Search Results: Authors starting with T from BIAbooks

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1983. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. A collectible book with bright, clean, unmarked text. aThe DJ is whole with only a light crease on front dust wrapper flap, otherwise, both book and dust wrapper are fine. Contains eleven stories. Stories about the dilemmas, pleasures, discoveries, and partings of young people in love focus on mistrustful, perplexed, frequently naive, often inept people who still manage to enchant each other.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1985. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Author's FIRST novel. "At first, Elizabeth Tallent's ''Museum Pieces'' may seem like just another trendy novel about trendy, fashionably artsy people. It isn't. Writing with a keen, quicksilver appreciation of her characters' inner lives and with a poet's eye for the luminous, skewed details of daily life, Miss Tallent has created a lyrical, resonant novel, a novel about the complicated geometry of emotions between men and women, parents and their children - the sad, surprising ways in which we engage and disengage our feelings, our difficulty connecting with those for whom we care and our labored mediations between time past, time present and the time to come. ---MICHIKO KAKUTANI, Books of the Times.Book is in excellent shape. FIRST NOVEL FATHERS DAUGHTERS FICTION MARRIED PEOPLE NEW MEXICO GENERAL SANTA FE NM ARCHAEOLOGISTS

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1985. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Author's FIRST novel. "At first, Elizabeth Tallent's ''Museum Pieces'' may seem like just another trendy novel about trendy, fashionably artsy people. It isn't. Writing with a keen, quicksilver appreciation of her characters' inner lives and with a poet's eye for the luminous, skewed details of daily life, Miss Tallent has created a lyrical, resonant novel, a novel about the complicated geometry of emotions between men and women, parents and their children - the sad, surprising ways in which we engage and disengage our feelings, our difficulty connecting with those for whom we care and our labored mediations between time past, time present and the time to come. ---MICHIKO KAKUTANI, Books of the Times.Book is in excellent shape but DJ has a three inch tear along rear panel on spine. Looks good in a protective sleeve. Keywords: FIRST NOVEL FATHERS DAUGHTERS FICTION MARRIED PEOPLE… Read More

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1995. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine book, SIGNED by the author. "Again grounding her novel in family and the workings of fate, Tan (The Kitchen God's Wife) spins the tale of two sisters, two cultures, and several acts of betrayal." PW. The "wisest and most captivating novel" (Boston Globe)

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1991. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A Fine, collectible book, SIGNED by the author.The Kitchen God's Wife is a triumph, a solid indication of a mature talent for magically involving storytelling, beguiling use of language and deeply textured and nuanced character development. "Remarkable...mesmerizing...compelling.... An entire world unfolds in Tolstoyan tide of event and detail....Give yourself over to the world Ms. Tan creates for you." The New York Times Book Review

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2005. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. A pristine, SIGNED book. With her signature "idiosyncratic, sympathetic characters, haunting images, historical complexity, significant contemporary themes, and suspenseful mystery" (Los Angeles Times), Amy Tan spins a provocative and mesmerizing tale about the mind and the heart of the individual, the actions we choose, the moral questions we might ask ourselves, and above all, the deeply personal answers we seek when happy endings are seemingly impossible. "Amy Tan has created an almost magical adventure that, page by page, becomes a metaphor for human relationships." Isabel Allende

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1995. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine book, SIGNED by the author. "Again grounding her novel in family and the workings of fate, Tan (The Kitchen God's Wife) spins the tale of two sisters, two cultures, and several acts of betrayal." PW. The "wisest and most captivating novel" (Boston Globe)

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2001. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine, SIGNED book. "The Bonesetter's Daughter dramatically chronicles the tortured, devoted relationship between LuLing Young and her daughter Ruth. . . . A strong novel, filled with idiosyncratic, sympathetic characters, haunting images, historical complexity, significant contemporary themes, and suspenseful mystery." Los Angeles Times

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2003. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine, SIGNED book. The stories from Amy Tan's life that inspired bestselling novels like The Joy Luck Club and The Valley of Amazement. "Sharp and invigorating . . . fertile reading. (The New York Times Book Review)

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1987. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A Fine, Collectible book, SIGNED by the author. Ms. Tan's DEBUT novel. "Powerful as myth." -The Washington Post Book World. "Beautifully written...a jewel of a book." -The New York Times Book Review."Powerful...full of magic...you won't be doing anything of importance until you have finished this book." -Los Angeles Times. "Wonderful...a significant lesson in what storytelling has to do with memory and inheritance." -San Francisco Chronicle

New York: Crown Publishers, 1991. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Fine/Very Fine. Author's FIRST B.F. Hopper Mystery has Hopper on the trail of a serial killer who is targeting a Buddhist sect in Colorado. This book is filled with colorful characters and laced with sharp wit, is a fast-paced, hard edged beggining to the B.F. Hopper saga. Book appears UNREAD.

New York: Crown Publishers, 1992. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Fine/Very Fine. Author's second B.F. Hopper Mystery has Hopper chasing drug manufacturers in small-town Kansas. This book is filled with colorful characters and laced with sharp wit, is a fast-paced, hard edged addition to the B.F. Hopper saga. This book appears UNREAD.

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2001. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Memoir of the Surrealist painter. The life and times of one of our most enchanting artists; a twentieth-century fairy tale, lovingly remembered and luminously told with 32 pages of photographs of friends and her paintings."In buoyant and electric prose, laced with wit and leavened with ungrudging generosity, Dorothea Tanning has given us in this memoir a brilliant account of the fizz and panache of a truly remarkable life; Stravinsky provides her wedding champagne; Andre Malraux upstages Orson Wells; J. Robert Oppenheimer turns up at Les Deux Magots; and the gentle and enigmatic surrealist Max Ernst, Ms. Tanning's husband, is the presiding spirit. This is a sustained success of recuperative magic."-Anthony Hecht

Garden City, NY: Doubleday Doran, 1928. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Slight separation to front hinge bottom and minor edgewear. Colors still vibrant with blue boards and black lettering against a back drop of gold. Decorated endpapers with images of flappers in high couture. One of the author's great books.

Bridgehampton, NY: Bridge Works Publishing Company, Incorporated, 2001. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A story of the adventures, discoveries, and triumphs of a contemporary Southern woman, struggling to balance work and home responsibilities. Keywords: LOUISIANA FICTION MOTHERS SONS FAMILY SAGA GRANDPARENTS DIVORCED SINGLE MOTHER EX-HUSBAND OIL COMPANY

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 2002. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A very attractive book. Author's second novel. ''The Little Friend'' also turns out to be a far more emotionally resonant novel than its predecessor,.it attests to the maturation of the author's voice and her willingness to push her gifts in an ambitious new direction, to explore the intimacies of family and small-town life, the peculiar geography of childhood in all its dreamlike intensity and ennui, and the perils of storytelling and trying to mythologize the past."--- MICHIKO KAKUTANI, NY Times

London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2002. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A very attractive book. Author's second novel. ''The Little Friend'' also turns out to be a far more emotionally resonant novel than its predecessor,.it attests to the maturation of the author's voice and her willingness to push her gifts in an ambitious new direction, to explore the intimacies of family and small-town life, the peculiar geography of childhood in all its dreamlike intensity and ennui, and the perils of storytelling and trying to mythologize the past."--- MICHIKO KAKUTANI, NY Times

New York, NY: Little,Brown and Company, 2013. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. A pristine, collectible book. The DJ has very minor rubbing on the bottom and top of spine, else Fine. "The Goldfinch is a mesmerizing, stay-up-all-night and tell-all-your-friends triumph, an old-fashioned story of loss and obsession, survival and self-invention. From the streets of New York to the dark corners of the art underworld, this "soaring masterpiece" examines the devastating impact of grief and the ruthless machinations of fate" (Ron Charles, Washington Post).

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 2002. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A very attractive book. Author's second novel. ''The Little Friend'' also turns out to be a far more emotionally resonant novel than its predecessor,.it attests to the maturation of the author's voice and her willingness to push her gifts in an ambitious new direction, to explore the intimacies of family and small-town life, the peculiar geography of childhood in all its dreamlike intensity and ennui, and the perils of storytelling and trying to mythologize the past."--- MICHIKO KAKUTANI, NY Times

New York: Random House, 1999. First Printing . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine book. Taylor has written an eloquent and deeply felt memoir about the demise of his 11-year marriage."[A] poignant memoir . . . In lucid, unadorned prose, Taylor explores a terrain that heretofore has been left mainly to our contemporary fiction writers: the failing of a marriage . . . An emotional country unto itself?a place of dire contradictions and sacrifices and mistakes, of pain and love."--- JOHN BURNHAM SCHWARTZ Taylor explores .rs: the failing of a marriage . . . An emotional country unto itself?a place of dire contradictions and sacrifices and mistakes, of pain and love." ?JOHN BURNHAM SCHWARTZ