Actress by Anne Enright
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
'Written with all the ingenuity and twisty tautness of a thriller' The TimesFrom the Booker-winning Irish author, a brilliant and moving novel about fame, sexual power, and a daughter's search to understand her mother's hidden truths. This is the story of Irish theatre legend Katherine O'Dell, as told b ...Show more
History of the Rain by Niall Williams
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We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling. In Faha, County Clare, everyone is a long story...Bedbound in her attic room beneath the falling rain, in the margin between this world and the next, Plain Ruth Swain is in search of her father. To find ...Show more
The Armies of the Night - History as a Novel, the Novel as History by Norman Mailer
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Category: RARE AND COLLECTIBLE
"The Armies of the Night" chronicles the famed October 1967 March on the Pentagon, in which all of the old and new Left-hippies, yuppies, Weathermen, Quakers, Christians, feminists, and intellectuals-came together to protest the Vietnam War. Alongside his contemporaries, Mailer went, witnessed, particip ...Show more
Creation - A Novel by Gore Vidal
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A sweeping novel of politics, war, philosophy, and adventure--in a restored edition, featuring never-before-published material from Gore Vidal's original manuscript--Creation offers a captivating grand tour of the ancient world.Cyrus Spitama, grandson of the prophet Zoroaster and lifelong friend of Xerx ...Show more
First Light by Peter Ackroyd
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First Light begins with an ominous coincidence: the reappearance of the ancient night sky during the excavation of an astronomically aligned Neolithic grave in Dorset. A group of eccentrics -- archaeologists, astronomers, local rustics, a civil servant, and a stand-up comic -- converge on the site, dist ...Show more
The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman by Louis De Bernieres
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Latin American Trilogy Ser. | Reading Level: good
While the economy of his small South American country collapses, President Veracruz joins his improbable populace of ex-soldiers, with whores, in a bizarre search for sexual fulfilment. But for Cardinal Guzman, a man tormented by his own private daemons, their hedonistic fiestas represent the epicentre ...Show more
The New Confessions by William Boyd
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: good-very good
The New Confessions is the outrageous, extraordinary, hilarious and heartbreaking autobiography of John James Todd, a Scotsman born in 1899 and one of the great self-appointed (and failed) geniuses of the twentieth century. 'An often magnificent feat of story-telling and panoramic reconstruction ...... ...Show more