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Interviews | June 19, 2009

All posts by Dave Jim Lynch Makes Landscape Art... Out of Text

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If Carl Hiaasen set one of his novels on a residential stretch of boundary line between British Columbia and Washington, or if Richard Russo's characters had relatives in the Pacific Northwest, the result might be something like Jim Lynch's Border Songs. Continue »

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    Border Songs

    Jim Lynch

Herman Melville (Penguin Lives Biographies)

by Elizabeth Hardwick

Herman Melville (Penguin Lives Biographies) Cover

ISBN13: 9780670891580
ISBN10: 0670891584
Condition: Standard
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Synopsis:

The complex author of the quintessential American masterpiece is demystified by a leading contemporary critic. Hardwick's novelistic flair reveals a former whaleship deck-hand whose voyages were the stuff of travel romances that seduced the public.
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Table of Contents

Whaling — New York — Redburn — Typee — Elizabeth — Omoo, Mardi — Moby-Dick — Family, Pierre, "Benito Cereno," "Bartleby, the Scrivener" — Marriage, The Confidence-Man — Hawthorne — Billy Budd — Death — Afterword — Bibliography.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780670891580
Author:
Hardwick, Elizabeth
Publisher:
Viking Adult
Location:
New York :
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Biography
Subject:
Historical - U.S.
Subject:
19th century
Subject:
Novelists, American
Subject:
Melville, herman, 1819-1891
Edition Description:
Hardcover
Series:
Penguin Lives Biographies
Series Volume:
no. FS-0043
Publication Date:
20000605
Binding:
Hardback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
176
Dimensions:
7.85x5.37x.69 in. .65 lbs.
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