search for books and compare prices
Peter De Vries has written 20 work(s)
Search for other authors with the same name
displaying 1 to 20 | at end
show results in order: alphabetically | oldest to newest | newest to oldest
Cover for 9780316181778 Cover for 9780226170565 Cover for 9780226171067 Cover for 9781423358442 Cover for 9780316181730 Cover for 9780140062977 Cover for 9780226143880 Cover for 9780786119486 Cover for 9780316181723 Cover for 9780140070705 Cover for 9780226143897 Cover for 9780972605137 Cover for 9789070280666 Cover for 9780140019360 Cover for 9780786118540 Cover for 9780399131882 Cover for 9780896217799 Cover for 9780070166509 Cover for 9781423358435 Cover for 9780930435318 Cover for 9780140086850 Cover for 9780316182027 Cover for 9780140062816 Cover for 9780316181907 Cover for 9780316181877 Cover for 9780140061888 Cover for 9780316181815 Cover for 9780445042339 Cover for 9780140058338 Cover for 9780316181846 Cover for 9780316182003 Cover for 9780316181990 Cover for 9780316181983
cover image for 9780226170565

Hardcover:

9780316181778 | Little Brown & Co, June 1, 1964, cover price $6.95

Paperback:

9780226170565 | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, November 19, 2014), cover price $20.00

cover image for 9781423358442
Product Description: If you've never experienced the delightful contemporary humor of Peter DeVries, here's your chance. If you are a fan, then you know just to relax and listen to another of his stories of laughter and human vulnerability.

CD/Spoken Word:

9781423358442 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, February 29, 2008), cover price $39.25 | About this edition: If you've never experienced the delightful contemporary humor of Peter DeVries, here's your chance.

cover image for 9780226143880
Product Description: The most poignant of all De Vries's novels, The Blood of the Lamb is also the most autobiographical. It follows the life of Don Wanderhop from his childhood in an immigrant Calvinist family living in Chicago in the 1950s through the loss of a brother, his faith, his wife, and finally his daughter-a tragedy drawn directly from De Vries's own life...read more

Hardcover:

9780316181730, titled "Blood of the Lamb" | Little Brown & Co, June 1, 1962, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The impending death of his young daughter forces a man to confront the God he has rejected since youth

Paperback:

9780226143880 | Univ of Chicago Pr, June 1, 2005, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: The most poignant of all De Vries's novels, The Blood of the Lamb is also the most autobiographical.
9780140062977 | Reissue edition (Viking Pr, October 1, 1982), cover price $7.95 | About this edition: The impending death of his young daughter forces a man to confront the God he has rejected since youth

CD/Spoken Word:

9780786197712 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, February 1, 2001), cover price $48.00 | About this edition: The most poignant of all De Vries's novels, The Blood of the Lamb is also the most autobiographical.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780786119486 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, February 1, 2001), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: The most poignant of all De Vries's novels, The Blood of the Lamb is also the most autobiographical.

cover image for 9780226143897
Underachiever Anthony Thrasher gets his eighth-grade teacher, Miss Doubloon, pregnant only to fall for luscious nursemaid Bubbles Breedlove, in a ribald tale of the sexual revolution

Hardcover:

9780316181723 | Little Brown & Co, July 1, 1983, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Underachiever Anthony Thrasher gets his eighth-grade teacher, Miss Doubloon, pregnant only to fall for luscious nursemaid Bubbles Breedlove, in a ribald tale of the sexual revolution

Paperback:

9780226143897 | Univ of Chicago Pr, June 1, 2005, cover price $14.00
9780140070705 | Reprint edition (Viking Pr, July 1, 1984), cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Fifteen-year-old Anthony Thrasher follows his free-spirited tutor, Miss Maggie Doubloon, and their illegitimate son, Ahab, to Kalamazoo where he meets Bubbles Breedlove, Ahab's virginal nursemaid, and falls in love with her

cover image for 9780972605137
Product Description: An action-filled epic of idealism and devotion, "Wistrix Donn" weaves philosophy, mythology, and mystery into a world of medieval fantasy. War consumes the lands of the east as rulers strive for power. Blood betrays blood. In the epicenter of the turmoil, a tower of amethyst appears—the Wistrix Donn...read more

Hardcover:

9780972605137 | Bohemian Ink Pub, September 30, 2004, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: An action-filled epic of idealism and devotion, "Wistrix Donn" weaves philosophy, mythology, and mystery into a world of medieval fantasy.

cover image for 9789070280666
Product Description: This book attempts to show how development discourse -- while extremely powerful in legitimizing the actions of experts -- is appropriated, transmuted and (re)deployed by different groups of actors including administrators, farmers and field-level workers...read more

Paperback:

9789070280666 | Purdue Univ Pr, August 20, 2003, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: This book attempts to show how development discourse -- while extremely powerful in legitimizing the actions of experts -- is appropriated, transmuted and (re)deployed by different groups of actors including administrators, farmers and field-level workers.

By Peter De Vries and Raymond Todd (narrator)

CD/Spoken Word:

9780786194575 | Mp3 edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, December 1, 2001), cover price $24.95

cover image for 9780786118540
Product Description: Book by de Vries, Peter

Paperback:

9780140019360 | Viking Pr, April 1, 1986, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Reverend Andrew Mackerel, a recent widower falls in love with Molly Calico, a clerk at City Hall, but must keep it a secret because of the plaza and shopping mall being planned to honor the late Mrs.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780786118540 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, October 1, 2000), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Book by de Vries, Peter

cover image for 9781423358435
Product Description: If you've never experienced the delightful contemporary humor of Peter DeVries, here's your chance. If you are a fan, then you know just to relax and listen to another of his stories of laughter and human vulnerability.

Hardcover:

9780896217799, titled "Peckham's Marbles" | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, February 1, 1987), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Earl Peckham, frustrated because his novel has sold only three copies, sets out for America's heartland to find the three readers who bought his book
9780399131882, titled "Peckham's Marbles" | Putnam Pub Group, October 1, 1986, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Earl Peckham, frustrated because his novel has sold only three copies, sets out for America's heartland to find the three readers who bought his book

Paperback:

9780070166509, titled "Peckham's Marbles" | Reprint edition (McGraw-Hill Book Co, July 1, 1987), cover price $4.95 | About this edition: A masterpiece of literate lunacy, lascivousness, and love.

CD/Spoken Word:

9781423358435, titled "Peckham's Marbles" | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio, February 29, 2008), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: If you've never experienced the delightful contemporary humor of Peter DeVries, here's your chance.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780930435318, titled "Peckham's Marbles" | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio, May 1, 1987), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: If you've never experienced the delightful contemporary humor of Peter DeVries, here's your chance.
9781561000265, titled "Peckham's Marbles" | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, May 1, 1987), cover price $57.25 | About this edition: If you've never experienced the delightful contemporary humor of Peter DeVries, here's your chance.

cover image for 9780140086850
Eddie Teeters is simultaneously pursued by three would-be wives and a federal agent who wants Eddie convicted on obscenity charges for his part in a series of explicit sex-counseling videotapes

Hardcover:

9780316182058 | Little Brown & Co, April 1, 1985, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Eddie Teeters is simultaneously pursued by three would-be wives and a federal agent who wants Eddie convicted on obscenity charges for his part in a series of explicit sex-counseling videotapes

Paperback:

9780140086850 | Viking Pr, April 1, 1986, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: Eddie Teeters is simultaneously pursued by three would-be wives and a federal agent who wants Eddie convicted on obscenity charges for his part in a series of explicit sex-counseling videotapes

cover image for 9780140062816
While studying sexual harassment in business offices, undercover feminist Daisy Dobbin ironically falls in love with the boss of 'Metropole' magazine, one of the companies she is researching

Hardcover:

9780316182027 | 1 edition (Little Brown & Co, September 1, 1981), cover price $11.95 | About this edition: While studying sexual harassment in business offices, undercover feminist Daisy Dobbin ironically falls in love with the boss of 'Metropole' magazine, one of the companies she is researching

Paperback:

9780140062816 | Reprint edition (Viking Pr, October 1, 1982), cover price $4.95 | About this edition: While studying sexual harassment in business offices, undercover feminist Daisy Dobbin ironically falls in love with the boss of 'Metropole' magazine, one of the companies she is researching

Middle-aged, middle-class writer Bob Swirling copes with his puritanical upbringing, his repressed emotions and hostilities, his lack of self-confidence, and his imagined terminal illness by retreating into the identity of Groucho Marx

Hardcover:

9780316181907 | Little Brown & Co, September 1, 1977, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Middle-aged, middle-class writer Bob Swirling copes with his puritanical upbringing, his repressed emotions and hostilities, his lack of self-confidence, and his imagined terminal illness by retreating into the identity of Groucho Marx

Paperback:

9780140061338 | Reprint edition (Viking Pr, May 1, 1982), cover price $5.95 | About this edition: Middle-aged, middle-class writer Bob Swirling copes with his puritanical upbringing, his repressed emotions and hostilities, his lack of self-confidence, and his imagined terminal illness by retreating into the identity of Groucho Marx

cover image for 9780140061888
While struggling to hold on to his sanity, Stew Smackenfelt, a former Dutch Reformed Calvinist, becomes infatuated with his mother-in-law

Hardcover:

9780316181877 | Little Brown & Co, June 1, 1973, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Bound in the publisher's original quarter red cloth and black boards with the spine stamped in gilt, silver, and black.
9780316181877 | Little Brown & Co, June 1, 1973, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Bound in the publisher's original quarter red cloth and black boards with the spine stamped in gilt, silver, and black.

Paperback:

9780140061888 | Reissue edition (Viking Pr, May 1, 1982), cover price $5.95 | About this edition: While struggling to hold on to his sanity, Stew Smackenfelt, a former Dutch Reformed Calvinist, becomes infatuated with his mother-in-law

A magazine art editor becomes involved in the personal life of one of his cartoonists, Augie Poole, when an adoption agency requests a character reference

Hardcover:

9780316181815, titled "Tunnel of Love" | Little Brown & Co, June 1, 1954, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Comedy Joseph Fields and Peter de Vries, adapted from the novel by Mr.

Paperback:

9780140022001 | Reissue edition (Viking Pr, February 1, 1982), cover price $6.95 | About this edition: A magazine art editor becomes involved in the personal life of one of his cartoonists, Augie Poole, when an adoption agency requests a character reference
9780445042339, titled "Tunnel of Love" | Popular Library, May 1, 1978, cover price $1.95 | About this edition: Harking from the golden age of fiction set in American suburbia—the school of John Updike and Cheever—this work from the great American humorist Peter De Vries looks with laughter upon its lawns, its cocktails, and its slightly unreal feeling of comfort.

cover image for 9780140058338
Ted Peachum's increasingly erotic involvement with police woman Kathy Arpeggio, sumptuous brewery heiress Snooky von Sickle, and his best friend's virginal younger sister climaxes in a riotous hotel affair with the Peppermint Sisters--triplets

Paperback:

9780140058338 | Viking Pr, August 1, 1981, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: Ted Peachum's increasingly erotic involvement with police woman Kathy Arpeggio, sumptuous brewery heiress Snooky von Sickle, and his best friend's virginal younger sister climaxes in a riotous hotel affair with the Peppermint Sisters--triplets

cover image for 9780316181846
Ted Peachum's increasingly erotic involvement with police woman Kathy Arpeggio, sumptuous brewery heiress Snooky von Sickle, and his best friend's virginal younger sister climaxes in a riotous hotel affair with the Peppermint Sisters--triplets

Hardcover:

9780316181846 | Little Brown & Co, August 1, 1980, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Ted Peachum's increasingly erotic involvement with police woman Kathy Arpeggio, sumptuous brewery heiress Snooky von Sickle, and his best friend's virginal younger sister climaxes in a riotous hotel affair with the Peppermint Sisters--triplets

cover image for 9780316182003
Fledgling marriage counselor Bill Bumpers enjoys more than professional involvement in the affairs of Mr. and Mrs. Heck Brown, their hired hand, an arc-welding sculptress, and a lady wrestler, transforming a fallow Iowa farm into an American idyll

Hardcover:

9780316182003 | 1 edition (Little Brown & Co, May 1, 1976), cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Fledgling marriage counselor Bill Bumpers enjoys more than professional involvement in the affairs of Mr.

cover image for 9780316181990
Product Description: Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 276 pages; Description: 276 p...read more

Hardcover:

9780316181990 | 1 edition (Little Brown & Co, June 1, 1974), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved.

cover image for 9780316181983
Product Description: "Fiction by satirical American novelist Peter De Vries "

Hardcover:

9780316181983 | Little Brown & Co, June 1, 1971, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: "Fiction by satirical American novelist Peter De Vries "

displaying 1 to 20 | at end