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SAGAN(Subject); Sagan, Francoise Night Bird: Conversations With Francoise Sagan 1980 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Lacks Jacket. Book #or1078451. ISBN #0517542242 / 9780517542248. (filed under: Literary Biography ) *
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SAGAN(Subject); Sagan, Francoise Night Bird: Conversations With Francoise Sagan 1980 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Lacks Jacket. Book #or1078451. ISBN #0517542242 / 9780517542248. (filed under: Literary Biography ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary I still prefer a life that has its ups and downs. A contented, uneventful life is no life at all as far as I'm concerned. I said I thought life was a sick joke. That doesn't mean I'm a pessimist. It may be sick, but it's still a joke; it's still funny. I've no illusions about the absurdity of life, but I'm still cheerful about it. Twenty-six years ago, a short novel called Bonjour Tristesse, written by an unknown eighteen-year-old, was published in France. Called by one reviewer a beautifully written malicious little tale, the story about a young girl who drives her potential stepmother to suicide sold over one million copies, was translated into twelve languages and became a modern classic. Francoise Sagan, its young author, became a legend and her fast life-style a symbol of postwar cynicism. As celebrity-seeking journalists moved in and kept the public informed and misinformed about her expensive tastes, changing lovers, passion for drink, gambling and sports cars, Sagan continued to write novels, plays and film scripts, avoiding the public eye as much as possible. Now, in this extended interview prepared by her French publisher, we have the opportunity to meet the real woman behind the myth. At forty-five we find her witty, simple and dazzlingly profound as she talks about her childhood, love, loneliness, money, fame, politics, drinking, predilections, writing, the theatre and films, friendship, religion, happiness, death, marriage. In these conversations it is clear that Sagan speaks as she writes, and she writes superbly. To read Nightbird is to be in the company of a fascinating woman.
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SAINT(Subject); Saint-Exupery, Consuelo de Tale Of The Rose: The Passion That Inspired The Little Prince 2001 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1080105. ISBN #0375505644 / 9780375505645. (filed under: Literary Biography ) *
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SAINT(Subject); Saint-Exupery, Consuelo de Tale Of The Rose: The Passion That Inspired The Little Prince 2001 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1080105. ISBN #0375505644 / 9780375505645. (filed under: Literary Biography ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary In the spring of 1944, Antoine de Saint-Exup ry left his wife, Consuelo, to return to the war in Europe. Soon after, he disappeared while flying a reconnaissance mission over occupied France. Neither his plane nor his body was ever found. The Tale of the Rose is Consuelo s account of their extraordinary marriage. It is a love story about a pilot and his wife, a man who yearned for the stars and the spirited woman who gave him the strength to fulfill his dreams. Consuelo Suncin Sandoval de G mez and Antoine de Saint-Exup ry met in Buenos Aires in 1930 she a seductive young widow, he a brave pioneer of early aviation, decorated for his acts of heroism in the deserts of North Africa. He was large in his passions, a fierce loner with a childlike appetite for danger. She was frail and voluble, exotic and capricious. Within hours of their first encounter, he knew he would have her as his wife. Their love affair and marriage would take them from Buenos Aires to Paris to Casablanca to New York. It would take them through periods of betrayal and infidelity, pain and intense passion, devastating abandonment and tender, poetic love. Several times in the course of their marriage they would go their separate ways, but always they would return. The Tale of the Rose is the story of a man of extravagant dreams, and of the woman who was his muse, the inspiration for the Little Prince s beloved rose unique in all the world whom he could not live with and could not live without. Written on Long Island in a quiet spell of reconciliation, The Little Prince was Antoine s greatest gift to the woman he never stopped loving, the only child to emerge from their union. The Tale of the Rose is Consuelo s reply the love letter she never could write to her husband a fable of its own, just as magical, poetic, and tragic as The Little Prince.
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SAKNUSSEMM(Subject); Saknussemm, Kris Sea Monkeys: A Memory Book 2012 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1085286. ISBN #1593764480 / 9781593764487. (filed under: Literary Biography ) *
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SAKNUSSEMM(Subject); Saknussemm, Kris Sea Monkeys: A Memory Book 2012 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1085286. ISBN #1593764480 / 9781593764487. (filed under: Literary Biography ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Bowling lessons with a hunchback. A bizarre first-grade teacher who hallucinates in class. A tragically innocent family blind-sided by flower power, and the salvation of soul music at a radio station straight out of a Quentin Tarantino version of The Twilight Zone. These are just a few of the luminous characters and conjurings Kris Saknussemm delivers in his kaleidoscopic Sea Monkeys the story of his growing up in the counterculture San Francisco Bay Area and central California in the 1960s. Known for his genre-bending works Zanesville and Private Midnight , Saknussemm now gives us a highly original take on the nonfiction memoir, in which he shatters the stained glass windows of his father's church and mixes the pieces with ghost cartoons, the Cronkite contradictions of Civil Rights demonstrations, and ads for laxatives during a strange hiatus in American sanity when Sly Stone and Perry Como could both be in the Top 10. Honest, funny, and at times heartbreaking, Sea Monkeys is the no-holds-barred tale of one of our most exciting contemporary authors own coming of age, and the perfect follow-up to Saknussemm s Zanesville , which Booklist hailed as one of the most creative, edgy, and entertaining novels spawned in a decade.
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SALINGER(Subject); Salinger, Margaret A. Dream Catcher: A Memoir Washington Square Press 2000 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1029012. ISBN #0671042815 / 9780671042813. (filed under: Literary Biography ) *
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SALINGER(Subject); Salinger, Margaret A. Dream Catcher: A Memoir Washington Square Press 2000 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1029012. ISBN #0671042815 / 9780671042813. (filed under: Literary Biography ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary "My childhood was lush with make-believe: wood sprites, fairies, a bower of imaginary friends, books about lands somewhere East of the Sun and West of the Moon... In real life, however, it was a world that dangled between dream and nightmare on a gossamer thread my parents wove, without the reality of solid ground to catch a body should he or she fall." In her much-anticipated memoir, Margaret A. Salinger writes about life with her famously reclusive father, J.D. Salinger -- offering a rare look into the man and the myth, what it is like to be his daughter, and the effect of such a charismatic figure on the girls and women closest to him. Dream Catcher With generosity and insight, Ms. Salinger has written a book that is eloquent, spellbinding, and wise, yet at the same time retains the intimacy of a novel. Her story chronicles an almost cultlike environment of extreme isolation and early neglect interwoven with times of laughter, joy, and dazzling beauty. She also delves into her parents' lives before her own birth, illuminating their childhoods, their wrenching experiences during World War II, and above all the seeds and real-life inspirations for J.D. Salinger's literary preoccupation with "phonies," protracted innocence, precocious children, and spiritual perfection. Ms. Salinger compassionately explores the complex dynamics of family relationships. Her story is one that seeks to come to terms with the dark parts of her life that, quite literally, nearly killed her, and to pass on a life-affirming heritage to her own child. The story of being a Salinger is unique; the story of being a daughter is universal. This book appeals to anyone, J.D. Salinger fan orno, who has ever had to struggle to sort out who she really is from who her parentsdreamed she might be.
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SAND(Subject); Howe, Marie Jenney George Sand: The Search For Love John Day Company 1927 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Previous owners name inking. Cracked Hinge / still useable. Book #or944130. (filed under: Literary Biography ) *
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SAND(Subject); Howe, Marie Jenney George Sand: The Search For Love John Day Company 1927 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Previous owners name inking. Cracked Hinge / still useable. Book #or944130. (filed under: Literary Biography ) *
Undated but 1927 edition bound in purple cloth. VG copy, small cloth tear at the base of the spine else VG. Front hinge torn, sewing good.
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SAND(Subject); Maurois, Andre Lelia: The Life Of George Sand Harper & Brothers 1954 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1017941. (filed under: Literary Biography ) *
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SANDBURG(Subject); Golden, Harry Carl Sandburg mass market paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1000625. (filed under: Literary Biography ) *
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Sandburg, Carl Sandburg Range Harcourt, Brace & co. 1957 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1147572. (keywords: Novelist, Poet) (filed under: Literary Biography ) *
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SARTON(Subject); Sarton, May World Of Light: Portraits And Celebrations 1976 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1063629. ISBN #0393075060 / 9780393075069. (filed under: Literary Biography ) *
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SARTON(Subject); Sarton, May World Of Light: Portraits And Celebrations 1976 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1063629. ISBN #0393075060 / 9780393075069. (filed under: Literary Biography ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary "Its revelations, its tender frankness, its acutely sensitive observations recommend this book to Sarton's growing legion of readers." Choice May Sarton's celebrations in this book center around the friendships that flowered in her life from age twenty-six to age forty-five between the end of I Knew a Phoenix and the beginning of Plant Dreaming Deep . Her subjects include her father, the noted science historian George Sarton; people in the arts Elizabeth Bowen, Louise Brogan, Jean Dominique; and people who lived lives remote from the center Marc, the vigneron of Satigny, in the foothills of the Jura mountains, and Quig, the painter of Nelson, New Hampshire.
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SEXTON, ANNE; (Subject); Middlebrook, Diane W. Anne Sexton : A Biography Houghton Mifflin Company 1991 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Some Chipping. Book #or1157084. ISBN #0395353629 / 9780395353622. (keywords: Literary Biography SEXTON ANNE 1928 1974) (filed under: Literary Biography ) *
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SHAW(Subject); Shaw, Bernard Selected Prose Of Bernard Shaw hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1122966. (filed under: Literary Biography ) *
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SHAW(Subject); St. John, Christopher (Editor) Ellen Terry And Bernard Shaw: A Correspondence hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1116026. (filed under: Literary Biography ) *
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SHAW(Subject); St. John, Christopher (Editor) Ellen Terry And Bernard Shaw: A Correspondence G.P. Putnam's Sons 1932 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Lacks Jacket. Book #or1158830. (filed under: Literary Biography ) *
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SHAW(Subject); Tompkins, Peter (Editor) Young Actress: The Letters Of Bernard Shaw To Molly Tompkins hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Tears and damage to jacket. Some Chipping. Book #or1127103. (filed under: Literary Biography ) *
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SHAW, BERNARD(Subject); Dietrich, Richard F. Portrait Of The Artist As a Young Superman: A Study Of Shaw's Novel Univ Pr of Florida 1969 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Price clipped. Book #or828255. ISBN #081300277X / 9780813002774. (filed under: Literary Biography ) *
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SHELLEY(Subject); Hemphill, Stephanie Hideous Love: The Story of the Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein Balzer + Bray 2013 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1119138. ISBN #0061853313 / 9780061853319. (filed under: Literary Biography ) *
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SHELLEY(Subject); Hemphill, Stephanie Hideous Love: The Story of the Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein Balzer + Bray 2013 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1119138. ISBN #0061853313 / 9780061853319. (filed under: Literary Biography ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary From Stephanie Hemphill, author of the Printz Honor winner Your Own, Sylvia and the acclaimed novel Wicked Girls: A Novel of the Salem Witch Trials, comes the fascinating story of gothic novelist Mary Shelley, most famous for the classic Frankenstein . An all-consuming love affair with famed poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, a family torn apart by scandal, a young author on the brink of greatness: Hideous Love is the story of the mastermind behind one of the most iconic figures in all of literature, a monster constructed out of dead bodies and brought to life by the tragic Dr. Frankenstein. This luminous verse novel reveals how Mary Shelley became one of the most celebrated authors in history.
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SIMON(Subject); Fajardo, Sal Jimenez Claude Simon hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or946760. (filed under: Literary Biography ) *
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