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| Seamus Deane and Stephen Rea - Reading in the Dark |
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A Booker Prize finalist and winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize, Seamus Deane's transfixing novel us set in postwar Northern Ireland during the 1950s--a time when the unquiet ghosts of the Troubles walk along the changelings of Celtic legend--as it tells the story of a young boy trying to uncover t ...
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$1.99 - $11.16
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| Muriel Spark - Loitering With Intent |
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Muriel Spark in prime form: one of her most enjoyable, complex, and instructive <I>jeux d'esprit.</I> "How wonderful to be an artist and a woman in the twentieth century," Fleur Talbot rejoices. Happily loitering about London, c. 1949, with intent to gather material for her writing, Fleur finds a jo ...
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$2.00 - $30.00
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| J. L. Carr - A Month in the Country |
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A shell-shocked World War I veteran spends the summer in the village of Oxgodby, hired to restore a 14th-century mural in the local church. Hoping to find peace and a simple life, he finds much more: the Vicar's wife, and a strange man named Charles Moon, who is camping in a nearby meadow. J. L. Car ...
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$2.65 - $12.95
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| Peter Ackroyd - Chatterton |
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The mystery of Chatterton is investigated by two Londoners, a young poet and an elderly female novelist, who find more riddles than answers from their search. At once hilarious, this entertaining comedy is a thoughtful exploration of the deepest issues of both life and art.
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$1.99 - $14.00
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