In the 1920s when Laura Dillon felt like a man trapped in a woman's body, there were no words to describe her condition; "transsexuals "had yet to enter common usage. And there was no known solution to being stuck between the sexes. Laura Dillon did all she could on her own: she cut her hair, dressed in men's clothing, bound her breasts with a ...
n 1890 a twenty-four-year-old African American missionary named William Henry Sheppard departed for what was then the Belgian Congo, where for more than twenty years he ran a mission staffed by black Americans. Returning to America periodically, he was billed as the "Black Livingstone" and traveled the country telling tales of his adventures to ...
Win Duncan is at a crossroads in his career when he is summoned by a brilliant chemist from his college days who is developing a drug that gives one the ability to recall life's best memories. Duncan becomes a beta tester and loses himself to the most delicious moments of his past until he discovers the dark side effects of the drug.
Frannie and Doris, sisters and spinsters, are finally free from family ties and constraints. Taking off in their Plymouth Valient, they hit the road on a journey through the changing cultural landscape of America - civil rights marches and the assassination of Martin Luther King.
Plunges the reader into a world of dark and haunting visions by laying bare the lives of females who exist on the fringes - punk teenagers, voodoo queens, academic losers. This collection of short stories mirrors the fragility of lives rooted in the virtual reality of modern America.
A history of the lost years of the 1970s, the "Decade that Taste Forgot," captures all the turbulence, inconsistencies, hedonism, and serious social action of the much-maligned years that connected the idealistic 1960s and the greedy 1980s. Original. 25,000 first printing.
A young woman named Pagan, just graduated from a writing program at a very prestigious university, is left with one burning question--Now what? She then takes an unusual step by deciding to invent her new self--the one the public will know--by creating her own magazine, written, created by, and starring none other than herself.
Non-fiction is the new black comedy in this hilarious collection of award-winning literary essays written by the infamous Pagan Kennedy. In the title piece, Alex Comfort, author of "The Joy of Sex", reinvents himself as a sex guru in California and hatches a plan to destroy monogamy forever. In the stories that follow, a retired chemist finds a ...
A week after Hank and Lily decide to break up, they start an indie-rock band together and come up with a unique gimmick: it will be made up of ex-girlfriends and boyfriends. But as soon as The Exes go in tour, the band finds out it's not easy to share a motel room with your old flame.
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking
Date Published: 2002
Description: As New in As New jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Tan boards, black cloth spine, gilt titles. Pictorial dj. Maps end papers. Contents illustrated with B&W photos. "A gripping tale, Pagan Kennedy takes us through William Sheppard's extraordinary adventures and eventful life with humor, insight and elegance. You don't have to be a student on Africa, just a student of human nature, to want to keep reading this book to the end. " read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking Press
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780670030361ISBN:0670030368
Description: Fine condition in a fine dust jacket. A True Tale of Adventure in the Nineteenth Century Congo. 368 pp. Includes bibliographical references and index. Bound in the publisher's original boads with the spine stamped in gilt. read more
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