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Another Insane Devotion: On the Love of Cats and Persons
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Product Description: From “a genuine American Dostoevsky” (The Washington Post): a dazzling, funny, bittersweet exploration of the mysteries of relationship, both human and animal.   When his favorite cat Biscuit goes missing, Peter Trachtenberg sets out to find her...read more
By Peter Trachtenberg
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Hardcover:

9780738215266 | Da Capo Pr, November 13, 2012, cover price $24.00

Paperback:

9780738217291 | Reprint edition (Da Capo Pr, October 8, 2013), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: From “a genuine American Dostoevsky” (The Washington Post): a dazzling, funny, bittersweet exploration of the mysteries of relationship, both human and animal.

The Book of Calamities: Five Questions About Suffering and Its Meaning
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By Peter Trachtenberg
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Hardcover:

9780316158794 | 1 edition (Little Brown & Co, August 27, 2008), cover price $23.99

Miscellaneous:

9780316032810 | Little Brown & Co, August 27, 2008, cover price $10.99

7 Tattoos: A Memoir in the Flesh
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Product Description: In the tradition of The Basketball Diaries -- a startling account of a life lived on the edgeSulfurously funny and intellectually provocative, 7 Tattoos is a journey without maps through the labyrinth of a human soul. There are only a few landmarks as guideposts: the ones carved on the author's own flesh...read more
By Peter Trachtenberg
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Hardcover:

9780517701720 | Crown Pub, May 1, 1997, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: The author describes events in his life in terms of his seven tattoos, exploring themes of sacrilege, death, primitivism, sadomasochism, and downfall

Paperback:

9780140273908 | Penguin USA, August 1, 1998, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: In the tradition of The Basketball Diaries -- a startling account of a life lived on the edgeSulfurously funny and intellectually provocative, 7 Tattoos is a journey without maps through the labyrinth of a human soul.

The Casanova Complex: Compulsive Lovers and Their Women
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Product Description: Trachtenberg, a recovering Casanova, takes the reader on a fascinating journey inside the Casanova complex, telling what a life of migratory sexuality is really like and who the women are that make it possible. He describes the syndrome as a true compulsive disorder, similar to alcoholism...read more
By Peter Trachtenberg
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Hardcover:

9780671620486 | Poseidon Pr, June 1, 1988, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Drawing on his own experiences and case histories, the author identifies the Casanova complex as a true compulsive disorder, defines six types of compulsive womanizers, and profiles the women who fall for Casanova types

Paperback:

9780671620479 | Reprint edition (Pocket Books, October 1, 1989), cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Trachtenberg, a recovering Casanova, takes the reader on a fascinating journey inside the Casanova complex, telling what a life of migratory sexuality is really like and who the women are that make it possible.

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