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My New American Life_ A Novel - FRANCINE PROSE
From Publishers WeeklyThe story of a good-hearted immigrant doubles as a snapshot of America during Bush II's second term in Prose's uneven latest. Lula is a 26-year-old Albanian w... -
Midnight in the Garden of Good - John Berendt
Amazon.com ReviewJohn Berendt's Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil has been heralded as a "lyrical work of nonfiction," and the book's extremely graceful prose depictions of .... -
Main Lines, Blood Feasts, and B - Lester Bangs
Before his untimely death in 1982, Lester Bangs was inarguably the most influential critic of rock and roll. Writing in hyper-intelligent Benzedrine prose that calls to mind Jack K... -
Laughter in the Dark - Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov;
ReviewNabokov writes prose the only way it should be written—that is, ecstatically. (_John Updike_ ) Product DescriptionThe classic novel from the author of -
Hard-boiled wonderland and the - Haruki Murakami
From Publishers WeeklyMurakami's lightning prose more than sustains the elaborate plot of this thriller, set in a Tokyo of the near future. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information... -
Half the Blood of Brooklyn - Charlie Huston
SUMMARY: “One of the most remarkable prose stylists to emerge from the noir tradition in this century.”–Stephen King“Hard-boiled horror, pulp noir vampires, decaying urban souls– y... -
Final Jeopardy (Alexandra Coope - Linda Fairstein
This critically acclaimed, explosive thriller is a book only prosecutor Linda Fairstein could write. Patricia Cornwall knows the morgue; John Grisham knows the courtroom; but no on... -
Crazy for the Storm_ A Memoir o - Norman Ollestad
SUMMARY: A riveting and moving memoir, written in crisp Hemingwayesque prose and set amid the wild, uninhibited surf culture of Malibu and Mexico in the late 1970s From the age of ... -
Confess, Fletch - Gregory Mcdonald
Review?Has all the zest, humor and spare lean prose of its forerunner: it has a beautifully complex plot which leaves you squirming at the final sentence and a set of slippery char... -
Cold River - Carla Neggers
Hannah Shay has finally shown the town of Black Falls what she's worth. Her Three Sisters Cafe is a success, and she's soon to become a prosecutor. When the cafe becomes an epicent...