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1912by James ChaceISBN 0743273559 (0-7432-7355-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Mark Twain, Steven KelloggISBN 0688106560 (0-688-10656-0)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'Book summary:Originally intended as a sequel to his immensely popular Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn stands on its own as one of America's most important and beloved literary classics.
For generations, young and old alike have delighted in the unforgettable adventures of runaways Huck Finn and Jim, a slave. In vivid, often gripping prose, Twain brings to fife both the beauty and the folly of preCivil War life along the Mississippifrom the radiant dawn on the river to Huck's terrifying encounters with his father, as well as the outrageous antics of the King and the Duke and Tom Sawyer's outlandish plans to free Jim. Told from Huck's point of view, Huckleberry Finn is also the powerful story of a boy's journey toward adulthood.
In the finest work of his distinguished career, Steven Kellogg has created eighteen stunning pictures that capture Twain's timeless blend of humor and suspense. This is truly an edition that readers of all ages will want to return to again and again.
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Gary Paulsen, Mark TwainISBN 0689831390 (0-689-83139-0)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'Book summary:A seminal work of American Literature that still commands deep praise and still elicits controversy, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is essential to the understanding of the American soul. The recent discovery of the first half of Twain's manuscript, long thought lost, made front-page news. And this unprecedented edition, which contains for the first time omitted episodes and other variations present in the first half of the handwritten manuscript, as well as facsimile reproductions of thirty manuscript pages, is indispensable to a full understanding of the novel. The changes, deletions, and additions made in the first half of the manuscript indicate that Mark Twain frequently checked his impulse to write an even darker, more confrontational book than the one he finally published. [via]
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The Agenda: Inside the Clinton White Houseby Bob WoodwardISBN 0743274075 (0-7432-7407-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Agenda: Inside the Clinton White House'Book summary:A no-holds-barred look inside the Clinton White House during the first one hundred days of his presidency. What emerges is a portrait of a man hampered by his struggle to do the right thing. Despite the defeat of the health care initiative and the bungling first steps of a naive administration, Woodward uncovers the essential decency of the man from Hope. [via]
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All the President's Menby Carl Bernstein, Bob WoodwardISBN 0684863553 (0-684-86355-3)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'All the President's Men'Book summary:The 25th-anniversary edition of Bernstein and Woodward's classic of investigative journalism.
In what must be the most devastating political detective story of the century, two young "Washington Post" reporters whose brilliant investigative journalism smashed the Watergate scandal wide open tell the whole behind-the-scenes drama the way it really happened.
The story begins with a burglary at Democratic National Committee headquarters on June 17, 1972. Bob Woodward, who was then working on the "Washington Post's" District of Columbia staff, was called into the office on a Saturday morning to cover the story. Carl Bernstein, a Virginia political reporter on the "Post," was also assigned. The two men soon learned that this was not a simple burglary.
Following lead after lead, Woodward and Bernstein picked up a trail of money, secrecy and high-level pressure that led to the Oval Office and implicated the men closest to Richard Nixon and then the President himself. Over the months, Woodward met secretly with Deep Throat, now perhaps America's most famous still-anonymous source.
Here is the amazing story. From the first suspicions through the tortuous days of reporting and finally getting people to talk, the journalists were able to put the pieces of the puzzle together and produce the stories that won the "Post" a Pulitzer Prize. "All the President's Men" is the inside story of how Bernstein and Woodward broke the story that brought about the President's downfall. This is the reporting that changed the American presidency. [via]
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Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essaysby Northrop FryeISBN 0691069999 (0-691-06999-9)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays'Book summary:Northrop Frye was one of the most influential 20th-century literary scholars, and Anatomy of Criticism is his most influential book. In this rigorous and readable work of scholarship, Frye feistily champions literary criticism's legitimacy and independence--both by differentiating criticism from other academic disciplines, and by banishing any conception of the critic as "parasite or jackal" (this latter view, Frye notes, is still quite popular, "especially among artists"). The book began as something quite different, and took nearly a decade to write. Frye published his first major work--Fearful Symmetry, on the Romantic poet William Blake--in 1947 and had set out to produce a second tome on Edmund Spencer. But the critical insights accumulating in his fertile mind were too insistent, so the book on Spencer became Anatomy of Criticism.
Anatomy of Criticism remains provocative and enlightening in no small part because of its ambitious breadth. Frye's comprehension of literary history is breathtaking, as is the complexity but also the clarity of his thought. Four chapters treat historical, ethical, archetypal, and rhetorical modes of criticism, bracketed by a "Polemical Introduction" and a "Tentative Conclusion." Frye's ultimate aim is to confirm for the reader that literary criticism is a science in its own right: "Criticism," he says, "is to art what history is to action and philosophy is to wisdom.... And just as there is nothing which the philosopher cannot consider philosophically, and nothing which the historian cannot consider historically, so the critic should be able to construct and dwell in a conceptual universe of his own." Rather than promote any particular critical approach over another, he tries to construct a theoretical structure sturdy and expansive enough to accommodate and inter-relate a broad range of critical approaches. --Russell Prather [via]
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Between the Woods and the Water: On Foot to Constantinople from the Hook of Holland The Middle Danube to the Iron Gatesby Patrick Leigh FermorISBN 0719542642 (0-7195-4264-2)
Hardcover, J. Murray
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Black Princeby Iris MurdochISBN 0701119241 (0-7011-1924-1)
Hardcover, Chatto and Windus
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Prince'Book summary:A novel in which an elderly writer with a block, surrounded by predatory friends and relations, seeks to escape, but his failure to do so and its aftermath lead to a violent climax. From the author of THE SEA, THE SEA and THE BELL. [via]
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Black Venusby Angela CarterISBN 0701139641 (0-7011-3964-1)
Hardcover, Chatto & Windus
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The Book and the Brotherhoodby Iris MurdochISBN 0701132515 (0-7011-3251-5)
Hardcover, Chatto & Windus
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Brave New World Revisitedby Aldous HuxleyISBN 070110791X (0-7011-0791-X)
Hardcover, Chatto and Windus
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The Businessby Iain BanksISBN 0743200152 (0-7432-0015-2)
Softcover, Scribner Paperback Fiction
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C.P. Cavafy Collected Poemsby C.P. Cavafy, Philip Sherrard, Edmund KeeleyISBN 0691069840 (0-691-06984-0)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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C.P. Cavafy: Collected Poemsby Edmund Keeley, George Savidis, Philip SherrardISBN 0691015376 (0-691-01537-6)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Centuryby Bruce BernardISBN 0714838489 (0-7148-3848-9)
Hardcover, Phaidon Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Century'Book summary:The impact of photography, with its permutations and manipulations, has created incredible images of human hope and suffering throughout the 20th century. Inured as readers may be to the sights of our age, anyone who leafs through the astonishing chronicle that is Bruce Bernard's Century cannot fail to be impressed and moved by this vast visual document of the past 100 years. Weighing in at around 10 pounds and containing more than 1,000 photographs, this significant document of 100 years of human history displays Bernard's 30 years of experience as a picture editor with the Sunday Times Magazine.
Divided into six sections--1899-1914, High Hopes and Recklessness; 1914-33, Self-Inflicted Wounds Remain Infected; 1933-45, Rise and Fall of the Unspeakable; 1945-65, Atomic Truce Walks a Tightrope; 1965-85, Vietnam to the Moon to Soviet Collapse; and 1985-99, Chaos and Hope on a Burdened Planet--with accompanying text and quotations, Century presents an average of 10 images for each year, from the banal to the brilliant. In 1921 readers witness Claude Monet overseeing his glorious water-lily gardens. Next to that is an image of starving children in the Russian famine that followed the end of World War I. The young Princess Elizabeth walks her corgi in London's Hyde Park in 1934, while the facing page shows the moment of King Alexander I's assassination in Marseilles. American GIs laugh with girls on a German beach in 1946--a couple of pages on from the then recently revealed horrors of the concentration camp at Auschwitz. Three decades later, sees the Sex Pistols inaugurating the era of punk rock, while anti-apartheid leader Steve Biko lies murdered by police in his South African jail cell. By turns harrowing and humorous, Century is a magnificent photographic testament to 100 years of human advancement, futility, acts of heroism, and episodes of unspeakable cruelty. The book ends on a note of hope with a still from a 1999 German production of Beethoven's opera Fidelio, a triumph of goodness over evil. It is nonetheless difficult to erase the preceding image of refugees fleeing Kosovo in the same month and the same year--history's hour of darkness come round once more. --Catherine Taylor, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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Century: One Hundred Years of Human Progress, Regression, Suffering and Hopeby Bruce BernardISBN 0714842796 (0-7148-4279-6)
Hardcover, Phaidon Inc Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Century: One Hundred Years of Human Progress, Regression, Suffering and Hope'Book summary:The impact of photography, with its permutations and manipulations, has created incredible images of human hope and suffering throughout the 20th century. Inured as readers may be to the sights of our age, anyone who leafs through the astonishing chronicle that is Bruce Bernard's Century cannot fail to be impressed and moved by this vast visual document of the past 100 years. Weighing in at around 10 pounds and containing more than 1,000 photographs, this significant document of 100 years of human history displays Bernard's 30 years of experience as a picture editor with the Sunday Times Magazine.
Divided into six sections--1899-1914, High Hopes and Recklessness; 1914-33, Self-Inflicted Wounds Remain Infected; 1933-45, Rise and Fall of the Unspeakable; 1945-65, Atomic Truce Walks a Tightrope; 1965-85, Vietnam to the Moon to Soviet Collapse; and 1985-99, Chaos and Hope on a Burdened Planet--with accompanying text and quotations, Century presents an average of 10 images for each year, from the banal to the brilliant. In 1921 readers witness Claude Monet overseeing his glorious water-lily gardens. Next to that is an image of starving children in the Russian famine that followed the end of World War I. The young Princess Elizabeth walks her corgi in London's Hyde Park in 1934, while the facing page shows the moment of King Alexander I's assassination in Marseilles. American GIs laugh with girls on a German beach in 1946--a couple of pages on from the then recently revealed horrors of the concentration camp at Auschwitz. Three decades later, sees the Sex Pistols inaugurating the era of punk rock, while anti-apartheid leader Steve Biko lies murdered by police in his South African jail cell. By turns harrowing and humorous, Century is a magnificent photographic testament to 100 years of human advancement, futility, acts of heroism, and episodes of unspeakable cruelty. The book ends on a note of hope with a still from a 1999 German production of Beethoven's opera Fidelio, a triumph of goodness over evil. It is nonetheless difficult to erase the preceding image of refugees fleeing Kosovo in the same month and the same year--history's hour of darkness come round once more. --Catherine Taylor, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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Chroniclesby Bob DylanISBN 0743244583 (0-7432-4458-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chronicles'Book summary:One would not anticipate a conventional memoir from Bob Dylan--indeed, one would not have foreseen an autobiography at all from the pen of the notoriously private legend. What Chronicles: Volume 1 delivers is an odd but ultimately illuminating memoir that is as impulsive, eccentric, and inspired as Dylan's greatest music.
Eschewing chronology and skipping over most of the "highlights" that his many biographers have assigned him, Dylan drifts and rambles through his tale, amplifying a series of major and minor epiphanies. If you're interested in a behind-the-scenes look at his encounters with the Beatles, look elsewhere. Dylan describes the sensation of hearing the group's "Do You Want to Know a Secret" on the radio, but devotes far more ink to a Louisiana shopkeeper named Sun Pie, who tells him, "I think all the good in the world might already been done" and sells him a World's Greatest Grandpa bumper sticker. Dylan certainly sticks to his own agenda--a newspaper article about journeymen heavyweights Jerry Quarry and Jimmy Ellis and soul singer Joe Tex's appearance on The Tonight Show inspire heartfelt musings, and yet the 1963 assassination of John Kennedy prompts nary a word from the era's greatest protest singer.
For all the small revelations (it turns out he's been a big fan of Barry Goldwater, Mickey Rourke, and Ice-T), there are eye-opening disclosures, including his confession that a large portion of his recorded output was designed to alienate his audience and free him from the burden of being a "the voice of a generation."
Off the beaten path as it is, Chronicles is nevertheless an astonishing achievement. As revelatory in its own way as Blonde on Blonde or Highway 61 Revisited, it provides ephemeral insights into the mind one of the most significant artistic voices of the 20th century while creating a completely new set of mysteries. --Steven Stolder [via]
Cider With Rosieby Laurie LeeISBN 0701149736 (0-7011-4973-6)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
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The Collected Poemsby Constantine Cavafy, Georgios P. Savvides, Philip Sherrard, Edmund KeeleyISBN 0691013209 (0-691-01320-9)
Hardcover, Princeton University Press
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The Complete Poems of C. P. Cavafyby Constantine Cavafy, Rae DalvenISBN 0701200278 (0-7012-0027-8)
Hardcover, Chatto & Windus
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Daughters of the Houseby Michele RobertsISBN 068804610X (0-688-04610-X)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Death of Virgilby Hermann BrochISBN 0710087632 (0-7100-8763-2)
Hardcover, Routledge & Kegan Paul
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The Emperor's Tombby Joseph RothISBN 0701128267 (0-7011-2826-7)
Hardcover, Hogarth Press
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Empire of the Sunby J.G. BallardISBN 0743265238 (0-7432-6523-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Empire of the Sun'Book summary:The classic, award-winning novel, made famous by Steven Spielberg's film, tells of a young boy's struggle to survive World War II in China. Jim is separated from his parents in a world at war. To survive, he must find a strength greater than all the events that surround him.
Shanghai, 1941 -- a city aflame from the fateful torch of Pearl Harbor. In streets full of chaos and corpses, a young British boy searches in vain for his parents. Imprisoned in a Japanese concentration camp, he is witness to the fierce white flash of Nagasaki, as the bomb bellows the end of the war...and the dawn of a blighted world.
Ballard's enduring novel of war and deprivation, internment camps and death marches, and starvation and survival is an honest coming-of-age tale set in a world thrown utterly out of joint. [via]
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Fall on Your Knees: Library Editionby Ann-Marie MacDonaldISBN 0743237188 (0-7432-3718-8)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fall on Your Knees: Library Edition'Book summary:The Piper family is steeped in secrets, lies, and unspoken truths. At the eye of the storm is one secret that threatens to shake their lives even to destroy them. Set on stormy Cape Breton Island off Nova Scotia, Fall on Your Knees is an internationally acclaimed multigenerational saga that chronicles the lives of four unforgettable sisters. Theirs is a world filled with driving ambition, inescapable family bonds, and forbidden love. Compellingly written, by turns menacingly dark and hilariously funny, this is an epic tale of five generations of sin, guilt, and redemption. [via]
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The Farthest Shoreby Ursula K. Le GuinISBN 0689845340 (0-689-84534-0)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Farthest Shore'Book summary:The Farthest Shore is the third book in the renowned Earthsea trilogy. The young prince, Arren, brings harsh news. There is no longer true magic in Enlad; the mages have forgotten their spells so the springs of wizardry are running dry. Accompanied by Arren, Ged sets out to meet unknown dangers, to confront his own past, and to test the ancient prophecies, taking with him on his journey all the hopes of Earthsea, moving into doom or into a new age. The Farthest Shore rounds out the promise of A Wizard of Earthsea and The Tombs of Atuan. Author Ursula Le Guin has won numerous awards including the National Book Award, five Hugo and five Nebula Awards, the Kafka Award, and a Pushcart Prize.[via] -
The Garden of the Finzi-Continisby Giorgio BassaniISBN 0704310813 (0-7043-1081-3)
Hardcover, Quartet Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Garden of the Finzi-Continis'Book summary:Giorgio Bassani's masterwork has Vittorio de Sica's 1971 film adaptation to thank for its dual success and obscurity. Not enough people know that this tale of a middle-class Jewish youth's obsession with the far more aristocratic Micol Finzi-Contini stems from a novel, not a novelization. Bassani's doom- and tomb-ridden examination of one-sided love is far more complex--about individuals' inability to contend with personal and political annihilation. Events call for heroism, yet it seems "downright absurd that now, all of a sudden, exceptional behavior was demanded of us." The narrator writes in retrospect, 13 years after World War II's end, and reveals the Finzi-Continis' 1943 deportation to Germany right from the start: "Who could say if they found any sort of burial at all?"
As Fascist racial laws go from strength to strength, the family, which had long isolated itself from the other inhabitants of Ferrara, opens its walled grounds and tennis court to other young Jews and even returns to the local temple. Unfortunately, the situation encourages the narrator's dream that Micol will return his love, and she is forced into cruel honesty. "She looked into my eyes, and her gaze entered me, straight, sure, hard: with the limpid inexorability of a sword."
The author has re-created a tragic era in which even nobility could not outrun events, let alone admit they needed to. (For a nonfiction account of the fates of five Italian Jewish families under fascism, see Alexander Stille's Benevolence and Betrayal.) Bassani's elision of historical and personal agony is furthermore superbly translated by William Weaver. All is foretold in the novel's Manzonian epigraph, "The heart, to be sure, always has something to say about what is to come, to him who heeds it. But what does the heart know? Only a little of what has already happened." [via]
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Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80sby Hunter S. ThompsonISBN 0743250443 (0-7432-5044-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80s'Book summary:Generation of Swine, the second volume of the legendary Dr. Hunter S. Thompson's bestselling "Gonzo Papers," was first published in 1988 and is now back in print.
Here, against a backdrop of late-night tattoo sessions and soldier-of-fortune trade shows, Dr. Thompson is at his apocalyptic best -- covering emblematic events such as the 1987-88 presidential campaign, with Vice President George Bush, Sr., fighting for his life against Republican competitors like Alexander Haig, Pat Buchanan, and Pat Robertson; detailing the GOP's obsession with drugs and drug abuse; while at the same time capturing momentous social phenomena as they occurred, like the rise of cable, satellite TV, and CNN -- 24 hours of mainline news. Showcasing his inimitable talent for social and political analysis, Generation of Swine is vintage Thompson -- eerily prescient, incisive, and enduring. [via]
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The Good Apprenticeby Iris MurdochISBN 0701130008 (0-7011-3000-8)
Hardcover, Chatto & Windus/Hogarth Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Good Apprentice'Book summary:Stuart Cuno has decided to become good. Not believing in God, he invents his own methods, which include celibacy, chastity and the abandonment of a promising academic career. Interfering friends and relations question his sincerity, his sanity and his motives. [via]
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Hallowe'En Partyby Agatha ChristieISBN 070891666X (0-7089-1666-X)
Hardcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books
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The Hollow Hillsby Mary StewartISBN 0688001793 (0-688-00179-3)
Hardcover, Bookthrift Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hollow Hills'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. First book in the Merlin series. The spellbinding, suspenseful story of how Merlin helped Arthur become King of all Britain. [via]
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Islands in the Streamby Ernest HemingwayISBN 0743253426 (0-7432-5342-6)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Jack Maggsby Peter CareyISBN 0702229520 (0-7022-2952-0)
Hardcover, University of Queensland Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jack Maggs'Book summary:As a novelist, Peter Carey is hardly a stranger to the 19th century: his Oscar and Lucinda was a veritable treasure-trove of Victoriana. In this novel, however, Carey has set himself an even more complicated task--reimagining not only a vanished era but one of that era's masterpieces. Jack Maggs is a variation on Great Expectations, in which Dickens's tale is told from the viewpoint of Australian convict Abel Magwitch. The names, it's true, have been tinkered with, but the book's literary paternity is unmistakable. So, too, is the postcolonial spin that Carey puts on Dickens's material: this time around, the prodigal Maggs is perceived less as an invading alien than a righteous (if not particularly welcome) refugee.
Of course, rewriting a page-turner from the past offers some major perils, not the least of them being comparisons to the original. Carey, however, more than withstands the test of time, alluding to the formality of Victorian prose without ever bending over backward to duplicate it. In addition, his eye for physical detail--and the ways in which such details open small or large windows onto character--is on par with that of Dickens. Here, for example, he pins down both the body and soul of a household servant: "Miss Mott was lean and sinewy and there was nowhere much for such a violent shiver to hide itself. Consequently it went right up her spine and disappeared inside her little white cap and then, just when it seemed lost, it came out the other side and pulled up the ends of her thin mouth in a grimace." Throw in a wicked mastery of period slang, a subplot about Victorian mesmerism (of which Dickens was, in fact, a practitioner), and an amazing storytelling gift, and you have a novel which meets and exceeds almost any expectation one might bring to it. [via]
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The Key to Rebeccaby Ken FollettISBN 0688037348 (0-688-03734-8)
Hardcover, Smithmark Pub
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Lady into Fox and a Man in the Zooby David GarnettISBN 0701219238 (0-7012-1923-8)
Softcover, Chatto & Windus
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The Last Enchantmentby Mary StewartISBN 0688034810 (0-688-03481-0)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Last Enchantment'Book summary:Arthur Pendragon is King! Unchallenged on the battlefield, he melds the country together in a time of promise. But sinister powers plot to destroy Camelot, and when the witch-queen Morgause -- Arthur's own half sister -- ensnares him in an incestuous liaison, a fatal web of love, betrayal, and bloody vengeance is woven.
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The Last Templarby Raymond KhouryISBN 0715634410 (0-7156-3441-0)
Softcover, Duckworth
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Lie down with Lionsby Ken FollettISBN 0688058914 (0-688-05891-4)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lie down with Lions'Book summary:Ellis, the American. Jean-Pierre, the Frenchman. They were two men on opposite sides of the cold war, with a woman torn between them. Together, they formed a triangle of passion and deception, racing from terrorist bombs in Paris to the violence and intrigue of Afghanistan - to the moment of truth and deadly decision for all of them& "A deadly romantic triangle, a clandestine mission with global stakes, an exotic location, a plot as gripping and ingenious as Eye of the Needle ... engineered to perfection with breathless acceleration. I couldn't put it down!" - Los Angeles Times "Masterful... plot and counterplot, treachery, cunning and killing ... keep you on edge every moment" - Associated Press [via]
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A Little Princessby Frances Hodgson Burnett, Nancy BondISBN 0689844077 (0-689-84407-7)
Softcover, Aladdin Paperbacks
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Little Princess'Book summary:This very special Charming Classics bookandcharm package includes a paperback edition of Frances Hodgson Burnett's A Little Princess and a goldtone oval locket and necklace. The perfect gift for every little girl who wants to be a princess!
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Loitering With Intentby Muriel SparkISBN 0698110471 (0-698-11047-1)
Hardcover, Coward, McCann & Geoghegan
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Lonesome Doveby Larry McMurtryISBN 0684857529 (0-684-85752-9)
Softcover, Scribner
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lonesome Dove'Book summary:Larry McMurtry, in books like The Last Picture Show, has depicted the modern degeneration of the myth of the American West. The subject of Lonesome Dove, cowboys herding cattle on a great trail-drive, seems like the very stuff of that cliched myth, but McMurtry bravely tackles the task of creating meaningful literature out of it. At first the novel seems the kind of anti-mythic, anti-heroic story one might expect: the main protagonists are a drunken and inarticulate pair of former Texas Rangers turned horse rustlers. Yet when the trail begins, the story picks up an energy and a drive that makes heroes of these men. Their mission may be historically insignificant, or pointless--McMurtry is smart enough to address both possibilities--but there is an undoubted valor in their lives. The result is a historically aware, intelligent, romantic novel of the mythic west that won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. [via]
Make Way for Luciaby E. F. BensonISBN 0690011059 (0-690-01105-9)
Hardcover, Crowell
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Making of the President 1964by White thISBN 0689102925 (0-689-10292-5)
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Man from St. Petersburgby Ken FollettISBN 0688011500 (0-688-01150-0)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Mr. Norris Changes Trains ; And, Goodbye to Berlinby Christopher IsherwoodISBN 0701129476 (0-7011-2947-6)
Hardcover, Chatto & Windus
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Mrs Palfrey at the Claremontby Elizabeth Atwood TaylorISBN 0701117826 (0-7011-1782-6)
Hardcover, Chatto and Windus
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Noblesse Oblige: An Enquiry into the Identifiable Characteristics of the English Aristocracyby Nancy MitfordISBN 0689707045 (0-689-70704-5)
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Notes from a Small Islandby Bill BrysonISBN 0688147259 (0-688-14725-9)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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Old New Yorkby Edith WhartonISBN 074345149X (0-7434-5149-X)
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On the Beachby Nevil ShuteISBN 0688022235 (0-688-02223-5)
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Osip Mandelstam's Stoneby Osip Mandelshtam, Robert TracyISBN 0691013764 (0-691-01376-4)
Softcover, Princeton University Press
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Partners in Crimeby Agatha ChristieISBN 070891540X (0-7089-1540-X)
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Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914by David Willis McCulloughISBN 0743262131 (0-7432-6213-1)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914'Book summary:On December 31, 1999, after nearly a century of rule, the United States officially ceded ownership of the Panama Canal to the nation of Panama. That nation did not exist when, in the mid-19th century, Europeans first began to explore the possibilities of creating a link between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through the narrow but mountainous isthmus; Panama was then a remote and overlooked part of Colombia.
All that changed, writes David McCullough in his magisterial history of the Canal, in 1848, when prospectors struck gold in California. A wave of fortune seekers descended on Panama from Europe and the eastern United States, seeking quick passage on California-bound ships in the Pacific, and the Panama Railroad, built to serve that traffic, was soon the highest-priced stock listed on the New York Exchange. To build a 51-mile-long ship canal to replace that railroad seemed an easy matter to some investors. But, as McCullough notes, the construction project came to involve the efforts of thousands of workers from many nations over four decades; eventually those workers, laboring in oppressive heat in a vast malarial swamp, removed enough soil and rock to build a pyramid a mile high. In the early years, they toiled under the direction of French entrepreneur Ferdinand de Lesseps, who went bankrupt while pursuing his dream of extending France's empire in the Americas. The United States then entered the picture, with President Theodore Roosevelt orchestrating the purchase of the canal--but not before helping foment a revolution that removed Panama from Colombian rule and placed it squarely in the American camp.
The story of the Panama Canal is complex, full of heroes, villains, and victims. McCullough's long, richly detailed, and eminently literate book pays homage to an immense undertaking. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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The Railway Childrenby E. Nesbit, Marc D. FalkoffISBN 0694012858 (0-694-01285-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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Readings on the Red Ponyby John Steinbeck, Clarice SwisherISBN 0737701927 (0-7377-0192-7)
Softcover, Greenhaven Pr
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Russia Leaves the Warby George F. KennanISBN 0691008418 (0-691-00841-8)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The Sacred and Profane Love Machineby Iris MurdochISBN 0701120150 (0-7011-2015-0)
Hardcover, Chatto and Windus
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Samarkandby Amin MaaloufISBN 0704327414 (0-7043-2741-4)
Hardcover, Interlink Pub Group Inc
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The Secret Adversaryby Agatha ChristieISBN 0708924417 (0-7089-2441-7)
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The Shiningby Stephen KingISBN 0743424425 (0-7434-2442-5)
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-- DELBERT GRADY OF THE OVERLOOK HOTEL
THE SHINING
First published in 1977, The Shining quickly became a benchmark in the literary career of Stephen King. This tale of a troubled man hired to care for a remote mountain resort over the winter, his loyal wife, and their uniquely gifted son slowly but steadily unfolds as secrets from the Overlook Hotel's past are revealed, and the hotel itself attempts to laim the very souls of the Torrence family. Adapted into a cinematic masterpiece of horror by legendaryStanley Kubrick -- featuring an unforgettable performance by a demonic Jack Nicholson --The Shining stands as a cultural icon of modern horror, a searing study of a family torn apart, and a nightmarish glimpse into the dark recesses of human weakness and dementia. [via]
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A Small Town in Germanyby John Le CarreISBN 0743431715 (0-7434-3171-5)
Softcover, Scribner
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A man is missing. Harting, refugee background, a Junior Something in the British Embassy in Bonn. Gone with him are forty-three files, all of them Confidential or above.
It is vital that the Germans do not learn that Harting is missing, nor that there's been a leak. With radical students and neo-Nazis rioting and critical negotiations under way in Brussels, the timing could not be worse -- and that's probably not an accident.
Alan Turner, London's security officer, is sent to Bonn to find the missing man and files as Germany's past, present, and future threaten to collide in a nightmare of violence. [via]
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A Song of Stoneby Iain BanksISBN 0684857251 (0-684-85725-1)
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The Spellby Alan HollinghurstISBN 0701165197 (0-7011-6519-7)
Hardcover, Chatto & Windus
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Spell'Book summary:Alan Hollinghurst writes like a dream about the nightmare of unequal affection. In his third novel, The Spell, four men dance around one another, their emotions and actions ranging from casual cruelty to anxiety to adoration. Hollinghurst's painful but smiling roundelay alternates between Dorset--where 40ish architect Robin shares a house with the impossibly self-involved Justin--and London. When Justin's ex, Alex, arrives for a weekend in the country, the atmosphere is instantly rich with jealousy and power plays. And after the trio is joined by a younger gay man, Danny--who turns out to be Robin's son--the attractions and duplicities multiply exponentially. Alex, for instance, soon admits to Danny, "I've got a ruinous taste for takers," and they (and we) are off and running.
As ever, Hollinghurst's prose is musical and sensual but also deeply witty. Even the birds in this novel modulate their song from somnolent calls to outright chuckles--echoing the pleasures and absurdities of the humans they circle. And the author's feel for the easy intimacies and brutalities that his characters exchange is unmatched. As Justin (clad only in a tanga) escorts Alex around the cottage, he points out some vases: "These pots, darling, were made by potters of the greatest probity." Hollinghurst's descriptions are marvelous, whether of landscape or human frailty. After leaving a rather unrelaxed restaurant with Alex, "Danny recovered his air of bossiness and mystery, like a prefect in the school of pleasure." And when the two obtain some Ecstasy and hit one of Danny's haunts--a brilliantly realized club--the author reveals the rapture and idiocy in each moment:
The boys glistened and pawed at the ground. They looked like members of some dodgy brainwashing cult.... Alex saw that what he most wanted was happening and groped marvellingly between the different kinds of happiness, the chemicals and the sex. It seemed that happening and happiness were the same, he must remember that, to tell everyone.
But as amusing as Alan Hollinghurst is, his forte is loss. Again and again he reminds us that solitary sadness is a wink away from comedy and sexual possession. --Kerry Fried [via]More editions of The Spell:
The Spy Who Came in from the Coldby John Le CarreISBN 0743442539 (0-7434-4253-9)
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Stiff Upper Lip, Jeevesby P.G. WodehouseISBN 0743203607 (0-7432-0360-7)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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In "Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves," fate conspires to draw Bertie Wooster back to Totleigh Towers, the site of an earlier ordeal that nearly landed our hero in prison and, worse still, in continuing danger of marriage to Madeline Bassett, the svelte and sadly syrupy daughter of the house. Only one thing stands between Bertie and the dreaded state of matrimony, and that is his good friend Gussie Fink-Nottle, lover of newts and Madeline Bassett. So long as Gussie and Madeline continue to profess their undying love for each other, Bertie is safe...but disaster looms when Gussie rebels at Madeline's attempt to turn him into a vegetarian. Throw in the intrigues of Miss Stiffy Byng and her dog Bartholomew to gain the Reverend Stinker Pinker a vicarage, the renewed rivalry of art collectors Sir Watkyn Bassett and Bertie's Uncle Tom, and the irresistible cooking skills of American Emerald Stoker (who happens to be the younger sister of Bertie's old friend Pauline, whom he also narrowly avoided marrying), and you have trouble of the sort that only Jeeves can mend.
In other words, here is a classic version of one of the greatplots of the English language from the Master himself. [via]
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Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Rightby Lisa McGirrISBN 0691096112 (0-691-09611-2)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right'Book summary:In the early 1960s, American conservatives seemed to have fallen on hard times. McCarthyism was on the run, and movements on the political left were grabbing headlines. The media lampooned John Birchers's accusations that Dwight Eisenhower was a communist puppet. Mainstream America snickered at warnings by California Congressman James B. Utt that "barefooted Africans" were training in Georgia to help the United Nations take over the country. Yet, in Utt's home district of Orange County, thousands of middle-class suburbanites proceeded to organize a powerful conservative movement that would land Ronald Reagan in the White House and redefine the spectrum of acceptable politics into the next century.
Suburban Warriors introduces us to these people: women hosting coffee klatches for Barry Goldwater in their tract houses; members of anticommunist reading groups organizing against sex education; pro-life Democrats gradually drawn into conservative circles; and new arrivals finding work in defense companies and a sense of community in Orange County's mushrooming evangelical churches. We learn what motivated them and how they interpreted their political activity. Lisa McGirr shows that their movement was not one of marginal people suffering from status anxiety, but rather one formed by successful entrepreneurial types with modern lifestyles and bright futures. She describes how these suburban pioneers created new political and social philosophies anchored in a fusion of Christian fundamentalism, xenophobic nationalism, and western libertarianism.
While introducing these rank-and-file activists, McGirr chronicles Orange County's rise from "nut country" to political vanguard. Through this history, she traces the evolution of the New Right from a virulent anticommunist, anti-establishment fringe to a broad national movement nourished by evangelical Protestantism. Her original contribution to the social history of politics broadens--and often upsets--our understanding of the deep and tenacious roots of popular conservatism in America.
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Tehanuby Ursula K. Le GuinISBN 0689845332 (0-689-84533-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tehanu'Book summary:Ursula K. LeGuin follows her classic trilogy from Earthsea with a magical tale that won the 1991 Nebula Award for Science Fiction. Unlike the tales in the trilogy, this novel is short and concise, yet it is by no means simplistic. Promoted as a children's book because of the awards garnered in that category by her previous work, Tehanu transcends classification and shows the wizardry of female magic. The story involves a middle-age widow who sets out to visit her dying mentor and eventually cares for his favorite student. [via]
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Tombs of Atuanby Ursula K. Le GuinISBN 0689845359 (0-689-84535-9)
Softcover, Aladdin Paperbacks
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tombs of Atuan'Book summary:Often compared to Tolkien's Middle-earth or Lewis's Narnia, Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea is a stunning fantasy world that grabs quickly at our hearts, pulling us deeply into its imaginary realms. Four books (A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore, and Tehanu) tell the whole Earthsea cycle--a tale about a reckless, awkward boy named Sparrowhawk who becomes a wizard's apprentice after the wizard reveals Sparrowhawk's true name. The boy comes to realize that his fate may be far more important than he ever dreamed possible. Le Guin challenges her readers to think about the power of language, how in the act of naming the world around us we actually create that world. Teens, especially, will be inspired by the way Le Guin allows her characters to evolve and grow into their own powers.
In this second book of Le Guin's Earthsea series, readers will meet Tenar, a priestess to the "Nameless Ones" who guard the catacombs of the Tombs of Atuan. Only Tenar knows the passageways of this dark labyrinth, and only she can lead the young wizard Sparrowhawk, who stumbles into its maze, to the greatest treasure of all. Will she? [via]
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Unnatural Causesby P. D. JamesISBN 0743219597 (0-7432-1959-7)
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White Fangby Jack London, Ed YoungISBN 0689824319 (0-689-82431-9)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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Jack London's adventure masterpiece is not only a vivid account of the Klondike gold rush and North American Indian life, it is an intriguing study of the effects of our environments in forming who we are. Caldecott winner Ed Young's exquisite illustrations bristle with energy in their portrayal of an angry young wolf struggling with the loss of wild independence that is his birthright, but gaining a new freedom through a profound and unconditional love. [via]
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The World's Great ClassicsISBN 0717200019 (0-7172-0001-9)
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Find This BookBook summary:Odyssey, The: The World's Great Classics, by Homer; tr. by S.H. Butcher and Andrew Lang [via]
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The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkersby Robert L. HeilbronerISBN 068486214X (0-684-86214-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers'Book summary:The Worldly Philosophers is a bestselling classic that not only enables us to see more deeply into our history but helps us better understand our own times. In this seventh edition, Robert L. Heilbroner provides a new theme that connects thinkers as diverse as Adam Smith and Karl Marx. The theme is the common focus of their highly varied ideas -- namely, the search to understand how a capitalist society works. It is a focus never more needed than in this age of confusing economic headlines.
In a bold new concluding chapter entitled "The End of the Worldly Philosophy?" Heilbroner reminds us that the word "end" refers to both the purpose and limits of economics. This chapter conveys a concern that today's increasingly "scientific" economics may overlook fundamental social and political issues that are central to economics. Thus, unlike its predecessors, this new edition provides not just an indispensable illumination of our past but a call to action for our future. [via]
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Writer Ferrets : Chasing the Museby Richard BachISBN 0743227549 (0-7432-2754-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Writer Ferrets : Chasing the Muse'Book summary:Budgeron is struggling mightily to write the great ferret novel, a story so rich, so finely wrought, it will set the world of ferret literature on its tail. By day, he writes adventure stories for kits' magazines. By night, he lights the Lamp of Wisdom and calls forth Count Urbain de Rothskit, hero of the massive volume, "Where Ferrets Walk." After a near-perfect first sentence, Budgeron sighs in his tiny attic writing room and waits for the second to come.
Downstairs, a page-turner romance tumbles effortlessly from the keyboard of Budgeron's mate, Danielle. A pawdicurist who decides to write for fun, Danielle never expected her first page would explode with Veronique Sibhoan Ferret, a willful, naughty, mesmerizing animal who would one day bewitch millions of readers.
Budgeron and Danielle are aspiring writer ferrets following their calling through the quiet rooms where stories are born, past the mailbox and rejection slips and finally into the white hot world of big-time book publishing. In the end, each finds success writing for the one heart they must truly please: their own.
"Writer Ferrets: Chasing the Muse" is a tale about the search for what really matters in life; the struggle to free our inner voice; the pursuit of a dream against significant odds and the need to love and be loved by a like-minded spirit. [via]
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Zazie in the Metroby Raymond Queneau, Barbara WrightISBN 0714539236 (0-7145-3923-6)
Softcover, Calder Publications Limited
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