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The Pumpkin Eater
Pumpkin Eater
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Penelope Mortimer
Mortimer
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An exquisitely surreal black comedy about marriage, motherhood, and the madness of modern life. "(Mortimer) is the family historian of the smart, go ahead, two-car household which has a double load of private misery packed in each boot." —Robert Pitman, Sunday Express
Contributors: Daphne Merkin |
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We Think the World of You
We Think the World of You
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J. R. Ackerley
Ackerley
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“Boy meets dog, boy loses dog, boy gets dog. The book is both breezy and sad...Ackerley’s appeal lies in his graceful, ironic style: His books are candid confessions of a good friend, full of small, hilarious surprises.” —Peter Terzian, Out
Contributors: P. N. Furbank |
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After Claude
After Claude
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Iris Owens
Owens
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Funny and foulmouthed, Harriet tears around Greenwich Village insulting friend and foe alike.
But when “the French rat” Claude leaves her (or did she leave Claude?), Harriet
is adrift. That is, until she discovers an unlikely savior in a dark room at the Chelsea Hotel. “Spikey
with mockery, carbon steel wit and mature observation.” —The Village Voice
Contributors: Emily Prager |
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The Outward Room
Outward Room
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Millen Brand
Brand
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The Outward Room was a sensation when first published in 1937. It is the story of a young
woman’s path from suffering to deep fulfillment, set in Depression-era New York City. “One
of those firmly painted, exquisite miniatures of life...that contrive to be unsparing and honest,
and at the same time refreshing and lovely.” —Theodore Dreiser
Contributors: Peter Cameron |
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The World As I Found It
World as I Found It
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Bruce Duffy
Duffy
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An enthralling experiment that goes beyond biography to reveal the imagined lives of some of
the greatest thinkers of the last century: Ludwig Wittgenstein, G.E. Moore, and Bertrand Russell.
“One of the more astonishing literary debuts in recent memory.... Mr. Duffy gave...more
than 500 pages of dazzling language and dizzying speculation on the life of Ludwig Wittgenstein.” —A.O. Scott
Contributors: David Leavitt |
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The Mountain Lion
Mountain Lion
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Jean Stafford
Stafford
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“The Mountain Lion remains a brilliant achievement, an exploration of adolescence to set beside Carson McCullers’s masterwork The Member of the Wedding.” —Joyce Carol Oates
Contributors: Kathryn Davis |
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The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
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Brian Moore
Moore
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A deeply sympathetic portrait of a Belfast woman, come down in the world and denied the comforts once granted to her sort (from the Catholic Church, from her genteel friends), who has a shameful secret. This is the book that launched Brian Moore’s career.
Contributors: Mary Gordon |
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The New York Stories of Elizabeth Hardwick
New York Stories of Elizabeth Hardwick
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Elizabeth Hardwick
Hardwick
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Celebrated stories of living, loving, and surviving in New York's bohemian and literary circles. This collection is the first to gather the short fiction of Elizabeth Hardwick, one of the leading figures of twentieth-century American letters.
Contributors: Darryl Pinckney |
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Nightmare Alley
Nightmare Alley
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William Lindsay Gresham
Gresham
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Nightmare Alley begins with an extraordinary description of a freak-show geek— the object of the voyeuristic crowd's gleeful disgust—going about his work at a county fair. Young Stan Carlisle is working as a carny, and he wonders how a man could fall so low. There's no way that anything like that will ever happen to him.
Contributors: Nick Tosches |
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Wish Her Safe At Home
Wish Her Safe At Home
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Stephen Benatar
Benatar
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An unexpected inheritance frees Rachel Waring from her dreary life. But will her newfound joie de vivre free her from her grasp on reality as well? Benatar's brilliantly subjective storytelling keeps the reader guessing till the very end.
Contributors: John Carey |
