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By A. M. Homes and Jaime Zulaika (trans)

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9788433978998, titled "Ojalá nos perdonen / May We Be Forgiven" | Italian edition edition (Editorial Anagrama, January 31, 2015), cover price $36.95

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Product Description: Richard Novak es un hombre afortunado que ha ganado mucho dinero y vive en el comodo retiro de una mansion en California. Sus contactos con el mundo son la mujer que limpia su casa, la nutricionista, la masajista y la entrenadora personal...read more

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9788433974457 | Editorial Anagrama, October 31, 2013, cover price $29.45 | About this edition: Richard Novak es un hombre afortunado que ha ganado mucho dinero y vive en el comodo retiro de una mansion en California.

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Product Description: This anthology is an exclusive look at the country's most promising new writers. These 10 stories of extraordinary literary merit represent a showcase of talented writing through original pieces of fiction and narrative nonfiction, chosen for publication by New York Times–bestselling author, AM Homes...read more
By A. M. Homes (introduced by)

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9780985340711 | Small Pr United, October 1, 2013, cover price $9.99 | About this edition: This anthology is an exclusive look at the country's most promising new writers.

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Product Description: The photographs of Sarah Jones address established pictorial genres and our associated expectations by paring back space, subject and gesture. This book--the first major monograph on this young British artist--brings together work from an 18-year period, including many photographs never previously published, and looks at the themes and concerns that have remained constants in her work...read more

Hardcover:

9781900828437 | Violette Ltd, November 30, 2013, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: The photographs of Sarah Jones address established pictorial genres and our associated expectations by paring back space, subject and gesture.

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Product Description: Derived from photo-diaries of his travels, the paintings of Koen van den Broek (born 1973) depict empty highways, closed garages and desolate curbsides. This publication presents the monumental Insomnia cycle, painted in Antwerp, and the Greenhouse series, done during a residency in Williamsburg, Brooklyn...read more
By David Anfam, A. M. Homes and Koen Van Den Broek (other contributor)

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9783775734783 | Hatje Cantz Pub, April 30, 2013, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Derived from photo-diaries of his travels, the paintings of Koen van den Broek (born 1973) depict empty highways, closed garages and desolate curbsides.

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A collection of disturbing, surreal stories explores the murky underworld of the emotions, with tales of an abducted boy, a teenager who is seduced by his sister's doll, and a child kept alive by machines

Hardcover:

9780393028843 | 1 edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, August 1, 1990), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: A collection of disturbing, surreal stories explores the murky underworld of the emotions, with tales of an abducted boy, a teenager who is seduced by his sister's doll, and a child kept alive by machines

Paperback:

9780143122708 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, January 29, 2013), cover price $15.00
9780679736295 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, November 1, 1991), cover price $11.00 | About this edition: The Safety of Objects kidnaps readers into a world of emotional science fiction where reality and the surreal mix in a disturbing vision of the way we live now.

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Product Description: There is nothing easy about it. It is a constructed moment, a scene within a scene, the real within the unreal. They are moments, lunga fermata, suspensions of time in the midst of what might otherwise be unbearable. The images are about a kind of discomfort theirs, hers, mine and ours...read more

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9781936611034 | Twin Palms Pub, November 15, 2012, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: There is nothing easy about it.

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Product Description: Winner of the 2013 Women's Prize for Fiction—A darkly comic novel of twenty-first-century domestic life by a writer who is always “compelling, devastating, and furiously good” (Zadie Smith) Harold Silver has spent a lifetime watching his younger brother, George, a taller, smarter, and more successful high-flying TV executive, acquire a covetable wife, two kids, and a beautiful home in the suburbs of New York City...read more

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9781847083241 | Granta Books, October 11, 2012, cover price $27.85 | About this edition: Winner of the 2013 Women's Prize for Fiction—A darkly comic novel of twenty-first-century domestic life and the possibility of personal transformationHarold Silver has spent a lifetime watching his younger brother, George, a taller, smarter, and more successful high-flying TV executive, acquire a covetable wife, two kids, and a beautiful home in the suburbs of New York City.
9780670025480 | Viking Pr, September 27, 2012, cover price $27.95

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9780147509703 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, September 24, 2013), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Winner of the 2013 Women's Prize for Fiction—A darkly comic novel of twenty-first-century domestic life by a writer who is always “compelling, devastating, and furiously good” (Zadie Smith) Harold Silver has spent a lifetime watching his younger brother, George, a taller, smarter, and more successful high-flying TV executive, acquire a covetable wife, two kids, and a beautiful home in the suburbs of New York City.

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In this collection of stories, a woman pursues an unconventional strategy for getting pregnant; a former First Lady shows despair and courage in dealing with her husband's Alzheimer's; and adult tragedy intrudes into a childhood friendship.

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9781862076945 | New edition (Granta Books, February 12, 2004), cover price $14.35 | About this edition: In this collection of stories, a woman pursues an unconventional strategy for getting pregnant; a former First Lady shows despair and courage in dealing with her husband's Alzheimer's; and adult tragedy intrudes into a childhood friendship.

Miscellaneous:

9780061865718 | Harpercollins, October 13, 2009, cover price $9.99

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Paul and Elaine have two boys and a beautiful home, yet they find themselves thoroughly, inexplicably stuck. Obsessed with 'making things good again', they spin the quiet terrors of family life into a fantastical frenzy that careens well and truly out of control.

Hardcover:

9780688167110 | William Morrow & Co, May 1, 1999, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: A suburban couple with a seemingly perfect life try to inject some novelty into their predictable existence

Paperback:

9781862078895 | New edition (Granta Books, June 5, 2006), cover price $14.35 | About this edition: Paul and Elaine have two boys and a beautiful home, yet they find themselves thoroughly, inexplicably stuck.
9780688177621 | Perennial, May 1, 2000, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: A suburban couple with a seemingly perfect life try to inject some novelty into their predictable existence.

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Product Description: This beautifully designed volume of 200 of Eric Fischl’s beach-inspired works is a celebration of life at the beach by one of the most significant American painters of nudes and figurative works today. This collection of the artist’s beach paintings—the first book to bring together this exceptional body of work—unites paintings, photographs, watercolors, charcoals, and more in a sumptuous volume that is an ode to beach culture and a book to treasure long after summer ends...read more

Hardcover:

9780847831838 | Rizzoli Intl Pubns, May 19, 2009, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: This beautifully designed volume of 200 of Eric Fischl’s beach-inspired works is a celebration of life at the beach by one of the most significant American painters of nudes and figurative works today.

A teenager learns to cope with the difficulties and sorrows of life over the course of a single year as his parents divorce, he discovers that his father is gay, and his best friend's 'perfect' family is torn apart by domestic violence

Paperback:

9780679732211 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, September 1, 1990), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A teenager learns to cope with the difficulties and sorrows of life over the course of a single year as his parents divorce, he discovers that his father is gay, and his best friend's 'perfect' family is torn apart by domestic violence

School and Library:

9780027448313 | Atheneum, November 1, 1989, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A teenager learns to cope with the difficulties and sorrows of life over the course of a single year as his parents divorce, he discovers that his father is gay, and his best friend's 'perfect' family is torn apart by domestic violence

Reinforced:

9780606008549 | Demco Media, September 1, 1990, cover price $21.25 | About this edition: A teenager learns to cope with the difficulties and sorrows of life over the course of a single year as his parents divorce, he discovers that his father is gay, and his best friend's 'perfect' family is torn apart by domestic violence

Prebinding:

9781435276642 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, May 16, 2008), cover price $21.95
9780833560032 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $25.70 | About this edition: A teenager learns to cope with the difficulties and sorrows of life over the course of a single year as his parents divorce, he discovers that his father is gay, and his best friend's 'perfect' family is torn apart by domestic violence

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Product Description: A black-and-white photograph captures a woman, curlers in her hair and a baby in her arms, standing in a messy kitchen and saying, “How can I worry about the damned dishes when there are children dying in Vietnam?” California photographer Bill Owens is best known for his critically acclaimed series Suburbia, which was published as a monograph in 1972, and has long been considered one of the classic photo books of the era...read more
By A. M. Homes (introduced by), Bill Owens (photographer) and Claudia Zanfi (editor)

Hardcover:

9788862080170 | Damiani Editore, March 1, 2008, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: A black-and-white photograph captures a woman, curlers in her hair and a baby in her arms, standing in a messy kitchen and saying, “How can I worry about the damned dishes when there are children dying in Vietnam?

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Product Description: The "fierce and eloquent" (New York Times) memoir by the award-winning author of May We Be Forgiven and This Book Will Save Your LifeThe acclaimed writer A. M. Homes was given up for adoption before she was born. Her biological mother was a twenty-two-year-old single woman who was having an affair with a much older married man with a family of his own...read more

Hardcover:

9780786298150 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, September 5, 2007), cover price $30.95 | About this edition: A woman who was adopted as a newborn recounts her experience of meeting her birth parents, describing how adoption affected her sense of identity, and her efforts to learn more about her birth mother after her death.
9781862079304 | Granta Books, June 4, 2007, cover price $23.15 | About this edition: On the day that Homes was born in 1961, she was given up for adoption.
9780670038381 | Viking Pr, April 5, 2007, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: An acclaimed novelist's memoir about what it means to be adopted and how all of us construct our sense of self and family.

Paperback:

9780143113317 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, March 25, 2008), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: The "fierce and eloquent" (New York Times) memoir by the award-winning author of May We Be Forgiven and This Book Will Save Your LifeThe acclaimed writer A.

CD/Spoken Word:

9780143141839 | Unabridged edition (Penguin/Highbridge, April 5, 2007), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A woman who was adopted as a newborn recounts her experience of meeting her birth parents, describing how adoption affected her sense of identity, and her efforts to learn more about her birth mother after her death.

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Disconnected from the outside world until a health scare and a sink hole in his yard force him to forge new relationships, middle-aged everyman Richard Novak finds his life changed by a doughnut shop owner, a kidnapped woman, a counterculture icon, and others. Reprint. 75,000 first printing.

Hardcover:

9781862078482 | Granta Books, June 5, 2006, cover price $25.40 | About this edition: Richard is a modern day everyman; a middle-aged divorcee trading stocks out of his home.
9780670034932 | Viking Pr, April 20, 2006, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Richard Novak is a modern-day Everyman, a middle-aged divorcâe trading stocks out of his home.

Paperback:

9780143038740 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, April 3, 2007), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Disconnected from the outside world until a health scare and a sink hole in his yard force him to forge new relationships, middle-aged everyman Richard Novak finds his life changed by a doughnut shop owner, a kidnapped woman, a counterculture icon, and others.
9781862079694 | Granta Books, March 5, 2007, cover price $10.80 | About this edition: Since her debut in 1989, A.

Miscellaneous:

9780786564217 | Penguin/Highbridge, April 20, 2006, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Since her debut in 1989, A.

CD/Spoken Word:

9780143141853 | Unabridged edition (Penguin/Highbridge, March 1, 2007), cover price $24.95
9780143058502 | Unabridged edition (Viking Penguin Audio, April 20, 2006), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Disconnected from the outside world until a health scare and a sink hole in his yard force him to forge new relationships, middle-aged Richard Novak finds his life changed by a doughnut shop owner, a kidnapped woman, and a counterculture icon.

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Product Description: Between 1980 and 1990, over five hundred of photographer Amy Arbus's impromptu and edgy portraits of New Yorkers appeared in the Village Voice's monthly fashion feature, "On the Street." The column's missive was to document the city's most adventurous trednsetters as they lived their lives...read more
By Amy Arbus (photographer) and A. M. Homes (contributor)

Hardcover:

9781599620152 | Welcome Books, September 19, 2006, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Between 1980 and 1990, over five hundred of photographer Amy Arbus's impromptu and edgy portraits of New Yorkers appeared in the Village Voice's monthly fashion feature, "On the Street.

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For Claire Roth, a psycho-therapist with an adoring husband and children, her new patient - Jody Goodman - a witty and attractive young filmmaker - is a welcome diversion from her predictable life. Gradually, the lines between friendship and family, between love and compulsion, begin to lose their focus. This is a psychological thriller.

Hardcover:

9780679415688 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, May 1, 1993, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Jody Goodman, an aspiring filmmaker, and Claire Roth, a middle-aged counselor of troubled souls, develop a friendship that allows each to escape her prescribed role

Paperback:

9781862078888 | New edition (Granta Books, June 5, 2006), cover price $14.35 | About this edition: For Claire Roth, a psycho-therapist with an adoring husband and children, her new patient - Jody Goodman - a witty and attractive young filmmaker - is a welcome diversion from her predictable life.
9780679742432 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, April 1, 1994), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Jody Goodman, an aspiring filmmaker, and Claire Roth, a middle-aged counselor of troubled souls, develop a friendship that allows each to escape her prescribed role

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Product Description: Wave Music by photographer Clifford Ross, opens with explosive images of stormy seas and skies--photographs taken on the edge of hurricanes. This series presents gorgeous, formalist slices of nature at her most tempestuous and romantic...read more
By Arthur C. Danto and A. M. Homes (contributor)

Hardcover:

9781931788618 | Aperture, July 30, 2005, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Wave Music by photographer Clifford Ross, opens with explosive images of stormy seas and skies--photographs taken on the edge of hurricanes.

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The Safety of Objects, A.M Homes' first collection of short stories, is as hilarious, perverse and extraordinary as all of Homes' books.

Paperback:

9781862076907 | New edition (Granta Books, October 14, 2004), cover price $14.35 | About this edition: The Safety of Objects, A.
9780060564513, titled "Safety of Objects" | Perennial, January 1, 2003, cover price $12.95
9780688170837 | Rob Weisbach Books, May 1, 1999, cover price $12.95

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Product Description: The 1960s: news of riots, war, unheard-of behavior, and rampant crime crowds the papers and the airwaves. Spurned by his wife at home and by superiors at work, Earl Summerfield hunkers down in his cramped San Francisco apartment and keeps a diary that is a scratched record of a world going to pieces...read more
By Evan S. Connell and A. M. Homes (introduced by)

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9781590170946 | New York Review of Books, May 1, 2004, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: The 1960s: news of riots, war, unheard-of behavior, and rampant crime crowds the papers and the airwaves.

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A collection of stories by a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and other prominent publications considers such topics as human desires, memories, the need for connection, adolescent sexuality, and finding oneself. Reaer's Guide available. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.

Hardcover:

9780688167127 | Harpercollins, August 1, 2002, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: A collection of stories considers such topics as human desires, memories, the need for connection, adolescent sexuality, and finding oneself.

Paperback:

9780060520137 | Reprint edition (Perennial, September 1, 2003), cover price $13.99 | About this edition: A collection of stories by a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and other prominent publications considers such topics as human desires, memories, the need for connection, adolescent sexuality, and finding oneself.

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Product Description: The extensive oeuvre of American painter Carroll Dunham has infused the discourse of representation versus abstraction with new life, while simultaneously pointing to a number of new directions in 20th-century painting, such as surrealism, action painting, abstract painting, and pop art...read more

Paperback:

9783775712156 | Cantz, February 1, 2003, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: The extensive oeuvre of American painter Carroll Dunham has infused the discourse of representation versus abstraction with new life, while simultaneously pointing to a number of new directions in 20th-century painting, such as surrealism, action painting, abstract painting, and pop art.

The author of The End of Alice offers a personal, surreal portrait of the California's City of Angels, viewing and experiencing Los Angeles people, places, and culture, past and present, from the famed landmark hotel Chateau Marmont.

Hardcover:

9780792265368 | Natl Geographic Society, December 1, 2002, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Offers a portrait of California's City of Angels, viewing and experiencing Los Angeles people, places, and culture, past and present, from the famed landmark hotel Chateau Marmont.

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Product Description: Soft cover. Matt gray wrappers; with printed dust jacket. Paintings by Cecily Brown. Essay by Robert Evrén. Additional text by A.M. Homes. Unpaginated (76 pp.), with 25 four-color plates. 9-1/2 x 10-3/4 inches. Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Gagosian Gallery, New York...read more

Hardcover:

9781880154366 | Gagosian Gallery, January 1, 2000, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Soft cover.

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Product Description: Artwork by Rachel Whiteread.

Hardcover:

9780947564766 | Anthony D''Offay Gallery, May 1, 1999, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Artwork by Rachel Whiteread.

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