Two novellas ("The Bass Saxophone" and "Emoke") by a banned Czech writer who won the 1980 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the Canadian Governor General's 1985 Award for Fiction. The stories evoke the everyday nature of tyranny and the beleagurred individual's resistance to it.
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Two novellas ("The Bass Saxophone" and "Emoke") by a banned Czech writer who won the 1980 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the Canadian Governor General's 1985 Award for Fiction. The stories evoke the everyday nature of tyranny and the beleagurred individual's resistance to it.
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Add this copy of Bass Saxophone to cart. $2.51, good condition, Sold by Seattle Goodwill rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Seattle, WA, UNITED STATES, published 1994 by Vintage.
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May have some shelf-wear due to normal use. Your purchase funds free job training and education in the greater Seattle area. Thank you for supporting Goodwill's nonprofit mission!
Add this copy of The Bass Saxophone: Two Novellas to cart. $6.19, very good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Baltimore rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Halethorpe, MD, UNITED STATES, published by L&OD.
Add this copy of The Bass Saxophone: Two Novellas to cart. $6.50, very good condition, Sold by Powell's Books Chicago rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Chicago, IL, UNITED STATES.
Add this copy of The Bass Saxophone to cart. $7.44, very good condition, Sold by Wonder Book - Member ABAA/ILAB rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Frederick, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1980 by Picador.
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Very Good. Very Good condition. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.
Add this copy of The Bass Saxophone: Two Novellas (Picador Books) to cart. $14.94, good condition, Sold by Goldstone Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Ammanford, CARMS, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1980 by Picador.
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Add this copy of The Bass Saxophone to cart. $14.95, good condition, Sold by Book Culture Inc. rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from New York, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1979 by Alfred A. Knopf.
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Good. All pages and cover are intact. Possible minor highlighting and marginalia. Ships from an indie bookstore in NYC. Text in Czech, English. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 208 p.
Add this copy of The Bass Saxophone: Two Novellas (Picador Books) to cart. $14.98, fair condition, Sold by Pearlydewdrops rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Haywards Heath, WEST SUSSEX, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1980 by Picador.
Add this copy of The Bass Saxaphone: Two Novellas to cart. $25.00, very good condition, Sold by Murder By The Book rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Cranston, RI, UNITED STATES, published 1979 by Alfred A Knopf Inc.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Book 1st ed. Black half cloth over grey marbled boards, with embossed figure of man playing saxaphone, gold lettering is bright, very light fading at edges, else near fine in unclipped dust jacket ($8.95 price intact). The two haunting, poetic novellas that comprise The Bass Saxophone brilliantly evoke the comedy and sadness of life under the Nazi and Soviet dictatorships. They are prefaced by a remarkable memoir of Skvorecky's jazz-obsessed youth. Jazz is a symbol of freedom in both these novellas. In "Emoke", which is set in the shadow of the Communist regime, jazz becomes the means by which a jaded young man plots the seduction of a mysterious girl enmeshed in superstition and the occult. Spurned, but fascinated, he is drawn into her tortured existence until catapulted into the final bitter comedy. In "The Bass Saxophone" a young Czechoslovakian student living under the rule of the Nazis is lured by his love of jazz-the "forbidden music"-into secretly and dangerously playing in a German band, with bizarre and unexpected results.
Add this copy of The Bass Saxophone to cart. $33.23, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1980 by Picador.
Add this copy of Bass Saxophone to cart. $34.26, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1994 by Trafalgar Square.
