Dial Press Trade Paperback, October 1998. Trade Paperback. "A free-wheeling vehicle . . . an unforgettable ride!"--The New York Times Cat's Cradle is Kurt Vonnegut's satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet's ultimate fate, it features a midget as the protagonist, a complete..... More
Harper Perennial, May 2016. Trade Paperback. #1 New York Times Bestseller "Go Set a Watchman is such an important book, perhaps the most important novel on race to come out of the white South in decades. -- New York Times A landmark novel by Harper Lee, set two decades after..... More
Harper Perennial, February 1990. Trade Paperback. "Belongs in the category ... of enduring American literature." -- Saturday Review Fair and long-legged, independent and articulate, Janie Crawford sets out to be her own person -- no mean feat for a black woman in the '30s. Janie's quest for identity takes her..... More
William Morrow & Company, January 2012. Trade Paperback. "Wicked and irresistible....Elmore Leonard is a literary genius." --New York Times Book Review Before U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens began electrifying TV viewers across America (in the hit series Justified), he "starred" in Elmore Leonard's Riding the Rap--an explosive, twisty tale of a...... More
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
Anchor, September 2004. Trade Paperback. Misty Wilmot has had it. Once a promising young artist, she's now stuck on an island ruined by tourism, drinking too much and working as a waitress in a hotel. Her husband, a contractor, is in a coma after a suicide attempt, but that doesn't..... More
Da Capo Press, September 2001. Trade Paperback. Originally published in 1958, The Professional is the story of boxer Eddie Brown's quest for the middleweight championship of the world. But it is so much more. W. C. Heinz not only serves up a realistic depiction of the circus-like atmosphere around boxing..... More
Coffee House Press, August 2011. Trade Paperback. Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship in Madrid, struggling to establish his sense of self and his relationship to art. What is actual when our experiences are mediated by language, technology, medication, and the..... More
Vintage, June 1993. Trade Paperback. The national bestseller and the first volume in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy, All the Pretty Horses is the tale of John Grady Cole, who at sixteen finds himself at the end of a long line of Texas ranchers, cut off from the only life he..... More
Scribner, October 2016. Trade Paperback. In this New York Times bestseller, an award-winning journalist uses ten maps of crucial regions to explain the geo-political strategies of the world powers--"fans of geography, history, and politics (and maps) will be enthralled" (Fort Worth Star-Telegram). Maps have a mysterious hold over us. Whether..... More
Vintage, October 2000. Trade Paperback. A complusively readable riff on the classic detective novel from America's most inventive novelist Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and a New York Times Notable Book Utterly original and deeply moving. --Esquire Brooklyn's very own self-appointed Human Freakshow, Lionel Essrog is an..... More
Penguin (Non-Classics), September 1993. Trade Paperback. More
Perennial, January 1991. Trade Paperback. The imaginative and exuberant account of Hurston's rise from poverty in the rural South to becoming one of the leading intellectuals of the Harlem Renaissance. More
Penguin (Non-Classics), July 2010. Trade Paperback. Part noir, part psychedelic romp, all Thomas Pynchon--Private eye Doc Sportello surfaces, occasionally, out of a marijuana haze to watch the end of an era In this lively yarn, Thomas Pynchon, working in an unaccustomed genre that is at once exciting and accessible, provides..... More
Penguin (Non-Classics), August 1996. Trade Paperback. T.C. Boyle's tragicomic, award-winning novel about assimilation, immigration, and the price of the American dream "A masterpiece of contemporary social satire." --The Wall Street Journal Topanga Canyon is home to two couples on a collision course. Los Angeles liberals Delaney and Kyra Mossbacher lead..... More
Bantam, June 2001. Trade Paperback. "As clever and witty a novel as anyone has written in a long time . . . Robbins takes readers on a wild, delightful ride. . . . A delight from beginning to end."--Buffalo News Switters is a contradiction for all seasons: an anarchist who..... More
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, November 2006. Trade Paperback. "A puzzle, an intrigue, a literary and historical tour de force." -- San Francisco Examiner The Crying of Lot 49 is Thomas Pynchon's highly original classic satire of modern America, about Oedipa Maas, a woman who finds herself enmeshed in what would..... More
Simon & Schuster, July 2001. Paper Back. Imagine that the novelist -- his name here is Eugene Pota -- realizes that the days are dwindling and he needs to come up with one more novel. But what should he write? That first novel, the one that launched him, the one..... More
Vintage, May 1995. Trade Paperback. In The Crossing, Cormac McCarthy fulfills the promise of All the Pretty Horses and at the same time give us a work that is darker and more visionary, a novel with the unstoppable momentum of a classic western and the elegaic power of a lost..... More
Vintage, May 1992. Trade Paperback. An epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, Blood Meridian brilliantly subverts the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the wild west. Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, it..... More
Vintage, August 1993. Trade Paperback. In this taut, chilling novel, Lester Ballard--a violent, dispossessed man falsely accused of rape--haunts the hill country of East Tennessee when he is released from jail.While telling his story, Cormac McCarthy depicts the most sordid aspects of life with dignity, humor, and characteristic lyrical brilliance."..... More
Crescent Books/ A Division of Crown, December 1988. First Thus. Hardcover. Quarto., {& & 3/4' x 10 & 1/2'} In edgeworn with several tears around top of spine area. Foxing to DJ verso. Blue textured paper covered boards with silver lettering upon spine. Dust stains. Tanned end pages. Foxed heavily..... More
Aegean Park Press, June 1979. First Edition. Soft Cover. Quarto. {8 & 1/2' x11'} Moderate tanning of spine. Interiors clean, unmarked. (186 pp.). More
Aegean Park Press, 1981. Paper Back. Quarto. {8 & 1/2' x 11'}. Tan cardstock cover. Clean, sound, without interior markings. (140 pp) Undated. Probably a reprint, and I think originally published in 1979. 1981 is just a guess for reprint date. More
