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New York: Arcade Publishing. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2000. Hardcover. 1559705175 . Tight clean bright book with name to front endpaper; in barely rubbed DJ. ; 1.1 x 8.58 x 5.75 Inches; 249 pages; The protagonist of Tim Parks's Destiny is a disillusioned, fiftysomething journalist intent on writing a book about Italy's national character. It's not merely intellectual curiosity that has led Christopher Burton to this project: as an expatriate Englishman, he's also desperate to figure out the inhabitants of his adopted country, and more specifically, his Italian wife. "You cannot marry a woman in one language and think in another," he muses, convinced that what he once found vehement and exciting about her has been revealed as shallow and distasteful. Mistaken for a German in Italy and an American in England, the narrator beautifully articulates the dilemma of living amid a confusion of tongues. "Language is national destiny," he concludes, which… Read More

Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. 0391005227 . Tight clean unmarked book with illustrations; in lightly rubbed DJ ; 304 pages; The classic commentary on a decade remarkable for its creativity, style and flamboyance in a brand new edition. <P>With great insight, Holbrook Jackson brings alive and interprets the creative expressions of this vibrant decade. Each chapter deals with a leading figure, style or trend, capturing with succinct and fluent prose the diverse personalities who held the stage. Jackson shows how it was a period of renaissance as much as of decadence - and as such became the threshold to the modern era. <P>With 24 illustrations on separate coated stock, and index. <P>6 x 9 format. .

Viking. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1986. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. 0517618877 . Stiff new book, unmarked, in DJ with sticker pull to front panel. ; Viking Portable Library; 762 pages .

Viking. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1986. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. 0517610655 . About new book, unmarked and stiff; in liightly rubbed DJ with half-inch edgetear. ; Viking Portable Library; 692 pages .

Toronto: Harpercollins. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1995. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0002243806 . About new book, unmarked, in lightly rubbed DJ. ; 186 pages; Narrated by young Jamie O'Day, who is beginning to understand that, like his daddy says, "every story is about sex or death, or sometimes both,"<I>The Winter Helen Dropped By</I>is a story of growing up, of loss, of laughter and of characters both sexy and dead.<P>Helen is the young, pregnant Indian woman who drops into Jamie's life one freeze-the-balls-off-a-brass-monkey snow-storming night. It is her haunting presence, woven throughout Jamie's accounts of the spring he damn near drowned, the summer of the peculiar reconstituted wedding of Mrs.Beatrice Ann Stevenson and Mr.Earl J. Rasmussen, followed by the summer White Chaps murdered his wife, that makes this a funny, sad and wholly wonderful new novel. .

Toronto: Harpercollins. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1995. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0002243806 . Tight unmarked book in lightly rubbed dust jacket. ; 186 pages; Narrated by young Jamie O'Day, who is beginning to understand that, like his daddy says, "every story is about sex or death, or sometimes both,"<I>The Winter Helen Dropped By</I>is a story of growing up, of loss, of laughter and of characters both sexy and dead.<P>Helen is the young, pregnant Indian woman who drops into Jamie's life one freeze-the-balls-off-a-brass-monkey snow-storming night. It is her haunting presence, woven throughout Jamie's accounts of the spring he damn near drowned, the summer of the peculiar reconstituted wedding of Mrs.Beatrice Ann Stevenson and Mr.Earl J. Rasmussen, followed by the summer White Chaps murdered his wife, that makes this a funny, sad and wholly wonderful new novel. .