Herb Piper lives with his clever and vivacious wife Lorna in the tranquil, seaside Long Island town of Babbington. Herb sells Studebakers, putters in his basement, fancies himself an inventor, and struggles against his habit of making bad investments. Bright afternoons and well-tended lawns fill the couple’s quiet, unassuming life, the very picture of Norman Rockwell’s America. But Herb and Lorna have concealed from each other a pair of curious secrets, deceptions at the heart of a marriage that register the delightful, universal mystique of human sexuality. A funny, poignant, and surprising love story, Herb ’n’ Lorna gently unravels the mysteries—logical and illogical—that bind two people through the years.

Product Description: Peter Leroy struggles to win the affections of the toothsome Patti Fiorenza while keeping his mother's hopes and his mother's boat afloat. Ella Leroy dreams of escaping the dreary routine of her 1950s wife-and-mom life. Without telling her husband, she enlists her son Peter and his locally-notorious girlfriend Patti in a scheme to buy a run-down clamboat and re-invent it as an elegant cruising vessel for summer people in the bayside town of Babbington, Long Island...read more

Disgusted by plans to turn his Long Island hometown into a seaside village centering on his teenage cross-country solo flight, an adult Peter Leroy prepares a disclosure about the earthbound truth behind his mythic journey, from the construction of his aerocycle and application to a fictional school to his glorious community send-off and his fame as the 'Birdboy.' Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

In the sequel to Taking Off, teenager Peter Leroy describes his solo flight to New Mexico and back in the aerocycle he had built in his parents' garage, while, in parallel chapters, an adult Leroy details his odyssey with Albertine to retrace the Birdboy's original trip in a 1952 Alfa Romeo replica to reconnect with some of the eccentric characters he met during his original journey. 20,000 first printing.

Barely covering his family's expenses in his Manhattan home, memoirist Peter Leroy purchases a business book from a homeless man in the hope of promoting himself and begins a journey of discovery alongside two friends, one who faces heart surgery and another who pursues erotic opportunities. By the author of Inflating a Dog. Reprint.

Bored with her dreary life as a 1950s wife and mother, Ella Leroy enlists the aid of her son Peter and his girlfriend Patti in a scheme to buy a run-down clamboat and rework it as an elegant cruise vessel for summer visitors in the beach town of Babbington, Long Island. Reprint.

An intimate and heartwarming look at love, relationships, and childhood follows the attempts of Peter Leroy and his wife Albertine to preserve their marriage and their dreams as their hotel slowly goes out of business. Reprint. NYT.

Describing his youthful relationship with the remarkable Glynn family, the author presents portraits of artist Andy, Andy's wife Rosetta, and the twins, Margot and Martha

In a love story paralleling the first three quarters of this century, the hero of the novel returns to recount the humorous, passionate, yet commonplace tale of his eccentric grandparents' romance

Follows the socio-erotic-gastronomic odyssey of forty-three-year-old Matthew Barber, the vice-president for new product developement for a toy company, who, under a pseudonym, reviews restaurants for 'Boston Biweekly' magazine at night

Bringing his boyhood love to lusty life, a Peter Leroy novel filled with bawdy fun offers a meditation on voyeurism, art, and celebrity, but primarily is the story of a woman who will not give up control of her life. Reprint. NYT.

Describing his youthful relationship with the remarkable Glynn family, the author of Little Follies presents portraits of artist Andy; Andy's wife, Rosetta; and the twins, Margot and Martha.

Product Description: In 1962, as a college sophomore, Eric Kraft fell asleep in the library. Among the books surrounding him, he began to dream...of a nameless boy, sitting on a dilapidated dock in the warm sun of a summer day, playing a game: He was trying to bring the soles of his bare feet as close as he could to the surface of the water, without touching it...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: "Where do you stop?" is the question posed by Miss Rheingold, the intoxicating new teacher of Peter Leroy's junior high school class. That question forms the basis of a science paper that Peter spends thirty years trying to complete-along the way exploring quantum physics, entropy, epistemology, principles of uncertainty and discontinuity, and a range of Life's Big Questions...read more

Peter Leroy narrates the strange life story of Ariane Lodkochinikov, the sensuous older sister of his best friend, Raskol. By the author of Where Do You Stop? 10,000 first printing.

In a love story paralleling the first three quarters of this century, the hero of the novel returns to recount the humorous, passionate, yet commonplace tale of his eccentric grandparents' romance

Product Description: Book by Kraft, Eric