Sophie's Choice
Random House, April 1979. First Edition. Cloth. Book moderately shelfworn, with foxing and toning. Jacket edgeworn and a bit soiled. A first printing, but more a good, sturdy reading copy of the modern classic. More
New Arrivals
Edie: An American Biography
Knopf, June 1982. Book Club. Hardcover. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper; spine leaning; moderate shelfwear; jacket badly worn and torn. More
Jude the Obscure (Revised)
Oxford University Press, USA, January 2009. Trade Paperback. Hardy's last and most controversial novel, Jude the Obscure caused much outrage when it was published in 1895. Jude Fawley, poor and working-class, longs to study at the University of Christminster, but his ambitions to go to university are thwarted by class..... More
The Girls
Random House, June 2016. Reprint. Hardcover. THE INSTANT BESTSELLER - An indelible portrait of girls, the women they become, and that moment in life when everything can go horribly wrong NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post - NPR - The Guardian - Entertainment..... More
Underworld
Scribner, October 1997. Reprint. Hardcover. Our lives, our half century. Nick Shay and Klara Sax knew each other once, intimately, and they meet again in the American desert. He is trying to outdistance the crucial events of his early life, haunted by the hard logic of loss and by the..... More
Cherry Orchard
Grove Press, January 1994. Trade Paperback. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet, in this unique adaptation of one of the great masterpieces of the theater, allows us to see Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard in totally new and surprising ways. As Mamet explains in his introduction, he views the play as..... More
Flight Behavior: A Novel (P.S.)
Harper Perennial, June 2013. Trade Paperback. New York Times Bestseller Indie Bestseller Barnes & Noble Bestseller National Bestseller Amazon Best Book of the Month Indie Next Pick Best Book of the Year: New York Times Notable, Washington Post Notable, Amazon Editor's Choice, USA Today's Top Ten (#1), St. Louis Post-Dispatch..... More
Courtship, Valentine's Day, 1918: Three Plays from the Orphans' Home Cycle (Pantheon Classic Cookbook)
Random House Inc (P), May 1987. Trade Paperback. More
Look Homeward, Angel : A Story of the Buried Life
Simon & Schuster, December 1995. Trade Paperback. "Look Homeward, Angel" is an elaborate and moving coming-of-age story about Eugene Gant, a restless and energetic character whose passion to experience life takes him from his small, rural hometown in North Carolina to Harvard University and the city of Boston. The novel's..... More
The Master Butchers Singing Club (P.S.)
Harper Perennial, July 2005. Trade Paperback. From National Book Award-winning, New York Times-bestselling author Louise Erdrich, a profound and enchanting new novel: a richly imagined world "where butchers sing like angels." Having survived World War I, Fidelis Waldvogel returns to his quiet German village and marries the pregnant widow of..... More
England, England
Picador, September 1999. Trade Paperback. Visionary tycoon Sir Jack Pitman builds replicas of all the major tourist attractions on the Isle of Wight, from Stonehenge to Manchester United. The project is monstrous, risky and vastly successful - indeed it gradually begins to rival Old England, and threatens to supersede it..... More
Billy Budd, Bartleby, and Other Stories
Penguin Books, April 2016. Trade Paperback. A new, definitive edition of Herman Melville's virtuosic short stories--American classics wrought with scorching fury, grim humor, and profound beauty Though best-known for his epic masterpiece Moby-Dick, Herman Melville also left a body of short stories arguably unmatched in American fiction. In the sorrowful..... More
Fences
Plume, March 1995. Trade Paperback. From legendary playwright August Wilson comes the powerful, stunning dramatic bestseller that won him critical acclaim, including the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize. Troy Maxson is a strong man, a hard man. He has had to be to survive. Troy Maxson..... More
Very Bad Men
Berkley Trade, July 2012. Trade Paperback. From the national bestselling author of Bad Things Happen--the debut that Stephen King called a "great f***ing book"--comes a new crime novel that will blow readers away... ANTHONY LARK has a list of names--Terry Dawtrey, Sutton Bell, Henry Kormoran. To his eyes, the names..... More
The Complete Persepolis: Now a Major Motion Picture
Pantheon, October 2007. Trade Paperback. Here, in one volume: Marjane Satrapi's best-selling, internationally acclaimed graphic memoir of growing up as a girl in revolutionary Iran.... That Satrapi chose to tell her remarkable story as a gorgeous comic book makes it totally unique and indispensable (Time). Persepolis is the story of..... More
Commonwealth
Harper Perennial, May 2017. Trade Paperback. "Exquisite... Commonwealth is impossible to put down." -- New York Times #1 New York Times Bestseller NBCC Award Finalist New York Times Best Book of the Year USA Today Best Book TIME Magazine Top 10 Selection Oprah Favorite Book New York Magazine Best Book..... More
Super Sad True Love Story: A Novel
Random House Trade Paperbacks, May 2011. Trade Paperback. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A deliciously dark tale of America's dysfunctional coming years--and the timeless and tender feelings that just might bring us back from the brink. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times..... More
The History Boys: A Play
Faber & Faber, April 2006. Trade Paperback. More
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Bantam, March 1990. Trade Paperback. Starring Sissy Hanshaw--flawlessly beautiful, almost. A small-town girl with big-time dreams and a quirk to match--hitchhiking her way into your heart, your hopes, and your sleeping bags... Featuring Bonanza Jellybean and the smooth-riding cowgirls of Rubber Rose Ranch. Chink, lascivious guru of yams and yang..... More
The Beet Queen
Bantam, August 1989. Trade Paperback. Now, from the award-winning author of "Love Medicine, " comes a vibrant tale of abandonment and sexual obsession, jealousy and unstinting love. On a spring morning in 1932, young Karl and Mary Adare arrive by boxcar in Argus, North Dakota. Orphaned in a most peculiar..... More
Strong Motion : A Novel
St Martins Pr Special, September 2001. Trade Paperback. From THE NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author of The Corrections and Freedom New York Times Bestselling Author National Book Award Winner "Jonathan Franzen, an abundantly gifted writer, has even more nerve than talent" (The New York Times), and he refuses to play..... More
Light in August (Vintage International)
Vintage, January 1991. Trade Paperback. NOBEL PRIZE WINNER - A novel set in the American South during Prohibition about hopeful perseverance in the face of mortality--from one of the most highly acclaimed writers of the twentieth century. Light in August features some of Faulkner's most memorable characters: guileless, dauntless Lena..... More
Prodigal Summer: A Novel
Harper Perennial, October 2001. Trade Paperback. Barbara Kingsolver's fifth novel is a hymn to wildness that celebrates the prodigal spirit of human nature, and of nature itself. It weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives amid the mountains and farms of southern Appalachia. Over..... More
All My Sons (Penguin Classics)
Penguin Classics, October 2000. Trade Paperback. A Penguin Classic Joe Keller and Steve Deever, partners in a machine shop during World War II, turned out defective airplane parts, causing the deaths of many men. Deever was sent to prison while Keller escaped punishment and went back to business, making himself..... More
Less Than Zero
Vintage, June 1998. Trade Paperback. Set in Los Angeles in the early 1980's, this coolly mesmerizing novel is a raw, powerful portrait of a lost generation who have experienced sex, drugs, and disaffection at too early an age, in a world shaped by casual nihilism, passivity, and too much money..... More
