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Schaeffer, Susan Fromberg Buffalo Afternoon 1989 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1090825. ISBN #0394571789 / 9780394571782. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Schaeffer, Susan Fromberg Buffalo Afternoon 1989 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1090825. ISBN #0394571789 / 9780394571782. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary "Remarkable . . . The entire Vietnam experience in one epic narrative." The New York Times Book Review For Pete Bravado, the war begins with home and family in Brooklyn: his grandfather's broken dreams, his father's ice-hard heart, his mother's tragic affection, and his own disillusionment and delinquency. Raised against the grain of his true nature, Pete seeks escape in the army -- but instead of finding freedom, he finds a madness in himself that answers the madness of war. And when he comes home, a new struggle begins -- a struggle to see what the war has made him, so he can begin to remake himself. From the Paperback edition.
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Schaeffer, Susan Fromberg Snow Fox 2005 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1068159. ISBN #0393326527 / 9780393326529. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Schaeffer, Susan Fromberg Snow Fox 2005 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1068159. ISBN #0393326527 / 9780393326529. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary "A spare, subtle, moving love story that builds and sustains its own utterly believable world." Elizabeth Ward, Washington Post One thousand years ago, chaos loosed itself upon Japan, upending an era in which the arts flourished. At the dawn of 250 years of civil war, in the opulent court of Lord Norimasa, the beautiful but cruel poet Lady Utsu wages war with men's hearts and holds the fearsome lord and his devoted samurai Matsuhito in her thrall. As the two men raze Japan's landscape in futile battles for unity, Utsu falls for Matsuhito even as Lord Norimasa continues to love her. The epic romance of Utsu and Matsuhito resumes itself decades later, when they meet as vagrants so transformed by time that they no longer recognize each other; they are reunited through their mystical connection to a pair of snow foxes that are their only company in the Japanese wilderness. The heartbreaking story of their renewed love is fraught by the Japanese concept of mono no aware life's ephemeral nature that weighs on the lovers. Reading group guide included.
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Schaffert, Timothy Singing And Dancing Daughters Of God 2005 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1121646. ISBN #1932961127 / 9781932961126. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Schaffert, Timothy Singing And Dancing Daughters Of God 2005 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1121646. ISBN #1932961127 / 9781932961126. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary A blithe and redemptive seriocomic love story filled with country music, the ghosts of Halloween, and an ironic brand of down-home religion. Newly divorced and feeling the pain of separation from his family, Hud Smith channels his regret into writing country-western songs, contemplating life on the lam with his 8-year-old daughter, and searching cryptic postcards for news of his teenage son who has run off with The Daughters of God, an alternative Gospel-punk band of growing fame. Then he finds himself inching toward reconciliation with his ex, tossing his whole talent for misery into question as they head off in a borrowed school bus, hoping so very tentatively to bring the entire family together again. In this endearing misadventure that threatens to turn out right in spite of it all, Schaffert writes a thin line between tragedy and hilarity, turning wry humor and a keen sense of the paradoxical onto characters who deserve all the tender care he gives them.
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Schaffert, Timothy Swan Gondola 2014 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1070148. ISBN #1594486093 / 9781594486098. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Schaffert, Timothy Swan Gondola 2014 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1070148. ISBN #1594486093 / 9781594486098. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary A lush and thrilling romantic fable about two lovers set against the scandalous burlesques, midnight s ances, and aerial ballets of the 1898 Omaha World s Fair. On the eve of the 1898 Omaha World s Fair, Ferret Skerritt, ventriloquist by trade, con man by birth, isn t quite sure how it will change him or his city. Omaha still has the marks of a filthy Wild West town, even as it attempts to achieve the grandeur and respectability of nearby Chicago. But when he crosses paths with the beautiful and enigmatic Cecily, his whole purpose shifts and the fair becomes the backdrop to their love affair. One of a traveling troupe of actors that has descended on the city, Cecily works in the Midway s Chamber of Horrors, where she loses her head hourly on a guillotine playing Marie Antoinette. And after closing, she rushes off, clinging protectively to a mysterious carpetbag, never giving Ferret a second glance. But a moonlit ride on the swan gondola, a boat on the lagoon of the New White City, changes everything, and the fair s magic begins to take its effect. From the critically acclaimed author of The Coffins of Little Hope , The Swan Gondola is a transporting read, reminiscent of Water for Elephants or The Night Circus .
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Schickler, David Kissing in Manhattan Dial Press 2001 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or916102. ISBN #0385335660 / 9780385335669. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Schickler, David Kissing in Manhattan Dial Press 2001 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or916102. ISBN #0385335660 / 9780385335669. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Hilarious, sexy, and deeply tender, Kissing in Manhattan follows a troupe of love-hungry urbanites through a charmed metropolis and into the Preemption -- the mythic Manhattan apartment building readers first discovered when The New Yorker debuted David Schickler's stunning short story "The Smoker." Now, in Schickler's eagerly anticipated first book, the Preemption sets the stage for a romantic fantasy as exuberant, dark, and dazzling as the city it occupies. Behind closed doors, the paths of an improbable cast of tenants -- a seductive perfume heiress; a crabby, misunderstood actor; a preternaturally sharp-sighted priest -- tangle and cross, while a perilous love triangle builds around three characters: James Branch, a shy young accountant with an unusual love for the Preemption's antique elevator, and a strange destiny... Patrick Rigg, a Wall Street lothario who soothes his pain by seducing beautiful women, carrying a gun, and attending the nightly sermons of a foreboding priest... Rally McWilliams, a fetching, hopeful young writer who roams the city at night, searching for the soulmate she believes in but can't find... Charged with joy and a deadly sense of humor, Kissing in Manhattan is a daring new writer's vision of a world where men and women, good and evil, love and sex, meet, battle, and embrace on every street corner.
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Schickler, David Sweet and Vicious The Dial Press 2004 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1042775. ISBN #0385335687 / 9780385335683. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Schickler, David Sweet and Vicious The Dial Press 2004 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1042775. ISBN #0385335687 / 9780385335683. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Fascinating and hilarious, relentlessly clever, and truly haunting are all phrases that have been used to describe David Schickler s unique talent. And all apply to this brash, brilliant novel featuring two of the most memorable characters in contemporary fiction: Grace McGlone and Henry Dante. Sexy and willful, Grace McGlone is saving herself for the right man. When Henry Dante pulls into the small Wisconsin town where she works at the car wash, she instantly knows he s the one. He knows it too. But when Grace discovers Henry has The Planets a stolen set of famous Spanish diamonds stashed in the back seat of his truck, she s having none of it. She s trying for heaven, and the ill-gotten jewels must go. And so they do, in a race across the American landscape from Chicago to Yellowstone, purusued by a savage gangster obsessed by the diamonds he thought were his. Passionate, criminal, comical, and possessing all the dark enchantment of a fairy tale, Sweet and Vicious is a modern love story shot straight from the heart of David Schickler s miraculous imagination.
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Schiddel, Edmund Swing hardcover. First Edition. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1007075. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Schieber, Phyllis Sinner's Guide To Confession 2008 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1002171. ISBN #0425221539 / 9780425221532. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Schieber, Phyllis Sinner's Guide To Confession 2008 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1002171. ISBN #0425221539 / 9780425221532. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary From the author of Willing Spirits a novel of three women, their deepest longings, and their most profound secrets. Barbara, Kaye, and Ellen, longtime friends, are inseparable but each nurtures her own secret. As a widowed mother, Barbara hides her persona as a writer of erotica. Kaye is having an extramarital affair that reawakens her passion but fills her with conflict. Ellen has lost her husband to a younger woman who is now pregnant a painful blow, since Ellen and her husband were never able to conceive. But she is not childless Ellen is still haunted by the memory of the baby girl she had at sixteen and was forced to relinquish at birth. Estranged from her family, Ellen realizes that if she is ever to find her lost daughter now a grown woman herself she will have to confront her shame and rely on her dear
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Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich Von William Tell hardcover. Book comes with slip case. Slip case in good condition. Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1084391. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich Von William Tell hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1052863. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Schindler, Holly Blue So Dark 2010 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1118952. ISBN #0738719269 / 9780738719269. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Schindler, Holly Blue So Dark 2010 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1118952. ISBN #0738719269 / 9780738719269. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Fifteen-year-old Aura Ambrose has been hiding a secret. Her mother, a talented artist and art teacher, is slowly being consumed by schizophrenia, and Aura has been her sole caretaker ever since Aura's dad left them. Convinced that ""creative"" equals crazy, Aura shuns her own artistic talent. But as her mother sinks deeper into the darkness of mental illness, the hunger for a creative outlet draws Aura toward the depths of her imagination. Just as desperation threatens to swallow her whole, Aura discovers that art, love, and family are profoundly linkedand together may offer an escape from her fears. Praise: ""Breathtakingly, gut-wrenchingly authentic...A haunting, realistic view of the melding of art, creativity, and mental illness and their collective impact on a young persons life.""BOOKLIST, starred review ""Any story about mental illness will not be an easy read, but a very good one will reward those who stick with it. A Blue So Dark definitely falls in that category, so powerful is the empathy the author has built for her main character.""SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL ""An excellent first novela definite must-read. Schindler's debut novel is a lyrical tapestry...a work of poetry.""VOYA ""This story provides a realistic viewpoint of a teen living with a schizophrenic parent. Schindler shows how one teen copes with her ill mother, while trying to juggle the demands of school.""ALAN ONLINE ""A Blue So Dark is one of those rare books: It never shies away from the darkness yet still manages to find the light. A truly real, emotional, and honest read.""Catherine Ryan Hyde, author of Pay it Forward and Love in the Present Tense Schindlers lyrical debut explores the nightmare of mental illness in a voice that is sharp and funny and all her own. This is as real as teen fiction gets. A must-read.""Crissa-Jean Chappell, author of Total Constant Order ""A Blue So Dark is a raw, compelling and eloquent portrayal of art and madness, and the freeing, healing gift of creativity. Schindler's voice is brilliant and true.""Carrie Jones, New York Times bestselling author of Need and Captivate GOLD MEDAL WINNER: IPPY Awards 2010 Juvenile Young Adult Fiction SILVER MEDAL WINNER: ForeWord Book of the Year Awards 2010 Young Adult Fiction
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Schirach, Ferdinand von Guilt: Stories Knopf 2012 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1017633. ISBN #0307599493 / 9780307599490. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Schirach, Ferdinand von Guilt: Stories Knopf 2012 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1017633. ISBN #0307599493 / 9780307599490. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary On a sweltering day in August, a small town drunkenly celebrates its six-hundredth anniversary with a funfair when an anonymous tip leads police to find a young woman brutally beaten, raped, and thrown under the floorboards of the very stage on which her attackers had just played a polka. An eight-member brass band composed of respectable family men with respectable day jobs is charged with the crime. A neophyte defense lawyer, still wet behind the ears and breaking in his attach case, takes on the trial, only to lose his innocence in the process. So begins Guilt, Ferdinand von Schirach s tense, riveting collection of stories based on real crimes he has known. In these brief, succinct tales, von Schirach calls into question the nature of guilt and the toll it takes or fails to take on ordinary people. In The Illuminati, the popular mean crowd at an all-boys boarding school wages a vicious attack against an outsider schoolmate, and ends up accidentally killing the boy s beloved teacher. Attempting to hurdle through a midlife crisis, a housewife begins to steal trivial things no one will miss, an act that gives her a rush and staves off depression in Desire. And in Snow, an old man whose home is used as a way station for a heroin ring agrees to protect the identity of the lead drug runner, who receives his comeuppance in due course. Compassionate and seen with the same cool, controlled eye that propelled Ferdinand von Schirach s debut collection, Crime, onto best-seller lists, Guilt is a stunning follow-up from one of Germany s finest new writers.
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Schlink, Bernhard Reader 2008 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1040653. ISBN #0307454894 / 9780307454898. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Schlink, Bernhard Reader 2008 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1040653. ISBN #0307454894 / 9780307454898. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Hailed for its coiled eroticism and the moral claims it makes upon the reader, this mesmerizing novel is a story of love and secrets, horror and compassion, unfolding against the haunted landscape of postwar Germany. When he falls ill on his way home from school, fifteen-year-old Michael Berg is rescued by Hanna, a woman twice his age. In time she becomes his lover then she inexplicably disappears. When Michael next sees her, he is a young law student, and she is on trial for a hideous crime. As he watches her refuse to defend her innocence, Michael gradually realizes that Hanna may be guarding a secret she considers more shameful than murde
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Schlink, Bernhard Reader 2008 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1087697. ISBN #0307454894 / 9780307454898. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Schlink, Bernhard Reader 2008 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1087697. ISBN #0307454894 / 9780307454898. (filed under: Fiction ) *
stock image, actual book may vary Hailed for its coiled eroticism and the moral claims it makes upon the reader, this mesmerizing novel is a story of love and secrets, horror and compassion, unfolding against the haunted landscape of postwar Germany. When he falls ill on his way home from school, fifteen-year-old Michael Berg is rescued by Hanna, a woman twice his age. In time she becomes his lover then she inexplicably disappears. When Michael next sees her, he is a young law student, and she is on trial for a hideous crime. As he watches her refuse to defend her innocence, Michael gradually realizes that Hanna may be guarding a secret she considers more shameful than murde
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Schmitt, Eric-Emmanuel Most Beautiful Book in The World: Eight Novellas 2009 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1051023. ISBN #1933372745 / 9781933372747. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Schmitt, Eric-Emmanuel Most Beautiful Book in The World: Eight Novellas 2009 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1051023. ISBN #1933372745 / 9781933372747. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary One of Europe's most popular and best-loved authors, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt captivates the reader with his spirited, buoyant style and enchanting stories that move effortlessly from the everyday to the fantastical. The eight stories in this collection, his first to be published in English, represent some of his best writing and most imaginative storylines: from the love story between Balthazar, wealthy and successful author, and Odette, cashier at a supermarket, to the tale of a barefooted princess; from the moving story of a group of female prisoners in a Soviet gulag to the entertaining portrait of a perennially disgruntled perfectionist. Here are eight contemporary fables, populated by a cast of extravagant and affecting characters, about people in search of happiness. Behind each story lies a simple, if elusive, truth: happiness is often right in front of our eyes, though we may frequently be blind to it.
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Schoemperlen, Diane Forms of Devotion: Stories and Pictures Harpercollins Canada 1998 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1016307. ISBN #0002245663 / 9780002245661. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Schoemperlen, Diane Forms of Devotion: Stories and Pictures Harpercollins Canada 1998 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1016307. ISBN #0002245663 / 9780002245661. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Diane Schoemperlen's acclaimed In the Language of Love expanded our expectations of the contemporary novel, using everydaywords to deconstruct a young woman's life and loves. In her new shortstory collection, Forms of Devotion , she again tests the bounds of her craft, creating an arresting and wonderfully readable work that is also a treat for the eye. Forms of Devotion contains eleven stories, each one a brilliant interplay of words andimages. The illustrations, selected by Schoemperlen and depictingalmost every subject imaginable, are wood engravings and line drawingsfrom the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In somecases, she was inspired to write the story after studying theillustrations; in other cases, she wrote the story first, then chose orconstructed the pictures to accompany it. The result is a playful,sometimes surreal and often mysterious juxtaposition of a historicalfascination with anatomy and classical themes with the author'scontemporary exploration of everyday people, places and things. Eachstory is a creative delight, perfectly formed and rich in mischievouswit, irony and multi-layered meaning. The title story, Forms ofDevotion, is a wonderful literary cataloguing of the traits andqualities of the faithful, those who sail off to work, perfectconfident that they will indeed get there: on time, intact. It does notoccur to them that they could just as well be broadsided by a Coca-Coladelivery truck running the red light at the corner of Johnson andMain. Five Small Rooms is an intriguing, spectral journey into thenarrator's imagination, with the reader left wondering, Is it madnessor a murder mystery? In How Deep is the River, the author offers aninnovative, completely compelling take on the ubiquitous high schoolmath problem that begins Train A and Train B are traveling toward thesame bridge from opposite directions Quite different in form, yet alike in their ability to entertain and provoke, the stories in Forms of Devotion show once again that Diane Schoemperlen's voice is as intriguing, fresh and electric as ever.
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Schoonover, Lawrence The Quick Brown Fox hardcover. First Edition. pieces of DJ spine missing. Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Acceptable. Tears and damage to jacket. Book #or1030762. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Schorer, Mark Lawrence in the War Years Leland Stanford Jr. University 1968 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or723053. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Schulberg, Bud Everything That Moves hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1007053. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Schulberg, Budd What Makes Sammy Run? hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Lacks Jacket. Book #or1109461. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Schulberg, Budd What Makes Sammy Run?: A Novel Random House 2002 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or911079. ISBN #0375508317 / 9780375508318. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Schulberg, Budd What Makes Sammy Run?: A Novel Random House 2002 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or911079. ISBN #0375508317 / 9780375508318. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary What Makes Sammy Run? Everyone of us knows someone who runs. He is one of the symp-toms of our times from the little man who shoves you out of the way on the street to the go-getter who shoves you out of a job in the office to the Fuehrer who shoves you out of the world. And all of us have stopped to wonder, at some time or another, what it is that makes these people tick. What makes them run? This is the question Schulberg has asked himself, and the answer is the first novel written with the indignation that only a young writer with talent and ideals could concentrate into a manuscript. It is the story of Sammy Glick, the man with a positive genius for being a heel, who runs through New York s East Side, through newspaper ranks and finally through Hollywood, leaving in his wake the wrecked careers of his associates; for this is his tragedy and his chief characteristic his congenital incapacity for friendship. An older and more experienced novelist might have tempered his story and, in so doing, destroyed one of its outstanding qualities. Compromise would mar the portrait of Sammy Glick. Schulberg has etched it in pure vitriol, and dissected his victim with a precision that is almost frightening. When a fragment of this book appeared as a short story in a national magazine, Schulberg was surprised at the number of letters he received from people convinced they knew Sammy Glick s real name. But speculation as to his real identity would be utterly fruitless, for Sammy is a composite picture of a loud and spectacular minority bitterly resented by the many decent and sincere artists who are trying honestly to realize the measureless potentialities of motion pictures. To this group belongs Schulberg himself, who has not only worked as a screen writer since his graduation from Dartmouth College in 1936, but has spent his life, literally, in the heart of the motion-picture colony. In the course of finding out what makes Sammy run an operation in which the reader is spared none of the grue-some details Schulberg has poured out everything he has felt about that place. The result is a book which the publishers not only believe to be the most honest ever written about Hollywood, but a penetrating study of one kind of twentieth-century success that is peculiar to no single race of people or walk of life.
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Schulman, Audrey Swimming With Jonah 2000 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1033125. ISBN #0380800861 / 9780380800865. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Schulman, Audrey Swimming With Jonah 2000 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1033125. ISBN #0380800861 / 9780380800865. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Swimming with Jonah On a sweltering August morning, Jane Guy steps from an island plane into a strange dangerous world. The awkward, insecure child of a world-renowned physician and a beautiful Bostonian ballerina, she has come to attend Queen's Medical School on a tiny Indonesian island. For an exorbitant enrollment fee, Queen's is willing to accept any American child of privilege who has keen rejected by all normal medical schools. Not bound by American law, the school specializes in motivating problem students -- no matter what the cost to each student. For Jane, given the transgressions of her past, Queen's is her last chance. Surrounded by jungle and sea, Jane is plunged into unrelenting, heat and the psychological abuse of the teaching staff. The truest connection she makes on the island is with another student Keefer. Together they spend their few spare minutes watching as Jonah -- a shark that Keefer keeps captive in an ocean pen -- slowly circles his cage. As days extended into weeks, Jane feels herself changing, retreating deeper into a body and spirit she no longer recognizes. And as an aura of desperation deepens among her peers, Jane's determination to succeed grows. Because failure is the only way off the island, and for Jane, it is not an option. Jane Guy, the awkward, insecure daughter of a world-renowned physician and a beautiful ballerina, has come to a tiny Indonesian island to attend Queen's Medical School--an institution that will accept, for an exorbitant fee, any American child of privilege despite his or her previous academic history. Surrounded by jungle and water, Jane is immediately plunged into unrelenting heat and the psychological abuse of the teaching staff. The truest connection she makes on the island is with Keefer, a sensitive fellow student who keeps a shark he has named Jonah captive in an ocean pen. But as days extend into weeks, Jane Guy feels herself changing, retreating into a body and spirit she can no longer recognize. And as an aura of desperation deepens among her peers, Jane's determination to succeed grows. Because failure is the only way off the island, and for Jane, it is not an option
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Schulz, Monte This Side of Jordan Fantagraphics 2009 hardcover. Inscribed by Author. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1096129. ISBN #1606992961 / 9781606992968. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Schulz, Monte This Side of Jordan Fantagraphics 2009 hardcover. Inscribed by Author. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1096129. ISBN #1606992961 / 9781606992968. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary A seductive novel of southern lyricism. Monte Schulz's prose novel opens in the spring of 1929, as the 19-year-old consumptive farm boy Alvin Pendergast attends an ill-fated dance marathon he's too sickly to participate in. After a year of his life has been stolen by a sanitarium, Alvin knows he's relapsing, and dreads not only the drudgery of his family's homestead, but a return to the hospital. In this state of mind, an invitation for a late-night slice of pie is too seductive to pass up and before he knows it, Alvin crosses the Mississippi River and finds himself working for a slick con artist named Chester Burke. Alvin is no match for Chester, who's not merely a con man, but a gangster from Chicago, following the bootleg liquor trade through the small towns of America's middle border. With Alvin in tow, Chester's insouciant disregard for life serves him well as he embarks upon a series of bank robberies and senseless murders. All summer long, Chester assumes the role of a dark angel on Judgment day, cleansing the scrolls of those whose sad fortune had drawn them across his path. Too ill to flee, too morally weak to object, Alvin resigns himself to what seems like certain doom somewhere down the road. Fortunately, Alvin finds another companion on his journey, a lonely, eccentric, and grandiloquent dwarf named Rascal, whose own infirmity binds his and the farm boy's destiny together. Drawn deeper and deeper into Chester's murderous frolic, they come across a curious assortment of characters, from small town businessmen and religious kooks to wayward girls and dance contestants, spiritualists and sideshow freaks. Caught between Chester's villainy and Alvin's own physical deterioration, the young farm boy must make a decision: stick with Chester, who would surely kill him at the slightest hint of betrayal, or muster the courage to stake his life on faith in Rascal's clever plan to save them both. Tired of being afraid, Alvin finally grasps the need not only to outwit the gangster but to find another road to travel. What he discovers about the meaning of home offers a solution to escape and freedom. This Side of Jordan is a thoroughly American novel told in the voice of a lost generation hurtling toward the Great Depression, and evokes a long ago America of crowded Main Streets and tourist camps, miles of cornfields, rural church es, and musty parlors. It ends on the fairgrounds of a traveling wagon circus that beckons gangster, farm boy, and dwarf toward a startling resolution, and a hard-fought absolution for the two young, frightened collaborators. The narrative of this novel has the momentum of a freight train, but told in the seductive, rhythmic tradition of Southern lyricism reminiscent of Flannery O'Connor and Truman Capote, and filled with vivid, outsized literary characters. If Jim Thompson and Carson McCullers went on a collaborative bender by kidnapping Holden Caulfield, Perry Smith, and Ignatius J. Reilly, they'd have come up with something like This Side of Jordan .
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