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Kostman, Joel Keys to the City: Tales of a New York City Locksmith Penguin Books 1999 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1003584. ISBN #0140279474 / 9780140279474. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Kostman, Joel Keys to the City: Tales of a New York City Locksmith Penguin Books 1999 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1003584. ISBN #0140279474 / 9780140279474. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Called "Doctor of the Deadbolt" by The New York Times, musician-turned-locksmith Joel Kostman has been collecting stories about the New York characters he's encountered in twenty years on the job: the poor and the wealthy, the friendly and the lonely, and, of course, the eccentric. As Kostman quietly lets them into their apartments, cars, or safes, they let down their guard and let him into their lives. Here we meet a ninety-two-year-old cousin of Eddie Cantor who urges Kostman to try on one of the singer's jackets; a doctor who was Bugsy Siegel's personal physician; a very sexy Jersey girl; and five naked old men listening to Mozart in a steaming apartment, while a 35-degree-below-zero wind blows outside. In vignettes reminiscent of Isaac Bashevis Singer, Keys to the City is an unforgettable collection of fourteen encounters with New Yorkers locked out, locked in--and a few not far from being locked up.
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Kostova, Elizabeth The Swan Thieves Back Bay Books 2010 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1143775. ISBN #031606579X / 9780316065795. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Kotzwinkle, William Exile E.P. Dutton 1987 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or882441. ISBN #052524526X / 9780525245261. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Kotzwinkle, William Exile E.P. Dutton 1987 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or882441. ISBN #052524526X / 9780525245261. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary "THE EXILE is a psychological mind bender. Kotzwinkle allows the novel to build slowly until, in the last hundred pages, the book becomes glued to the reader's hands as the devastating climactic scenes pile one on another. This reviewer suffered nightmares after reading the final pages, nightmares that were testimony to Kotzwinkle's powerful writing." -- W. P. Kinsella, Washington Post Book World Hollywood film star David Caspian finds himself falling through a crack in time--into the back alleys of Hitler's Germany. The problem is--he's not David Caspian any longer and the Gestapo is after him. "When Kotzwinkle is the author, readers can be sure only that the book in question will be different from everything else. His work continues to be distinguished by its originality, wit and daring. As in other Kotzwinkle novels, black magic is involved--and the reader too falls under a strange spell." -- People Magazine
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Kowalski, William Eddie's Bastard 1999 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1098753. ISBN #0060193557 / 9780060193553. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Kowalski, William Eddie's Bastard 1999 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1098753. ISBN #0060193557 / 9780060193553. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary "There was something irrevocably different about my life, about who I was and how I came to be, that made me nothing like other kids my age; and what was more, it was too late to do anything about it. It had always been too late, in a sense. . . ." In this rich, deeply resonant literary debut, twenty-eight-year-old William Kowalski explores the power of family, the meaning of history, and the bonds of individuals united and shaped by love--a wondrous novel in the grand storytelling tradition of John Irving and Wally Lamb. "Eddie's Bastard" is one William Amos Mann IV, fondly known as Billy, the illegitimate blue-eyed son of "Ready Eddie" Mann--a legendary golden athlete and brave pilot killed in Vietnam--and an unknown mother. The last in a line of proud, fiercely individualistic Irish-American men, Billy is discovered in a basket on the doorstep of the once grand farmhouse that is his ancestral family home, now a dusty, haunted mansion. The sole inhabitant is Billy's grandfather, Thomas, a bitter and lonely recluse who will raise Billy on love, fried baloney sandwiches, and the fascinating lore of the Mann family itself. While his birth may have been inauspicious, Billy's life is destined for greatness. He is a Mann, Grandpa reminds him daily, the progeny of an indomitable family scarred by success and tragedy. Through the whisky-tinged tales of his grandfather, Billy learns how the clan's fortune was discovered by his great-great-grandfather and namesake, Willie, a hero of the Civil War, and how it was lost by Thomas himself, a veteran of World War II, in a scheme known as the Great Ostrich Fiasco of 1946. As he matures into adolescence, Billy will eventually capture these stories on paper, a tradition begun by his great-great-grandfather, who confessed his secrets in a journal he kept throughout his life. Through the tales of his ancestors and his own experiences, Billy learns of bravery and cowardice, of life and death, of the heart's capacity for love and for unremitting hatred, eventually grasping the meaning and true beauty of family and history and their power to shape destiny. Here, too, are the unforgettable people who will indelibly mark him, including the generous and loving Dr. Connor, his grandfather's best friend and the man who holds the key to the secrets of Billy's past and the promise of his future; the charmingly offbeat Shumachers, a "loud, Teutonic, and vibrantly healthy" tribe of Pennsylvania Dutch farmers who care for young Billy when his grandfather is hospitalized after a freak accident; Elsie Orfenbacher, a ripe, energetic woman who will later introduce him to the pleasures of manhood; and the love of Billy's life, Annie Simpson, an ethereal girl with a dark mystery that will first bring them together and then threaten to drive them apart. A novel of discovery, of a young man's emergence into the world and the endless possibilities for greatness it offers, Eddie's Bastard is a luminous reading experience, a novel steeped in imagery and lyricism that marks the debut of a talented new writer. "My life has been made of stories from beginning to end, and just when it seems one is ending, a new one begins. The world itself is woven of stories, each man and woman and child of us threading our own brightly colored tale into the bigger story that was already being told as we were born, and that will continue to be woven by others long after our threads have run out..." -- from Eddie's Bastard
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Kraft, Eric Leaving Small's Hotel 1999 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1101547. ISBN #0312206607 / 9780312206604. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Kraft, Eric Leaving Small's Hotel 1999 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1101547. ISBN #0312206607 / 9780312206604. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary With this, his seventh novel, Eric Kraft once again gives readers and critics everywhere a reason to celebrate: Kirkus declared it "one of the most delightful novels of the decade," while Publishers Weekly asked, "Is there a more beguiling writer today than Eric Kraft?" Small's Hotel is where Peter and Albertine Leroy have spent their lives, hosting visitors while Peter works on his memoirs. But as guests grow harder to come by the future of the hotel--and of every gift Peter ever dreamed of giving his wife--is in jeopardy. What he does to save his marriage is a story involving friendship, childhood, gadgets, and great, abiding love.
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Krantz, Judith Lovers Crown Publishers 1994 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1067912. ISBN #0517593335 / 9780517593332. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Krantz, Judith Lovers Crown Publishers 1994 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1067912. ISBN #0517593335 / 9780517593332. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Lovers is pure Krantz, an intoxicating dance of love lost, stolen, and found among women and men who lure each other with potent combinations of money, talent, ambition, and passion. Chief among them is irresistible Gigi Orsini, the high-spirited, merry, adventurous creature who grew up into enchanting womanhood in Scruples Two . Now Gigi is working as a copywriter in a new Los Angeles advertising agency, with her creative "teammate," David Melville, a brilliant young art director who joins her in seeking new accounts. The agency is headed by dashing Archie Rourke, humorous Byron Bernheim and the severely difficult beauty, Victoria Frost, daughter of the famed Millicent Frost Caldwell who, with her husband Angus Caldwell, owns one of New York's largest advertising agencies. Ben Winthrop, a proper Bostonian and an enormously successful mall builder, attempts to capture Gigi's quicksilver affections, although his fierce contenders for the same prize include both David Melville and the dominating film director, Zach Nevsky. Meanwhile, Billy Winthrop Ikehorn Orsini Elliott, the unforgettably impulsive heroine of Scruples , and her new husband, the great charmer, Spider Elliott, are busy with their own fascinating lives, as are Gigi's father, canny film producer Vito Orsini, and her best friend, the ravishing Sasha Nevsky, none of whom can be forgotten from Scruples and Scruples Two . Lovers completes all the stories set in motion in the first two novels, yet it stands entirely on its own as a slice of life in the exciting years of 1983 and 1984. From the Paperback edition.
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Krantz, Judith Scruples Two hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1097970. ISBN #0517582287 / 9780517582282. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Krantz, Sherrie Vivian Lives Ballantine Books 2003 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1078455. ISBN #0345453557 / 9780345453556. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Krantz, Sherrie Vivian Lives Ballantine Books 2003 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1078455. ISBN #0345453557 / 9780345453556. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary THE FUNNIEST FICTIONAL HEROINE SINCE BRIDGET JONES. Teen People Last summer, Vivian Livingston set the world ablaze in her first book The Autobiography of Vivian, a tell-all tale of a girl trying her best to be the woman she knows she is inside. With demons to kick, confidence to gather, and goals to reach, Vivian decides to leave her safe n sound hometown and take a bite out of the Big Apple. If she can make it there . . . well, you know the song. Fast forward five eventful years anyone would have thought that Vivian finally had it all: the nice guy, the great job, the work in progress bachelorette pad, a backstage pass to New York City, and an emotional first aid kit just in case. Not so fast Just when Vivian thought that she had arrived and on time no less , think again Enter: an ever-buoyant subconscious, mind games without a set of directions, and pressures that make final exams and deciding on first date attire look like cake. In her second book, Vivian takes on her biggest challenge yet: herself. Her real fears, her true hopes, and her big dreams. Befriend her as she realizes that disillusionment comes with the territory, that breaking the glass ceiling is the least of it, and that your past the good and the bad is a part of you forever. Take the journey alongside Vivian; be her travel companion through this game called life. Bring along a notebook, be sure to stop and smell the roses, and pack your favorite cocktail dress just in case
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Krassnoff, General P.N. From Double Eagle To Red Flag hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1008976. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Krauss, Nicole Great House 2011 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1067130. ISBN #0393340643 / 9780393340648. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Krauss, Nicole Great House 2011 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1067130. ISBN #0393340643 / 9780393340648. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Finalist for the 2010 National Book Award in Fiction Winner of the 2011 ABA Indies Choice Honor Award in Fiction Winner of the 2011 Anisfield-Wolf Award Shortlisted for the 2011 Orange Prize in Fiction A powerful, soaring novel about a stolen desk that contains the secrets, and becomes the obsession, of the lives it passes through. For twenty-five years, a reclusive American novelist has been writing at the desk she inherited from a young Chilean poet who disappeared at the hands of Pinochet s secret police; one day a girl claiming to be the poet s daughter arrives to take it away, sending the writer s life reeling. Across the ocean, in the leafy suburbs of London, a man caring for his dying wife discovers, among her papers, a lock of hair that unravels a terrible secret. In Jerusalem, an antiques dealer slowly reassembles his father s study, plundered by the Nazis in Budapest in 1944. Connecting these stories is a desk of many drawers that exerts a power over those who possess it or have given it away. As the narrators of Great House make their confessions, the desk takes on more and more meaning, and comes finally to stand for all that has been taken from them, and all that binds them to what has disappeared. Great House is a story haunted by questions: What do we pass on to our children and how do they absorb our dreams and losses? How do we respond to disappearance, destruction, and change? Nicole Krauss has written a soaring, powerful novel about memory struggling to create a meaningful permanence in the face of inevitable loss. "This is a novel about the long journey of a magnificent desk as it travels through the twentieth century from one owner to the next. It is also a novel about love, exile, the defilements of war, and the restorative power of language." National Book Award citation
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Krauss, Nicole The History of Love W. W. Norton & Company 2006 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1107061. ISBN #0393328627 / 9780393328622. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Krauss, Nicole The History of Love W. W. Norton & Company 2006 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1107061. ISBN #0393328627 / 9780393328622. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The illuminating national bestseller: "Vertiginously exciting vibrantly imagined . Krauss is a prodigious talent." Janet Maslin, New York Times A long-lost book reappears, mysteriously connecting an old man searching for his son and a girl seeking a cure for her widowed mother's loneliness. Leo Gursky is just about surviving, tapping his radiator each evening to let his upstairs neighbor know he's still alive. But life wasn't always like this: sixty years ago, in the Polish village where he was born, Leo fell in love and wrote a book. And though Leo doesn't know it, that book survived, inspiring fabulous circumstances, even love. Fourteen-year-old Alma was named after a character in that very book. And although she has her hands full keeping track of her brother, Bird who thinks he might be the Messiah , and taking copious notes on How to Survive in the Wild she undertakes an adventure to find her namesake and save her family. With consummate, spellbinding skill, Nicole Krauss gradually draws together their stories. This extraordinary book was inspired by the author's four grandparents and by a pantheon of authors whose work is haunted by loss Bruno Schulz, Franz Kafka, Isaac Babel, and more. It is truly a history of love: a tale brimming with laughter, irony, passion, and soaring imagin
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Kreisler, Kristin Von Earnest 2016 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1142935. ISBN #1496700430 / 9781496700438. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Kristian, Giles Odin's Wolves Corgi paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1144799. ISBN #0552157910 / 9780552157919. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Krol, Torsten Callisto 2009 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1024269. ISBN #0061672947 / 9780061672941. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Krol, Torsten Callisto 2009 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1024269. ISBN #0061672947 / 9780061672941. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Odell Deefus, who's not the sharpest tool in the shed, has one goal: to "try my hardest to be a good soldier against the mad dog Islamites." But while driving to an army enlistment office in Callisto, Kansas, his '78 Chevy breaks down on the side of a country road, and it's only the beginning of his troubles. When he accepts a local's offer of shelter until the car is repaired, things go from bad to worse worse as in murder, drug dealers, tenacious televangelists . . . and finding himself a prime target of the FBI, which thinks he's a member of a terrorist sleeper cell. And none of it bodes well for his unrequited crush on Condoleezza Rice. But fear, rash judgments, and extreme reactions are simply the norm in a post-9 11 world. Odell will just have to deal with it.
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Krum, Sharon Thing About Jane Spring 2005 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1132737. ISBN #0670034177 / 9780670034178. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Krum, Sharon Thing About Jane Spring 2005 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1132737. ISBN #0670034177 / 9780670034178. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary There s something eating Jane Spring. At thirty-one, she has everything a woman could ask for and seemingly everything a man could long for great legs, brains, rising star status in the Manhattan D.A. s office but she just can t find a man who ll fall madly in love with her. Men are always lining up to ask her out, but for some reason no one wants a second date. So Jane resolves to change her tack, but what is it that men really want in a woman? One snowy night while watching a Doris Day marathon on cable it hits her: Doris Day always got her man. Trading her nondescript black pantsuit for petal pink Chanel and pearls, Jane dyes her hair, stops cursing, softens her voice, paints her nails even her apartment and embarks on a fun-filled journey to find the smart, sweet, gorgeous, capable, ambitious, courageous, loving, adoring, hard- working man of her dreams. Sharon Krum s magical and funny novel is the story of a driven young woman who must shed her rough exterior and embrace her inner ultra-femininity in order to truly find herself and, eventually, true love. The Thing About Jane Spring is a delightfully light and lively romp sure to charm reader
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Kubica, Mary Pretty Baby MIRA 2015 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1122785. ISBN #0778317706 / 9780778317708. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Kubica, Mary Pretty Baby MIRA 2015 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1122785. ISBN #0778317706 / 9780778317708. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary "Thrilling and illuminating." LA Times "A hypnotic psychological thriller." People A chance encounter sparks an unrelenting web of lies in this new gripping and complex psychological thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Good Girl and the upcoming page-turner Don't You Cry, Mary Kubica She sees the teenage girl on the train platform, standing in the pouring rain, clutching an infant in her arms. She boards a train and is whisked away. But she can't get the girl out of her head Heidi Wood has always been a charitable woman: she works for a nonprofit, takes in stray cats. Still, her husband and daughter are horrified when Heidi returns home one day with a young woman named Willow and her four-month-old baby in tow. Disheveled and apparently homeless, this girl could be a criminal or worse. But despite her family's objections, Heidi invites Willow and the baby to take refuge in their home. Heidi spends the next few days helping Willow get back on her feet, but as clues into Willow's past begin to surface, Heidi is forced to decide how far she's willing to go to help a stranger. What starts as an act of kindness quickly spirals into a story far more twisted than anyone could have anticipated. More Praise: "Hypnotic and anything but predictable." Kirkus, starred review "A superb psychological thriller stunning." Publishers Weekly, starred review Read the New York Times bestselling novel that everyone is talking about, The Good Girl, by Mary Kubica Look for Mary's latest complex and addictive tale of deceit and obsession, Don't You Cry. Order your copies today
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Kubica, Mary The Good Girl MIRA 2015 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Moisture damage. Book #or1101302. ISBN #0778317765 / 9780778317760. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Kubica, Mary The Good Girl MIRA 2015 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Moisture damage. Book #or1101302. ISBN #0778317765 / 9780778317760. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary "I've been following her for the past few days. I know where she buys her groceries, where she works. I don't know the color of her eyes or what they look like when she's scared. But I will." One night, Mia Dennett enters a bar to meet her on-again, off-again boyfriend. But when he doesn't show, she unwisely leaves with an enigmatic stranger. At first Colin Thatcher seems like a safe one-night stand. But following Colin home will turn out to be the worst mistake of Mia's life. When Colin decides to hide Mia in a secluded cabin in rural Minnesota instead of delivering her to his employers, Mia's mother, Eve, and detective Gabe Hoffman will stop at nothing to find them. But no one could have predicted the emotional entanglements that eventually cause this family's world to shatter. An addictively suspenseful and tautly written thriller, The Good Girl is a propulsive debut that reveals how even in the perfect family, nothing is as it seems. "Kubica's powerful debut will encourage comparisons to Gone Girl." Publishers Weekly, starred review Look for Pretty Baby , the next sensational novel by Mary Kubica. Order your copy today.
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Kultgen, Chad Men, Women & Children 2011 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1071798. ISBN #006165731X / 9780061657313. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Kultgen, Chad Men, Women & Children 2011 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1071798. ISBN #006165731X / 9780061657313. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Chad Kultgen, cult hero and author of the buzz-generating illicit classics The Average American Male and The Lie, cuts to the quick of the American psyche like no other author writing today. In Men, Women Children he explores the sexual pressures at work on a handful of troubled, conflicted junior-high students and their equally dysfunctional parents. From porn-surfing fathers to World of Warcraft-obsessed sons, from competitive cheerleaders to their dissatisfied, misguided mothers, Kultgen clicks open the emotionally treacherous culture in which we live in his most ambitious and surprising book yet.
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Kultgen, Chad Men, Women & Children: A Novel Harper Perennial 2011 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1004578. ISBN #006165731X / 9780061657313. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Kultgen, Chad Men, Women & Children: A Novel Harper Perennial 2011 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1004578. ISBN #006165731X / 9780061657313. (filed under: Fiction ) *
stock image, actual book may vary Chad Kultgen, cult hero and author of the buzz-generating illicit classics The Average American Male and The Lie, cuts to the quick of the American psyche like no other author writing today. In Men, Women Children he explores the sexual pressures at work on a handful of troubled, conflicted junior-high students and their equally dysfunctional parents. From porn-surfing fathers to World of Warcraft-obsessed sons, from competitive cheerleaders to their dissatisfied, misguided mothers, Kultgen clicks open the emotionally treacherous culture in which we live in his most ambitious and surprising book yet.
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