RECOMMENDATIONS: New Arrivals
Recent Arrivals | New Orleans Works | First Editions
Joseph De Salvo Jr.
Joseph De Salvo Jr., bibliophile and owner of Faulkner House Books, recommends the following works of non-fiction and fiction.
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NEW ARRIVALS/GOOD READS
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The Book about Blanche and Marie
by Per Olov Enquist
$24.95
An extraordinary historical novel that seeks to answer the simple question: What is love? The principal characters are Marie Curie, the twice Nobel winner and Blanche Wittman, her triple amputee assistant who had been an hysteria patient of Professor J. M. Charcot at Salpêtrière hospital in Paris. The writing is startlingly beautiful and poetical. -
Radetsky March
by Joseph Roth
$20.00
Originally published in 1932, now back in print in a Modern Library edition. Set in the waning years of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, just before WWI, it seamlessly blends history with the lives of the novel's characters. A great book. -
Seeing
by José Saramago
$25.00
This singular novel by the author of Blindness begins as a satire on government and turns into something more sinister. Nobel Prize- winner Saramago is an acquired taste that quickly becomes an addiction. -
Rasputin’s Daughter
by Robert Alexander
$23.95
The imaginative and compelling tale of Rasputin, Russia’s notorious holy man and healer, in his final days, as told by his young and spirited daughter, Maria. -
John Gardner Literary Outlaw
by Barry Silesky
$24.95
An outstanding biographer captures one of the 20th century’s most controversial writers’ contradictory genius and his capacity to both dazzle and infuriate. -
Preserving the World’s Great Cities – The Destruction and Renewal of the Historic Metropolis
by Anthony Tung
$19.95 (signed copies may be available)
This new book is an important contribution to the literature of urban studies and city planning and a fascinating study of architectural history and sociology. -
The Dogs Who Found Me
by Ken Foster
$12.95 (signed copies available)
Enjoy a charming post-Katrina work by a New Orleans author who writes about the human/canine bond with wisdom, insight, and great heart. -
The House of Paper
by Carlos Maria Dominguez
$18.00
I read this little (103 pages) treasure twice. Appropriately, it’s about the passion people feel for their books. Delightful. -
Leonardo’s Swans
by Karen Essex
$21.95
This novel is a haunting one of rivalry, love, and betrayal that will transport readers back to the glittering court of Milan in Renaissance Italy. -
Sweetness in the Belly
by Camilla Gibb
$23.95
This is the story a British-born Muslim woman’s unforgettable journey between two worlds: the ancient walled city of Harar, Ethiopia and the racially charged atmosphere of 1980’s London. -
The Dream Life of Sukharov
by Olga Grushin
$24.95
Steeped in the tradition of Gogol, Bulgakov, and Nabokov, this hallucinatory tale describes a member of the Soviet Privilegentsia discovering the price of his pact with the devil. -
His Lovely Wife
by Elizabeth Dewberry
$24.00 (signed copies will be available)
A daring and inventive meditation on life and romance that weaves together two women’s lives to explore a culture that celebrates women for their beauty — then extracts a terrible toll. -
Defining the World – The Extraordinary Story of Dr. Johnson’s Dictionary
by Henry Hitchings
$14.00
Anyone who loves words will enjoy this book. For years, I was hopelessly lost in the amazing world of Samuel Johnson, James Boswell and their circle of friends. I became a book collector when I bought a first edition of Boswell’s Life of Samuel Johnson.