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The Runaway Soul

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Harold Brodkey's acclaimed novel is a mesmerizing work of literary genius, exploring the momentous events in the life of a family in twentieth-century St. Louis, and a writer still haunted by a childhood tragedyFirst published in 1991, The Runaway Soul took Harold Brodkey more than three decades to complete. This sprawling novel has since been eagerly embraced by readers and critics alike, earning ... Read more

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Harold Brodkey's acclaimed novel is a mesmerizing work of literary genius, exploring the momentous events in the life of a family in twentieth-century St. Louis, and a writer still haunted by a childhood tragedyFirst published in 1991, The Runaway Soul took Harold Brodkey more than three decades to complete. This sprawling novel has since been eagerly embraced by readers and critics alike, earning
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First Love and Other Sorrows

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These short stories filled with "narrative grace and rare craftsmanship " chronicle the loss of innocence and the anguish of young love ( San Francisco Chronicle ).First Love and Other Sorrows is the hauntingly beautiful debut collection of short stories from American master Harold Brodkey. Written when the author was in his twenties, these strong, affecting tales recall the into... ... Read more

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These short stories filled with "narrative grace and rare craftsmanship " chronicle the loss of innocence and the anguish of young love ( San Francisco Chronicle ).First Love and Other Sorrows is the hauntingly beautiful debut collection of short stories from American master Harold Brodkey. Written when the author was in his twenties, these strong, affecting tales recall the into...
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Harold Brodkey Letters to Temmie 1960-1965

by Harold Brodkey, Temmie Brodkey, Temi (Brodkey) Rose ...

Selected Letters from correspondence between Harold Brodkey and his young daughter Temmie Brodkey. Photographs of the Brodkeys from the 1950's and 1960's.EXCERPTTo be right in school means only to agree with the teacher (or means only that the teacher agrees with you). The great gift of an education is to learn to think one's own thoughts, to learn to observe and to learn from the observations, ... Read more

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Selected Letters from correspondence between Harold Brodkey and his young daughter Temmie Brodkey. Photographs of the Brodkeys from the 1950's and 1960's.EXCERPTTo be right in school means only to agree with the teacher (or means only that the teacher agrees with you). The great gift of an education is to learn to think one's own thoughts, to learn to observe and to learn from the observations,
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Stories in an Almost Classical Mode

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FROM TWO-TIME O. HENRY AWARD WINNER • A mammoth collection of short fiction, these 17 stories spanning three decades of work showcase Harold Brodkey at his most intense and masterful. With layered insights, emotional risk, and magnificently dense prose, Brodkey captures the truth and complexity of lived experience."[Brodkey's stories are] one of those provinces we visit while traveling and that ... Read more

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FROM TWO-TIME O. HENRY AWARD WINNER • A mammoth collection of short fiction, these 17 stories spanning three decades of work showcase Harold Brodkey at his most intense and masterful. With layered insights, emotional risk, and magnificently dense prose, Brodkey captures the truth and complexity of lived experience."[Brodkey's stories are] one of those provinces we visit while traveling and that
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Women and Angels

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From Harold Brodkey come three remarkable stories about the brief lives of two women and the troubling appearance of an angel above Harvard UniversityConsidered by many to be among the greatest American writers of the twentieth century, Harold Brodkey created fiction that startled, provoked, and often confounded. These three novellas, told through the recollections of fictional alter ego, Wiley ... Read more

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From Harold Brodkey come three remarkable stories about the brief lives of two women and the troubling appearance of an angel above Harvard UniversityConsidered by many to be among the greatest American writers of the twentieth century, Harold Brodkey created fiction that startled, provoked, and often confounded. These three novellas, told through the recollections of fictional alter ego, Wiley
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Mirror, Mirror on the Wall

Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales

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New edition (revised and expanded) available 8/13/02.Fairy tales are one of the most enduring forms of literature, their plots retold and characters reimagined for centuries. In this elegant and thought-provoking collection of original essays, Kate Bernheimer brings together twenty-eight leading women writers to discuss how these stories helped shape their imaginations, their craft, and our ... Read more

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New edition (revised and expanded) available 8/13/02.Fairy tales are one of the most enduring forms of literature, their plots retold and characters reimagined for centuries. In this elegant and thought-provoking collection of original essays, Kate Bernheimer brings together twenty-eight leading women writers to discuss how these stories helped shape their imaginations, their craft, and our
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Love & Misadventure

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"Frank poems about love, sex, heartache and betrayal" from the international bestselling, award-winning author, and social media sensation ( The New York Times).The journey from love to heartbreak to finding love again is personal yet universal. Lang Leav's evocative love poetry speaks to the soul of anyone who is on this journey. Leav has an unnerving ability to see inside the hearts and minds of ... Read more

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"Frank poems about love, sex, heartache and betrayal" from the international bestselling, award-winning author, and social media sensation ( The New York Times).The journey from love to heartbreak to finding love again is personal yet universal. Lang Leav's evocative love poetry speaks to the soul of anyone who is on this journey. Leav has an unnerving ability to see inside the hearts and minds of
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The Kiss

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by Kathryn Harrison, Jane Smiley ...

Exquisitely and hypnotically written, like a bold and terrifying dream, The Kiss is breathtaking in its honesty and in the power and beauty of its creation.In this extraordinary memoir, one of the best young writers in America today transforms into a work of art the darkest passage imaginable in a young woman's life: an obsessive love affair between father and daughter that began when Kathryn ... Read more

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Exquisitely and hypnotically written, like a bold and terrifying dream, The Kiss is breathtaking in its honesty and in the power and beauty of its creation.In this extraordinary memoir, one of the best young writers in America today transforms into a work of art the darkest passage imaginable in a young woman's life: an obsessive love affair between father and daughter that began when Kathryn
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Lost in Translation

A Life in a New Language

by Eva Hoffman ...

Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language by Eva Hoffman (107,000 words)The late poet and memoirist Czeslaw Milosz wrote, "I am enchanted. This book is graceful and profound."Since its publication in 1989, many other readers across the world have been enchanted by Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language, a classic of exile and immigrant literature, as well as a girl’s coming-of-age ... Read more

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Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language by Eva Hoffman (107,000 words)The late poet and memoirist Czeslaw Milosz wrote, "I am enchanted. This book is graceful and profound."Since its publication in 1989, many other readers across the world have been enchanted by Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language, a classic of exile and immigrant literature, as well as a girl’s coming-of-age
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The Journals of Sylvia Plath

by Sylvia Plath ...

The electrifying diaries that are essential reading for anyone moved and fascinated by the life and work of one of America's most acclaimed poets.Sylvia Plath began keeping a diary as a young child. By the time she was at Smith College, when this book begins, she had settled into a nearly daily routine with her journal, which was also a sourcebook for her writing. Plath once called her journal her ... Read more

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The electrifying diaries that are essential reading for anyone moved and fascinated by the life and work of one of America's most acclaimed poets.Sylvia Plath began keeping a diary as a young child. By the time she was at Smith College, when this book begins, she had settled into a nearly daily routine with her journal, which was also a sourcebook for her writing. Plath once called her journal her
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A Sorrow Beyond Dreams

by Peter Handke ...

Translated by Ralph Manheim ...

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"My mother has been dead for almost seven weeks: I had better go to work before the need to write about her, which I felt so strongly at her funeral, dies away and I fall back into the dull speechlessness with which I reacted to the nerves of her suicide."So begins Peter Handke's extraordinary confrontation with his mother's death. In a painful and courageous attempt to deal with the almost ... Read more

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"My mother has been dead for almost seven weeks: I had better go to work before the need to write about her, which I felt so strongly at her funeral, dies away and I fall back into the dull speechlessness with which I reacted to the nerves of her suicide."So begins Peter Handke's extraordinary confrontation with his mother's death. In a painful and courageous attempt to deal with the almost
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The Beginners

by Rebecca Wolff ...

The chilling, hypnotically beautiful story of a girl whose coming of age is darkened by the secret history of her small New England town.Theo and Raquel Motherwell are the only newcomers to the sleepy town of Wick in fifteen-year-old Ginger Pritt's memory. Hampered by a lingering innocence while her best friend, Cherry, grows more and more embroiled with boys, Ginger is instantly attracted to the ... Read more

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The chilling, hypnotically beautiful story of a girl whose coming of age is darkened by the secret history of her small New England town.Theo and Raquel Motherwell are the only newcomers to the sleepy town of Wick in fifteen-year-old Ginger Pritt's memory. Hampered by a lingering innocence while her best friend, Cherry, grows more and more embroiled with boys, Ginger is instantly attracted to the
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