2010, ISBN: 9780802114150

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 2nd.* Date of Publication: 2010* Publisher: Aurum Press* Binding and cover condition: Colour photo-illustrated soft card covers, … Mehr…

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 2nd.* Date of Publication: 2010* Publisher: Aurum Press* Binding and cover condition: Colour photo-illustrated soft card covers, no bumps or rubs. Slight shelf wear to edges & corners, minor creases to spine & front cover. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY, Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, marks or inscriptions, lightly used, no tanning. VG++* Illustrations: One block of 8 pp. Colour photos.* Pages: 292 pp. text. xiv pp. acknowledgements & index at rear.* Product Description:- Pete Sampras is arguably the greatest player tennis has ever seen. A man whose hard-nosed work ethic led to a No. 1 world ranking for an unprecedented 286 consecutive weeks, and whose prodigious talent made possible fourteen Grand Slam victories - a feat surpassed only by Roger Federer, cheered on by Pete himself, at the 2009 Wimbledon final. Sampras was the youngest male player to win the US Open and holds 64 top level singles titles and two doubles. In 2005 TENNIS magazine named him the greatest player of the open era. Peter Bodo is a senior editor and chief columnist at TENNIS magazine. This is a VG copy of the 1st./ 2nd. with some shelf & reading wear*, Aurum Press Ltd, 2010-05-20, 3, New York. 1992. May 1992. Grove Weidenfeld. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket . 0802114156. 179 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Krystyna Skalski. keywords: Politics Essays Eastern Europe . FROM THE PUBLISHER - The overthrow of Nicolae Ceausescu revealed to the world a regime whose grim despotism was so powerful and pervasive that it almost defies comprehension. For Norman Manea, who left Romania in 1986, the terror the regime imposed on its citizens was matched, on another level, by the irrevocable choices it forced upon its artists. In On Clowns: The Dictator and the Artist, Manea explores the realm of pain, anger and fear that confronts the creative mind in a tyranny. Patiently, carefully, and precisely, with a sense of humor and humanity made all the more powerful for the seething anger that lies just beneath, he catalogs the techniques with which a malevolent power binds the artist to itself: the subtle torture of censorship, the politics of substitution, the opiates of nationalism and ideology. With equal passion, Manea catalogs what the artist must rely on to survive under such circumstances: the masterful disguise of the buffoon, an aesthetic inseparable from ethics, a hatred of mediocrity, and, whenever the opportunity arises, a healthy raspberry to the dictator. Like Kundera, Milosz, and Kis, Manea is Central European not only because of where he was born but because of his spiritual outlook and his cultural horizons. In the formulation of Danilo Kis that Manea cites, ‘Consciousness of belonging to Central Europe is itself in the end a kind of dissidence!' In On Clowns, as in his fiction, Manea shows how artistic creativity and intellectual freedom go far beyond dissidence: they are a morality, anathema to the ‘captive mind' of the Communist dictatorship, that enable artists to survive and resist oppression. inventory #16551 ISBN: 0802114156., 0<

ISBN: 9780802114150

Grove Weidenfeld. Paperback. POOR. Noticeably used book. Heavy wear to cover. Pages contain marginal notes, underlining, and or highlighting. Possible ex library copy, with all the mark… Mehr…

Grove Weidenfeld. Paperback. POOR. Noticeably used book. Heavy wear to cover. Pages contain marginal notes, underlining, and or highlighting. Possible ex library copy, with all the markings/stickers of that library. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, and dust jackets may not be included., Grove Weidenfeld, 1<

1992, ISBN: 0802114156

[EAN: 9780802114150], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Grove Weidenfeld, New York], Jacket, 8vo pp. xii 3 178., Books