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Croutier, Alev Lytle Seven Houses: A Novel Atria Books 2002 hardcover. First Edition. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Remainder Mark. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1156135. ISBN #0743444132 / 9780743444132. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Croy, Homer R.F.D. No. 3 hardcover. First Edition. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1100905. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Crumey, Andrew Music, in a Foreign Language Picador USA 1996 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1134429. ISBN #0312146884 / 9780312146887. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Crumey, Andrew Music, in a Foreign Language Picador USA 1996 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1134429. ISBN #0312146884 / 9780312146887. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Winner of Scotland's Saltire Prize for Best First Novel, Music, in a Foreign Language is a layered, deeply affecting exploration of friendship, betrayal, the nature of fiction, and the meaning of history. Set in an imaginary police state in contemporary Britain, the novel explores the complex relationship between two men, Charles King and Robert Waters, a physicist and a historian who share a secret history of political and sexual dimensions. As young men, King and Waters had briefly copublished an underground magazine called Flood. Years later, long-concealed copies of the magazine become important in a state investigation that will pit one man against the other As the novel's narrator unfolds the tale, he reveals pieces of his life. A man with an incomplete past and an uncertain future, he writes and reads in search of his own history. Like the melody and counterpoint of a fugue, the past story of King and Waters is augmented by the narrator's autobiography, until both movements inevitably join across time in a conclusion of startling power. Drawing together his variations into a grand theme, Andrew Crumey weaves music, physics, history, philosophy, and fiction together with an unforgettable human drama.
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Crusie, Jennifer Anyone But You 2006 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1110433. ISBN #0373771460 / 9780373771462. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Crusie, Jennifer Anyone But You 2006 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1110433. ISBN #0373771460 / 9780373771462. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary A timeless tale from the first name in romantic comedy -- Jennifer Crusie Part basset, part beagle, all Cupid . . . can a matchmaking hound fetch a new love for his owner? For Nina Askew, turning forty means freedom -- from the ex-husband whose career always came first, from their stuffy suburban home. Freedom to have her own apartment in the city, freedom to focus on what she wants for a change. And what she wants is something her ex always vetoed -- a puppy. A bouncy puppy to cheer her up. Instead she gets . . . Fred. Overweight, smelly and obviously suffering from some kind of doggy depression, Fred is light-years from perky. But for all his faults, he does manage to put Nina face-to-face with Alex Moore, her gorgeous, younger downstairs neighbor. Alex looks great on paper -- a sexy, seemingly sane, surprisingly single E.R. doctor who shares Fred's abiding love for Oreos -- but a ten-year difference in age, despite his devastating smile, is too wide a gap for Nina to handle. Ignoring her insistent best friend, some interfering do-gooders and the ubiquitous Fred -- not to mention her suddenly raging hormones -- Nina thinks anyone but Alex would be a better bet for a relationship. But with every silver-haired stiff she dates, the more she suspects it's the young dog-loving doctor she wants to sit and stay
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Crusie, Jennifer Bet Me 2011 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1110441v1. ISBN #0312548818 / 9780312548810. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Crusie, Jennifer Bet Me 2011 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1110441v1. ISBN #0312548818 / 9780312548810. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Minerva Dobbs knows all about risk management, which is why it's such a shock when David, her extremely logical choice for a boyfriend, dumps her three weeks before her perfect sister's wedding: David was not supposed to be a wild card. So when Min overhears David make a bet with his old nemesis the gorgeous and successful Calvin Morrisey that Cal can't get Min into bed in a month, she decides that fate has just handed her a stacked deck: she can make Cal sweat his sex appeal and get a date to the wedding, if she plays along and doesn't fold. What follows is a novel of destiny, chaos theory, Krispy Kreme donuts, the spirit of Elvis, Chicken Marsala, and a gamble for the highest stake of all: true love. Bet Me is the winner of a 2005 RITA Award.
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Crusie, Jennifer Crazy for You; Tell Me Lies St. Martin's Griffin 2005 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or961692v1. ISBN #0312355629 / 9780312355623. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Crusie, Jennifer Crazy for You; Tell Me Lies St. Martin's Griffin 2005 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or961692v1. ISBN #0312355629 / 9780312355623. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary What do you get when you combine scintillating secrets and steamy sex with rollicking laughter and magical love? You get a Jennifer Crusie romance What do you get when you combine the New York Times bestselling novels Crazy for You and Tell Me Lies ? You get two fantastic novels in one volume No one spins a story quite like New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Crusie. Her legion of fans who have helped make her a household name are a testament to her success. Now for the first time, St. Martin's Griffin is publishing two Jennifer Crusie romances in one book. In Crazy for You , Quinn MacKenzie's life spins out of control when she decides to adopt a stray dog. Now she's coping with dognapping, breaking and entering, seduction, sabotage, and two men who are suddenly crazy--for her.... Tell Me Lies tells the story of Maddie Faraday, whose life would be perfect--if it weren't for her cheating husband, her distrusting daughter, her gossipy mother, her secretive best friend, her nosy neighbors, and that sexy guy she lost her virginity to twenty years ago.... Pick up this special volume and discover the wonderful world of Jennifer Crusie
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Crusie, Jennifer Faking It St. Martin's Press 2002 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. Book Club Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1067932. ISBN #0312284683 / 9780312284688. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Crusie, Jennifer Faking It St. Martin's Press 2002 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. Book Club Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1067932. ISBN #0312284683 / 9780312284688. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Meet the Goodnights, a respectable family who have run a respectable art gallery for generations. There's Gwen, the matriarch who sedates herself with double-crostics and double vodkas, Eve the oldest daughter who has a slight identity problem she has two , and Nadine, the granddaughter who's ready to follow in the family footsteps as soon as she can find a set that isn't leading off a cliff. Holding everyone together is Matilda, the youngest daughter, who's inherited the secret locked down in the basement of the Goodnight Gallery, the secret that she's willing to do almost anything to keep, including break into a house in the dead of night to steal back her past. Meet the Dempseys, or at least meet Davy, a reformed con man who's just been ripped off for a cool three million by his financial manager, who then gallantly turned it over to Clea Lewis, the most beautiful sociopath Davy ever slept with. Davy wants the money back, but more than that he'll do anything to keep Clea from winning, including break into her house in the dead of night to steal back his future. One collision in a closet later, Tilda and Davy reluctantly join forces to combat Clea, suspicious art collectors, a disgruntled heir, and an exasperated hitman, all the while coping with a mutant dachshund, a juke box stuck in the sixties, questionable sex, a painting of three evil fisherman closing in on a dyspeptic tuna, multiple personalities, miscellaneous Goodnights and Dempseys, and the growing realization that they can't turn their backs on the people they were meant to be...or the people they were born to love. Faking It : What has reality ever done for you?
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Crusie, Jennifer Maybe This Time St. Martin's Press 2010 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1148637. ISBN #0312303785 / 9780312303785. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Crusie, Jennifer Maybe This Time St. Martin's Press 2010 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1148637. ISBN #0312303785 / 9780312303785. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Andie Miller is ready to move on with her life. She wants to marry her fianc and leave behind everything in her past, especially her ex-husband, North Archer. But when Andie tries to gain closure with him, he asks one final favor of her. A distant cousin has died and left North the guardian of two orphans who have driven away three nannies already, and things are getting worse. He needs someone to take care of the situation, and he knows Andie can handle anything.... When Andie meets the two children, she realizes the situation is much worse than she feared. Carter and Alice aren t your average delinquents, and the creepy old house where they live is being run by the worst housekeeper since Mrs. Danvers. Complicating matters is Andie s fianc s suspicion that this is all a plan by North to get Andie back. He may be right because Andie s dreams have been haunted by North since she arrived at the old house. And that s not the only haunting.... Then her ex-brother-in-law arrives with a duplicitous journalist and a self-doubting parapsychologist, closely followed by an annoyed medium, Andie s tarot card reading mother, her avenging ex-mother-in-law, and her jealous fianc . Just when Andie s sure things couldn t get more complicated, North arrives to make her wonder if maybe this time things could just tur
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Cullen, Lynn Mrs. Poe 2013 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1044602. ISBN #1476702918 / 9781476702919. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Cullen, Lynn Mrs. Poe 2013 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1044602. ISBN #1476702918 / 9781476702919. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary A writer and his demons. A woman and her desires. A wife and her revenge . . . Inspired by literature s most haunting love triangle, award-winning author Lynn Cullen delivers a pitch-perfect rendering of Edgar Allan Poe, his mistress s tantalizing confession, and his wife s frightening obsession . . . in this intelligent, sexy, and utterly addictive M. J. Rose new masterpiece of historical fiction. 1845: New York City is a sprawling warren of gaslit streets and crowded avenues, bustling with new immigrants and old money, optimism and opportunity, poverty and crime. Edgar Allan Poe s The Raven is all the rage the success of which a struggling poet like Frances Osgood can only dream. As a mother trying to support two young children after her husband s cruel betrayal, Frances jumps at the chance to meet the illustrious Mr. Poe at a small literary gathering, if only to help her fledgling career. Although not a great fan of Poe s writing, she is nonetheless overwhelmed by his magnetic presence and the surprising revelation that he admires her work. What follows is a flirtation, then a seduction, then an illicit affair . . . and with each clandestine encounter, Frances finds herself falling slowly and inexorably under the spell of her mysterious, complicated lover. But when Edgar s frail wife Virginia insists on befriending Frances as well, the relationship becomes as dark and twisted as one of Poe s tales. And like those gothic heroines whose fates are forever sealed, Frances begins to fear that deceiving Mrs. Poe may be as impossible as cheating death itself. . . .
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Cullen, Lynn Mrs. Poe Gallup Press paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1149680. ISBN #1476702926 / 9781476702926. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Culwell, Lori Hollywood Car Wash Touchstone 2009 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1064146. ISBN #1416587780 / 9781416587781. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Culwell, Lori Hollywood Car Wash Touchstone 2009 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1064146. ISBN #1416587780 / 9781416587781. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary College drama student Amy Spencer dreams of starring in independent films. When her roommate signs her up for a mysterious "television project" audition, she blows away the competition with her girl-next-door looks and impressive acting chops, inadvertently getting a starring role on a major TV show and going from Michigan teen to Hollywood starlet overnight. To keep the part she didn't even know she wanted, Amy finds herself taking a spin through the "Hollywood Car Wash" to make her more marketable. First, she'll have to lose twenty pounds don't ask how . Then it's new clothes, new teeth, blonder hair, new friends, and a megastar, high-profile boyfriend though hers comes with a big secret . Bombarded by jealous, two-faced colleagues, overeager plastic surgeons, and manipulative network executives, Amy slowly learns that the only way to survive in Hollywood is to lose her identity. Will Amy get too caught up by the glitz or will she get a grip on her life before it's too late? The hands-down winner of Touchstone's "Media Predict" Contest -- a competition similar to American Idol for books, Hollywood Car Wash is as delicious and addictive as the celebrity gossip that inspired it.
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Cumming, Alan Tommy's Tale It Books 2003 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1042792. ISBN #0060989270 / 9780060989279. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Cumming, Alan Tommy's Tale It Books 2003 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1042792. ISBN #0060989270 / 9780060989279. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Tommy is twenty-nine, lives and loves in London, and has a morbid fear of the c word commitment , the b word boyfriend , and the f word forgetting to call his drug dealer before the weekend . But when he begins to feel the urge to become a father, and the pressure from his boyfriend to make a real commitment to their relationship, Tommy starts to wonder if his chosen lifestyle can ever make him happy. Faced with the choice of maintaining his hedonistic, drugged-out, and admittedly fabulous existence or chucking it all in favor of a far more sensitive, fulfilling, and let's face it slightly more staid lifestyle, Tommy finds himself in a true quandary. Through a series of adventures and misadventures that lead him from London nightspots to New York bedrooms and back, our boy Tommy manages to answer some of life's most pressing questions even those he never thought to ask.
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Cumming, Charles Moroccan Girl St. Martin's Press 2019 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1158379. ISBN #1250129958 / 9781250129956. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Cumming, Charles Typhoon St. Martin's Griffin 2009 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1141923. ISBN #0312654200 / 9780312654207. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Cummings, E.E. The Enormous Room Liveright 1950 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Previous owners name inking. Book #or1164546. ISBN #0871400014 / 9780871400017. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Cunningham, Laura Shaine Sleeping Arrangements 2000 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1095142. ISBN #1573228230 / 9781573228237. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Cunningham, Laura Shaine Sleeping Arrangements 2000 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1095142. ISBN #1573228230 / 9781573228237. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary From the acclaimed novelist, playwright, and journalist Laura Cunningham, a coming of age story and enchanting memoir of childhood "Here is Lily Moore at 10, as judged by her fifth grade teacher: 'Unsatisfactory...Hair matted, uncombed, disheveled appearance. Soil under nails.' She has in addition been AWOL from school for 37 full and 38 half days...She lives in a bizarre apartment whose living room furnishings consist of a gold lame castro convertible and two pink bath mats--her choice. She shares the habitation with a senile old woman and two bachelors, one of whom habitually cooks popcorn for breakfast wearing a pith helmet...All indications to the contrary notwithstanding. Lily is living a blessed life, as depicted in Laura Cunningham's unromantic, spare, funny, enchanting memoir." -- The Washington Post "A wonderfully vivid chronicle of a young girl's coming of age...funny and sad, irreverent and generous...A model memoir." -- Michiko Kakutani, New York Times "Sharp-witted and funny but never mean. A lovely novelistic memoir." -- Julie Salamon, The Wall Street Journal "Original, quirky, poignant, and hilarious." -- Los Angeles Times "A winner...life-affirming." -- San Francisco Chronicle
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Cunningham, Leigh K. Rain Vivante Publishing 2011 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1156128. ISBN #9810882807 / 9789810882808. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Cunningham, Michael A Wild Swan and Other Tales Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2015 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1164663. ISBN #0374290253 / 9780374290252. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Cunningham, Michael Hours Farrar, Straus Giroux 1999 hardcover. Previous owner name printed.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1155722. ISBN #0374172897 / 9780374172893. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Cunningham, Michael Hours Farrar, Straus Giroux 1999 hardcover. Previous owner name printed.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1155722. ISBN #0374172897 / 9780374172893. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary A daring, deeply affecting third novel by the author of A Home at the End of the World and Flesh and Blood . In The Hours , Michael Cunningham, widely praised as one of the most gifted writers of his generation, draws inventively on the life and work of Virginia Woolf to tell the story of a group of contemporary characters struggling with the conflicting claims of love and inheritance, hope and despair. The narrative of Woolf's last days before her suicide early in World War II counterpoints the fictional stories of Samuel, a famous poet whose life has been shadowed by his talented and troubled mother, and his lifelong friend Clarissa, who strives to forge a balanced and rewarding life in spite of the demands of friends, lovers, and family. Passionate, profound, and deeply moving, this is Cunningham's most remarkable achievement to date. The Hours is the winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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Cunningham, Michael Hours 1998 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1084267. ISBN #0374172897 / 9780374172893. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Cunningham, Michael Hours 1998 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1084267. ISBN #0374172897 / 9780374172893. (filed under: Fiction ) *
stock image, actual book may vary A daring, deeply affecting third novel by the author of A Home at the End of the World and Flesh and Blood . In The Hours , Michael Cunningham, widely praised as one of the most gifted writers of his generation, draws inventively on the life and work of Virginia Woolf to tell the story of a group of contemporary characters struggling with the conflicting claims of love and inheritance, hope and despair. The narrative of Woolf's last days before her suicide early in World War II counterpoints the fictional stories of Samuel, a famous poet whose life has been shadowed by his talented and troubled mother, and his lifelong friend Clarissa, who strives to forge a balanced and rewarding life in spite of the demands of friends, lovers, and family. Passionate, profound, and deeply moving, this is Cunningham's most remarkable achievement to date. The Hours is the winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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Cunningham, Michael Hours Picador 2000 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1147358. ISBN #0312243022 / 9780312243029. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Cunningham, Michael Hours Picador 2000 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1147358. ISBN #0312243022 / 9780312243029. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary A daring, deeply affecting third novel by the author of A Home at the End of the World and Flesh and Blood . In The Hours , Michael Cunningham, widely praised as one of the most gifted writers of his generation, draws inventively on the life and work of Virginia Woolf to tell the story of a group of contemporary characters struggling with the conflicting claims of love and inheritance, hope and despair. The narrative of Woolf's last days before her suicide early in World War II counterpoints the fictional stories of Samuel, a famous poet whose life has been shadowed by his talented and troubled mother, and his lifelong friend Clarissa, who strives to forge a balanced and rewarding life in spite of the demands of friends, lovers, and family. Passionate, profound, and deeply moving, this is Cunningham's most remarkable achievement to date.
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Cunningham, Michael The Hours Picador 2002 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1041035. ISBN #0312305060 / 9780312305062. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Cunningham, Michael The Hours Picador 2002 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1041035. ISBN #0312305060 / 9780312305062. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel becomes a motion picture starring Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, and Nicole Kidman, directed by Stephen Daldry from a screenplay by David Hare The Hours tells the story of three women: Virginia Woolf, beginning to write Mrs. Dalloway as she recuperates in a London suburb with her husband in 1923; Clarissa Vaughan, beloved friend of an acclaimed poet dying from AIDS, who in modern-day New York is planning a party in his honor; and Laura Brown, in a 1949 Los Angeles suburb, who slowly begins to feel the constraints of a perfect family and home. By the end of the novel, these three stories intertwine in remarkable ways, and finally come together in an act of subtle and haunting grace.
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Curtiss, Huston Sins of the Seventh Sister: A Novel Based on a True Story of the Gothic South Crown 2003 hardcover. First Edition. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1126579. ISBN #140004538X / 9781400045389. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Curtiss, Huston Sins of the Seventh Sister: A Novel Based on a True Story of the Gothic South Crown 2003 hardcover. First Edition. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1126579. ISBN #140004538X / 9781400045389. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary How many times have you thought, this has got to be true no one could make this up? Well, in 1929, Huston Curtiss was seven years old, living with his beautiful, opinionated mother whose image is on the cover of this book , and surrounded by their romantic, fiercely independent, and often certifiably insane relatives. Huston has never before written about that time an era of racism and repression, a time when this country was still relatively young, an age of quirky individualism and almost frontier-style freedom that largely has ceased to exist. Fearful he would not be believed, on one hand, but desirous of the freedom to embellish, on the other, Curtiss chronicles that time in Sins of the Seventh Sister , a book he characterizes as a novel based on a true story of the gothic South. It is his story and the story of the people of Elkins, West Virginia, a small town whose inhabitants included his mother, Billy-Pearl Curtiss, and her many sisters all stunning blondes. Billy-Pearl would prove to be an irresistibly romantic figure in her son s life. She was the seventh of eleven children, all girls to her father s consternation. By the time of her arrival, her father felt he had been patient enough and insisted on calling her Billy; he taught her everything he had intended to impart to his firstborn son. She would grow up to be one of the most beautiful women in the county, but also one of the most opinionated and liberal. Her aim was so precise that she was barred from the local turkey shoot because none of the men had a chance against her. When a Klansman accused her of attempted homicide after she shot him through the shoulder to stop him from setting fire to the home of her black neighbors, she told the sheriff, If I had meant to kill him, he d be dead. And with that defense, she was exonerated. Curtiss Farm was large and the house had many rooms, which Billy-Pearl got in the habit of gathering people to fill, especially the downtrodden who had nowhere to go. In May 1929, Billy-Pearl brought home a boy from the local orphanage. Stanley was sixteen, the age at which the orphanage kicked children out, and Billy-Pearl, knowing his sad history, could not allow him to end up on the streets. Stanley had witnessed his father beat his mother to death in a drunken rage and had taken a straight razor and slit his father s throat while he slept. A country judge had the boy castrated to control his aggressive ways. Not a boy, but not yet a man, Stanley was tall, willowy, and frightened as a colt upon his arrival at Curtiss Farm not at all the playmate for whom Huston had hoped. But quickly a friendship developed between the two that would last a lifetime a friendship that would survive murder, suicide, madness, and Stanley s eventual transformation into Stella, a singer who would live her adult life as a glamorous woman. Sins of the Seventh Sister is brilliantly conceived and masterfully written, as alive with flamboyant characters and wildly uncontained emotions as any book to come out of the South.
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