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Betrayed by Rita Hayworth

By Alan Cheuse (introduced by)

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9781564785305 | Dalkey Archive Pr, March 5, 2009, cover price $13.95

Prayers for the Living

By Alan Cheuse

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9781941493007 | Reissue edition (Fig Tree Books Llc, March 17, 2015), cover price $15.95

An Authentic Captain Marvel Ring and Other Stories

Product Description: The very best short stories and novellas from National Public Radio's Alan Cheuse are brought together in a quintessential collection. Countless listeners depend on the book reviews from Cheuse, America's "voice of books" and many of those listeners also follow his own critically acclaimed fiction and nonfiction...read more

By Alan Cheuse

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9781939650092 | Santa Fe Writers Project, April 1, 2014, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: The very best short stories and novellas from National Public Radio's Alan Cheuse are brought together in a quintessential collection.

Literature: Craft and Voice

By Alan Cheuse

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9780077647858, titled "Literature: Craft & Voice" | 2 pap/psc edition (McGraw-Hill Humanities Social, April 2, 2012), cover price $156.60

9780073384924, titled "Literature: Craft & Voice" | 2 edition (McGraw-Hill Humanities Social, January 21, 2012), cover price $134.90

9780077369446, titled "Literature: Craft & Voice" | 1 pck pap/ edition (McGraw-Hill Humanities Social, July 1, 2009), cover price $113.60

A Queen's Journey: An Unfinished Novel About Hawaii's Last Monarch

By Alan Cheuse (foreword by), James D. Houston and Maxine Hong Kingston (other contributor)

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9781597141635 | Heyday Books, November 1, 2011, cover price $14.95

Literary Washington, D.c.

Product Description: The public face of Washington-the gridiron of L'Enfant's avenues, the buttoned-down demeanor Sloan Wilson's archetypal "Man in the Grey Flannel Suit," the monumental buildings of the Triangle-rarely gives up the secrets of this city's rich life...read more

By Alan Cheuse (foreword by)

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9781595340788 | Trinity Univ Pr, September 11, 2012, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: The public face of Washington-the gridiron of L'Enfant's avenues, the buttoned-down demeanor Sloan Wilson's archetypal "Man in the Grey Flannel Suit," the monumental buildings of the Triangle-rarely gives up the secrets of this city's rich life.

Song of Slaves in the Desert: A Novel of Slavery and the Southern Wild

Product Description: Lyrically told and impeccably researched, Song of Slaves in the Desert traces the story of Nathaniel Pereira, a young New Yorker who's called to revive his uncle's South Carolina plantation. Nathaniel is struck by the sobering reality of slavery as he becomes captivated by the young slave Liza...read more

By Alan Cheuse

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9781402267031 | Sourcebooks Landmark, June 1, 2011, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Lyrically told and impeccably researched, Song of Slaves in the Desert traces the story of Nathaniel Pereira, a young New Yorker who's called to revive his uncle's South Carolina plantation.

Song of Slaves in the Desert

Product Description: The Legacy of Slavery The Loyalty of Family The Lure of Love He has no history in the rice fields, no background in being a master. Plantations are as foreign to him as the African plain that birthed the slaves his uncle owns. Surely, though, he knows his own heart...read more

By Alan Cheuse

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9781402242991 | Sourcebooks Landmark, March 1, 2011, cover price $25.99 | About this edition: The Legacy of Slavery The Loyalty of Family The Lure of Love He has no history in the rice fields, no background in being a master.

To Catch the Lightning: A Novel of American Dreaming

By Alan Cheuse

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9781402271953 | Sourcebooks Landmark, October 1, 2009, cover price $16.99

9781402235092 | Sourcebooks Landmark, October 1, 2009, cover price $16.99

Literature: Craft and Voice: Fiction

Product Description: Better readers make better writers. Todayâs students do readâwe know that they read a significant amount of email, text messages, web pages, and even magazines. What many do not do is read in a sustained way. Many do not come to college prepared to read long texts, nor do they come with the tools necessary to analyze and synthesize what they read...read more

By Alan Cheuse and Nicholas Delbanco

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9780077376154 | Pck pap/ps edition (McGraw-Hill Humanities Social, September 11, 2009), cover price $99.40 | About this edition: Better readers make better writers.

Literature: Craft & Voice / Connect Literature Online Access Code: Poetry

By Alan Cheuse and Nicholas Delbanco

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9780077392468 | Pck pap/ps edition (McGraw-Hill Humanities Social, August 17, 2009), cover price $96.60 | About this edition: Better readers make better writers.

Literature Craft & Voice: Fiction / Poetry / Drama

By Alan Cheuse and Nicholas Delbanco

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9780077326333 | Pck edition (McGraw-Hill Humanities Social, July 30, 2009), cover price $127.80

Literature: Drama: Craft and Voice

By Alan Cheuse and Nicholas Delbanco

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9780077214227 | 1 edition (McGraw-Hill College, June 25, 2009), cover price $106.50

A Trance After Breakfast: And Other Passages

Product Description: A collection of lyrical travel writings from celebrated writer and NPR commentator Alan Cheuse. Along with luggage and tickets, we always travel with that which it is impossible to leave behind: ourselves, our spirits, our souls. By definition the best travel writing carries us on a soul-journey, the sort of trip that dramatizes how the heart learns about its place in the world...read more

By Alan Cheuse

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9781402215162 | Sourcebooks Inc, June 1, 2009, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: A collection of lyrical travel writings from celebrated writer and NPR commentator Alan Cheuse.

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9781402223297, titled "Trance After Breakfast: And Other Passages" | Sourcebooks Inc, June 1, 2009, cover price $9.99

Literature: Poetry: Craft and Voice

By Alan Cheuse and Nicholas Delbanco

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9780077214241 | 1 edition (McGraw-Hill College, May 8, 2009), cover price $115.75

Literature Fiction: Craft & Voice

By Alan Cheuse and Nicholas Delbanco

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9780073104447 | 1 edition (McGraw-Hill Humanities Social, March 1, 2009), cover price $115.75

To Catch the Lightning: A Novel About American Dreaming

Product Description: "Until someone tells you, you never know in whose dreams you appear..." - From the prologue of To Catch the Lightning What is the price of our dreams? Beginning in the late 1890s, Edward Sheriff Curtis undertook the seemingly overwhelming odyssey of capturing the past, of documenting and photographing the fading way of life of the American Indian...read more

By Alan Cheuse

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9781402214042, titled "To Catch the Lightning: A Novel of American Dreaming" | 1 edition (Sourcebooks Landmark, October 1, 2008), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: "Until someone tells you, you never know in whose dreams you appear.

The Fires

Product Description: Finely-honed portraits of hope and change, these twoÂ novellas are linked so skillfullyÂ thatÂ theyÂ achieve the intensity ofÂ a single novel in which some characters succeed and others failÂ onÂ separate but equally compelling quests...read more

By Alan Cheuse

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9780977679911 | Santa Fe Writers Project, September 1, 2007, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: Finely-honed portraits of hope and change, these twoÂ novellas are linked so skillfullyÂ thatÂ theyÂ achieve the intensity ofÂ a single novel in which some characters succeed and others failÂ onÂ separate but equally compelling quests.

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9780977679959 | Santa Fe Writers Project, September 1, 2007, cover price $5.00

Writer's Workshop In a Book: The Squaw Valley Community of Writers on the Art of Ficton

An anthology of essays and tutorials brings together the wisdom, insights, advice, and inspiration from the Squaw Valley Community of Writers workshops, seminars, and lectures, featuring contributions by Mark Childress, Diane Johnson, Anne Lamott, Michael Chabon, Robert Stone, Amy Tan, and other notable authors. Original.

By Lisa Alvarez (editor) and Alan Cheuse (editor)

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9780811858212 | Chronicle Books Llc, May 24, 2007, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: An anthology of essays and tutorials brings together the wisdom, insights, advice, and inspiration from the Squaw Valley Community of Writers workshops, seminars, and lectures, featuring contributions by Mark Childress, Diane Johnson, Anne Lamott, Michael Chabon, Robert Stone, Amy Tan, and other notable authors.

Seeing Ourselves: Great Stories of America's Past

Product Description: This collection of twenty American short stories, organized chronologically from the 19th century through World War I, helps tell the story of how we came to be who and what we are. Selected by NPR writer and reviewer Alan Cheuse, this is a new variety of anthology, one that starts as a compilation of wonderful literature but, by means of Cheuse's selection and commentary, becomes a social history of our nation...read more

By Alan Cheuse (introduced by)

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9781557090904 | Applewood Books, July 4, 2007, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: This collection of twenty American short stories, organized chronologically from the 19th century through World War I, helps tell the story of how we came to be who and what we are.

Listening to the Page: Adventures in Reading and Writing

Product Description: When he sold his first short story to The New Yorker in 1979, Alan Cheuse was hardly new to the literary world. He had studied at Rutgers under John Ciardi, worked at the Breadloaf Writing Workshops with Robert Frost and Ralph Ellison, written hundreds of reviews for Kirkus Reviews, and taught alongside John Gardner and Bernard Malamud at Bennington College for nearly a decade...read more

By Alan Cheuse

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9780231122702 | Columbia Univ Pr, May 1, 2001, cover price $75.50 | About this edition: The National Public Radio commentator shares the story of his evolution from a reader into a writer in a series of essays on his greatest literary influences, from Hemingway to Elizabeth Tallent.

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9780231122719 | Columbia Univ Pr, November 1, 2002, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: When he sold his first short story to The New Yorker in 1979, Alan Cheuse was hardly new to the literary world.

Lost and Old Rivers

A collection of stories on various subjects. The story, Hernando Alonso, is on a Jew who falls foul of the Spanish Inquisition in Mexico, while in The Tunnel a young woman hired by a Washington senator learns everything comes with strings attached and she is expected to engage in sex. (view table of contents)

By Alan Cheuse

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9780870744327 | Southern Methodist Univ Pr, October 1, 1998, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A collection of stories on various subjects.

The Light Possessed

Educated at the Art Institute of Chicago, Ava Boldin marries a successful, older New York photographer who introduces her to the international art world, and leaves her husband and New York for the harsh landscapes of the New Mexico desert

By Alan Cheuse

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9780879053635 | 1 edition (Gibbs Smith, September 1, 1990), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Educated at the Art Institute of Chicago, Ava Boldin marries a successful, older New York photographer who introduces her to the international art world, and leaves her husband and New York for the harsh landscapes of the New Mexico desert

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9780870744303 | Southern Methodist Univ Pr, May 1, 1998, cover price $12.95

9780060974114 | Reprint edition (Perennial, October 1, 1991), cover price $10.00 | About this edition: The Light Possessed focuses on Ava Boldin, who begins her solitary and single-minded journey to become a great artist as a student at the Art Institute of Chicago in the years before World War I.

Talking Horse: Bernard Malamud on Life and Work

By Alan Cheuse (editor), Nicholas Delbanco (editor) and Bernard Malamud

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9780231101844 | Columbia Univ Pr, May 1, 1996, cover price $85.00

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9780231101851 | Columbia Univ Pr, October 1, 1997, cover price $28.00

The Grandmothers' Club: A Novel

Product Description: Dallas, SMU (1994) 2nd printing thus. Slight shelfwear, else fine, unread trade paperback. Clean, tight and straight. No remainder marks. B321

By Alan Cheuse

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9780870743740 | 1 edition (Southern Methodist Univ Pr, October 1, 1994), cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Dallas, SMU (1994) 2nd printing thus.

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