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A young man struggles to reconcile God, faith, and sex as he stumbles toward finding his life in this frank and beautifully written memoir.Since childhood, David Schickler has been torn between his intense desire to become a Catholic priest and his equally fervent desire for the company of women. Growing up in a family of staunch Catholics in upstate New York, Schickler senses God along what he calls “the dark path”—a shadowy trail that winds through the woods behind his childhood home. On this path he begins his ongoing, frustratingly one-sided talks with God.Things don’t get any clearer for Schickler at college, where he initiates serious conversations about becoming a Jesuit just as he enters a passionate relationship with a vivacious, agnostic young woman. He tries various obsessions—karate, beer, writing fiction—attempting to duck the mystical God he feels called to serve as a priest. His pursuits of these passions, and of the young woman, take him from Germany to New York City and eventually to New England, where he has a life-changing reckoning about whether he will end up wearing the clerical collar or getting the girl.Candid and funny, lyrical and blunt, The Dark Path is an evocative portrayal of one man’s struggle with faith and women . . . both of which he tries to love with bold, bracing honesty.

Hardcover:

9781594486456 | Riverhead Books, September 12, 2013, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: A young man struggles to reconcile God, faith, and sex as he stumbles toward finding his life in this frank and beautifully written memoir.

Paperback:

9781594632792 | Reprint edition (Riverhead Books, September 2, 2014), cover price $16.00

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On the run with a stolen set of famous Spanish diamonds known as 'The Planets,' tough guy Henry Dante meets Grace McGlone at a car wash in a small Wisconsin town, a woman who refuses to have anything to do with the ill-gotten jewels, and together the unlikely couple embarks on a cross-country odyssey, pursued by a gangster obsessed with the diamonds. A first novel. Reprint.

Hardcover:

9780385335683 | Dial Pr, August 1, 2004, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: On the run with a stolen set of famous diamonds known as 'The Planets,' tough guy Henry Dante meets Grace McGlone in a small Wisconsin town, and together they embark on a cross-country odyssey, pursued by a gangster obsessed with the diamonds.

Paperback:

9780385335690 | Reprint edition (Dial Pr, August 30, 2005), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: On the run with a stolen set of famous Spanish diamonds known as 'The Planets,' tough guy Henry Dante meets Grace McGlone at a car wash in a small Wisconsin town, a woman who refuses to have anything to do with the ill-gotten jewels, and together the unlikely couple embarks on a cross-country odyssey, pursued by a gangster obsessed with the diamonds.

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CD/Spoken Word:

9780971921825 | Unabridged edition (Symphony Space, April 1, 2005), cover price $28.00

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At the Preemption, a mysterious apartment building with a prophetic doorman named Sender, the destinies of an offbeat group of tenants intertwine with the lives of three characters--James Branch, a shy accountant attached to the building's antique elevator; Wall Street lothario Patrick Rigg; and Rally McWilliams, an aspiring writer searching for a soulmate, in a collection of interlinked stories. Reissue. 45,000 first printing.

Hardcover:

9780385335669 | Dial Pr, June 1, 2001, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: At the Preemption, a mysterious apartment building with a prophetic doorman, the destinies of an offbeat group of tenants intertwine with the lives of three characters--James Branch, a shy accountant; Wall Street lothario Patrick Rigg; and aspiring writer Rally McWilliams.

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9780385335676 | Dial Pr, August 1, 2002, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: At the Preemption, a mysterious apartment building with a prophetic doorman named Sender, the destinies of an offbeat group of tenants intertwine with the lives of three characters--James Branch, a shy accountant attached to the building's antique elevator; Wall Street lothario Patrick Rigg; and Rally McWilliams, an aspiring writer searching for a soulmate, in a collection of interlinked stories.

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