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Description not available.Driven to New York City by a need to overcome his loneliness and insecurity, Joe Buck, a virile and sensitive Texan meets street hustler and petty criminal Ratso Rizzo plunges into the lifestyle of a Broadway hustler. Reprint. AUTHOR: James Leo Herlihy
PUBLISHER: ibooks, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction 
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 | Mallarme in Prose by Jill Anderson, Malcolm Bowie, Mary Ann Caws, Patricia Terry, Richard Sieburth
Avant-garde poet Mallarme (1842-1898), often writing under a variety of mysterious pseudonyms, published many reflections on the culture of his day in his magazine Derniere Mode--The Latest Fashion. This volume selects from this and other sources to present a wealth of material by the author about his famous tastes and predilections on aesthetics in regard to language, the performance arts, literature, and personalities Poe, Tennyson, Debussy and others. AUTHOR: Jill Anderson, Malcolm Bowie, Mary Ann Caws, Patricia Terry, Richard Sieburth
PUBLISHER: New Directions Publishing Corporation
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Love Letters by Peter Washington
Here are 200 irresistible love letters from over the centuries, love letters both historic and fictional, love letters by poets and by princes, love letters enchanting, tragic, comic, superbly selected, beautifully printed, conveniently portable, to have with you wherever and whenever you're in the mood for love. AUTHOR: Peter Washington
PUBLISHER: Knopf, Alfred A. Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Wish To Kill by Janet Hannah
Dr. Alex Kertesz is a biochemist. Handsome, popular -- with everyone except his flamboyant wife -- and brilliant, he is the opposite of Professor Ilan Falk, whose body he discovers one night in a University of Jerusalem Laboratory. Kertesz had just been wishing that Falk would go to hell and then there was an explosion. The dead man was inclined to be careless, and lighting a cigar in a lab would be nothing short of suicidal. But was the explosion really accidental? Falk had many enemies for whom his demise was uncannily timely. One, his beautiful Lab assistant, Shoshana, confides her worry to Alex. She had wished that Falk would die exactly as he did. He could easily leave the gas on someday and Light one of those smelly cigars. Wouldn't that be great! she'd thought. Kertesz, the paradigmatic scientist, is forced to consider the possibility that wishes might actually be able to kill. AUTHOR: Janet Hannah
PUBLISHER: Soho Press, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Mouse of My Heart by Leonard S. Marcus, Loretta Krupinski, Margeret Wise Brown
A collection of 56 poems by the author best-known for her picture book GOODNIGHT MOON. Color illustrations accompany the text. AUTHOR: Leonard S. Marcus, Loretta Krupinski, Margeret Wise Brown
PUBLISHER: Hyperion Books for Children
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Look Homeward, Angel by Jonathan Marosz, Maxwell Perkins, Thomas Wolfe
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 attention to detail, Wolfe evokes the peculiarities of small-town life, and the pain and upheaval of leaving home. Heavily autobiographical, LOOK HOMEWARD, ANGEL, is Wolfe's most turbulent and passionate work, and a brilliant novel of lasting impact. In his preface, Wolfe wrote: Dr. Johnson remarked that a man would run over half a library to make a single book: in the same way, a novelist may turn over half the people in a town to make a single figure in his novel. This is not the whole method but the writer believes it illustrates the whole method in a book that is written from a middle distance and is without rancor or bitter intention. AUTHOR: Jonathan Marosz, Maxwell Perkins, Thomas Wolfe
PUBLISHER: Scribner
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction
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