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Alice Adams: Listening to Billie [ISBN 0140073760] [music, psychology] In this intricately woven novel, a woman wrestles with the conflict between her desire for independence and her family obligations, a tension she tries to drown in the sad songs of Billie Holiday, whose live performance in a Greenwich Village club made a lasting impression on her. “A marvelous story, one that resonates with small, recognizable but nevertheless shocking truths.” – Ms. Magazine [VG] $2.99 | ||
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Paul Auster: Moon Palace [ISBN 0140115854] [picaresque] Penguin trade paperback, 1990 – Marco Stanley Fogg is an orphan, a child of the 1960s, a quester tirelessly seeking the key to his past, the answers to the ultimate riddle of his fate. As Marco journeys from the canyons of Manhattan to the deserts of Utah, he encounters a gallery of characters and a series of events as rich and surprising as any in modern fiction. [VG+] $3.99 | ||
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David Carkeet: The Full Catastrophe [ISBN 0671732455] [psychology, marital therapy, linguistics] Washington Square Press trade paperback, first printing, May 1991 – Unemployed linguist Jeremy Cook heads west to St. Louis for a well-paid job with the philanthropic Pillow Agency as a live-in observer of a troubled marriage. Lack of communication, good intentions gone wrong, and bullheadedness are among the marital difficulties he faces. [G+] $1.99 | ||
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Sanford Friedman: Totempole [ISBN 0865471401] [LGBT] North Point Press, trade paperback with dust jacket, 1984, 2nd printing – This critically acclaimed underground novel traces the psychological development of a gay man from infancy to adolescence to manhood, and finally to his emancipating love affair in a Korean prison camp. Saturday Review wrote, “...there are episodes that are developed with unusual imaginative power.” [F] $4.99 | ||
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Rebecca Goldstein: The Mind-Body Problem [ISBN 0141722459] [philosophy, Jewish culture] Penguin trade paperback, 1993 – A delightful and very funny novel of a philosophy graduate student at Princeton who undergoes a crisis of self-confidence and tries to resolve it by finding meaning second-hand in another’s life. The whole book is a long, clever, and non-standard treatment of the classic philosophical mind-body problem. [VG] $2.99 | ||
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Shirley
Jackson: Lizzie
[psychology,
DID ]
Signet paperback #S1400, 1st printing, April 1957 – first published as
The Bird’s Nest in 1954, this is the story of a woman with multiple
personality disorder (DID). Pretty, 23-year-old Elizabeth Richmond develops
separate and warring personalities when she is confronted by harsh
realities she cannot face – her mother’s strange death and a nightmare
interlude with her mother’s lover. A 1957 film titled
Lizzie
starred Eleanor Parker.
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B. S. Johnson: Christie Malry’s Own
Double-Entry
[ISBN 0330484826] [psychology,
terrorism] Picador
[UK] trade paperback, 2001 – Bryan Stanley Johnson (1933-1973) was an
English experimental novelist, poet, literary critic, producer of
television programs, and film-maker. This novel features a disgruntled
bookkeeper who devises a plan to use a double-entry bookkeeping system
to even his scores with society.
[F] $3.99 |
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Lee Lynch: The Swashbuckler [ISBN 0930044665] [LGBT] Niaid Press trade paperback, 1985 – Frenchy is a mild-mannered grocery cashier all week. On the weekends she tells her mother she’s going to play cards with the girls and, once out of the house, transforms herself into a swaggering butch who hits the Greenwich Village bars and picks up a different femme every night. Mercedes is a butch, too. Like Frenchy, she lives with her mom, and she’s young and mixed-up. [NF] $4.99 | ||
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Jo-Ann Mapson: The Wilder Sisters [ISBN 0060931078] [romance] Perennial trade paperback, 2000 – The Wilder sisters fall in love with men when they least expect it. Rose, the older, more practical one, is a widow who lives in New Mexico and has two ungrateful kids, a bored dog, and a horse with a bad back. Lily, the younger, more daring sister, lives in Southern California, where she has put her career before everything else – including love. [VG] $2.99 | ||
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Toni Morrison: Song of Solomon [ISBN 0452260116] [African-American culture] Plume trade paperback, 1987 – the story of a Black man’s search for his identity through a discovery of his family history, this book was a bestseller when it was first published in 1977. It won the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction in 1977. It is now widely taught, and appeared again on best-seller lists when it was chosen by Oprah Winfrey for inclusion in her book club. [F] $3.99 | ||
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Chuck Palahniuk: Invisible Monsters [ISBN 0393319296] [LGBT] Norton trade paperback, reprint of 1999 edition – After a sudden accident leaves her with half a face, no ability to speak, and no self-esteem, a fashion model is approached by a transsexual one operation away from becoming a “real woman” who teaches her that reinventing oneself means erasing the past and making up something better. By the author of Fight Club. [VG] $3.99 | ||
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Alan Paton: Too Late the Phalarope [ISBN 0684718669] [South Africa, race relations] Scribner’s trade paperback #SL79, 12th printing of 1953 edition – a novel about a young white South African police lieutenant, idolized in his community, who violates one of the strictest laws of that country governing the relationship between white and black. By the author of Cry, the Beloved Country, a former administrator of a reformatory in Johannesburg. [VG] $2.99 | ||
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Salman Rushdie: Haroun and the Sea of Stories [ISBN 0140157379] [fantasy, fables] Penguin/Granta trade paperback, 1991 – in a contemporary fable filled with riotous verbal pranks, Haroun, who unintentionally stopped time when he froze his father’s esteemed storytelling ability, seeks to undo his error on a quest through a magical realm. Stephen King wrote that it is “...a book for anyone who loves a good story” and “...a work of literary genius.” [VG] $4.99 | ||
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Frances Sherwood: Vindication [ISBN 0140236686] [historical novel, 18th century] Penguin trade paperback, 1994 – based on the life of radical feminist and author Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-797), this is the story of a young woman who survives a brutal childhood by exposing its underlying injustices, to become the protégé of such literary figures as William Godwin, Thomas Paine and Henry Fuseli. “An exuberant ride....” – Harper’s Bazaar [VG] $2.99 | ||
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Meg Wolitzer: This Is Your Life [ISBN 0140124306] [coming of age, 1970s] Penguin trade paperback, 1989, 1st printing – the story of Dottie Engels, America’s favorite comedienne, and her daughters, Opal and Erica. Opal flourishes, but Erica fails miserably. When Dottie’s popularity begins to wane, the real strengths of the women emerge. “A witty, rapidly paced novel... Swift and accurate, bursting with detail.” – New York Times Book Review [F] $2.99 | ||
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Robert James Waller: The Bridges of Madison County [ISBN 044651652X] [romance] Warner trade paperback, 1997 – When Robert Kincaid drives through the heat and dust of an Iowa summer and turns into Francesca Johnson’s farm lane looking for directions, the world-class photographer and the Iowa farm wife are joined in an experience of uncommon truth and stunning beauty that will haunt them forever. [NM] $2.99 |
