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The Accidental Activist: A Personal and Political Memoirby Chris Bull, Candace GingrichISBN 0684836556 (0-684-83655-6)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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After Nirvana: A Novelby Lee WilliamsISBN 0688166415 (0-688-16641-5)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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Answered Prayers: The Unfinished Novelby Truman CapoteISBN 0679751823 (0-679-75182-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Bartleby the Scrivenerby Herman MelvilleISBN 0684819104 (0-684-81910-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Basic Writings of Sigmund Freud: Psychopathology of Everyday Life/the Interpretation of Dreams/Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex/Wit andby Sigmund Freud, A.A. BrillISBN 067960166X (0-679-60166-X)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Benjamin Britten, 1913-1976: Pictures from a Lifeby Donald MitchellISBN 0684159740 (0-684-15974-0)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Best Little Boy in the World : 1998 Editionby John Reid, Andrew TobiasISBN 067960314X (0-679-60314-X)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Big Kiss: One Actor's Desperate Attempt to Claw His Way to the Topby Henry AlfordISBN 0679438734 (0-679-43873-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Blood and Goldby Anne RiceISBN 0679454497 (0-679-45449-7)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blood and Gold'Book summary:Time heals all wounds, unless, of course, you're a vampire. Cuts may heal, burns vanish, limbs reattach, but for the "blood god," the wounds of the heart sometimes stay open and raw for centuries. So it is for Marius, Anne Rice's oft-mentioned and beloved scholar. We've heard parts of his tale in past volumes of the Vampire Chronicles, but never so completely and never from his own lips. In Blood and Gold, Rice mostly (but not entirely) avoids the danger of treading worn ground as she fills out the life and character of Marius the Lonely, the Disenchanted, the Heartsick--a 2,000-year-old vampire "with all the conviction of a mortal man."
Plucked from his beloved Rome in the prime of his life and forced into solitude as keeper of the vampire queen and king, Marius has never forgiven the injustice of his mortal death. Thousands of years later, he still seethes over his losses. Immortality for Marius is both a blessing and a curse--he bears "witness to all splendid and beautiful things human," yet is unable to engage in relationships for fear of revealing his burden.
New readers to the Chronicles may wish for a more fleshed-out, less introspective hero, but Rice's legions of devoted fans will recognize Blood and Gold for what it is: a love song to Marius the Wanderer, whose story reveals the complexities and limitations of eternal existence. --Daphne Durham [via]
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Breakfast at Tiffany'sby Truman CapoteISBN 0679745653 (0-679-74565-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Bullet Parkby John CheeverISBN 0679737871 (0-679-73787-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bullet Park'Book summary:Welcome to Bullet Park, a township in which even the most buttoned-down gentry sometimes manage to terrify themselves simply by looking in the mirror. In these exemplary environs John Cheever traces the fateful intersection of two men: Eliot Nailles, a nice fellow who loves his wife and son to blissful distraction, and Paul Hammer, a bastard named after a common household tool, who, after half a lifetime of drifting, settles down in Bullet Park with one objectiveto murder Nailles's son. Here is the lyrical and mordantly funny hymn to the American suburband to all the dubious normalcy it representsdelivered with unparalleled artistry and assurance. [via]
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Burning Girlby Ben NeihartISBN 0688156916 (0-688-15691-6)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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Calamusby Christian Sabisch, David D. GallowayISBN 068800606X (0-688-00606-X)
Softcover, Quill
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The City and the Pillar and Seven Early Storiesby Gore VidalISBN 0679436995 (0-679-43699-5)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Collected Poems of Langston Hughesby Langston Hughes, Arnold Rampersad, David RoesselISBN 0679764089 (0-679-76408-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes'Book summary:"The ultimate book for both the dabbler and serious scholar--. [Hughes] is sumptuous and sharp, playful and sparse, grounded in an earthy music--. This book is a glorious revelation."--Boston Globe
Spanning five decades and comprising 868 poems (nearly 300 of which have never before appeared in book form), this magnificent volume is the definitive sampling of a writer who has been called the poet laureate of African America--and perhaps our greatest popular poet since Walt Whitman. Here, for the first time, are all the poems that Langston Hughes published during his lifetime, arranged in the general order in which he wrote them and annotated by Arnold Rampersad and David Roessel.
Alongside such famous works as "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" and Montage of a Dream Deferred, The Collected Poems includes the author's lesser-known verse for children; topical poems distributed through the Associated Negro Press; and poems such as "Goodbye Christ" that were once suppressed. Lyrical and pungent, passionate and polemical, the result is a treasure of a book, the essential collection of a poet whose words have entered our common language.
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The Decay of the Angelby Yukio Mishima, Edward SeidenstickerISBN 0679722432 (0-679-72243-2)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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The Difficulty of Beingby Jean CocteauISBN 0686545214 (0-686-54521-4)
Softcover, French & European Pubns
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Disco Bloodbath: A Fabulous but True Tale of Murder in Clublandby James St. JamesISBN 0684857642 (0-684-85764-2)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Dissolution of Nicholas Dee; His Researchesby Matthew StadlerISBN 0684193523 (0-684-19352-3)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Eating Chinese Food Naked: A Novelby Mei NgISBN 0684814161 (0-684-81416-1)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Extra Manby Jonathan AmesISBN 0684845040 (0-684-84504-0)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Fabulous Nobodiesby Lee TullochISBN 0688075525 (0-688-07552-5)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Falconerby John CheeverISBN 0679737863 (0-679-73786-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Ferocious Romance: What My Encounters With the Right Taught Me About Sex, God, and Furyby Donna MinkowitzISBN 0684833220 (0-684-83322-0)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Finding the Boyfriend Within : A Practical Guide for Tapping into Your Own Scource of Love, Happiness and Respectby Brad GoochISBN 0684850400 (0-684-85040-0)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Flaming Iguanasby Erika LopezISBN 068485368X (0-684-85368-X)
Softcover, Scribner
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Flaming Iguanas'Book summary:Tomato Rodriguez hops on her motorcycle and embarks on the ultimate sea-to-shining-sea all-girl adventure -- a story in that combines all the best parts of Alice in Wonderland and Easy Rider as Tomato crosses the country in search of the meaning of life, love, and the perfect post office.
Flaming Iguanas is a hilarious novel that combines text, line drawings, rubber stamp art, and a serious dose of attitude. The result is a wild and wonderful ride unlike any you you've ever taken before. [via]
Footnotes: A Memoirby Tommy TuneISBN 0684841827 (0-684-84182-7)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Geography of the Imagination : Forty Essaysby Guy DavenportISBN 0679738592 (0-679-73859-2)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Gone Tomorrowby Gary IndianaISBN 0679418881 (0-679-41888-1)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Good Book: Reading the Bible with Mind and Heartby Peter J. GomesISBN 0688134475 (0-688-13447-5)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Good Book: Reading the Bible with Mind and Heart'Book summary:Biblical studies have historically been consigned to theological schools and church groups. In The Good Book, Peter Gomes, pastor of Harvard University's Memorial Church and a professor of theology, has written a vivid, common sense and wise analysis of what the Bible means for us today. As an African American gay man, Gomes is interested in re-viewing the biblical passages on sexuality and race, but The Good Book is much more than a revisionist look at controversial biblical passages. Gomes is interested in rediscovering how the Bible can find a place in our emotional and political lives, as well as in our religious beliefs. [via]
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Gut Symmetriesby Jeanette WintersonISBN 0679777423 (0-679-77742-3)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gut Symmetries'Book summary:ailed in the Washington Post as "one of our most important writers in English, " Jeanette Winterson has firmly established her reputation as an extraordinarily daring and original novelist. In Gut Symmetries, lives and universes run parallel in a complex contemporary love story set in New York and Liverpool, and aboard the QE2. [via]
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The History of Sexuality: An Introductionby Michel FoucaultISBN 0679724699 (0-679-72469-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Hoochie Mamaby Erika LopezISBN 0684869748 (0-684-86974-8)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hoochie Mama'Book summary:In this knuckle-cracking finale to the "Trilogy of Tomatoes," Erika Lopez refuses to wipe her nose, curtsey, and exit gracefully. "Hoochie Mama: The Other White Meat" is another eclectic novel that belongs somewhere between the coffee table and the bathroom, but this time we're a little older, yellowing like freezer-burned chicken, and dabbing on just a touch of rouge before hobbling down to the street corner to scream at the computer programmers who've skipped into San Francisco and peed all over the toilet seats out of excitement.
You see, fresh from prison, Tomato "Mad Dog" Rodriguez returns to find her once-bohemian Mission neighborhood overrun by Latte People trading stocks on cell phones while careening down sidewalks in their Ford Explorers. Rents have multiplied to the square root of horror, forcing the families, elderly artists, and hippies -- those who didn't already get run over on the sidewalks -- to flee in droves, leaving behind only those willing to serve noisy coffees and change the deadly Firestone tires.
"If we spill your non-fat decaf lattes on our skin, do we not burn?" In spite of its resentful minimum-wage tone, this book is not only for the person who feels herself to be part of the cleaning staff for this rip-roaring American party of overachievers with perfect credit ratings. For some in the middle of their own urban hell, this may be like having your head jammed in a toilet and flushed over and over again. But others, with medical coverage and a morbid curiosity about what it's like to be a renter pillaging the sofa for change as if it were a lucky fountain, will find sharing this glimpse of the underachieving class as fascinating as staring atroadkill, then sniffing it.
But whether you view Mrs. Lopez's latest literary caterwaul as high entertainment of the outrageous sort, or as part political polemic, part act of subversion, you are sure to be entertained. For her part, she sees it as a creepy warning for renters to beware. "Run and hide," she warns. Remember when the Martians landed and when it was almost too late, we found out that their supposedly philanthropic book, "On Serving Man," was really a cookbook?
It's a fun romp through the seal-clubbing world of gentrification, with a girl who's run over a cat, kidnapped her lover, forged her roommate's checks, slept with married Canadians, ordered Columbia records under dead neighbors' names, tried on numerous occasions to murder Chihuahuas...and still is easily the nicest person in the whole story.
So y'all gather 'round the heating duct -- assuming your deregulated electricity hasn't been shut off -- turn out the lights, and hold flashlights under your chins...then read this tale to each other well into the wee hours of the night before your rent is due...[insert scream here]. [via]
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Howards Endby E. M. ForsterISBN 0679600698 (0-679-60069-8)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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In Search of Lost Time Vol. IV : Sodom and Gomorrahby D. J. Enright, C. K. Scott-Moncrieff, Terence Kilmartin, Marcel ProustISBN 0679600299 (0-679-60029-9)
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Knowing When to Stop: A Memoirby Ned RoremISBN 0684804409 (0-684-80440-9)
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Live from Golgotha: The Gospel According to Gore Vidalby Gore VidalISBN 0679416110 (0-679-41611-0)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Love Undetectable: Notes on Friendship, Sex, and Survivalby Andrew SullivanISBN 0679773150 (0-679-77315-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Lovely Me: The Life of Jacqueline Susannby Barbara SeamanISBN 0688050107 (0-688-05010-7)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Low Life : Lures and Snares of Old New Yorkby Luc SanteISBN 0679738762 (0-679-73876-2)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Low Life : Lures and Snares of Old New York'Book summary:There are very few classics in the field of pop culture--the academic stuff tends to be too dry and the fun stuff is too quickly dated. This book by Luc Sante is the exception--in fluid prose liberally sprinkled with astute metaphors, Sante tells the story of New York's Lower East Side, circa 1840-1920. The personal histories of criminals, prostitutes, losers, and swindlers bring to life the social and statistical history that the author has meticulously researched. Not limiting himself to the usual sources, Sante finds his history in old copies of Police Gazette as well as actual police, fire, and social service records. Above all, what really makes this book work is the writing, which brings to life a culture of the streets that continues to form a silent influence on our contemporary popular culture. [via]
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Memoirs of a Bastard Angelby Harold NorseISBN 0688067042 (0-688-06704-2)
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Memoirs of Hadrianby Marguerite YourcenarISBN 0679601600 (0-679-60160-0)
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Misadventures in the (213)by Dennis HensleyISBN 0688154522 (0-688-15452-2)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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Mother and Son: A Memoirby Michael SledgeISBN 0684810646 (0-684-81064-6)
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Municipal Bondage: Comic Investigations and Essaysby Henry AlfordISBN 0679415092 (0-679-41509-2)
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My Antoniaby Willa CatherISBN 0679741879 (0-679-74187-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Antonia'Book summary:It seems almost sacrilege to infringe upon a book as soulful and rich as Willa Cather's My Ántonia by offering comment. First published in 1918, and set in Nebraska in the late 19th century, this tale of the spirited daughter of a Bohemian immigrant family planning to farm on the untamed land ("not a country at all but the material out of which countries are made") comes to us through the romantic eyes of Jim Burden. He is, at the time of their meeting, newly orphaned and arriving at his grandparents' neighboring farm on the same night her family strikes out to make good in their new country. Jim chooses the opening words of his recollections deliberately: "I first heard of Ántonia on what seemed to be an interminable journey across the great midland plain of North America," and it seems almost certain that readers of Cather's masterpiece will just as easily pinpoint the first time they heard of Ántonia and her world. It seems equally certain that they, too, will remember that moment as one of great light in an otherwise unremarkable trip through the world.
Ántonia, who, even as a grown woman somewhat downtrodden by circumstance and hard work, "had not lost the fire of life," lies at the center of almost every human condition that Cather's novel effortlessly untangles. She represents immigrant struggles with a foreign land and tongue, the restraints on women of the time (with which Cather was very much concerned), the more general desires for love, family, and companionship, and the great capacity for forbearance that marked the earliest settlers on the frontier.
As if all this humanity weren't enough, Cather paints her descriptions of the vastness of nature--the high, red grass, the road that "ran about like a wild thing," the endless wind on the plains--with strokes so vivid as to make us feel in our bones that we've just come in from a walk on that very terrain ourselves. As the story progresses, Jim goes off to the University in Lincoln to study Latin (later moving on to Harvard and eventually staying put on the East Coast in another neat encompassing of a stage in America's development) and learns Virgil's phrase "Optima dies ... prima fugit" that Cather uses as the novel's epigraph. "The best days are the first to flee"--this could be said equally of childhood and the earliest hours of this country in which the open land, much like My Ántonia, was nothing short of a rhapsody in prairie sky blue. --Melanie Rehak [via]
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Nightwoodby Djuna Barnes, Dorothy AllisonISBN 067964024X (0-679-64024-X)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nightwood'Book summary:Nightwood is not only a classic of lesbian literature, but was also acknowledged by no less than T. S. Eliot as one of the great novels of the 20th century. Eliot admired Djuna Barnes' rich, evocative language. Lesbian readers will admire the exquisite craftsmanship and Barnes' penetrating insights into obsessive passion. Barnes told a friend that Nightwood was written with her own blood "while it was still running." That flowing wound was the breakup of an eight-year relationship with the lesbian love of her life. [via]
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Of Sacred Worthby Paul A. MickeyISBN 0687284058 (0-687-28405-8)
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Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciencesby Michel FoucaultISBN 0679753354 (0-679-75335-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Other Entertainment: Collected Piecesby Ned RoremISBN 0684822490 (0-684-82249-0)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Outing Yourself: How to Come Out to Your Family, Your Friends, and Your Coworkersby Michelangelo SignorileISBN 0679438386 (0-679-43838-6)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Petrolioby Pier Paolo Pasolini, Ann GoldsteinISBN 0679429905 (0-679-42990-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Petrolio'Book summary:Although Pier Paolo Pasolini is internationally renowned as a filmmaker, his poetry and novels are canonical works of modern Italian writing. Petrolio, a novel unfinished at the time of his murder in 1977, is Pasolini's last major work. All of Pasolini's major themes are here--the homoeroticism of working-class males, the reemergence of ancient myth in the modern city, and the exploitation of the underclass by capitalism. Pasolini blends these disparate themes together in a dense, but satisfying tale of social corruption, political intrigue, and personal sexual salvation. Deeply intellectual and at times mystifying--often because it was partially reconstructed from notes--Pasolini's final work is a tribute to both his power and endurance as an artist. [via]
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Port Tropiqueby Barry GiffordISBN 0679734929 (0-679-73492-9)
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A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Manby James JoyceISBN 0679739890 (0-679-73989-0)
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The Promise of Restby Reynolds PriceISBN 0684825104 (0-684-82510-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Promise of Rest'Book summary:In this stunning and fully independent conclusion to A Great Circle, Reynolds Price tells the complex, moving story of a man's return home to die of AIDS and of the unexpected effect that his arrival -- and his death -- has on his family.
Wade Mayfield's parents are separated, but for the remaining months of his life they and their friends come together to care for Wade with the love they can muster. They are unprepared, however, for the astonishing mystery Wade has prepared to reveal once he is gone -- a mystery that initiates the possible reunion of his parents and promises to continue the proud traditions of a complex, multiracial family. [via]
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The Republicby PlatoISBN 0679733876 (0-679-73387-6)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Republic'Book summary:(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)Toward the end of the astonishing period of Athenian creativity that furnished Western civilization with the greater part of its intellectual, artistic, and political wealth, Plato wrote The Republic, his discussion of the nature and meaning of justice and of the ideal state and its ruler. All subsequent European thinking about these subjects owes its character, directly or indirectly, to this most famous (and most accessible) of the Platonic dialogues. Although he describes a society that looks to some like the ideal human community and to others like a totalitarian nightmare, in the course of his description Plato raises enduringly relevant questions about politics, art, education, and the general conduct of life.Translated by A. D. Lindsay [via]
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The Rules of Attractionby Bret Easton EllisISBN 067978148X (0-679-78148-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rules of Attraction'Book summary:Set at a small, affluent liberal-arts college in New England at the height of the Reagan 80s, The Rules of Attraction is a startlingly funny, kaleidoscopic novel about three students with no plans for the future--or even the present--who become entangled in a curious romantic triangle. Bret Easton Ellis trains his incisive gaze on the kids at self-consciously bohemian Camden College and treats their sexual posturings and agonies with a mixture of acrid hilarity and compassion while exposing the moral vacuum at the center of their lives.
Lauren changes boyfriends every time she changes majors and still pines for Victor who split for Europe months ago and she might or might not be writing anonymous love letter to ambivalent, hard-drinking Sean, a hopeless romantic who only has eyes for Lauren, even if he ends up in bed with half the campus, and Paul, Lauren's ex, forthrightly bisexual and whose passion masks a shrewd pragmatism. They waste time getting wasted, race from Thirsty Thursday Happy Hours to Dressed To Get Screwed parties to drinks at The Edge of the World or The Graveyard. The Rules of Attraction is a poignant, hilarious take on the death of romance. [via]More editions of The Rules of Attraction:
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The Safety of Objectsby A. M. HomesISBN 0679736298 (0-679-73629-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Safety of Objects'Book summary:The Safety of Objects kidnaps readers into a world of emotional science fiction where reality and the surreal mix in a disturbing vision of the way we live now. As skillful as it is scary, this is a breakthrough collection that gives new meaning to the words angst, anxiety, and anorexia. [via]
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Same Sex Marriage : Pro and Conby Andrew SullivanISBN 0679776370 (0-679-77637-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Same Sex Marriage : Pro and Con'Book summary:At the end of Virtually Normal, Andrew Sullivan called for the legalization of gay and lesbian marriages as a recognition of an individual's right to enter into a committed relationship with the person he or she loves. Same-Sex Marriage: Pro and Con is, as the title suggests, a collection of arguments for and against such unions. Sullivan provides little commentary, allowing the various authors gathered here to speak for themselves. No matter which side one supports on this issue, this anthology will enable both an intellectual support of one's own beliefs and a better, fuller understanding of the contrary position. [via]
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Sanctuaryby Paul Monette, Vivienne FlesherISBN 0684832860 (0-684-83286-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sanctuary'Book summary:In Paul Monette's deceptively simple fable, Sanctuary, Renarda the fox and Lapine the rabbit fall in love in an enchanted forested watched over by a benevolent witch. That Renarda and Lapine are both female and of different species proves no impediment to their love, until the witch mysteriously disappears and her familiar, the Great Horned Owl, takes over. Suddenly, the animals are advised to "keep an ear cocked for any behavior that doesn't feel quite right," and all at once Renarda and Lapine are banished to separate parts of the forest.
Activist and writer Paul Monette authored six novels and four collections of poetry, including National Book Award-winner Becoming a Man, before succumbing to AIDS in 1995. Renarda and Lapine's eventual triumph over the forces of fear and ignorance is an apt memorial for a man who led the fight against both for so many years. [via]
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The Science of Desire: The Search for the Gay Gene and the Biology of Behaviorby Peter Copeland, Dean H. HamerISBN 0684804468 (0-684-80446-8)
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Season in Hell, And, the Illuminationsby Wyatt Alexander Mason, Jean Nicolas Arthur RimbaudISBN 0679643273 (0-679-64327-3)
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Sexing the Cherryby Jeanette WintersonISBN 0679733167 (0-679-73316-7)
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Siddharthaby Hermann Hesse, Susan Bernofsky, Tom RobbinsISBN 0679643362 (0-679-64336-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Siddhartha'Book summary:Hermann Hesses classic novel Siddhartha has delighted, inspired, and influenced generations of readers, writers, and thinkers. Though set in a place and time far removed from the Germany of 1922, the year of the books debut, the novel is infused with the sensibilities of Hesses time, synthesizing disparate philosophiesEastern religions, Jungian archetypes, Western individualisminto a unique vision of life as expressed through one mans search for meaning.
It is the story of the quest of Siddhartha, a wealthy Indian Brahmin who casts off a life of privilege and comfort to seek spiritual fulfillment and wisdom. On his journey, Siddhartha encounters wandering ascetics, Buddhist monks, and successful merchants, as well as a courtesan named Kamala and a simple ferryman who has attained enlightenment. Traveling among these people and experiencing lifes vital passageslove, work, friendship, and fatherhoodSiddhartha discovers that true knowledge is guided from within.
Susan Bernofskys magnificent new translation brings out Hesses inspired lyricism and his elegant, melodious cadences, illuminating the novels universal themes and timeless wisdom about the human condition.
This original Modern Library edition includes a lively new Introduction by Tom Robbins and a glossary of Indian terms. [via]More editions of Siddhartha:
Six Degrees of Separationby John GuareISBN 0679734813 (0-679-73481-3)
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Skinned Alive: Storiesby Edmund WhiteISBN 067975475X (0-679-75475-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Skinned Alive : Stories'Book summary:The eight stories in this erotic and heartbreaking collection are barometers of difference. They measure the distance between an American expatriate and the Frenchman who tutors him in table manners and rough sex; the gulf between a man dying of AIDS and his uncomprehending relatives.
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Sophie's Choiceby William StyronISBN 0679736379 (0-679-73637-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sophie's Choice'Book summary:"[One morning] in the early spring, I woke up with the remembrance of a girl I'd once known, Sophie. It was a very vivid half-dream, half-revelation, and all of a sudden I realized that hers was a story I had to tell." That very day, William Styron began writing the first chapter of Sophie's Choice.
First published in 1979, this complex and ambitious novel opens with Stingo, a young southerner, journeying north in 1947 to become a writer. It leads us into his intellectual and emotional entanglement with his neighbors in a Brooklyn rooming house: Nathan, a tortured, brilliant Jew, and his lover, Sophie, a beautiful Polish woman whose wrist bears the grim tattoo of a concentration camp...and whose past is strewn with death that she alone survived.
"Sophie's Choice is a passionate, courageous book...a philosophical novel on the most important subject of the twentieth century," said novelist and critic John Gardner in The New York Times Book Review. "One of the reasons Styron succeeds so well in Sophie's Choice is that, like Shakespeare (I think the comparison is not too grand), Styron knows how to cut away from the darkness of his material, so that when he turns to it again it strikes with increasing force....Sophie's Choice is a thriller of the highest order, all the more thrilling for the fact that the dark, gloomy secrets we are unearthing one by one--sorting through lies and terrible misunderstandings like a hand groping for a golden nugget in a rattlesnake's nest--may be authentic secrets of history and our own human nature."
The Modern Library has played a significant role in American cultural life for the better part of a century. The series was founded in 1917 by the publishers Boni and Liveright and eight years later acquired by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer. It provided the foun-dation for their next publishing venture, Random House. The Modern Library has been a staple of the American book trade, providing readers with affordable hard-bound editions of important works of liter-ature and thought. For the Modern Library's seventy-fifth anniversary, Random House redesigned the series, restoring as its
emblem the running torchbearer created by Lucian Bernhard in 1925 and refurbishing jackets, bindings, and type, as well as inau-
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A Special Agent: Gay and Inside the FBIby Frank Buttino, Lou ButtinoISBN 0688119581 (0-688-11958-1)
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Spring Snowby Yukio MishimaISBN 0679722416 (0-679-72241-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Spring Snow'Book summary:The first novel of Mishima's landmark tetralogy, The Sea of fertility
Spring Snow is set in Tokyo in 1912, when the hermetic world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by outsiders -- rich provincial families unburdened by tradition, whose money and vitality make them formidable contenders for social and political power.
Among this rising new elite are the ambitious Matsugae, whose son has been raised in a family of the waning aristocracy, the elegant and attenuated Ayakura. Coming of age, he is caught up in the tensions between old and new -- fiercely loving and hating the exquisite, spirited Ayakura Satoko. He suffers in psychic paralysis until the shock of her engagement to a royal prince shows him the magnitude of his passion, and leads to a love affair that is as doomed as it was inevitable. [via]More editions of Spring Snow:
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The Talented Mr. Ripleyby Patricia HighsmithISBN 0679742298 (0-679-74229-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Talented Mr. Ripley'Book summary:One of the great crime novels of the 20th century, Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley is a blend of the narrative subtlety of Henry James and the self-reflexive irony of Vladimir Nabokov. Like the best modernist fiction, Ripley works on two levels. First, it is the story of a young man, Tom Ripley, whose nihilistic tendencies lead him on a deadly passage across Europe. On another level, the novel is a commentary on fictionmaking and techniques of narrative persuasion. Like Humbert Humbert, Tom Ripley seduces readers into empathizing with him even as his actions defy all moral standards.
The novel begins with a play on James's The Ambassadors. Tom Ripley is chosen by the wealthy Herbert Greenleaf to retrieve Greenleaf's son, Dickie, from his overlong sojourn in Italy. Dickie, it seems, is held captive both by the Mediterranean climate and the attractions of his female companion, but Mr. Greenleaf needs him back in New York to help with the family business. With an allowance and a new purpose, Tom leaves behind his dismal city apartment to begin his career as a return escort. But Tom, too, is captivated by Italy. He is also taken with the life and looks of Dickie Greenleaf. He insinuates himself into Dickie's world and soon finds that his passion for a lifestyle of wealth and sophistication transcends moral compunction. Tom will become Dickie Greenleaf--at all costs.
Unlike many modernist experiments, The Talented Mr. Ripley is eminently readable and is driven by a gripping chase narrative that chronicles each of Tom's calculated maneuvers of self-preservation. Highsmith was in peak form with this novel, and her ability to enter the mind of a sociopath and view the world through his disturbingly amoral eyes is a model that has spawned such latter-day serial killers as Hannibal Lecter. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
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Tell Me the Truth about Love : Ten Poemsby W. H. AudenISBN 0679757821 (0-679-75782-1)
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They Call Me Mad Dog!by Erika LopezISBN 0684849410 (0-684-84941-0)
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They Call Me Mad Dog : A Novel for Bitter, Lonely Peopleby Erika LopezISBN 0684849429 (0-684-84942-9)
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Under the Rainbow: Growing Up Gayby Arnie KantrowitzISBN 0688031919 (0-688-03191-9)
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United States: Essays, 1952-1992by Gore VidalISBN 0679755721 (0-679-75572-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The United States: Essays, 1952-1992'Book summary:From the age of Eisenhower to the dawning of the Clinton era, Gore Vidals United States offers an incomparably rich tapestry of American intellectual and political life in a tumultuous period. It also provides the best, most sustained exposure possible to the most wide-ranging, acute, and original literary intelligence of the postWorld War II years. United States is an essential book in the canon of twentieth-century American literature and an endlessly fascinating work.
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The Vampire Armandby Anne RiceISBN 0679454470 (0-679-45447-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Vampire Armand'Book summary:In The Vampire Armand, Anne Rice returns to her indomitable Vampire Chronicles and recaptures the gothic horror and delight she first explored in her classic tale Interview with the Vampire (in which Armand, played by Antonio Banderas in the film version, made his first appearance as director of the Théâtre des Vampires).
The story begins in the aftermath of Memnoch the Devil. Vampires from all over the globe have gathered around Lestat, who lies prostrate on the floor of a cathedral. Dead? In a coma? As Armand reflects on Lestat's condition, he is drawn by David Talbot to tell the story of his own life. The narrative abruptly rushes back to 15th-century Constantinople, and the Armand of the present recounts the fragmented memories of his childhood abduction from Kiev. Eventually, he is sold to a Venetian artist (and vampire), Marius. Rice revels in descriptions of the sensual relationship between the young and still-mortal Armand and his vampiric mentor. But when Armand is finally transformed, the tone of the book dramatically shifts. Raw and sexually explicit scenes are displaced by Armand's introspective quest for a union of his Russian Orthodox childhood, his hedonistic life with Marius, and his newly acquired immortality. These final chapters remind one of the archetypal significance of Rice's vampires; at their best, Armand, Lestat, and Marius offer keen insights into the most human of concerns.
The Vampire Armand is richly intertextual; readers will relish the retelling of critical events from Lestat and Louis's narratives. Nevertheless, the novel is very much Armand's own tragic tale. Rice deftly integrates the necessary back-story for new readers to enter her epic series, and the introduction of a few new voices adds a fresh perspective--and the promise of provocative future installments. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
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Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biographyby David S. ReynoldsISBN 0679767096 (0-679-76709-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography'Book summary:The greatest American poet is portrayed in this monumental biography as an essential American, not an isolated mystic but a man formed in large measure by his rapidly changing society. Drawing on his diligent research, and on his experience writing the monumental work Beneath the American Renaissance, noted scholar David S. Reynolds conclusively demonstrates the profound impact the popular culture of his day had on Whitman's awakening as an artist. The fascinating and compelling story of Whitman's life vigorously illuminates how a schoolteacher turned journalist became the robust and exuberant man who changed literature and single-handedly created modern poetry. This copious (nearly 700 page) volume tells the story of 19th-century America as well as the story of the Whitman himself. [via]
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The Waters of Thirstby Adam Mars-JonesISBN 0679759603 (0-679-75960-3)
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Whitman: Poemsby Walt WhitmanISBN 0679436324 (0-679-43632-4)
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Why Gay Guys Are a Girl's Best Friendby Jeff Fessler, Karen RauchISBN 0684800535 (0-684-80053-5)
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Writing Homeby Alan BennettISBN 0679444890 (0-679-44489-0)
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