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Feast of All Saints

by Anne Rice

Published: 1982-04

Paperback: 736 pages

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The Feast Of All Saints

by Anne Rice

Published: 1986-09-12

Mass Market Paperback: 640 pages

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In the days before the Civil War, there lived a Louisiana people unique in Southern histroy. Though descended from African slaves, they were also descended from the French and Spanish who enslaved them. Called the Free People of Color, this dazzling historical novel chronicles the lives of four of them--men...

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The Feast of Love : A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries)

by Charles Baxter

Published: 2001-05-01

Paperback: 308 pages

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National Book Award Finalist From "one of our most gifted writers" (Chicago Tribune), here is a superb new novel that delicately unearths the myriad manifestations of extraordinary love between ordinary people. The Feast of Love is just that -- a sumptuous work of fiction about the thing t...

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The Feast of Love

by Charles Baxter

Published: 2000

Hardcover: 320 pages

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Here is a superb novel that delicately unearths the myriad manifestations of extraordinary love between ordinary people. In a re-imagined Midsummer Night's Dream, men and women speak of and desire their ideal mates; parents seek out their lost children; adult children try to come to terms with their...

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The Feast of Roses: A Novel

by Indu Sundaresan

Published: 2004-05-18

Paperback: 416 pages

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The love story of Emperor Jahangir and Mehrunnisa, begun in the critically praised debut novel The Twentieth Wife, continues in Indu Sundaresan's lush second novel, The Feast of Roses. Here, Mehrunnisa comes into Jahangir's harem as his twentieth and last wife. This time Jahangir has marri...

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* * * * Informative,
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The Feast of the Goat

by Mario Vargas Llosa

Published: 2001-11-13

Hardcover: 416 pages

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A Library Journal Best BookVargas Llosa's vivid historical portrait of a regime of fear and its aftermathIt is 1961. The Dominican Republic languishes under economic sanctions; the Catholic church spurs its clergy against the government; from its highest ranks down, the country is arrested...

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The Feast of the Goat: A Novel

by Mario Vargas Llosa, Edith Grossman

Published: 2002-11-09

Paperback: 416 pages

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Haunted all her life by feelings of terror and emptiness, forty-nine-year-old Urania Cabral returns to her native Dominican Republic - and finds herself reliving the events of l961, when the capital was still called Trujillo City and one old man terrorized a nation of three million. Rafael...

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The Feast of the Goat: International Edition

by Mario Varga Llosa

Published: 2002-09-16

Mass Market Paperback: 471 pages

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Feather Crowns

by Bobbie Ann Mason

Published: 1994-09

Paperback: 480 pages

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Set in the apocalyptic atmosphere of 1900--a time when many Americans were looking for signs foretelling the end of the world--Feather Crowns is the story of a young woman who unintentionally creates a national sensation. A farm wife living near the small town of Hopewell, Kentucky, Christ...

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February House: The Story of W. H. Auden, Carson McCullers, Jane and Paul Bowles, Benjamin Britten, and Gypsy Rose Lee, Under One Roof in Brooklyn

by Sherill Tippins

Published: 2006-07-12

Paperback: 336 pages

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In this captivating book, Sherill Tippins brings to life the story of what was possibly the most fertile and improbable live-in salon of the twentieth century. Known as February House, its residents included, among others, Carson McCullers, W. H. Auden, Paul Bowles, and the famed burlesque performer...