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john clellon holmes

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  • Go

    A Novel

    Before the world knew Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Cassady, this "brilliant and important" novel chronicled the author's early years among the Beats ( Los Angeles Free Press).Published five years before On the Road, this candid and perceptive roman à clef chronicles the adventures of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and Neal Cassady before they became literary icons. In dive bars and all-night diners, cabs ... Read more

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  • The Horn

    A Novel

    From the acclaimed Beat Generation author of Go: The classic jazz novel of New York's bebop scene and a brilliant musician's tragic fall.Edgar Pool came up with the big bands. He spent the 1930s crisscrossing the country, playing in only the finest dance halls. In those days, a saxophone player was expected to stay on the beat, to swing without getting too hot. But Edgar—whom the young men called ... Read more

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  • Get Home Free

    A Novel

    The chief chronicler of the Beat Generation portrays the hangover that followed the giddy early days of the movement in this poignant follow-up to GoDan Verger and May Delano share a loft in New York City, but the passion that brought them together has turned brittle and sour, much like the boozy parties and late-night discussions that so thrilled them a few years ago. The brightest lights of ... Read more

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  • The Succesor

    A Novel

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    A powerful political novel based on the sudden, mysterious death of the man who had been handpicked to succeed the hated Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha. Did he commit suicide or was he murdered? That is the burning question. The man who died by his own hand, or another’s, was Mehmet Shehu, the presumed heir to the ailing dictator. So sure was the world that he was next in line, he was known as The ... Read more

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  • The Lanny Budd Novels Volume Two

    Wide Is the Gate, Presidential Agent, and Dragon Harvest

    Series series The Lanny Budd Novels
    From the Pulitzer Prize–winning series, books four through six featuring a well-connected American art dealer who goes undercover for FDR during WWII.Wide Is the Gate: When his arms dealer father strikes a business deal with Hermann Göring, Lanny Budd is able to move easily among the Nazi high command and gather valuable information for those dedicated to the destruction of Nazism and Fascism. He ... Read more

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  • The Chief of Rally Tree

    Dina’s gone. She left a note, she left her plants, and she left what her husband, Roal, thought was her entire world. Nothing remained but some frozen dinners and the mysterious last line of her final message: I do love you ever Dina.Professor Roal Bowman, best known in the sleepy college town of Braddock as a fake Zen master who used to pretend to be Native American and never lived up to his ... Read more

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  • Selected Novels Volume One

    Songs in Ordinary Time and Vanished

    Two powerful novels from "a superb storyteller": An Oprah's Book Club selection and New York Times bestseller plus a National Book Award–nominated debut ( The Washington Post).The highly acclaimed novelist Mary McGarry Morris has been hailed as "a credible heir to Carson McCullers . . . a wise, unsentimental portraitist of the lonely, the damned, the desperate and the incomplete" ( The New York ... Read more

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  • Eccentric Neighborhoods

    A Novel

    A "colorful family saga" set against the dramatic historical backdrop of twentieth-century Puerto Rico, from an author nominated for the National Book Award ( Kirkus Reviews).Elvira Vernet narrates Eccentric Neighborhoods as she attempts to solve the mystery of who her parents truly are. Her mother, the beautiful and aristocratic Clarissa Rivas de Santillana, was born into a rarefied world of ... Read more

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  • The Death of a Century

    A Novel of the Lost Generation

    Greenwich, Connecticut, 1922. Newspaper man Joe Henry finds himself the primary suspect when his friend, fellow reporter Wynton Gresham, is murdered. Both were veterans of French battles during WWI-the war that was supposed to end all wars.Unanswered questions pile up in the wake of a violent night: Gresham lies dead in his home, a manuscript he had just completed has gone missing, three Frenchmen ... Read more

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  • Point of No Return

    A Novel

    A #1 New York Times bestseller by a Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist: A successful Manhattan banker is haunted by his humble New England roots.Raised in the small town of Clyde, Massachusetts, Charles Gray has worked long and hard to become a vice president at the privately owned Stuyvesant Bank in Manhattan. But at the most crucial moment of his career, when his focus should be on reading his boss ... Read more

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  • O, Africa!

    A Novel

    A rollicking and ambitious novel that follows two filmmakers on an unlikely journey, while exploring the complexities of race, class, sexuality, and success in early twentieth century America.In the summer of 1928, twin brothers Micah and Izzy Grand are at the pinnacle of their movie-making careers. From their roots as sons of Brooklyn immigrants, they have risen to become kings of silent comedy- ... Read more

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  • The Bedlam Detective

    A Novel

    Madmen may see monsters – but some monsters hide in plain sightFrom a basement office in London’s notorious Bethlehem Hospital, former policeman and Pinkerton agent, Sebastian Becker investigates those whose dubious mental health may render them unfit to manage their own affairs. When Becker is sent to interview wealthy landowner Sir Owain Lancaster, he claims that the same dark creatures who ... Read more

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