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1	Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel more books like this by Jeannette Walls add to wishlist Those old cows knew trouble was coming before we did. So begins the story of Lily Casey. By age six, Lily was helping her father break horses. At fifteen, she left home to teach in a frontier town -- riding five hundred miles on her pony to get to her post. She learned to drive a car, fly a plane, and with her husband, managed a vast ranch in ... see all copies from $12.12! new only from $12.12! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Big Sur more books like this by Jack Kerouac add to wishlist Duluoz, the protagonist previously of DOCTOR SAX, has written a book entitled ON THE ROAD. Suddenly, he's deified by young people who pursue him in search of wisdom. Overwhelmed, Duluoz runs to Big Sur, to revisit his own past. Alcoholic, alone in his cabin, he disintegrates--then goes back home. see all copies from $2.53! new only from $7.50! \| first editions \| SVS
3	On the Road more books like this by Jack Kerouac add to wishlist Sal Paradise, a young writer, travels from New York to Los Angeles with his friend Dean Moriarty, and an assorted hodgepodge of women, bohemians, and others. Rich descriptions of characters, places and music show Kerouac's exuberance and his love of the freedom of the road. Revolutionary not only in subject matter but also in style, this book ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.40! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	In Our Time more books like this by Ernest Hemingway add to wishlist Hemingway's first book--a collection of short stories and vignettes--was published in 1925 and includes his famous Nick Adams stories: "Indian Camp," "The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife," "The Three Day Blow," and "The Battler." see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Ham on Rye more books like this by Charles Bukowski add to wishlist A down-and-out writer recalls his childhood, schooling, and the years leading up to World War II. see all copies from $4.29! new only from $6.98! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Moral Disorder and Other Stories more books like this by Margaret Atwood add to wishlist In these ten interrelated stories, Atwood traces the course of a life and also the lives intertwined with it. By turns funny, tragic, earthy, and deeply personal, "Moral Disorder" displays Atwoods celebrated storytelling gifts and unmistakable style to their best advantage. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.33! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Out of This Furnace more books like this by Thomas Bell add to wishlist "Out of This Furnace "is Thomas Bell's most compelling achievement. Its story of three generations of an immigrant Slovak family -- the Dobrejcaks -- still stands as a fresh and extraordinary accomplishment. The novel begins in the mid-1880s with the naive blundering career of Djuro Kracha. It tracks his arrival from the old country as he walked ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.53! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Wapshot Chronicle more books like this by John Cheever add to wishlist THE WAPSHOT CHRONICLE takes place in St. Botolph's, Massachusetts, a fishing village in which a storm causes ferry pilot Leander Wapshot's boat to be damaged. His wife Sarah turns the ferry into a Floating Gift Shoppe, to Leander's discomfort, even though the shop pays for his sons' college educations. This novel is heavily based on Cheever's own ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Tropic of Cancer more books like this by Henry Miller add to wishlist Down and out in Paris, the narrator of TROPIC OF CANCER hangs out in the Montparnasse neighborhood with fellow expatriates and artists. Told via turbulent, elaborate prose, the story is infused with graphic sexuality and sheer gusto. Originally published in 1934, TROPIC OF CANCER was banned from the U.S. until 1961; when it was finally printed ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.14! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Junky: The Definitive Text of Junk (50th Anniversary Edition) more books like this by William S Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg (Foreword by), Oliver Harris (Introduction by) add to wishlist An autobiographical novel written in a confessional, pulp-fiction style, JUNKY is the story of heroin addict William Lee, who is forced to travel as a result of his drug underworld connections. see all copies from $7.50! new only from $7.50! \| SVS
11 view cover	Swann's way more books like this by Marcel Proust add to wishlist This self-contained opening volume of Proust's seven-volume masterpiece REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST introduces the important themes of the novel: childhood, memory, love both idealized and unrequited, and the narrator's fascination with society and the aristocracy. The narrator's childhood memories include the famous madeleine scene, and the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	The Sunroom more books like this by Beverly Lewis add to wishlist When I was twelve, I made a naive, yet desperate pact with God to keep my ailing mother alive. It was the first time I'd ventured something so brazen--making a contract with the Almighty...So begins the story of Becky Owens, a talented and passionate young pianist on the verge of adolescence when she learns the devastating news of her mother's ... see all copies from $2.61! new only from $3.93! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Sons & Lovers more books like this by D H Lawrence add to wishlist Based very closely on D.H. Lawrence's own life, SONS AND LOVERS (1913) tells the story of young Paul Morel, son of the troubled union of an educated, upwardly mobile mother and an ill-tempered, unlettered coal miner father who speaks in a broad dialect. Although in later life Lawrence regretted his brutal portrait of his father, the hero of the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	The Masterpiece more books like this by Emile Zola add to wishlist The Masterpiece is the tragic story of Claude Lantier, an ambitious and talented young artist from the provinces who has come to conquer Paris and is conquered by the flaws in his own genius. While his boyhood friend Pierre Sandoz becomes a successful novelist, Claude's originality is mocked at the Salon and turns gradually into a doomed obsession ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.25! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Visions of Cody more books like this by Jack Kerouac add to wishlist Kerouac's classic fictional tribute to Neal Cassady. Many years before its first unabridged publication, 'Visions of Cody' became an underground classic. Written by Kerouac at his creative zenith, the book is a celebration of the life of Neal Cassady, his great friend and inspiration. Appearing here as Cody Pomeray, Cassady was also immortalised ... see all copies from $3.25! new only from $6.99! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Operation Shylock: A Confession more books like this by Philip Roth add to wishlist Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1994, Philip Roth's novel is about an American Jewish novelist named "Philip Roth," who is actually an imposter posing as the real Philip Roth. The imposter, Moishe Pipik, outrages Jews all over the world by advocating that Jews in Israel should go back where they came from. Roth threatens to sue, and Pipik ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Dream of the Red Chamber more books like this by Tsao Hsuen-Chin, Tsao Hsueh-Chin, Tsao Hsueh-Chin add to wishlist For more than a century and a half, Dream of the Red Chamber has been recognized in China as the greatest of its novels, a Chinese Romeo-and-Juliet love story and a portrait of one of the worlds great civilizations. Chi-chen Wang's translation is skillful, accurate and fascinating. see all copies from $2.73! new only from $8.97! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Make Love! the Bruce Campbell Way more books like this by Bruce Campbell add to wishlist Written with the same immense energy, wry humor, and Hollywood skewering that filled his bestselling "If Chins Could Kill," the author gives his fans a follow-up they could not have expected--a laugh-out-loud novel starring (who else?) Bruce Campbell. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Look Homeward Angel more books like this by Thomas Wolfe add to wishlist LOOK HOMEWARD, ANGEL, Wolfe's first novel, was published on October 18, 1929 only a few days before the great stock market crash. It is the coming-of-age story of Eugene Gant, whose restlessness and yearning to experience life to the fullest take him from his rural home in North Carolina to Harvard. Through his rich, ornate prose and meticulous ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.57! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Sodom and Gomorrah more books like this by Marcel Proust, Professor Christopher Prendergast (Editor), John Sturrock (Translator) add to wishlist In CITIES OF THE PLAIN (also known as SODOM AND GOMORRAH), Marcel continues his forays into the aristocratic society into which he has finally been admitted, finding satisfaction but a growing disillusionment as well, and is both fascinated and repelled by the world of the flamboyant homosexual Baron de Charlus, and reports on the intricate, ... see all copies from $5.94! new only from $8.74! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	You Can't Go Home Again more books like this by Thomas Wolfe add to wishlist Thomas Wolfe's final novel before his death in 1938 follows his autobiographical character, George Webber, from the publication of his first novel in November of 1929 to a mid-1930s visit to Germany, a country he had once loved, in its most corrupt moment. In between there are sharply observed portraits of Wolfe's literary and social peers in an ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.58! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	The Nick Adams stories more books like this by Ernest Hemingway add to wishlist Hemingway's famous Nick Adams stories include "Indian Camp," "The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife," "The Three Day Blow," and "The Battler." see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.20! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement more books like this by Anthony Powell add to wishlist Anthony Powell's universally acclaimed epic encompasses a four-volume panorama of twentieth century London. Hailed by "Time" as "brilliant literary comedy as well as a brilliant sketch of the times," "A Dance to the Music of Time" opens just after World War I. Amid the fever of the 1920s and the first chill of the 1930s, Nick Jenkins and his ... see all copies from $3.75! new only from $10.96! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Way of All Flesh more books like this by Samuel Butler add to wishlist THE WAY OF ALL FLESH is a thinly disguised account of Butler's own Victorian childhood. Butler began the work in 1872; it was finally published in 1903, a year after his death. With irony and wit, he savaged contemporary values and beliefs, turning the conventional family-history novel inside-out. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.77! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Lonesome Traveler more books like this by Jack Kerouac add to wishlist By the same author as "On the Road", "Big Sur", and "The Subterraneans", this book shows a man travelling, living and loving free, revealing a way of life - the life of the road. His philosophy of self-fulfilment is presented through his travels in Mexico, New York, Morocco, Paris and London. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.81! \| first editions \| SVS

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