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Josef Skvorecky has written 27 work(s)
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9780671556815 | Reprint edition (Pocket Books, November 1, 1985), cover price $5.95 | About this edition: Two jazz-haunted novellas and a memoir of the Czechoslovakian novelist's own youthful obsession with jazz convey the irresistable lure of the music that celebrates freedom and spontaneity but was officially censured as being degenerate
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9780394502670 | Random House Inc, January 1, 1979, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Two jazz-haunted novellas and a memoir of the Czechoslovakian novelist's own youthful obsession with jazz convey the irresistable lure of the music that celebrates freedom and spontaneity but was officially censured as being degenerate
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9780880013703, titled "The Bass Saxophone: Two Novellas" | Ecco Pr, August 1, 1994, cover price $12.95
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9780679444114 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, January 1, 1996, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: Fleeing the oppression of the Hapsburg Empire, a group of Czech emigres searches for a new life in America, only to become caught up in the turmoil of the Civil War, especially Lida, who marries a plantation owner's son, and her brother, who falls in love with a slave woman
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9780810112780 | Reprint edition (Northwestern Univ Pr, March 9, 1995), cover price $17.00
9780810108578 | Northwestern Univ Pr, August 1, 1990, cover price $12.95 | also contains Closely Watched Trains
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9780912946757 | Ecco Pr, September 1, 1980, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Depicts the thoughts and aspirations of a group of Czech students during the last week of World War II
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9780394546810 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, February 1, 1987, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Chronicles Anton Dvorak's sojourn in America at the turn of the century, when he was persuaded by Jeannette Thurber to leave his native Bohemia and become director of her National Conservatory of Music
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9780393305487 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, May 1, 1988), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Chronicles Anton Dvorak's sojourn in America at the turn of the century, when he was persuaded by Jeannette Thurber to leave his native Bohemia and become director of her National Conservatory of Music
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9780393027853 | W W Norton & Co Inc, February 1, 1990, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: In this collection of stories, Lieutenant Boruvka, a Prague cop, confronts Soviet troops and opposition from every corner as he continues to track down murder suspects in most influential positions and jeopardizes his career in doing so
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9780671556822 | Reprint edition (Pocket Books, November 1, 1985), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: As Danny Smiricky, a Czech writer who fled his country in 1968 to find asylum at a university in Toronto, adjusts to life in the New World, his memories of his homeland and his lost youth haunt him
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9781564781994 | Dalkey Archive Pr, February 1, 1999, cover price $22.01
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9780394505008 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, June 1, 1984, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: As Danny Smiricky, a Czech writer who fled his country in 1968 to find asylum at a university in Toronto, adjusts to life in the New World, his memories of his homeland and his lost youth haunt him
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9780880014625 | Ecco Pr, April 1, 1996, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: The Czech novelist looks at his childhood and the changes that took place as Communist rule replaced Nazi rule
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9780880015073 | Ecco Pr, July 1, 1997, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: The Czech novelist looks at his childhood and the changes that took place as Communist rule replaced Nazi rule
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9780880330114 | East European Monographs, October 1, 1982, cover price $63.00 | About this edition: A work on contemporary Czechoslovak cinematography focusing on the celebrated director Jiri Menzel's classic film "Closely Watched Train" in the context of communist Czechoslovak mores and restrictions.
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9780394572208 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, January 1, 1991, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The witness in 1948 to a baffling event labled by Catholic townspeople as a miracle and by the Communist Party as a fraud, cynical Czech Danny Smiricky finds himself drawn into an investigation of the event twenty years later during the 1968 Prague Spring
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9780393308495 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, June 1, 1992), cover price $24.95
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9780880010740 | Reprint edition (Ecco Pr, April 1, 1985), cover price $7.50 | About this edition: Karel Leden falls for the bikini-clad Lenka Silver only to be rebuffed by her for his State publishing house boss
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9780393024708 | W W Norton & Co Inc, August 1, 1987, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Czechoslovak police force Lieutenant Boruvka, a pensive, conscience-striken man driven to melancholy by the fiendish truths of murder, is wide awake to the strange methods of murder he encounters, in this collection of twelve tales
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9780393307863 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, August 1, 1991), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Czechoslovak police force Lieutenant Boruvka, a pensive, conscience-striken man driven to melancholy by the fiendish truths of murder, is wide awake to the strange methods of murder he encounters, in this collection of twelve tales
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9780886194482 | Key Porter Books, September 1, 2009, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Set against the backdrop of two class reunions  one in 1963, and the next in 1993, 30 years later  Ordinary Lives resurrects Skvoreckyâs former narrator and alter ego, Danny Smiricky.
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9780880013710 | Ecco Pr, August 1, 1994, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: Tank Commander Danny Smiricky and his homesick troops stationed in rural Czechoslovaki try to escape the wrath of their rigid, Soviet-loving officers
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9780880014281 | Reprint edition (Ecco Pr, January 1, 1996), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Binding Unknown, Date not stated
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9780393029284 | W W Norton & Co Inc, March 1, 1991, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: While working as a Toronto parking-lot attendant, Detective Boruvka, an escapee from a Czech prison, works on a murder case, in a mystery narrated by the murder victim's brother
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9788420632124 | Alianza Editorial Sa, June 30, 2007, cover price $29.95
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9780393025125 | W W Norton & Co Inc, February 1, 1989, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Eva Adam, a nightclub singer and garrulous meddler in other people's affairs, tours worldwide, each stop comprising a single story and a single crime, and each story violates one of Father Ronald A.
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9780393307870 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, August 1, 1991), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Eva Adam, a nightclub singer and garrulous meddler in other people's affairs, tours worldwide, each stop comprising a single story and a single crime, and each story violates one of Father Ronald A.
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9780880010900 | Ecco Pr, April 1, 1986, cover price $8.50 | About this edition: 6 short stories portray adolescent Danny Smiricky's pursuit of girls in Czechoslovakia during the Nazi occupation
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9780880012317 | Ecco Pr, February 1, 1990, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Josef Skvorecky`s novels have established him as a major author around the world, but his less well known essays include some of his most stimulating writing.
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9780886191962 | Univ of Toronto Pr, May 1, 1988, cover price $17.95
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9780880015639 | Ecco Pr, January 1, 1998, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: Ten interconnecting tales include 'Truths,' in which some things are better left unsaid; 'A Case for Political Inspectors,' in which fear and hypocrisy shake the highest class levels; and 'Krpata's Blues,' where true love and an apartment are at stake
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9780880014618 | Ecco Pr, January 1, 1997, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Ten interconnecting tales include 'Truths,' in which some things are better left unsaid; 'A Case for Political Inspectors,' in which fear and hypocrisy shake the highest class levels; and 'Krpata's Blues,' where true love and an apartment are at stake
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