Lot of 2 IRENE NEMIROVSKY HCs—Fire in Blood & David Golder (Everyman's Library)

Description: • For your consideration: • A LOT of Two (2) Hardcover: • by IRÈNE NÉMIROVSKY • TITLE 1: “David Golder, The Ball, Snow In Autumn, The Courilof Affair”(Everyman’s Library, 2008) (First Edition, Third Printing) • “Readers everywhere were introduced to the work of IRÈNE NÉMIROVSKY through the publication of her long-lost masterpiece SUITE FRANÇAISE. But SUITE FRANÇAISE was only the coda to the brief yet remarkably prolific career of this nearly forgotten, magnificent novelist. Here in one volume are four of NÉMIROVSKY’s novels—all of them newly translated by the award-winning SANDRA SMITH, and all, except, DAVID GOLDER, available in English for the first time.” —THE PUBLISHER, 1 • “DAVE GOLDER is the novel that established NÉMIROVSKY’s reputation in France in 1929 when she was twenty-six. It is a novel about greed and loneliness, the story of a self-made business man, once wealthy, now suffering a breakdown as he nears the lonely end of his life. THE COURILOF AFFAIR tells the story of a Russian Revolutionary living out his last days—and his recollections of his first infamous assassination. Also included are two short, gemlike novels THE BALL, a pointed exploration of adolescence and the obsession with status among the bourgeoisie; and SNOW IN AUTUMN, an evocative tale of White Russian emigres in Paris after the Russian Revolution. Introduced by celebrated novelist CLAIRE MESSUD, this collection of four spellbinding novels offers the same storytelling mastery, powerful clarity of language, and emphatic grasp of human behavior that would give shape to SUITE FRANÇAISE.” —THE PUBLISHER, 2 • “Stunning…. [NÉMIROVSKY] wrote, for all to read at last, some of the greatest, most humane and incisive fiction that conflict has produced.” —NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW • “Transcendent, astonishing.... Like ANNE FRANK, IRÈNE NÉMIROVSKY was unaware...that she might not survive. And still, she writes to us.” —PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE • “A novelist of the very first order, perceptive and sly in her emotional restraint.” —EVENING STANDARD (UK) •• TITLE 2: “Fire In The Blood: A Novel” (Knopf, 2007) (First US Edition, First Printing) • “FIRE IN THE BLOOD is a miniature masterpiece…. The beauty of the prose and the dark fatalistic reflections of her ingenious story make this a sad, compelling read. SANDRA SMITH’s imaginative and lucid translation brilliantly complements NÉMIROVSKY’s ironic story: never too faithful to be tedious, nor too adventurous to be untrue to her author. —ANNE GARVEY, INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY (UK) • “A story of mystery and romance, of regret and passion, by an author with a fascinating history.”—READING FOR SANITY (BLOG) • “This newly discovered novella by IRÈNE NÉMIROVSKY, author of SUITE FRANÇAISE, the unfinished masterpiece-in-waiting retrieved from oblivion by her daughter DENISE EPSTEIN, was assumed lost or uncompleted until…two years ago…. The novella is a model of storytelling, with each surprise appointed its appropriate place. One guilty façade after another is stripped away, but the ending has to be ambiguous. These wretched men and women will go on hoarding their money, and distrusting their neighbours as much as they distrust themselves. What a hellish Arcadia NÉMIROVSKY conjures up, and with what refinement and subtlety, even as the fire in the blood ignites and destroys.”—PAUL BAILEY, INDEPENDENT (UK) • “FIRE IN THE BLOOD, on which it seems she was still working when she was taken away to her death, confirms NÉMIROVSKY's brilliance as a storyteller with a deep understanding of the hidden flaws and cruelties not just in French society but in the human heart.” —ANNE CHISHOLM, TELEGRAPH (UK) • “Beautiful…. An enjoyable…portrait of manners from the first half of the last century.” —WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD • “Courageous, uncompromising…. An entire world, vividly rendered, emerges from [these] pages.” —NEWSDAY • “An almost perfect miniature, a tale of divided loves and loyalties set in an insular rural French village.” —O, OPRAH MAGAZINE • “As the story distances itself in the mind—and it is a very readable page turner—the twists begin to seem almost comical, like a cross between French farce and Royston Vasey. It is all sinister and inescapable.” —GEORGE SZIRTES, GUARDIAN (UK) • “Although it is hard to match the power of SUITE FRANCAISE, FIRE IN THE BLOOD is strangely engaging despite its overheated prose. NÉMIROVSKYagain excavates the hypocrisy and self-serving impulses embedded in French culture—and, perhaps, all human nature. Maybe that is the secret of her allure: By letting no one off the hook, she hooks us all.” —HELLER MCALPIN, LOS ANGELES TIMES • “There's enough of NÉMIROVSKY’s intelligence and caustic powers of observation to make FIRE IN THE BLOOD more than a mere curiosity.” —YVONNE ZIPP, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR • “She is so clever, quick and observant that every character in the story bounds into life….” —CARMEN CALLIL, FINANCIAL TIMES (UK) • “A subtle interplay of social status, private morality and emotional brittleness gives a CHEKHOVIAN feel to this taut tale of domestic intrigue, with glances to PROUST in its fascination with the ‘foreign language’ of youthful passion.” —JAMES URQUHART, FINANCIAL TIMES (UK) • “NÉMIROVSKY’s vivid descriptions of landscape, her mastery of the layers and textures of social relations, and her creation of a marvellously complex thematic form make of a slender, even clichéd story a compelling tour de force.” —JANICE KULYK KEEFER, GLOBE & MAIL (CANADA) • “Her emotional intelligence performs the greatest redemption: surpassing her flaws with a grave awareness of love’s vagaries.” —JOANNA FIDUCCIA, NEW STATESMAN (UK) • “From the beginning, this is a joy as NÉMIROVSKY perfectly evokes the richness of the countryside…. But, like NÉMIROVSKY, we can never get too cosy in an alarming world where evils lurk beneath the sleepy surface.” —KATIE TOMS, OBSERVER (UK) • “Haunting and enigmatic.... FIRE IN THE BLOOD is superb; it is also short and atypical of much of her work.” —ALLEN BARRA, SALON • “Subtle in its intention, this novella takes humanity in all its guises and captures the deep-seated desire for belonging and understanding.” —ANNA MILLAR, SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY • “Her technique of gradually stripping layers of deception away from her characters to show us more and more about their real behaviour, gives the story its excitement and pace.” —PATRICK MARNHAM, SPECTATOR (UK) • “In a book fueled with images of fire and embers, NÉMIROVSKY brilliantly depicts a closed-in, inward-looking community, then gives what happens in it universal resonance by exhibiting not only what people do to each other but what the passing of time does to us all.” —PETER KEMP, SUNDAY TIMES (UK) • “Knowing that NÉMIROVSKY completed this book about the timeless fire of love at the very moment an all-too-historical fire of hatred was snaking through France adds a painful poignancy to the reading experience. One can’t help wondering whether the deeply held secrets at the heart of the plot had anything to do with NÉMIROVSKY’s own double life as she tried desperately to blend into an ordinary village in extraordinary times.” —CHRISTOPHER BENFEY, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW •• For more details, please see below.• TITLE 1: “David Golder, The Ball, Snow in Autumn, The Courilof Affair” SERIES: “Everyman’s Library” AUTHOR: Irène Némirovsky TRANSLATOR: Sandra Smith INTRODUCTION: Claire Messud DESIGN: Barbara de Wilde & Carol Devine Carson TYPE: Hardcover PAGES: 363+ PUBLISHER, LOCALE, & YEAR: Alfred A. Knopf (New York), 2007 EDITION: First Edition, Third Printing* *RE: The statements “Third Printing” on the Copyright Page. EDITION EMPHASIS: This is NOT an ex-library copy or a Book Club edition. ISBN: 978-0-307-26708-5 CONDITION of DUST JACKET: VERY GOOD PLUS/LIKE NEW.Price ($25.00) is unclipped. Corners & spine tips are sharp. Edges fine. Minor scratching here & there, but DJ is overall clean & bright. (Now protected in a Brodart archival cover.) CONDITION of BOOK ITSELF: VERY GOOD PLUS/LIKE NEW.Boards are clean w/ sharp corners. Spine is tight. Spine-lettering is bright. Text-block edges & endpapers are fine. All pages are bright & clean (with no markings). Clearly unread. •• TITLE 2: “Fire in the Blood: A Novel” AUTHOR: Irène Némirovsky TRANSLATOR: Sandra Smith TYPE: Hardcover PAGES: 138 PUBLISHER, LOCALE, & YEAR: Alfred A. Knopf (New York), 2007 EDITION: First US Edition, First Printing* *RE: The statements “First North American Edition” on the Copyright Page. EDITION EMPHASIS: This is NOT an ex-library copy or a Book Club edition. ISBN: 978-0-307-26748-1 CONDITION of DUST JACKET: VERY GOOD PLUS.Price ($22.00) is unclipped. Corners & spine tips are sharp. Edges fine. Minor scratching here & there, but DJ is overall clean & bright. (Now protected in a Brodart archival cover.) CONDITION of BOOK ITSELF: VERY GOOD.Boards are clean w/ 3 sharp corners (top front corner is slightly bent). Spine is tight. Spine tips are slightly smushed. Text-block edges are fine. Previous owner’s sticker affixed to FFEP—otherwise endpapers are fine. All pages are bright & clean (with no markings). Despite the FFEP sticker, this copy looks unread. ••• SHIPPING NEWS: These books will be wrapped with care before being shipped together in a cushioned and sturdy mailer. THANK YOU! ********************** /\___/\=•ᆺ•= “We believe it’s good business to be good to our customers.” *********** FLAPPINCAT’s HOUSE RULES ***********1. GENERAL TREATMENT. We enjoy treating FLAPPINCAT customers with honesty & respect & warmth because that’s how we like to be treated when we buy things on eBay.2. GENERAL ATTITUDE. We are grateful you choose to trust us with your business. We aim for that gratitude to permeate every part of how we engage with you.3. OUR DESCRIPTIONS. 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