| Search | About | Preferences | Interact | Help | |
| 150 million books. 1 search engine. | ||
books tagged “Literary fiction” (Literary Fiction / literary fiction)
books tagged “Literary fiction”
›› Find signed collectible books by ''
-
31 Songsby Nick HornbyISBN 0670914266 (0-670-91426-6)
Hardcover, Viking
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: '31 Songs'More editions of 31 Songs:
-
The Adventures of Tom Sawyerby Mark Twain, Claude LaPointeISBN 0670869856 (0-670-86985-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'Book summary:A classic American story is told once more as Tom Sawyer, a clever young boy from a small town in antebellum Missouri, and his friend, Huckleberry Finn, set out on many amusing adventures. [via]
The Adventures of Tom Sawyerby Ted Lewin, Mark TwainISBN 0671437917 (0-671-43791-7)
Hardcover, Smithmark Pub
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'More editions of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer:
Almost Perfectby Alice AdamsISBN 0671020692 (0-671-02069-2)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Almost Perfect'More editions of Almost Perfect:
Amongst Womenby John McGahernISBN 0670811823 (0-670-81182-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Amongst Women'More editions of Amongst Women:
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitzby Mordecai RichlerISBN 0671028472 (0-671-02847-2)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz'More editions of The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz:
The Architect: A Taleby John A. ScottISBN 0670910449 (0-670-91044-9)
Hardcover, Viking
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Architect: A Tale'More editions of The Architect: A Tale:
Badenheim 1939by Aharon AppelfeldISBN 0671435922 (0-671-43592-2)
Softcover, Pocket Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Badenheim 1939'More editions of Badenheim 1939:
Barney's Versionby Mordecai RichlerISBN 0671028464 (0-671-02846-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Barney's Version'More editions of Barney's Version:
-
The Beautiful and Damnedby F. Scott FitzgeraldISBN 0671001256 (0-671-00125-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Beautiful and Damned'Book summary:Awaiting the inheritance of his grandfather's fortune, Harvard-educated athlete Anthony Patch and his wife Gloria witness the impact of alcohol and avarice on their reckless marriage. Reprint. [via]
More editions of The Beautiful and Damned:
Bed and Breakfastby Lois BattleISBN 0670860743 (0-670-86074-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Bed and Breakfast'More editions of Bed and Breakfast:
Bodily Harmby Margaret AtwoodISBN 0671441531 (0-671-44153-1)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Bodily Harm'More editions of Bodily Harm:
The Book Of Imaginary Beingsby Andrew Hurley, Jorge Luis Borges, Margarita Guerrero, Peter SisISBN 0670891800 (0-670-89180-0)
Hardcover, Viking Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book Of Imaginary Beings'More editions of The Book Of Imaginary Beings:
Burning Brightby Helen DunmoreISBN 0670846961 (0-670-84696-1)
Hardcover, Viking
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Burning Bright'More editions of Burning Bright:
-
The Call of the Wildby Jack London, Philippe MunchISBN 0670867969 (0-670-86796-9)
Softcover, Viking Childrens Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Call of the Wild'Book summary:The courageous dog Buck's struggle to survive in the harsh Alaskan wilderness is complemented by lavish period illustrations that depict the great gold rush in the Klondike. [via]
-
The Chimney Sweeper's Boyby Barbara VineISBN 0671034294 (0-671-03429-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Chimney Sweeper's Boy'Book summary:Writing as Ruth Rendell, Barbara Vine has earned the Grand Master Award for lifetime achievement. In The Chimney Sweeper's Boy, Vine proves herself the equal of her alter ego and a master of the psychological thriller--as well as the police procedural--in this riveting novel. Why bestselling novelist Gerald Candless assumed a new identity years before his marriage and the birth of his two daughters isn't revealed until the penultimate chapter of the book, but the effect of his deception on his family drives Vine's deft character studies. In Gerald's wife, Ursula, and his daughters, Hope and Sarah, Vine has created three complex women in the thrall of an equally complicated and compelling man. As Sarah unravels the mystery of her father's deception, Gerald gradually becomes a more sympathetic figure. But Ursula, whose strange marital bargain with Gerald and whose distant relationship with her daughters tug at the heart, stays with the reader long after this distinguished, literary mystery is finished. --Jane Adams [via]
-
A Christmas Carolby Charles Dickens, William GeldartISBN 0670888796 (0-670-88879-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'A Christmas Carol'Book summary:In the history of English literature, Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, which has been continuously in print since it was first published in the winter of 1843, stands out as the quintessential Christmas story. What makes this charming edition of Dickens's immortal tale so special is the collection of 80 vivid illustrations by Everett Shinn (1876-1953). Shinn, a well-known artist in his time, was a popular illustrator of newspapers and magazines whose work displayed a remarkable affinity for the stories of Charles Dickens, evoking the bustling street life of the mid-1800s. Printed on heavy, cream-colored paper stock, the edges of the pages have been left rough, simulating the way in which the story might have appeared in Dickens's own time. Though countless editions of this classic have been published over the years, this one stands out as particularly beautiful, nostalgic, and evocative of the spirit of Christmas. [via]
More editions of A Christmas Carol:
- A Christmas Carol: ISBN 0671473697 (0-671-47369-7)
Softcover, Pocket Books - A Christmas Carol: ISBN 0671520784 (0-671-52078-4)
Softcover, Pocket Books - A Christmas Carol: ISBN 0671455990 (0-671-45599-0)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - A Christmas Carol: ISBN 0671476467 (0-671-47646-7)
Hardcover, Silver Burdett Pr - A Christmas Carol: ISBN 0670888796 (0-670-88879-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
- A Christmas Carol: ISBN 0671473697 (0-671-47369-7)
The Color of Summer : Or the New Garden of Earthly Delightby Reinaldo Arenas, Andrew HurleyISBN 0670840653 (0-670-84065-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Color of Summer : Or the New Garden of Earthly Delight'More editions of The Color of Summer : Or the New Garden of Earthly Delight:
-
Comanche Moonby Larry McMurtryISBN 0671020641 (0-671-02064-1)
Softcover, Pocket Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Comanche Moon'Book summary:In a book that serves as a both a sequel to Dead Man's Walk and a prequel to the beloved Lonesome Dove, McMurtry fills in the missing chapters in the Call and McCrae saga. It is a fantastic read, in many ways the best and gutsiest of the series. We join the Texas Rangers in their waning Indian-fighting years. The Comanches, after one last desperate raid led by the fearsome-but-aging Buffalo Hump, are almost defeated, though Buffalo Hump's son, Blue Duck, still terrorizes the relentless flow of settlers and lawmen. As Augustus and Woodrow follow one-eyed, tobacco-spitting Captain Inish Scull deep into a murderous madman's den in Mexico, their thoughts turn toward the end of their careers and the women they love in remarkably different ways back in Austin. What's amazing about McMurtry's West is that he sees beyond the romance. Neither his Indians, his cowboys, his gunslingers, nor his women act the way they did in either Zane Grey novels or John Wayne movies. Incredible beauty and lightning-quick violence are the bookends of his West, but it is the in-between moments of suffering and boredom where McMurtry shines. The suffering is poignant and heart-rending; the boredom tempered with doses of Augustus McCrae's sharp humor. Don't be surprised if you find yourself crying and laughing on the same page. [via]
More editions of Comanche Moon:
-
The Comfort of Strangersby Ian McEwanISBN 0671449567 (0-671-44956-7)
Softcover, Pocket Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Comfort of Strangers'Book summary:As their holiday unfolds, Colin and Maria are locked into their own intimacy. They groom themselves meticulously, as though someone is waiting for them who cares deeply about how they appear. When they meet a man with a disturbing story to tell, they become drawn into a fantasy of violence and obsession.
From the Trade Paperback edition. [via]More editions of The Comfort of Strangers:
-
The Complete Just So Storiesby Rudyard Kipling, Neil Philip, Isabelle BrentISBN 0670851965 (0-670-85196-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Just So Stories'Book summary:Presents twelve familiar stories--including the tale of the elephant child with the 'satiable curiosity who journeyed to the Limpopo river--along with two lesser-known pieces. [via]
More editions of The Complete Just So Stories:
Dancing Girls and Other Storiesby Margaret AtwoodISBN 0671242490 (0-671-24249-0)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Dancing Girls and Other Stories'More editions of Dancing Girls and Other Stories:
David Copperfieldby Charles DickensISBN 0671451065 (0-671-45106-5)
Softcover, Pocket Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'David Copperfield'More editions of David Copperfield:
Dunsterby John MortimerISBN 0670840599 (0-670-84059-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Dunster'More editions of Dunster:
Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better Worldby Donald AntrimISBN 0670851396 (0-670-85139-6)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World'More editions of Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World:
-
Elected Memberby Bernice RubensISBN 0671506307 (0-671-50630-7)
Softcover, Pocket Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Elected Member'Book summary:[via]In this 1970 Booker Prize-winning novel, Norman is the clever one of a closely-knit Jewish family in London's East End. Infant prodigy, brilliant barrister, the apple of his parents' eyesuntil at 41 he becomes a drug addict, confined to his bedroom, at the mercy of his hallucinations and paranoia.More editions of Elected Member:
-
The Enigma of Arrivalby V.S. NaipaulISBN 0670815764 (0-670-81576-4)
Hardcover, Viking
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Enigma of Arrival'Book summary:Taking its title from the strangely frozen picture by the surrealist painter Giorgio de Chirico, The Enigma of Arrival tells the story of a young Indian from the Caribbean arriving in post-imperial England and consciously, over many years, finding himself as a writer. It is the story of a journey, from one place to another, from the British colony of Trinidad to the ancient countryside of England, and from one state of mind to another, and is perhaps Naipaul's most autobiographical work. Yet alongside this he weaves a rich and complex web of invention and observation. Finding depth and pathos in the smallest moments -- the death of a cottager, the firing of an estate's gardener -- Naipaul also comprehends the bigger picture -- watching as the old world is lost to the gradual but permanent changes wrought on the English landscape by the march of 'progress'. This is a moving and beautiful novel told with great dignity, compassion and candour. 'Written with the expected beauty of style ...Instead of diminishing life, Naipaul ennobles it' Anthony Burgess, Observer 'The conclusion is both heart-breaking and bracing: the only antidote to destruction -- of dreams, of reality -- is remembering. As eloquently as anyone now writing, Naipaul remembers.' Time [via]
More editions of The Enigma of Arrival:
Falling Slowlyby Anita BrooknerISBN 0670881910 (0-670-88191-0)
Hardcover, Viking
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Falling Slowly'More editions of Falling Slowly:
First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Womenby Eric P. McCormackISBN 0670876240 (0-670-87624-0)
Hardcover, Viking
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Women'More editions of First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Women:
First Lightby Charles BaxterISBN 0670817015 (0-670-81701-5)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'First Light'More editions of First Light:
Foeby J. M. CoetzeeISBN 0670813982 (0-670-81398-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Foe'More editions of Foe:
-
Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Gardenby Frances Hodgson Burnett, Janet Allison Brown, Graham RustISBN 0670899119 (0-670-89911-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden'Book summary:A simplified retelling of ten-year-old Mary coming to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors and discovering an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden. [via]
More editions of Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden:
Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Gardenby Shirley Hughes, Frances Hodgson BurnettISBN 0670825719 (0-670-82571-9)
Hardcover, Kestrel Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden'More editions of Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden:
-
Good As Goldby Joseph HellerISBN 0671229230 (0-671-22923-0)
Hardcover, Simon and Schuster
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Good As Gold'Book summary:For the millions of readers who have been waiting for a book to make them laugh as did Catch-22, Joseph Heller has produced a new masterpiece. Good as Gold combines the probing insight into anachronistic America of his last novel, Something Happened, with the biting, side-splitting brilliance of Catch-22. [via]
More editions of Good As Gold:
-
Goodbye Jumboby Louie Anderson, Robert De MichiellISBN 0670837660 (0-670-83766-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Goodbye Jumbo'Book summary:The latest self-help guide from the comedian and author of Dear Dad chronicles his struggle to lose weight and gain self-esteem in the face of a lifetime of negative conditioning. 100,000 first printing. $100,000 ad/promo. Tour. [via]
More editions of Goodbye Jumbo:
-
The Gun Sellerby Hugh LaurieISBN 067102082X (0-671-02082-X)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gun Seller'Book summary:Hugh Laurie concocts an uproarious cocktail of comic zingers and over-the-top action in this "ripping spoof of the spy genre" (Vanity Fair) -- the irresistible tale of a former Scots Guard-turned-hired gun, a freelance soldier of fortune who also happens to be one heck of a nice guy.
Cold-blooded murder just isn't Thomas Lang's cup of tea. Offered a bundle to assassinate an American industrialist, he opts to warn the intended victim instead -- a good deed that soon takes a bad turn. Quicker than he can down a shot of his favorite whiskey, Lang is bashing heads with a Buddha statue, matching wits with evil billionaires, and putting his life (among other things) in the hands of a bevy of femmes fatales. Up against rogue CIA agents, wannabe terrorists, and an arms dealer looking to make a high-tech killing, Lang's out to save the leggy lady he has come to love...and prevent an international bloodbath to boot. [via]
More editions of The Gun Seller:
-
Haroun and the Sea of Storiesby Salman RushdieISBN 0670838047 (0-670-83804-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Haroun and the Sea of Stories'Book summary:Immediately forget any preconceptions you may have about Salman Rushdie and the controversy that has swirled around his million-dollar head. You should instead know that he is one of the best contemporary writers of fables and parables, from any culture. Haroun and the Sea of Stories is a delightful tale about a storyteller who loses his skill and a struggle against mysterious forces attempting to block the seas of inspiration from which all stories are derived. Here's a representative passage about the sources and power of inspiration:
So Iff the water genie told Haroun about the Ocean of the Stream of Stories, and even though he was full of a sense of hopelessness and failure the magic of the Ocean began to have an effect on Haroun. He looked into the water and saw that it was made up of a thousand thousand thousand and one different currents, each one a different colour, weaving in and out of one another like a liquid tapestry of breathtaking complexity; and Iff explained that these were the Streams of Story, that each coloured strand represented and contained a single tale. Different parts of the Ocean contained different sorts of stories, and as all the stories that had ever been told and many that were still in the process of being invented could be found here, the Ocean of the Streams of Story was in fact the biggest library in the universe. And because the stories were held here in fluid form, they retained the ability to change, to become new versions of themselves, to join up with other stories and so become yet other stories; so that unlike a library of books, the Ocean of the Streams of Story was much more than a storeroom of yarns. It was not dead, but alive.
[via]"And if you are very, very careful, or very, very highly skilled, you can dip a cup into the Ocean," Iff told Haroun, "like so," and here he produced a little golden cup from another of his waistcoat pockets, "and you can fill it with water from a single, pure Stream of Story, like so," as he did precisely that.
More editions of Haroun and the Sea of Stories:
Harvesting the Heartby Jodi PicoultISBN 0670850993 (0-670-85099-3)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Harvesting the Heart'More editions of Harvesting the Heart:
The Heather Blazingby Colm ToibinISBN 0670847895 (0-670-84789-5)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Heather Blazing'More editions of The Heather Blazing:
Heroes and Villainsby Angela CarterISBN 0671206524 (0-671-20652-4)
Hardcover, Simon and Schuster
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Heroes and Villains'More editions of Heroes and Villains:
-
The Ice-Shirtby William T. VollmanISBN 0670832391 (0-670-83239-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ice-Shirt'Book summary:The time is the tenth century A.D. The newcomers are a proud and bloody-minded people whose kings once changed themselves into wolves. The Norse have advanced as implacably as a glacier from Iceland to the wastes of Greenland ?and from there to the place they call ?Vinland the Good.? The natives are a bronze-skinned race who have not yet discovered iron and still see themselves as part of nature.[via]As William T. Vollmann tells the converging stories of these two peoples?and of the Norsewomen Freydis and Gudrid, whose venomous rivalry brings frost into paradise?he creates a tour-de-force of ?speculative history,? a vivid amalgam of Icelandic saga, Inuit creation myth, and contemporary travel writing that yields a new an utterly original vision of our continent and its past.
More editions of The Ice-Shirt:
Icy Sparks: Library Editionby Gwyn Hyman RubioISBN 067087311X (0-670-87311-X)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Icy Sparks: Library Edition'More editions of Icy Sparks: Library Edition:
-
In Between the Sheets, and Other Storiesby Ian McEwanISBN 0671242903 (0-671-24290-3)
Hardcover, Simon and Schuster
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'In Between the Sheets, and Other Stories'Book summary:The second collection of short stories.
Call them transcripts of dreams or deadly accurate maps of the tremor zones of the psyche, the seven stories in this collection engage and implicate us in the most fearful ways imaginable. A two-timing pornographer becomes an unwilling object in the fantasies of one of his victims. A jaded millionaire buys himself the perfect mistress and plunges into a hell of jealousy and despair. [via]More editions of In Between the Sheets, and Other Stories:
-
In the Heart of the Valley of Loveby Cynthia KadohataISBN 0670834157 (0-670-83415-7)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'In the Heart of the Valley of Love'Book summary:Image and cover are same [via]
More editions of In the Heart of the Valley of Love:
Indigoby Graham JoyceISBN 0671039385 (0-671-03938-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Indigo'
Justineby Lawrence DurrellISBN 0671451049 (0-671-45104-9)
Softcover, Pocket Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Justine'More editions of Justine:
Kleinzeitby Russell HobanISBN 0671495488 (0-671-49548-8)
Softcover, Summit Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Kleinzeit, a Novel'-
Larry's Partyby Carol ShieldsISBN 0670873926 (0-670-87392-6)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Larry's Party'Book summary:Larry Weller is a regular guy, or so Carol Shields has him think. When we first meet him in 1977 Winnipeg at age 26, he's pondering the pluses of Harris tweed, still living at home, and realizing he's in love with his girlfriend, Dorrie, a flinty car saleswoman. Larry is proud of his job at Flowerfolks, even though he fell into floral design by accident, and if his relationship with his parents isn't perfect, it's not too bad, either. (Stu and Flo Weller may have less page-time in Larry's Party, but they are hugely memorable. He is a master upholsterer, happiest when working; she is a woman ruined by nervous guilt, having inadvertently killed off her mother-in-law with some improperly preserved green beans.)
Carol Shields has said that she had "always been struck by the fact that in most novels people aren't working." Though her hero climbs the floral managerial trellis for 17 years and finds more rhapsody in work than marriage, Larry and Dorrie's honeymoon in England points him toward what will be his true vocation--mazes. These living constructs turn him into a thinker, a man of imagination, and the author's descriptions are quietly spectacular as well as effortlessly sweet. Larry wonders at their "teasing elegance and circularity ... a snail, a scribble, a doodle on the earth's skin with no other directed purpose but to wind its sinuous way around itself." Just as Larry changes with the times--each elliptical chapter ages him by one or two years--so does his art. In 1990, he designs a maze in which you can't really lose yourself. In 1997, the McCord Maze "is intended to mirror the descent into unconscious sleep, followed by a slow awakening." Larry, too, has a slow awakening, taking several false turns before reaching midlife. As the novel closes, with a bravura dinner party scene, he may finally be at ease in the world. But his creator knows that he is only halfway there, and still has to negotiate his way from the center of the maze to its exit. [via]
More editions of Larry's Party:
Leaving Homeby Garrison KeillorISBN 0670820121 (0-670-82012-1)
Hardcover, Viking
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Leaving Home'More editions of Leaving Home:
-
Leaving Home/a Collection of Lake Wobegon Storiesby Garrison KeillorISBN 067081976X (0-670-81976-X)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Leaving Home/a Collection of Lake Wobegon Stories'Book summary:A collection of wryly humorous stories presented as a tribute to the life and people of Lake Wobegon, Keillor's fictional American small town where "all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average". [via]
More editions of Leaving Home/a Collection of Lake Wobegon Stories:
-
Libraby Don DelilloISBN 0670823171 (0-670-82317-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Libra'Book summary:In his ninth novel, DeLillo (White Noise) gives the American psyche what it has been awaiting for 25 years--an eerily convincing fictional speculation on the events leading up to the assassination of John F. Kennedy. [via]
More editions of Libra:
Mary Reillyby Valerie MartinISBN 0671507028 (0-671-50702-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Mary Reilly'-
The Mercy Seatby Rilla AskewISBN 0670874671 (0-670-87467-1)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mercy Seat'Book summary:The Mercy Seat is a powerful novel, rich with biblical allusions and authoritative, haunting depictions of the landscape and life of the American West in the second half of the 19th century. The story begins as a young girl, Mattie, is called from sleep to help her father prepare for her family's flight from their Kentucky home, its pie safe and its oak bed frames. Reasons for their sudden departure are only slowly revealed and never completely explained.
The center of the evolving story is the conflict between Mattie's father and his brother. John Lodi is skilled in the art of blacksmithing and gun making; Fayette Lodi is anxious to use that skill to turn a profit for himself. Although the brothers travel west together and eventually settle in the same corner of Oklahoma in the valley of the San Bois Mountains, they have no shared ideas on how to create new lives for themselves or their families. Violence eventually erupts, but it goes beyond the two brothers to infect their wives, their children, and the very land they inhabit.
It is a story that mirrors that of Cain and Abel, yet its biblical echo is only one of the features which make this multilayered, beautifully crafted novel so enjoyable. There are hints of Faulkner, too, as Askew employs his technique of using a number of voices to tell the story: there is Mattie herself, mother before her time to her younger siblings, yet refusing to mature into a woman; there is Thula Henry, Choctaw woman who both understands Mattie's gifts and tries to exorcise her demons; and Grady Dewberry, loquacious son of John's employer recalling events that marked his childhood.
This is more than just a simple repositioning of the Snopes from Mississippi to Oklahoma, however. It is a vision of the settling of America with a deep and abiding appreciation for the combustible elements that participated in it. Evangelical preachers riding their circuits, Native Americans pushed farther and farther west, former slaves freed from their masters but not from prejudice, and white men on the run from the law of the more settled East, all figure prominently. Some patience is required as the central tragedy looms, but for the most part, the novel is poignant, gripping, and even heartbreaking. --K.A. Crouch [via]
More editions of The Mercy Seat:
-
Monarch Notes on Dickens' David Copperfieldby Prentice Hall General Reference and Travel StaffISBN 0671006096 (0-671-00609-6)
Hardcover, Pearson Education, Limited
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Monarch Notes on Dickens' David Copperfield'Book summary:Plot synopsis of this classic is made meaningful with analysis and quotes by noted literary critics, summaries of the work's main themes and characters, a sketch of the author's life and times, a bibliography, suggested test questions, and ideas for essays and term papers. [via]
More editions of Monarch Notes on Dickens' David Copperfield:
Murther & Walking Spiritsby Robertson DaviesISBN 0670841897 (0-670-84189-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Murther & Walking Spirits'More editions of Murther & Walking Spirits:
-
Old New Yorkby Edith WhartonISBN 0671023365 (0-671-02336-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Old New York'Book summary:The four novellas collected here take place in the New York of the 1840s, '50s, '60s, and '70s. Each reveals the codes and customs that ruled society of that time, drawn with the perspicacious eye and style that is uniquely Wharton's. Novellas include "False Dawn, The Old Maid, The Spark" and "New Year's Day". [via]
More editions of Old New York:
-
Othelloby Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine, William ShakespeareISBN 0671042890 (0-671-04289-0)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Othello'Book summary:The New Folger Library edition features brief and simple clarification of seventeenth-century language, scene-by-scene plot summaries, and explanatory notes illuminating obscure and obsolete expressions. [via]
More editions of Othello:
The Palace of the White Skunksby Reinaldo ArenasISBN 0670815101 (0-670-81510-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Palace of the White Skunks'More editions of The Palace of the White Skunks:
The Passion of Artemisiaby Susan VreelandISBN 0670894494 (0-670-89449-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Passion of Artemisia'More editions of The Passion of Artemisia:
-
Perks of Being a Wallflowerby Stephen ChboskyISBN 0671027344 (0-671-02734-4)
Softcover, Pocket Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Perks of Being a Wallflower'Book summary:What is most notable about this funny, touching, memorable first novel from Stephen Chbosky is the resounding accuracy with which the author captures the voice of a boy teetering on the brink of adulthood. Charlie is a freshman. And while's he's not the biggest geek in the school, he is by no means popular. He's a wallflower--shy and introspective, and intelligent beyond his years, if not very savvy in the social arts. We learn about Charlie through the letters he writes to someone of undisclosed name, age, and gender, a stylistic technique that adds to the heart-wrenching earnestness saturating this teen's story. Charlie encounters the same struggles that many kids face in high school--how to make friends, the intensity of a crush, family tensions, a first relationship, exploring sexuality, experimenting with drugs--but he must also deal with his best friend's recent suicide. Charlie's letters take on the intimate feel of a journal as he shares his day-to-day thoughts and feelings:
I walk around the school hallways and look at the people. I look at the teachers and wonder why they're here. If they like their jobs. Or us. And I wonder how smart they were when they were fifteen. Not in a mean way. In a curious way. It's like looking at all the students and wondering who's had their heart broken that day, and how they are able to cope with having three quizzes and a book report due on top of that. Or wondering who did the heart breaking. And wondering why.
With the help of a teacher who recognizes his wisdom and intuition, and his two friends, seniors Samantha and Patrick, Charlie mostly manages to avoid the depression he feels creeping up like kudzu. When it all becomes too much, after a shocking realization about his beloved late Aunt Helen, Charlie retreats from reality for awhile. But he makes it back in due time, ready to face his sophomore year and all that it may bring. Charlie, sincerely searching for that feeling of "being infinite," is a kindred spirit to the generation that's been slapped with the label X. --Brangien Davis [via]More editions of Perks of Being a Wallflower:
Praxisby Fay WeldonISBN 0671400614 (0-671-40061-4)
Hardcover, Summit Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Praxis'More editions of Praxis:
Puffballby Fay WeldonISBN 0671448099 (0-671-44809-9)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Puffball'More editions of Puffball:
Ralph Ellison's Invisible Manby P. EllisonISBN 067100901X (0-671-00901-X)
Softcover, Monarch Notes
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man'More editions of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man:
-
Riddley Walkerby Russell HobanISBN 0671526944 (0-671-52694-4)
Softcover, Pocket Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Riddley Walker'Book summary:'Walker is my name and I am the same. Riddley Walker. Walking my riddels where ever theyve took me and walking them now on this paper the same. There aint that many sir prizes in life if you take noatis of every thing. Every time will have its happenings out and every place the same. Thats why I finely come to writing all this down. Thinking on what the idear of us myt be. Thinking on that thing whats in us lorn and loan and oansome.' Composed in an English which has never been spoken and laced with a storytelling tradition that predates the written word, RIDDLEY WALKER is the world waiting for us at the bitter end of the nuclear road. It is desolate, dangerous and harrowing, and a modern masterpiece. [via]
Riven Rockby T. C. BoyleISBN 0670878812 (0-670-87881-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Riven Rock'More editions of Riven Rock:
Road to Wellvilleby T. C. BoyleISBN 0670843342 (0-670-84334-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Road to Wellville'More editions of Road to Wellville:
-
Saints and Strangersby Angela CarterISBN 0670811394 (0-670-81139-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Saints and Strangers'More editions of Saints and Strangers:
-
Smoking Poppyby Graham JoyceISBN 0671039407 (0-671-03940-7)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Smoking Poppy'Book summary:Graham Joyce
travels to an enthralling, suspense-charged landscape in this hallucinatory novel of a father's quest to save his daughter -- without destroying himself.
Dan Innes has received shattering news from the British Embassy in Bangkok: his daughter, Charlie, whom he hasn't seen or spoken to in two years, has been imprisoned in a Thai jail for drug smuggling. Angry, terrified, seething with reprimands and questions, Dan leaves for Thailand. But the jail at Chiang Mai marks the beginning of his search rather than the end. Following the faintest of trails up into the lawless, dangerous mountain region near Myanmar, where opium grows abundantly, Dan must retrace Charlie's steps -- and brave the same traps that have swallowed her...on a terrifying mission of self-discovery, blind faith, and salvation. [via]
Solomon Gursky Was Hereby Mordecai RichlerISBN 0670825263 (0-670-82526-3)
Hardcover, Viking
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Solomon Gursky Was Here'More editions of Solomon Gursky Was Here:
Somebody's Darlingby Larry McMurtryISBN 0671243942 (0-671-24394-2)
Hardcover, Simon and Schuster
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Somebody's Darling'More editions of Somebody's Darling:
Stories from the Vinyl Cafeby Stuart McLeanISBN 0670864765 (0-670-86476-5)
Hardcover, Viking
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Stories from the Vinyl Cafe'More editions of Stories from the Vinyl Cafe:
-
Syrupby Maxx BarryISBN 0670886408 (0-670-88640-8)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Syrup'Book summary:An over-the-top debut about a young wannabe buzzmaker who will do almost anything to get ahead and get a date, for fans who laughed out loud at Nick Hornby and Helen Fielding.
He's young, he's in LA, and he's trying to carve a path in the most powerful, corrupt, and insane industry in the world: marketing. So when Scat (you don't get far in this business as plain old Michael) is hit with a million-dollar idea for a new soda, he teams up with 6, a woman whose cold-blooded political skill is the perfect counterbalance for his naivete. While she knows all the angles, her own angles leave Scat sleepless. Together, can they hold on to the idea when the stakes are seven figures? Or will success remain one knife in the back away?
Outrageously funny, smart, and hip, Syrup is a one-gulp adventure through the sticky worlds of corporate and sexual politics. In the book everyone will want to read this summer, Maxx (ne Max) Barry delivers a pitch-perfect sendup of our obsession with having it all. Self-absorbed and hilarious, Syrup is a Bright Lights, Big City for the late 90s. [via]More editions of Syrup:
T. C. Boyle Storiesby T. C. BoyleISBN 0670879606 (0-670-87960-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'T. C. Boyle Stories'More editions of T. C. Boyle Stories:
-
The Temple of My Familiarby Alice WalkerISBN 0671003763 (0-671-00376-3)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Temple of My Familiar'Book summary:In a story spanning 500,000 years and moving through England, Africa, and America, men, women, and animals share a spiritual world and come to understand the intricacies of their connecting lives. Reprint. [via]
More editions of The Temple of My Familiar:
Thinksby David LodgeISBN 0670899844 (0-670-89984-4)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Thinks'More editions of Thinks:
-
Thomas Hardy's the Return of the Nativeby Thomas HardyISBN 0671006185 (0-671-00618-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Thomas Hardy's the Return of the Native'More editions of Thomas Hardy's the Return of the Native:
-
Time and Againby Jack FinneyISBN 0671242954 (0-671-24295-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Time and Again'Book summary:Si Morley is ordered by the American Government to go back to the New York of 1882 on the track of a historical mystery involving fraud and murder by arson. It is in the old New York, with its horse-drawn buses, sleigh rides and vegetable allotments between the streets, that Morley falls in love. [via]
Tragedy of Dr Faustusby Christopher MarlowISBN 0671509772 (0-671-50977-2)
Softcover, Pocket Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Tragedy of Dr Faustus'More editions of Tragedy of Dr Faustus:
-
Treasure Islandby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0670869201 (0-670-86920-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Treasure Island'Book summary:Climb aboard for the swashbuckling adventure of a lifetime. Treasure Islandhas enthralled (and caused slight seasickness) for decades. The names Long John Silver and Jim Hawkins are destined to remain pieces of folklore for as long as children want to read Robert Louis Stevenson's most famous book. With it's dastardly plot and motley crew of rogues and villains, it seems unlikely that children will ever say no to this timeless classic. --Naomi Gesinger [via]
Vinegar Hillby A. Manette AnsayISBN 0670852538 (0-670-85253-8)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Vinegar Hill'More editions of Vinegar Hill:
-
Walden IIby Peter RuppertISBN 0671009737 (0-671-00973-7)
Hardcover, Peterson's
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Walden II'More editions of Walden II:
What's Eating Gilbert Grapeby Peter HedgesISBN 0671038540 (0-671-03854-0)
Softcover, Pocket Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape'More editions of What's Eating Gilbert Grape:
-
Whole Story Christmas Carolby Charles Dickens, William GeldartISBN 0670888788 (0-670-88878-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Whole Story Christmas Carol'More editions of Whole Story Christmas Carol:
The Wizard of Ozby L. Frank BaumISBN 0671083171 (0-671-08317-1)
Hardcover, Bookthrift Co
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wizard of Oz'More editions of The Wizard of Oz:
Results page: PREV 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101-141 NEXT
![[powered by Muze Inc.]](http://i.bookfinder.com/images/site/muze/powered_by_muze.gif){kind=small}