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Matthiessen, Peter Shadow Country 2008 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1068853. ISBN #081298062X / 9780812980622. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Matthiessen, Peter Shadow Country 2008 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1068853. ISBN #081298062X / 9780812980622. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary 2008 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER Peter Matthiessen s great American epic Killing Mister Watson, Lost Man s River, and Bone by Bone was conceived as one vast mysterious novel, but because of its length it was originally broken up into three books. In this bold new rendering, Matthiessen has cut nearly a third of the overall text and collapsed the time frame while deepening the insights and motivations of his characters with brilliant rewriting throughout. In Shadow Country, he has marvelously distilled a monumental work, realizing his original vision. Inspired by a near-mythic event of the wild Florida frontier at the turn of the twentieth century, Shadow Country reimagines the legend of the inspired Everglades sugar planter and notorious outlaw E. J. Watson, who drives himself relentlessly toward his own violent end at the hands of neighbors who mostly admired him, in a killing that obsessed his favorite son. Shadow Country traverses strange landscapes and frontier hinterlands inhabited by Americans of every provenance and color, including the black and Indian inheritors of the archaic racism that, as Watson s wife observed, "still casts its shadow over the nation." Peter Matthiessen s lyrical and illuminating work in the Watson narrative has been praised highly by such contemporaries as Saul Bellow, William Styron, and W. S. Merwin. Joseph Heller said "I read it in great gulps, up each night later than I wanted to be, in my hungry impatience to find out more and more." Praise for Shadow Country Shadow Country is altogether gripping, shocking, and brilliantly told , not just a tour de force in its stylistic range, but a great American novel, as powerful a reading experience as nearly any in our literature. This magnificent, sad masterpiece about race, history, and defeated dreams can easily stand comparison with Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men . Little wonder, too, that parts of the story of E.J. Watson call up comparisons with Dostoevsky, Conrad, and, inevitably, Faulkner . In every way, Shadow Country is a bravura performance, at once history, fiction, and myth as well as the capstone to the career of one of the most admired and admirable writers of our time . The New York Review of Books Magnificent and capacious . I'll just say right here that the book took my sleeve and like the ancient mariner would not let go. Matthiessen has made his three-part saga into a new thing . Finally now we have these books welded like a bell, and with Watson's song the last sound, all the elements fuse and resonate .a breathtaking saga. The Los Angeles Times Gorgeously written and unfailingly compelling, Shadow Country is the exhilarating masterwork of Matthiessen s career, every bit as ambitious as Moby Dick . National Geographic Adventure magazine Peter Mattiessen consolidates his epic masterpiece of Florida -- and crafts something even better He deserves credit for decades of meticulous research and obsessive details and soaring prose that converted the Watson legend into critically acclaimed literature .Anyone wanting an explanation for what happened to Florida can now find it in a single novel, a great American novel . Miami Herald Matthiessen is writing about one man's life in Shadow Country , but he is also writing about the life of the nation over the course of half a century. Watson's story is essentially the story of the American frontier, of the conquering of wild lands and people, and of what such empires cost . Even among a body of work as magnificent as Matthiessen's, this is his great book. St. Petersburg Times Shadow Country is a magnum opus . Matthiessen is meticulous in creating characters, lyrical in describing landscapes, and resolute in dissecting the values and costs that accompanied the development of this nation. -- Seattle Times Shadow Country is an ambitious, lasting, and meaningful work of literature that will not soon fade away. It is a testament to Mr. Matthiessen s integrity as an artist that he felt compelled to return to the Watson material to produce this work and satisfy his original vision .a multifaceted work that can be read variously or simultaneously as a psychological novel, a historical novel, a morality tale, a political allegory, or a mystery. -- East Hampton Star Matthiessen s Watson trilogy is a touchstone of modern American literature this reworking is remarkable .Where Watson was a magnificent character before, he comes across as nothing short of iconic here; it s difficult to find another figure in American literature so thoroughly and confincingly portrayed. Publishers Weekly , starred review, Pick of the Week Matthiessen has reinvigorated and rejoined the trilogy s novels a mosaic about the life and lynch-mob death of a turn-of-the century Florida Everglades sugar planter and serial killer named E. J. Watson into the 900-plus-page Shadow Country . This is no mere repackaging: Four hundred pages were cut from the novels, previous background characters now tromp to the foreground, and the books rangy, Faulknerian essence is rendered more digestible. Deliciously digestible , that is; this is a thick porterhouse of a novel . Men s Journal "The fiction of Peter Matthiessen is the reason a lot of people in my generation decided to be writers. No doubt about it. SHADOW COUNTRY lives up to anyone's highest expectations for great writing ." -- Richard Ford "Peter Matthiessen is a brilliantly gifted and ambitious writer, an inspired anatomist of the American mythos. His storytelling skills are prodigious and his rapport with his subject is remarkable." -- Joyce Carol Oates "Peter Matthiessen's work, both in fiction and non-fiction, has become a unique achievement in his own generation and in American literature as a whole. Everything that he has written has been conveyed in his own clear, deeply informed, elegant and powerful prose. The Watson saga-in-the-round, to which he has devoted nearly thirty years, is his crowning achievement . SHADOW COUNTRY, his distillation of the earlier trilogy, is his transmutation of it to represent his original vision. It is the quintessence of his lif
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Mattison, Alice Book Borrower 2008 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1111726. ISBN #0061153028 / 9780061153020. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Mattison, Alice Book Borrower 2008 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1111726. ISBN #0061153028 / 9780061153020. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary On the day they first meet in a city playground, Deborah Laidlaw lends Toby Ruben a book called Trolley Girl , the memoir of a forgotten trolley strike in the 1920s, written by the sister of a fiery Jewish revolutionary who played an important, ultimately tragic role in the events. Young mothers with babies, Toby and Deborah become instant friends. It is a relationship that will endure for decades through the vagaries of marriage, career, and child-rearing, through heated discussions of politics, ethics, and life until an insurmountable argument takes the two women down divergent paths. But in the aftermath of crisis and sorrow, it is a borrowed book, long set aside and forgotten, that will unite Toby and Deborah once again.
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Maugham, W. Somerset Cakes And Ale The Modern Library 1950 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Lacks Jacket. Book #or1141722. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Maugham, W. Somerset Christmas Holiday Doubleday, Doran 1939 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Previous owners name inking. JACKET COND: Lacks Jacket. Book #or795488. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Maum, Courtney I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You 2015 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1104703. ISBN #1476764557 / 9781476764559. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Maum, Courtney I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You 2015 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1104703. ISBN #1476764557 / 9781476764559. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary In this reverse love story set in Paris and London, which The Wall Street Journal hailed as funny and soulful immediately appealing, a failed monogamist attempts to woo his wife back and to answer the question: Is it really possible to fall back in love with your spouse? Despite the success of his first solo show in Paris and the support of his brilliant French wife and young daughter, thirty-four-year-old British artist Richard Haddon is too busy mourning the loss of his American mistress to a famous cutlery designer to appreciate his fortune. But after Richard discovers that a painting he originally made for his wife, Anne when they were first married and deeply in love has sold, it shocks him back to reality and he resolves to reinvest wholeheartedly in his family life just in time for his wife to learn the extent of his affair. Rudderless and remorseful, Richard embarks on a series of misguided attempts to win Anne back while focusing his creative energy on a provocative art piece to prove that he s still the man she once loved. Skillfully balancing biting wit with a deep emotional undercurrent, this charming and engrossing portrait of one man s midlife crisis Elle creates the perfect picture of an imperfect family and a heartfelt exploration of marriage, love, and fidelity.
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Maupassant, Guy De Bel Ami, or the History of a Scoundrel: A Novel, Vol. 7 Forgotten Books 2012 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or999616. ISBN #1440094047 / 9781440094040. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Maupassant, Guy De Bel Ami, or the History of a Scoundrel: A Novel, Vol. 7 Forgotten Books 2012 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or999616. ISBN #1440094047 / 9781440094040. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Poverty FTER changing his five-franc piece Georges Duroy left the restaurant. He twisted his mustache in mihtary style and cast a rapid, sweeping glance upon the diners, among whom were three saleswomen, an untidy music-teacher of uncertain age, and two women with their husbands. When he reached the sidewalk, he paused to consider what route he should ke. It was the twenty-eighth of June -. wu he had only three francs in his pocket to last him the remainder of the month. That meant two dinners and no lunches, or two lunches and no dinners, according to choice. As he pondered upon this unpleasant state of affairs, he sauntered down Rue Notre Dame de Lorette, preserving his military air and carriage, and rudely jostled the people upon the streets in order to clear a path for 7G. de M. Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book. About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology. Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the aged text. Read books online for free at www.forgottenbooks.org
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Maupassant, Guy De Best Of Maupassant hardcover. Book comes with slip case. Slip Case in good condition. Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1125423. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Maupassant, Guy de Pierre And Jean 1979 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1002161. ISBN #0140443584 / 9780140443585. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Maupassant, Guy de Pierre And Jean 1979 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1002161. ISBN #0140443584 / 9780140443585. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary An intensely personal story of suspicion, jealousy, and family love, this novel shows the influence of such masters as Zola and Flaubert on Maupassant's writings. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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Maupassant, Guy De Short Stories Of The Tragedy And Comedy Of Life hardcover. Volume 16 only. Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1122557. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Maupassant, Guy De Tales Of Guy De Maupassant Heritage Press 1964 hardcover. Book comes with slip case. Slip Case in good condition. Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or992661. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Maupassant, Guy De The Tales Of Guy De Maupassant Heritage Press 1964 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Slip Case Included.. Book #or842536. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Maupin, Armistead Babycakes Harper Perennial 2007 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1112111. ISBN #0060924837 / 9780060924836. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Maupin, Armistead Babycakes Harper Perennial 2007 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1112111. ISBN #0060924837 / 9780060924836. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary "An extended love letter to a magical San Francisco." -- New York Times Book Review When an ordinary househusband and his ambitious wife decide to start a family, they discover there's more to making a baby then meets the eye. Help arrives in the form of a grieving gay neighbor, a visiting monarch, and the dashing young lieutenant who defects from her yacht. Bittersweet and profoundly affecting, Babycakes was the first work of fiction to acknowledge the arrival of AIDS. "Armistead is a true original. His tales are bang up-to-date. They will surprise and maybe even shock you, but, I promise, they will make you laugh." --Ian McKellen "Maupin has a genius for observation. His characters have the timing of vaudeville comics, flawed by human frailty and fueled by blind hop." --Denver Post "Armistead Maupin's San Francisco saga careens beautifully on." -- New York Times Book Review
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Maupin, Armistead Mary Ann in Autumn 2011 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1111717. ISBN #0061470899 / 9780061470899. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Maupin, Armistead Mary Ann in Autumn 2011 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1111717. ISBN #0061470899 / 9780061470899. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The eighth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin s best-selling San Francisco saga, soon to return to television as a Netflix original series once again starring Laura Linney and Olympia Dukakis. Following the success of his New York Times bestseller Michael Tolliver Lives , Armistead Maupin s Mary Ann in Autumn is a touching portrait of friendship, family, and fresh starts, as the City by the Bay welcomes back Mary Ann Singleton, the beloved Tales of the City heroine who started it all. A new chapter begins in the lives of both Mary Ann and Michael Mouse Tolliver when she returns to San Francisco to rejoin her oldest friend after years in New York City the reunion that fans of Maupin s beloved Tales of the City series have been awaiting for years.
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Maupin, Armistead Maybe the Moon Harper Perennial 1993 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1042339. ISBN #0060924349 / 9780060924348. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Maupin, Armistead Maybe the Moon Harper Perennial 1993 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1042339. ISBN #0060924349 / 9780060924348. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Maybe the Moon, Armistead Maupin's first novel since ending his bestselling Tales of the City series, is the audaciously original chronicle of Cadence Roth -- Hollywood actress, singer, iconoclast and former Guiness Book record holder as the world's shortest woman. All of 31 inches tall, Cady is a true survivor in a town where -- as she says -- "you can die of encouragement." Her early starring role as a lovable elf in an immensely popular American film proved a major disappointment, since moviegoers never saw the face behind the stifling rubber suit she was required to wear. Now, after a decade of hollow promises from the Industry, she is reduced to performing at birthday parties and bat mitzvahs as she waits for the miracle that will finally make her a star. In a series of mordantly funny journal entries, Maupin tracks his spunky heroine across the saffron-hazed wasteland of Los Angeles -- from her all-too-infrequent meetings with agents and studio moguls to her regular harrowing encounters with small children, large dogs and human ignorance. Then one day a lanky piano player saunters into Cady's life, unleashing heady new emotions, and she finds herself going for broke, shooting the moon with a scheme so harebrained and daring that it just might succeed. Her accomplice in the venture is her best friend, Jeff, a gay waiter who sees Cady's struggle for visibility as a natural extension of his own war against the Hollywood Closet. As clear-eyed as it is charming, Maybe the Moon is a modern parable about the mythology of the movies and the toll it exacts from it participants on both sides of the screen. It is a work that speaks to the resilience of the human spirit from a perspective rarely found in literature.
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Mauriac, Claude The Dinner Party George Braziller, Inc. 1960 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Some Chipping. Book #or1142650. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Maurier, Daphne Du Kings General hardcover. First Edition. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1081485. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Maxwell, Robin The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn Touchstone 1998 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1055843. ISBN #0684849690 / 9780684849690. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Maxwell, Robin The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn Touchstone 1998 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1055843. ISBN #0684849690 / 9780684849690. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary In this "energetic" Kirkus Reviews re-creation of Anne Boleyn's tragic life -- and death -- Robin Maxwell offers a pitch-perfect version of a bawdy and exuberant time filled with lust, betrayal, love, and murder. When the young Queen Elizabeth I is entrusted with Anne Boleyn's secret diary, she discovers a great deal about the much-maligned mother she never knew. And on learning the truth about her lascivious and despotic father, Henry VIII, she vows never to relinquish control to any man. But this avowal doesn't prevent Elizabeth from pursuing a torrid love affair with her horsemaster, Robin Dudley -- described with near-shocking candor -- as too are Anne's graphic trysts with a very persistent and lustful Henry. Blending a historian's attention to accuracy with a novelist's artful rendering, Maxwell weaves compelling descriptions of court life and devastating portraits of actual people into her naughty, page-turning tale. The result is a masterpiece of historical fiction -- so prophetic of our time that one would think it were ripped from today's headlines.
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May, Antoinette Sacred Well 2009 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1082436. ISBN #0061695556 / 9780061695551. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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May, Antoinette Sacred Well 2009 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1082436. ISBN #0061695556 / 9780061695551. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary A young reporter in 1923, Alma Reed accompanies archaeologists to the ruins of Chichen Itza, where a fortune in Mayan artifacts has been stolen from a sacrificial well. It's believed a curse was unleashed by the theft yet the career-making story it offers the ambitious journalist seems a godsend. It also leads her to a passionate love affair with revolutionary governor Felipe Carrillo Puerto. But when fate darkens their lives and damns them as doomed political pawns, Alma can't help but wonder if the curse is not, in fact, very real. In another century, another writer is fascinated by Alma's tragic story. Drawn restlessly to Yucat n and away from the stifling needs of her desperately ill partner Sage Sanborn is tempted by her growing feelings for David, a scientist who encourages her to delve deeper into Alma's history. And in this ancient place of mystery and spirits, Sage must make an impossible decision that will forever change the course of her life.
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May, Dalaina Yielded Captive Pioneers-usa 2013 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1092718. ISBN #0985219238 / 9780985219239. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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May, Dalaina Yielded Captive Pioneers-usa 2013 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1092718. ISBN #0985219238 / 9780985219239. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Lord, this was not how it was supposed to end. Allison Carter had dedicated her life to being a missionary in the jungles of Peru. Now she was being dragged into an unknown future by the very people she had come to reach. They had attacked without warning or provocation. With her infant son in her arms and her husband, Eric, lying facedown with an arrow in his back, death seemed preferable to captivity in a primitive tribe, with customs and mindsets alien to her own. But Allison had to stay alive--if only to protect Isaac--to raise him to fear the one true God ... ... that same God who had allowed her to suffer so much? Stubborn as she was in resisting her abusive captors, Allison's greatest battle was not with them, but with the God she thought she knew. Why did He not rescue her? Where was He in her suffering? Could He still be trusted with Isaac's and her future? As she grew to know--and even forgive--her captors, the answers Allison received did not come quickly, nor were they always the answers she wanted to hear. At times gut-wrenching, at others flavored with humor, Yielded Captive explores a question often left unanswered by modern-day Christianity: Why would a God of love allow His own children to suffer--and what could He possibly accomplish from such suffering?
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