New Releases by Shelley Jackson

Paranormální román s prvky gotických příběhů i magického realismu o jedné podivné škole a o prolínání světa mrtvých a živých. Jedenáctiletá Jane Grandisonová, ztrápená svým koktáním, má od nynějška žít a studovat v Odborné škole Sybil Joinesové pro duchomluvné a ústoslyšící děti. Škola založená v roce 1890 je na první pohled útočištěm pro děti, které se touží zbavit své vady řeči. Ovšem Sybil Joinesová, zvaná také jen Ředitelka, má poněkud jinou představu. Tato průkopnice v oboru nekrofyziky totiž hodlá "dar", jímž oplývá ona i její studenti, náležitě využít. Prostřednictvím svého koktání a zadrhávání dokážou vyvolávat hlasy duchů hovořící ze světa mrtvých. Jednoho dne ovšem zmizí jedna ze studentek, událost přiláká pozornost rodičů i policie a všechno se začíná měnit... Román je vyprávěn prostřednictvím teoretických spisů o nekrofyzice, Ředitelčiných depeší ze světa mrtvých a zápisků Jane Grandisonové. Nakladatelská anotace. Kráceno.

Finalist for the Believer Book Award for Fiction Named a Best Book of Fall by Vulture, New York Magazine, and more "A ravishing novel charged with the idea of the incommunicable." —The New Yorker Eleven–year–old Jane Grandison, tormented by her stutter, sits in the back seat of a car, letter in hand inviting her to live and study at the Sybil Joines Vocational School for Ghost Speakers & Hearing–Mouth Children. Founded in 1890 by Headmistress Sybil Joines, the school—at first glance—is a sanctuary for children seeking to cure their speech impediments. Inspired by her haunted and tragic childhood, the Headmistress has other ideas. Pioneering the field of necrophysics, the Headmistress harnesses the “gift” she and her students possess. Through their stutters, together they have the ability to channel ghostly voices communicating from the land of the dead, a realm the Headmistress herself visits at will. Things change for the school and the Headmistress when a student disappears, attracting attention from parents and police alike. Set in the overlapping worlds of the living and the dead, Shelley Jackson’s Riddance is an illuminated novel told through theoretical writings in necrophysics, the Headmistress’s dispatches from the land of the dead, and Jane’s evolving life as Joines’s new stenographer and central figure in the Vocational School’s mysterious present, as well as its future.

A hand-illustrated and accessible introduction to the world of bike repair! Through working at both Plan B Bike Project and French Quarter Bicycles in New Orleans, our co-authors have gathered a wealth of experience to share with would-be mechanics. The first half of this book is a complete repair manual to get you started on choosing, fixing, and riding your bike. The second half reprints all four issues of Chainbreaker zine, whose originals were destroyed in Hurricane Katrina.

Hypertext novel incorporating aspects of the Frankenstein tale, graphic novels, feminist meditation and storytelling.

In Zurich, Switzerland, an artistic cat finds the perfect owner in fellow Dadaist, Mr. Dada. Author''s note provides background on the Dadaist art movement.

“Ingenious, sensual, gleeful. . . . It demands of its readers only imagination, and rewards them with hilarity, terror, and marvels.”—Jonathan Lethem, author of Motherless Brooklyn Nora and Blanche are cojoined twins. Nora, the dominant twin, thirsts for love and adventure, while Blanche has been asleep for nearly 30 years. Determined to shed herself of her her sister’s dead weight, Nora leaves for London in search of the mysterious Unity Foundation, which promises to make two one. But once Nora arrives in London, the past begins to surface, forcing her into a most reluctant voyage into memory—a search for meaning and understanding, that will push Nora to the brink of insanity. Grotesque, funny, and dazzlingly told, Shelley Jackson’s first novel is an imaginative and touching portrait of two lives in a cleft world yearning for wholeness.

Dans l''Anatomie de la Mélancolie, Robert Burton tente de faire l''anatomie d''un état de l''esprit, Shelley Jackson (née en 1963) tente, au contraire, de spiritualiser l''anatomie. Ce faisant, elle donne au lecteur tout le plaisir que l''on peut trouver dans les vieux livres de science que l''on connaît surtout aujourd''hui pour leur qualité littéraire. La Mélancolie de l''Anatomie, explore ce même territoire, celui des limites entre la littérature et la recherche scientifique, entre la citation à outrance et une écriture entièrement neuve, entre la religion et la fantaisie. Comme le dit l''auteur, Si certaines de mes phrases sont d''une grande complexité, ce n''est rien quand on les compare à celles de Burton. " Là où Burton pénètre dans le corps humain pour y chercher les liens entre l''esprit, la psyché et le corps tel qu''on le connaissait à la fin de la Renaissance (en fonction de la théorie des humeurs), Jackson imagine l''oeuf, le sperme, le foetus, le cancer, les nerfs, les godemichés, le flegme, les cheveux, le sommeil, le sang, le lait et la graisse comme extérieurs, séparés, influençant les humains, leurs corps, leur culture, leurs relations, du dehors. Son livre est également structuré selon les humeurs, qui divisent le livre en quatre parties : Cholérique, Mélancolique, Flegmatique et Sanguin. Jackson se concentre sur ce qu''elle appelle les " résidus " du corps, elle leur donne une vie séparée et imagine, avec humour, énormément d''imagination verbale et une très grande virtuosité de construction, comme les êtres humains peuvent interagir avec tous ces éléments dont ils font en général peu de cas. Robert Coover a dit de Shelley Jackson qu''elle était un des talents les plus mûrs et originaux de sa génération.

Combining corporeal fantasy with physiological imagery, portrays a world populated by various pieces and products of the human body as it explores the sometimes disturbing, sometimes wondrous aspects of being human.

The royal alchemist''s dog Sophia is able to discover for him the secret of making gold, but when the King comes to visit he finds treasure of a different kind.

An old woman finally comes to understand and appreciate the huge wave that has hung in the air, sheltering her house, all her life.