Consolidating Democracy

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Consolidating Democracy

In this timely and provocative book, Lodge, one of South Africa's leading political analysts, examines the context in which the election on June 2, 1999 was held, describes the electoral system, profiles the South African voter, and analyses the campaigns of the participating parties. Lodge assesses the results of the poll and, in his conclusion, debates the extent to which the conduct of the election fulfills democratic criteria and advances the development of democratic institutions and values in South Africa. The book is illustrated with evocative photographs.

ISBN: 1868143392

Author: Tom Lodge

Publisher: Witwatersrand University Press Publications

Rating: 3.00

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Understanding Nicholson Baker

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Understanding Nicholson Baker

In addition to being celebrated as a prose miniaturist for such works as The Mezzanine and Room Temperature, Nicholson Baker is widely viewed as a best-selling highbrow eroticist for Vox and The Fermata. In Understanding Nicholson Baker, Arthur Saltzman engages these provocative fictions as well as Baker's renowned nonfiction to show how his seemingly disparate works derive from and demonstrate an unremitting zeal for explicit detail, along with descriptive obsessiveness and linguistic virtuosity.Through close readings of Baker's work -- including his 1998 novel, The Everlasting Story of Nory -- Saltzman provides not only an introduction to a spirited writer but also a systematic appreciation of the rewards of his writing. Saltzman describes Baker's work as inventive, unpredictable, and minutiae-oriented and concludes that Baker is consumed with fundamentals -- from arriving at a drugstore, to getting a baby to sleep, to rooting out the history of a plastic bottle or a bit of slang -- and that Baker's aim is to revise the very nature of literary adventure.

ISBN: 157003303X

Author: Arthur M. Saltzman

Publisher: University of South Carolina Press

Rating: 0.00

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When Rain Clouds Gather Promo Edn

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When Rain Clouds Gather Promo Edn

ISBN: 0333791088

Author: Unknown Author 280

Publisher: Macmillan Education

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The Everlasting Story of Nory

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The Everlasting Story of Nory

Our supreme fabulist of the ordinary now turns his attention on a 9-year-old American girl and produces a novel as enchantingly idiosyncratic as any he has written. Nory Winslow wants to be a dentist or a designer of pop-up books. She likes telling stories and inventing dolls. She has nightmares about teeth, which may explain her career choice. She is going to school in England, where she is mocked for her accent and her friendship with an unpopular girl, and she has made it through the year without crying.
Nicholson Baker follows Nory as she interacts with her parents and peers, thinks about God and death-watch beetles, and dreams of cows with pointed teeth. In this precocious child he gives us a heroine as canny and as whimsical as Lewis Carroll's Alice and evokes childhood in all its luminous weirdness.

ISBN: 0679763759

Author: Nicholson Baker

Publisher: Vintage Books

Rating: 3.38

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La mezzanine

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La mezzanine

On n'avait jamais imaginé qu'un yuppie de modèle courant - attaché-case, ordinateur, col rayé - possédait un regard. Parce qu'il a le malheur de casser son lacet de chaussure à l'heure du déjeuner, un cadre new-yorkais voit soudain se liguer contre lui les mille objets usuels qui l'entourent entre bureaux et buildings. Une rampe d'escalier mécanique, un bouton de manchette, une bouteille de lait, un séchoir à main, deux téléphones, un sandwich au thon deviennent une armada hyperréaliste face à Nicholson Baker, surdoué pour le comique social et petit cousin de Perec et de Queneau.

ISBN: 2264017694

Author: Nicholson Baker

Publisher: 10/18

Rating: 3.92

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Election

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Election

A novel from the author of
The Leftovers


Tracy Flick wants to be President of Winwood High. She's one of those ambitious girls who finds time to do it all: edit the yearbook, star in the musical, sleep with her English teacher. But another teacher, staunch idealist Jim McAllister (aka "Mr. M."), thinks the students deserve better. So he persuades Paul Warren--a well-liked, good-hearted jock--to throw in his hat. But that puts Paul's sister, Tammy, in a snit. So she runs, too, on an apathy platform--before starting a real campaign...to get herself kicked out of school.Tammy's upset because her secret, forbidden love has been lured away...by her own brother. Tracy's upset because losing this election might screw up her college chances. Mr. M.'s upset because ever since he embarked on his own extramarital affair, his life's been falling apart. As for Paul, well, he's not sure what's going on.

The whole idea was to educate the students at this suburban New Jersey school in the democratic process and the American way. But with all the sex scandals, smear campaigns, and behind-the-scenes power brokers at Winwood High, it doesn't look as if they need any lessons...

 

ISBN: 0425167283

Author: Tom Perrotta

Publisher: Berkley

Rating: 3.86

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Species of Spaces and Other Pieces

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Species of Spaces and Other Pieces

Georges Perec, author of the highly acclaimed Life: A User's Manual, was only forty-six when he died in 1982. Despite a tragic childhood, during which his mother was deported to Auschwitz, Perec produced some of the most entertaining essays of the age. His literary output was deliberately varied in form and style and this generous selection of Perec's non-fictional work, the first to appear in English, demonstrates his characteristic lightness of touch, wry humour and accessibility. As he contemplates the many ways in which we occupy the space around us, as he depicts the commonplace items with which we are familiar in a startling, engrossing way, as he recounts his psychoanalysis while remaining reticent about his feelings or depicts the Paris of his childhood without a trace of sentimentality, we become aware that we are in the presence of a remarkable, virtuoso writer.

ISBN: 0140189866

Author: Georges Perec

Publisher: Penguin Classics

Rating: 4.29

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