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Howells, William Dean The Rise of Silas Lapham Harper & Row 1958 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1172719. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Howells, William Dean William Dean Howells : Novels 1875-1886: A Foregone Conclusion, A Modern Instance, Indian Summer, The Rise of Silas Lapham (Library of America) Library of America 1982 hardcover. in slipcase. two nicks to top of spine and two small holes in cloth cover of spine. Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1169572. ISBN #0940450046 / 9780940450042. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Howland, Leila Nantucket Summer (A Collection) Hyperion 2014 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1150353. ISBN #1368002129 / 9781368002127. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Hua, Chuang Crossings 1986 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1137946. ISBN #0930350987 / 9780930350987. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Hua, Chuang Crossings 1986 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1137946. ISBN #0930350987 / 9780930350987. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary A powerful story of one woman's displacement between cultures and traditions a landmark in Asian-American literature. When it was first published in America in 1968, Chuang Hua's evocative novel Crossings was completely unheralded and quickly went out of print. Years later it would be widely recognized as the first modernist novel to address the Asian-American experience, its deeply imagistic prose marked by spatial and temporal leaps, an unconventional syntax, and unanticipated shifts in plot as haunting as the writing of Jane Bowles. At the center of Crossings is Fourth Jane, the fourth of seven children whose recollections of an oppressive yet loving father, Dyadya, are collaged with her constant migrations between four continents. Suffering from a domestic torpor occasionally enlivened by ritualistic preparations of food for her foreign lover, Jane's displacement only heightens the remembrance of what she has fled: a breech of the familial code; a failed romance; and further in the past, the desolation of war as "bloated corpses flowed in the current of the yellow river." Spare, lyrical, Taoist in form and elusiveness, visually cinematic, tender and sensual, Chuang Hua's powerful narrative endures as one of the most moving and original works of literature in the history of American letters.
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Huang, Yang Living Treasures 2014 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1019910. ISBN #0989596052 / 9780989596053. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Huang, Yang Living Treasures 2014 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1019910. ISBN #0989596052 / 9780989596053. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Shortlisted for The Rubery Book Award INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award Finalist Pen Bellwether Prize Finalist A woman can have a career and family, but which comes first? A starving panda eats a hen in order to nurse her cub in the dead of winter--there begins the perilous adventure of Gu Bao, a girl who grows up under the Chinese government's one-child policy. Bao falls in love with a handsome soldier during the tumultuous Tiananmen Square protests in 1989. The demonstrations transfix her fellow students and kill one of her friends. Bao finds herself pregnant and faces the end of her academic career. Her grieving parents arrange for a secret abortion and ship her off to her grandparents' house in the remote countryside where she was raised. Bao searches for her inner strength while exploring the evocative Sichuan mountain landscape. She befriends a panda mother caught in a poacher's snare, and an expectant young mother hiding from villainous one-child policy enforcers bent on giving compulsory abortions. All struggle against society to preserve the treasure of their little ones. Can Bao save a rural family from destruction, and help a giant panda along the way? She devises a daring plan that changes the lives of everyone around her. A deeply moving story of family, passion, and courage, Living Treasures is both a gripping page-turner and an incisive social critique, portraying a young woman's quest for romance and justice in a rigid society. Bao, a law student, aspires to have both a career and family, but which comes first? A baby rarely arrives at a convenient time. The decision about the woman's body is not an easy choice but rather a compromise that comes with a dear price. Bao's struggle encapsulates many women's journeys through life, as they experience the triumphs, suffer the heartbreaks, and learn to live with the consequences.
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Hudson, W. H. Green Mansions hardcover. some wear to slipcase. Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1013922. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Huggam Isabel Elizabeth Stories paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1035323. ISBN #0140101993 / 9780140101997. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Huggan, Isabel Elizabeth Stories paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1089352. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Hughes, Anita Christmas in London: A Novel St. Martin's 2017 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1153090. ISBN #1250145791 / 9781250145796. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Hugo, Victor Les Miserables Penguin Books 2012 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1169447. ISBN #0143123599 / 9780143123590. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Hugo, Victor Les Miserables Penguin Books 2012 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1169447. ISBN #0143123599 / 9780143123590. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Now a major motion picure, adapted from the acclaimed Broadway musical, starring Anne Hathaway, Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Amanda Seyfried, and Sacha Baron Cohen Victor Hugo s tale of injustice, heroism and love follows the fortunes of Jean Valjean, an escaped convict determined to put his criminal past behind him. But his attempts to become a respected member of the community are constantly put under threat: by his own conscience, when, owing to a case of mistaken identity, another man is arrested in his place; and by the relentless investigations of the dogged policeman Javert. It is not simply for himself that Valjean must stay free, however, for he has sworn to protect the baby daughter of Fantine, driven to prostitution by poverty. A compelling and compassionate view of the victims of early nineteenth-century French society , Les Mis rables is a novel on an epic scale, moving inexorably from the eve of the battle of Waterloo to the July Revolution of 1830. This striking edition features the widely celebrated and eminently readable translation by Norman Denny.
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Hugo, Victor Les Miserables Barnes & Noble Classics 2003 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1162705. ISBN #1593080662 / 9781593080662. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Hugo, Victor Les Miserables Barnes & Noble Classics 2003 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1162705. ISBN #1593080662 / 9781593080662. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Les Miserables , by Victor Hugo , is part of the Barnes Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes Noble Classics : All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences biographical, historical, and literary to enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works. One of the most widely read novels of all time, Les Mis rables was the crowning literary achievement of Victor Hugo s stunning career. Though he was considered the greatest French writer of his day, Hugo was forced to flee the country because of his opposition to Napoleon III. While in exile he completed Les Mis rables , an enormous melodrama set against the background of political upheaval in France following the rule of Napoleon I. This newly abridged edition of Les Mis rables tells the story of the peasant Jean Valjean unjustly imprisoned, baffled by destiny, and hounded by his nemesis, the magnificently realized, ambiguously malevolent police detective Javert. As Valjean struggles to redeem his past, we are thrust into the teeming underworld of Paris with all its poverty, ignorance, and suffering. Just as cruel tyranny threatens to extinguish the last vestiges of hope, rebellion sweeps over the land like wildfire, igniting a vast struggle for the democratic ideal in France. A monumental classic dedicated to the oppressed, the underdog, the laborer, the rebel, the orphan, and the misunderstood, Les Mis rables is a rich, emotional novel that captures nothing less than the entirety of life in nineteenth-century France. Laurence M. Porter has published twelve books, including Victor Hugo 1999 , and a hundred articles and chapters. He was a National Endowment for the Humanties Senior Fellow in 1998. He teaches French at Michigan State University, where he won the Distinguished Faculty Award in 1995.
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Hugo, Victor Les Miserables Barnes & Noble Classics 2003 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1153534. ISBN #1593080662 / 9781593080662. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Hugo, Victor Les Miserables Barnes & Noble Classics 2003 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1153534. ISBN #1593080662 / 9781593080662. (filed under: Fiction ) *
stock image, actual book may vary Les Miserables , by Victor Hugo , is part of the Barnes Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes Noble Classics : All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences biographical, historical, and literary to enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works. One of the most widely read novels of all time, Les Mis rables was the crowning literary achievement of Victor Hugo s stunning career. Though he was considered the greatest French writer of his day, Hugo was forced to flee the country because of his opposition to Napoleon III. While in exile he completed Les Mis rables , an enormous melodrama set against the background of political upheaval in France following the rule of Napoleon I. This newly abridged edition of Les Mis rables tells the story of the peasant Jean Valjean unjustly imprisoned, baffled by destiny, and hounded by his nemesis, the magnificently realized, ambiguously malevolent police detective Javert. As Valjean struggles to redeem his past, we are thrust into the teeming underworld of Paris with all its poverty, ignorance, and suffering. Just as cruel tyranny threatens to extinguish the last vestiges of hope, rebellion sweeps over the land like wildfire, igniting a vast struggle for the democratic ideal in France. A monumental classic dedicated to the oppressed, the underdog, the laborer, the rebel, the orphan, and the misunderstood, Les Mis rables is a rich, emotional novel that captures nothing less than the entirety of life in nineteenth-century France. Laurence M. Porter has published twelve books, including Victor Hugo 1999 , and a hundred articles and chapters. He was a National Endowment for the Humanties Senior Fellow in 1998. He teaches French at Michigan State University, where he won the Distinguished Faculty Award in 1995.
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Hugo, Victor Les Miserables Barnes & Noble Classics 2003 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1150937. ISBN #1593080662 / 9781593080662. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Hugo, Victor Les Miserables Barnes & Noble Classics 2003 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1150937. ISBN #1593080662 / 9781593080662. (filed under: Fiction ) *
stock image, actual book may vary Les Miserables , by Victor Hugo , is part of the Barnes Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes Noble Classics : All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences biographical, historical, and literary to enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works. One of the most widely read novels of all time, Les Mis rables was the crowning literary achievement of Victor Hugo s stunning career. Though he was considered the greatest French writer of his day, Hugo was forced to flee the country because of his opposition to Napoleon III. While in exile he completed Les Mis rables , an enormous melodrama set against the background of political upheaval in France following the rule of Napoleon I. This newly abridged edition of Les Mis rables tells the story of the peasant Jean Valjean unjustly imprisoned, baffled by destiny, and hounded by his nemesis, the magnificently realized, ambiguously malevolent police detective Javert. As Valjean struggles to redeem his past, we are thrust into the teeming underworld of Paris with all its poverty, ignorance, and suffering. Just as cruel tyranny threatens to extinguish the last vestiges of hope, rebellion sweeps over the land like wildfire, igniting a vast struggle for the democratic ideal in France. A monumental classic dedicated to the oppressed, the underdog, the laborer, the rebel, the orphan, and the misunderstood, Les Mis rables is a rich, emotional novel that captures nothing less than the entirety of life in nineteenth-century France. Laurence M. Porter has published twelve books, including Victor Hugo 1999 , and a hundred articles and chapters. He was a National Endowment for the Humanties Senior Fellow in 1998. He teaches French at Michigan State University, where he won the Distinguished Faculty Award in 1995.
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Hui, Wei Shanghai Baby Washington Square Press 2002 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1003578. ISBN #0743421574 / 9780743421577. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Hui, Wei Shanghai Baby Washington Square Press 2002 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1003578. ISBN #0743421574 / 9780743421577. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The gap that divides those of us born in the 1970s and the older generation has never been so wide. Dark and edgy, deliciously naughty, an intoxicating cocktail of sex and the search for love, Shanghai Baby has already risen to cult status in mainland China. The risque contents of the breakthrough novel by hip new author Wei Hui have so alarmed Beijing authorities that thousands of copies have been confiscated and burned. As explicit as Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer, as shocking as Trainspotting, this story of a beautiful writer and her erotically charged affairs jumps, howls, and hits the ground running as it depicts the new generation rising in the East. Set in the centuries-old port city of Shanghai, the novel follows the days, and nights, of the irrepressibly carnal Coco, who waits tables in a caf when she meets her first lover, a sensitive Chinese artist. Defying her parents, Coco moves in with her boyfriend and enters a frenzied, orgasmic world of drugs and hedonism. But, helpless to stop her gentle lover's descent into addiction, Coco becomes attracted to a boisterous Westerner, a rich German businessman with a penchant for S M and seduction. Now, with an entourage of friends ranging from a streetwise madame to a rebellious filmmaker, Coco's forays into in the territory of love and lust cross the borders between two cultures -- awakening her guilt and fears of discovery, yet stimulating her emerging sexual self. Searing a blistering image into the reader's imagination, Shanghai Baby provides an alternative travelogue into the back streets of a city and the hard-core escapades of today's liberated youth. Wei Hui's provocative portrayal of men, women, and cultural transition is an astonishing and brave exposure of the unacknowledged new China, breaking through official rhetoric to show the inroads of the West and a people determined to burst free.
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Hulme, Keri Bone People Penguin Books 1986 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1162944. ISBN #0140089225 / 9780140089226. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Hulme, Keri Bone People Penguin Books 1986 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1162944. ISBN #0140089225 / 9780140089226. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary In a tower on the New Zealand sea lives Kerewin Holmes, part Maori, part European, an artist estranged from her art, a woman in exile from her family. One night her solitude is disrupted by a visitor a speechless, mercurial boy named Simon, who tries to steal from her and then repays her with his most precious possession. As Kerewin succumbs to Simon's feral charm, she also falls under the spell of his Maori foster father Joe, who rescued the boy from a shipwreck and now treats him with an unsettling mixture of tenderness and brutality. Out of this unorthodox trinity Keri Hulme has created what is at once a mystery, a love story, and an ambitious exploration of the zone where Maori and European New Zealand meet, clash, and sometimes merge. Winner of both a Booker Prize and Pegasus Prize for Literature, The Bone People is a work of unfettered wordplay and mesmerizing emotional complexity.
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Humes, H.L. Underground City 2007 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1070273. ISBN #081297848X / 9780812978483. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Humes, H.L. Underground City 2007 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1070273. ISBN #081297848X / 9780812978483. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Back in print after nearly fifty years the acclaimed fiction debut of novelist H. L. Humes, co-founder of The Paris Review Immensely intelligent and energetic, intensely dramatic and melodramatic, heroically overwritten yet sharp, insightful, and precise, The Underground City is an astonishing book by a writer of abundant gifts whose resurrection is long overdue. Peter Matthiessen It is the late 1940s and Paris is in turmoil. A man named Dujardin is sentenced to death for treason, sparking general strikes and threats of riots across the city. In the meantime, John Stone, a war-weary American and former secret agent, finds himself being investigated as a suspected Communist. What has brought these two men to their fates? H.L. Humes spins a thrilling account of the French underground during the last years of World War II, and the events that lead to the Dujardin affair. His many memorable characters include Adriane, loved by both Stone and Carnot, a fanatic Communist; Bruce Sheppard, the American ambassador to France, a statesman of vision and compassion; and Solange R camier, the sophisticated young Parisian widow who finds meaning in trying to salvage Stone s broken life. The Underground City displays H.L. Humes s youthful literary skill and a striking capacity for fast-paced narrative. This is a brilliant tour de force. A major achievement . . . The Underground City attains its full stature in poetry and truth. . . . This is a many-sided, absorbing novel, written on a grand scale, that holds the reader s attention from the first to the last of its many pages. New York Herald Tribune Magnificent . . . The Underground City has verisimilitude and scope, action and depth of emotion. Chicago Tribune A work of power, maturity and distinction. Newsweek
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Hummel, Maria Motherland 2014 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1092839. ISBN #1619022370 / 9781619022379. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Hummel, Maria Motherland 2014 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1092839. ISBN #1619022370 / 9781619022379. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Motherland is inspired by stories from the author s father and his German childhood, and letters between her grandparents that were hidden in an attic wall for fifty years. It is the author s attempt to reckon with the paradox of her father a product of her grandparents fiercely protective love and their status as Mitl ufer, Germans who went along with Nazism, first reaping its benefits and later its consequences. This page-turning novel focuses on the Kappus family: Frank is a reconstructive surgeon who lost his beloved wife in childbirth and two months later married a young woman who must look after the baby and his two grieving sons when he is drafted into medical military service. Alone in the house, Liesl must attempt to keep the children fed with dwindling food supplies, safe from the constant Allied air attacks, and protected against the swell of desperate refugees flooding their town. When one child begins to mentally unravel, Liesl must discover the source of the boy s infirmity or lose him forever to Hadamar, the infamous hospital for unfit children. The novel bears witness to the shame and courage of Third Reich families during the devastating last days of the war, as each family member s fateful choices lead them deeper into questions of complicity and innocence, to the novel s heartbreaking and unforgettable conclusion.
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Humphreys, C.C. Place Called Armageddon: Constantinople 1453 2013 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1087206. ISBN #1402280858 / 9781402280856. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Humphreys, C.C. Place Called Armageddon: Constantinople 1453 2013 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1087206. ISBN #1402280858 / 9781402280856. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Gregoras had vowed never to return to Constantinople, the cursed home that had betrayed and scarred not only his mind, but his face, for all to see. But now with 100,000 Muslim soldiers outside its walls, he can hear its desperate calls for his help, as it can only be held by men and mercenaries as skilled in battle as Gregoras, of which few remain. His return home, though, will mean not only having to face the constant hum of arrow and cannon, but also Theon, twin brother...and betrayer. And with him his beloved Sofia, lost when Gregoras was cast from his home, now bound to Theon in marriage. But the rewards of victory would not only be the glories of the battle, but the redemption of his name and his soul.
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Humphreys, Helen The Lost Garden W. W. Norton & Company 2003 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1036339. ISBN #0393324915 / 9780393324914. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Humphreys, Helen The Lost Garden W. W. Norton & Company 2003 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1036339. ISBN #0393324915 / 9780393324914. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Leaving London to grow food for the war effort, Gwen discovers a mysterious lost garden and the story of a love that becomes her own. This word-perfect, heartbreaking novel is set in early 1941 in Britain when the war seems endless and, perhaps, hopeless. London is on fire from the Blitz, and a young woman gardener named Gwen Davis flees from the burning city for the Devon countryside. She has volunteered for the Land Army, and is to be in charge of a group of young girls who will be trained to plant food crops on an old country estate where the gardens have fallen into ruin. Also on the estate, waiting to be posted, is a regiment of Canadian soldiers. For three months, the young women and men will form attachments, living in a temporary rural escape. No one will be more changed by the stay than Gwen. She will inspire the girls to restore the estate gardens, fall in love with a soldier, find her first deep friendship, and bring a lost garden, created for a great love, back to life. While doing so, she will finally come to know herself and a life worth living. Reading group guide included.
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Huneven, Michelle Off Course 2014 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1043470. ISBN #0374224471 / 9780374224479. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Huneven, Michelle Off Course 2014 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1043470. ISBN #0374224471 / 9780374224479. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary A bear climbs onto a cabin's deck, presses his nose to the sliding door. Inside, a young woman stands to face him. She comes closer, and closer yet, until only the glass stands between them . . . The year is 1981, Reagan is in the White House, and the country is stalled in a recession. Cressida Hartley, a gifted Ph.D. student in economics, moves into her parents' shabby A-frame cabin in the Sierras to write her dissertation. In her most intimate and emotionally compelling novel to date, Michelle Huneven--author of Blame , which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award--returns with her signature mix of fine-grained storytelling, unforgettable characters, and moral complexity. Cress, increasingly resistant to her topic art in the marketplace , allows herself to be drawn into the social life of the small mountain community. The exuberant local lodge owner, Jakey Yates, with his big personality and great animal magnetism, is the first to blur Cress' focus. The builder Rick Garsh gives her a job driving up and down the mountain for supplies. And then there are the two Morrow brothers, skilled carpenters, who are witty, intriguing, and married. As Cress tells her best friend back home in Pasadena, being a single woman on the mountain amounts to a form of public service. Falling prey to her own perilous reasoning, she soon finds herself in dark new territory, subject to forces beyond her control from both within and without. Unsentimental, immersive, and beautifully written--"Huneven's prose is flawless," according to The New Yorker-- Off Course evokes the rapture of new love, the addictive draw of an intense, impossible connection, and what happens when two people simply can't let go of each other or of their previous commitments. As her characters struggle with and delight in one another, Huneven subtly exposes the personal and social forces at play: issues of class, money, and family, as well as the intricate emotional and economic transactions between parents and children, between husbands and wives, between lovers, and between friends. Michelle Huneven is one of our most searching, elegant novelists--Richard Russo has called her "a writer of extraordinary and thrilling talent." In Off Course , she introduces us to an intelligent young woman who discovers that love is the great distraction, and impossible love the greatest distraction of all.
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Huneven, Michelle Off Course Picador 2015 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1123288. ISBN #1250064457 / 9781250064455. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Huneven, Michelle Off Course Picador 2015 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1123288. ISBN #1250064457 / 9781250064455. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary "Skillful and perceptive . . . A complex portrait of a woman under the influence: of love, then obsession." The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice The year is 1981. The United States has just installed Ronald Reagan in the White House, and Cressida Hartley, a Ph.D. candidate in economics, has relocated to her parents' A-frame in the Sierras. There, she plans to finish her dissertation on art in the marketplace, but instead Cress finds herself drawn into the life of this small community and into the orbit of Jakey Yates, the owner of the local lodge. When she takes a part-time job with a contractor, she meets the Morrow brothers, and her distractions begin to multiply. As Cress falls prey to her own perilous reasoning, she strays into dark new territory, where she becomes subject to uncontrollable forces from both within and without. At once sharply observed and utterly enthralling, Off Course evokes the pull of an intense, impossible connection and reveals what happens when two people can't let go of one another or their previous commitments.
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