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The Field of Vision (Bison Book S)

by Wright Morris

Published: 1974-07-01

Paperback: 251 pages

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Winner of the National Book Award "Wright Morris seems to me the most important novelist of the American middle generation. Through a large body of work --which, unaccountably, has yet to receive the wide attention it deserves--Mr. Morris has adhered to standards which we have come to identify as those...

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The Magic Barrel: Stories

by Bernard Malamud

Published: 2003-07-07

Paperback: 232 pages

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Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction Introduction by Jhumpa LahiriBernard Malamud's first book of short stories, The Magic Barrel, has been recognized as a classic from the time it was published in 1959. The stories are set in New York and in Italy (where Malamud's alter ego, the ...

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The Waters of Kronos

by Conrad Richter

Published: 2003-01-08

Paperback: 192 pages

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From the time of its first publication in 1960, Conrad Richter's The Waters of Kronos sparked lively debate about the extent to which its story of a belated return to childhood scenes mirrored key events of Richter's own life. As was well known at the time, Richter had spent several years ...

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Morte D'Urban (New York Review Books Classics)

by J.F. Powers

Published: 2000-05-31

Paperback: 336 pages

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Winner of The 1963 National Book Award for Fiction.The hero of J.F. Powers's comic masterpiece is Father Urban, a man of the cloth who is also a man of the world. Charming, with an expansive vision of the spiritual life and a high tolerance for moral ambiguity, Urban enjoys a national repu...

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The Centaur

by John Updike

Published: 1996-08-27

Paperback: 306 pages

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WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD AND THE PRIX DU MEILLEUR LIVRE ÉTRANGER   The Centaur is a modern retelling of the legend of Chiron, the noblest and wisest of the centaurs, who, painfully wounded yet unable to die, gave up his immortality on behalf of Prometheus. In the retelling, Olym...

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Clinical Informatics Board Review: Pass the Exam the First Time

by Rocky Reston MD, Corinn C Pope

Published: 2014-12-01

Paperback: 446 pages

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As a physician clincal informaticist, you can become one of the growing number of physicians that are translating their existing clinical experience into in-demand roles in the health IT industry. As a board-certified clinical informaticis, you can enjoy a high salary ($300k for the aver...

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The Eighth Day: A Novel

by Thornton Wilder

Published: 2007-01-02

Paperback: 512 pages

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This new edition of Thornton Wilder's renowned 1967 National Book Award–winning novel features a new foreword by John Updike and an afterword by Tappan Wilder, who draws on such unique sources as Wilder's unpublished letters, handwritten annotations in the margins of the book, and other ...

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Steps

by Jerzy Kosinski

Published: 1997-08-07

Paperback: 148 pages

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Winner of the National Book Award for FictionFrom the esteemed author of the classics The Painted Bird and Being There comes this award-winning novel about one man's sexual and sensual experiences, the fabric from which his life has been woven.Jerzy Kosinski's classic vision of moral and s...

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Them (Modern Library)

by Joyce Carol Oates

Published: 2006-09-12

Paperback: 576 pages

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Joyce Carol Oates’s Wonderland Quartet comprises four remarkable novels that explore social class in America and the inner lives of young Americans. As powerful and relevant today as it on its initial publication, them chronicles the tumultuous lives of a family living on the edge of rui...

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Mr. Sammler's Planet (Penguin Classics)

by Saul Bellow

Published: 2004-01-06

Paperback: 288 pages

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“An enduring testament and prophecy.” –Chicago Sun-Times Mr. Artur Sammler, Holocaust survivor, intellectual, and occasional lecturer at Columbia University in 1960s New York City, is a “registrar of madness,” a refined and civilized being caught among people crazy with the promi...