The Folks By Ruth Suckow

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Title	:	The Folks
Author	:	Ruth Suckow
ISBN	:
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	727

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To those who saw promise in Ruth Suckow s earlier novels this book will justify their confidence in her ability to write major American fiction New York Herald Tribune Books, 1934 A book that, than most others of our time, is deeply bedded in the American scene, that could only have been written by an American, and in our time Saturday Review of Literature, 1934 To those who saw promise in Ruth Suckow s earlier novels this book will justify their confidence in her ability to write major America...

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Love Is a Dog from Hell By Charles Bukowski

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Title	:	Love Is a Dog from Hell
Author	:	Charles Bukowski
ISBN	:	0876853629
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	312

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Poems rising from and returning to Bukowski s personal experiences reflect people, objects, places, and events of the external world, and reflects on them, on their way out and back....

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Ryder By Djuna Barnes

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Title	:	Ryder
Author	:	Djuna Barnes
ISBN	:	0916583554
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	264

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From the author of Nightwood Djuna Barnes has written a book that is all that she was, and must still be vulgar, beautiful, defiant, witty, poetic, and a little mad Argonaut...

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Da Vinci's Bicycle By Guy Davenport

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Title	:	Da Vinci's Bicycle
Author	:	Guy Davenport
ISBN	:	0811213501
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	185

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Guy Davenport s second collection of stories first published in 1979, contains ten stories, written with tremendous wit, intelligence and verve, based on historical figures whose endeavors were too early, too late, or went against the grain of their times....

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In This Our Life By Ellen Glasgow

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Title	:	In This Our Life
Author	:	Ellen Glasgow
ISBN	:	1568496273
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	350

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This novel is an analytical study of the feeling of kinship as it is manifested in the Timberlake family, decayed aristocrats living in a southern city The story of how two marriages are wrecked and a great wrong done to an innocent Negro boy, is told largely as it is viewed by Asa Timberlake, sixty years of age, husband of a hypochondriac wife, father of two daughters, o This novel is an analytical study of the feeling of kinship as it is manifested in the Timberlake family, decayed aristocrats living in...

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Splay Anthem By Nathaniel Mackey

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Title	:	Splay Anthem
Author	:	Nathaniel Mackey
ISBN	:	0811216527
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	112

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In a stunning new collection of poems of transport and transcendence, African American poet Nathaniel Mackey s asthmatic song of aspiration scuttles across cultures and histories from America to Andaluc a, from Ethiopia to Vienna in a sexy, beautiful adaptive dance.Part antiphonal rant, part rhythmic whisper, Nathaniel Mackey s new collection of poems, Splay Anthem, take In a stunning new collection of poems of transport and transcendence, African American poet Nathaniel Mackey s asthmati...

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Novels, Mont Saint Michel, The Education By Henry Adams

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Title	:	Novels, Mont Saint Michel, The Education
Author	:	Henry Adams
ISBN	:	0940450127
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	1246

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Here for the first time in a single, convenient volume are the best known works of Henry Adams, one of the most powerful and original minds to confront the American scene from the Civil War to the First World War With urbanity, wit, and an unblinking eye Adams, whose temperament and ideals were shaped by the legacy of his presidential ancestors, faced unsettling changes i Here for the first time in a single, convenient volume are the best known works of Henry Adams, one of the most powerful and original m...

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Reality Sandwiches By Allen Ginsberg

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Title	:	Reality Sandwiches
Author	:	Allen Ginsberg
ISBN	:	0872860213
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	104

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Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages for yr own joy Many of Ginsberg s most famous poems.Wake up nightmares in Lower East Side, musings in public library, across the U.S in dream auto, drunk in old Havana, brooding in Mayan ruins, sex daydreams on the West Coast, airplane vision of Kansas, lonely in a leafy cottage, lunch hour on Berkeley, beer notati Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages for yr own joy Many of Ginsberg s most famous poems.Wake up nightmares in Lower Eas...

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Platitudes By Trey Ellis

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Title	:	Platitudes
Author	:	Trey Ellis
ISBN	:	1555535860
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	203

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Trey Ellis s uproariously funny debut novel Platitudes, first published in 1988, takes on conflicts within the African American literary community Dewayne Wellington, a failing black experimental novelist, and Isshee Ayam, a radical feminist author, collaborate on Dewayne s latest sexist comedy Alternately telling the story about the coming of age of Earle and Dorothy tw Trey Ellis s uproariously funny debut novel Platitudes, first published in 1988, takes on conflicts within the African America...

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Bracebridge Hall, Tales of a Traveller, The Alhambra By Washington Irving

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Title	:	Bracebridge Hall, Tales of a Traveller, The Alhambra
Author	:	Washington Irving
ISBN	:	0940450593
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	1104

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The Library of America is dedicated to publishing America s best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts Hailed as the finest looking, longest lasting editions ever made The New Republic , Library of America volumes make a fine gift for any occasion Now, with exactly one hundred volumes to choose from, there is a perfe The Library of America is dedicated to publishing America s best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring auth...

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Tending to Virginia By Jill McCorkle

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Title	:	Tending to Virginia
Author	:	Jill McCorkle
ISBN	:	0449912531
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	328

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Exuberant three generations of Southern women and the ties that bind them The New York Times Book Review A profound picture of the legacies of families, one that will stay in the reader s mind The Memphis Commercial Appeal....

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On Agate Hill By Lee Smith

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Title	:	On Agate Hill
Author	:	Lee Smith
ISBN	:	1565124529
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	367

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On Agate Hill A Novel...

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Let Me Explain You By Annie Liontas

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Title	:	Let Me Explain You
Author	:	Annie Liontas
ISBN	:	1476789088
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	352

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Let Me Explain You begins with a letter Stavros Stavros Mavrakis Greek immigrant, proud owner of the Gala Diner, having had a premonition of death and believing he has just ten days left to live, sends an email to his estranged ex wife and three grown daughters in which he lays out his last wishes for each of them He then sets about preparing for his final hours With v Let Me Explain You begins with a letter Stavros Stavros Mavrakis Greek immigrant, proud owner of the Gala Diner, having had...

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Eight Men By Richard Wright

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Title	:	Eight Men
Author	:	Richard Wright
ISBN	:	0060976810
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	272

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Wright s unrelenting bleak landscape was not merely that of the Deep South, or of Chicago, but that of the world, of the human heart, said James Baldwin, and here, in these powerful stories, Richard Wright takes readers into this landscape one again Eight Men presents eight stories of black men living at violent odds with the white world around them As they do in his Wright s unrelenting bleak landscape was not merely that of the Deep South, or of Chicago, but that of the world, of the human hea...

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Our Gang By Philip Roth

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Title	:	Our Gang
Author	:	Philip Roth
ISBN	:	0375726845
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	224

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A ferocious political satire in the great tradition, Our Gang is Philip Roth s brilliantly indignant response to the phenomenon of Richard M Nixon.In the character of Trick E Dixon, Roth shows us a man who outdoes the severest cynic, a peace loving Quaker and believer in the sanctity of human life who doesn t have a problem with killing unarmed women and children in self A ferocious political satire in the great tradition, Our Gang is Philip Roth s brilliantly indignant response ...

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Novels, 1969-1974 By Vladimir Nabokov

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Title	:	Novels, 1969-1974
Author	:	Vladimir Nabokov
ISBN	:	1883011205
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	825

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The library of America is dedicated to publishing America s best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts Hailed as the finest looking, longest lasting editions ever made The New Republic , Library of America volumes make a fine gift for any occasion Now, with exactly one hundred volumes to choose from, there is a perfe The library of America is dedicated to publishing America s best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring auth...

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Bastard Out of Carolina By Dorothy Allison

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Title	:	Bastard Out of Carolina
Author	:	Dorothy Allison
ISBN	:	0141391545
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	320

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Twentieth Anniversary Edition with a new introduction by the author About as close to flawless as any reader could ask for The New York Times Book Review Carolina in the 1950s, and Bone christened Ruth Anna Boatwright lives a happy life, in and out of her aunt s houses, playing with her cousins on the porch, sipping ice tea, loving her little sister Reece and her be Twentieth Anniversary Edition with a new introduction by the author About as close to flawless as any reader could ask for <...

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