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  • September Song

    Stories

    From one of America's most acclaimed authors comes a masterful collection of bittersweet tales about the autumn of lifeIn the exquisite title story, seventy-six-year-old Virginia Tyler will finally marry the love of her life—as soon as she finds the courage to leave her husband of almost fifty years. In "The Apple of Discord," a Hudson Valley farmer, heartsick that none of his three daughters or ... En savoir plus

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  • Home from the Hill

    A Novel

    National Book Award Finalist: The mesmerizing saga of a Texas family torn apart by passion and pride.Twelve years after Hannah Hunnicutt was committed to a Dallas asylum, her body is brought home to northeast Texas to be buried alongside those of her husband and son. Etched on all three gravestones is the same date of death: May 28, 1939.Home from the Hill is the story of that tragic day and the ... En savoir plus

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  • No Resting Place

    A Novel

    A Scottish-Cherokee boy accompanies his grandparents on the Trail of Tears in this "superb" novel by the New York Times–bestselling author of The Ordways ( Time).Twelve-year-old Amos Ferguson is a blond, blue-eyed boy of mixed Cherokee and Scottish heritage, the son of a physician and the grandson of a gentleman farmer. Despite wealth and education, however, the family has no recourse when a ... En savoir plus

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  • The Collected Stories of William Humphrey

    The essential anthology of early short fiction by an American masterSet primarily in Texas and Oklahoma during the Great Depression, these extraordinary stories display the unique blend of irony, nostalgia, and sharp-edged lyricism that established William Humphrey as one of America's finest chroniclers of small-town life.In "The Last Husband," a bright-eyed newlywed bears witness to the cynical ... En savoir plus

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  • The Ordways

    A Novel

    "Good writing is rare enough. Storytelling is an even rarer skill. A genuinely comic vision is beyond price. The Ordways has all three." — TimeOn the annual graveyard-working day in Clarksville, Texas, families come from all over East Texas to pay respects to their loved ones. The Ordways are one such clan, and in this eloquent and original novel, our narrator recounts the story of how he and his ... En savoir plus

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  • Hostages to Fortune

    A Novel

    A father bravely confronts an unthinkable tragedy in William Humphrey's most heart-wrenching novel.In the aftermath of his son's suicide, Ben Curtis returns to the upstate New York fishing lodge that holds some of his happiest memories. It has been two years since his last visit, and Ben—thirty pounds lighter, his dark hair turned white—is barely recognizable to people who have fished alongside ... En savoir plus

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  • My Moby Dick

    From the acclaimed author of Home from the Hill and The Ordways comes a charming and erudite account of what happens when the fish hooks the fishermanIn the Berkshire mountains, novelist and avid outdoorsman William Humphrey discovers a gigantic, one-eyed brown trout lazing in the shallows of a roadside stream. Between three and four feet long and weighing more than thirty pounds, it is a fish too ... En savoir plus

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  • The Spawning Run

    William Humphrey's delightful chronicle of an angling holiday in Wales celebrates two equally astonishing creatures: the Atlantic salmon and the British fly fishermanIn order to mate in the same freshwater stream where it was spawned, the salmon swims one thousand miles or more and overcomes countless obstacles, from trawling nets to twelve-foot-high waterfalls. To catch the King of Fish at the ... En savoir plus

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  • Proud Flesh

    A Novel

    "A big, rich, satisfying, old-fashioned hunk of a book . . . part comedy, part tragedy, and thoroughly satisfying." — Chicago Tribune Book WorldA Texas family as big and brash as their home state, the Renshaws are united by their fierce loyalty to one another and their ruthlessness in destroying anyone who threatens their interests.When the Renshaw matriarch, Edwina, takes to her deathbed, her ten ... En savoir plus

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  • Farther Off from Heaven

    A Memoir

    William Humphrey's acclaimed memoir is a richly detailed portrait of small-town Texas and a poignant account of the tragedy that shaped the author's lifeAt three o'clock in the morning on July 5, 1937, William Humphrey awoke to his mother's urgent cry: "Get dressed as quick as you can! Your daddy has been hurt." Rushing to the doctor's office, mother and son arrived to find Clarence Humphrey ... En savoir plus

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  • My Moby Dick

    Traduit par Franca Pece ...
    Come avvenne al capitano Achab, anche a Bill viene concesso di incontrare un pesce da primato, una trota bruna che, con ogni probabilità, è la più grande trota bruna di questo mondo. Vive in un piccolo ruscello caro a Melville e Hawthorne, tra i monti del Berkshire, e benché cieca da un occhio, è abbastanza astuta da essere riuscita a sfuggire fino a quel momento all’amo dei pescatori. Bill prova ... En savoir plus

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    Home from the Hill

    A Novel

    Lu par Brian Troxell ...

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    12 heure 58 min

    National Book Award Finalist: The mesmerizing saga of a Texas family torn apart by passion and pride.Twelve years after Hannah Hunnicutt was committed to a Dallas asylum, her body is brought home to northeast Texas to be buried alongside those of her husband and son. Etched on all three gravestones is the same date of death: May 28, 1939.Home from the Hill is the story of that tragic day and the ... En savoir plus

    $41.21 CAD