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9780818006364 | Horizon Pr, October 1, 1982, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Wilson Hand, haunted by memories of his ex-wife's suicide and his captivity with the Viet Cong, leaves his urban industrial investigation business to become a troubleshooter for an Alaskan oil company
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9780805031430 | Owlet, April 1, 1994, cover price $11.00 | About this edition: Wilson Hand, haunted by memories of his ex-wife's suicide and his captivity with the Viet Cong, leaves his urban industrial investigation business to become a troubleshooter for an Alaskan oil company
9780345321251 | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, June 1, 1985), cover price $2.95 | About this edition: Wilson Hand, haunted by memories of his ex-wife's suicide and his captivity with the Viet Cong, leaves his urban industrial investigation business to become a troubleshooter for an Alaskan oil company
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9780818006395 | Horizon Pr, September 1, 1983, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Ten miles apart in a New Mexico desert, unknown to each other, two scientists are involved in secret work.
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9780805031423 | Owlet, April 1, 1994, cover price $11.00 | About this edition: Ten miles apart in a New Mexico desert, unknown to each other, two scientists are involved in secret work.
9780345321183 | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, May 1, 1985), cover price $2.95 | About this edition: The harsh Arizona desert, at the time of the first atomic bomb test during the 1940s, becomes the backdrop for a love triangle between physicist Lloyd Coulter, archaeologist Darrell Reeves, and Anna, the woman they both love
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9780394540405 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, February 1, 1985, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: In the spring of 1975, Army Intelligence captain David Fleming, about to be court-martialed for having kidnapped and released a Viet Cong prisoner, sets out to find the son he believes he has sired in Saigon
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9780394555973 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, March 1, 1987, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: In 1932 Wabash, Illinois, Deborah and Jeremy Cole, estranged since the death of their daughter, try to work out their grief through involvement in family concerns and the labor movement
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9780345352118 | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, September 1, 1988), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: In 1932 Wabash, Illinois, Deborah and Jeremy Cole, estranged since the death of their daughter, try to work out their grief through involvement in family concerns and the labor movement
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9780671670931 | Simon & Schuster, September 1, 1989, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: NEW 1ST EDITION HARD COVER FROM 1999!
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9780805019865 | Henry Holt & Co, March 1, 1992, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A collection of stories about the residents of Saigon as they face love, loss, and despair
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9780802137982 | Reprint edition (Grove Pr, April 1, 2001), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A collection of stories about Vietnamese immigrants living in Louisiana as they face love, loss, despair, and the challenges and conflicts of a new life.
9780140176643 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, June 1, 1993), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: A collection of stories about Vietnamese immigrants living in Louisiana as they face love, loss, despair, and the challenges and conflicts of a new life
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9780805031980 | Reissue edition (Henry Holt & Co, January 1, 1994), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: In the spring of 1975, Army Intelligence captain David Fleming, about to be court-martialed for having kidnapped and released a Viet Cong prisoner, sets out to find the son he believes he has sired in Saigon
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9780805031409 | Reissue edition (Henry Holt & Co, January 1, 1994), cover price $11.00
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9780805031973 | Reissue edition (Henry Holt & Co, January 1, 1994), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Caught between the two cultures he embodies, an American teenager--the illegitimate child of an American soldier and a Vietnamese prostitute--runs away to New York where a variety of experiences enable him to come to terms with his dual heritage
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9780805031393 | Reprint edition (Owlet, January 1, 1994), cover price $11.00 | About this edition: Caught between the two cultures he embodies, an American teenager--the illegitimate child of an American soldier and a Vietnamese prostitute--runs away to New York where a variety of experiences enable him to come to terms with his dual heritage
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9780805019858 | Henry Holt & Co, January 1, 1994, cover price $22.50 | About this edition: Recalling all the women he has ever loved, public relations man Ira Holloway explores his sexuality and the profound hold it has on him
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9780140243932 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, March 1, 1995), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Recalling all the women he has ever loved, public relations man Ira Holloway explores his sexuality and the profound hold it has on him
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9780805031997 | Reissue edition (Henry Holt & Co, January 1, 1994), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Clifford Wilkes, a deserter, and Lanh, a former prostitute, are among the last to escape Saigon and attempt to start a new life together in the United States
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9780805031416 | Reissue edition (Owlet, January 1, 1994), cover price $11.00 | About this edition: Clifford Wilkes, a deserter, and Lanh, a former prostitute, are among the last to escape Saigon and attempt to start a new life together in the United States
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9780805032017 | Reissue edition (Henry Holt & Co, April 1, 1994), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Wilson Hand, haunted by memories of his ex-wife's suicide and his captivity with the Viet Cong, leaves his urban industrial investigation business to become a troubleshooter for an Alaskan oil company
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9780805032000 | Henry Holt & Co, April 1, 1994, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: In 1932 Wabash, Illinois, Deborah and Jeremy Cole, estranged since the death of their daughter, try to work out their grief through involvement in family concerns and the labor movement
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9780805031386 | Owlet, April 1, 1994, cover price $11.00 | About this edition: In 1932 Wabash, Illinois, Deborah and Jeremy Cole, estranged since the death of their daughter, try to work out their grief through involvement in family concerns and the labor movement
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9780805032024 | Reissue edition (Henry Holt & Co, April 1, 1994), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Ten miles apart in a New Mexico desert, unknown to each other, two scientists are involved in secret work.
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9780805031317 | Henry Holt & Co, October 1, 1996, cover price $22.50 | About this edition: A collection of short stories features such tales as 'Boy Born With Elvis Tattoo,' 'Titanic Victim Speaks Through Water Bed,' and 'Woman Uses Glass Eye to Spy on Cheating Husband'
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9780805055894 | Reprint edition (Henry Holt & Co, October 1, 1997), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: A collection of short stories features such tales as 'Boy Born With Elvis Tattoo,' 'Titanic Victim Speaks Through Water Bed,' and 'Woman Uses Glass Eye to Spy on Cheating Husband'
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9780783884318 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, March 1, 1998), cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Traces the romance between a Vietnamese woman whose family is killed in the war and an American veteran returning to Vietnam to make peace with the past
9780805031300 | Henry Holt & Co, January 1, 1998, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Traces the romance between a Vietnamese woman whose family is killed in the war and an American veteran returning to Vietnam to make peace with the past
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9780805060010 | Reprint edition (Henry Holt & Co, January 1, 1999), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: Traces the romance between a Vietnamese woman whose family is killed in the war and an American veteran returning to Vietnam to make peace with the past
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9780802116604 | Grove Pr, January 1, 2000, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: As an alien visitor prepares to make contact with humanity on the eve of the millennium, he beams a tour bus onto his ship and communes with the outrageous assortment of passengers
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9780802137821 | Reprint edition (Grove Pr, January 1, 2001), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: As an alien visitor prepares to make contact with humanity on the eve of the millennium, he beams a tour bus onto his ship and communes with the outrageous assortment of passengers.
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9780871138330 | Atlantic Monthly Pr, January 1, 2002, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Amy Dickerson, a star employee of a renowned auction house, falls in love with Alain Bouchard, a cultured French business mogul, but their seemingly perfect relationship slowly begins to crumble, forcing Amy to make a startling discovery.
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9780802139566 | Reprint edition (Grove Pr, November 1, 2002), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Amy Dickerson, a star employee of a renowned auction house, falls in love with Alain Bouchard, a cultured French business mogul, but their seemingly perfect relationship slowly begins to crumble, forcing Amy to make a startling discovery.
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9780802117779 | Grove Pr, July 1, 2004, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: A collection of short fiction inspired by postcards from a bygone era and their messages offers fifteen pieces, including 'Carl and I,' 'The Ironworkers' Hayride,' and 'The One in White.
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9780802142047 | Reprint edition (Grove Pr, August 9, 2005), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: A collection of short fiction inspired by postcards from a bygone era and their messages captures an America of another age in fifteen pieces that include 'Carl and I,' about a young wife responding to her husband who is dying of TB; 'The Ironworkers' Hayride,' in which a young man dates a girl with a wooden leg; and 'The One in White.
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9780802117953 | Grove Pr, April 30, 2005, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: A direct view into the mind and craft of a literary master is offered in a collection of edited transcripts of the author's thought-provoking lectures that reimagine the process of writing as emotional rather than intellectual.
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9780802142573 | Reprint edition (Grove Pr, March 20, 2006), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A direct view into the mind and craft of a literary master is offered in a collection of edited transcripts of the author's thought-provoking lectures that reimagine the process of writing as emotional rather than intellectual.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning master storyteller presents a collection of sixty-two stories, each exactly 240 words in length, that reveal the thoughts and feelings of individuals whose heads have been severed from their bodies, including such characters as Medusa, Anne Boleyn, a chicken, and a man decapitated on the job in 2008.
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9780811856140 | Chronicle Books Llc, August 10, 2006, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Presents sixty-two stories, each exactly 240 words in length, that reveal the thoughts and feelings of individuals whose heads have been severed from their bodies, including such characters as Medusa, Anne Boleyn, a chicken, and a man decapitated on the job in 2008.
Hardcover:
9780802119872 | Grove Pr, August 6, 2011, cover price $24.00
CD/Spoken Word:
9781611204674 | Unabridged edition (Ingram Pub Services, November 15, 2011), cover price $59.99 | About this edition: Set in contemporary New Orleans but working its way back in time, A Small Hotel chronicles the relationship between Michael and Kelly Hays, who have decided to separate after twenty years of marriage.
9781611204704 | Mp3 una edition (Ingram Pub Services, November 15, 2011), cover price $29.99 | About this edition: Set in contemporary New Orleans but working its way back in time, A Small Hotel chronicles the relationship between Michael and Kelly Hays, who have decided to separate after twenty years of marriage.
Hardcover:
9780802120465 | Grove Pr, October 2, 2012, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: In The Hot Country, Christopher Marlowe Cobb (ÂKitâ), the swashbuckling early 20th century American newspaper war correspondent travels to Mexico in April and May of 1914, during that countryâs civil war, the American invasion of Vera Cruz and the controversial presidency of Victoriano Huerta, El Chacal (The Jackal).
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9780802120984 | Reprint edition (Grove Pr, March 5, 2013), cover price $14.00
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