Spanning eight decades, Eugenides's long-awaited second novel is a grand, utterly original fable of crossed bloodlines, the intricacies of gender, and the deep, untidy promptings of desire. Eugenides was named one of America's best young novelists by both "Granta" and "The New Yorker."
An obsessive homage that begins as a detective story and ends without a solution. In a prosperous Detroit suburb during the early 1970s, all five daughters of the Lisbon family commit suicide in a succession of acts that stuns their friends as much by its incomprehensibility as its violence. One of the boys who grew up with the sisters attempts, ...
From classics such as Chekhov's The Lady with the Lapdog to such modern fare as Richard Ford's Fireworks, this anthology of great love stories captures the desire, obsession, power, and spirit of the emotion that drives and transforms lives.
In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girls' school in Grosse Pointe, finds herself drawn to a chain-smoking, strawberry-blond classmate with a gift for acting. The passion that furtively develops between them leads Callie to suspect that she is not like other girls. In fact, Callie has inherited a rare genetic mutation. The ...
Spanning across eight decades--and one unusually awkward adolescence - Jeffrey Eugenides' long-awaited second novel is a grand, utterly original fable of crossed bloodlines, the intricacies of gender, and the deep, untidy promptings of desire.
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Kurt Vonnegut, John Irving, Don Delillo, Norman Mailer, Jeffrey Eugenides, Richard Ford, Jeanette Winterson, Paul Auster,...
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Description: A fine, tight copy. Also features work by Bell, Guterson, Eugenides and 16 others in special issue: 'The Best of Young American Novelists. ' read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Charta
Date Published: 8-2-01
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Bernhard Schlink, Ken Follett, Toni Morrison, Toni Morrison, Elizabeth Berg, Elie Wiesel, Melinda Haynes, Jeffrey Eugenides,...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Various
Date Published: 2006-01-01
Description: Very Good. 16 Books! From the Oprah's Book Club Collection. Titles are different from listing, All books are trade paperbacks ranging from New to Good condition, with most being in New or Like New condition. 3 have a name inside front cover. Titles include: The Reader, Vinegar Hill, The Pilot's Wife, Mother of Pearl, Drowning Ruth, A Million Little Pieces, Midwives, Fall on Your Knees, Heart of a Woman, The Book of Ruth, All He Ever Wanted, Where the Heart Is, The Memory Keeper's Daughter, We ... read more
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Jeffrey Eugenides; Garrison Keillor; Tony Rothman; Arthur Schlesinger Jr.; Toby Olson; Stephen Dobyns And Others; Editor-Anne...
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