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Ullman, James Ramsey White Tower hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Slight tears to jacket. Book #or1013495. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Ulman, Abigail Hot Little Hands: Fiction 2017 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1133035. ISBN #081298918X / 9780812989182. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Ulman, Abigail Hot Little Hands: Fiction 2017 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1133035. ISBN #081298918X / 9780812989182. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary For fans of HBO s Girls, Abigail Ulman s heartbreakingly tender and often darkly funny fiction is a fresh take on the experiences of contemporary young women. A familiar yet highly inventive collection of short fiction which hits virtually all my buttons: dark humor, complex female characters, and a strong summer camp storyline. Lena Dunham, Lenny Claire is magnetic. On the cusp of adulthood and letting go of her adolescence one miserable responsibility at a time, she s moved from London to San Francisco to work toward her PhD and minor in cheap whiskey, pour-over coffee, and guys who can t be bothered to shower. When she finds out she s pregnant by a heartsick ex-boyfriend, the solution seems clear, if only to her. Kira is a talented thirteen-year-old Russian gymnast who leaves her traditional family to travel to America. Elise and Jenni, two Australian high school students, seek asylum from the hooking up and heavy drinking they ve been doing for years by reenrolling in their childhood sleepaway camp. Over the course of nine loosely connected stories, Hot Little Hands introduces us to young women, at once clever and na ve, who struggle to navigate the chronic uncertainty and very real dangers that come with being impatient for the future and reluctant to leave childhood behind. Abigail Ulman s voice feels of the moment sharp and powerful as she deftly explores ageless themes of sex and maturity among girls who are both confident and frighteningly exposed. Praise for Hot Little Hands In this sardonic, smart, and thoroughly modern debut collection, Ulman presents nine stories about young women on the verge of adulthood, motherhood, and more who make momentous decisions while delirious with desire. O: The Oprah Magazine Ulman excels at dialogue and narrative. The more you get to know her characters, the funnier it is to witness their verbal code-switching as they navigate between nosy parents, fumbling love interests, and trusted friends. That none of these stories is constrained by any need for tidy endings makes them all the more believable. The Atlantic Deftly written with a fresh and realistic style . . . Each female protagonist is wonderfully complicated and charming in her own way. Bookreporter The captivating women in this collection leave a lasting impression. Publishers Weekly Genuinely insightful . . . Hot Little Hands is the rare collection that portrays how life pivots around mundane moments as readily as earth-shaking events. Shelf Awareness It is rare for a collection to so adeptly capture the way life can be at once facile and intense. Ulman s details are lifelike and droll, her style lucid and engaging, and the overall effect stirring. Kirkus Reviews A noteworthy debut. . . . Ulman writes without judgment, and this is what gives her characters life. They are multifaceted, flawed beings sometimes victims of others, but often victims of their own actions in whom readers will recognize flashes of themselves. Booklist The stories are beautifully paced, the dialogue perfect. There is a lovely comedy underpinning the cool tone. Often this becomes hilarious, but it is also controlled and well-judged. Abigail Ulman knows how to write a story, manage a buildup, hold your attention, suggest that somehow nothing much is happening while, in fact, everything is going on. Colm T ib n, author of Brooklyn From the Hardcover edition.
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Umrigar, Thrity Space Between Us 2007 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1119209. ISBN #006079156X / 9780060791568. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Umrigar, Thrity Space Between Us 2007 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1119209. ISBN #006079156X / 9780060791568. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Poignant, evocative, and unforgettable, The Space Between Us is an intimate portrait of a distant yet familiar world. Set in modern-day India, it is the story of two compelling and achingly real women: Sera Dubash, an upper-middle-class Parsi housewife whose opulent surroundings hide the shame and disappointment of her abusive marriage, and Bhima, a stoic illiterate hardened by a life of despair and loss, who has worked in the Dubash household for more than twenty years. A powerful and perceptive literary masterwork, author Thrity Umrigar's extraordinary novel demonstrates how the lives of the rich and poor are intrinsically connected yet vastly removed from each other, and how the strong bonds of womanhood are eternally opposed by the divisions of class and culture.
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Un-Su Kim, Kim-Russell, Sora Plotters 4th Estate 2010 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1166940. ISBN #0008315779 / 9780008315771. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Unamuno, Miguel De Three Exemplary Novels paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1099997. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Undset, Sigrid Cross: Kristin Lavransdatter III Vintage Books 2011 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or870076. ISBN #0394752910 / 9780394752914. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Undset, Sigrid Mistress Of Husaby: Kristin Lavransdatter II 1987 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1070435. ISBN #0394752937 / 9780394752938. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Unger, Lisa Crazy Love You Touchstone 2015 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1045491. ISBN #1451691203 / 9781451691207. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Unger, Lisa Crazy Love You Touchstone 2015 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1045491. ISBN #1451691203 / 9781451691207. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR by Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel with "the most unreliable narrator since Nick Dunne in Gone Girl ... Unger is at the top of her game here." Booklist starred review Darkness has a way of creeping up when Ian is with Priss. Even when they were kids, playing in the woods of their small upstate New York town, he could feel it. Still, Priss was his best friend, his salvation from the bullies who called him "loser" and "fatboy"... and from his family's deadly secrets. Now that they've both escaped to New York City, Ian no longer inhabits the tortured shell of his childhood. He is a talented and successful graphic novelist, and Priss...Priss is still trouble. The booze, the drugs, the sex--Ian is growing tired of late nights together trying to keep the past at bay. Especially now that he's met sweet, beautiful Megan, whose love makes him want to change for the better. But Priss doesn't like change. Change makes her angry. And when Priss is angry, terrible things begin to happen...
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Unsworth, Barry Losing Nelson 2000 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1131593. ISBN #0393321177 / 9780393321173. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Unsworth, Barry Losing Nelson 2000 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1131593. ISBN #0393321177 / 9780393321173. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary "Stunningly original. . . . Pulpy and juicy, full of wisdom and horror." Los Angeles Times Book Review Losing Nelson is a novel of obsession, the story of Charles Cleasby, a man unable to see himself separately from the hero Lord Horatio Nelson he mistakenly idolizes. He is, in fact, a Nelson biographer run amok. He is convinced that Nelson, Britain's greatest admiral, who lost his own life defeating Napoleon in the Battle of Trafalgar, is the perfect hero. However, in his research he has come upon an incident of horrifying brutality in Nelson's military career that simply stumps all attempts at glorification. "Books about the sea and those who sail it are much in vogue. This seems to have been set off by the surprising and much deserved popularity of Sebastian Junger's The Perfect Storm , not to mention the Aubrey Maturin novels of Patrick O'Brian. . . . Losing Nelson is the best book of the lot." Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World 1999 Critic's Choice . A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 1999; A New York Times Notable Book of 1999. Reading group guide available.
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Unsworth, Barry Morality Play W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated 1996 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1151137. ISBN #0393315606 / 9780393315608. (keywords: GREAT BRITAIN FICTION HISTORICAL MYSTERY DETECTIVE GENERAL BARBER NICHOLAS FICTITIOUS CHARACTER Catholic Church, Clergy, England, Theater,) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Unsworth, Barry Songs Of The Kings 2004 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1088406. ISBN #0393322831 / 9780393322835. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Unsworth, Barry Songs Of The Kings 2004 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1088406. ISBN #0393322831 / 9780393322835. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary "Pure gold....One of the best books by this most versatile of writers." Penelope Lively "Troy meant one thing only to the men gathered here, as it did to their commanders. Troy was a dream of wealth; and if the wind continued the dream would crumble." As the harsh wind holds the Greek fleet trapped in the straits at Aulis, frustration and political impotence turn into a desire for the blood of a young and innocent woman blood that will appease the gods and allow the troops to set sail. And when Iphigeneia, Agamemnon's beloved daughter, is brought to the coast under false pretences, and when a knife is fashioned out of the finest and most precious of materials, it looks as if the ships will soon be on their way. But can a father really go to these lengths to secure political victory, and can a daughter willingly give up her life for the worldly ambitions of her father? Throwing off the heroic values we expect of them, Barry Unsworth's mythic characters embrace the political ethos of the twenty-first century and speak in words we recognize as our own. The blowhard Odysseus warns the men to not "marginalize" Agamemnon and to "strike while the bronze is hot." High-sounding principles clash with private motives, and dark comedy ensues. Here is a novel that stands the world on its head.
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Upadhyay, Samrat Guru Of Love Houghton Mifflin Company 2004 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or943587. ISBN #0618382682 / 9780618382682. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Upadhyay, Samrat Guru Of Love Houghton Mifflin Company 2004 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or943587. ISBN #0618382682 / 9780618382682. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary From the acclaimed author of Arresting God in Kathmandu, The Guru of Love is the engrossing story of a fevered love triangle set in contemporary Nepal. Ramchandra, a quiet math teacher, reluctantly enters into an adulterous relationship, and soon his double lives disastrously converge. When Goma, his wife by arranged marriage, learns of his affair, she demands that his mistress move into their small quarters. Unable to dissuade her, Ramchandra finds his desires and fears living side by side. Goma proves to be far shrewder than she seems, entering into a surprising alliance with his mistress. And Ramchandra finds himself trapped -- both in his house and in his city, Kathmandu, a crowded place where secrets are impossible to keep and family matters dictate. Ultimately, his only escape is to let go of someone he loves. Absorbing, sexy, and psychologically acute, The Guru of Love radiates compassion and rare insight.
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Upcher, Caroline Down By The Water 2001 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1040253. ISBN #0060185686 / 9780060185688. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Upcher, Caroline Down By The Water 2001 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1040253. ISBN #0060185686 / 9780060185688. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Hope Collins-Calder is beginning to lose her grip: she has a high-powered real estate job in the Hamptons that keeps her permanently stressed, an ex-husband she can't get out of her mind, a current husband she is beginning to regret, and three children who are running wild. When her latest child-care person leaves her in the lurch, she asks Eddie, her husband -- an Englishman hopelessly out of his depth working at an American publishing house -- if he will call his sister in London for the name of a good British nanny. Annabel Quick arrives on the scene, but Mary Poppins she is not. Annabel is fifteen years older than Hope, unmarried, brokenhearted, and until a recent mysterious fire, lived with her mother all her adult life, She has come to the United States, and to this job, in search of a brief escape. And since Hope can't afford to be picky, Annabel gets the job. Annabel sets about getting the Collins-Calder house in order, and finds to her surprise that as she does so, her own heart slowly begins to heal. When she meets Sheldon, a handsome local carpenter with penetrating blue eyes who has come to work on the house, she feels the stirring of emotions she thought she'd buried long ago. Sheldon's world offers Annabel a chance to move beyond the unhappiness that brought her to the United States in the first place. However, Annabel can't ignore the torch that Hope seems to carry for her ex, and as the summer unfolds, and marriages and old feelings are tested, Annabel becomes more a part of the family than she bargained for. And she and Hope each discover the surprises and promises of romance in this exceptionally entertaining, emotionally staggering, and positively original novel from a first-class writer.
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Updike, John Brazil Knopf 1994 hardcover. First Edition. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1094820. ISBN #0679430717 / 9780679430711. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Updike, John Brazil Knopf 1994 hardcover. First Edition. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1094820. ISBN #0679430717 / 9780679430711. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary They meet by chance on Copacabana Beach: Tristao Raposo, a poor black teen from the Rio slums, surviving day to day on street smarts and the hustle, and Isabel Leme, an upper-class white girl, treated like a pampered slave by her absent though very powerful father. Convinced that fate brought them together, betrayed by families who threaten to tear them apart, Tristao and Isabel flee to the farthest reaches of Brazil's wild west -- unaware of the astonishing destiny that awaits them . . . Spanning twenty-two years, from the mid-sixties to the late eighties, BRAZIL surprises and embraces the reader with its celebration of passion, loyalty, and New World innocence. "A tour de force . . . Spectacular." -- Time "Updike's novel, as tender as it is erotic, becomes a magnificently wrought love story . . . . Beautifully written." -- Detroit Free Press From the Paperback edition.
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Updike, John Gertrude And Claudius 2000 hardcover. . Book Club Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1024370. ISBN #0375409084 / 9780375409080. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Updike, John Gertrude And Claudius 2000 hardcover. . Book Club Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1024370. ISBN #0375409084 / 9780375409080. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary John Updikes's nineteenth novel tells the story of Claudius and Gertrude, King and Queen of Denmark, before the action of Shakespeare's Hamlet begins. Employing the nomenclature and certain details of the ancient Scandinavian legends that first describe the prince who feigns madness to achieve revenge upon his father's slayer, Updike brings to life Gertrude's girlhood as the daughter of King Rorik, her arranged marriage to the man who becomes King Hamlet, and her middle-aged affair with her husband's younger brother. A dark-eyed dreamer with a taste for foreign adventure, he for decades has sought to quell his love for Gertrude, and at last returns to an Elsinore whose prince is generally elsewhere. Gaps and inconsistencies within the immortal play are to an extent filled and explained in this prequel; the figure of Polonius, especially, takes on a larger significance. Beginning in the aura of pagan barbarism, and anticipating Renaissance humanism and empiricism, this modern retelling of a medieval tale presents the case for its royal couple that Shakespeare only hinted at. Gertrude and Claudius are seen afresh against a background of fond intentions and familial dysfunction, on a stage darkened by the ominous shadow of a sullen, disaffected prince.
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Updike, John Hugging The Shore: Essays And Criticisms By John Updike Vintage Books 1984 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or949132. ISBN #0394724976 / 9780394724973. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Updike, John Hugging The Shore: Essays And Criticisms By John Updike Vintage Books 1984 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or949132. ISBN #0394724976 / 9780394724973. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Since 1960 the novelist and poet has been reviewing books for the "New Yorker", and the reviews of the last eight years make up the bulk of this volume. Authors include Edmund Wilson, Vladimir Nabokov, Franz Kafka, Muriel Spark, Anne Tyler, Italo Calvino, Henry Green, Robert Pinget, L.E. Sissman, R.K. Narayan and Roland Barthes. He also writes of actresses Louise Brooks and Doris Day and golfers Sam Snead and Arnold Palmer.
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Updike, John Marry Me: A Romance Random House Trade Paperbacks 1996 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1085971. ISBN #0449912159 / 9780449912157. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Updike, John Marry Me: A Romance Random House Trade Paperbacks 1996 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1085971. ISBN #0449912159 / 9780449912157. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Marry Me is subtitled A Romance because, in the author s words, people don t act like that anymore. The time is 1962, and the place is a fiefdom of Camelot called Greenwood, Connecticut. Jerry Conant and Sally Mathias are in love and want to get married, though they already are married to others. A diadem of five symmetrical chapters describes the course of their affair as it flickers off and on, and as their spouses react, in a tentative late-summer atmosphere of almost-last chances. For this is, as Jerry observes, the twilight of the old morality, and there s just enough to torment us, and not enough to hold us in.
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Updike, John Memories of the Ford Administration Knopf 1992 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1122110. ISBN #0679416811 / 9780679416814. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Updike, John Memories of the Ford Administration Knopf 1992 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1122110. ISBN #0679416811 / 9780679416814. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary "Stunning...Alf's life and times are light and funny; Buchanan's are dark and serious. Alternating between the two, Mr. Updike entertains and instructs...in gorgeous prose." THE WALL STREET JOURNAL When junior college professor Alfred Clayton is asked to record his impressions of the Ford Administration, he recalls a turbulent piece of personal history as well. In a decade of sexual liberation, Clayton was facing a doomed marriage and the passionate beginnings of a futile affair with an unattainable Perfect Wife. But one memory begets another: Clayton's unfinished book on James Buchanan. In John Updike's fifteenth novel, he masterfully alternates between the two men, two lives, two American centuries--one Victorian, the other modern--shining an irreverent, witty, and sometimes caustic light on the contrasting views of social fictions and sexual politics.... A MAIN SELECTION OF THE BOOK-OF-THE-MONTH CLUB A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK From the Paperback edition.
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Updike, John Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories Alfred A. Knopf 1962 hardcover. Front end paper missing and tears to paste downs.. BOOK COND: Used; Acceptable. Notes and marking. Wear from use. Cracked Hinge / still useable. Yellowing from age. JACKET COND: Used; Acceptable. Book #or1144774. (keywords: FICTION SHORT COLLECTION SINGLE AUTHOR) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Updike, John Same Door: Short Stories hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1101221. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Updike, John Seek My Face 2002 hardcover. First Edition. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1095942. ISBN #0375414908 / 9780375414909. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Updike, John Seek My Face 2002 hardcover. First Edition. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1095942. ISBN #0375414908 / 9780375414909. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary John Updike s twentieth novel, like his first, The Poorhouse Fair 1959 , takes place in one day, a day that contains much conversation and some rain. The seventy-eight-year-old painter Hope Chafetz, who in the course of her eventful life has been Hope Ouderkirk, Hope McCoy, and Hope Holloway, answers questions put to her by a New York interviewer named Kathryn, and recapitulates, through the story of her own career, the triumphant, poignant saga of postwar American art. In the evolving relation between the two women, the interviewer and interviewee move in and out of the roles of daughter and mother, therapist and patient, predator and prey, supplicant and idol. The scene is central Vermont; the time is the early spring of 2001.
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