The dreamers karen walker5/31/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Who would succumb next? What happened to the people who fell ill? What could the town do–and what would the world do if the illness spread? A Big Story Told in a Small Way The book positively radiated with fear, questions, and the unknown. Some people woke up, and others just didn’t. The illness plaguing the town didn’t take it by storm it moved in quietly, and during an act that no one could avoid. Karen Thompson Walker’s writing is mesmerizing, and given the sleepy, dreamy theme of this book, her tone was exactly right. Dystopian story about a mysterious sleeping sickness that overtakes a town. ![]() Second novel from Karen Thompson Walker, author of The Age of Miracles, which I loved.The human brain is subject to all kinds of misperceptions, and the waking mind not always more attuned to reality than the dreaming one. ![]()
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Lorna Simpson Collages by Lorna Simpson5/31/2023 ![]() ![]() Read on for a sneak peak of Simpson's collages and get your hands on the whole book HERE. After three decades of risk-taking and often defiant conceptual work combining photographs and texts, collage, video, film, drawing, sculpture, and installation, Lorna is still pushing boundaries. 'In working with the collages, they're almost a way for my subconscious to play': we visit Lorna Simpson in her studio ahead of her exhibition. Taking snippets of text from 1960s ads and collaging them with vintage images, splashy washes of multi-coloured ink, and dreamy skyscapes, Simpson 'creates fantastical coiffures that pay homage to the beauty and language of hair'. 'They are amazing portraits, even for that time, because there is a subtext of political strife in terms of the before and after during the civil rights era.' 'I try to keep the collages very simple, as well as the character, the facing, and all the tropes of advertising from those particular moments,' Simpson once told the Paris Review. Releasing her latest book last month, aptly named 'Lorna Simpson Collages', Simpson edited 160 of her iconic collages torn from vintage beauty ads and textbooks to create a collection celebrating the beauty of black hair. Lorna Simpson’s Glowing Collages of Women and Heads of Hair Lorna Simpson’s Glowing Collages of Women and Heads of Hair The artist’s collages feature portraits of women cut from. If you haven't heard of artist Lorna Simpson yet, then informing you that her last work sold at Sotheby's for a record-breaking six figure sum might go a little way to explaining that she's kind of a big deal right now. ![]() Karen blixen shadows on the grass5/31/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Please see all photographs for an overview of its condition.Īny questions or if you'd like to see more photographs, etc., please drop me a quick message and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. There is a name and date handwritten in blue ink on the inside front cover (see relevant photo). There is minor corner creasing and scratching to the cover and some age-discolouration to the inner pages. There are several lines of creasing running the lengths of the spine and left hand edge of the front cover. ![]() This book is generally in good condition. Made and printed in Great Britain by Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd, Bungay, Suffolkįilmset in 9/11 Monophoto Tmes by Northumberland Press Ltd, Gateshaed, Tyne and Wearĭimensions: H 19.8cm / W 12.8cm / D 1.8cm This Collection: First Edition, Paperback, 1985 'Shadows on the Grass' first published: 1960 Title: Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grass I am delighted to be able to offer this film tie-in paperback first collection edition of 'Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grass' by Karen Blixen (Isak Dineson)', published by Penguin Books in 1985. Welcome to The Windmill Bookshop, the vintage book section of our Etsy shop. ![]() |