2008, ISBN: 9780425176429

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Simon & Schuster, 2008.. Fine/Very Good. Octavo, hardcover, fine in near fine black and white pictorial dj. Best seller in France. Winner fo the Prix Concourt, Life Magazine's r… More...

Simon & Schuster, 2008.. Fine/Very Good. Octavo, hardcover, fine in near fine black and white pictorial dj. Best seller in France. Winner fo the Prix Concourt, Life Magazine's reader's prize and Prix Wizo (Jewish interest). 152 pages. translated from the French by Polly McLean. Written twenty years after both of his parents jumped to their deaths, "Memory" is author Philippe Grimbert's story of a family plagued by its sordid past. The sickly only child of glamorous athletic parents living in postwar Paris, the narrator retreats into the depths of his imagination and creates an older brother who is far more capable than he. After speaking with an old family friend, however, he learns that his imaginary sibling actually has a predecessor: a half brother who perished in the concentration camps, whose death was never intended to be uncovered. Spare, erotic, and cathartic, this novel unearths one's shameful marriage to his past and unravels a procession of dark desires., Simon & Schuster, 2008., 4, The first novel from William Kennedy in more than five years and universally acclaimed as his most powerful work since the Pulitzer Prize-winning Ironweed, Roscoe shows Kennedy at his very best. It's V-J Day, the war is over, and Roscoe Conway, after twenty-six years as the second in command of Albany's notorious political machine, decides to quit politics forever. But there's no way out, and only his Machiavellian imagination can help him cope with the erupting disasters. Every step leads back to the past-to the early loss of his true love, the takeover of city hall, the machine's fight with FDR and Al Smith to elect a governor, and the methodical assassination of gangster Jack "Legs" Diamond. "Thick with crime, passion, and backroom banter" (The New Yorker), Roscoe is an odyssey of great scope and linguistic verve, a deadly, comic masterpiece from one of America's most important writers., Penguin Books, 2002-11, 2.5, New York: Berkley Books, 2000. Trade paperback. Good. Signed by previous owner. What If? : The World's Foremost Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been (SOFTCOVER CONDITION GOOD-SIGNED BY PREVIOUS OWNER PUBLISHED BY BERKLEY BOOKS-COPYRIGHT 1999-395 PAGES) by Robert Cowley (Editor) With its... Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 395 p. Contains: Illustrations. What If Essays. Audience: General/trade. What If? : The World's Foremost Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been (SOFTCOVER CONDITION GOOD-SIGNED BY PREVIOUS OWNER PUBLISHED BY BERKLEY BOOKS-COPYRIGHT 1999-395 PAGES) by Robert Cowley (Editor) With its in-depth reflections on the monumental events of the past, this amazing book of essays ponders what might have been if things had gone differently in history. Featuring Stephen J. Ambrose, John Keegan, and many others., Berkley Books, 2000, 2.5<

ISBN: 9780425176429

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