the reality of the mind for that of the senses.

Nevada and Utah, 1986; in this story of love and hope, Rita, 16 and severely abused by her mother, runs away. Her natural beauty is seen by Keith, manager of an exotic dance club. Rita dances only to survive. Keith's bookkeeper, Glenda, meets Rita and they form an immediate bond. Beautiful Marsha, constantly beaten by her policeman husband; escapes by leaving with her son. While looking for a place to stay, they are in an auto accident, far from police or hospital. Ed Hicks finds them, saving their lives. Ed and his wife, Doris, believe that all of us are obligated to help one another. In this story of love and passion, it takes time for Marsha and Rita's emotional and physical wounds to heal, but during the months that follow, they both find love and lives without fear.

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Struggling to adjust to life on a remote ranch in 1930s Colorado, Virginia Mendenhall, a Quaker from North Carolina, and her new husband, Alfred Bowen, ten years her senior, are confronted by an extended drought that worsens the impact of the Depression.

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Product Description: 22 spiritual seekers, who include mystics and stubborn doubters, a one-time born-again Christian and a group of path-blazing rabbis, tell how their encounters with Jewish Renewal moved them along a challenging and life-changing spiritual path...read more

In 1966, the young Aude Yung-de Prevaux discovered that she was the daughter of the Resistance heroes Jacques and Lotka de Prevaux, of whom she had never heard. In this account she pieces together her parents' story.

Product Description: -- First paperback edition.-- Formally inventive and utterly joyous, Grabinoulor recounts the fantastic adventures of its light-hearted, satyric, eponymous hero as he visits other planets, time travels, and finds poetry everywhere he goes...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This, the first biography in English of Eugene Fromentin, seeks to follow on earlier publications focusing on the literary works, the visual art and the correspondence of the nineteenth-century French painter, novelist, traveller and art critic...read more

A young man at odds with his middle-class family, refusing to take part in 'normal' life while accepting hand-outs from his mother, is the subject of this play. Unperformed during Beckett's lifetime, it draws on the traditions of French boulevard comedy and melodrama.

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After her father gambles away her college money, eighteen-year-old Jacqueline 'Jay' Winbourne flees to New York City, determined to make it on her own, only to fall in love with a young man much like her dissolute father. A first novel.

Product Description: Book by Hamburger, Jean