LIBROS DEL AUTOR: jay edson

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  • The Closing Move
    Jay Edson
    The political, economic and military elites of the world have combined their resources and initiated the Third World War in order to cull the population in preparation for establishing a global technocracy. The story begins shortly after the war is complete, and the survivors are still experiencing the effects of the nuclear winter. The elite, who have weathered the war in an u...
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    17,33 €

  • The Ontology of I/Thou
    Jay Edson
    This is an autobiography of sorts. My primary agenda, though, is not to give the reader a coherent account of my life. Rather I use my recollections of an odd assortment of intense experiences as jumping off points for some philosophical and religious reflections. The experiences are always as much about someone else as they are about me - hence the emphasis on I/Thou. It shou...
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    22,96 €

  • A Galaxy of No-Stars
    Jay Edson
    Coming to terms with the sudden loss of billions of humans in a single event has so long been an underlying theme of stories that the genre has its own name -- the post-apocaplyptic novel. Many deal with the practical dramas and demands of such an event, and many with the sociological ones implicit in rebuilding human society from what scraps remain. Few books, though, have eve...
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    23,26 €

  • A Path To All Places
    Jay Edson
    In this novel two individuals who have just spent time in a psychiatric unit seek a life without drugs, and free from the intrusions of the mental health system. One of them is the narrator, who talks with, and takes advise from, his voices. The other is the mother of a bi-racial boy. The three of them form an unorthodox family, and feel the need to escape the country for fear...
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    29,90 €

  • What Can I Say About Light?
    Jay Edson
    This book is about what most poetry books are about. Death, Life, Birth, the Sun, Flowers, Love - that kind of thing. It even has a few butterflies in it. Originally I thought about including a very nice poem I had about a noble Indian looking out toward the horizon with a tear in his eye. But I decided to leave that one out. Also I had a really poignant poem about a lighthouse...
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    21,01 €