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Hardcover:
9781604890846 | Livingston Pr, September 30, 2011, cover price $32.00
Paperback:
9781604890853, titled "Americanisation: Lessons in American Culture and Language" | Livingston Pr, September 30, 2011, cover price $21.00
Paperback:
9781928734710 | Weddles, April 1, 2012, cover price $14.95
Richie Palumbo, the most prosaic of men, gets lost one night in 1969 while driving home with his family. He finds himself in the town of Norumbegaâhidden, remote, and gorgeous, at the far edges of Bostonâs western suburbs. He sees a venerable old house and, without quite knowing why, decides he must have it. The repercussions of Richieâs wild dream to own a house in this town lead to a forty-year odyssey for his family. For his son, Jack, Norumbega becomes a sexual playgroundâuntil he meets one ungraspable girl and begins a lifelong pursuit of her. Joannie, Richieâs daughter, finds that the challenges of living in Norumbega encourage her to pursue the contemplative life. For Stella, Richieâs wife, life in Norumbega leads to surprising growth as both a sexual and a spiritual being.Norumbega Parkâby Anthony Giardina, the critically acclaimed author of White Guysâis about class and parental dreams, sex and spirituality, the way visions conflict with stubborn reality, and a familyâs ability to open up for others a world they can never fully grasp for themselves.
Hardcover:
9780374278670 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, January 31, 2012, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: Richie Palumbo, the most prosaic of men, gets lost one night in 1969 while driving home with his family.
Paperback:
9781250024091 | Picador USA, March 5, 2013, cover price $22.00
A dazzling debut novel about a Russian immigrant family living in Brooklyn and their struggle to learn the new rules of the American Dream.In this account of two decades in the life of an immigrant household, the fall of communism and the rise of globalization are artfully reflected in the experience of a single family. Ironies, subtle and glaring, are revealed: the Nasmertovs left Odessa for Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, with a huge sense of finality, only to find that the divide between the old world and the new is not nearly as clear-cut as they thought. The dissolution of the Soviet Union makes returning just a matter of a plane ticket, and the Russian-owned shops in their adopted neighborhood stock even the most obscure comforts of home. Pursuing the American Dream once meant giving up everything, but does the dream still work if the past is always within reach?If the Nasmertov parents can afford only to look forward, learning the rules of aspiration, the familyâs youngest, Frida, can only look back.In striking, arresting prose loaded with fresh and inventive turns of phrase, Yelena Akhtiorskaya has written the first great novel of Brighton Beach: a searing portrait of hope and ambition, and a profound exploration of the power and limits of language itself, its ability to make connections across cultures and generations.
Hardcover:
9781594632143 | Riverhead Books, July 31, 2014, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: A dazzling debut novel about a Russian immigrant family living in Brooklyn and their struggle to learn the new rules of the American Dream.
9780395512111, titled "Contemporary Business Communications" | Houghton Mifflin, November 1, 1991, cover price $52.76 | also contains Contemporary Business Communications
Paperback:
9781594633829 | Reprint edition (Riverhead Books, August 4, 2015), cover price $16.00
CD/Spoken Word:
9781483008301 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, July 31, 2014), cover price $29.95
9781483008318 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, July 31, 2014), cover price $34.95 | About this edition: [Read by Stefan Rudnicki]A dazzling debut novel about a immigrant family living in Brooklyn and their struggle to learn the new rules of the American Dream.
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9781483008295 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, July 31, 2014), cover price $100.00
Product Description: Ellen Fletcher left an environmental law practice to marry Marshall Patterson, heir to an oil-and-gas exploration company rooted in the energy and optimism of the frontier. Much to the consternation of his family, Marshall's academic interests seem certain to put him in the classroom rather than the boardroom...read more
Paperback:
9780982327470 | Millichap Books Llc, October 1, 2011, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Ellen Fletcher left an environmental law practice to marry Marshall Patterson, heir to an oil-and-gas exploration company rooted in the energy and optimism of the frontier.
Paperback:
9780875806778 | Northern Illinois Univ Pr, May 15, 2012, cover price $14.00
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