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Description: Nursing an elderly cancer patient in an isolated English countryside manse in 1950, Coral interacts with a disgruntled housekeeper and her charge's sexually torn and war-ravaged son until a child's game in the nearby woods goes violently wrong and culminates in a complicated marriage. 25,000 first printing.
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Description: A man leaves his American life behind him and travels to La Plata, Andorra where he settles and gradually meets the city's most prominent citizens. As he becomes involved in their lives, the mystery surrounding his deepens.
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Description: A wryly humorous, impeccably observed novel about the capriciousness of love Omar Razaghi posts a letter on September 13, 1995 that will change the course of his life forever. A doctoral student at the University of Kansas, he writes to the estate of the Latin American author Jules Gund, requesting permission to write Gund's authorized biography. His request is refused, but Omar has already accept...
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Description: A comic valentine to a frenzied era, "Leap Year" takes place in 1988, just two years away from "the decade of friendship", while there is still time on the clock for all the greed and need of the 1980s to wreak havoc on the lives of an ensemble cast of distressed but endearing New Yorkers.
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Description: On a midsummer weekend, in a country house in upstate New York, three friends, Lyle, Marian, and John, gather on the anniversary of the death of John's brother, who was also Lyle's lover. As Tony's absence haunts each of them in different ways, the reunion is complicated by the presence of Lyle's new lover, a much younger man named Robert, and a faux-Italian dinner guest with a penchant for truth telling. As the seemingly idyllic weekend proceeds, each character is stripped bare, and old memories and new desires create a chemistry that will transform them all.
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Description: Eighteen-year-old James living in New York City with his older sister and divorced mother struggles to find a direction for his life.
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Description: It’s time for eighteen-year-old James Sveck to begin his freshman year at Brown. Instead, he’s surfing the real estate listings, searching for a sanctuary—a nice farmhouse in Kansas, perhaps. Although James lives in twenty-first-century Manhattan, he’s more at home in the faraway worlds of Eric Rohmer or Anthony Trollope—or his favorite writer, the obscure and tragic Denton Welch. Jamesâ...
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Description: This collection of stories is about families, homes, lover and marriages - the safe havens they have been taught to depend on no longer guarantee shelter or stability.
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Description: In this collection of short stories, Peter Cameron describes lives of quiet desperation: people trapped in unfulfilling commitments, overcome by their own indifference, confronted with life's inevitable changes. With remarkable grace, acuity, and humor, he examines the small dramas of ordinary life and brilliantly captures the serene poignancy of daily struggles.
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