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Hardcover:
9780374148683 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, January 1, 1986, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Throughout these twenty erotic stories, peopled with a gallery of eccentric individuals, run the recurring themes of violence, sexual yearnings, frustration, boredom, and the bourgeoisie
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9780374526511 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, December 1, 1983, cover price $17.00
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9780394552996 | Grove Pr, January 1, 1987, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Focuses on fifteen-year-old Richard Bowen, son of a suburban English vicar, as he discovers that his family and community have become gripped by a religious fervor that erupts into a hysterical witchhunt
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9780140106121 | Reissue edition (Penguin USA, January 1, 1988), cover price $5.95 | About this edition: Focuses on fifteen-year-old Richard Bowen, son of a suburban English vicar, as he discovers that his family and community have become gripped by a religious fervor that erupts into a hysterical witchhunt
The obsession between Anna, an unassuming working girl in London, and Roger, a handsome and intelligent would-be writer, leads to self-destruction
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9780802100160 | 1 edition (Grove Pr, December 1, 1987), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: The obsession between Anna, an unassuming working girl in London, and Roger, a handsome and intelligent would-be writer, leads to self-destruction
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9780140114591 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, December 1, 1988), cover price $6.95
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9780802110350 | 1 edition (Grove Pr, September 1, 1988), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Julia has left home.
On the verge of retirement, Frank Baldwin finds his chances for a peaceful life disrupted by his insane son's violent tendencies
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9780802111395 | 1 edition (Grove Pr, November 1, 1989), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: On the verge of retirement, Frank Baldwin finds his chances for a peaceful life disrupted by his insane son's violent tendencies
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9780802132437 | Reprint edition (Grove Pr, October 1, 1991), cover price $11.95
Haunted by his tragic infancy as the son of a murdered missionary in revolutionary Burundi, George Crawley encounters one moral hurdle after another as he struggles to come to terms with marriage, family, religion, and the idea of goodness
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9780802113900 | Grove Pr, October 1, 1991, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Haunted by his tragic infancy as the son of a murdered missionary in revolutionary Burundi, George Crawley encounters one moral hurdle after another as he struggles to come to terms with marriage, family, religion, and the idea of goodness
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9780802133045 | Reprint edition (Grove Pr, March 1, 1993), cover price $9.95
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9780679403036 | Pantheon Books, May 1, 1992, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: An Italian Jew recounts her experiences in the Nazi concentration camp, Birkenau, in April of 1944
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9780802115317, titled "Italian Neighbors: Or, a Lapsed Anglo-Saxon in Verona" | Grove Pr, July 1, 1992, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: An American expatriate describes life in Verona, the collision between invading suburbia and the die-hard peasant tradition, the architecture, wine bottling, gardening, religion, health care, and the Veronese
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9780449908181 | Reprint edition (Fawcett Books, July 1, 1993), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: An American expatriate describes life in Verona, the collision between invading surburbia and the die-hard peasant tradition, the architecture, wine bottling, and the Veronese
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9780802115010 | Grove Pr, March 1, 1993, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Morris Duckworth, an unhappy and poverty-stricken English teacher in Verona, descends deeper and deeper into crime and violence as he moves from petty theft to a plot to kidnap a wealthy heiress who has fallen in love with him
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9780811212359 | New Directions, May 1, 1993, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: "Dipped in the blue ink of adolescence, Fleur Jaeggy's pen is an engraver's needle depicting roots, twigs, and branches of the tree of madness, growing in the splendid isolation of the small Swiss garden of knowledge into full leaf until it obscures every perspective.
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9780394581545 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, February 1, 1993, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Retells, in a modern interpretation, the stories of Greek mythology
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9780394280363 | Vintage, February 27, 1994, cover price $18.50
9780679733485 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, February 1, 1994), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Retells, in a modern interpretation, the stories of Greek mythology
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9780544146525 | Reprint edition (Mariner Books, December 16, 2014), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: âIn each otherâs presence we became mute, would walk in silence side by side along the road to San Giovanni.
9780099388517 | New edition (Vintage Uk, September 15, 1994), cover price $11.50 | About this edition: Translated from the Italian by Tim Parks, this work is a posthumously published collection of five autobiographical essays by one of the masters of Italian literature, ranging from a lyrical portrait of the author's relationship with his father to a perceptive essay on his own youthful obsession with the cinema.
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9780802115522 | Grove Pr, July 1, 1994, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: Peter Nicholson, a geologist sent to a Mediterranean island, is pulled by the demands of his wife, his mistress, his employers, and unpredictable strangers when he stumbles into a web of blackmail, deception, and murder
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9780099572596 | Vintage Uk, November 14, 2011, cover price $16.90 | About this edition: An English geologist working on a Mediterranean island becomes embroiled in a nightmare web of deceit, corruption, lust and tragedy in Tim Parks' mesmeric story of a man whose life will be shattered like the fatal fragment of stone that obsesses him.
9780802133601 | Grove Pr, June 1, 1995, cover price $11.00 | About this edition: In the hallucinatory light and heat of a Mediterranean island, a geologist arrives to inspect a granite quarry where a worker has been killed in suspicious circumstances.
9780749396183 | New edition (Vintage Uk, November 14, 1994), cover price $11.45 | About this edition: Peter Nicholson, an English geologist, is to inspect a granite quarry on a Mediterranean island for an Australian client.
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9780802115089 | Grove Pr, June 1, 1995, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Takes a lighthearted look at Italian family life with an eye for detail and character that reveals the nature of relationships and culminates in a beach holiday epitomizing the best in Italian life
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9780802142856 | Grove Pr, November 14, 2006, cover price $14.00
9780380727605 | Avon Books, September 1, 1996, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: The author of Italian Neighbors describes family life in Italy, including a colorful beach holiday, and ponders the Italians' hypersensitivity to weather.
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9780679442059 | Pantheon Books, November 1, 1995, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Presents a variety of fables, tales, and 'impossible interviews' on such themes as the implications of technology, the quest for truth, politics, and the nature of power
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9780099332312 | New edition (Vintage Uk, September 5, 1996), cover price $13.60 | also contains Numbers in the Dark: And Other Stories | About this edition: A collection of fables and stories written between 1943 and 1958.
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9780544146426 | Reprint edition (Mariner Books, November 18, 2014), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: âEverybody telephones everybody at every possible moment, and nobody can speak to anybody .
9780679743538 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, October 1, 1996), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: From the acclaimed author of Invisible Cities comes a rich variety of short fiction, including fables, tales, and 'impossible interviews' on such themes as the implications of technology, the quest for truth, politics, and the nature of power.
9780099332312, titled "Numbers in the Dark and Other Stories" | New edition (Vintage Uk, September 5, 1996), cover price $13.60 | also contains Numbers in the Dark and Other Stories | About this edition: A collection of fables and stories written between 1943 and 1958.
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9780304700981 | Cassell, August 1, 1997, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A work of literary criticism, this text provides both an analysis of the literary style of some of the 20th century's leading writers as well as an insight into the art of translation.
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9780304703548 | Cassell, March 1, 2000, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A work of literary criticism, this text provides both an analysis of the literary style of some of the 20th century's leading writers as well as an insight into the art of translation.
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9780811213745 | New Directions, April 1, 1998, cover price $11.95
In a collection of epic cyclical stories, the author of The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony explores the myths and legends of India, chronicling the the exotic worlds of the Devas, Siva, Brahma, Vishnu, the Mahabharata, and the Buddha. 25,000 first printing.
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9780679451310 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, November 1, 1998, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: In a collection of epic cyclical stories woven together, the author explores the myths and legends of India, chonicling the exotic worlds of the Devas, Siva, Brahma, Vishnu, the Mahabharata, and the Buddha
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9780679775478 | Vintage Books, November 1, 1999, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: In a collection of epic cyclical stories woven together, the author explores the myths and legends of India, chonicling the exotic worlds of the Devas, Siva, Brahma, Vishnu, the Mahabharata, and the Buddha.
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9780375411380 | 1 amer ed edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, March 1, 2001), cover price $22.00 | About this edition: The author looks at the role of gods and goddesses in the human imagination by focusing on the emergence and re-emergence of pagan dieties in the Western literary canon.
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9780375725432 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, June 1, 2002), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: The author completes his sweeping look at the role of gods and goddesses in the human imagination by focusing on the emergence and re-emergence of pagan deities in the Western literary canon.
9780099287193, titled "The Literature and the Gods" | Vintage Uk, June 7, 2001, cover price $11.45 | About this edition: This title traces the return of pagan divinities to Western literature from their first reappearance at the beginning of the modern era to their place in the literature of our own time.
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9780436275975 | Vintage Uk, August 23, 2001, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: In Hell and Back, Tim Parks reminds us just how exciting the essay form can be - turning his attention to classic authors like Dante, Borges and Leopardi, as well as various contemporary writers including Vikram Seth, W.
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9780099572558 | Vintage Uk, November 14, 2011, cover price $16.90 | About this edition: In Hell and Back, Tim Parks reminds us just how exciting the essay form can be - turning his attention to classic authors like Dante, Borges and Leopardi, as well as various contemporary writers including Vikram Seth, W.
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9788483102428 | Tusquets Editor, January 1, 2002, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: Destino, la novela del escritor británico Tim Parks que presentamos a nuestros lectores, le ha consagrado como uno de los autores más interesantes de la literatura contemporánea en lengua inglesa.
Hardcover:
9781559706285 | 1 edition (Arcade Pub, June 10, 2002), cover price $26.95 | About this edition: The author offers a personal account of his relationship with Italy, its people, and its national sport from the perspective of his beloved Verona soccer club--as well as its fans--as it travels around Italy competing with other teams.
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9781559706810, titled "A Season With Verona: Travels Around Italy in Search of Illusion, National Character and Goals!" | Reprint edition (Arcade Pub, September 8, 2003), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The author of Europa and Hell and Back offers a personal account of his relationship with Italy, its people, and its national sport from the perspective of his beloved Verona soccer club--as well as its fans--as it travels around Italy competing with other teams.
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9780802140340 | Reprint edition (Grove Pr, September 1, 2003), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: An American expatriate describes life in Verona, Italy, the collision between invading surburbia and the die-hard peasant tradition, the architecture, wine bottling, and the Veronese people.
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