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Books by Sam Taylor






Nude Descending an Empire(1st Edition)
(Pitt Poetry Series)
by Sam Taylor
Paperback, 104 Pages, Published 2014 by University Of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-6304-2, ISBN: 0-8229-6304-3

"As a collection of politically engaged poetry for the 21st century,  Nude Descending and Empire develops the lyrical voice of a citizen-poet speaking to the urgency of our contemporary moment, especially its ecological crisis. This is a book that brings all the supposed sensitivity of poetry into contact with the world we actually live in—with all its crises, madness, and modernity—and insists that we feel it all. A reader will recogniz ..."






Body of the World
by Sam Taylor
Paperback, 120 Pages, Published 2005 by Ausable Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-931337-26-7, ISBN: 1-931337-26-8

"Body of the World, Sam Taylor's first book, is the work of a poet whose sense of what it means to be human is inseparable from the physical world, about which he writes with unnerving intimacy. The voice, while grounded in the familiar landscape of twenty-first-century America, is also transparent. It regards itself as integral to that place in time, so that to speak of the human mind and body is to speak of the world, just as perceptio ..."






The Amnesiac
by Sam Taylor
Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 2008 by Penguin Books
Mobipocket_Ebook
ISBN-13: 978-0-14-311340-9, ISBN: 0-14-311340-2

"A gripping literary thriller from an exciting new voice in fiction Hailed as ?one to watch ? by the UK?s Telegraph, Sam Taylor is one of the most imaginative and innovative young writers at work today. With The Amnesiac, his United States debut, he incorporates a murder mystery and a forgotten manuscript into an exhilarating and intelligent novel. When twenty-nine-year-old James Purdew returns to England from his home in Amsterdam, it i ..."






The Island at the End of the World(Reprint)
A Novel
by Sam Taylor
Paperback, 215 Pages, Published 2009 by Penguin Books
Mobipocket_Ebook
ISBN-13: 978-0-14-311625-7, ISBN: 0-14-311625-8

"A chilling post-apocalyptic tale of how far a father will go to protect his children?from the author of The AmnesiacIn a world nearly destroyed by catastrophic floods, one family has been spared. Many years ago, as the waters rose, a father and his three children took to their ark and drifted to the safety of a small island. Life there is a quiet idyll of music and farming?and young Alice, Finn, and Daisy are grateful for their salvatio ..."






Pitt Poetry Ser.
Nude Descending an Empire
by Sam Taylor
80 Pages, Published 2014 by University Of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-8029-2, ISBN: 0-8229-8029-0

"Sam Taylor. THE. BOOK. OF. THINGS. Obscene to walk through the world with eyes open. With feet soles spread in the naked clover. A moment ago, outside, the black butterfly folded his wings and slid his whole body into the speckled throat of the tiger lily. Now, the wooden spoons, face up, huddle together in the metal pitcher beside the sink. Who will comfort the millions carrying their loads? The leanto of the wood cutting board pr ..."






HHhH, Englisch edition
by Laurent Binet, Sam Taylor
Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 2012 by Harvill Secker
ISBN-13: 978-1-84655-480-3, ISBN: 1-84655-480-2

"HHhH: ?Himmlers Hirn heisst Heydrich?, or ?Himmler?s brain is called Heydrich?. The most dangerous man in Hitler?s cabinet, Reinhard Heydrich was known as the ?Butcher of Prague.? He was feared by all and loathed by most. With his cold Aryan features and implacable cruelty, Heydrich seemed indestructible?until two men, a Slovak and a Czech recruited by the British secret service, killed him in broad daylight on a bustling street in Prag ..."






East of Islington
A Novel About Gossip, Friendship and the City (Paperback)
by Sam Taylor
Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2011 by Gibson Square Books Ltd, United Kingdom
ISBN-13: 978-1-906142-90-2, ISBN: 1-906142-90-4






The Island at the End of the World
A Novel
by Sam Taylor
224 Pages, Published 2009 by Penguin
ISBN-13: 978-1-101-13351-4, ISBN: 1-101-13351-1

"But I herd a gunshot. You herd. His brow makes a V. Oh erly this morning. I nod. It woke me up. Yeh. I mist. That wer the only one I saw. Sorry Finn. Ahm hungry Pa. Theres plenty tatoes. Can we maybe catch a fish. You can try he says in a low voice. I dont no how many are left a live after this drowt. He looks over cross the sea wen he says this an that minds me of the rising. Pa I say wys the rising so dark an thick. Ive never see ..."






Princess and the Pea
by Hans Christian Andersen, Sam Taylor
Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 2008 by Faber And Faber
ISBN-13: 978-0-571-23354-0, ISBN: 0-571-23354-6

"Detective and mystery stories. Mystery fiction. An unconventional detective story about memory and reality."






The Amnesiac
by Sam Taylor
400 Pages, Published 2008 by Penguin
ISBN-13: 978-1-4406-3572-4, ISBN: 1-4406-3572-2

"... Ingrid Drijver, Alicia Duffy, Greg Dulli, Olivier Durette, Stéphanie Durette, Mr Earnshaw, Claire Eddison, Sandra Elissen, Barbara Ellen, Nathalie Esterbrook, Jane Ferguson, John 'Scottie' Ferguson, Field Mill, Robert Forster, Jean Fourcade, ... The Mint, Mitch's, The Mitre, Eiji Miyake, Bill Montgomery, Chris More, Josephine Morley, Daniel Morvan, Jaime Mullerat, John Mulvey, Simon Murch, Herman Mussert, Lucy Neville, Sylvia N ..."






The Amnesiac
(Paperback)
by Sam Taylor
Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 2007 by Faber And Faber
ISBN-13: 978-0-571-23353-3, ISBN: 0-571-23353-8






LONDON WASPS
OFFICIAL YEARBOOK 2006/07
by Sam Taylor, Marc Fiszman
Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 2006 by Sidan Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-903073-55-1, ISBN: 1-903073-55-3






THE REPUBLIC OF TREES
(Uncorrected Proof)
by Sam Taylor
Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2005 by Faber And Faber
ISBN-13: 978-0-571-22293-3, ISBN: 0-571-22293-5

"One of the most vivid, gripping and chilling first novels of recent years, The Republicof Trees tells the story of Michael, Louis, Alex and Isobel, four ..."






Cartmel People and Priory(Reprint)
by Sam Taylor, Hilary Forrest
Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 1995 by Imprint Unknown
Import
ISBN-13: 978-0-900811-25-8, ISBN: 0-900811-25-0

"Cartmel: People and Priory"






A Hundred Million Years and a Day
by Jean-Baptiste Andrea, Sam Taylor
Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2020 by Gallic Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-910477-83-0, ISBN: 1-910477-83-4

"'Up there, the only monsters are the ones you take with you.' 1954. Stan, a middle-aged palaeontologist living in Paris, hears a story about a 'dragon', a fossilized dinosaur whose discovery could change his life. Yet this fossil, if it truly exists, lies somewhere within a glacier, deep in treacherous mountain territory on the Italian border. And he cannot attempt to find it alone. Joined by loyal friend Umberto with his young assistan ..."






The Cook
A Novel
by Maylis De Kerangal, Sam Taylor
Hardcover, 112 Pages, Published 2019 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux
ISBN-13: 978-0-374-12090-0, ISBN: 0-374-12090-0

""A slim, bountiful, beautifully written (and gorgeously translated) 'Portrait of the Chef as a Young Man.'" --Nancy Klinke, The New York Times Book ReviewOne of BBC Culture's Ten Books to Read this March and The Rumpus Book Club Pick for MarchMaylis de Kerangal follows up her acclaimed novel The Heart with a dissection of the world of a young Parisian chefMore like a poetic biographical essay on a fictional person than a novel, The Cook ..."






The Seventh Function of Language(Reprint)
A Novel
by Laurent Binet, Sam Taylor
Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 2018 by Picador
ISBN-13: 978-1-250-18168-8, ISBN: 1-250-18168-2

"From the prizewinning author of HHhH, “the most insolent novel of the year” (L’Express) is a romp through the French intelligentsia of the twentieth century.Paris, 1980. The literary critic Roland Barthes dies―struck by a laundry van―after lunch with the presidential candidate François Mitterand. The world of letters mourns a tragic accident. But what if it wasn’t an accident at all? What if Barthes was . . . murdered?In The Seventh Fun ..."






Hunting the Truth
Memoirs of Beate and Serge Klarsfeld
by Beate Klarsfeld, Serge Klarsfeld, Sam Taylor
Hardcover, 464 Pages, Published 2018 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux
ISBN-13: 978-0-374-27982-0, ISBN: 0-374-27982-9

"2018 NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD BOOK OF THE YEARIn this dual autobiography, the Klarsfelds tell the dramatic story of fifty years devoted to bringing Nazis to justiceFor more than a century, Beate and Serge Klarsfeld have hunted, confronted, and exposed Nazi war criminals, tracking them down in places as far-flung as South America and the Middle East. It is they who uncovered the notorious torturer Klaus Barbie, known as “the Butcher of ..."






A Paris Affair(Reprint)
A Novel
by Tatiana De Rosnay, Sam Taylor
Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 2016 by St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN-13: 978-1-250-09387-5, ISBN: 1-250-09387-2

"From the internationally best-selling author of Sarah's Key Tatiana de Rosnay comes an irreverent yet heartfelt collection of short stories that examines our most intimate and forbidden desiresLate nights at the office... Hotel rooms and secret rendezvous... Lingering perfume... Sizzling texts...What takes place in Paris when husbands and wives tangle with infidelity?In this compulsively readable collection, Tatiana de Rosnay paints a p ..."






A Paris Affair
A Novel
by Tatiana De Rosnay, Sam Taylor
Hardcover, 128 Pages, Published 2015 by St. Martin's Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-250-06880-4, ISBN: 1-250-06880-0

"From the internationally best-selling author of Sarah's Key Tatiana de Rosnay comes an irreverent yet heartfelt collection of short stories that examines our most intimate and forbidden desiresLate nights at the office... Hotel rooms and secret rendezvous... Lingering perfume... Sizzling texts...What takes place in Paris when husbands and wives tangle with infidelity?In this compulsively readable collection, Tatiana de Rosnay paints a p ..."



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