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9780930794453 | Barrytown/ Station Hill Pr, December 1, 1981, cover price $6.50

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Product Description: At forty, Adam, an intellectual and writer "who comes from the other side of the ocean," and who is steeped in the belief that he is the last of his line, finds himself--dreams himself--in America. The promised land's gift to him is Aerea, youthful, radiant, an enchantress, essentially unattainable: their adventure is short-lived...read more

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9780910395892 | Marlboro Pr, January 1, 1992, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: At forty, Adam, an intellectual and writer "who comes from the other side of the ocean," and who is steeped in the belief that he is the last of his line, finds himself--dreams himself--in America.

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Product Description: At forty, Adam, an intellectual and writer "who comes from the other side of the ocean," and who is steeped in the belief that he is the last of his line, finds himself--dreams himself--in America. The promised land's gift to him is Aerea, youthful, radiant, an enchantress, essentially unattainable: their adventure is short-lived...read more

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9780910395885 | Marlboro Pr, September 1, 1992, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: At forty, Adam, an intellectual and writer "who comes from the other side of the ocean," and who is steeped in the belief that he is the last of his line, finds himself--dreams himself--in America.

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Moving across the country to take a job, a writer in her thirties finds herself absorbed in a complex relationship with a much younger man and struggles with its eventual breakdown and a long subsequent period of recovery. Reprint.

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9780374148317 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, December 1, 1994, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Moving across the country to take a job, a writer in her thirties finds herself absorbed in a complex relationship with a much younger man and struggles with its eventual breakdown and a long subsequent period of recovery

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9780312423711 | Reprint edition (Picador USA, June 15, 2004), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Moving across the country to take a job, a writer in her thirties finds herself absorbed in a complex relationship with a much younger man and struggles with its eventual breakdown and a long subsequent period of recovery.
9781852424206 | Serpents Tail, April 1, 1996, cover price $12.99 | About this edition: This engagingly human and candid novel takes us deep into a world of obsession in which a happily settled woman attempts to piece together the fragments of an unresolved episode from her past.

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Product Description: Examining changing role models for masculine identity--from cowboy in the 1950s to Terminator in the 1990s, from flesh-and-blood man to machine--this book suggests that men need new role models and that sufficient room needs to be left for the expression of male vulnerability.

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9780231084345 | Columbia Univ Pr, April 1, 1995, cover price $83.50 | About this edition: An internationally acclaimed philosopher and historian draws on biological examples, historical and sociological analyses, fiction, and biography to delineate the new man, suggesting that men need new role models and space for expression of male vulnerability.

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9780231084352 | Columbia Univ Pr, April 1, 1997, cover price $34.00 | About this edition: Examining changing role models for masculine identity--from cowboy in the 1950s to Terminator in the 1990s, from flesh-and-blood man to machine--this book suggests that men need new role models and that sufficient room needs to be left for the expression of male vulnerability.

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Product Description: After his marriage to a psychiatrist nine years his senior, Jouve's work, once marked by the great Christian mystics, became grounded in the Freudian unconscious, site of the conflict between Eros and Thanatos. Hélène is the story of a sixteen-year-old boy's passion for an older woman...read more

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9780910395922 | Marlboro Pr, March 1, 1993, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: After his marriage to a psychiatrist nine years his senior, Jouve's work, once marked by the great Christian mystics, became grounded in the Freudian unconscious, site of the conflict between Eros and Thanatos.

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9780810160033 | Reprint edition (Marlboro Pr, October 1, 1995), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: After his marriage to a psychiatrist nine years his senior, Jouve's work, once marked by the great Christian mystics, became grounded in the Freudian unconscious, site of the conflict between Eros and Thanatos.

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Set in Switzerland during the early twentieth century, a novel traces the troubled relationship among three characters--the homosexual son of a pastor, a French poet, and a mysterious Russian woman--a relationship imbued with sex, love and death. UP.

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9780810160187 | Marlboro Pr, October 1, 1996, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Set in Switzerland during the early twentieth century, a novel traces the troubled relationship among three characters--the homosexual son of a pastor, a French poet, and a mysterious Russian woman--a relationship imbued with sex, love and death.

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By Lydia Davis (trans) and Michel Leiris

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9780801854880 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, April 1, 1997, cover price $35.00

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9780801854897 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, April 1, 1997, cover price $19.95

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Product Description: "For me his work is not only a document that enriches our knowledge of man, but also a personal testament that touches me deeply."--Francis BaconScratches is the first volume in Michel Leiris's monumental four-volume autobiography, Rules of the Game...read more
By Lydia Davis (trans) and Michel Leiris

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9780801854866 | Reprint edition (Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, April 1, 1997), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: "For me his work is not only a document that enriches our knowledge of man, but also a personal testament that touches me deeply.

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Presents a collection of short stories that captures the convolutions of human relationships and the boundaries of the self. Reprint. 10,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

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9780374102814 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, June 1, 1997, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: Presents a collection of short stories that captures the convolutions of human relationships and the boundaries of the self

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9780312420550 | Reprint edition (Picador USA, September 1, 2001), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Presents a collection of short stories that captures the convolutions of human relationships and the boundaries of the self.

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A best-seller in France, the story of a young Parisian woman, the daughter of a famous conductor and a high-fashion model, follows her struggle to survive the aftermath of her parents' turbulent divorce. 15,000 first printing.
By Lydia Davis (trans) and Justine Levy

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9780684825793 | Scribner, August 1, 1997, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: The story of a young Parisian woman, the daughter of a famous conductor and a high-fashion model, follows her struggle to survive the aftermath of her parents' turbulent divorce

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9780810160385 | Marlboro Pr, October 1, 1997, cover price $32.95

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Product Description: Vagadu continues the saga of Catherine Crachat. Having returned to Paris, Catherine seeks new relationships that will give her life meaning, but she finds that no one is who he or she appears to be. In an emotional tumult, events -- both real and imagined -- spiral out of her control, and Catherine must reconcile herself to a past in which love and death, debasement and the search for divinity, merge and divide in haunting, kaleidoscopic ways...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780810160408 | Marlboro Pr, October 1, 1997, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Vagadu continues the saga of Catherine Crachat.

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Presents a collection of short stories that captures the convolutions of human relationships and the boundaries of the self

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9780880016063 | Ecco Pr, October 1, 1998, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Presents a collection of short stories that captures the convolutions of human relationships and the boundaries of the self

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By Paul Auster (trans), Maurice Blanchot, Lydia Davis (trans), Robert Lamberton (trans) and George Quasha (editor)

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9781886449176 | Barrytown/ Station Hill Pr, December 1, 1998, cover price $34.95

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By Lydia Davis (foreword by), Stendhal (corporate author) and John Sturrock (introduced by)

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9780940322899 | New York Review of Books, December 1, 2001, cover price $19.95

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The author of Almost No Memory presents an inventive collection of short fiction that explores the various ways in which human beings perceive each other and themselves, from a couple that suspects their friends think them boring to a funeral home that receives a letter rebuking it for linguistic errors. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

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9780312420567 | Reprint edition (Picador USA, September 1, 2002), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: The author of Almost No Memory presents an inventive collection of short fiction that explores the various ways in which human beings perceive each other and themselves, from a couple that suspects their friends think them boring to a funeral home that receives a letter rebuking it for linguistic errors.

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By Norma Cole (trans), Lydia Davis (trans), Jean Fremon, Serge Gavronsky (trans) and Cole Swensen (trans)

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9781880713310 | Avec Books, December 1, 2003, cover price $14.00

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Presents a collection of short fiction, including 'What you Learn about the Baby' in which a mother describes how an infant disrupts her life and 'Jane and Cane' details an elderly woman's search for her missing cane.

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9780124992504, titled "Theory of Categories" | Academic Pr, August 1, 1965, cover price $77.00 | also contains Theory of Categories | About this edition: Theory of Categories.

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9780374281731 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, May 15, 2007, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Presents a collection of short fiction, including 'What you Learn about the Baby' in which a mother describes how an infant disrupts her life and 'Jane and Cane' details an elderly woman's search for her missing cane.

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9780374531447 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, September 16, 2008, cover price $14.00

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Product Description: This work is a collection of 34 stories which reassure the reader that reality is orderly and reasonable. However, as the characters in the stories prove by their fallibility, misunderstanding and confusion are inherent in everyday life.

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9780374116538 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, July 1, 1986, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A man tries to work out whether a love affair was worth the money he spent on it in the title story of this collection which explores the lives of women at odds with themselves and the world

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9781852424213 | Reprint edition (Serpents Tail, April 1, 1996), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: This work is a collection of 34 stories which reassure the reader that reality is orderly and reasonable.
9780374520984 | Reissue edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 1, 1988), cover price $6.95 | About this edition: A man tries to work out whether a love affair was worth the money he spent on it in the title story of this collection which explores the lives of women at odds with themselves and the world

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By Peter Brooks (introduced by), Lydia Davis (trans) and Vivant Denon

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9781590173268 | New York Review of Books, October 13, 2009, cover price $12.95

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Paperback:

9781932511932 | Sarabande Books, March 29, 2011, cover price $9.95

More Little Visits With Jesus: Devotions for Families With Young Children

Hardcover:

9780374270605 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, September 29, 2009, cover price $30.00
9780570030805, titled "More Little Visits With Jesus: Devotions for Families With Young Children" | Concordia Pub House, June 1, 1989, cover price $12.99 | also contains More Little Visits With Jesus: Devotions for Families With Young Children | About this edition: More Little Visits With Jesus: Devotions for Families With Young Children

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