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Beller, Thomas The Sleep-Over Artist W. W. Norton & Company 2001 paperback. . Slight moisture damage but good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1042751. ISBN #0393321711 / 9780393321715. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Beller, Thomas The Sleep-Over Artist W. W. Norton & Company 2001 paperback. . Slight moisture damage but good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1042751. ISBN #0393321711 / 9780393321715. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary "In the same way Salinger carved out the niche of male adolescence ....Beller approaches that mutable boy-to-man territory." San Francisco Chronicle Writing with the sparkling wit and insight of his highly praised debut, Seduction Theory "Brilliantly captures the great expectations and recurring ambivalence of youth." The New York Times , Thomas Beller continues to plumb the adventures of his hero, Alex Fader, a youthful existentialist and sensualist with an insatiable appetite for trouble. The Sleep-Over Artist is an account of critical stages in Alex's life, mapping his progress from youthful delinquent to filmmaker whose career begins when he makes a documentary film exposing the prep school from which he has been expelled. Alex longs for the taste of family life that the early death of his father has denied him. As a young boy he sleeps over at his friends' houses and ingratiates himself with their families; as a young man he extends his sleep-overs to the lives of women, culminating in the ultimate sleep-over an affair in England with a glamorous, slightly older woman, the mother of a young boy. Beller has a pitch-perfect ear for emotional nuance and a microscopic eye for rendering the wordless moments when a relationship catches fire and all too often begins to falter. The high-wire tension that electrifies The Sleep-Over Artist is Beller's ingenious portrait of a young man who longs to disappear and belong all at the same time. "Hilarious....captures perfectly the myriad stages of fear, discovery and elation that mark one's first sexual experience." The New York Times Book Review , Katherine Dieckmann, 16 July 2000 " W ell-crafted stories recall the witty phrasing of Updike, the poignant nostalgia of Cheever, the earnest but confused innocence of Salinger." Library Journal "Featuring a New York that, like Kundera's Prague, is a vast hive of seductions....A moving portrait." Publishers Weekly , 17 April 2000 "The gentle humor and delicacy of Sleep-Over Artist remind me of the stories of another young cosmopolite, F. Scott Fitzgerald." Stewart O'Nan, author of A Prayer for the Dying "Fresh, sophisticated and most of all utterly readable...strikes a perfect balance between timely ironies and perennial emotional truths." Eva Hoffman "Tom Beller is gifted with a wry, dry appreciation of life's sweet and unlikely subtleties." Elizabeth Wurtzel, author of Prozac Nation and Bitch "A fine novel of Manhattan manners." New York Observer
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Bellow, Saul A Theft paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1034195. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Bellow, Saul Dean's December Harper & Row 1981 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Acceptable. Book plate attached. Some staining to page edges. Moisture damage. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Slight tears to jacket. Book #or888762. ISBN #0060148497 / 9780060148492. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Bellow, Saul Dean's December Harper & Row 1981 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Acceptable. Book plate attached. Some staining to page edges. Moisture damage. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Slight tears to jacket. Book #or888762. ISBN #0060148497 / 9780060148492. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Corde is a Professor of Journalism and Dean of students at a Chicago university. His beautiful wife Minna is an internationally known astronomer. As the book opens the couple are in Eastern Europe. Minna had to migrated to America many years before, but now her mother has suffered a stroke and is lying semicouscious in the local State hospital. As Corde tries to help Minna grapple with an alien bureaucracy, to adapt to life in his mother-in-law's small apartment and to cope with her relations and family friends, news filters through to him of problems he has left behind in Chicago. One of his students has been murdered by black criminals; his cousin and his nephew line up against him and try to make him drop the case. A series of articles he is writing for a magazine offends powerful and influential Chicagoans he had thought of as friends. A childhood companion, now a television pundit, shows him unsuspected aspects of his own character. Gradually it becomes clear that Corde's trip abroad is more than a brief interlude in a calm and orderly life and that nothing for him will ever be the same again. To the familiar Bellow magic and mastery, The Dean's December adds a new sense of urgency, of topicality, and an almost thriller-like tension. The wit, the erudition, the unique and extraordinary use of language will be a delight to admirers of Herzog and Humboldt's Gift; but the framework in which they are displayed represents a completely new departure.
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Bellow, Saul Henderson The Rain King paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1055257. ISBN #0140072691 / 9780140072693. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Bellow, Saul Herzog: Text and Criticism Viking Press 1976 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1085986. ISBN #0670018104 / 9780670018109. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Bellow, Saul Herzog: Text and Criticism Viking Press 1976 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1085986. ISBN #0670018104 / 9780670018109. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Winner of the 1965 National Book Award for Fiction. Herzog is a man seeking balance, trying to regain a foothold on his life. Thrown out of his ex-wife's house after his wife leaves him for his best friend, Herzog retreats to his abandoned home in a remote village in the Berkshire Mountains. Amid the dust of the disused house, he begins scribbling letters to family, friends, lovers, colleagues, enemies, dead philosophers, ex-presidents, to anyone with whom he feels compelled to set the record straight. The letters, which are never sent, are a means to cure himself of the psychic strain of the failures of his life: that of being a bad husband, a loving but poor father, an ungrateful child, a distant brother, an egoist to friends, and an apathetic citizen. Primarily a novel of redemption, progressing from ignorance to enlightenment, Herzog is still considered one of the greatest literary expressions of postwar America. This is a new reading by Malcolm Hillgartner
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Bellow, Saul Ravelstein 2000 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1027634. ISBN #067084134X / 9780670841349. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Bellow, Saul Ravelstein 2000 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1027634. ISBN #067084134X / 9780670841349. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Abe Ravelstein is a brilliant professor at a prominent Midwestern university and a man who glories in training the movers-and-shakers of the political world. He has lived grandly and ferociously -- and well beyond his means. His close friend Chick, a writer, has suggested that he pen a book encapsulating his ideas, and much to Ravelstein's surprise he and becomes a bestselling millionaire. Ravelstein suggests in turn that Chick write a biography of him, and during the course of a celebratory trip to Paris, Chick plays Boswell to Ravelstein's Johnson, narrating their life stories as the two share thoughts on mortality, philosophy and history, old loves, old suits, and old jokes. The mood turns more somber once they have returned to the midwest and Ravelstein succumbs to AIDS, yet this affectionate portrait of friendship remains by turn deeply insightful and always moving, as Chick himself faces his own brush with death.Saul Bellow's new novel is a journey through memory and friendship. It is brave, dark and bleakly funny: an elegy to friendship and to lives well lived.
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Bellow, Saul Ravelstein 2001 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1122849. ISBN #0141001763 / 9780141001760. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Bellow, Saul Ravelstein 2001 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1122849. ISBN #0141001763 / 9780141001760. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Abe Ravelstein is a brilliant professor at a prominent midwestern university and a man who glories in training the movers and shakers of the political world. He has lived grandly and ferociously-and much beyond his means. His close friend Chick has suggested that he put forth a book of his convictions about the ideas which sustain humankind, or kill it, and much to Ravelstein's own surprise, he does and becomes a millionaire. Ravelstein suggests in turn that Chick write a memoir or a life of him, and during the course of a celebratory trip to Paris the two share thoughts on mortality, philosophy and history, loves and friends, old and new, and vaudeville routines from the remote past. The mood turns more somber once they have returned to the Midwest and Ravelstein succumbs to AIDS and Chick himself nearly dies. Deeply insightful and always moving, Saul Bellow's new novel is a journey through love and memory. It is brave, dark, and bleakly funny: an elegy to friendship and to lives well or badly lived.
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Bellow, Saul The Actual Viking Adult 1997 hardcover. First Edition. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1139166. ISBN #0670860751 / 9780670860753. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Bellow, Saul The Actual Viking Adult 1997 hardcover. First Edition. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1139166. ISBN #0670860751 / 9780670860753. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Harry Trellman doesn't belong. Not in the Chicago orphanage where he is sent by his mother, not in high school too brainy , not even on the streets. Human attachments? Yes, he has them, but they are like everything else in his life, singular and irregular. People who know him say that he "drowns his feelings in his face," and that he has a Mongolian "masked look." But though Harry stands apart, he has always been a most keen observer, listener, recorder and interpreter, and none of this is lost on the Chicago billionaire, Sigmund Adletsky, who takes Harry into his "brain trust." He retains Harry to advise him. They discuss ordinary things - they gossip together. Old Adletsky has set feelings aside while he amassed his vast fortune. The old man is so apt that he divines the secrets behind Harry's mask, and brings him together with the one person Harry has loved dumbly for forty years. Amy Wustrin has not exactly stood apart from the sexual revolution while waiting for Harry to come wooing. Far from remaining the static object of his fantasy, she has moved about in the real world, from one marriage to another, from rich to broke, from hot high-school girl to correct matron. Still, in Amy, Harry sees what he calls his "actual." Harry has had his opportunities with Amy, but it is not until he finds himself at the cemetery with her for the exhumation and reburial of her husband that he feels free to speak out.
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Bellow, Saul The Victim The Viking Press 1964 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1143488. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Ben-David, Mishka Forbidden Love in St. Petersburg 2016 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1079828. ISBN #1468310216 / 9781468310214. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Ben-David, Mishka Forbidden Love in St. Petersburg 2016 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1079828. ISBN #1468310216 / 9781468310214. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Mishka Ben-David, internationally bestselling author and former high-ranking officer in Israel's world-renowned intelligence agency, is back with a thriller that will take the reader straight to the heart of spycraft. Yogev Ben-Ari has been sent to St. Petersburg by the Mossad, ostensibly to network and set up business connections. His life is solitary, ordered, and lonely until he meets Anna. Neither is quite what they seem to be, but while her identity may be mysterious, there is no doubt about the love they feel for each other. The affair, impassioned as it is, is not part of the Mossad plan. The agency must hatch a dark scheme to drive the lovers apart. So what began as a quiet, solitary mission becomes a perilous exercise in survival, and Ben-Ari has no time to discover the truth about Anna s identity before his employers act. Amid the shadowy manipulations of the secret services, the anguished agent finds himself at an impossible crossroads. Written with the masterful skill of a seasoned novelist, and bringing to bear his years of experience as a Mossad agent himself, Ben-David once again delivers a powerful look into the mysterious Israeli intelligence agency in this action-packed page turner.
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Benchley, Peter Girl Of The Sea Of Cortez hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. Book Club Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1079788. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Bender, Aimee Bad Return: One Story Issue Number 158 stapled. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or995369. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Bender, Aimee The Girl in the Flammable Skirt Doubleday 1998 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1145211. ISBN #0385492154 / 9780385492157. (keywords: Fiction) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Benet, Stephen Vincent Twenty-Five Short Stories The Sun Dial Press 1943 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Lacks Jacket. Book #or1141096. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Bengtsson, Jonas T. A Fairy Tale Other Press 2014 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1129946. ISBN #159051694X / 9781590516942. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Bengtsson, Jonas T. A Fairy Tale Other Press 2014 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1129946. ISBN #159051694X / 9781590516942. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary In a Europe without borders, where social norms have become fragile, a son must confront the sins of his father and grandfather, and invent new strategies for survival A young boy grows up with a loving father who has little respect for the law. They are always on the run, and as they move from place to place, the boy is often distraught to leave behind new friendships. Because it would be dicey for him to go to school, his anarchistic father gives him an unconventional education intended to contradict as much as possible the teachings of his own father, a preacher and a pervert. Ten years later, when the boy is entering adulthood, with a fake name and a monotonous job, he tries to conform to the demands of ordinary life, but the lessons of the past thwart his efforts, and questions about his father s childhood cannot be left unanswered. Spanning the mid-1980s to early-twenty-first-century in Copenhagen, this coming-of-age novel examines what it means to be a stranger in the modern world, and how, for better or for worse, a father s legacy is never passed on in any predictable fashion.
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Bennett, Robert Jackson American Elsewhere Orbit 2013 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1145202. ISBN #0316200204 / 9780316200202. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Bennett, Robert Jackson American Elsewhere Orbit 2013 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1145202. ISBN #0316200204 / 9780316200202. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Some places are too good to be true. Under a pink moon, there is a perfect little town not found on any map. In that town, there are quiet streets lined with pretty houses, houses that conceal the strangest things. After a couple years of hard traveling, ex-cop Mona Bright inherits her long-dead mother's home in Wink, New Mexico. And the closer Mona gets to her mother's past, the more she understands that the people of Wink are very, very different ... From one of our most talented and original new literary voices comes the next great American supernatural novel: a work that explores the dark dimensions of the hometowns and the neighbors we thought we knew.
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