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World's End (Contemporary American Fiction)
Published: 1990-07-20
Paperback: 480 pages
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Haunted by the burden of his family's traitorous past, woozy with pot, cheap wine and sex, and disturbed by a frighteningly real encounter with some family ghosts, Walter van Brunt is about to have a collision with history.It will lead Walter to search for his lost father. And it will send...
Tooth and Claw...and Other Stories
Published: 2006-06-27
Paperback: 304 pages
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Since his first collection of stories, Descent of Man, appeared in 1979, T.C. Boyle has become an acknowledged master of the form who has transformed the nature of short fiction in our time. Among the fourteen tales in his seventh collection are the comic yet lyrical title story, in which ...
After the Plague: Stories
Published: 2002-12-31
Paperback: 320 pages
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Hailed as one of the best short story writers of his generation, T.C. Boyle presents sixteen stories--nine of which appeared in The New Yorker--that highlight the evolving excellence of his inventive, modern, and wickedly witty style. In After the Plague, Boyle exhibits his maturing themes...
A View from the Bridge
Published: 2010-03-01
Paperback: 112 pages
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Eddie Carbone is a longshoreman and a straightforward man, with a strong sense of decency and of honour. For Eddie, it's a privilege to take in his wife's cousins, straight off the boat from Italy. But, as his niece begins to fall for one of them, it's clear that it's not just, as Eddie claims, that...
We Never Asked for Wings: A Novel
Published: 2015-08-18
Hardcover: 320 pages
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From the beloved New York Times bestselling author of The Language of Flowers comes her much-anticipated new novel about young love, hard choices, and hope against all odds. For fourteen years, Letty Espinosa has worked three jobs around San Francisco to make ends meet while her mother ...
The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty: A Novel
Published: 2015-06-02
Hardcover: 224 pages
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From the acclaimed author of Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name and The Lovers comes a taut, spellbinding literary thriller that probes the essence and malleability of identity.In Vendela Vida’s taut and mesmerizing novel of ideas, a woman travels to Casablanca, Morocco, on mysterio...
The Secret Sense of Wildflower - Southern Historical Fiction, Best Book of 2012
Published: 2012-04-22
Paperback: 248 pages
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The Secret Sense of Wildflower earned a coveted Starred Review from Kirkus Reviews and was named by Kirkus to its list of Best Books of 2012. Set in 1940s Appalachia, The Secret Sense of Wildflower tells the story of Louisa May "Wildflower" McAllister whose life has been shaped around the...
The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books (and Two Not-So-Great Ones) Saved My Life
Published: 2014-12-09
Paperback: 352 pages
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An editor and writer's vivaciously entertaining, and often moving, chronicle of his year-long adventure with fifty great books (and two not-so-great ones)—a true story about reading that reminds us why we should all make time in our lives for books.Nearing his fortieth birthday, author a...
The Door (NYRB Classics)
Published: 2015-01-27
Paperback: 288 pages
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One of The New York Times Book Review's "10 Best Books of 2015"An NYRB Classics Original The Door is an unsettling exploration of the relationship between two very different women. Magda is a writer, educated, married to an academic, public-spirited, with an on-again-off-again relationship...
A Quiet End (John Corey)
Published: 2015-05-26
Hardcover: 0 pages
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