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The son of a peasant farmer, Michael Malone grows up surrounded by the poverty, hardships, and injustices of life in eighteenth-century Ireland, struggling to understand his place in society and to cope with the overwhelming effects of bitterness, anger,and despair

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9780312018054 | St Martins Pr, August 1, 1988, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: The son of a peasant farmer, Michael Malone grows up surrounded by the poverty, hardships, and injustices of life in eighteenth-century Ireland, struggling to understand his place in society and to cope with the overwhelming effects of bitterness, anger,and despair

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Three sisters and their alcoholic father find their lives changed after the unexpected death of the girls' mother.

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9780939149353 | Soho Pr Inc, April 1, 1990, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Three sisters and their alcoholic father find their lives changed after the unexpected death of the girls' mother

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9781569471166 | Soho Pr Inc, April 1, 1998, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Three sisters and their alcoholic father find their lives changed after the unexpected death of the girls' mother.
9780671728106 | Reprint edition (Washington Square Pr, July 1, 1991), cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Three sisters and their alcoholic father find their lives changed after the unexpected death of the girls' mother

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A collection of short stories by the author of Falling Angels features a tale of a blind girl who sees for the first time after a successful operation, a learning disabled child, and a man in love with a necrophiliac.

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9780060170318 | Harpercollins, August 1, 1993, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: A collection of short stories features a tale of a blind girl who sees for the first time after a successful operation, a learning disabled child, and a man in love with a necrophiliac

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9780921051701 | Somerville House Books, April 1, 2002, cover price $18.95
9781883642006 | Reprint edition (Zoland Books, April 1, 1997), cover price $22.99

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A satiric, offbeat yet moving novel by a Canadian writer centers on a family living in 1950s Toronto and composed of a couple with secret homosexual inclinations, their teenage daughter, and her baby, a brain-damaged prodigy. Reprint. 35,000 first printing. NYT. PW.

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9781883642334 | Steerforth Pr, June 1, 1997, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Presents the life of the Canary family, with Doris and Gordon, both closeted homosexuals, and Joan, their daughter's illegitimate child that they pass off as their own

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9780156005777 | Harcourt, March 1, 1998, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Presents the life of the Canary family, with Doris and Gordon, both closeted homosexuals, and Joan, their daughter's illegitimate child that they pass off as their own

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A novel told entirely from the perspective of African elephants follows young Mud and her family as they desperately struggle to survive the harsh drought and ivory hunters that threaten their lives

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9780805060362 | Metropolitan Books, April 1, 1999, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: A novel told entirely from the perspective of African elephants follows young Mud and her family as they desperately struggle to survive the harsh drought and ivory hunters that threaten their lives

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9780312264123 | Picador USA, June 1, 2000, cover price $22.00

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Lacking maternal love since the age of nine, when her mother abandoned the family, Louise Kirk develops a near-lifelong obsession with the boy from across the street--now a man who is incapable of loving her as much as she loves him.

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9780805071900 | Metropolitan Books, April 1, 2003, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Lacking maternal love since the age of nine, when her mother abandoned the family, Louise Kirk develops a near-lifelong obsession with the boy from across the street--now a man who is incapable of loving her as much as she loves him.

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The author of The White Bone offers readers a peek into the fictional life of Louise Kirk, a woman whose near lifelong obsession with the boy from across the street--now a man who is incapable of loving her as much as she loves him--is destroying her life. Reader's Guide available. Reprint.

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9780312423247 | Reprint edition (Picador USA, April 1, 2004), cover price $22.00 | About this edition: The author of The White Bone offers readers a peek into the fictional life of Louise Kirk, a woman whose near lifelong obsession with the boy from across the street--now a man who is incapable of loving her as much as she loves him--is destroying her life.

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* A suspenseful and haunting novel of abduction and obsessive love, comparable to Ian McEwan's A Child in Time and John Fowles's The Collector

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9780316027847 | Gardners Books, June 7, 2007, cover price $21.40 | About this edition: * A suspenseful and haunting novel of abduction and obsessive love, comparable to Ian McEwan's A Child in Time and John Fowles's The Collector
9780805082883 | Metropolitan Books, March 20, 2007, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: When nine-year-old Rachel Fox, the daughter of a hard-working single mother and a child whose luminous beauty has drawn both benign and sinister attention, is stolen from her home during a summer blackout, a full-scale search is launched, but Rachel's only hope lies in someone torn between loyalty to the abductor and the desire to save the child.

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9780349120300 | Gardners Books, May 29, 2008, cover price $14.40
9780312427665 | Reprint edition (Picador USA, April 1, 2008), cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Rachel is a nine-year-old girl whose luminous beauty inspires every form of admiration.
9780316027441 | Gardners Books, June 7, 2007, cover price $19.75 | About this edition: * A suspenseful and haunting novel of abduction and obsessive love, comparable to Ian McEwan's A Child in Time and John Fowles's The Collector

Miscellaneous:

9781429921572 | 1 edition (Metropolitan Books, April 1, 2007), cover price $9.99

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