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Ackroyd, Peter: The Fall of Troy
Book Number: 43315
Chatto and Windus 2006 8vo hardcover 215pp. Fine / very good+ d/w. The Fall of Troy is a meditation on the siren song of history and a compact, disarming character sketch that explores the limits of belief.
Keywords: peter ackroyd catholic british history biography homer historical dimensions and perspectives nonfiction english history history boethius chaucer The Fall of Troy Ackroyd Peter
Price: $25.00 |
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Nakhjavani, Bahiyyih: Paper
Book Number: 43317
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC 2004 8vo hardcover 243pp. very good+ / very good+ d/w.
Keywords: middle east sultan fiction Paper Nakhjavani Bahiyyih
Price: $15.00 |
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Capote, Truman: Answered Prayers: The Unfinished Novel
Book Number: 43610
Hamish Hamilton 1986 8vo hardcover 181pp. very good, page edges browned / very good d/w.
Keywords: truman capote capote true crime modern classics nonfiction biography autobiography kansas fiction short stories old south Answered Prayers The Unfinished Novel Capote Truman
Price: $22.00 |
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Maillard, Keith: Hazard Zones: A Novel
Book Number: 43819
Harpercollins Canada 1995 8vo softcover 217pp. very good+. From Booklist: When his mother's fatal illness brings a middle-aged man back to his hometown, he's forced to face his past as his final link to it is broken. At age 50, Larry Cameron is finally happy--with his work as a geographer at a Boston publishing house and with second wife Cynthia and children Patrick (hers) and Allison (theirs). At the news of his mother's attack, Larry and Cynthia are on the first plane out, arriving in Raysburg, West Virginia, to find that Larry's mother, whom he knew would be around to bug him forever, died an hour earlier. Dealing with this death and the memories it evokes, particularly those of his stepbrother Johnny's death decades ago, is an emotionally wrenching yet ultimately healing process. In a story that spans less than a week, interspersed with flashbacks, Maillard tackles universal experiences in the recording and integration of one man's life. With its finely crafted prose, seamless narrative, wonderfully developed characters, and indelible vignettes, this is an exceptional novel, deserving to be read and reread.
Keywords: pride and prejudice jane austen dystopia margaret atwood romance chick lit post apocalyptic darcy feminism short fiction Hazard Zones A Novel Maillard Keith
Price: $12.00 |
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Suri, Manil: The Death of Vishnu
Book Number: 43932
Bloomsbury 2001 8vo hardcover 3529p index, b/w illus. very good / very good d/w.
Keywords: The Death of Vishnu Suri Manil
Price: $15.00 |
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Docx, Edward: Self Help
Book Number: 44034
Picador USA 2007 8vo hardcover 523pp. very good+ / very good+ d/w.
Keywords: Self Help Docx Edward
Price: $30.00 |
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Banville, John: Untouchable
Book Number: 44050
Picador 1998 8vo softcover 405pp very good+.
Keywords: Untouchable Banville John
Price: $12.00 |
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Stonich, Sarah: These Granite Islands
Book Number: 44103
HarperCollins Australia 2001 8vo softcover 294pp very good. This is a first novel, about a woman who, on her deathbed, recalls the fateful summer of 1936, a summer that changed her life forever. Isobel has been wife, mother, hatmaker. At the end of her long life, she is simply herself, with one last story to tell her only surviving child.
Keywords: These Granite Islands Stonich Sarah
Price: $12.00 |
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Yamanaka, Lois-Ann: Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers
Book Number: 44210
Minerva 1996 8vo softcover 278pp very good+.
Keywords: Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers Yamanaka Lois Ann
Price: $10.00 |
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Field, Carol: Mangoes & quince: A novel
Book Number: 44326
Penguin 2001 8vo softcover 278pp very good, number written on rear endpaper.
Keywords: fiction food cooking novel Field Carol
Price: $15.00 |
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