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With this astonishing debut, Meallet plunges into one of the country's harshest neighborhoods and emerges with a uniquely witty and wise urban coming-of-age novel as he chronicles the adolescence of Sunny Toomer, a streetwise urchin endlessly caught between right and wrong.

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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Martin Dressler" comes a stunningly original new book set in a Connecticut town on one magical summer night. The delicious cast of characters includes a band of teenage girls who break into homes and leave notes, a dreamlike lover on a backyard swing, and a beautiful mannequin who steps down from her department store window.

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Jonathan Brand visits a group of Scandinavian islands in order to do his anthropology fieldwork, but in adjusting to the local culture, he finds himself caught up in the supposedly simple way of life.

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In his newest collection of taut and moving stories, Canty again demonstrates why he has been included in the ranks of truly great short story writers, from Flannery O'Connor to Raymond Carver. Here are people who are searching, often in the wrong places, for something meaningful, or real, or, at least for a moment, right.

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Quintas Horatius Flaccas (or Horace) garners a reputation as the town wacko, after he takes the name of the Roman poet to entertain himself by telephoning strangers to ask them obscure questions.

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The arrival in a southern town of a young, unkempt man results in a sudden confrontation with past sin and error on the part of the town's most respected Black man, Reverend Phillip Martin.

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Just as Lucy Stark, employed by a writer named DV, begins to read her employer's latest manuscript, she receives word that he has died under suspicious circumstances and journeys to Italy to search for the rest of DV's manuscript and to uncover the truthabout his death.

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Seeking comfort in alcohol and irony from his wife's death, father's immolation, and son's adolescence, Peter Jernigan meets the mother of his son's strange girlfriend and begins a plunge into the everyday death of the spirit.

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Tells the story of Martin Dressler's rise from bellhop to builder of hotels and his plans to build the Grand Cosmo.

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"This collection was also published in slightly different form as issue #10, no. 1, winter 2002-3, McSweeney's quarterly"--T.p. verso.

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A disaffected American horrified by his country's involvement in Vietnam moves to Key West, a nightmarish place besieged by Latin drug dealers, freebooting treasure hunters, and improverished immigrants.

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The author of the genre-defining memoir "This Boy's Life" now gives readers his first novel--at once a celebration of literature and delicate hymn to a lost innocence of American life and art.

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Thirty-six stories--eight of which are published for the first time--represent the finest work of a writer who consistently holds up a mirror to contemporary America.

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A provocative anthology of poetry and prose by the Canadian intellectual includes selections from "Mimnermos: The Brainsex Paintings," "Short Talks," "Canicula di Anna," "The Life of Towns," and "The Anthropology of Water." Reprint.

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Dramatizes the anger, hopes, and dreams of four generations of a Washo Indian family struggling to survive in the California Sierras.

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"Schooling" is a portrait of 13-year-old Catrine Evans, who, following her mother's death, is uprooted from her home in America to an English boarding school. There she encounters unruly classmates and the sympathetic teacher Mr. Gilbert, who offers Catrine the friendship she so desperately wants--a friendship that gradually takes on sinister and obsessive overtones.

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A debut novel chronicling the lives of three generations of remarkable Dominican women ranges from the early 1900s to the present day as it follows Graciela, who flees the strictures of her poverty-stricken rural life; her daughter Mercedes, who builds a new life in New York City; and Leila, a restl

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