The worst part: these titles don’t seem to need a reissue at this moment, and there are so many others we’re on the fringe of losing that could use a good marketing campaign. They seem to be widely available (I’ve seen all three at several local bookstores). They are compact and sturdy, the size of a mass-market paperback but the feel of a trade paperback. Apparently at this point there are three titles available: The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything is Illuminated (the title of which comes from that first small section of The Unbearable Lightness of Being that I mentioned above), and Michael Chabon’s The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (does this one have anything to do with the other titles?). Now, with Harper Perennial’s limited edition, I finally found that The Unbearable Lightness of Being was the book I couldn’t pass up at the bookstore.Ī quick word about the limited edition, which I knew about only because I saw an advertisement in the New York Review of Books. Consequently, I’ve read the first small section dozens of times but knew little about the rest of the book. There just always seemed to be another book that felt more urgent and more likely to be missed if not purchased instead. Here’s another book I’ve often pulled from the bookstore shelf, only to put it back, sometimes even after I’ve already gotten in line to purchase it.
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