2000 Winners Biography
Secrets of the FleshA Life of Colette by Judith Thurman Our Price: $30.00 From the award-winning biographer of Isak Dinesen comes a stunningly vivid portrait of Colette, one of the greatest writers and most captivating personalities of our age.
Current Interest
Sidewalkby Mitchell Duneier, Ovie Carter (photo.) Our Price: $27.00 In Sidewalk, Mitchell Duneier takes us back to the streets of Greenwich Village but finds a scene very different from the one Jane Jacobs described in her seminal work, The Death and Life of Great American Cities.
Fiction
Freedom SongThree Novels by Amit Chaudhuri Our Price: $13.30 In these three short novels -- Freedom Song, Afternoon Raag, and A Strange and Sublime Address -- Chaudhuri illuminates the surprisingly nuanced intimate worlds of middle-class Indian men, women, and children.
History
Embracing DefeatJapan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower Our Price: $15.96 How did Japan turn defeat to advantage? This book chronicles life in Japan during the American occupation, examining the period's many cultural tensions.
Poetry
Repairby C. K. Williams Our Price: $21.00 This is the eighth book, and the most various yet, from a major American poet. Williams's subjects, again, are love; death; the secrets kept and the pain unexpressed among intimates; social disorder and despair; the waywardness of thought; and the metaphoric exultation of the natural world.
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