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“anthony giardina”

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  • Remember This

    A Novel

    by Anthony Giardina ...
    The author of Norumbega Park returns with a bravura novel about the secrets artists keep—from the rest of the world, and from themselves.Even though Miranda Rando, a forty-year-old writer living in Brooklyn, is making breakthroughs in her biography of a powerful woman artist, she can’t escape the all-commanding presence of her father, Henry. And now that he has written a slightly embarrassing and ... Read more

    Was $21.99 CAD Now $17.99 CAD

  • White Guys

    A Novel

    by Anthony Giardina ...
    Inspired by actual events, Giardina has created a masterful and explosive social novel about the price of the American dream.After graduating from high school, in the early 1970s, Billy Mogavero is the only one of a tight-knit group of five friends who didn't make it out of Winship, a hardscrabble town outside of Boston. Twenty years later, the other four--who have made their way, to varying ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD

  • Recent History

    A Novel

    by Anthony Giardina ...
    When Luca Carcera is twelve years old, his father moves out under mysterious circumstances. He surfaces across town, in a run-down rooming house, living with another man. Luca is equally surprised by his mother’s burgeoning sexuality after her husband’s departure. And what about Luca’s own adolescent sexual awakening? He has an unusually intense friendship with a boy at school. He’s also drawn to ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Norumbega Park

    A Novel

    by Anthony Giardina ...
    Richie Palumbo, the most prosaic of men, gets lost one night in 1969 while driving home with his family. He finds himself in the town of Norumbega—hidden, remote, and gorgeous, at the far edges of Boston's western suburbs. He sees a venerable old house and, without quite knowing why, decides he must have it. The repercussions of Richie's wild dream to own a house in this town lead to a forty-year ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

  • The Country of Marriage

    Stories

    by Anthony Giardina ...
    With this collection of stories, Anthony Giardina takes his place among the finest writers of short fiction in America.The Country of Marriage is a window into the lives of men as they confront the darkness at the heart of domestic existence. Giardina looks at our relationships with an eye capable of clinical precision but never devoid of compassion, and gives voice to the emotions that lie ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

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  • Life Is About Losing Everything

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    A Joanne Kilbourn Mystery

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  • Serena's Magic

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