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PUSHKIN(Subject); Troyat, Henri Pushkin hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1001328. (filed under: Literary Biography ) *
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PUSHKIN; (Subject); PUSHKIN; Binyon, T.J. Pushkin: A Biography Knopf 2003 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1167057. ISBN #1400041104 / 9781400041107. (filed under: Literary Biography ) *
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PUSHKIN; (Subject); PUSHKIN; Binyon, T.J. Pushkin: A Biography Knopf 2003 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1167057. ISBN #1400041104 / 9781400041107. (filed under: Literary Biography ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Pushkin is Russia s greatest and best-loved poet: a romantic, enigmatic figure who, during a brief but turbulent life, changed Russian literature forever with his vital and passionate verse. Many of his works including The Bronze Horseman, The Queen of Spades, and his extraordinary novel in verse, Eugene Onegin have become classics of world literature and are as exhilarating to read today as they were when first published. Now we have the first full biography in sixty years of this literary legend. Born in Moscow in 1799, he was descended on one side from an ancient noble family, on the other from a black African slave of Peter the Great. At the age of twenty he was expelled from St. Petersburg for his satirical writings. He remained in internal exile, under the direct supervision of the emperor, for the next seven years, and throughout his life attracted official disapproval for his political and religious beliefs and for his many love affairs. In 1831, despite mounting debts from gambling and an insecure income, he married the eighteen-year-old Natalya Goncharova, who soon became recognized as one of the most beautiful women of St. Petersburg society. The attentions paid her by a Guards officer, the French migr d Anth s, roused Pushkin to fury. In the subsequent duel, fought on January 27, 1837, he was fatally wounded. He died in agony two days later. This superb, authoritative biography winner of England s prestigious Samuel Johnson Prize frees the complex figure of Pushkin the man from the heroic simplicity of Pushkin the myth, making palpable the poet s rare energy, talents, and spirit. Telling Pushkin s story with exacting scholarship, elegant wit, and acute insight, T. J. Binyon gives us a revelation of the poet and the man.
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PUSHKIN; (Subject); PUSHKIN; Binyon, T.J. Pushkin: A Biography Knopf 2003 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1169195. ISBN #1400041104 / 9781400041107. (filed under: Literary Biography ) *
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PUSHKIN; (Subject); PUSHKIN; Binyon, T.J. Pushkin: A Biography Knopf 2003 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1169195. ISBN #1400041104 / 9781400041107. (filed under: Literary Biography ) *
stock image, actual book may vary Pushkin is Russia s greatest and best-loved poet: a romantic, enigmatic figure who, during a brief but turbulent life, changed Russian literature forever with his vital and passionate verse. Many of his works including The Bronze Horseman, The Queen of Spades, and his extraordinary novel in verse, Eugene Onegin have become classics of world literature and are as exhilarating to read today as they were when first published. Now we have the first full biography in sixty years of this literary legend. Born in Moscow in 1799, he was descended on one side from an ancient noble family, on the other from a black African slave of Peter the Great. At the age of twenty he was expelled from St. Petersburg for his satirical writings. He remained in internal exile, under the direct supervision of the emperor, for the next seven years, and throughout his life attracted official disapproval for his political and religious beliefs and for his many love affairs. In 1831, despite mounting debts from gambling and an insecure income, he married the eighteen-year-old Natalya Goncharova, who soon became recognized as one of the most beautiful women of St. Petersburg society. The attentions paid her by a Guards officer, the French migr d Anth s, roused Pushkin to fury. In the subsequent duel, fought on January 27, 1837, he was fatally wounded. He died in agony two days later. This superb, authoritative biography winner of England s prestigious Samuel Johnson Prize frees the complex figure of Pushkin the man from the heroic simplicity of Pushkin the myth, making palpable the poet s rare energy, talents, and spirit. Telling Pushkin s story with exacting scholarship, elegant wit, and acute insight, T. J. Binyon gives us a revelation of the poet and the man.
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QUINCEY(Subject); Quincey, Thomas De Confessions of an English Opium Eater Dover Publications 1995 mass market paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1014286. ISBN #0486287424 / 9780486287423. (filed under: Literary Biography ) *
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QUINCEY(Subject); Quincey, Thomas De Confessions of an English Opium Eater Dover Publications 1995 mass market paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1014286. ISBN #0486287424 / 9780486287423. (filed under: Literary Biography ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Although he was an acute literary critic, a voluminous contributor to Blackwood's and other journals, and a perceptive writer on history, biography, and economics, Thomas de Quincey 1785 1859 is best known for his Confessions of an English Opium Eater . First published in installments in the London Magazine in 1821, the work recounts De Quincey's early years as a precocious student of Greek, his flight from grammar school and subsequent adventures among the outcasts and prostitutes of London, studies at Oxford University and his introduction to opium in 1804 he hoped that taking the drug would relieve a severe headache . It was the beginning of a long-term addiction to opium, whose effects on his mind are revealed in remarkably vivid descriptions of the dreams and visions he experienced while under its influence. Describing the general style of the Confessions , an English critic of the period wrote in the London Monthly Review : "They have an air of reality and life; and they exhibit such strong graphic powers as to throw an interest and even a dignity round a subject which in less able hands might have been rendered a tissue of trifles and absurdities." In later years, De Quincey revised and expanded the first edition of the Confessions into a much longer, more verbose work which lacked the readable intensity of the original. The present edition reprints the first version, generally considered more impressive, and admired for its introspective penetration and journalistic astuteness.
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RALEIGH(Subject); Waldman, Milton Sir Walter Raleigh hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1132105. (filed under: Literary Biography ) *
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RAND(Subject); Branden, Nathaniel Judgment Day: My Years With Ayn Rand 2014 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1025192. ISBN #0395461073 / 9780395461075. (filed under: Literary Biography ) *
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RAND(Subject); Branden, Nathaniel Judgment Day: My Years With Ayn Rand 2014 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1025192. ISBN #0395461073 / 9780395461075. (filed under: Literary Biography ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Branden's long, tedious account of his 18-year relationship with Ayn Rand is weighted with self-dramatization. The domineering author of The Fountainhead was 25 years his senior when they met in 1950; both were married yet carried on an affair. Branden writes that in 1968, when Rand discovered he was having an affair with Patrecia Gullison, an actress-model who became his second wife, Rand violently severed their relationship and excommunicated him from the inner circle of the Objectivist movement, of which Branden had been a chief disciple. After Patrecia drowned in 1977, Branden's third wife, Devers, formed a friendship with Rand, who still refused to speak to Branden. As he settles scores with colleagues here and tests his theory of the psychology of romantic love, he also tests the reader's patience; nevertheless, Rand devotees will likely relish the steamy details of her personal life.
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RAND(Subject); Branden, Nathaniel Judgment Day: My Years With Ayn Rand 2014 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1015181. ISBN #0395461073 / 9780395461075. (filed under: Literary Biography ) *
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RAND(Subject); Branden, Nathaniel Judgment Day: My Years With Ayn Rand 2014 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1015181. ISBN #0395461073 / 9780395461075. (filed under: Literary Biography ) *
stock image, actual book may vary Branden's long, tedious account of his 18-year relationship with Ayn Rand is weighted with self-dramatization. The domineering author of The Fountainhead was 25 years his senior when they met in 1950; both were married yet carried on an affair. Branden writes that in 1968, when Rand discovered he was having an affair with Patrecia Gullison, an actress-model who became his second wife, Rand violently severed their relationship and excommunicated him from the inner circle of the Objectivist movement, of which Branden had been a chief disciple. After Patrecia drowned in 1977, Branden's third wife, Devers, formed a friendship with Rand, who still refused to speak to Branden. As he settles scores with colleagues here and tests his theory of the psychology of romantic love, he also tests the reader's patience; nevertheless, Rand devotees will likely relish the steamy details of her personal life.
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RAND, ANYN; (Subject); Rand, Ayn and edited by Michael S. Berliner Letters Of Ayn Rand A Dutton Book 1995 hardcover. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1143586. ISBN #0525939466 / 9780525939467. (filed under: Literary Biography ) *
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RIVES(Subject); Lucey, Donna M. Archie And Amelie: Love And Madness in The Gilded Age 2006 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1098750. ISBN #1400048524 / 9781400048526. (filed under: Literary Biography ) *
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RIVES(Subject); Lucey, Donna M. Archie And Amelie: Love And Madness in The Gilded Age 2006 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1098750. ISBN #1400048524 / 9781400048526. (filed under: Literary Biography ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary John Armstrong Chanler known as Archie to his family was an heir to the Astor fortune, an eccentric, dashing, and handsome millionaire. Am lie Rives, from a Southern family and the goddaughter of Robert E. Lee, was a daring author, a stunning temptress, and a woman ahead of her time. Filled with glamour, mystery, and madness, their love affair and marriage made them the talk of society in the Gilded Age. Archie and Am lie seemed made for each other both were passionate, intense, and driven by emotion but the very things that brought them together would soon draw them apart. Their marriage began with a secret wedding that found its way onto the front page of the New York Times , to the dismay of Archie s relatives and Am lie s many gentleman friends. To the world, the couple appeared charmed, rich, and famous; they moved in social circles that included Oscar Wilde, Teddy Roosevelt, and Stanford White. But although their love was undeniable, they tormented each other, and their private life was troubled from the start. They were the F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald of their day a celebrated couple too dramatic and unconventional to last but their tumultuous story has largely been forgotten. Now, Donna M. Lucey vividly brings to life these extraordinary lovers and their sweeping, tragic romance. In the Virginia hunt country just outside of Charlottesville , where I live, the older people still tell stories of a strange couple who died some two generations ago. The stories involve ghosts, the mysterious burning of a church, a murder at a millionaire s house, a sensational lunacy trial, and a beautiful, scantily clad young woman prowling her gardens at night as if she were searching for something or someone or trying to walk off the effects of the morphine that was deranging her. I was inclined to dismiss all of this as tall tales Virginians love to spin out; but when I looked into these yarns I found proof that they were true. . . . Donna M. Lucey on Archie and Am lie
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ROGERS, WILL; Croy, Homer Our Will Rogers Duell, Sloan & Pearce 1953 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Acceptable. Tears and damage to jacket. Book #or774538. (filed under: Literary Biography ) *
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Rorem, Ned Nantucket Diary of Ned Rorem, 1973-1985 North Point Press 1987 Hard Cover. First Edition. Book: Clean text. B&W photos.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or606645. ISBN #0865472599 / 9780865472594. (keywords: SELF-PORTRAIT AUTOBIOGRAPHY AUTHOR WRITER PERSONAL MEMOIRS) (filed under: Literary Biography ) *
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RUDYARD KIPLING(Subject); Amis, Kingsley Rudyard Kipling Thames and Hudson paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1163929. ISBN #0500260192 / 9780500260197. (filed under: Literary Biography ) *
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RUDYARD KIPLING(Subject); Amis, Kingsley Rudyard Kipling Thames and Hudson paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1150326. ISBN #0500260192 / 9780500260197. (filed under: Literary Biography ) *
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RUNYON(Subject); Weiner, Ed Damon Runyon Story hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1083651. (filed under: Literary Biography ) *
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RUSHDIE, SALMAN;(Subject); Rushdie, Salman Joseph Anton: A Memoir Random House 2012 hardcover. First Edition. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1130528. ISBN #0812992784 / 9780812992786. (filed under: Literary Biography ) *
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RUSHDIE, SALMAN;(Subject); Rushdie, Salman Joseph Anton: A Memoir Random House 2012 hardcover. First Edition. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1130528. ISBN #0812992784 / 9780812992786. (filed under: Literary Biography ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY San Francisco Chronicle Newsweek The Daily Beast The Seattle Times The Economist Kansas City Star BookPage On February 14, 1989, Valentine s Day, Salman Rushdie was telephoned by a BBC journalist and told that he had been sentenced to death by the Ayatollah Khomeini. For the first time he heard the word fatwa . His crime? To have written a novel called The Satanic Verses, which was accused of being against Islam, the Prophet and the Quran. So begins the extraordinary story of how a writer was forced underground, moving from house to house, with the constant presence of an armed police protection team. He was asked to choose an alias that the police could call him by. He thought of writers he loved and combinations of their names; then it came to him: Conrad and Chekhov Joseph Anton. How do a writer and his family live with the threat of murder for more than nine years? How does he go on working? How does he fall in and out of love? How does despair shape his thoughts and actions, how and why does he stumble, how does he learn to fight back? In this remarkable memoir Rushdie tells that story for the first time; the story of one of the crucial battles, in our time, for freedom of speech. He talks about the sometimes grim, sometimes comic realities of living with armed policemen, and of the close bonds he formed with his protectors; of his struggle for support and understanding from governments, intelligence chiefs, publishers, journalists, and fellow writers; and of how he regained his freedom. It is a book of exceptional frankness and honesty, compelling, provocative, moving, and of vital importance. Because what happened to Salman Rushdie was the first act of a drama that is still unfolding somewhere in the world every day. Praise for Joseph Anton A harrowing, deeply felt and revealing document: an autobiographical mirror of the big, philosophical preoccupations that have animated Mr. Rushdie s work throughout his career. Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times A splendid book, the finest . . . memoir to cross my desk in many a year. Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Thoughtful and astute . . . an important book. USA Today Compelling, affecting . . . demonstrates Mr. Rushdie s ability as a stylist and storytelle. . . . He reacted with great bravery and even heroism. The Wall Street Journal Gripping, moving and entertaining . . . nothing like it has ever been written. The Independent UK A thriller, an epic, a political essay, a love story, an ode to liberty. Le Point France Action-packed . . . in a literary class by itself . . . Like Isherwood, Rushdie s eye is a camera lens firmly placed in one perspective and never out of focus. Los Angeles Review of Books Unflinchingly honest . . . an engrossing, exciting, revealing and often shocking book. de Volkskrant The Netherlands One of the best memoirs you may ever read. DNA India Extraordinary . . . Joseph Anton beautifully modulates between . . . moments of accidental hilarity, and the higher purpose Rushdie saw in opposing at all costs any curtailment on a writer s freedom. The Boston Globe
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SADE(Subject); Gray, Francine Du plessix At Home with the Marquis De Sade: A Life Simon & Schuster 1998 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1085832. ISBN #0684800071 / 9780684800073. (filed under: Literary Biography ) *
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SADE(Subject); Gray, Francine Du plessix At Home with the Marquis De Sade: A Life Simon & Schuster 1998 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1085832. ISBN #0684800071 / 9780684800073. (filed under: Literary Biography ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary In this groundbreaking account of the scandalous life and the violent times of the Marquis de Sade, novelist, essayist, and biographer Francine du Plessix Gray brilliantly resurrects this legendary man's relationship with his family -- his devoted wife, his iron-willed mother-in-law, and his three children. Gray draws on thousands of pages of letters exchanged by the two spouses, few of which have been published in English, to explore in the fullest historical and psychological detail what it was like to be the Marquise de Sade, a decorous, upright woman married throughout the decades preceding the French Revolution to one of the most maverick spirits of recent times. Donatien Alphonse Fran ois, Marquis de Sade 1740-1814 , the flamboyant aristocrat whose name has come to connote sexual cruelty, has been called "the freest spirit who ever lived," "the most lucid hero of Western thought," and "a Professor Emeritus of crime." Yet in the vast literature inspired by the marquis's fictional and real-life libertinism, relatively little attention has been given the two women who were closest to him: Ren e-P lagie de Sade, his adoring wife for more than a quarter of a century, and his powerful mother-in-law, Madame de Montreuil. Gray brings to life these two remarkable women and their complex relationship with Sade as they dedicated themselves, each in her own way, to protecting him from the law, curbing his excesses, and ultimately confining him. After years of indulging a variety of sexual aberrations, experiences he used in novels such as Justine, Philosophy in the Boudoir, and The 120 Days of Sodom, Sade was imprisoned on the basis of an arrest warrant issued by Louis XVI at his mother-in-law's instigation. Throughout his thirteen years in jail, Madame de Sade was her husband's principal solace and his only lifeline to reality. Few spouses seemed more ill-matched than the profligate nobleman and his homespun wife, but the two enjoyed intimate bonds of affection and conspiracy. Madame de Sade remained passionately in love with her husband throughout the first twenty-six years of their marriage; she accepted his many liaisons with actresses, courtesans, and whores of all varieties; hid her husband's traces from the police; and may even have participated in his orgies. It was only upon the onset of the French Revolution, when Sade was finally freed from the Bastille, that P lagie made a sudden about-face from her decades of abject devotion. In the course of telling this remarkable story, Gray vividly re-creates the extravagant hedonism of late eighteenth-century France; the ensuing terror of the French Revolution, when her protagonists lived in fear of imminent destruction; and the oppression of the Napoleonic regime under which Sade spent his last decade. The seventy-four-year span of the Marquis de Sade's life, the entire panorama of his milieu and of his times, are brought to life in these pages with immediacy, irony, and verve.
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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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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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