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Australian Book Retailer of the Year 2021
Blaise Cronin
PRAISE FOR BLOOMINGTON DAYS 'Why did I purchase six copies of Bloomington Days for Chanukah and Christmas presents last year? Blaise Cronin's hilarious yet affectionate words capture the bucolic surrealism…
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'One of the noblest views in the world...' In rain-splattered, flower-powered Westport you'll hear William Makepeace Thackeray's fulsome words intoned more often than the Rosary.
The much-feted town, nestling at…
The Fake's Regress is the sequel to The Fake's Progress.
Shortly before 9/11, Sebastian Conyers washes up in a remote corner of Ireland. Neither bowed nor chastened, he happy-go-luckily hitches…
He scratched his scrotum in mindless, metronomic fashion, then drew the plaid curtains to be greeted by fuliginous gloom. When would tourists realize that postcard Ireland existed but one day…
What better time to launch a life-coaching business than during an economic depression? Such was Sebastian's thinking. Few would have subscribed to the view. Predictably, the wheeze went the way…
With George Kingsley's unexpected death, Sebastian lost not only his closest friend but also his financial backer: George held almost all the equity in the business. The Conyers was Sebastian's…
This collection of essays scrutinizes the world of North American librarianship, exoriating its excesses and inconsistencies. It provides a tour of Libraryland , from pornography and censorship to the idiocies…
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An autobiographically indulgent reflection on the goalie’s eccentric art.
\“Incorporating Bloomington daze, Bloomington gaze & Bloomington gays.\”
Sebastian Conyers emerged from the womb at a time when sex did not exist in Ireland. At age twenty-one he thought that a clitoris was a flower. When he eventually…
'Laissez les bons temps rouler!' You don't have to speak French to join in the party. The Irish economy has taken off. Every Tom, Dick and Harriet is clambering onto…
A clerihew is a whimsical four-line verse of the form AABB, the first line of which is the name of a famous person. By way of contrast, a Japanese haiku…
Der Band enth'alt die zum Teil ‘uberarbeiteten Beitr'age zu der gleichnamigen deutsch-britischen Konferenz, die im Juni 1989 von The British Council, K'oln … [et al.] veranstaltet wurde –Introd.
Blaise Cronin (Professor, Information Science, Indiana University, USA)
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