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Dorothy Allison: A Psychic Story

By Dorothy Allison and Jacobson Scott

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Paperback:

9780515053043 | Jove Pubns, September 1, 1980, cover price $2.50

Women Who Hate Me

The Women Who Hate Me.58 pp. Printed wrappers, sewn binding. Poems by the author whose first novel, Bastard Out of Carolina, was adapted to film in 1996. Her work generally explore themes of social inequality, gender and sexuality stereotypes, sexual abuse, feminism, and lesbianism.

By Dorothy Allison

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Paperback:

9781563411489, titled "The Women Who Hate Me" | Reprint edition (Firebrand Books, August 30, 2008), cover price $10.95

9780960228423 | Firebrand Books, June 1, 1983, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: The Women Who Hate Me.

Trash

Product Description: 14 short stories and her preface: "Deciding to Live." Wonderful, hard, powerful stories, most from her Southern early rough life and her love of women.

By Dorothy Allison

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Hardcover:

9780932379528 | Firebrand Books, October 1, 1988, cover price $22.95

Paperback:

9780932379511 | Firebrand Books, February 1, 1989, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: 14 short stories and her preface: "Deciding to Live.

The Women Who Hate Me Poetry: 1980-1990

Product Description: The Women Who Hate ME. Poetry, 1980-199069 pp. CONTENTS: Dumpling Girl; Upcountry; Mattie Lee Gibson; The Women Who Hate Me; Silence Grew Between Us; To the Bone; Liar; Tomato Song; Hollow-Cheeked; When I Drink I Become the Joy of Faggots; Not Speaking/Screaming; Butter My Tongue; We All Nourish Truth With Our Tongues; The Terror of My Enemies; A Woman Like an Ocean; Appetite; She Plays It Tight; What Is the Dream of Flesh?; Boston, Massachusetts; Little Enough; All Those Imaginary Ladies; Whoring Away My Imagination; I Chose This Ground; Reason Enough To Love You; The Women Who Love Me; We Make Love; The Other Side of the Wall...read more

By Dorothy Allison

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Hardcover:

9780932379993 | Firebrand Books, April 1, 1991, cover price $20.95 | About this edition: The Women Who Hate ME.

Paperback:

9780932379986, titled "The Women Who Hate Me: Poetry 1980-1990" | Firebrand Books, March 1, 1991, cover price $9.95

Skin: Talking About Sex, Class & Literature

Compelling collection of autobiographical narratives, essays, and performance pieces They don't write much better than this. (view table of contents)

By Dorothy Allison

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Hardcover:

9781563410451 | Firebrand Books, July 1, 1994, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: Compelling collection of autobiographical narratives, essays, and performance pieces They don't write much better than this.

Paperback:

9781563410444, titled "Skin: Talking About Sex, Class And Literature" | Firebrand Books, June 28, 2005, cover price $14.95

9780044409441, titled "Skin: Talking About Sex, Class and Literature" | Rivers Oram Pr, January 1, 1995, cover price $12.35 | About this edition: This is a collection of essays, autobiographical narratives and performance pieces about feminist activism, sexually radical politics and the place of a queer Southern novelist in the contemporary world.

Two or Three Things I Know for Sure

Product Description: "Bastard Out of Carolina", nominated for the 1992 National Book Award for fiction, introduced Dorothy Allison as one of the most passionate and gifted writers of her generation. Now, in "Two or Three Things I Know for Sure", she takes a probing look at her family's history to give us a lyrical, complex memoir that explores how the gossip of one generation can become legends for the next...read more

By Dorothy Allison

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Hardcover:

9780525939214 | E P Dutton, August 1, 1995, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: An autobiographical work written for the stage explores such topics as love and loss, beauty and terror, and the intricacies of family love and hatred, while illuminating the rural poverty of the South

Paperback:

9780452273405 | Penguin USA, July 1, 1996, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: An autobiographical work written for the stage explores such topics as love and loss, beauty and terror, and the intricacies of family love and hatred, while illuminating the rural poverty of the South

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781567401400 | Abridged edition (Brilliance Audio, December 1, 1996), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: "Bastard Out of Carolina", nominated for the 1992 National Book Award for fiction, introduced Dorothy Allison as one of the most passionate and gifted writers of her generation.

9781561008797 | Brilliance Audio, December 1, 1995, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Explores such topics as love and loss, beauty and terror, and the intricacies of family love and hatred, while illuminating the rural poverty of the South.

Ida Applebroog: Nothing Personal, Paintings 1987-1997

By Dorothy Allison, Ida Applebroog, Corcoran Gallery of Art (corporate author), Arthur Coleman Danto and Terrie Sultan

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Hardcover:

9780886750527 | Distributed Art Pub Inc, June 1, 1998, cover price $35.00

Paperback:

9780043550168, titled "Soviet Military Thinking" | Unwin Hyman, May 1, 1982, cover price $15.95 | also contains Soviet Military Thinking

Find Terry! He's Lost

By Dorothy Allison

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Prebinding:

9780613288422, titled "Find Terry! He's Lost" | Turtleback Books, March 1, 2001, cover price $11.60

Trash: Stories

A landmark collection of short fiction by the critically acclaimed author of Bastard Out of Carolina, first published in 1988, captures an uncompromising and candid view of the wounds humans inflict on those closest to them, in an anthology that features 'Compassion,' a new short story, and a special introduction to the volume, 'Stubborn Girls and Mean Stories.' Reprint.

By Dorothy Allison

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9780452283510 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, October 1, 2002), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A collection of short fiction first published in 1988 offers a view of the wounds humans inflict on those closest to them and features 'Compassion,' a new short story, and a new introduction entitled 'Stubborn Girls and Mean Stories.

Best of Tin House: Stories

A collection of major short fiction celebrates the magazine's first six years and receipt of numerous awards including the O. Henry Prize, in an anthology of stories that includes pieces written by such authors as James Salter, Deborah Eisenberg, and Denis Johnson. Original.

By Dorothy Allison (foreword by)

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9780977312719 | Tin House Books, April 28, 2006, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: A collection of major short fiction celebrates the magazine's first six years and receipt of numerous awards including the O.

Cavedweller

Product Description: When Delia Byrd packs up her old Datsun and her daughter Cissy and gets on the Santa Monica Freeway heading south and east, she is leaving everything she has known for ten years: the tinsel glitter of the rock 'n' roll world; her dreams of singing and songwriting; and a life lived on credit cards and whiskey with a man who made promises he couldn't keep...read more

By Dorothy Allison

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Hardcover:

9780786215034 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, July 1, 1998), cover price $28.95 | About this edition: Four women whose lives converge unexpectedly are forced to come to terms not only with their past, but also their future

9780525941675 | E P Dutton, March 1, 1998, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Four women whose lives converge unexpectedly are forced to come to terms not only with their past, but also their future

Paperback:

9780452279698 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, May 1, 1999), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Four women whose lives converge unexpectedly are forced to come to terms not only with their past, but also their future

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781567402803 | Abridged edition (Brilliance Audio, November 1, 1998), cover price $7.99

9781567405675 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, March 1, 1998), cover price $89.25

9781567407631 | Abridged edition (Brilliance Audio, March 1, 1998), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: When Delia Byrd packs her car and begins the long trip home from the rock & roll business and LA, she heads to Cayro, Georgia, and her past.

9781561007882 | Mut edition (Bookcassette Sales, March 1, 1998), cover price $28.95

Prebinding:

9781439501467 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, June 26, 2008), cover price $24.00 | About this edition: When Delia Byrd packs up her old Datsun and her daughter Cissy and gets on the Santa Monica Freeway heading south and east, she is leaving everything she has known for ten years: the tinsel glitter of the rock 'n' roll world; her dreams of singing and songwriting; and a life lived on credit cards and whiskey with a man who made promises he couldn't keep.

Jesus Is Sending You This Message: Stories

Product Description: Jim Grimsley, novelist and playwright, holds no apologies when providing the psychological reasoning for human emotions in this first-time collection of his short stories.Jim Grimsley is a PEN/Hemingway Awardâwinning author. He is senior writer-in-residence at Emory University and has been playwright in residence at 7 Stages Theatre in Atlanta since 1986...read more

By Dorothy Allison (introduced by)

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Paperback:

9781593501006 | Alyson Pubns, October 1, 2008, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Jim Grimsley, novelist and playwright, holds no apologies when providing the psychological reasoning for human emotions in this first-time collection of his short stories.

Catherine Opie: American Photographer

Product Description: This comprehensive new exhibition catalogue, published to accompany the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum's major mid-career survey of Catherine Opie's work, is the first to gather all of the artist's key projects to date in a single volume...read more

By Dorothy Allison

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Hardcover:

9780892073757 | Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, October 1, 2008, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: This comprehensive new exhibition catalogue, published to accompany the Solomon R.

The Writers Notebook: Craft Essays from Tin House

By Dorothy Allison, Steve Almond, Susan Bell, Aimee Bender and Lee Montgomery (introduced by)

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Paperback:

9780979419812 | Pap/com or edition (Tin House Books, May 1, 2009), cover price $18.95

Tin House Magazine

By Dorothy Allison (editor), Aimee Bender (contributor), Amy Hempel (contributor), Jim Shepard (contributor) and Tin House Books (corporate author)

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Paperback:

9780982054215 | 10 org edition (Tin House Books, August 1, 2009), cover price $12.95

Bastard Out of Carolina

Ruth Anne Boatwright, an illegitimate young girl, dreams of escaping her Greenville County, South Carolina, home, her notorious, hard-living family, and the unwanted attentions of her abusive stepfather, Daddy Glen.

By Dorothy Allison

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Paperback:

9780452297753 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, February 1, 2012), cover price $16.00 | also contains Bastard Out of Carolina

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780453008600 | Highbridge Co, January 1, 1997, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Ruth Anne Boatwright, an illegitimate young girl, dreams of escaping her Greenville County, South Carolina, home, her notorious, hard-living family, and the unwanted attentions of her abusive stepfather, Daddy Glen.

Prebinding:

9781435293656 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, May 29, 2008), cover price $24.95 | also contains Bastard Out of Carolina | About this edition: The extraordinary story of a young girl caught up in family violence, incest, and redemption.

The Truth Book

Product Description: Adopted as a baby and raised by a devout Jehovahâs Witness family, Joy Castro is constantly reminded to tell the truth no matter what the consequences. Nevertheless, Castro finds this tenet to be the most violated. Here, in her very own Truth Book, Castro bears witness to a childhood lost but a life regained...read more

By Dorothy Allison (foreword by)

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Paperback:

9780803240629 | Univ of Nebraska Pr, September 1, 2012, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Adopted as a baby and raised by a devout Jehovahâs Witness family, Joy Castro is constantly reminded to tell the truth no matter what the consequences.

Southern Sin: True Stories of the Sultry South and Women Behaving Badly

Product Description: 23 strange-but-true stories of women flirting with perdition... In the steamy South, temptation is as wild and plentiful as kudzu. Whether the sin in question is skinny-dipping or becoming an unlikely porn star, running rum or renting out a room to a pair of exhibitionistic adulterers, in these true stories women defy tradition and forge their own paths through lifeÂoften learning unexpected lessons from the experience...read more

By Dorothy Allison (introduced by)

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9781937163105 | Pgw, March 18, 2014, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: 23 strange-but-true stories of women flirting with perdition.

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