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Frustrated with his poor book sales, college professor Thelonious 'Monk' Ellison pens a fierce parody of exploitive ghetto literature entitled My Pafology, which is hailed by critics as the work of a great new voice and brings him the success he craves, but also confronts him with a difficult choice between his moral principles and his dreams. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.

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9781584650904 | Univ Pr of New England, August 1, 2001, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Avant-garde novelist and college professor, woodworker, and fly fisherman - Thelonious Ellison has never allowed race to define his identity.

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9780786888153 | Reprint edition (Hyperion Books, October 1, 2002), cover price $19.99 | About this edition: Frustrated with his poor book sales, 'Monk' Ellison writes a parody of ghetto literature that is hailed by critics as the work of a great new voice, but his success confronts him with a choice between his principles and his dreams.

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Product Description: Retired Virginia obstetrician John Livesey, recently widowed and discouraged by the world's crumbling morals, meets a man who has just performed an unnecessary cesarean section on his wife so as to be the one to deliver their child...read more

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9780899194127 | Ticknor & Fields, November 1, 1986, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: John Livesey, a recently retired Virginia obstetrician, spends a summer on the Oregon coast with his son's family, discovers the truth about his daughter-in-law's baby, and tries to resist the temptation to play God

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9780807126400 | Reprint edition (Louisiana State Univ Pr, October 1, 2000), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Retired Virginia obstetrician John Livesey, recently widowed and discouraged by the world's crumbling morals, meets a man who has just performed an unnecessary cesarean section on his wife so as to be the one to deliver their child.

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Product Description: Craig Suder, third baseman for the Seattle Mariners, is in a terrible slump. He’s batting below .200 at the plate, and even worse in bed with his wife; and he secretly fears he’s inherited his mother’s insanity. Ordered to take a midseason rest, Suder instead takes his record of Charlie Parker’s “Ornithology,” his record player, and his new saxophone and flees, negotiating his way through madcap adventures and flashbacks to childhood (“If you folks believed more strongly in God, maybe you wouldn’t be colored”)...read more

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9780670681105 | Viking Pr, August 1, 1983, cover price $13.50 | About this edition: Facing problems at home and on the field, Craig Suder, third baseman for the Seattle Mariners, embarks on a madcap quest accompanied by a sassy nine-year-old runaway and an elephant named Renoir

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9780807123874 | Louisiana State Univ Pr, May 1, 1999, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Craig Suder, third baseman for the Seattle Mariners, is in a terrible slump.

A retelling of the tale of Dionysos, the wildest and darkest of the gods, as seen through the eyes of his servant Vlepo

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9781555972448 | Graywolf Pr, January 1, 1997, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: A retelling of the tale of Dionysos, the wildest and darkest of the gods, as seen through the eyes of his servant Vlepo

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A collection of stories offers surprising twists as the characters respond to life-altering dilemmas in both strange and comical ways

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9781555972387 | Graywolf Pr, May 1, 1996, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: A collection of stories offers surprising twists as the characters respond to life-altering dilemmas in both strange and comical ways

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Details the adventures in the old West of Marder, a coward and racist, and of Bubba, a Black tracker, as they try to find Marder's kidnapped wife

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9780571198320 | Faber & Faber, May 1, 1994, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Details the adventures in the old West of Marder, a coward and racist, and of Bubba, a Black tracker, as they try to find Marder's kidnapped wife

Blending elements of tall tale and wordplay, this zany Wild West saga follows three cowhands and their faithful canine companion as they race across high mountains and through deep canyons in pursuit of the one that got away.
By Percival L. Everett and Dirk Zimmer (illustrator)

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9780395564370 | Clarion Books, March 1, 1992, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Three cowhands chase and corral ones in this zany book about the Wild West

In the far distant future, Alice Achitophel, a government clerk, discovers that as the last woman alive who is not sterile, she poses a threat to the government

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9780932966971 | Permanent Pr Pub Co, January 1, 1990, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: In the far distant future, Alice Achitophel, a government clerk, discovers that as the last woman alive who is not sterile, she poses a threat to the government

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9781561290734 | Knightsbridge Pub Co Mass, April 1, 1991, cover price $5.95

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9780937669457 | Owl Creek Pr, December 1, 1990, cover price $22.00

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Product Description: Vietnam veteran David Larson can't go home again. Instead the Georgia native wanders westward into the desolate landscape of Slut's Hole, Wyoming, and seeks to integrate himself amid a hardscrabble cast of memorable locals. David is taken in by Sixbury, a one-legged widow, sheep farmer, and mother to a nearly adult mentally handicapped son...read more

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9780899193212 | Ticknor & Fields, January 1, 1985, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: In Slut's Hole, Wyoming, recently returned Vietnam veteran David Larson forms a posse to find Butch, a seven-year-old Vietnamese war orphan, and the severely retarded son of Sixbury, a one-legged, widow-lady sheep rancher

Paperback:

9781611175400 | Univ of South Carolina Pr, October 13, 2015, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Vietnam veteran David Larson can't go home again.

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