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All the Pretty Horses
by Cormac McCarthy

ISBN 0679744398 (0-679-74439-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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Part bildungsroman, part horse opera, part meditation on courage and loyalty, this beautifully crafted novel won the National Book Award in 1992. The plot is simple enough. John Grady Cole, a 16-year-old dispossessed Texan, crosses the Rio Grande into Mexico in 1949, accompanied by his pal Lacey Rawlins. The two precocious horsemen pick up a sidekick--a laughable but deadly marksman named Jimmy Blevins--encounter various adventures on their way south and finally arrive at a paradisiacal hacienda where Cole falls into an ill-fated romance. Readers familiar with McCarthy's Faulknerian prose will find the writing more restrained than in Suttree and Blood Meridian. Newcomers will be mesmerized by the tragic tale of John Grady Cole's coming of age. [via]
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The Aspern Papers and the Turn of the Screw
by Henry James

ISBN 185326069X (1-85326-069-X)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc

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Introduction and Notes by Dr Claire Seymour, University of Kent at Canterbury The Turn of the Screw is the classic ghost story for which James is most remembered. Set in a country house, it is a chilling tale of the supernatural. The Aspern Papers is a tale of Americans in Europe, cleverly evoking the drama of comedie humaine against the settings of a Venetian palace. [via]
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Atlas Shrugged
by Ayn Rand

ISBN 0451191145 (0-451-19114-5)
Softcover, Signet

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At last, Ayn Rand's masterpiece is available to her millions of loyal readers in trade paperback. With this acclaimed work and its immortal query, "Who is John Galt?", Ayn Rand found the perfect artistic form to express her vision of existence. Atlas Shrugged made Rand not only one of the most popular novelists of the century, but one of its most influential thinkers. Atlas Shrugged is the astounding story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world--and did. Tremendous in scope, breathtaking in its suspense, Atlas Shrugged stretches the boundaries further than any book you have ever read. It is a mystery, not about the murder of a man's body, but about the murder--and rebirth--of man's spirit. Atlas Shrugged is the "second most influential book for Americans today" after the Bible, according to a joint survey conducted by the Library of Congress and the Book of the Month Club [via]
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Breakfast of Champions
by Kurt Vonnegut

ISBN 0385334206 (0-385-33420-6)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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"We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane." So reads the tombstone of downtrodden writer Kilgore Trout, but we have no doubt who's really talking: his alter ego Kurt Vonnegut. Health versus sickness, humanity versus inhumanity--both sets of ideas bounce through this challenging and funny book. As with the rest of Vonnegut's pure fantasy, it lacks the shimmering, fact-fueled rage that illuminates Slaughterhouse-Five. At the same time, that makes this book perhaps more enjoyable to read.
Breakfast of Champions is a slippery, lucid, bleakly humorous jaunt through (sick? inhumane?) America circa 1973, with Vonnegut acting as our Virgil-like companion. The book follows its main character, auto-dealing solid-citizen Dwayne Hoover, down into madness, a condition brought on by the work of the aforementioned Kilgore Trout. As Dwayne cracks, then crumbles, Breakfast of Champions coolly shows the effects his dementia has on the web of characters surrounding him. It's not much of a plot, but it's enough for Vonnegut to air unique opinions on America, sex, war, love, and all of his other pet topics--you know, the only ones that really count. [via]
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Ethan Frome
by Edith Wharton

ISBN 1404349391 (1-4043-4939-1)
Softcover, Indypublish.Com

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Ethan Frome is a tale remembered because exactly it speaks to something inside so many of us. It's the tale of an old man, shriveled at the heart -- and how he got to be that way. It's a tale of love conflicted and compounded -- a tale of tragedy and a lifetime of its aftermath.
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Ethan Frome and Other Short Fiction
by Edith Wharton

ISBN 0553212559 (0-553-21255-9)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept

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On a bleak New England farm, a taciturn young man has resigned himself to a life of grim endurance. Bound by circumstance to a woman he cannot love, Ethan Frome is haunted by a past of lost possibilities until his wifes orphaned cousin, Mattie Silver, arrives and he is tempted to make one final, desperate effort to escape his fate. In language that is spare, passionate, and enduring, Edith Wharton tells this unforgettable story of two tragic lovers overwhelmed by the unrelenting forces of conscience and necessity.

Included with Ethan Frome are the novella The Touchstone and three short stories, The Last Asset, The Other Two, and Xingu. Together, this collection offers a survey of the extraordinary range and power of one of Americas finest writers. [via]
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Herzog
by Saul Bellow

ISBN 0142437298 (0-14-243729-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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A novel complex, compelling, absurd and realistic, Herzog became a classic almost as soon as it was published in 1964. In it Saul Bellow tells the tale of Moses E. Herzog, a tragically confused intellectual who suffers from the breakup of his second marriage, the general failure of his life and the specter of growing up Jewish in the middle part of the 20th century. He responds to his personal crisis by sending out a series of letters to all kinds of people. The letters in total constitute a thoughtful examination of his own life and that which has occurred around him. What emerges is not always pretty, but serves as gritty foundation for this absorbing novel. [via]
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The Last of the Mohicans
by James Fenimore Cooper

ISBN 0140390243 (0-14-039024-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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The second of Cooper's five "Leatherstocking Tales", this is the one which has consistently captured the imagination of generations since it was first published in 1826. Its success lies partly in the historical role Cooper gives to his Indian characters, against the grain of accumulated racial hostility, and partly in his evocation of the wild beautiful landscapes of North America which the French and the British fought to control throughout the 18th century. At the centre of the novel is the celebrated "massacre" of British troops and their families by Indian allies of the French at Fort William Henry in 1757. Around this historical event, Cooper built a romantic fiction of captivity, sexuality and heroism, in which the destiny of the Mohicans Chingachgook and his son Uncas is inseparable from the lives of Alice and Cora Munro and of Hawkeye, the frontier scout. The controlled, elaborate writing gives natural pace to the violence of the novel's action: like the nature whose plundering Cooper laments, the book's placid surface conceals inexplicable and deathly forces. [via]
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
by David Sedaris

ISBN 0783892799 (0-7838-9279-9)
Softcover, G K Hall & Co

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"It's a pretty grim world when I can't even feel superior to a toddler." Welcome to the curious mind of David Sedaris, where dogs outrank children, guitars have breasts, and French toddlers unmask the inadequacies of the American male. Sedaris inhabits this world as a misanthrope chronicling all things petty and small. In Me Talk Pretty One Day Sedaris is as determined as ever to be nobody's hero--he never triumphs, he never conquers--and somehow, with each failure, he inadvertently becomes everybody's favorite underdog. The world's most eloquent malcontent, Sedaris has turned self-deprecation into a celebrated art form--one that is perhaps best experienced in audio. "Go Carolina," his account of "the first battle of my war against the letter s" is particularly poignant. Unable to disguise the lisp that has become his trademark, Sedaris highlights (to hilarious extent) the frustration of reading "childish s-laden texts recounting the adventures of seals or settlers named Sassy or Samuel." Including 23 of the book version's 28 stories, two live performances complete with involuntary laughter, and an uncannily accurate Billie Holiday impersonation, the audio is more than a companion to the text; it stands alone as a performance piece--only without the sock monkeys. (Running time: 5 hours, 4 cassettes) --Daphne Durham [via]
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Mi vida en rose / Me Talk Pretty One Day
by David Sedaris

ISBN 8497934903 (84-9793-490-3)
Softcover, Debolsillo

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Otra Vuelta De Tuerca
by Henry James

ISBN 9875505439 (987-550-543-9)
Softcover, Longseller S.A.

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Siguen viviendo las personas despues de la muerte? En caso afirmativo, mantienen contacto con el mundo de los vivos? No es facil dar respuesta a estas preguntas, aunque quiza muchos ofrezcan una respuesta clara y rapida. En todo caso, esa posible relacion entre los muertos y los vivos es algo que ha atraido desde siempre a la humanidad, y son muy numerosos y variados los relatos dedicados a tratar este tema. Para algunos, el mundo esta plagado de espiritus y fantasmas, seres de otro mundo que irrumpen y se ponen en contacto con personas especialmente dotadas para percibir su influencia. [via]
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The Poetry of Robert Frost
by Robert Frost, Edward Connery Lathem

ISBN 0805069860 (0-8050-6986-0)
Softcover, Owl Books

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Listening to these time-honored poems, it's difficult to imagine the young Frost struggling to find a publisher for his work. In fact, he was nearly 40 (and living in England, of all places) when A Boy's Will, his first collection, appeared. Over the next 50 years he would become the quintessential American poet, securing a well-cushioned catbird seat in the literary canon.
Performers Susan Anspach, Roscoe Lee Browne, and Elliott Gould, among others, heighten the conversational cadences of a writer who seldom strayed from his beloved iambs. Included are "Mending Wall," "The Road Not Taken," "The Death of the Hired Man," "The Fear," and much more, all complete and unabridged. (Running time: 1 hour, 1 cassette) --Martha Silano [via]
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Portnoy's Complaint
by Philip Roth

ISBN 156849324X (1-56849-324-X)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books

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Portnoy's Complaint n. [after Alexander Portnoy (1933- )] A disorder in which strongly-felt ethical and altruistic impulses are perpetually warring with extreme sexual longings, often of a perverse nature. Spielvogel says: 'Acts of exhibitionism, voyeurism, fetishism, auto-eroticism and oral coitus are plentiful; as a consequence of the patient's "morality," however, neither fantasy nor act issues in genuine sexual gratification, but rather in overriding feelings of shame and the dread of retribution, particularly in the form of castration.' (Spielvogel, O. "The Puzzled Penis," Internationale Zeitschrift für Psychoanalyse, Vol. XXIV, p. 909.) It is believed by Spielvogel that many of the symptoms can be traced to the bonds obtaining in the mother-child relationship.

With a new Afterword by the author for the 25th Anniversary edition. [via]
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The Shipping News
by Annie Proulx

ISBN 1568950691 (1-56895-069-1)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc

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In this touching and atmospheric novel set among the fishermen of Newfoundland, Proulx tells the story of Quoyle. From all outward appearances, Quoyle has gone through his first 36 years on earth as a big schlump of a loser. He's not attractive, he's not brilliant or witty or talented, and he's not the kind of person who typically assumes the central position in a novel. But Proulx creates a simple and compelling tale of Quoyle's psychological and spiritual growth. Along the way, we get to look in on the maritime beauty of what is probably a disappearing way of life. [via]
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Sister Carrie
by Theodore Dreiser, Neda M. Westlake, James L. W. West

ISBN 0140188282 (0-14-018828-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser's revolutionary first novel, was published in 1900--sort of. The story of Carrie Meeber, an 18-year-old country girl who moves to Chicago and becomes a kept woman, was strong stuff at the turn of the century, and what Dreiser's wary publisher released was a highly expurgated version. Times change, and we now have a restored "author's cut" of Sister Carrie that shows how truly ahead of his time Dreiser was. First and foremost, he has written an astute, nonmoralizing account of a woman and her limited options in late-19th-century America. That's impressive in and of itself, but Dreiser doesn't stop there. Digging deeply into the psychological underpinnings of his characters, he gives us people who are often strangers to themselves, drifting numbly until fate pushes them on a path they can later neither defend nor even remember choosing.
Dreiser's story unfolds in the measured cadences of an earlier era. This sometimes works brilliantly as we follow the choices, small and large, that lead some characters to doom and others to glory. On the other hand, the middle chapters--of which there are many--do drag somewhat, even when one appreciates Dreiser's intentions. If you can make it through the sagging midsection, however, you'll be rewarded by Sister Carrie's last 150 pages, which depict the harrowing downward spiral of one of the book's central characters. Here Dreiser portrays with brutal power how the wrong decision--or lack of decision--can lay waste to a life. --Rebecca Gleason [via]
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Snow Falling on Cedars
by David Guterson

ISBN 0151001006 (0-15-100100-6)
Hardcover, Harcourt

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Fighting the distrust and prejudice of his neighbors on a remote island in Puget Sound, a Japanese-American man who spent time in an internment camp during World War II, finds himself on trial for murder. The histories of the accused and the victim, both fishermen and residents of the small town of San Piedro, unfold as newspaperman Ishmael Chambers embarks on a quest for the truth. Lonely and war-scarred, Chambers strives for justice and inner strength, while coming to terms with his ill-fated love for Hatsue Miyamoto, the wife of the accused. Evocative and beautifully written, Snow Falling on Cedars won the 1995 PEN/Faulkner Award. [via]
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Tropic of Cancer
by Henry Miller

ISBN 0802131786 (0-8021-3178-6)
Softcover, Grove Pr

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No punches are pulled in Henry Miller's most famous work. Still pretty rough going for even our jaded sensibilities, but Tropic of Cancer is an unforgettable novel of self-confession. Maybe the most honest book ever written, this autobiographical fiction about Miller's life as an expatriate American in Paris was deemed obscene and banned from publication in this country for years. When you read this, you see immediately how much modern writers owe Miller. [via]
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Tropic of Cancer/Tropic of Capricorn
by Henry Miller

ISBN 0802138438 (0-8021-3843-8)
Softcover, Grove Pr

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Forty years have passed since Grove Press first published Henry Miller's landmark masterpiece -- an act that would forever change the face of American literature. Initially banned in America as obscene, Tropic of Cancer was first published in Paris in 1934. Only a historic court ruling that changed American censorship standards permitted its publication. Tropic of Cancer is now considered, as Norman Mailer said, "one of the ten or twenty great novels of our century." Also banned in America for almost thirty years, Tropic of Capricorn is now considered a cornerstone of modern literature. Together, Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn are a lasting testament to one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century and his contribution not only to literature but to the cause of free speech. [via]
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Tropico De Cancer/tropic of Cancer
by Henry Miller

ISBN 8437607388 (84-376-0738-8)
Softcover, Catedra Ediciones

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Turn of the Screw
by Henry James

ISBN 1420922440 (1-4209-2244-0)
Softcover, Digireads.Com

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THE TURN OF THE SCREW is the greatest and most subtle of all English-language ghost stories. H.P. Lovecraft praised its "truly potent air of sinister menace" and "mounting tide of fright" and subsequent critics have argued long and hard over the central "problem" of the story: if the motifs of the traditional ghost story, in the hands of a master, are used to probe the deepest depths of the human psyche, do the resultant terrors spring from the objective return of the spirits of the dead, or from the fears, memories, and guilt the expectation of such apparitions may evoke? Are there any ghosts in this story at all? James himself might have been puzzled by that question. His own remarks make it clear that what he had in mind was a "sinister romance," inspired by a ghostly story he had heard from an Archbishop of Canterbury. He wrote of the "portentous evil" of the "demon-spirits" in the story, but it was his genius to make them so profoundly mysterious that THE TURN OF THE SCREW will survive any number of interpretations, and go on to chill and delight readers for centuries to come. THE TURN OF THE SCREW was memorably filmed as THE INNOCENTS (1961), arguably the finest cinematic ghost story of all time. [via]
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Otra Vuelta De Tuerca
by Henry James

ISBN 8420635898 (84-206-3589-8)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa

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Indice dinamico.

Una institutriz acude al cuidado de dos niños en una vetusta mansión. Lo que en principio parece un cometido agradable, derivará en una situación de pesadilla. Los niños viven impactados por un pasado inmediato en el que la anterior institutriz y el jardinero mantenían una turbia relación. La vida junto a la institutriz y su muerte posterior han dejado en ellos una huella indeleble. La protagonista de la historia, al tratar de ayudar a los niños, comienza a percibir las apariciones de los fantasmas de la anterior institutriz, muerta en extrañas circunstancias, y del jardinero.

Novela de terror psicológico y de suspenso, escrita en 1898 por el neoyorquino Henry James y cuya trama a inspirado películas como Los otros o El orfanato.
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La rebelion del atlas/ The Rebellion of the Atlas
by Ayn Rand

ISBN 9872095116 (987-20951-1-6)
Softcover, Grito Sagrado Editorial

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Unos Caballos Muy Lindos
by Cormac McCarthy, Pilar Giralt Gorina

ISBN 8432206733 (84-322-0673-3)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp

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De Si Jolis Cheveaux
by McCarthy

ISBN 2020309610 (2-02-030961-0)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc

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338pages. poche. Broché. [via]
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Je Parler Francais
by David Sedaris, Georges Monny

ISBN 2290319740 (2-290-31974-0)
Softcover, J Ai Lu Editions

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317pages. poche. broché. [via]
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A-Sun Wu: Un Itinerari Entre Mestissatge I Expressionisme Sala D'exposicions Del Govern, Del 22 De Maig Al 30 De Juny Del 2002
by Gerard Xuriguera, Xuansan Wu

ISBN 9992002999 (99920-0-299-9)
Hardcover, Govern d'Andorra, Ministeri de Cultura, Servei de Promocio Cultural

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The author writes: The two long pieces in this book originally came out in The New Yorker ? RAISE HIGH THE ROOF BEAM, CARPENTERS in 1955, SEYMOUR ? An Introduction in 1959. Whatever their differences in mood or effect, they are both very much concerned with Seymour Glass, who is the main character in my still-uncompleted series about the Glass family. It struck me that they had better be collected together, if not deliberately paired off, in something of a hurry, if I mean them to avoid unduly or undesirably close contact with new material in the series. There is only my word for it, granted, but I have several new Glass stories coming along ? waxing, dilating ? each in its own way, but I suspect the less said about them, in mixed company, the better. Oddly, the joys and satisfactions of working on the Glass family peculiarly increase and deepen for me with the years. I can't say why, though. Not, at least, outside the casino proper of my fiction. [via]
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