Tuesday, October 07, 2008

Geek love

Author: Dunn, Katherine

Title: Geek love

Published: New York: Warner Books, 1990

Description: 355 p. ; 21 cm.

Subject(s):
  • Carnival owners -- Fiction
  • Monsters -- Fiction
  • Family -- Fiction

Review(s):

  • American Tall Tale/Tail: Katherine Dunn's Geek Love and the Paradox of American Individualism. Preview By: Warren, Victoria. Critique, Summer2004, Vol. 45 Issue 4, p332-336
  • Fundamentally Freaky: Collapsing the Freak/Norm Binary in Geek Love. Preview By: Hardin, Michael. Critique, Summer2004, Vol. 45 Issue 4, p337-346
  • Normalizing Freakery: Katherine Dunn's 'Geek Love' and the Female Grotesque. Preview By: Weese, Katherine. Critique, Summer2000, Vol. 41 Issue 4, p349

Read: September 8, 2008

The road to rescue: the untold story of Schindler’s list


Author: Pemper, Mieczysław

Uniform Title: Rettende Weg. English

Title: The road to rescue: the untold story of Schindler’s list

Published: New York: Other Press, 2008

Description: xi, 233 p. :ill. ; 22 cm.

Bibliography: p. 225-233

Note(s): In collaboration with Viktoria Hertling, assisted by Marie Elisabeth Müller; translated by David Dollenmayer

Subject(s):
  • Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust -- Biography
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue
  • Jews -- Poland -- Kraków -- Biography
  • Concentration camp inmates -- Poland -- Płaszów -- Biography
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Personal narratives
  • Płaszów (Concentration camp)
  • Pemper, Mieczysław, 1920-
  • Schindler, Oskar, 1908-1974
Review(s):
  • The Road to Rescue: The Untold Story of Schindler's List. Preview By: Cohen, George. Booklist, 9/15/2008, Vol. 105 Issue 2, p16-17
  • The Road to Rescue--The Untold Story of Schindler's List. Preview Publishers Weekly, 8/18/2008, Vol. 255 Issue 33, p54-54
Read: September 7, 2008