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Julia Blackburn is the author of several other works of nonfiction, including Charles Waterton and The Emperor’s Last Island, and of two novels, The Book of Color and The Leper’s Companions, both of which were short-listed for the Orange Prize. Her most recent book, Old Man Goya, was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award. Blackburn lives in England and Italy.
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The Three of Us
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: July 14, 2009
Price: $16.00
This is the story of three people: acclaimed writer Julia Blackburn; her father, Thomas - a poet and alcoholic with an addiction to barbiturates; and her mother, Rosalie - a flirtatious painter with no boundaries.
After Julia's parents divorced, her mother took in male lodgers with the hope they would become her... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: July 14, 2009
Price: $16.00
This is the story of three people: acclaimed writer Julia Blackburn; her father, Thomas - a poet and alcoholic with an addiction to barbiturates; and her mother, Rosalie - a flirtatious painter with no boundaries.
After Julia's parents divorced, her mother took in male lodgers with the hope they would become her... Read more >
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With Billie
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: April 19, 2005
Price: $25.00
From Julia Blackburn, an author whose ability to conjure lives from other times and places is so vivid that one suspects she sees ghosts, here is a portrait of a woman whose voice continues to haunt anyone who hears it.
Billie Holiday’s life is inseparable from an account of her troubles, her... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: April 19, 2005
Price: $25.00
From Julia Blackburn, an author whose ability to conjure lives from other times and places is so vivid that one suspects she sees ghosts, here is a portrait of a woman whose voice continues to haunt anyone who hears it.
Billie Holiday’s life is inseparable from an account of her troubles, her... Read more >
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The Three of Us
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: July 22, 2008
Price: $26.00
This is the story of three people: Julia Blackburn; her father, Thomas; and her mother, Rosalie. Thomas was a poet and an alcoholic who for many years was addicted to barbiturates, which would often make him violent. Rosalie, a painter, was sociable and flirtatious; she treated Julia as her sister, her... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: July 22, 2008
Price: $26.00
This is the story of three people: Julia Blackburn; her father, Thomas; and her mother, Rosalie. Thomas was a poet and an alcoholic who for many years was addicted to barbiturates, which would often make him violent. Rosalie, a painter, was sociable and flirtatious; she treated Julia as her sister, her... Read more >
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With Billie
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: April 11, 2006
Price: $14.95
Few jazz singers have become icons like Billie Holiday. In With Billie, we hear the voices of those people who knew Billie best: piano players and dancers, pimps and junkies, lovers and narcs, producers and critics, each recalling intimate stories of the Billie they knew. What emerges is a portrait of... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: April 11, 2006
Price: $14.95
Few jazz singers have become icons like Billie Holiday. In With Billie, we hear the voices of those people who knew Billie best: piano players and dancers, pimps and junkies, lovers and narcs, producers and critics, each recalling intimate stories of the Billie they knew. What emerges is a portrait of... Read more >
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Daisy Bates in the Desert
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: August 8, 1995
Price: $13.00
In 1913, at the age of 54, Daisy Bates went to live in the deserts of South Australia. Brilliantly reviewed, astonishingly original, this "eloquent and illuminating portrait of an extraordinary woman" (New York Times Book Review) tells a fascinating, true story in the tradition of Isak Dinesen and Barry Lopez. Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: August 8, 1995
Price: $13.00
In 1913, at the age of 54, Daisy Bates went to live in the deserts of South Australia. Brilliantly reviewed, astonishingly original, this "eloquent and illuminating portrait of an extraordinary woman" (New York Times Book Review) tells a fascinating, true story in the tradition of Isak Dinesen and Barry Lopez. Read more >
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The Emperor's Last Island
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: March 31, 1993
Price: $16.00
In 1814 Napoleon Bonaparte arrived on St. Helenad surreal exile that would last until his death six years later. "A resonant meditation on exile, fame, the stories we tell about ourselves (and) the bigger stories we tell about our great figures."--Los Angeles Times Book Review. Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: March 31, 1993
Price: $16.00
In 1814 Napoleon Bonaparte arrived on St. Helenad surreal exile that would last until his death six years later. "A resonant meditation on exile, fame, the stories we tell about ourselves (and) the bigger stories we tell about our great figures."--Los Angeles Times Book Review. Read more >
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The Leper's Companions
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: September 5, 2000
Price: $12.00
In this fascinatingly imaginative novel, Julia Blackburn has decimated all the rules, creating a magical tale that is part fable, part allegory, part present, part past, and wholly genuine and poetic.
The unnamed protagonist has recently lost someone she loved, and her solution is to abandon the present, and the overwhelming... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: September 5, 2000
Price: $12.00
In this fascinatingly imaginative novel, Julia Blackburn has decimated all the rules, creating a magical tale that is part fable, part allegory, part present, part past, and wholly genuine and poetic.
The unnamed protagonist has recently lost someone she loved, and her solution is to abandon the present, and the overwhelming... Read more >
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The Book of Color
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: August 27, 1996
Price: $15.00
In the late 19th century, an English missionary arrives on a remote island in the Indian Ocean, intent on wiping our fornication among the natives. Instead he incurs a curse that strikes first his dark-skinned wife, then his son and grandson. But is the curse supernatural--or a white man's guilty fascination... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: August 27, 1996
Price: $15.00
In the late 19th century, an English missionary arrives on a remote island in the Indian Ocean, intent on wiping our fornication among the natives. Instead he incurs a curse that strikes first his dark-skinned wife, then his son and grandson. But is the curse supernatural--or a white man's guilty fascination... Read more >
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Old Man Goya
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: July 8, 2003
Price: $13.95
In 1792, when he was forty-seven, the Spanish painter Francisco de Goya contracted an illness that left him stone deaf. Yet he continued to interact with the world and to create, spending the next thirty-five years in a world emptied of sound but bursting with images of pageantry, cruelty, and pathos.
In... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: July 8, 2003
Price: $13.95
In 1792, when he was forty-seven, the Spanish painter Francisco de Goya contracted an illness that left him stone deaf. Yet he continued to interact with the world and to create, spending the next thirty-five years in a world emptied of sound but bursting with images of pageantry, cruelty, and pathos.
In... Read more >
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The Three of Us
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 22, 2008
Price: $16.00
This is the story of three people: Julia Blackburn; her father, Thomas; and her mother, Rosalie. Thomas was a poet and an alcoholic who for many years was addicted to barbiturates, which would often make him violent. Rosalie, a painter, was sociable and flirtatious; she treated Julia as her sister, her... Read more >
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 22, 2008
Price: $16.00
This is the story of three people: Julia Blackburn; her father, Thomas; and her mother, Rosalie. Thomas was a poet and an alcoholic who for many years was addicted to barbiturates, which would often make him violent. Rosalie, a painter, was sociable and flirtatious; she treated Julia as her sister, her... Read more >
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hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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