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Product Description: Ez Keneret and Wendell Spear are Hollywood veterans who have committed the only sin in the movie business: they've grown old. Having been cast aside, they face their obsolescence and the harsh reality that the art they appreciate (and profit from) is just a business powered by money and celebrity...read more
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9780810151314 | Triquarterly Books, November 1, 2001, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: When age becomes a factor in their ability to find good work in Hollywood, a director and a critic are forced to step back and reevaluate their futures in the movie business.
Paperback:
9780810124257 | Triquarterly Books, March 30, 2007, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Ez Keneret and Wendell Spear are Hollywood veterans who have committed the only sin in the movie business: they've grown old.
Hardcover:
9780810151499 | Triquarterly Books, June 10, 2005, cover price $29.95
Product Description: With nubbins for hands and feet, Paul (aka The Orb) spends his days confined to a hospital bed in the company of his loyal friends â Bol Agar, Brother Leon, and Nurse B. Through a bureaucratic mishap his world is turned upside down and his anonymity lost...read more
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9781413468991 | Xlibris Corp, December 30, 2004, cover price $30.99 | About this edition: With nubbins for hands and feet, Paul (aka The Orb) spends his days confined to a hospital bed in the company of his loyal friends â Bol Agar, Brother Leon, and Nurse B.
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9781413468984 | Xlibris Corp, December 30, 2004, cover price $20.99 | About this edition: With nubbins for hands and feet, Paul (aka The Orb) spends his days confined to a hospital bed in the company of his loyal friends â Bol Agar, Brother Leon, and Nurse B.
Product Description: Written by one of America's finest contemporary novelists, Other Men's Daughters is the story of an intense love affair between a middle-aged professor and a young woman, wise and worldly beyond her years.One reviewer writes, "I....read more
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9780810151468 | Triquarterly Books, October 26, 2004, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Written by one of America's finest contemporary novelists, Other Men's Daughters is the story of an intense love affair between a middle-aged professor and a young woman, wise and worldly beyond her years.
Product Description: Written by one of America's finest contemporary novelists, Natural Shocks is a witty, wonderfully intelligent novel about a successful journalist who suddenly finds himself jolted by the "natural shocks" of his private life. A new foreword by James Schiffer relates the novel to our time and describes the mastery which in 1985 won Stern the Medal of Merit for the Novel given by the American Academy of Arts and Letters...read more
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9780810151475 | Triquarterly Books, August 1, 2004, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Written by one of America's finest contemporary novelists, Natural Shocks is a witty, wonderfully intelligent novel about a successful journalist who suddenly finds himself jolted by the "natural shocks" of his private life.
Product Description: What Is What Was, Richard Stern's fifth "orderly miscellany," is the first to meaningfully combine his fiction and nonfiction. Stories, such as the already well-known "My Ex, the Moral Philosopher," appear among portraits (of the sort Hugh Kenner praised as "almost the invention of a new genre"): Auden, Pound, Ellison, Terkel, W...read more
Hardcover:
9780226773254 | Univ of Chicago Pr, October 15, 2002, cover price $59.00 | About this edition: What Is What Was, Richard Stern's fifth "orderly miscellany," is the first to meaningfully combine his fiction and nonfiction.
Paperback:
9780226773261 | Univ of Chicago Pr, October 1, 2002, cover price $26.00
Product Description: A memoir by the author of Other Men's Daughters sheds new light on the powerful bonds that exist between brothers and sisters and offers insights into such friends and admirers as Thomas Mann, Saul Bellow, and Philip Roth. 15,000 first printing. $15,000 ad/promo.
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9781556114274 | Donald I Fine, March 1, 1995, cover price $17.50 | About this edition: A memoir sheds new light on the powerful bonds that exist between brothers and sisters and offers insights into such friends and admirers as Thomas Mann, Saul Bellow, and Philip Roth
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9781556114762 | Donald I Fine, March 1, 1996, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: A memoir by the author of Other Men's Daughters sheds new light on the powerful bonds that exist between brothers and sisters and offers insights into such friends and admirers as Thomas Mann, Saul Bellow, and Philip Roth.
Hardcover:
9781880909065 | Baskerville Pub, September 1, 1993, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Book by Stern, Richard
Hardcover:
9780802110565, titled "Noble Rot: Stories, 1949-1988" | Grove Pr, January 1, 1989, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: A richly varied collection of stories offers a witty and humane look at a broad range of characters, from songwriters to busdrivers, from adolescent girls to assistant Secretaries of State
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9780929968308 | Reissue edition (Another Chicago Pr, June 1, 1993), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: A collection of stories offers a look at a broad range of characters, from songwriters to bus drivers, from adolescent girls to assistant Secretaries of State
A collection of stories includes a tale of a Gulf War soldier in love; an artist's attempt to escape the shadow of her father's work; and a Chicago burglar's troubled life; as well as a novella about a sexually insatiable American opera composer.
Hardcover:
9780671780401 | Delphinium Pr, August 1, 1992, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: A collection of stories includes a tale of a Gulf War soldier in love, an artist's attempt to escape the shadow of her father's work, and a Chicago burglar's troubled life, as well as a novella about a sexually insatiable American opera composer
Hardcover:
9780877957911, titled "Father's Words: A Novel" | Arbor House Pub Co, April 1, 1986, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Cy Riemer, divorced and middle-aged, tries to come to terms with his feelings about his grown children and himself as a father and a man
Paperback:
9780226773223 | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, January 4, 1990), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Cy Riemer, divorced and middle-aged, tries to come to terms with his feelings about his grown children and himself as a father and a man
Hondorp, unemployed, accidentally becomes part of Golk's hidden camera TV show, 'You're on Camera'
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9780226773193 | Univ of Chicago Pr, September 1, 1987, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Hondorp, unemployed, accidentally becomes part of Golk's hidden camera TV show, 'You're on Camera'
Hardcover:
9780810107304, titled "The Position of the Body" | Northwestern Univ Pr, December 1, 1986, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Book by Stern, Richard G.
Paperback:
9780810107311 | Northwestern Univ Pr, December 1, 1986, cover price $16.00
Hardcover:
9780933256187 | Franklin Watts, May 1, 1981, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Samuel Curry attempts to clear the name of his dead son, who worked as part of a secret intelligence unit behind Nazi lines, and was later charged with treason
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9780933256194, titled "Chaleur Network" | Franklin Watts, October 1, 1981, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Samuel Curry attempts to clear the name of his dead son, who worked as part of a secret intelligence unit behind Nazi lines, and was later charged with treason
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