Product Description: Cultural Writing. Biography. Adelbert Ames, Jr. (1880-1955) was the creator of some of the most memorable scientific demonstrations of the 20th century. He created rooms where small children tower over their parents, demonstrations where playing cards and cigarette packs and matchbooks seem to change size and position in the blink of an eye...read more

Fiction. Oddly, the dark star of this darkly comic novel set in the late 1800s isn't the master tanner, but the tanner's wife, Dolly, a sensuous and level-headed woman who sees the West for what it is: a land of violence, yes; but also a land of blank deserts signifying opportunity. So while her husband gets his head trapped inside a dead buffalo's skull, Dolly maneuvers through a monomaniacal Slavic emigre acting as town sheriff, a photographer named Swing T whose "spiritual journey" masks murderous sadism, a one-eyed poetic smith, and a star-gazing gambler who puts out the smith's eye with a hole card in self-defense. With colorful characters and a compelling and surprising plot, Bamberger's first novel surely echoes our present age as much as it does our westward expansion.

Product Description: American writer Steve Katz published his first book, The Lestriad, in 1962. Subsequent novels and collections have continue to appear from such imprints as Holt, Rinehart and Winston; Random House; Alfred A. Knopf; Ithaca House; and Sun & Moon...read more

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Product Description: A complete bibliographical coverage of all the author's works plus a comprehensive list of secondary sources and reviews.