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Item specifics
- Condition
- Publication Date
- 2013-02-05
- Pages
- 315
- ISBN
- 9780374269357
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10
0374269351
ISBN-13
9780374269357
eBay Product ID (ePID)
117241419
Product Key Features
Original Language
German
Book Title
City of Angels : Or, the Overcoat of Dr. Freud
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Literary, Biographical
Publication Year
2013
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
19 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2012-018515
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
. . . there's an odd fascination in watching Wolf navigate depression, guilt, anger, and Los Angeles . . . It's worth it to see Wolf grappling with a past that, far from being dead, is live -- like ammunition., Wolf's ability to create layers of meaning in a peripatetic structure across three, sometimes four, different time periods is astounding . . . Damion Searls has done a knockout job here. The prose is lovely but invisible in the reading, which is exactly what it should be., "Explaining without accusing, City of Angels is a profound book, even a heroic one."-Todd Gitlin, The New Republic "Searls's excellent translation effectively conveys Wolf's wordplay."- The New Yorker "Defying superlatives and superbly translated . . . In her final novel, Wolf . . . outdid herself."- Booklist (starred review) " . . . there's an odd fascination in watching Wolf navigate depression, guilt, anger, and Los Angeles . . . It's worth it to see Wolf grappling with a past that, far from being dead, is live - like ammunition."- Publishers' Weekly "[A] fascinating book."- Kirkus Reviews "Finishing [Christa Wolf's books], the reader is covered by a sense of completeness, of having been taken on a journey in the company of a seer who has stared, with attention, mercy, and courage, into the world's heart." -Mary Gordon, The New York Times Book Review , Engrossing . . . the book aptly captures Wolf's tortured state of mind at a critical juncture -- the moment she is forced to ponder her complicity, albeit largely harmless, with a criminal regime and the collapse of everything she once believed in., Finishing [Christa Wolf's books], the reader is covered by a sense of completeness, of having been taken on a journey in the company of a seer who has stared, with attention, mercy, and courage, into the world's heart., "Defying superlatives and superbly translated . . . In her final novel, Wolf . . . outdid herself."- Booklist (starred review) " . . . there's an odd fascination in watching Wolf navigate depression, guilt, anger, and Los Angeles . . . It's worth it to see Wolf grappling with a past that, far from being dead, is live - like ammunition."- Publishers' Weekly "[A] fascinating book."- Kirkus Reviews "Finishing [Christa Wolf's books], the reader is covered by a sense of completeness, of having been taken on a journey in the company of a seer who has stared, with attention, mercy, and courage, into the world's heart." -Mary Gordon, The New York Times Book Review , A moving melancholic remembrance by writer who--one final time--attempts to make sense of an historical and personal past, for herself and for her readers . . . In Searls's professional hands, City of Angels is a fine valedictory., [Wolf's] quest for personal integrity within a flawed system, and the honesty of her prose, cannot help but impress., " . . . there's an odd fascination in watching Wolf navigate depression, guilt, anger, and Los Angeles . . . It's worth it to see Wolf grappling with a past that, far from being dead, is live - like ammunition."- Publishers' Weekly "[A] fascinating book."- Kirkus Reviews "Finishing [Christa Wolf's books], the reader is covered by a sense of completeness, of having been taken on a journey in the company of a seer who has stared, with attention, mercy, and courage, into the world's heart." -Mary Gordon, The New York Times Book Review , "[Wolf's] quest for personal integrity within a flawed system, and the honesty of her prose, cannot help but impress."- The Economist "Engrossing . . . the book aptly captures Wolf's tortured state of mind at a critical juncture - the moment she is forced to ponder her complicity, albeit largely harmless, with a criminal regime and the collapse of everything she once believed in." -Joshua Hammer, The New York Times "A moving melancholic remembrance by writer who-one final time-attempts to make sense of an historical and personal past, for herself and for her readers . . . In Searls's professional hands, City of Angels is a fine valedictory."-Kevin Nolan, The Rumpus "Explaining without accusing, City of Angels is a profound book, even a heroic one."-Todd Gitlin, The New Republic "Searls's excellent translation effectively conveys Wolf's wordplay."- The New Yorker "Defying superlatives and superbly translated . . . In her final novel, Wolf . . . outdid herself."- Booklist (starred review) " . . . there's an odd fascination in watching Wolf navigate depression, guilt, anger, and Los Angeles . . . It's worth it to see Wolf grappling with a past that, far from being dead, is live - like ammunition."- Publishers' Weekly "[A] fascinating book."- Kirkus Reviews "Finishing [Christa Wolf's books], the reader is covered by a sense of completeness, of having been taken on a journey in the company of a seer who has stared, with attention, mercy, and courage, into the world's heart." -Mary Gordon, The New York Times Book Review , "Wolf's ability to create layers of meaning in a peripatetic structure across three, sometimes four, different time periods is astounding . . . Damion Searls has done a knockout job here. The prose is lovely but invisible in the reading, which is exactly what it should be." -- Sarah Gerard, Three Percent "[Wolf's] quest for personal integrity within a flawed system, and the honesty of her prose, cannot help but impress." -- The Economist "Engrossing . . . the book aptly captures Wolf's tortured state of mind at a critical juncture -- the moment she is forced to ponder her complicity, albeit largely harmless, with a criminal regime and the collapse of everything she once believed in." -- Joshua Hammer, The New York Times "A moving melancholic remembrance by writer who--one final time--attempts to make sense of an historical and personal past, for herself and for her readers . . . In Searls's professional hands, City of Angels is a fine valedictory." -- Kevin Nolan, The Rumpus "Explaining without accusing, City of Angels is a profound book, even a heroic one." -- Todd Gitlin, The New Republic "Searls's excellent translation effectively conveys Wolf's wordplay." -- The New Yorker "Defying superlatives and superbly translated . . . In her final novel, Wolf . . . outdid herself." -- Booklist (starred review) " . . . there's an odd fascination in watching Wolf navigate depression, guilt, anger, and Los Angeles . . . It's worth it to see Wolf grappling with a past that, far from being dead, is live -- like ammunition." -- Publishers' Weekly "[A] fascinating book." -- Kirkus Reviews "Finishing [Christa Wolf's books], the reader is covered by a sense of completeness, of having been taken on a journey in the company of a seer who has stared, with attention, mercy, and courage, into the world's heart." -- Mary Gordon, The New York Times Book Review, "A moving melancholic remembrance by writer who-one final time-attempts to make sense of an historical and personal past, for herself and for her readers . . . In Searls's professional hands, City of Angels is a fine valedictory."-Kevin Nolan, The Rumpus "Explaining without accusing, City of Angels is a profound book, even a heroic one."-Todd Gitlin, The New Republic "Searls's excellent translation effectively conveys Wolf's wordplay."- The New Yorker "Defying superlatives and superbly translated . . . In her final novel, Wolf . . . outdid herself."- Booklist (starred review) " . . . there's an odd fascination in watching Wolf navigate depression, guilt, anger, and Los Angeles . . . It's worth it to see Wolf grappling with a past that, far from being dead, is live - like ammunition."- Publishers' Weekly "[A] fascinating book."- Kirkus Reviews "Finishing [Christa Wolf's books], the reader is covered by a sense of completeness, of having been taken on a journey in the company of a seer who has stared, with attention, mercy, and courage, into the world's heart." -Mary Gordon, The New York Times Book Review , "Engrossing . . . the book aptly captures Wolf's tortured state of mind at a critical juncture - the moment she is forced to ponder her complicity, albeit largely harmless, with a criminal regime and the collapse of everything she once believed in." -Joshua Hammer, The New York Times "A moving melancholic remembrance by writer who-one final time-attempts to make sense of an historical and personal past, for herself and for her readers . . . In Searls's professional hands, City of Angels is a fine valedictory."-Kevin Nolan, The Rumpus "Explaining without accusing, City of Angels is a profound book, even a heroic one."-Todd Gitlin, The New Republic "Searls's excellent translation effectively conveys Wolf's wordplay."- The New Yorker "Defying superlatives and superbly translated . . . In her final novel, Wolf . . . outdid herself."- Booklist (starred review) " . . . there's an odd fascination in watching Wolf navigate depression, guilt, anger, and Los Angeles . . . It's worth it to see Wolf grappling with a past that, far from being dead, is live - like ammunition."- Publishers' Weekly "[A] fascinating book."- Kirkus Reviews "Finishing [Christa Wolf's books], the reader is covered by a sense of completeness, of having been taken on a journey in the company of a seer who has stared, with attention, mercy, and courage, into the world's heart." -Mary Gordon, The New York Times Book Review , "Finishing [Christa Wolf's books], the reader is covered by a sense of completeness, of having been taken on a journey in the company of a seer who has stared, with attention, mercy, and courage, into the world's heart." -Mary Gordon, The New York Times Book Review, "Wolf's ability to create layers of meaning in a peripatetic structure across three, sometimes four, different time periods is astounding . . . Damion Searls has done a knockout job here. The prose is lovely but invisible in the reading, which is exactly what it should be."-Sarah Gerard, Three Percent "[Wolf's] quest for personal integrity within a flawed system, and the honesty of her prose, cannot help but impress."- The Economist "Engrossing . . . the book aptly captures Wolf's tortured state of mind at a critical juncture - the moment she is forced to ponder her complicity, albeit largely harmless, with a criminal regime and the collapse of everything she once believed in." -Joshua Hammer, The New York Times "A moving melancholic remembrance by writer who-one final time-attempts to make sense of an historical and personal past, for herself and for her readers . . . In Searls's professional hands, City of Angels is a fine valedictory."-Kevin Nolan, The Rumpus "Explaining without accusing, City of Angels is a profound book, even a heroic one."-Todd Gitlin, The New Republic "Searls's excellent translation effectively conveys Wolf's wordplay."- The New Yorker "Defying superlatives and superbly translated . . . In her final novel, Wolf . . . outdid herself."- Booklist (starred review) " . . . there's an odd fascination in watching Wolf navigate depression, guilt, anger, and Los Angeles . . . It's worth it to see Wolf grappling with a past that, far from being dead, is live - like ammunition."- Publishers' Weekly "[A] fascinating book."- Kirkus Reviews "Finishing [Christa Wolf's books], the reader is covered by a sense of completeness, of having been taken on a journey in the company of a seer who has stared, with attention, mercy, and courage, into the world's heart." -Mary Gordon, The New York Times Book Review
Dewey Decimal
833/.914
Synopsis
The stunning final novel from East Germany's most acclaimed writerThree years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the writer Christa Wolf was granted access to her newly declassified Stasi files. Known for her defiance and outspokenness, Wolf was not especially surprised to discover forty-two volumes of documents produced by the East German secret police. But what was surprising was a thin green folder whose contents told an unfamiliar - and disturbing - story: in the early 1960s, Wolf herself had been an informant for the Communist government. And yet, thirty years on, she had absolutely no recollection of it.Wolf's extraordinary autobiographical final novel is an account of what it was like to reckon with such a shocking discovery. Based on the year she spent in Los Angeles after these explosive revelations, City of Angels is at once a powerful examination of memory and a surprisingly funny and touching exploration of L.A., a city strikingly different from any Wolf had ever visited.Even as she reflects on the burdens of twentieth-century history, Wolf describes the pleasures of driving a Geo Metro down Wilshire Boulevard and watching episodes of Star Trek late at night. Rich with philosophical insights, personal revelations, and vivid descriptions of a diverse city and its citizens, City of Angels is a profoundly humane and disarmingly honest novel - and a powerful conclusion to a remarkable career in letters., The stunning final novel from East Germany's most acclaimed writer Three years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the writer Christa Wolf was granted access to her newly declassified Stasi files. Known for her defiance and outspokenness, Wolf was not especially surprised to discover forty-two volumes of documents produced by the East German secret police. But what was surprising was a thin green folder whose contents told an unfamiliar and disturbing story: in the early 1960s, Wolf herself had been an informant for the Communist government. And yet, thirty years on, she had absolutely no recollection of it. Wolf's extraordinary autobiographical final novel is an account of what it was like to reckon with such a shocking discovery. Based on the year she spent in Los Angeles after these explosive revelations, City of Angels is at once a powerful examination of memory and a surprisingly funny and touching exploration of L.A., a city strikingly different from any Wolf had ever visited. Even as she reflects on the burdens of twentieth-century history, Wolf describes the pleasures of driving a Geo Metro down Wilshire Boulevard and watching episodes of Star Trek late at night. Rich with philosophical insights, personal revelations, and vivid descriptions of a diverse city and its citizens, City of Angels is a profoundly humane and disarmingly honest novel and a powerful conclusion to a remarkable career in letters. "
LC Classification Number
PT2685.O36S6713 2013
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- a***n (43)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseMistakenly ordered a paperback that I thought was a hardcover, not sellers fault; it was described properly on the listing. Seller still processed a refund the day I went to return the item and let me keep the item anyway. A+++ service. Book arrived quickly in great condition and for a great price. Thank you so much! Amazing seller!
- n***c (94)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseseller was communicative about my shipment, media mail took a while and tracking wasn't updated frequently, but seller communicated to me very quickly on status. the item came new and wrapped as described, though the packaging in it was packed wasn't sturdy and falling apart when it got to me.