2014, ISBN: 9780275938543

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Brooklyn, NY: Archipelago Books, 2014. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. As New/As New Dust Jacket.. Brooklyn, NY: Archipelago Books, 2014. Hardcover. As New/As New. First Edit… Mehr…

Brooklyn, NY: Archipelago Books, 2014. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. As New/As New Dust Jacket.. Brooklyn, NY: Archipelago Books, 2014. Hardcover. As New/As New. First Edition/First Printing. 430 pages. The third volume of the author's "My Struggle" six-volume novel. The translation is also known, particularly in the United Kingdom, as "Boyhood Island". The first appearance of the title in hardcover in the United States. Until now, all books published by Archipelago Books are softcover originals only. However, this book's bestseller success prompted the publisher to issue all six volumes in a Uniform Hardcover Edition. The softcover editions will continue to be published simultaneously in conjunction with another publisher, FSG. Presents Karl Ove Knausgaard's "Min Kamp" Volume Three in a felicitous English translation. "Finds us in the sensuous realm of Karl Ove's childhood. It's the early 1970's and the family's trajectory: Upwardly mobile. The future seems limitless. In painstaking, sometimes self-lacerating detail, Knausgaard paints a world familiar to anyone who can recall the intensity and novelty of childhood experience, one in which children and adults lead parallel lives that never meet" (Publisher's blurb). What is the significance of, and why all the fuss behind, Karl Ove Knausgaard's "My Struggle"? It is the most full-fledged break from - and probably signals the end of - the mannerism, academicism, post-modernism, and all other pretentious and tired isms of our time. It announces the arrival of a major original voice in literature, writing without the crutch called "concept", in deceptively simple yet eloquent prose. It marks the rejection of our obsession with "celebrity lives", by focussing on the tiniest details of one man's ordinary life as well as deeply painful struggle. In sum, it represents, flaws and all, nothing less than the beginning of a new way of writing and possibly, a new era in literature. Time will tell if "My Struggle" is our century's response to Proust's "In Search of Lost Time" (1913-1927), as its most ardent admirers (and its publisher) assert that it is. An absolute "must-have" title for Karl Ove Knausgaard collectors. <b><i> This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Karl Ove Knausgaard. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page or bookplate. It should also be noted that this copy has his full signature, which is the way he signed the first three volumes of "My Struggle" when they first came out. Alas, beginning with "My Struggle: Volume Four: Dancing In The Dark", sheer demand, his rock-star status, and time constraint have made Knausgaard resort to shorthand, an Ondaatje-like swirl of a signature, a drastic abbreviation especially evident in the bookplate-signed copies. Laid-in are copies of the publisher's promotional materials, "My Hero: Karl Ove Knausgaard" by Jonathan Lethem and "The Magical Realism of Norwegian Nights" by Knausgaard, which first appeared in the New York Times Magazine. This title is a great book. This is one of very few such signed copies of the First American Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. A rare signed copy thus. </b></I> One of the greatest novelists of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD "MY STRUGGLE" TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1935744860., Archipelago Books, 2014, Praeger. Hardcover. New. Hardcover. 224 pages. Dimensions: 9.1in. x 6.1in. x 0.9in.Lemco investigates those political, economic, and social conditions that theorists of federalism have associated with the stability or instability of federations. For many years, there have been pervasive arguments that federalism provides the best government possible for a nation of considerable ethnic and regional disparity. Students of federations have suggested that a centralized federal government that protects the national interest, and governments of the constituent units that protect local and regional interests, are the most responsive administrative forms for a society of great diversity. Following a review of the theoretical literature concerning federalism and political stability, data pertaining to political, social, and economic conditions that are reputed to be related to federal political stability are collected and tested. These conditions include the structure of politics, the impact of political freedom, the importance of the party system, and the relevance of ethnically and territorially based cleavages. The associations among economic modernization, social mobilization, relative deprivation, and federal political stability are also investigated. The author concludes with a discussion of the most significant independent variables, the prospects for future research, and a focus on the extent to which federal and unitary structures can protect minority rights effectively. Lemcos provocative study will be of considerable interest to political theoreticians as well as to students of contemporary nationalist movements. This item ships from multiple locations. Your book may arrive from Roseburg,OR, La Vergne,TN., Praeger<