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American Pastoral by Philip Roth Publisher Comments As the American century draws to an uneasy close, Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified greatness that is an elegy for all our century's promises of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss. Roth's protagonist is Swede Levov, a legendary athlete... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Straight Man: A Novel by Richard Russo Publisher Comments In this uproarious new novel, Richard Russo performs his characteristic high-wire walk between hilarity and heartbreak. Russo's protagonist is William Henry Devereaux, Jr., the reluctant chairman of the English department of a badly underfunded college... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Pnin by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov Publisher Comments Pnin is a professor of Russian at an American college who takes the wrong train to deliver a lecture in a language he cannot master. Pnin is a tireless lover who writes to his treacherous Liza: "A genius needs to keep so much in store, and thus... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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About Schmidt by Louis Begley Publisher Comments "A fine new novel... The great pleasure of reading Louis Begley [is] his exceptional literary intelligence." The New York Times Book Review "Begley again demonstrates that he can reveal the complexities of society and personality with a... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Man Who Was Late by Louis Begley Publisher Comments A man without a country or family, a Holocaust survivor, Ben long ago left the wreckage of Europe and recreated himself as a brilliant financier. He rejects the comforts of love and is shocked to discover Veronique — beautiful, unwisely married, and... (read more) List Price $13.50 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Schmidt Delivered (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Louis Begley Publisher Comments Recently widowed, Albert Schmidt has triumphantly rediscovered domestic bliss in the Hamptons with Carrie, the Puerto Rican waitress who is younger than his daughter. Schmidt is content with keeping his own hours and steering his own course, even as he... (read more) Your price: $12.95 New - Trade Paper
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Name of the World (00 Edition) by Denis Johnson Publisher Comments The acclaimed author of Jesus' Son and Already Dead returns with a beautiful, haunting, and darkly comic novel. The Name of the World is a mesmerizing portrait of a professor at a Midwestern university who has been patient in his grief after an accident... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Election by Tom Perrotta Publisher Comments Tracy Flick wants to be President of Winwood High. She's one of those ambitious girls who finds time to do it all: edit the yearbook, star in the musical, sleep with her English teacher. But another teacher, staunch idealist Jim McAllister (aka "Mr. M."),... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis Review "A classic comic novel, a seminal campus novel, and a novel which seized and expressed the mood of those who came of age in the 1950s. But there is more to it than that . . . Its university setting functions primarily as the epitome of a stuffy... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Blue Angel by Francine Prose Publisher Comments It's been years since Swenson, a professor in a New England creative writing program, has published a novel.It's been even longer since any of his students have shown promise. Enter Angela Argo, a pierced, tattooed student with a rare talent for writing.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Preston Falls (Vintage Contemporaries) by David Gates Publisher Comments "Beautifully written.... Gates [has a] pitch-perfect ear for contemporary speech...and...[a] keen, journalistic eye."--Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times In this comic, fiercely compassionate novel, David Gates, whose first novel Jernigan was... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon Publisher Comments Grady Tripp is a pot-smoking middle aged novelist who has stalled on a 2611 page opus titled Wonder Boys. His student James Leer is a troubled young writer obsessed by Hollywood suicides and at work on his own first novel. Grady's bizarre editor Terry... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Independence Day by Richard Ford Publisher Comments The Pulitzer-Prize Winning novel for 1996.In this visionary sequel to The Sportswriter, Richard Ford deepens his portrait of one of the most unforgettable characters in American fiction, and in so doing gives us an indelible portrait of America.Frank... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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