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Hardcover:
9780151010967 | Houghton Mifflin, November 1, 2004, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: The author fictionalizes her family's years as Jewish slave owners in the American South, describing the conflict between her parents, who came from vastly different backgrounds, and their eventual migration north to New York City.
Paperback:
9780156032032 | Reprint edition (Mariner Books, October 4, 2005), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: A three-time finalist for the National Book Award traces her family's years as Jewish slave owners in the American South, describing her perfume manufacturer father, her much-younger German mother, the conflicts between their mercantile and scholarly belief systems, and their eventual migration north to New York City.
Hardcover:
9780151009305 | 1 edition (Houghton Mifflin, May 1, 2002), cover price $38.00 | About this edition: A family saga considers issues of national and religious identity and how they impact one Jewish American family, including Charles, who aspires to be a Supreme Court Justice, and Bert, who becomes a rabbi despite his ambivalence toward Jewish institutions.
Paperback:
9780156027458 | Reprint edition (Mariner Books, April 1, 2003), cover price $30.95 | About this edition: A family saga considers issues of national and religious identity and how they impact one Jewish American family, including Charles, who aspires to be a Supreme Court Justice, and Bert, who becomes a rabbi despite his ambivalence toward Jewish institutions.
Product Description: Carol Smith is incarcerated when the bomb her friends are constructing accidently goes off; twenty years later, finding herself addicted to drugs, she sets off to regain her memories, histories, and responsibilities and turn from her dependence on drugs.
Paperback:
9780714530451 | Marion Boyars, January 1, 1999, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Carol Smith is incarcerated when the bomb her friends are constructing accidently goes off; twenty years later, finding herself addicted to drugs, she sets off to regain her memories, histories, and responsibilities and turn from her dependence on drugs.
Hardcover:
9780679602491 | Modern Library, November 1, 1997, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Eclectic characters reveal their dreams and fears as they search for identity, question the boundaries of social classes, and struggle to maintain love amid tragedy.
Hardcover:
9780714530208 | Marion Boyars, May 1, 1997, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Carol Smith is incarcerated when the bomb her friends are constructing accidently goes off; twenty years later, finding herself addicted to drugs, she sets off to regain her memories, histories, and responsibilities and turn from her dependence on drugs
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9780714530123 | Marion Boyars, March 1, 1996, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: With rare verve and panache, Calisher has confronted a difficult and ofter neglected subject, and has triumphed magnificently.
Hardcover:
9780679415749 | Random House Inc, January 1, 1994, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Gonchev, a giant of international cinema, escapes his homeland in the Balkans and begins life anew, along with his adulterous actress wife Vuksica, in the United States
Hardcover:
9780896211278 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, February 1, 1988), cover price $7.95
9781555841324 | Grove Pr, September 1, 1987, cover price $3.98 | About this edition: An older married couple make an agreement to keep separate diaries for the other to read after the first has died
Paperback:
9781555843717 | Reprint edition (Grove Pr, September 1, 1989), cover price $8.95 | About this edition: An older married couple make an agreement to keep separate diaries for the other to read after the first has died
Hardcover:
9781555841942 | Grove Pr, October 1, 1988, cover price $3.98
In 1940s New York a secret from the past comes back to influence the Mannixes, a Jewish family living on the Upper East Side
Paperback:
9781555841959 | Grove Pr, April 1, 1988, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: In 1940s New York a secret from the past comes back to influence the Mannixes, a Jewish family living on the Upper East Side
Paperback:
9781555841966 | Grove Pr, April 1, 1988, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Pierre Goodman, who grew up in a wealthy Jewish family in London, offers courtroom testimony in the American South about a Ku Klux Klan murder he didn't witness
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9781556440953 | Amer Audio Prose Library Inc, June 1, 1987, cover price $13.95
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9781556440960 | Amer Audio Prose Library Inc, June 1, 1987, cover price $13.95
Hardcover:
9780385184267 | Doubleday, February 1, 1986, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Re-creates the time when a girl could wear bobby sox on her feet, her love for an older man on her sleeve, and dream of a future as an actress
Paperback:
9780877956020 | Reissue edition (Arbor House Pub Co, April 1, 1984), cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Book by Calisher, Hortense
Seven people--part of a group of civilians representing a broad spectrum of society--embark on a journey aboard the NASA space shuttle as they seek a new future and an escape from the past
Hardcover:
9780385184069 | Doubleday, October 1, 1983, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Seven people--part of a group of civilians representing a broad spectrum of society--embark on a journey aboard the NASA space shuttle as they seek a new future and an escape from the past
Paperback:
9780425039366 | Berkley Pub Group, October 1, 1979, cover price $2.75
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