Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: March 29, 1994 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-0-679-75182-3 (0-679-75182-3)
Although Truman Capote’s last novel was unfinished at the time of his death, its surviving portions offer a devastating group portrait of the high and low society of his time.
As it follows the career of a writer of uncertain parentage and omnivorous erotic tastes, Answered Prayers careens from a louche bar...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: September 28, 1993 Price: $14.00 ISBN: 978-0-679-74565-5 (0-679-74565-3)
This volume includes three of Capote's best-known stories, "House of Flowers, " "A Diamond Guitar, " and "A Christmas Memory, " in addition to his bestselling novel, Breakfast at Tiffany, the popular story of Holly Golightly--"a cross between Lolita and Auntie Mame" (Time).
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Format: Hardcover, 128 pages
Publisher: Modern Library On Sale: November 12, 1996 Price: $15.95 ISBN: 978-0-679-60237-8 (0-679-60237-2)
Available for the first time in a single volume are the three holiday stories that Truman Capote regarded as among his greatest works of short fiction. Two of these childhood memoirs--"A Christmas Memory" and "The Thanksgiving Visitor"-- center on the author's early years with a family of distant relatives in rural...
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Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Random House On Sale: September 21, 2004 Price: $26.00 ISBN: 978-0-679-64310-4 (0-679-64310-9)
Includes the never-before published short story, “The Bargain”.
Most readers know Truman Capote as the author of Breakfast at Tiffany’s and In Cold Blood; or they remember his notorious social life and wild and witty public appearances. But he was also the author of superb short tales that were as elegant as...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: September 13, 2005 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-1-4000-9691-6 (1-4000-9691-X)
A landmark collection that brings together Truman Capote’s life’s work in the form he called his “great love,” The Complete Stories confirms Capote’s status as a master of the the short story. This first-ever compendium features a never-before-published 1950 story, “The Bargain,” as well as an introduction by Reynolds Price. Ranging...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: September 28, 1993 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-0-679-74557-0 (0-679-74557-2)
Set on the outskirts of a small Southern town, The Grass Harp tells the story of three endearing misfits—an orphaned boy and two whimsical old ladies—who one day take up residence in a tree house. As they pass sweet yet hazardous hours in a china tree, The Grass Harp manages to...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: February 1, 1994 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-0-679-74558-7 (0-679-74558-0)
This is a new edition of Capote's true crime masterpiece: the riveting re-creation of the brutal slaying of the Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas. As Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, he generates both mesmerizing suspense and astonishing empathy.
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: March 29, 1994 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-0-679-74566-2 (0-679-74566-1)
In these gems of reportage Truman Capote takes true stories and real people and renders then with the stylistic brio we expect from great fiction. Here we encounter an exquisitely preserved Creole aristocrat sipping absinthe in her Martinique salon; an enigmatic killer who sends his victims announcements of their forthcoming demise...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: February 1, 1994 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-0-679-74564-8 (0-679-74564-5)
Truman Capote’s first novel is a story of almost supernatural intensity and inventiveness, an audacious foray into the mind of a sensitve boy as he seeks out the grown-up enigmas of love and death in the ghostly landscape of the deep South.
At the age of twelve, Joel Knox is summoned...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Modern Library On Sale: June 27, 2006 Price: $14.00 ISBN: 978-0-8129-7593-2 (0-8129-7593-6)
Thought to be lost for over 50 years, here is the first novel by one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.
Set in New York during the summer of 1945, this is the story of a young carefree socialite, Grady, who must make serious decisions about the romance...
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Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
Publisher: Random House On Sale: October 25, 2005 Price: $22.95 ISBN: 978-1-4000-6522-6 (1-4000-6522-4)
Thought to be lost for over 50 years, here is the first novel by one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.
Set in New York during the summer of 1945, this is the story of a young carefree socialite, Grady, who must make serious decisions about the romance...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 688 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: May 9, 2006 Price: $18.95 ISBN: 978-0-375-72597-5 (0-375-72597-0)
Thirty years ago, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist Philip Caputo crossed the deserts of Sudan and Eritrea on foot and camelback, a journey that inspired his first novel, Horn of Africa, and awakened a lifelong fascination with Africa. His travels have since taken him back to Sudan, as well as to...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: October 19, 2010 Price: $16.00 ISBN: 978-0-375-72598-2 (0-375-72598-9)
When Gil Castle loses his wife, he retreats to his family’s sprawling homestead out west, a forsaken part of the country where drug lords have more power than police. Here Castle begins to rebuild his life, even as he uncovers some dark truths about his fearsome grandfather. When a Mexican illegal...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: August 14, 2001 Price: $16.00 ISBN: 978-0-375-72509-8 (0-375-72509-1)
A classic novel of Vietnam and its aftermath from Philip Caputo, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir A Rumor of Waris widely considered among the best ever written about the experience of war.
At thirty-three, Nick DelCorso is an award-winning war photographer who has seen action and dodged bullets all over the world–most...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: May 26, 1998 Price: $17.00 ISBN: 978-0-679-76838-8 (0-679-76838-6)
With Exiles, his first collection of shorter fiction, the author of the universally acclaimed, best-selling memoir A Rumor of War ("It will make the strongest among us weep," wrote John Gregory Dunne) sends the reader on a tripartite adventure.
First to suburban Connecticut, where a young blue-collar man on the way to...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: February 5, 2002 Price: $17.00 ISBN: 978-0-375-72511-1 (0-375-72511-3)
Pulitzer Prize—winner Philip Caputo spins a gut-leveling story about a broken man’s struggle for salvation and inner freedom in the midst of a broken nation’s fight for stability and peace.
When Vietnam veteran and foreign correspondent Charlie Gage realizes he’s been coerced into becoming a mercenary in a guerilla war, he...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: March 9, 2004 Price: $18.00 ISBN: 978-0-375-72510-4 (0-375-72510-5)
For Vietnam veteran Christian Starkmann, the war did not end with his return home. It goes on, in his memories and dreams, affecting his life and those around him, especially his wife, June, whose story this is as much as it her husband’s.
“Indian Country,” a term used to designate hostile...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: November 14, 2000 Price: $15.95 ISBN: 978-0-679-76839-5 (0-679-76839-4)
In the tradition of great seafaring adventures, The Voyage is an intricately plotted, superbly detailed, and gripping story of adventure and courage. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Philip Caputo has written a timeless novel about the dangerous reverberating effects of long held family secrets.
On a June morning in 1901, Cyrus Braithwaite orders his...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Anchor On Sale: October 19, 2010 Price: $15.95 ISBN: 978-0-7679-3173-1 (0-7679-3173-4)
Born in 1805 on the Lewis and Clark expedition, Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau is the son of Sacagawea and Toussaint Charbonneau. He is raised both as William Clark’s ward in St. Louis and by his parents among the villages of the Mandan tribe on the far northern reaches of the Missouri river. In...
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Format: Hardcover, 464 pages
Publisher: Steerforth On Sale: August 2, 2011 Price: $24.99 ISBN: 978-1-58642-184-7 (1-58642-184-0)
In 1842, Phineas T. Barnum is a young man, freshly arrived in New York and still unknown to the world. With uncanny confidence and impeccable timing, he transforms a dusty natural history museum into a great ark for public imagination. Barnum’s museum, with its human wonders and extraordinary live animal menagerie...
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Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Publisher: Knopf On Sale: June 18, 2013 Price: $24.95 ISBN: 978-0-307-96070-2 (0-307-96070-6)
Powerful and lean, Eleven Days is an astonishing first novel full of suspense that addresses our most basic questions about war as it tells of the love between a mother and her son. When the story opens on May 11, 2011, Sara’s son, Jason, has been missing for nine days from...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Anchor On Sale: October 18, 2005 Price: $16.95 ISBN: 978-1-4000-7814-1 (1-4000-7814-8)
Oscar Delossantos is about to lose his job as a teacher at a Jesuit high school in Chicago. Rather than go quietly, he embarks on a valiant last history lesson that chronicles the flight from Cuba of his makeshift extended family.Evoking the struggle between nostalgia and the realities of the Cuban...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 672 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: May 27, 2003 Price: $14.95 ISBN: 978-0-375-71292-0 (0-375-71292-5)
Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction In his triumphant fictional debut, Stephen Carter combines a large-scale, riveting novel of suspense with the saga of a unique family.The Emperor of Ocean Park is set in two privileged worlds: the upper crust African American society of the Eastern seabord—families who summer...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 688 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: April 9, 2013 Price: $15.95 ISBN: 978-0-307-47448-3 (0-307-47448-8)
From the author of the bestsellers TheEmperor of Ocean Park and New England White, an electrifying and provocative historical novel set in an alternate history in which Abraham Lincoln survives assassination at Ford’s Theatre on April 14, 1865. In this gripping legal and political thriller, Stephen L. Carter imagines what...
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