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| J. M. Coetzee - Disgrace |
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In a novel set in post-apartheid South Africa, a fifty-two-year-old college professor who has lost his job for sleeping with a student tries to relate to his daughter, Lucy, who works with an ambitious African farmer. Book available.
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$10.00 - $27.00
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| Elizabeth Bowen - Eva Trout |
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A rich, unloved woman given to dangerous fantasies, Eva Trout attracts trouble. In this social comedy, Elizabeth Bowen creates one of her most memorable characters.
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$1.99 - $11.05
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| Muriel Spark - Loitering With Intent |
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Muriel Spark in prime form: one of her most enjoyable, complex, and instructive <I>jeux d'esprit.</I> "How wonderful to be an artist and a woman in the twentieth century," Fleur Talbot rejoices. Happily loitering about London, c. 1949, with intent to gather material for her writing, Fleur finds a jo ...
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$11.00 - $25.00
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| Kazuo Ishiguro - An Artist of the Floating World |
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Masuji Ono was once a painter of the Ukiyo, the traditional pleasure-seeking "floating world" of geishas, cherry blossoms, and teahouses. But he also worked as an enthusiastic propagandist, creating posters in support of the imperialist Japanese government during World War II--a war in which his wif ...
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$11.00 - $27.00
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| John McGahern - Amongst Women |
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Michael Moran is an old Irish Republican whose life was forever transformed by his days of glory as a guerrilla leader in the Irish War of Independence. Moran is till fighting--with his family, his friends, and even himself--in this haunting testimony to the enduring qualities of the human spirit.
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$11.00 - $11.00
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