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	"Alpert, Michael - Lazarillo de Tormes and The Swindler: Two Spanish Picaresque Novels - PBN" Code:0140449000PBN Price: $10.50 Rating: none Quantity in Basket: none
Add to wish list? "Paperback. New. List $ 14. [Penguin Group (USA)] 203 pages. From the Publisher These Spanish picaresque novels focus on the adventures of two unlikely heroes - delinquent picaros living by their wits among corrupt priests and prostitutes, beggars and idle gentlemen, thieves, tricksters and murderers. The tales are sharply critical of the Church and the conventions of nobility, and contain grotesquely exaggerated depictions of the criminal underworld. Lazarillo de Tormes (1554), published anonymously, provided a literary model for Cervantes in Don Quixote and describes the ingenious ruses employed by a boy from Salamanca to outwit a succession of disreputable masters. Francisco de Quevedo's The Swindler (1626) is a comic, yet brutal and sordid account of a servant who wants to become a gentleman but ends up as a cardsharp and a common criminal. For this edition Michael Alpert has updated his translation from the original Penguin Classics edition, with a new map, chronology of events, notes and further reading. His revised introduction examines the historical, economic and social context of the picaresque novel, with a detailed discussion of each story."
	"Balzac, Honore de - Old Goriot PBN" Code:0140440178PBN Price: $8.21 Rating: none Quantity in Basket: none
Add to wish list? Paperback. New. List $ 10.95. Literary Novel. 19th Century. French. Through Balzac's carefully defined characters we examine the relationship between vice and virtue and the corresponding relationship between good and evil.
	"Barnes, Djuna - Nightwood PBN" Code:0811200051PBN Price: $8.96 Rating: none Quantity in Basket: none
Add to wish list? Paperback. New. List $ 11.95. Literary Novel. 20th Century. American. Published in 1936 by T.S. Eliot Nightwood was an instant modernist and lebian classic. Barnes joined James Joyce and Virginia Woolf in the use of a stream-of-consciousness narrative.
	"Barnes, Julian - Arthur and George HCN" Code:030726310XHCN Price: $16.46 Rating: none Quantity in Basket: none
Add to wish list? "Hardcover. New. List $ 24.95. FrogPicks Price: $ 16.46. This late-Victorian tale describes: George, the son of a Midlands vicar, and Arthur, from Edinburgh. Arthur turns out to be Arthur Conan Doyle and when he discovers George has wrongly been accused of"
	"Bennett, John - Tire Grabbers - PTN" Code:097767830XPTN Price: $14.96 Rating: none Quantity in Basket: none
Add to wish list? Paperback. New. List $ 19.95. [Hcolom Press] 388 pages.
	"Cohen, Matt - Elizabeth and After PBN" Code:0312276958PBN Price: $10.50 Rating: none Quantity in Basket: none
Add to wish list? "Paperback. New. List $ 14. Literary Novel. 20th Century. Canadian. Winner - Governor General's Award. Carl McKelvey returns to the small town of West Gull, Ontario to recover his life, wife, daughter and make sense of the death of his mother, who died in "
	"Collins, Michael - Death of a Writer - HCN" Code:1596912294HCN Price: $18.71 Rating: none Quantity in Basket: none
Add to wish list? "Hardcover. New. List $ 24.95. [Bloomsbury USA] 320 pages. FROM THE PUBLISHER For Robert Pendleton, a professor clinging to tenure and living in the shambles of his once-bright literary career, death seems to be the only remaining option. But his suicide attempt fails, halted at the last moment by the intervention of Adi Wiltshire, a graduate student battling her own demons of failure and thwarted ambition. During Pendleton's long convalescence, Adi discovers a novel hidden in his basement: a brilliant, semi-autobiographical story with a gruesome child-murder at its core. The publication of Scream causes a storm of publicity: a whirlwind into which Adi, Horowitz and the still-incapacitated Pendleton are thrust. The novel is treated as an existential masterpiece and looks set to bring its author the success he's always sought - when, ironically, he is no longer in a condition to appreciate it - until questions begin to be asked about its content: in particular about the uncanny resemblance between Pendleton's fictional crime and a real-life, unresolved local murder. Enter Jon Ryder, a world-weary detective who could have walked off the pages of a police thriller, and the hunt for the murderer is on. "
	"Eco, Umberto - The Name of the Rose PBN" Code:0156001314PBN Price: $11.25 Rating: none Quantity in Basket: none
Add to wish list? Paperback. New. List $ 15. Literary Novel. 20th Century. Italian. Semiotician Eco's overtly post-modern meta-historical novel parody. It is the time of the inquisition and people are mysteriously dying and a monastery. Work of the devil or of a priest try
	"Edwards, Kim - The Memory Keeper's Daughter - PBN" Code:0143037145PBN Price: $10.50 Rating: none Quantity in Basket: none
Add to wish list? "Paperback. New. List $ 14. [Penguin Group (USA)] 432 pages. From the Publisher Award-winning writer Kim Edwards's The Memory Keeper's Daughter is a brilliantly crafted family drama that explores every mother's silent fear: what would happen if you lost your child and she grew up without you? On a winter night in 1964, Dr. David Henry is forced by a blizzard to deliver his own twins. His son, born first, is perfectly healthy. Yet when his daughter is born, he sees immediately that she has Down's syndrome. Rationalizing it as a need to protect Norah, his wife, he makes a split second decision that will alter all of their lives forever. He asks his nurse to take the baby away to an institution and never to reveal the secret. But Caroline, the nurse, cannot leave the infant. Instead, she disappears into another city to raise the child herself. So begins this beautifully told story that unfolds over a quarter of a century in which these two families, ignorant of each other, are yet bound by David Henry's fateful decision that long-ago winter night. A rich and deeply moving page-turner, The Memory Keeper's Daughter captures the way life takes unexpected turns and how the mysterious ties that hold a family together help us survive the heartache that occurs when long-buried secrets burst into the open. It is an astonishing tale of redemptive love. "
	"Ishiguro, Kazuo - Never Let Me Go PTN" Code:1400078776PTN Price: $10.50 Rating: none Quantity in Basket: none
Add to wish list? Paperback. New. List $ 14. Literary Novel. 20th Century.
	"Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer - Heat and Dust PBN" Code:0671646575PBN Price: $9.75 Rating: none Quantity in Basket: none
Add to wish list? "Paperback. New. List $ 13. Literary Novel. 20th Century. Indian. In India of the 1920s, Heat and Dust tells the story of Olivia, wife of an important English civil servant. She begins an affair with Newab an Indian prince. When she becomes pregnant (unsur"
	"Kay, Jackie - Trumpet PBN" Code:0375704639PBN Price: $9.75 Rating: none Quantity in Basket: none
Add to wish list? Paperback. New. List $ 13. Novel. 20th Century. British. Award winning poet tells the story of a cross dressing female trumpet player.
	"Kidd, Sue - The Secret Life of Bees PBN" Code:0142001740PBN Price: $10.50 Rating: none Quantity in Basket: none
Add to wish list? "Paperback. New. List $ 14. Womens Fiction. After her mother was killed when she was four Lily Owen lived on a South Carolina peach farm with her ""substitute mother"", Rosaleen, a black woman. After Roasaleen has a run in with three local bigots. They escap"
	"Quindlin, Anna - One True Thing PMUG" Code:044022103X - PMUG Price: $1.00 Rating: none Quantity in Basket: none
Add to wish list? Paperback. Used. Condition - Good. Crease to back corner. Light reading creases to spine. Light shelf wear and rubbing. GOOD+ condition.