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|  | The Golden Bowl by Edgar Box, Flo Gibson, Henry James, Patricia Crick, Virginia Llewellyn Smith
Possibly James's most complex and difficult work, THE GOLDEN BOWL concerns four characters: the American art connoisseur Adam Verver, his daughter Maggie, Maggie's old school friend Charlotte Stant, and Charlotte's ex-suitor Prince Amerigo. The fabulously wealthy Ververs encounter the prince on their European tour, and he and Maggie fall in love and are married. When Charlotte comes to visit, Adam Verver asks her to marry him. The two couples settle in London, where Maggie begins to suspect the previous liaison between her husband and her friend. Desperately in love with the prince and unable to bear the presence of his old lover, Maggie persuades her father to take Charlotte back to America to live, without revealing to him what she knows. Impressed by Maggie's handling of the delicate situation, the prince falls truly in love with her. A golden bowl found in a Bloomsbury antique shop, and later smashed to pieces, serves as the emblem for the complicated web of love and betrayal James deals with in this novel. AUTHOR: Edgar Box, Flo Gibson, Henry James, Patricia Crick, Virginia Llewellyn Smith
PUBLISHER: Knopf, Alfred A. Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction 
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 | Days of Wonder by Grace Schulman
Many of the poems in this fifth book by the Nation magazine's poetry editor allude to classic poems and paintings. AUTHOR: Grace Schulman
PUBLISHER: Houghton Mifflin Company
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Brazil by John Updike
In Updike's erotically charged, magic-realist love story, poor little rich girl Isabel, who is white, flees Rio with a young black man named Tristo whom she meets on the beach, with her father in pursuit. Through a series of trials, the lovers finally escape him, and Updike follows the pair over the years as they struggle to stay together, resorting at times to prostitution, the jungle, and a shaman who turns Isabel black and Tristo white--at which point he is murdered by a gang of street youths like the one he came from. Updike has said that he intended BRAZIL to be Tristan and Isolde in the form of Brazilian characters. AUTHOR: John Updike
PUBLISHER: Ballantine Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Geography III by Elizabeth Bishop
Bishop's last book of poetry won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1976. AUTHOR: Elizabeth Bishop
PUBLISHER: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, LLC
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? by Elaine Showalter, Joyce Carol Oates
This volume collects stories written and published between 1963 and 1974. In addition to the much-anthologized title story, it includes Edge of the World, The Fine White Mist of Winter, The Lady with the Pet Dog, Unmailed, Unwritten Letters, and How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life Over Again. AUTHOR: Elaine Showalter, Joyce Carol Oates
PUBLISHER: Ontario Review Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Florida Gardener's Guide by Georgia Tasker
Florida Gardener's Guide offers state-specific information on the what, when, where, why and how of Florida gardening rather than generic regional or national information other publications contain. AUTHOR: Georgia Tasker
PUBLISHER: Cool Springs Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Gardening
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