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Book Description: Plume, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1997. Trade Paperback. Book Condition: New. 0452278791 Trade paperback in new condition. Never read. 03336382 _. Bookseller Inventory # 03336382

Book Description: Plume, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1997. Trade Paperback. Book Condition: New. 0452278791 Trade paperback in new condition. Never read. 03337159 _. Bookseller Inventory # 03337159

Book Description: Plume, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1997. Trade Paperback. Book Condition: New. 0452278791 Trade paperback in new condition. Never read. 03337160 _. Bookseller Inventory # 03337160

Book Description: Plume. PAPERBACK. Book Condition: New. 0452278791 Absolutely Brand New. No marks and in pristine condition. Immediate shipping for all orders and FREE STANDARD DELIVERY on Domestic US Orders! International, APO, FPO and PO Box addresses accepted. All of our titles are exactly the same title as shown and are 100% Guaranteed! Used items may not include extras such as infotrac, CD or other web access codes. We recommend expedited shipping for faster delivery. Standard shipping may take up to 14 business days. ABEP45. Bookseller Inventory # SKUS206706

Book Description: Plume, 1997. Softcover. Book Condition: Brand New. Reprint Edition. 8vo - over 7.75" - 9.75" tall. Brand new. Never read or owned. May have a remainder mark. 145 pages. 8.00 x 5.50 x 0.50 in. 4.8 oz. A son is set the task of concealing his father's death; a drowned child is callously handled by rescuers; a lonely schoolteacher is shot by a hunter; a boy witnesses his mother's act of infidelity; a car explosion kills a foreign schoolgirl; and the middle-aged author of these tales depicts his own consciousness. In a perceptive work about a writer of stories, acclaimed author E.L. Doctorow opens to the reader the creative imagination of a writer. -- A young boy is asked to maintain the fiction that his father is alive. A young woman is shot at by a hunter. A schoolgirl dies in an exploding car. In LIVES OF THE POETS, six tense, poignant, and mysterious stories are followed by a novella which the writer emerges from his work to reveal his own mind. Here are the images and the themes of the earlier stories become part of the narrator's unsparing confessions about his own life. Separated from his family he chronicles the edgy urban landscape around him, discusses marriages that fail but continue to entangle spouses, the influence of wives and other women, and the obsessions that haunt him. And in this brilliant, funny, and painful story about the story, the writer's mind in all its aspects--its formal compositions, its naked secrets--emerges as a rare look at the creative process and its connection to the heart. -- An astonishing work, LIVES OF THE POETS varies from realistic to dreamlike to become a virtuoso performance by E.L. Doctorow, deftly done by an author in total control of his craft, aware both of the enormity of his talent.and of the price it exacts. This novella about a writer is accompanied by six stories he may or may not have written, about people in extreme situations, by E. L. Doctorow. Extraordinary beauty and power.a book to fall in love with. -- Chicago Tribune Books - Susan Fromberg Schaeffer -- Doctorow's subtlest work of fiction.an account of one man's search for seriousness--and for human connection and truth.invaluable. -- New York Times Book Review - Robert Towers -- Better than any fiction I know, 'Lives of the Poets' illuminates the sources from which fiction springs. -- TowersÂ. Remainder. Bookseller Inventory # C0452278791

Book Description: Plume, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1997. Trade Paperback. Book Condition: New. 2nd printing of the Plume trade paper edition. Shows some browning of the page edges, especially on top, and some fading of the colors on the spine, from time on our shop shelves. Bookseller Inventory # 003337