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Published by Tim Duggan Books, 2019
ISBN 10: 0525574832ISBN 13: 9780525574835
Seller: SecondSale, Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.
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Published by Tim Duggan Books, 2018
ISBN 10: 0525574824ISBN 13: 9780525574828
Seller: SecondSale, Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.
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Published by Random House Books for Young Readers, 2021
ISBN 10: 0593176766ISBN 13: 9780593176764
Seller: Orion Tech, Kingwood, TX, U.S.A.
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hardcover. Condition: Good.
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Published by Clarkson Potter, 2020
ISBN 10: 0525574972ISBN 13: 9780525574972
Seller: SecondSale, Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.
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Published by Crown Publishing Group, The, 1988
ISBN 10: 0812912772ISBN 13: 9780812912777
Seller: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.
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Condition: Good. 1st. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
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Published by Peter Bedrick Books, 1989
ISBN 10: 0872262103ISBN 13: 9780872262102
Seller: HPB-Ruby, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
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paperback. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!.
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Published by Penguin Books Ltd, United Kingdom, London, 2013
ISBN 10: 0241145864ISBN 13: 9780241145869
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. New from Dave Eggers, National Book Award finalist A Hologram for the King. In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter's college tuition, and finally do something great. In A Hologram for the King, Dave Eggers takes us around the world to show how one man fights to hold himself and his splintering family together in the face of the global economy's gale-force winds. This taut, richly layered, and elegiac novel is a powerful evocation of our contemporary moment - and a moving story of how we got here. Praise for A Hologram for the King: 'Absorbing . . . modest and equally satisfying: the writing of a comic but deeply affecting tale about one man's travails that also provides a bright, digital snapshot of our times' Michiko Kakutani, New York Times 'A fascinating novel' New Yorker 'A spare but moving elegy for the American century' Publishers Weekly 'Eggers understands the pressures of American downward-mobility, and in the protagonist of his novel, Alan Clay, has created an Everyman, a post-modern Willy Loman . . . The novel operates on a grand and global scale, but it also is intimate' Chicago Tribune 'Completely engrossing' Fortune 'Eggers can do fiction as well as he likes' Los Angeles Times Dave Eggers is the author of six previous books: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, How We Are Hungry, You Shall Know Our Velocity, What is the What, The Wild Things and Zeitoun. Zeitoun was the winner of the American Book Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and What is the What was a finalist for the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award and won France's Prix Medicis. Eggers is the founder and editor of McSweeney's, an independent publishing house based in San Francisco. A native of Chicago, he lives in Northern California with his wife and two children. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Published by Penguin Books Ltd, United Kingdom, London, 2017
ISBN 10: 0241290082ISBN 13: 9780241290088
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 SHORTLISTED FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR FICTION NOMINATED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR FICTION Winner of the Aspen Words Literary Prize *One of Barack Obama's top ten books of 2017* The Times Top 10 Bestseller Guardian Top 10 Bestseller The New York Times Top 5 Bestseller Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal 2018 and finalist for the Neustadt Prize 2018 'Spare, crystalline prose, mixing the real and the surreal and using old fairy-tale magic. An unnervingly dystopian portrait of what might lie down the road' Michiko Kakutani, New York Times An extraordinary story of love and hope from the bestselling, Man Booker-shortlisted author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist Nadia and Saeed are two ordinary young people, attempting to do an extraordinary thing - to fall in love - in a world turned upside down. Theirs will be a love story but also a story about how we live now and how we might live tomorrow, of a world in crisis and two human beings travelling through it. Civil war has come to the city which Nadia and Saeed call home. Before long they will need to leave their motherland behind - when the streets are no longer useable and the unknown is safer than the known. They will join the great outpouring of people fleeing a collapsing city, hoping against hope, looking for their place in the world . . . The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Published by Pan Macmillan, United Kingdom, London, 2006
ISBN 10: 0330444573ISBN 13: 9780330444576
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Dwight Wilmerding, twenty-eight, is having a midlife crisis. And there's an even bigger problem: his chronic inability to make up his mind. Encouraged to try a drug meant to banish indecision, he is all at once fired from his low-grade tech-support job in Manhattan and invited to a rendezvous in exotic Ecuador with the girl of his long-ago prep-school dreams. Unable to decide if the magic pills are working, he finds his would-be romantic escape becoming a journey into unbidden responsibility and - deep in the jungles of the Amazon - the foreign country of a changed outlook. 'Indecision manages to make the whole flailing, postadolescent, prelife crisis feel fresh and funny again . . . The funniest and smartest coming-of-age novel in years' Jay McInerney, New York Times Book Review 'He's got this voice that just grabs your attention and won't let go . . . Old Dwight's book really knocked me out' Michiko Kakutani, New York Times. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Published by William Collins, 2020
ISBN 10: 0008421951ISBN 13: 9780008421953
Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.37.
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Published by Avon Books, 1996
ISBN 10: 0380728966ISBN 13: 9780380728961
Seller: Whitehorse Books, CLAYTON, IN, U.S.A.
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1996 Trade PB. Publisher Avon. 294 pgs. Corner. bumped & a couple of pgs. creased. Text clean, binding tight. Elkins last novel about Jewish widow's waning years in a Miami condo.In language that is "rich, musical and playful, like that of a Joyce who grew up on Yiddish" (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times), Stanley Elkin offers us the extraordinary Dorothy Bliss, an eighty-two-year-old widow caught in a tragicomic world, forced to find purpose in endless card games and "Good Neighbor Policy Night" at a Florida retirement community.
Published by HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, London, 1999
ISBN 10: 0002570807ISBN 13: 9780002570800
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. From the author of the million-selling Angela's Ashes -- the most keenly anticipated sequel of the decade 'The reader of this stunning memoir can only hope that Mr McCourt will set down the story of his subsequent adventures in America in another book. Angela's Ashes is so good it deserves a sequel.' MICHIKO KAKUTANI, New York Times Angela's Ashes was a publishing phenomenon. Frank McCourt's critically acclaimed, lyrical memoir of his Limerick childhood won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics' Circle Award, the Royal Society of Literature Award and the Los Angeles Times Award amongst others, and rapidly became a word-of-mouth bestseller topping all charts worldwide for over two years. It left readers and critics alike eager to hear more about Frank McCourt's incredible, poignant life. 'Tis is the story of Frank's American journey from impoverished immigrant with rotten teeth, infected eyes and no formal education to brilliant raconteur and schoolteacher. Saved first by a straying priest, then by the Democratic party, then by the United States Army, then by New York University -- which admitted him on a trial basis though he had no high school diploma -- Frank had the same vulnerable but invincible spirit at nineteen that he had at eight and still has today. And 'Tis is a tale of survival as vivid, harrowing, and often hilarious as Angela's Ashes. Yet again, it is through the power of storytelling that Frank finds a life for himself. 'It is only the best storyteller who can so beguile his readers that he leaves them wanting more when he's done.McCourt proves himself one of the very best' (Newsweek). 'Tis blesses readers with another chapter of McCourt's story, but as it closes, they will want still more. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Published by Clarkson N. Potter, 2020
ISBN 10: 0593233840ISBN 13: 9780593233849
Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.4.
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Published by Farrar Straus Giroux, New York, 1994
ISBN 10: 0374222975ISBN 13: 9780374222970
Seller: Preferred Books, Rancho Cucamonga, CA, U.S.A.
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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. As new in illustrated wrappers. Another novel set in South Africe by winner of Nobel Prize for Literature. Glowing quotes from Michiko Kakutani, Doris Grumbach and John Edgar Wideman. (Advance Reader's Copy).
Published by The New York Review of Books, 1999, 1999
ISBN 10: 0940322110ISBN 13: 9780940322110
Seller: B. Rossi, Bindlestiff Books, Altoona, PA, U.S.A.
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Soft cover. Condition: Good. Trade paperback. (ISBN 0-940322-11-0) Good tight copy, unread, good wrappers. Introduction by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas. J. R> Ackerley's German Shepherd Tulip was skittish, possessive, and wild, but he loved her deeply. This clear-eyed and wondering, humorous and moving book, described by Christopher Isherwood as one of the "greatest masterpieces of animal literature," is her biography, a work of faultless and respectful observation that transcends the seeming modesty of its subject. In telling the story of his beloved Tulip, Ackerley has written a book that is a profound and subtle meditation on the strangeness abiding at the heart of all relationships. "(Ackerley's) descriptions of Tulip have the power to shake up our sentimental preconceptions about dogs, and dog's relationships to men; and they twinkle with the electricity of felt compassion and love." Michiko Kakutani, "The New York Times." Biography.
Published by William Collins, 2018
ISBN 10: 0008312788ISBN 13: 9780008312787
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York:, 1994
Seller: Flips Fine Books, Greensboro, GA, U.S.A.
paperback. Condition: fine copy. Advance Reading Copy. black, gray & white cover; 324 pgs. quotes by Michiko Kakutani, Doris Grumbach and John Edgar Wideman on back cover.
Published by William Collins, 2019
ISBN 10: 000831280XISBN 13: 9780008312800
Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.26.
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Published by Picador, 2009
ISBN 10: 0312428804ISBN 13: 9780312428808
Seller: Library House Internet Sales, Grand Rapids, OH, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. A TOP TEN FAVORITE BOOK OF THE YEAR--MICHIKO KAKUTANI, THE NEW YORK TIMES A ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH BEST MEMOIR OF THE YEAR INCLUDES AN AUTHOR INTERVIEW WITH LESLEY STAHL Marie Brenner's extraordinary memoir of sibling rivalry asks a universal question: How can two people from the same family turn out so entirely different? Brenner's brother, Carl, lives in the apple country of Washington State, cultivating his orchards, polishing his guns, and attending church, while Marie, a world-class journalist and bestselling author, leads a sophisticated life among the "New York libs" whom he loathes. His life far from their secular Jewish childhood in Texas was as mysterious to her as their tangled past. In this affecting family saga, Brenner investigates their contentious history and discovers how inspiring it can be to turn a brother into an ally. Honest, funny, and true, Apples and Oranges is a moving story of sibling rivalry and redemption. Solid binding. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.
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Published by Transworld Publishers Ltd, United Kingdom, London, 2014
ISBN 10: 1784160105ISBN 13: 9781784160104
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. * By the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2013 and the EFG/Sunday Times Best Short Story Award 2014 * 'An idiosyncratic and compelling voice' Michiko Kakutani, New York Times An ATF raid, a moonshot gone wrong, a busload of female cancer victims determined to live life to the fullest - these are some of the compelling themes explored in this funny, sad, brilliantly bizarre debut collection. A lovesick teenage Cajun girl, a gay astrophysicist, a teenage sniper on Los Angeles police payroll, a post apocalyptic bulletproof-vest salesman - each seeks connection and meaning in landscapes made uncertain by the voids parents and lovers should fill. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Published by Random House, 2012
ISBN 10: 0812992792ISBN 13: 9780812992793
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. The Pulitzer Prize-winning, New York Times betselling novel of North Korea: an epic journey into the heart of the worlds most mysterious dictatorship.Imagine Charles Dickens paying a visit to Pyongyang, and you see the canvas on which [Adam] Johnson is painting here.-The Washington PostPak Jun Do is the haunted son of a lost mother-a singer stolen to Pyongyang-and an influential father who runs a work camp for orphans. Superiors in the North Korean state soon recognize the boys loyalty and keen instincts. Considering himself a humble citizen of the greatest nation in the world, Jun Do rises in the ranks. He becomes a professional kidnapper who must navigate the shifting rules, arbitrary violence, and baffling demands of his overlords in order to stay alive. Driven to the absolute limit of what any human being could endure, he boldly takes on the treacherous role of rival to Kim Jong Il in an attempt to save the woman he loves, Sun Moon, a legendary actress so pure, she didnt know what starving people looked like.Part breathless thriller, part story of innocence lost, part story of romantic love, The Orphan Masters Son is also a riveting portrait of a world heretofore hidden from view: a North Korea rife with hunger, corruption, and casual cruelty but also camaraderie, stolen moments of beauty, and love.FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER OF THE DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZENamed ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR by more than a dozen publications, including The Washington Post Entertainment Weekly The Wall Street Journal Los Angeles Times San Francisco ChroniclePraise for The Orphan Masters SonAn exquisitely crafted novel that carries the reader on an adventuresome journey into the depths of totalitarian North Korea and into the most intimate spaces of the human heart.-Pulitzer Prize citationMr. Johnson has written a daring and remarkable novel, a novel that not only opens a frightening window on the mysterious kingdom of North Korea, but one that also excavates the very meaning of love and sacrifice.-Michiko Kakutani, The New York TimesRich with a sense of discovery . . . The Orphan Masters Son has an early lead on novel of [the year].-The Daily BeastThis is a novel worth getting excited about.-The Washington Post[A] ripping piece of fiction that is also an astute commentary on the nature of freedom, sacrifice, and glory.-Elle.
Published by Vintage Publishing, United Kingdom, London, 2015
ISBN 10: 0224101714ISBN 13: 9780224101714
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 'The best book we've done on the Book Club this year' - Simon Mayo Radio 2 Book Club 'A novel of head-snapping ambition and heart-stopping power' - Michiko Kakutani, New York Times 'Love The Wire? Then read this' - GQ 'Extraordinary.dazzling. a sprawling, generous, warm-hearted epic of 1970s New York' - Observer 'You're soon zipping through Hallberg's vividly realised New York like a child discovering Hogwarts for the first time' - The Times 'The kind of exuberant, zeitgeisty novel, like The Bonfire of the Vanities or The Goldfinch, that you'll either love, hate or pretend to have read' - Vogue 'The hype is justified: this is the year's must-read book' - Shortlist NEW YORK. 1977. BE THERE WHEN IT EXPLODES. It's New Year's Eve, 1976, and New York is a city on the edge. As midnight approaches, a blizzard sets in - and amidst the fireworks, an unmistakable sound rings out across Central Park. Gunshots. Two of them. The search for the shooter will bring together a rich cast of New Yorkers. From the reluctant heirs to one of the city's greatest fortunes, to a couple of Long Island kids drawn to the punk scene downtown. From the newly arrived and enchanted, to those so sick of the city they want to burn it to the ground. All these lives are connected to one another - and to the life that still clings to that body in the park. Whether they know it or not, they are bound up in the same story - a story where history and revolution, love and art, crime and conspiracy are all packed into a single shell, ready to explode. Then, on July 13th, 1977, the lights go out in New York City. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Published by Scribner, New York:, 2001
ISBN 10: 074320395XISBN 13: 9780743203951
Seller: Flips Fine Books, Greensboro, GA, U.S.A.
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hardcover. Condition: fine copy in fine dust jacket. [First Edition]. black book-tape w/ cream colored boards & gilt lettering on spine; 124 pgs; illus dust jacket w/ $22.00 on front flap, author photo by Joyce Ravid at back. quotes by Michiko Kakutani, Michael Ondaatje, Harold Bloom, Salman Rushdie & Greg Burkman on back cover. jacket design by Carol Devine Carson with art by Caravaggio.
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Published by Houghton Mifflin/ Seymour Lawrence, Boston:, 1994
ISBN 10: 0395488907ISBN 13: 9780395488904
Seller: Flips Fine Books, Greensboro, GA, U.S.A.
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hardcover. Condition: fine copy in fine dust jacket. Second printing. brown cloth w/ wheat paper boards & endpapers; author's name on front, & lettering on spine, in gilt; fore edge untrimmed; 279 pgs; photo-illus dust jacket w/ $21.95 on front flap, author photo by Jerry Bauer on rear. quotes by Raymond Carver, Tillie Olsen, Nadine Gordimer & Michiko Kakutani on back cover. jacket design by Diana Coe w/ photo by Jan Saudek.
Published by Scribner, New York:, 1999
ISBN 10: 0684848783ISBN 13: 9780684848785
Seller: Flips Fine Books, Greensboro, GA, U.S.A.
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hardcover. Condition: fine copy in fine dust jacket. First Edition. white cloth w/ blue paper boards; silver-gilt lettering on spine; 367 pgs; photo-illus dust jacket w/ $26.00 on front flap, author photo by Gasper Tringale on rear. quotes by Michiko Kakutani, Peter Finn, Linnea Lannon & Gail Caldwell on back cover. jacket design by John Fontana.
Published by Vintage Contemporaries, 1998
ISBN 10: 0679781382ISBN 13: 9780679781387
Seller: Callaghan Books South, New Port Richey, FL, U.S.A.
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Trade Paperback. Condition: Fine. 2d. Trade paperback, glossy black and gold background to wrappers, gold-illustration of iron gate on front wrapper, shiny gold back wrapper with praise from Tobias Wolff, Michiko Kakutani in New York Times, 254 lightly browned pages. Unique wrappers with opening to second glossy page with title and images of gothic mansion. Very Fine.
Published by Pantheon Books, New York:, 1994
ISBN 10: 0679436146ISBN 13: 9780679436140
Seller: Flips Fine Books, Greensboro, GA, U.S.A.
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hardcover. First Edition. blue cloth w/ blue paper boards; author's initials stamped in silvert on front, silver lettering on spine; top edge aqua-blue, fore-edge untrimmed; 215 pgs; photo-illus dust jacket w/ $21.00 on front flap, author photo by Jerry Bauer on rear; Lightman's 2nd novel. quotes by Michiko Kakutani, John Melmoth, Susan Fromberg Schaeffer & Richard Eder on back cover. jacket design by Marjorie Anderson w/ photo by Marc Romanelli, book design by Fearn Cutler. fine copy in fine dust jacket w/ just minor crease to front flap.
Published by Ecco, 2013
ISBN 10: 0061692034ISBN 13: 9780061692031
Seller: Library House Internet Sales, Grand Rapids, OH, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. %u201COne of his generation%u2019s most eloquent voices.%u201D %u2014Michiko Kakutani, New York Times %u201COne of the finest curators of the great American living museum.%u201D %u2014Washington Post Book World The only writer ever to win both the Pulitzer Prize and Pen/Faulkner Award for a single novel (Independence Day) Richard Ford follows the completion of his acclaimed Bascombe trilogy with Canada. After a five-year hiatus, an undisputed American master delivers a haunting and elemental novel about the cataclysm that undoes one teenage boy%u2019s family, and the stark and unforgiving landscape in which he attempts to find grace. A powerful and unforgettable tale of the violence lurking at the heart of the world, Richard Ford%u2019s Canada will resonate long and loud for readers of stark and sweeping novels of American life, from the novels of Cheever and Carver to the works of Philip Roth, Charles Frazier, Richard Russo, and Jonathan Franzen. Foxing is present on one or more pages. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Binding is moderately loose. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.
Published by Penguin Books Ltd, United Kingdom, London, 2013
ISBN 10: 0241962269ISBN 13: 9780241962268
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Higher Gossip presents John Updike's last collection of essays, poems and short stories. 'Gossip of a higher sort' was how the incomparable John Updike described the art of the review. Here then is the last collection of his best, most dazzling gossip. Influential reviews of Toni Morrison, John le Carre and Ann Patchett and expert critique on exhibitions of El Greco, Van Gogh and Schiele are included alongside previously uncollected short stories, poems and essays on his 'pet topics'. Following earlier prose collections More Matter and Due Considerations, Updike began compiling Higher Gossip shortly before his death in 2009. Displaying his characteristic humour and insight on subjects as varied as ageing, golf, dinosaurs, make-up and his own fiction, the delightful Higher Gossip bookends a legacy of over fifty celebrated titles. Praise for Higher Gossip: 'All illuminating cross-section of his whole career. It will be required reading for Updike's many fans, but it also serves as an excellent pick'n'mix introduction to his omnivorous intellectual range' Daily Telegraph 'Measured, erudite, and humorous writings' Boston Globe 'Updike was that rare creature: an all-around man of letters, a literary decathlete who brought to his criticism an insider's understanding of craft and technique; a first-class appreciator of talent . . . an ebullient observer [with] a contagious, boyish sense of wonder' Michiko Kakutani, New York Times John Updike was born in 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954, and spent a year in Oxford, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. His novels, stories, and nonfiction collections have won numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died in January 2009. Christopher Carduff, the editor of this volume, is a member of the staff of The Library of America. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Published by Little, Brown Book Group, United Kingdom, London, 2009
ISBN 10: 1844085538ISBN 13: 9781844085538
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 'The greatest Scottish novelist of modern times.' Ian Rankin In this first novel by Muriel Spark - author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - the only things that aren't ambiguous are Spark's matchless originality and glittering wit. With an introduction by Ali Smith. Caroline Rose is plagued by the tapping of typewriter keys and the strange, detached narration of her every thought and action. She has an unusual problem - she realises she is in a novel. Her fellow characters are also possibly deluded: Laurence, her former lover, finds diamonds in a loaf of bread - could his elderly grandmother really be a smuggler? And Baron Stock, her bookseller friend, believes he is on the trail of England's leading Satanist. 'A master of malice and mayhem.' Michiko Kakutani, New York Times 'Brilliantly original and fascinating.' Evelyn Waugh 'A light, clever, mirthful tour de force . It disrupts and charms its readers with its combination of wit, precision, intelligence and hilarity. As vibrant as ever, more than fifty years after its first appearance.' Ali Smith. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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