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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland : And, Through the Looking Glassby Lewis Carroll, Jenny ThorneISBN 0361028008 (0-361-02800-8)
Hardcover, Purnell, Alice Kelly
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland : And, Through the Looking Glass'Book summary:That Alice. When she's not traipsing after a rabbit into Wonderland, she's gallivanting off into the topsy-turvy world behind the drawing-room looking glass. In Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll's masterful and zany sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, she makes more eccentric acquaintances, including Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the White Queen, and a somewhat grumpy Humpty Dumpty. Through a giant and elaborate chess game, Alice explores this odd country, where one must eat dry biscuits to quench thirst, and run like the wind to stay in one place. As in life, Alice must stay on her toes to learn the rules of this game. Through the Looking Glass immediately took its rightful place beside its partner on the shelf of eternal classics. And luckily for generations of enraptured children, Carroll was again able to persuade John Tenniel to create the fantastic woodblock engravings that have become so indelibly associated with the Alice stories. For almost 130 years, Alice's curious adventures have amused, perplexed, and delighted readers, young and old. This gorgeous, deluxe boxed set of both volumes contains engravings from Tenniel's original woodblocks that were discovered in a London bank in 1985, and reproduced for the first time here. "'What is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures?'" What indeed? (All ages) [via]
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and Through the Looking Glass, and the Hunting of the Snarkby Lewis CarrollISBN 0370109279 (0-370-10927-9)
Hardcover, Random House of Canada Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and Through the Looking Glass, and the Hunting of the Snark'Book summary:, 292 pages including Prefatory Notes at rear, illustrated throughout with numerous black and white illustrations within the text [via]
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Amateursby Donald BarthelmeISBN 0374103798 (0-374-10379-8)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Amateurs'Book summary:A collection of stories by a master of deadpan wit and magical mockery. [via]
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The Anatomy Lessonby Philip RothISBN 0374104913 (0-374-10491-3)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Anatomy Lesson'Book summary:Philip Roth's novel, The Anatomy Lesson , is one of the great portraits of the writer in extremis. It is a wild, raucous, daring book that cements his reputation as one of this country's premier novelists. [via]
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Annie Johnby Jamaica KincaidISBN 0374525102 (0-374-52510-2)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Annie John'Book summary:Jamaica Kincaid beautifully delineates hatred and fear, because she knows they are often a step away from love and obsession. At the start of Annie John, her 10-year-old heroine is engulfed in family happiness and safety. Though Annie loves her father, she is all eyes for her mother. When she is almost 12, however, the idyll ends and she falls into deep disfavor. This inexplicable loss mars both lives, as each grows adept at public falsity and silent betrayal. The pattern is set, and extended: "And now I started a new series of betrayals of people and things I would have sworn only minutes before to die for." In front of Annie's father and the world, "We were politeness and kindness and love and laughter." Alone they are linked in loathing. Annie tries to imagine herself as someone in a book--an orphan or a girl with a wicked stepmother. The trouble is, she finds, those characters' lives always end happily. Luckily for us, though not perhaps for her alter ego, Kincaid is too truthful a writer to provide such a finale. [via]
Auntie Mameby Patrick DennisISBN 0345376501 (0-345-37650-1)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Book of Skullsby Robert SilverbergISBN 0345471385 (0-345-47138-5)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Collected Poemsby Robert Lowell, Frank Bidart, David GewanterISBN 0374126178 (0-374-12617-8)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Collected Poems'Book summary:For the first time, the collected poems of America's preeminent postwar poet[via]
Edmund Wilson wrote of Robert Lowell that he was the "only recent American poet--if you don't count Eliot--who writes successfully in the language and cadence and rhyme of the resounding English tradition."
Frank Bidart and David Gewanter have compiled a definitive edition of Lowell's poems, from the early triumph of Lord Weary's Castle, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, to the brilliant willfulness of his Imitations of Sappho, Baudelaire, Rilke, and other masters, to the late spontaneity of his History, winner of another Pulitzer, and of his last book of poems, Day by Day. The book will also include several poems never previously collected, as well as a selection of Lowell's intriguing drafts.
As poet and critic Randall Jarrell said, "You feel before reading any new poem of his the uneasy expectation of perhaps encountering a masterpiece."
Lowell's Collected Poems will offer the first opportunity to view the entire range of his astonishing verse. 
The Complete Poemsby Randall JarrellISBN 0374513058 (0-374-51305-8)
Softcover, Noonday Pr
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Daisy Fay And The Miracle Manby Fannie FlaggISBN 0345485602 (0-345-48560-2)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Digging to America: Library Editionby Anne TylerISBN 034549234X (0-345-49234-X)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Digging to America: Library Edition'Book summary:Anne Tylers richest, most deeply searching novela story about what it is to be an American, and about Iranian-born Maryam Yazdan, who, after 35 years in this country, must finally come to terms with her outsiderness.
Two families, who would otherwise never have come together, meet by chance at the Baltimore airport the Donaldsons, a very American couple, and the Yazdans, Maryams fully assimilated son and his attractive Iranian wife. Each couple is awaiting the arrival of an adopted infant daughter from Korea. After the instant babies from distant Asia are delivered, Bitsy Donaldson impulsively invites the Yazdans to celebrate: an arrival party that from then on is repeated every year as the two families become more and more deeply intertwined. Even Maryam is drawn in up to a point. When she finds herself being courted by Bitsy Donaldsons recently widowed father, all the values she cherishes her traditions, her privacy, her othernessare suddenly threatened.
A luminous novel brimming with subtle, funny, and tender observations that immerse us in the challenges of both sides of the American story. [via]More editions of Digging to America: Library Edition:
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The Dream Songsby John BerrymanISBN 0374516707 (0-374-51670-7)
Softcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dream Songs'Book summary:This edition combines 77 Dream Songs, awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1965, and His Toy, His Dream, His Rest, which won the National Book Award for Poetry in 1969. It contains 385 songs, an index of first lines, an index of titles, and a note by the author.[via]
In his essay on the work, Denis Donoghue says: "John Berryman has now completed the long poem, The Dream Songs, begun in 1955 . . . The poet resolved it [the problem of a long poem] in his own way; not Eliot's way in Four Quartets, Williams's way in Paterson, Pound's way in the Cantos, or Hart Crane's way in The Bridge . . . Mr. Berryman's answer was to conceive a diary, a dream diary."
"A major achievement," writes A. Alvarez in The Observer. "He has written an elegy on his brilliant generation and, in the process, he has also written an elegy on himself."
Of the hero of The Dream Songs, James Schevill has written: "The character of Henry is a permanent addition to American literature."More editions of The Dream Songs:
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The Dress Lodgerby Sheri HolmanISBN 0345436911 (0-345-43691-1)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dress Lodger'Book summary:The Dress Lodger, a prostitute's passion for her vulnerable baby and the disgraced doctor who might save him, is engrossing historical fiction. As with all the best fictional history, Sheri Holman's atmospheric, miasmic tale of cholera-struck Sunderland in 1831 is based on fact. "Grave: A place where the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student": this epigraph casts the novel's thematic lodestone, steering the reader into a deathly plot pursued through streets emanating the sounds, insufferable smells, humour, adversities and disease of an early 19th-century industrial town.
Gustine--the dress lodger--is a potter's assistant by day, sex worker by night. Her overbearing pimp and landlord has her permanently shadowed by the indefatigable, mysterious old woman known only as Eye to guard his investment in the startling blue dress in which she rents herself, explaining that: "dress lodging works on this basic principle: a cheap whore is given a fancy dress as a higher class of prostitute, the higher the station of the clientèle; the higher the station, the higher the price." Gustine's dress beckons a high-class punter pursued by a dubious fallen past in the figure of Dr Henry Chiver, an ambitious young surgeon who has fled Edinburgh to escape the professional scandal attending on his implication in the convictions of infamous pioneer anatomists Burke and Hare for murder and graverobbing. The heart is the favourite organ, "the singular fascination of his life", for Henry Chiver, desperate to re-establish his tarnished reputation through medical discovery. For this, and his paying students restless for induction into the arts of the scalpel, Chiver requires dead bodies for dissection, to the horror of his naïve, philanthropic fiancée Audrey Place. But it is 1831: the Anatomy Act has yet to pass through parliament to enable medics to legally obtain the corpses so critical to their accurate practice, and a suspicious public is terrifying itself with stories of murderous "burkers".
Streetsmart Gustine, "a rented self", hostile pragmatist trapped in unrelenting poverty, is all heart for her nameless little son who wears--literally--his heart on the outside, a rare case of ectopia cordis; just the kind of anatomical anomaly whose study would make the name of the aspirant but stigmatised Henry. Amid the gathering momentum of cholera epidemic, the two strike up a fatal pact: life for Gustine's son in exchange for a fresh supply of dead bodies for Chiver's scientific dissection. With mordant Dickensian wit and Elizabeth Gaskell's deft touch for gutsy outcast women seizing control of their destiny, Holman carves out a richly imaginative adventure as incisive and gruesomely fascinating as a 19th-century operating theatre. --Rachel Holmes [via]
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The Drowning Treeby Carol GoodmanISBN 0345462122 (0-345-46212-2)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragmentsby Elizabeth Bishop, Alice QuinnISBN 0374146454 (0-374-14645-4)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments'Book summary:From the mid-1930s to 1978 Elizabeth Bishop published some eighty poems and thirty translations. Yet her notebooks reveal that she embarked upon many more compositions, some existing in only fragmentary form and some embodied in extensive drafts. Edgar Allen Poe & The Juke-Box presents, alongside facsimiles of many notebook pages from which they are drawn, poems Bishop began soon after college, reflecting her passion for Elizabethan verse and surrealist technique; love poems and dream fragments from the 1940s; poems about her Canadian childhood; and many other works that heretofore have been quoted almost exclusively in biographical and critical studies.This revelatory and moving selection brings us into the poet's laboratory, showing us the initial provocative images that moved her to begin a poem, illustrating terrain unexplored in the work published during her lifetime. Editor Alice Quinn has also mined the Bishop archives for rich tangential material that illuminates the poet's sources and intentions.[via]More editions of Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments:
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Enemiesby Elizabeth Shub, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Aliza ShevrinISBN 0374515220 (0-374-51522-0)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Enemies'Book summary:Almost before he knows it, Herman Broder, refugee and survivor of World War II, has three wives: Yadwiga, the Polish peasant who hid him from the Nazis; Masha , his beautiful and neurotic true love; and Tamara, his first wife, miraculously returned from the dead. Astonished by each new complication, and yet resigned to a life of evasion, Herman navigates a crowded, Yiddish New York with a sense of perpetually impending doom.[via]More editions of Enemies:
Enemies, a Love Storyby Isaac Bashevis SingerISBN 0374148309 (0-374-14830-9)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Enormous Changes at the Last Minuteby Grace PaleyISBN 0374515247 (0-374-51524-7)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Enormous Changes at the Last Minute'Book summary:In this collection of short stories, originally published in 1974, Grace Paley "makes the novel as a form seem virtually redundant" (Angela Carter, London Review of Books). Her stories here capture "the itch of the city, love between parents and children" and "the cutting edge of combat" (Lis Harris, The New York Times Book Review). In this collection of seventeen stories, she creates a "solid and vital fictional world, cross-referenced and dense with life" (Walter Clemons, Newsweek).[via]More editions of Enormous Changes at the Last Minute:
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The Feast of All Saintsby Anne RiceISBN 0345334531 (0-345-33453-1)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Feast of All Saints'Book summary:Before the Civil War, there lived in Louisiana, people unique in Southern history. For though they were descended from African slaves, they were also descended from the French and Spanish who enslaved them. In this dazzling historical novel, Anne Rice chronicles four of these so-called Free People of Color--men and women caught periolously between the worlds of master and slave, privilege and oppression, passion and pain.
"Anne Rice seems to be at home everywhere....She makes us believe everything she sees."
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Fourth Handby John IrvingISBN 0345449347 (0-345-44934-7)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fourth Hand'Book summary:Like new! [via]
The Franchiserby Stanley ElkinISBN 0374158339 (0-374-15833-9)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus, Giroux
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From Tom Wolfe Purple Decades: 1960-1980by Thomas WolfeISBN 0374278393 (0-374-27839-3)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Gainby Richard PowersISBN 0374159963 (0-374-15996-3)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Generation Xby Douglas CouplandISBN 0349103313 (0-349-10331-3)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Generation X'Book summary:A riotous, raunchy tale about three 'twenty somethings' who inhabit adjoining bungalows in Palm Springs. [via]
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Gimpel the Fool: And Other Storiesby Isaac Bashevis SingerISBN 0374530254 (0-374-53025-4)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The Great Train Robberyby Michael CrichtonISBN 034539092X (0-345-39092-X)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great Train Robbery'Book summary:"A nineteenth-century version of THE STING...Crichton fascinates us."
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
In teeming Victorian London, where lavish wealth and appalling poverty live side by side, Edward Pierce charms the most prominent of the well-to-do as he cunningly orchestrates the crime of the century. Who would suspect that a gentleman of breeding could mastermind the daring theft of a fortune in gold? Who could predict the consequences of making the extraordinary robbery aboard the pride of England's industrial era, the mighty steam locomotive? Based on fact, as lively as legend, and studded with all the suspense and style of a modern fiction master, here is a classic caper novel set a decade before the age of dynamite--yet nonetheless explosive.... [via]More editions of The Great Train Robbery:
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Guilty Pleasuresby Donald BarthelmeISBN 0374167370 (0-374-16737-0)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Harlot's Ghostby Norman MailerISBN 0345379659 (0-345-37965-9)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Harlot's Ghost'Book summary:"The most daring, ambitious and by far the best written of the several very long, daring and ambitious books Norman Mailer has so far produced....Unlike just about every American writer since Henry James, Mailer has managed to grow and become richer in wisdom with each new book....There can no longer be any doubt that he possesses the largest mind and imagination at work in American literature today."
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Narrated by Harry Hubbard, a second-generation CIA man, HARLOT'S GHOST looks into the depths of the American soul and the soul of Hugh Tremont Montague, code name Harlot, a CIA man obsessed. And Harry is about to discover how far the madness will go and what it means to the Agency and the country....
A Main Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club [via]More editions of Harlot's Ghost:
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Hell's Angelsby Hunter S. ThompsonISBN 0345410084 (0-345-41008-4)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hell's Angels'Book summary:Gonzo journalist and literary roustabout Hunter S. Thompson flies with the angels--Hell's Angels, that is. He's lived with them, he knows them and their machines, he speaks their langauge,and he reports it back to the world with all the fearsome force of a souped-up cyclone burning rubber. [via]
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Home at the End of the World/30664by Michael CunninghamISBN 0374172501 (0-374-17250-1)
Hardcover, Daedalus Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Home at the End of the World/30664'Book summary:Two lifelong friends in their 20s form a triangle with a young woman in New York City. When she becomes pregnant, the three move to the country to set up housekeeping in Woodstock, embarking on a daring voyage toward a new vision of what a family can be. "A gripping, haunting piece of work from a writer of real promise and power".--Publishers Weekly. [via]
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I, Etceteraby Susan SontagISBN 0374174024 (0-374-17402-4)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Imitationsby Robert LowellISBN 0374502609 (0-374-50260-9)
Softcover, Noonday Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Imitations'Book summary:Not quite translations--yet something much more, much richer, than mere tributes to their original versions--the poems in Imitations reflect Lowell's conceptual, historical, literary, and aesthetic engagements with a diverse range of voices from the Western canon. Moving chronologically from Homer to Pasternak--and including such master poets en route as Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Rilke, and Montale--the fascinating and hugely informed pieces in this book are themselves meant to be read as "a whole," according to Lowell's telling Introduction, "a single volume, a small anthology of European poetry."[via]More editions of Imitations:
Jurassic Parkby Michael CrichtonISBN 0345370775 (0-345-37077-5)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jurassic Park'Book summary:Unless your species evolved sometime after 1993 when Jurassic Park hit theaters, you're no doubt familiar with this dinosaur-bites-man disaster tale set on an island theme park gone terribly wrong. But if Speilberg's amped-up CGI creation left you longing for more scientific background and ... well, character development, check out the original Michael Crichton novel. Although not his best book (get ahold of sci-fi classic The Andromeda Strain for that), Jurassic Park fills out the film version's kinetic story line with additional scenes, dialogue, and explanations while still maintaining Crichton's trademark thrills-'n'-chills pacing. As ever, the book really is better than the movie. --Paul Hughes [via]
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The Lady Who Liked Clean Rest Roomsby J. P. DonleavyISBN 0349108501 (0-349-10850-1)
Hardcover, Abacus
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lady Who Liked Clean Rest Rooms'Book summary:By the author of "The Ginger Man". Joy Jones has always been brought up to behave like a lady. But being pursued by a host of oversexed suitors has left her patience wearing thin. With shotguns across her knees and under her pillow, she is trigger happy and no longer welcome in polite society. [via]
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Lasherby Anne RiceISBN 0345377648 (0-345-37764-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lasher'Book summary:At the center of this dark and compelling tale is Rowan Mayfair, queen of the coven, who must flee from the darkly brutal, yet irresistable demon known as Lasher. With a dreamlike power, this wickedly seductive entity draws us through twilight paths, telling a chilling and hypnotic story of spiritual aspiration and passion. [via]
Letting Goby Philip Roth, James AtlasISBN 0374517010 (0-374-51701-0)
Softcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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Licks of Loveby John UpdikeISBN 0345442016 (0-345-44201-6)
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The Life of Emily Dickinsonby Richard Benson SewallISBN 0374186960 (0-374-18696-0)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Life of Emily Dickinson'Book summary:Winner of the National Book Award, this massively detailed biography throws a light into the study of the brilliant poet. How did Emily Dickinson, from the small window over her desk, come to see a life that included the horror, exaltation and humor that lives her poetry? With abundance and impartiality, Sewall shows us not just the poet nor the poetry, but the woman and her life. [via]
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Lord Foul's Baneby Stephen R. DonaldsonISBN 0345348656 (0-345-34865-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lord Foul's Bane'Book summary:The first book in one of the most remarkable epic fantasies ever written, the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Unbeliever.
He called himself Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever because he dared not believe in the strange alternate world in which he suddenly found himself. Yet he was tempted to believe, to fight for the Land, to be the reincarnation of its greatest hero....
THE CHRONICLES OF THOMAS COVENANT THE UNBELIEVER
Book One: LORD FOUL'S BANE
Book Two: THE ILLEARTH WAR
Book Three: THE POWER THAT PRESERVES [via]-
Mauve Gloves and Madmen, Clutter and Vineby Tom WolfeISBN 0374204241 (0-374-20424-1)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mauve Gloves and Madmen, Clutter and Vine'Book summary:"When are the 1970s going to begin?" ran the joke during the Presidential campaign of 1976. With his own patented combination of serious journalism and dazzling comedy, Tom Wolfe met the question head-on in these rollicking essays -- and even provided the 1970s with its name: "The Me Decade."[via]More editions of Mauve Gloves and Madmen, Clutter and Vine:
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Men and Angelsby Mary GordonISBN 0345329252 (0-345-32925-2)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Men and Angels'Book summary:Anne Foster's husband is in France. She has stayed behind in their small college town with her two young children -- whom she loves with an intensity that awes her -- to finish writing the catalogue for a major exhibition of the work of American Impressionist painter Caroline Watson. As she delves into Caroline's life, Anne sees a side of "mother love" she'd never fathomed. Meanwhile, Anne's live-in babysitter, Laura Post, is obsessed with a different kind of love. She sees herself as one of God's chosen and believes she has been sent to "save" Anne and her children, whether they want it or not . . . [via]
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Merrickby Anne RiceISBN 0345422406 (0-345-42240-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Merrick'Book summary:Just when you thought it was safe for a bloodsucker to go out in the dark in New Orleans, along comes Merrick Mayfair, a sultry, hard-drinking octoroon beauty whose voodoo can turn the toughest vampire into a marionette dancing to her merry, scary tune. In Merrick, Anne Rice brings back three of her most wildly popular characters--the vampires Lestat and Louis and the dead vampire child Claudia--and introduces them to the world of her Mayfair Witches book series.
It is Louis who brings about the collision of the fang and voodoo universes. Louis made Claudia a vampire in Rice's classic Interview with the Vampire, in which she was destroyed, and now he's obsessed with raising her ghost to make amends and seek guidance from the beyond. (Claudia physically resembles Rice's young daughter who died of a blood-related illness. Rice nearly died of a diabetic coma in 1998, and writing Merrick turned her excruciating recovery into an exhilarating burst of creativity).
Vampire David Talbot lobbies Merrick to call Claudia's spirit and slake Louis's guilt, but Talbot winds up in the grip of an obsession with the witch. You see, Talbot, unlike most vampires, lived 70 years as a human, so his sexual response to humans is still as strong as his blood thirst. Merrick can cast spells to make men crave her, and Talbot is tormented. After she reads his palm, he muses, "I wanted to take her in my arms, not to feed from her, no, not harm her, only kiss her, only sink my fangs a very little, only taste her blood and her secrets, but this was dreadful and I wouldn't let it go on."
The secrets of Merrick are dark and sensuous, but the book is a romp animated by Rice's feeling of coming back to life through the magic of a literary outpouring. The narrative flashes back to the past, to an Indiana Jones-ish adventure in a Guatemalan cave, and to scenes from many other Rice novels. It may be helpful to read Merrick with the Rice-approved guidebooks The Vampire Companion and The Witches' Companion at hand.
After many books, Rice's grand Vampire Chronicles tale was in peril of getting long in the tooth. Merrick Mayfair's magic represents an infusion of fresh blood. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Monkey Huntingby Cristina GarciaISBN 0345466101 (0-345-46610-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Monkey Hunting'Book summary:In this deeply stirring novel, acclaimed author Cristina García follows one extraordinary family through four generations, from China to Cuba to America. Wonderfully evocative of time and place, rendered in the lyrical prose that is Garcías hallmark, Monkey Hunting is an emotionally resonant tale of immigration, assimilation, and the prevailing integrity of self. [via]
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The Naked Sunby Isaac AsimovISBN 0345338219 (0-345-33821-9)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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New Tales Of The Vampires: Pandora Vittorio, The Vampireby Anne RiceISBN 0345476867 (0-345-47686-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'New Tales Of The Vampires: Pandora Vittorio, The Vampire'Book summary:In Pandora, fledgling vampire David Talbot chronicles the history of Pandora, a two-thousand-year-old vampire, and in fifteenth-century Renaissance Florence, Vittorio finds his world shattered when his entire family is destroyed in an act of unholy violence and embarks on a desperate quest for revenge, in Vittorio, the Vampire, in an omnibus edition. [via]
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October Countryby Ray BradburyISBN 0345407857 (0-345-40785-7)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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The Old Forest and Other Storiesby Peter TaylorISBN 0345327780 (0-345-32778-0)
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One Art: Lettersby Elizabeth Bishop, Robert GirouxISBN 0374524459 (0-374-52445-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'One Art: Letters'Book summary:One Art is the best biography we have of the elusive Elizabeth Bishop. Robert Giroux, her editor and friend, has chosen well--and discreetly--from among the poet's several thousand letters. The collection begins with correspondence she wrote while still at Vassar in the '30s and ends with a letter written on the day she died, October 6, 1979. ("Well, I could go on--but I won't!" Bishop writes.) Still, we now have more than 600 pages of witty, well-mannered missives that often shade into deep emotion. Seemingly casual observation is a staple of Bishop's art and a delight in the letters: writing to Marianne Moore in 1938, she asserts that an unappealing stray she is nonetheless feeding looks just like Picasso's Absinthe Drinker. Nor is she any less irreverent when it comes to the lifestyles of the poetic and famous. In 1950, she tells Robert Lowell that she's reading Yeats's A Vision--"or trying to. Have you? Sometimes it's Jungian. The picture of Yeats going 'Woof! Woof!' in a lower berth, in the dark, in California, in order to wake up his wife, who was dreaming she was a cat, is very pleasing, I think."
Bishop often hid her sadness behind charm, but she could also be astonishingly frank. In addition to the personal revelations, there are discussions of poems' origins. "Quite a few lines of 'At the Fishhouses' came to me in a dream," she tells U. T. and Joseph Summers. "And the scene--which was real enough, I'd recently been there--but the old man and the conversation, etc., were all in a later dream." One caveat: Robert Giroux has kept commentary and notes to a minimum, so it's worth reading his introduction for deep background before you begin. [via]
A Piece of My Mindby Edmund WilsonISBN 0374526710 (0-374-52671-0)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Presumed Innocentby Scott TurowISBN 0374237131 (0-374-23713-1)
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The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman 1955-1967by Douglas Brinkley, Hunter S. ThompsonISBN 0345377966 (0-345-37796-6)
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The Purple Decadesby Tom Wolfe, Joe David BellamyISBN 0374239282 (0-374-23928-2)
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The Purple Decades: A Readerby Tom WolfeISBN 0374239274 (0-374-23927-4)
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Seance and Other Storiesby Isaac Bashevis SingerISBN 0374508321 (0-374-50832-1)
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Seek My Faceby John UpdikeISBN 0345460863 (0-345-46086-3)
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Servant of the Bonesby Anne RiceISBN 0345389417 (0-345-38941-7)
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A Short History of a Small Placeby T. R. PearsonISBN 0345332636 (0-345-33263-6)
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Signposts in a Strange Landby Walker Percy, Patrick H. SamwayISBN 0374523452 (0-374-52345-2)
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A Slipping-down Lifeby Anne TylerISBN 0345478142 (0-345-47814-2)
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Evie Decker is a shy, slightly plump teenager, lonely and silent. But her quiet life is shattered when she hears the voice of Drumstrings Casey on the radio and becomes instantly attracted to him. She manages to meet him, bursting out of her lonely shell--and into the attentive gaze of the intangible man who becomes all too real....
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Slouching Towards Bethlehemby Joan DidionISBN 0374521727 (0-374-52172-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Slouching Towards Bethlehem'Book summary:Universally acclaimed when it was first published in 1968, Slouching Towards Bethlehem has become a modern classic. More than any other book of its time, this collection captures the mood of 1960s America, especially the center of its counterculture, California. These essays, keynoted by an extraordinary report on San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, all reflect that, in one way or another, things are falling apart, "the center cannot hold." An incisive look at contemporary American life, Slouching Towards Bethlehem has been admired for several decades as a stylistic masterpiece.[via]
Contents:
I. LIFE STYLES IN THE GOLDEN LAND
Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream
John Wayne: A Love Song
Where the Kissing Never Stops
Comrade Laski, C.P.U.S.A. (M.-L.)
7000 Romaine, Los Angeles 38
California Dreaming
Marrying Absurd
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
II. PERSONALS
On Keeping a Notebook
On Self-Respect
I Can't Get That Monster out of My Mind
On Morality
On Going Home
III. SEVEN PLACES OF THE MIND
Notes from a Native Daughter
Letter from Paradise, 21° 19' N., 157° 52' W
Rock of Ages
The Seacoast of Despair
Guaymas, Sonora
Los Angeles Notebook
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Standing in the Rainbowby Fannie FlaggISBN 0345452887 (0-345-45288-7)
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Along with Neighbor Dorothy, the lady with the smile in her voice, whose daily radio broadcasts keep us delightfully informed on all the local news, we also meet Bobby, her ten-year-old son, destined to live a thousand lives, most of them in his imagination; Norma and Macky Warren and their ninety-eight-year-old Aunt Elner; the oddly sexy and charismatic Hamm Sparks, who starts off in life as a tractor salesman and ends up selling himself to the whole state and almost the entire country; and the two women who love him as differently as night and day. Then there is Tot Whooten, the beautician whose luck is as bad as her hairdressing skills; Beatrice Woods, the Little Blind Songbird; Cecil Figgs, the Funeral King; and the fabulous Minnie Oatman, lead vocalist of the Oatman Family Gospel Singers.
The time is 1946 until the present. The town is Elmwood Springs, Missouri, right in the middle of the country, in the midst of the mostly joyous transition from war to peace, aiming toward a dizzyingly bright future.
Once again, Fannie Flagg gives us a story of richly human characters, the saving graces of the once-maligned middle classes and small-town life, and the daily contest between laughter and tears. Fannie truly writes from the heartland, and her storytelling is, to quote Time, "utterly irresistible."
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Strong Motionby Jonathan FranzenISBN 0374271054 (0-374-27105-4)
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A Swiftly Tilting Planetby Madeleine L'EngleISBN 0374373620 (0-374-37362-0)
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The Talismanby Stephen King, Peter StraubISBN 0345444884 (0-345-44488-4)
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Talisman/Black Houseby Stephen King, Peter StraubISBN 0345458885 (0-345-45888-5)
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THE TALISMAN
EXTRAORDINARY . . . MAKES YOUR HAIR STAND ON END.
The Washington Post
On a brisk autumn day, a thirteen-year-old boy stands on the shores of the gray Atlantic, near a silent amusement park and a fading ocean resort called the Alhambra. The past has driven Jack Sawyer here: his father is gone, his mother is dying, and the world no longer makes sense. But for Jack everything is about to change. For he has been chosen to make a journey back across Americaand into another realm.
One of the most influential and heralded works of fantasy ever written, The Talisman is an extraordinary novel of loyalty, awakening, terror, and mystery. Jack Sawyer, on a desperate quest to save his mothers life, must search for a prize across an epic landscape of innocents and monsters, of incredible dangers and even more incredible truths. The prize is essential, but the journey means even more. Let the quest begin. . . .
A CLASSIC . . . RARE AND DAZZLING.
New York Daily News
BLACK HOUSE
AN INTELLIGENT . . . SUSPENSEFUL PAGE-TURNER . . . Its a relief to find popular fiction that is as unpretentious yet rich in literary allusion and human detail as Black House.
The Wall Street Journal
Jack Sawyer is a retired Los Angeles homicide detective living in the small hamlet of Tamarak, Wisconsin. He has no recollection of the events twenty years ago that led him to a parallel universe called the Territories to save his mother from certain death. When a series of gruesome murders occur in western Wisconsin, Jacks buddy, the local chief of police, begs Jack to help the inexperienced force find the killer. As cryptic messages in Jacks waking dreams become increasingly impossible to ignore, he is drawn back to the Territories and to his own hidden past, where he must find the soul-strength to enter a terrifying house at the end of a deserted tract of forestand to encounter the obscene and ferocious evils sheltered within it.
JACKS SAGA OVERFLOWS WITH DARK WIT, SLY LITERARY REFERENCES, SUSPENSE, AND HEARTACHE. What elevates Black House beyond ordinary horror novels is the richness of its cast.
The New York Times Book Review
HUGELY PLEASURABLE . . . Black House allows us to see two master craftsmen, each at the top of his game.
The Washington Post Book World
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The Tenantsby Bernard MalamudISBN 0374521026 (0-374-52102-6)
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In The Tenants (1971), Bernard Malamud brought his unerring sense of modern urban life to bear on the conflict between blacks and Jews then inflaming his native Brooklyn. The sole tenant in a rundown tenement, Henry Lesser is struggling to finish a novel, but his solitary pursuit of the sublime grows complicated when Willie Spearmint, a black writer ambivalent toward Jews, moves into the building. Henry and Willie are artistic rivals and unwilling neighbors, and their uneasy peace is disturbed by the presence of Willie's white girlfriend Irene and the landlord Levenspiel's attempts to evict both men and demolish the building. This novel's conflict, current then, is perennial now; it reveals the slippery nature of the human condition, and the human capacity for violence and undoing.-
The Time of Our Singing: A Novelby Richard PowersISBN 0374277826 (0-374-27782-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Time of Our Singing: A Novel'Book summary:In some respects, Richard Powers's The Time of Our Singing is just a big, absorbing drama about an American family, with the typical ingredients of an immigrant parent and some social obstacles--in this case, a biracial marriage in the Civil Rights era--to be overcome by the talented children. But Powers's lyrical gifts lift this material far above its familiar subject matter. His descriptions of music alone will transport the reader. The Strom family were raised with this common language: "Our parents' Crazed Quotations game played on the notion that every moment's tune had all history's music box for its counterpoint. On any evening in Hamilton Heights, we could jump from organum to atonality without any hint of all the centuries that had died fiery deaths between them." The central figure of this novel is the dazzling Jonah, who makes a life from singing, and who may be the only person around him who regards his racial heritage as irrelevant to his ambitions. Powers's is such a fertile writer, however, that he can't stay with any single story, but plunges into pages and pages of family and social histories. The result is a rambling, resonant, fearless novel that pulls the reader along in its wake. --Regina Marler [via]
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To Uraniaby Joseph BrodskyISBN 0374523339 (0-374-52333-9)
Softcover, Noonday Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'To Urania'Book summary:Combining two books of verse that were first published in his native Russian, To Urania was Brodsky's third volume to appear in English. Published in 1988, the year after he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, this collection features pieces translated by the poet himself and others, as well as poems written originally in English.[via]
Auden once characterized Brodsky as "a traditionalist . . . interested in what lyric poets of all ages have been interested in . . . encounters with nature . . . reflections upon the human condition, death, and the meaning of existence." Reading the poems in To Urania--by turns cerebral, caustic, comic, and celebratory--we appreciate firsthand a great lyric poet's variety and achievement.
Travelsby Michael CrichtonISBN 0345359321 (0-345-35932-1)
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The Twenty-Seventh City: A Novelby Jonathan FranzenISBN 0374279721 (0-374-27972-1)
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Villagesby John UpdikeISBN 0345477316 (0-345-47731-6)
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Vittorio the Vampireby Anne RiceISBN 0345422392 (0-345-42239-2)
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Washington, D. C.by Gore VidalISBN 0345342364 (0-345-34236-4)
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The Witching Hourby Anne RiceISBN 0345367898 (0-345-36789-8)
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Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetypeby Clarissa Pinkola EstesISBN 0345396812 (0-345-39681-2)
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Valuesby Robert M. PirsigISBN 0370103386 (0-370-10338-6)
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Phaedrus, our narrator, takes a present-tense cross-country motorcycle trip with his son during which the maintenance of the motorcycle becomes an illustration of how we can unify the cold, rational realm of technology with the warm, imaginative realm of artistry. As in Zen, the trick is to become one with the activity, to engage in it fully, to see and appreciate all details--be it hiking in the woods, penning an essay, or tightening the chain on a motorcycle.
In his autobiographical first novel, Pirsig wrestles both with the ghost of his past and with the most important philosophical questions of the 20th century--why has technology alienated us from our world? what are the limits of rational analysis? if we can't define the good, how can we live it? Unfortunately, while exploring the defects of our philosophical heritage from Socrates and the Sophists to Hume and Kant, Pirsig inexplicably stops at the middle of the 19th century. With the exception of Poincaré, he ignores the more recent philosophers who have tackled his most urgent questions, thinkers such as Peirce, Nietzsche (to whom Phaedrus bears a passing resemblance), Heidegger, Whitehead, Dewey, Sartre, Wittgenstein, and Kuhn. In the end, the narrator's claims to originality turn out to be overstated, his reasoning questionable, and his understanding of the history of Western thought sketchy. His solution to a synthesis of the rational and creative by elevating Quality to a metaphysical level simply repeats the mistakes of the premodern philosophers. But in contrast to most other philosophers, Pirsig writes a compelling story. And he is a true innovator in his attempt to popularize a reconciliation of Eastern mindfulness and nonrationalism with Western subject/object dualism. The magic of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance turns out to lie not in the answers it gives, but in the questions it raises and the way it raises them. Like a cross between The Razor's Edge and Sophie's World, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance takes us into "the high country of the mind" and opens our eyes to vistas of possibility. --Brian Bruya [via]
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