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Anywhere but Here
Written by Mona Simpson
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 15, 1992
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-73738-4 (0-679-73738-3)
Anywhere But Here is a moving, often comic portrait of wise child Ann August and her mother, Adele, a larger-than-life American dreamer. As they travel through the landscape of their often conflicting ambitions, Ann and Adele bring to life a novel that is a brilliant exploration of the perennial urge to... Read more >
Written by Mona Simpson
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 15, 1992
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-73738-4 (0-679-73738-3)
Anywhere But Here is a moving, often comic portrait of wise child Ann August and her mother, Adele, a larger-than-life American dreamer. As they travel through the landscape of their often conflicting ambitions, Ann and Adele bring to life a novel that is a brilliant exploration of the perennial urge to... Read more >
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The Lost Father
Written by Mona Simpson
Format: Trade Paperback, 524 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 11, 1993
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-73303-4 (0-679-73303-5)
In her highly acclaimed first novel, Anywhere But Here, Simpson created one of the most astute yet vulnerable heroines in contemporary fiction. Now Mayan Atassi--once Mayan Stevenson--returns in an immensely powerful novel about love and lovelessness, fathers and fatherlessness, and the loyalties that shape us even when they threaten to destroy... Read more >
Written by Mona Simpson
Format: Trade Paperback, 524 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 11, 1993
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-73303-4 (0-679-73303-5)
In her highly acclaimed first novel, Anywhere But Here, Simpson created one of the most astute yet vulnerable heroines in contemporary fiction. Now Mayan Atassi--once Mayan Stevenson--returns in an immensely powerful novel about love and lovelessness, fathers and fatherlessness, and the loyalties that shape us even when they threaten to destroy... Read more >
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A Regular Guy
Written by Mona Simpson
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 15, 1997
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-77271-2 (0-679-77271-5)
Mona Simpson's first two novels, Anywhere But Here and The Lost Father, won her literary renown and a wide following. Now, in her third novel, the narrator Ann Atassi has been replaced by a third-person narrator recounting the adventures of young Jane di Natali, but the theme remains the same: the... Read more >
Written by Mona Simpson
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 15, 1997
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-77271-2 (0-679-77271-5)
Mona Simpson's first two novels, Anywhere But Here and The Lost Father, won her literary renown and a wide following. Now, in her third novel, the narrator Ann Atassi has been replaced by a third-person narrator recounting the adventures of young Jane di Natali, but the theme remains the same: the... Read more >
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The Age of Grief
Written by Jane Smiley
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: June 11, 2002
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-72187-5 (0-385-72187-0)
The luminous novella and stories in The Age of Grief explore the vicissitudes of love, friendship, and marriage with all the compassion and insight that have come to be expected from Jane Smiley, the Pulitzer Prize—winning author of A Thousand Acres.
In “The Pleasure of Her Company,” a lonely, single woman befriends... Read more >
Written by Jane Smiley
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: June 11, 2002
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-72187-5 (0-385-72187-0)
The luminous novella and stories in The Age of Grief explore the vicissitudes of love, friendship, and marriage with all the compassion and insight that have come to be expected from Jane Smiley, the Pulitzer Prize—winning author of A Thousand Acres.
In “The Pleasure of Her Company,” a lonely, single woman befriends... Read more >
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The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton
A Novel
Written by Jane Smiley
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: December 29, 1998
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-449-91083-2 (0-449-91083-0)
Six years after her Pulitzer Prize-winning best-seller, A Thousand Acres, and three years after her witty, acclaimed, and best-selling novel of academe, Moo, Jane Smiley once again demonstrates her extraordinary range and brilliance.
The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton, set in the 1850s, speaks to us in a splendidly quirky... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Jane Smiley
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: December 29, 1998
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-449-91083-2 (0-449-91083-0)
Six years after her Pulitzer Prize-winning best-seller, A Thousand Acres, and three years after her witty, acclaimed, and best-selling novel of academe, Moo, Jane Smiley once again demonstrates her extraordinary range and brilliance.
The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton, set in the 1850s, speaks to us in a splendidly quirky... Read more >
The Fifth Sacred Thing
Written by Starhawk
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
Publisher: Bantam
On Sale: June 1, 1994
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-553-37380-6 (0-553-37380-3)
"Known for her works in women's spirituality and ecofeminism, Starhawk has conjured a visionary tale of a multicultural community of witches where poverty, prejudice, hunger, and thirst do not prevail. The surrounding world, set in present-day San Francisco, manifests every 20th-century nightmare: ozone depletion, deadly pollution, a fundamentalist religion-based government, and... Read more >
Written by Starhawk
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
Publisher: Bantam
On Sale: June 1, 1994
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-553-37380-6 (0-553-37380-3)
"Known for her works in women's spirituality and ecofeminism, Starhawk has conjured a visionary tale of a multicultural community of witches where poverty, prejudice, hunger, and thirst do not prevail. The surrounding world, set in present-day San Francisco, manifests every 20th-century nightmare: ozone depletion, deadly pollution, a fundamentalist religion-based government, and... Read more >
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Walking to Mercury
Written by Starhawk
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
Publisher: Bantam
On Sale: July 1, 1998
Price: $23.00
ISBN: 978-0-553-37839-9 (0-553-37839-2)
In The Fifth Sacred Thing, readers fell in love with Maya Greenwood, the 98-year-old writer who led Northern California's successful 21st century rebellion against a racist, totalitarian regime of the South. Walking to Mercury takes readers back to the 20th century and powerfully dramatizes the forces that shaped this extraordinary woman.The... Read more >
Written by Starhawk
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
Publisher: Bantam
On Sale: July 1, 1998
Price: $23.00
ISBN: 978-0-553-37839-9 (0-553-37839-2)
In The Fifth Sacred Thing, readers fell in love with Maya Greenwood, the 98-year-old writer who led Northern California's successful 21st century rebellion against a racist, totalitarian regime of the South. Walking to Mercury takes readers back to the 20th century and powerfully dramatizes the forces that shaped this extraordinary woman.The... Read more >
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Without Reservations
The Travels of an Independent Woman
Written by Alice Steinbach
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: March 12, 2002
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-75845-4 (0-375-75845-3)
“In many ways, I was an independent woman,” writes Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Alice Steinbach. “For years I’d made my own choices, paid my own bills, shoveled my own snow.” But somehow she had become dependent in quite another way. “I had fallen into the habit . . . of defining myself... Read more >
The Travels of an Independent Woman
Written by Alice Steinbach
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: March 12, 2002
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-75845-4 (0-375-75845-3)
“In many ways, I was an independent woman,” writes Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Alice Steinbach. “For years I’d made my own choices, paid my own bills, shoveled my own snow.” But somehow she had become dependent in quite another way. “I had fallen into the habit . . . of defining myself... Read more >
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
or, Life among the Lowly
Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Introduction by Jane Smiley
Format: Trade Paperback, 688 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: January 9, 2001
Price: $8.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-75693-1 (0-375-75693-0)
When Uncle Tom's Cabin was published in 1852, it became an international blockbuster, selling more than 300,000 copies in the United States alone in its first year. Progressive for her time, Harriet Beecher Stowe was one of the earliest writers to offer a shockingly realistic depiction of slavery. Her stirring indictment... Read more >
or, Life among the Lowly
Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Introduction by Jane Smiley
Format: Trade Paperback, 688 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: January 9, 2001
Price: $8.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-75693-1 (0-375-75693-0)
When Uncle Tom's Cabin was published in 1852, it became an international blockbuster, selling more than 300,000 copies in the United States alone in its first year. Progressive for her time, Harriet Beecher Stowe was one of the earliest writers to offer a shockingly realistic depiction of slavery. Her stirring indictment... Read more >
Amy and Isabelle
A novel
Written by Elizabeth Strout
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 1, 2000
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70519-9 (0-375-70519-8)
In her stunning first novel, Amy and Isabelle, Elizabeth Strout evokes a teenager's alienation from her distant mother--and a parent's rage at the discovery of her daughter's sexual secrets.
In most ways, Isabelle and Amy are like any mother and her 16-year-old daughter, a fierce mix of love and loathing exchanged... Read more >
A novel
Written by Elizabeth Strout
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 1, 2000
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70519-9 (0-375-70519-8)
In her stunning first novel, Amy and Isabelle, Elizabeth Strout evokes a teenager's alienation from her distant mother--and a parent's rage at the discovery of her daughter's sexual secrets.
In most ways, Isabelle and Amy are like any mother and her 16-year-old daughter, a fierce mix of love and loathing exchanged... Read more >
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Olive Kitteridge
Fiction
Written by Elizabeth Strout
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: September 30, 2008
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7183-5 (0-8129-7183-3)
A Library Journal Best Book of 2008
At times stern, at other times patient, at times perceptive, at other times in sad denial, Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher, deplores the changes in her little town of Crosby, Maine, and in the world at large, but she doesn’t always recognize the changes in... Read more >
Fiction
Written by Elizabeth Strout
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: September 30, 2008
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7183-5 (0-8129-7183-3)
A Library Journal Best Book of 2008
At times stern, at other times patient, at times perceptive, at other times in sad denial, Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher, deplores the changes in her little town of Crosby, Maine, and in the world at large, but she doesn’t always recognize the changes in... Read more >
The First Paper Girl in Red Oak, Iowa
Stories
Written by Elizabeth Stuckey-French
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: June 19, 2001
Price: $12.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-49896-8 (0-385-49896-9)
With the stories in her first collection, Elizabeth Stuckey-French establishes herself as a smart new voice in American fiction and stakes her claim to a territory somewhere on the edge of stability, where normal is not just boring but nearly impossible, and where standing out in a crowd may just cause... Read more >
Stories
Written by Elizabeth Stuckey-French
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: June 19, 2001
Price: $12.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-49896-8 (0-385-49896-9)
With the stories in her first collection, Elizabeth Stuckey-French establishes herself as a smart new voice in American fiction and stakes her claim to a territory somewhere on the edge of stability, where normal is not just boring but nearly impossible, and where standing out in a crowd may just cause... Read more >
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Commencement
Written by J. Courtney Sullivan
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 11, 2010
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-45496-6 (0-307-45496-7)
J. Courtney Sullivan’s celebrated debut novel is a sparkling tale of friendship and a fascinating portrait of the first generation of women who have all the opportunities in the world, but no clear idea about what to choose.
Assigned to the same dorm their first year at Smith College, Celia, Bree... Read more >
Written by J. Courtney Sullivan
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 11, 2010
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-45496-6 (0-307-45496-7)
J. Courtney Sullivan’s celebrated debut novel is a sparkling tale of friendship and a fascinating portrait of the first generation of women who have all the opportunities in the world, but no clear idea about what to choose.
Assigned to the same dorm their first year at Smith College, Celia, Bree... Read more >
Commencement
A novel
Written by J. Courtney Sullivan
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: June 16, 2009
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27074-0 (0-307-27074-2)
A sparkling debut novel: a tender story of friendship, a witty take on liberal arts colleges, and a fascinating portrait of the first generation of women who have all the opportunities in the world, but no clear idea about what to choose.
Assigned to the same dorm their first year at Smith... Read more >
A novel
Written by J. Courtney Sullivan
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: June 16, 2009
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27074-0 (0-307-27074-2)
A sparkling debut novel: a tender story of friendship, a witty take on liberal arts colleges, and a fascinating portrait of the first generation of women who have all the opportunities in the world, but no clear idea about what to choose.
Assigned to the same dorm their first year at Smith... Read more >
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Safekeeping
Some True Stories from a Life
Written by Abigail Thomas
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: April 17, 2001
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-72055-7 (0-385-72055-6)
A beautifully crafted and inviting account of one woman’s life, Safekeeping offers a sublimely different kind of autobiography. Setting aside a straightforward narrative in favor of brief passages of vivid prose, Abigail Thomas revisits the pivotal moments and the tiny incidents that have shaped her life: pregnancy at 18; single motherhood... Read more >
Some True Stories from a Life
Written by Abigail Thomas
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: April 17, 2001
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-72055-7 (0-385-72055-6)
A beautifully crafted and inviting account of one woman’s life, Safekeeping offers a sublimely different kind of autobiography. Setting aside a straightforward narrative in favor of brief passages of vivid prose, Abigail Thomas revisits the pivotal moments and the tiny incidents that have shaped her life: pregnancy at 18; single motherhood... Read more >
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Blooming: A Small-Town Girlhood
Written by Susan Allen Toth
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: February 17, 1998
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-0-345-42115-9 (0-345-42115-9)
Susan Allen Toth has captured the innocence and joy of her childhood and adolescence in this delightful account of growing up in Ames Iowa, in the 1950s. Charming, wise, funny and poignant, Blooming celebrates an American way of life relived with nostalgia and compassion.
"(Toth) has recreated memories with a journalist's ear... Read more >
Written by Susan Allen Toth
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: February 17, 1998
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-0-345-42115-9 (0-345-42115-9)
Susan Allen Toth has captured the innocence and joy of her childhood and adolescence in this delightful account of growing up in Ames Iowa, in the 1950s. Charming, wise, funny and poignant, Blooming celebrates an American way of life relived with nostalgia and compassion.
"(Toth) has recreated memories with a journalist's ear... Read more >
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
A Novel
Written by Anne Tyler
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: August 27, 1996
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-449-91159-4 (0-449-91159-4)
This is the touching story of a woman left alone to raise her three children, and the different paths their lives take. With the children now grown, they gather together again - with anger, with hope and with a beautiful, harsh, and dazzling story to tell-- "Beautifully funny, heart-hammering, wise...It is... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Anne Tyler
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: August 27, 1996
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-449-91159-4 (0-449-91159-4)
This is the touching story of a woman left alone to raise her three children, and the different paths their lives take. With the children now grown, they gather together again - with anger, with hope and with a beautiful, harsh, and dazzling story to tell-- "Beautifully funny, heart-hammering, wise...It is... Read more >
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A Patchwork Planet
Written by Anne Tyler
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: February 22, 1999
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-449-00398-5 (0-449-00398-1)
In this, her fourteenth novel--and one of her most endearing--Anne Tyler tells the story of a lovable loser who's trying to get his life in order.
Barnaby Gaitlin has been in trouble ever since adolescence. He had this habit of breaking into other people's houses. It wasn't the big loot he... Read more >
Written by Anne Tyler
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: February 22, 1999
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-449-00398-5 (0-449-00398-1)
In this, her fourteenth novel--and one of her most endearing--Anne Tyler tells the story of a lovable loser who's trying to get his life in order.
Barnaby Gaitlin has been in trouble ever since adolescence. He had this habit of breaking into other people's houses. It wasn't the big loot he... Read more >
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Love and Other Impossible Pursuits
Written by Ayelet Waldman
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: January 9, 2007
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-9513-1 (1-4000-9513-1)
In this moving, wry, and candid novel, widely acclaimed novelist Ayelet Waldman takes us through one woman’s passage through love, loss, and the strange absurdities of modern life.
Emilia Greenleaf believed that she had found her soulmate, the man she was meant to spend her life with. But life seems a lot... Read more >
Written by Ayelet Waldman
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: January 9, 2007
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-9513-1 (1-4000-9513-1)
In this moving, wry, and candid novel, widely acclaimed novelist Ayelet Waldman takes us through one woman’s passage through love, loss, and the strange absurdities of modern life.
Emilia Greenleaf believed that she had found her soulmate, the man she was meant to spend her life with. But life seems a lot... Read more >
The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart
Written by Alice Walker
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: October 2, 2001
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-345-40795-5 (0-345-40795-4)
Fictional stories based on the author’s own life, The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart is a wise and moving treasure of a book about love and life by the author of The Color Purple and By the Light of My Father’s Smile. Read more >
Written by Alice Walker
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: October 2, 2001
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-345-40795-5 (0-345-40795-4)
Fictional stories based on the author’s own life, The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart is a wise and moving treasure of a book about love and life by the author of The Color Purple and By the Light of My Father’s Smile. Read more >
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Sweeping Up Glass
Written by Carolyn Wall
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Delta
On Sale: August 4, 2009
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-34303-9 (0-385-34303-5)
Destined to be a classic, Sweeping Up Glass is a tough and tender novel of love, race, and justice, and a ferocious, unflinching look at the power of family.
Olivia Harker Cross owns a strip of mountain in Pope County, Kentucky, a land where whites and blacks eke out a living in... Read more >
Written by Carolyn Wall
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Delta
On Sale: August 4, 2009
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-34303-9 (0-385-34303-5)
Destined to be a classic, Sweeping Up Glass is a tough and tender novel of love, race, and justice, and a ferocious, unflinching look at the power of family.
Olivia Harker Cross owns a strip of mountain in Pope County, Kentucky, a land where whites and blacks eke out a living in... Read more >
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Black-Eyed Susans and Midnight Birds
Stories by and about Black Women
Edited by Mary Helen Washington
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: December 1, 1989
Price: $23.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-26015-2 (0-385-26015-6)
Combining two critically acclaimed short story collections, this volume contains 21 short stories, all published after 1960, by and about black women. Includes such authors as Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Paule Marshall, Ntozake Shange and Gayl Jones.
Table of Contents
Re(Visions): Black Women Writers—Their Texts, Their Readers, Their Critics
Jean Wheeler Smith
Frankie Mae
Paulette... Read more >
Stories by and about Black Women
Edited by Mary Helen Washington
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: December 1, 1989
Price: $23.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-26015-2 (0-385-26015-6)
Combining two critically acclaimed short story collections, this volume contains 21 short stories, all published after 1960, by and about black women. Includes such authors as Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Paule Marshall, Ntozake Shange and Gayl Jones.
Table of Contents
Re(Visions): Black Women Writers—Their Texts, Their Readers, Their Critics
Jean Wheeler Smith
Frankie Mae
Paulette... Read more >
Losing Battles
Written by Eudora Welty
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 11, 1990
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-72882-5 (0-679-72882-1)
On the first Sunday of August, three generations of Granny Vaughn's descendants gather at her home in Banner, Mississippi, to celebrate her ninetieth birthday. Many members of the family are great storytellers and when they get together, the temptation is irresistible--a device that enables Welty to take the reader back into... Read more >
Written by Eudora Welty
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 11, 1990
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-72882-5 (0-679-72882-1)
On the first Sunday of August, three generations of Granny Vaughn's descendants gather at her home in Banner, Mississippi, to celebrate her ninetieth birthday. Many members of the family are great storytellers and when they get together, the temptation is irresistible--a device that enables Welty to take the reader back into... Read more >
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The Optimist's Daughter
Written by Eudora Welty
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 11, 1990
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-72883-2 (0-679-72883-X)
The Optimist's Daughter, the "best book Eudora Welty has ever written" (The New York Times Book Review), is the story of Laurel McKelva Hand, a young Southern woman who returns to New Orleans years later because of her dying father. After his death, she and her stepmother go back still farther... Read more >
Written by Eudora Welty
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 11, 1990
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-72883-2 (0-679-72883-X)
The Optimist's Daughter, the "best book Eudora Welty has ever written" (The New York Times Book Review), is the story of Laurel McKelva Hand, a young Southern woman who returns to New Orleans years later because of her dying father. After his death, she and her stepmother go back still farther... Read more >
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The Age of Innocence
Written by Edith Wharton
Introduction by Peter Washington
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: February 5, 2008
Price: $23.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-26820-4 (0-307-26820-9)
The Age of Innocence, one of Edith Wharton’s most renowned novels and the first by a woman to win the Pulitzer Prize, exquisitely details the struggle between love and responsibility through the experiences of men and women in Gilded Age New York.
The novel follows Newland Archer, a young, aristocratic lawyer engaged... Read more >
Written by Edith Wharton
Introduction by Peter Washington
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: February 5, 2008
Price: $23.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-26820-4 (0-307-26820-9)
The Age of Innocence, one of Edith Wharton’s most renowned novels and the first by a woman to win the Pulitzer Prize, exquisitely details the struggle between love and responsibility through the experiences of men and women in Gilded Age New York.
The novel follows Newland Archer, a young, aristocratic lawyer engaged... Read more >
