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Ironweed by William Kennedy Publisher Comments Ironweed, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, is the best-known of William Kennedy's three Albany-based novels. Francis Phelan, ex-ballplayer, part-time gravedigger, full-time drunk, has hit bottom. Years ago he left Albany in a hurry after killing a scab... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Nobody's Fool by Richard Russo Publisher Comments In his slyly funny and moving new novel, the author of The Risk Pool follows the unexpected operation of grace in a deadbeat, upstate New York town--and in the lives of the unluckiest of its citizens. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Paul... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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On Fire by Larry Brown Publisher Comments Recounting his 17 years as a fireman in his hometown of Oxford, Mississippi, the author of Joe explores what it means to be a friend, a husband, a father, a firefighter, a man. As he interweaves scenes as diverse as raising children, battling deadly... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Fay (00 Edition) by Larry Brown Publisher Comments She's had no education, and you can't call what her father's been trying to give her "love." So at seventeen, Fay Jones leaves home, carrying a purse with half a pack of cigarettes and two dollar bills. She's headed for the bright lights and big times... (read more) List Price $28.99 Your price: $15.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Father and Son by Larry Brown Publisher Comments A classic story of good and evil set in the rural American South of 1968.... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Collected Stories of William Faulkner by William Faulkner Publisher Comments “I’m a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can’t and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing that, only then does he take up novel writing.” &mdash... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Multitude of Sins by Richard Ford From Powells.com Before Richard Ford published Independence Day, the first novel to win both the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, he twice read its seven hundred pages aloud to his wife, correcting rhythmical miscues and shades of... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $2.95 Used - Hardcover
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Big Bad Love: Stories by Larry Brown Publisher Comments Larry Brown's highly praised novel Dirty Work established him as one of the fiercest and most powerful new voices in Southern literature, a writer who understands the sorrows and joys of everyday life. That same compassionate regard for ordinary people... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Dirty Work by Larry Brown Publisher Comments Braiden Chaney has no arms or legs. Walter James has no face. They lost them in Vietnam, along with other, more vital parts of themselves. Now, twenty-two years later, these two Mississippians -- one black, the other white -- lie in adjoining beds in a V.... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Paperboy by Pete Dexter Publisher Comments The sun was rising over Moat County, Florida, when Sheriff Thurmond Call was found on the highway, gutted like an alligator. A local redneck was tried, sentenced, and set to fry. Then Ward James, hotshot investigative reporter for the Miami Times... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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