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9781560257301 | Reprint edition (Nation Books, December 20, 2005), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Scrounging for day-labor jobs in order to support himself, West Virginia man Hunter McNutt encounters a multitude of diverse characters in his efforts to locate his seventeen-year-old runaway son Hobie, who has drifted into a Boston commune of young revolutionaries.
9780080311531, titled "Control Frontiers in Knowledge Based and Man-Machine Systems" | Pergamon Pr, January 1, 1984, cover price $34.75 | also contains Control Frontiers in Knowledge Based and Man-Machine Systems
Product Description: The Pride of the Bimbos is John Sayles's outrageous, poignant and hilarious first novel, about a circus sideshow softball teamâThe Brooklyn Bimbosâwho play in drag at scraggly small towns across the South. The heart of the teamâand the novelâis a midget and former private eye named Pogo Burns, who is pursued by Dred, an evil super-pimp whom Pogo had earlier shot in order to rescue a woman he loved...read more
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9780316772303 | Little Brown & Co, July 1, 1975, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: The Brooklyn Bimbos, a five-man softball team that plays in drag, provide crude sideshow comedy across the Deep South while their star shortstop, midget Pogo Burns, oblivious to his size, exerts his masculinity in games of softball, chance, and life
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9781560257257, titled "The Pride of the Bimbos" | Nation Books, August 25, 2005, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: The Pride of the Bimbos is John Sayles's outrageous, poignant and hilarious first novel, about a circus sideshow softball teamâThe Brooklyn Bimbosâwho play in drag at scraggly small towns across the South.
Product Description: Before John Sayles was an Oscar-nominated screenwriter, he was a National Book Award-nominated writer of fiction. The Anarchists' Convention is his first short story collection, providing a prism of America through fifteen stories...read more
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9781560256915 | Nation Books, April 20, 2005, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Before John Sayles was an Oscar-nominated screenwriter, he was a National Book Award-nominated writer of fiction.
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9781560256465 | Nation Books, December 19, 2004, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: The renowned director of Matewan and Passion Fish introduces a sympathetic novel of Cuban Americans that is set in 1981 Miami and chronicles fifty years of Cuban-American relations.
Product Description: John Sayles—winner of the John Steinbeck Award and others—has been called the "conscience of the independent film world" and the screenwriter's screenwriter. Silver City and Other Screenplays is a collection of Sayles's greatest work, something that will delight his legion of fans and also aspiring screenwriters and film students who will regard the book as a master class in the art of screenwriting...read more
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9781560256311 | Nation Books, September 7, 2004, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: John Sayles—winner of the John Steinbeck Award and others—has been called the "conscience of the independent film world" and the screenwriter's screenwriter.
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9781560256328 | Nation Books, October 4, 2004, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A collection of short stories by the American filmaker that explore life on the edge of poverty and fame.
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9781564969804 | Rockport Pub, October 1, 2003, cover price $30.00
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9780306812668 | Da Capo Pr, July 2, 2003, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: The director and writer explores the relationship between creativity and the image, revealing the choices he made in directing films like Matewan and The Return of the Secaucus Seven.
9780395453995 | Mariner Books, October 1, 1987, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: The author describes how he wrote and directed the film, Matewan, and discusses screenwriting, directing, and editing
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9781578061389 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, July 1, 1999, cover price $25.00
Product Description: John Sayles is a filmmaker of many faces: the writer/director of authentically independent films rooted in good talk, character study and social reflection (The Return of the Secaucus Seven, Baby, It's You, Brother from Another Planet, Matewan, and Passion Fish)...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780571192809 | Faber & Faber, May 1, 1998, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: John Sayles is a filmmaker of many faces: the writer/director of authentically independent films rooted in good talk, character study and social reflection (The Return of the Secaucus Seven, Baby, It's You, Brother from Another Planet, Matewan, and Passion Fish).
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9780060974763 | Reissue edition (Perennial, July 1, 1992), cover price $10.00
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9780060974756 | Reissue edition (Perennial, June 1, 1992), cover price $10.00
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9780060166533 | Harpercollins, June 1, 1991, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: The passionate Marta de la Pena recruits an assortment of would-be guerrillas from Miami's Cuban community to help avenge her brother's death in the failed Bay of Pigs invasion
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9780060921590 | Reprint edition (Perennial, June 1, 1992), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Old and young, black and white, male and female, four generations of Cubans struggle to make a life in their adopted country, haunted by memories of their native Cuba.
Paperback:
9780060974749 | Reprint edition (Perennial, June 1, 1992), cover price $11.00
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9780807234754 | Listening Library, June 1, 1988, cover price $18.00
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9781556440816 | Amer Audio Prose Library Inc, June 1, 1987, cover price $13.95
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9781556440823 | Amer Audio Prose Library Inc, June 1, 1987, cover price $13.95
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9780316772327 | Little Brown & Co, March 1, 1979, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Fifteen stories filled with humor and compassion capture the idioms and strength of homeless, restless, and hopeful Americans including a kid on the road, anthropologists in the field, bums on a beach, and a lonely woman in Boston
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