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| Mona Simpson - Off Keck Road |
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Mona Simpson writes about two women--one poor, one wealthy--in a Wisconsin town, as they move from girlhood in the 1950s to old age after the turn of the 21st century. What binds them together is their relationship with a man who is the employer (and unrequited longtime crush) of one, and the fleeti ...
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$0.75 - $11.00
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| T. C. Boyle - World's End: A Novel |
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This multi-generational novel ranges over the history of the Hudson River Valley from the late seventeenth cenutry to the late 1960s with low humor, high seriousness, and magical, almost hallucinatory prose. It follows the interwoven destinies of families of Indians, lordy Dutch patrons, and yoemen.
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$1.99 - $10.59
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| Philip Roth - Operation Shylock: A Confession |
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In this fiendishly imaginative, dizzyingly paced bestseller, Philip Roth meets a man who may or may not be Philip Roth. Someone with that name has been touring the State of Israel, promoting a bizarre exodus in reverse, and it is up to Roth to stop him--even if that means impersonating his impersona ...
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$1.99 - $10.17
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| Millicent Dillon - Harry Gold |
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This novel is a fictional biography of the American chemist Harry Gold, the seemingly dull, colorless Philadelphia bachelor who became a spy for the Russians in the 1950s. A New York Times Notable Book for the year 2000.
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$1.00 - $14.95
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| Don Delillo - Mao II |
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"One of the most ironic, intelligent, grimly funny voices to comment on life in present-day America" (The New York Times), Don DeLillo presents an extraordinary new novel about novelists and terrorists, the mass mind and the arch individualist. A love triangle that moves from New York to London to B ...
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$0.75 - $13.99
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| John Edgar Wideman - Sent for You Yesterday |
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In this volume from Wideman's "Homewood" series, Doot Lawson attempts to reintegrate himself into the myths and stories of his parents' and grandparents' generations and overcome the intellectual distance that has grown between them since his departure from Homewood. This novel won the PEN/Faulkner ...
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$3.00 - $11.20
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| John Edgar Wideman - Philadelphia Fire |
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At once personal and political, this novel about being black and male in white America depicts an unyielding core of individual resistance and demonstrates with tragic immediacy how America's mixed signals foster false hopes. Reprint.
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$1.99 - $13.00
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| Victor Lavalle - The Ecstatic |
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In this humorous novel, Anthony James, who weighs 300 pounds and lives in Brooklyn, is a fan of horror films and not much else, but he does manage to escort his younger sister to Virginia to enter a beauty contest, a trip that has farcical results.
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$0.78 - $10.40
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