About this title: Sebald's first (and autobiographical) novel is about a disturbed man who is obsessed with the literary giants of the past. A New York Times Notable Book for 2000.
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Edition: NEW ED
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: VINTAGE Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780099448891ISBN:0099448890
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 272 pages. (272 pages) at moments when reality shows itself to be unstable or uncanny, we experience a form of vertigo. this experience is further complicated when we try to transform experience into writing, and fact clashes with memory. sebald's novel, part fiction, part travelogue explores this theme. 70 illustrations edition new ed (Paperback) read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: London, Harvill Press
Date published: 1999
Description: Translated from the german by Michael Hulse. Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the dust jacket. First UK Edition, First Impression. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Harvill Press
Date published: 1999
ISBN-13:9781860466236ISBN:1860466230
Description: Fine. FINE/FINE 1ST IMPRESSION/1ST UK EDITION 1999 HARVILL HARDBACK WITH LOVELY ORIGINAL UNCLIPPED JACKET. CLASSIC EARLY SEBALD NOVEL, CONTAINING ALL THE HALLMARKS OF HIS HAUNTING STYLE. VERY HARD TO FIND 1ST EDITION, ISSUED IN A SMALL PRINT RUN. FINE/FINE CONDITION. IMMEDIATE 1ST CLASS/AIRMAIL DISPATCH WORLDWIDE FROM UK EUROPEAN LIT SPECIALIST ~~Please browse our Alibris storefront for more related items, combined postage available. Alibris UK Featured Seller 2009~~ read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: The Harvill Press
Date published: 2000
ISBN-13:9781860467349ISBN:1860467342
Description: Fine. FINE/FINE 1ST IMPRESSION/1ST UK EDITION 1999 HARVILL HARDBACK WITH LOVELY ORIGINAL UNCLIPPED JACKET. CLASSIC EARLY SEBALD NOVEL, CONTAINING ALL THE HALLMARKS OF HIS HAUNTING STYLE. VERY HARD TO FIND 1ST EDITION, ISSUED IN A SMALL PRINT RUN. FINE/FINE CONDITION. IMMEDIATE 1ST CLASS/AIRMAIL DISPATCH WORLDWIDE FROM UK EUROPEAN LIT SPECIALIST ~~Please browse our Alibris storefront for more related items, combined postage available. Alibris UK Featured Seller 2009~~ read more
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Date published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780811214858ISBN:0811214850
Description: Good. Ships from the UK. one loose page Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Your purchase also supports literacy charities. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Vintage Books
Date published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780099448891ISBN:0099448890
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 272 p. Audience: General/trade. Original novel which is part fiction, part travelogue tracing the journey of the narrator from England to Italy and beyond. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Debate
Date published: 2001
ISBN-13:9788483064733ISBN:8483064731
Description: Good. Ships from the UK. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Your purchase also supports literacy charities. read more
Edition: NEW ED
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Vintage Books USA, UK
Date published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780099448891ISBN:0099448890
Description: New. Please note that deliveries to addresses in the UK and Europe will be in 4-14 business days. Other countries should refer to Alibris standard times. Part fiction, part travelogue, the narrator of this compelling masterpiece pursues his solitary, eccentric course from England to Italy and beyond, succumbing to the vertiginous unreliability of memory itself. What could possibly connect Stendhal's unrequited love, the artistry of Pisanello, a series of murders by a clandestine organisation, ... read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Random House UK
Date published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780099448891ISBN:0099448890
Description: New. PLEASE NOTE: All books are promptly shipped from our UK warehouse using Royal Mail or DHL. International Priority mail for non-UK deliveries. Delivery is typically 2-4 working days for UK delivery. Heavier or more expensive books are shipped with a TRACKING NUMBER. Professional and reliable bookseller (est.1987). read more
Edition: 1st
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Harvill Press, UK
Date published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780811214308ISBN:0811214303
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. First UK edition. In Fine condition with Fine dustwrapper, clean and tight with no inscriptions. Signed to title page by Sebald. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Date published: 2001-10
ISBN-13:9780811214858ISBN:0811214850
Description: Good. Book is in good condition. Cover/book edges may have some wear/soiling. All pages are clean. Your satisfaction is guaranteed! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Date published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780811214858ISBN:0811214850
Description: Fair. 2001. New Directions Publishing Corporation. Paperback. Edge and corner wear. Underlining and notes in pencil throughout text. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Date published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780811214858ISBN:0811214850
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. VG condition, almost like-new, ex-libris stamp on first page. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 263 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Date published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780811214858ISBN:0811214850
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 263 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Very gently read. Spine tight with no creases. No noticeable shelf wear. Pages clean, no marks or wrinkles. read more
Edition: First edition. Illustrated.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Date published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780811214858ISBN:0811214850
Description: Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 263 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. First paperback (no additional printings listed). Very slight curl on cover and first few pages, light soil on back cover, else fine. read more
"I was laying in bed reading this "novel" when I finally became enraged at page 150something and threw it six feet down to the floor. The sound it made when it hit the floor, that quick accordion "floap" a thrown book makes was one the most joyous sounds I have ever heard. I was finally released from the "novel's" grasp.
The book does have a pull to it, something that draws you to read and keep reading, but the fact that I could not recall what had happened after reading any part of the book and that he skips points almost mid-sen, the book is a dream. Thats all, a dream in written form. I can never remember my dreams except for a piece here and a part there and I have no idea how I transition from one part of my dream to another, somehow I am just magically riding a hockey stick like a pogo stick making effortless 100 yard jumps down a dirt road in the middle of Hollywood/Las Vegas looking for my cousin's friend's neighbor's house in order to go home/Disneyland. There is no point to my dreams, just as there is no point to this book But I might be wrong, as I did not actually finish the book. In my mind, torturing myself by reading this nonsense collection of words, commas, commas, commas, commas, and commas just to see if whatever the hell is going on in the "plot" comes together to make an actual point just was not worth anything.
Which brings me to an important part of books, movies, plays, any kind of entertainment really, the PLOT. Every good book has a plot, every bad book has a plot, but I have never read a book with no plot (seeing as I did not finish Vertigo). I understand all the talk about Vertigo is about memory, but its just a collection of memories. I could sit and tell you memories that happen to dance across my mind, but that would be boring to you and to me. Wait, thats how I fall asleep. I will end with a quote from F. Scott Fitzgerald that I believe explains what this book really is,
"But his heart was in a constant, turbulent riot. The most grotesque and fantastic conceits haunted him in his bed at night. A universe of ineffable gaudiness spun itself out in his brain while the clock ticked on the washstand and the moon soaked with wet light his tangled clothes upon the floor. Each night he added to the pattern of his fancies until drowsiness closed down upon some vivid scene with an oblivious embrace. For awhile these reveries provided an outlet for his imagination; they were a satisfactory hint of the unreality of reality, a promise that the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy's wing.""
Vertigo
Reviewed by Kyle on
2010-01-05 00:00:00.0.
I was laying in bed reading this "novel" when I finally became enraged at page 150something and threw it six feet down to the floor. The sound it made when it hit the floor, that quick accordion "floap" a thrown book makes was one the most joyous sounds I have ever heard. I was finally released from the "novel's" grasp.
The book does have a pull to it, something that draws you to read and keep reading, but the fact that I could not recall what had happened after reading any part of the book and that he skips points almost mid-sen, the book is a dream. Thats all, a dream in written form. I can never remember my dreams except for a piece here and a part there and I have no idea how I transition from one part of my dream to another, somehow I am just magically riding a hockey stick like a pogo stick making effortless 100 yard jumps down a dirt road in the middle of Hollywood/Las Vegas looking for my cousin's friend's neighbor's house in order to go home/Disneyland. There is no point to my dreams, just as there is no point to this book But I might be wrong, as I did not actually finish the book. In my mind, torturing myself by reading this nonsense collection of words, commas, commas, commas, commas, and commas just to see if whatever the hell is going on in the "plot" comes together to make an actual point just was not worth anything.
Which brings me to an important part of books, movies, plays, any kind of entertainment really, the PLOT. Every good book has a plot, every bad book has a plot, but I have never read a book with no plot (seeing as I did not finish Vertigo). I understand all the talk about Vertigo is about memory, but its just a collection of memories. I could sit and tell you memories that happen to dance across my mind, but that would be boring to you and to me. Wait, thats how I fall asleep. I will end with a quote from F. Scott Fitzgerald that I believe explains what this book really is,
"But his heart was in a constant, turbulent riot. The most grotesque and fantastic conceits haunted him in his bed at night. A universe of ineffable gaudiness spun itself out in his brain while the clock ticked on the washstand and the moon soaked with wet light his tangled clothes upon the floor. Each night he added to the pattern of his fancies until drowsiness closed down upon some vivid scene with an oblivious embrace. For awhile these reveries provided an outlet for his imagination; they were a satisfactory hint of the unreality of reality, a promise that the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy's wing."
Rating: 1
"I found this book disorienting and hard to get into/stay with. I think the problem was mainly that I was in the mood for something with a plot and characters. I never felt engaged or even very interested in the narration, only in the (very) interesting ideas that these served to raise."
Vertigo
Reviewed by Jennifer on
2009-05-17 00:00:00.0.
I found this book disorienting and hard to get into/stay with. I think the problem was mainly that I was in the mood for something with a plot and characters. I never felt engaged or even very interested in the narration, only in the (very) interesting ideas that these served to raise.
Rating: 3
"Probably not the best selection for early autumn in exile, but... at least it's not January?"
Vertigo
Reviewed by Stephen on
2008-10-17 00:00:00.0.
Probably not the best selection for early autumn in exile, but... at least it's not January?
Rating: 4
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