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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Hardback. With a nod to Kurt Vonnegut's audacious sense of humor, the author demonstrates the humanity of his odd-ball characters. His portrayal of a city neighborhood in transition also gives the story a distinctive sense of place. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 161 x 20. Weight in Grams: 394.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Bridge Works Publishing Co ,U.S. United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781882593859
ISBN
9781882593859
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 22.70

Paperback. A newcomer to New York searches for a boy he believes has been kidnapped and imprisoned in a box. When he tries to enlist help he's treated with indifference or disbelief. Num Pages: 222 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Bridge Works Publishing Co ,U.S. United States
Number of pages
222
Condition
New
SKU
V9781882593804
ISBN
9781882593804
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.19

Paperback. This is the story of the emotional awakening of a perceptive and precocious 14-year-old English girl, Tatum, while on vacation with her family in Tanzania. Num Pages: 236 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Bridge Works Publishing Co ,U.S. United States
Number of pages
236
Condition
New
SKU
V9781882593798
ISBN
9781882593798
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.19

Hardback. This book is the story of the struggle for reconciliation by three men who return to their changed hometown along very different paths-Cappy Giberson from journalism school, Drayton Hunt, his biological father, from prison, and Tick Giberson from a traveling evangelist's life. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 146 x 23. Weight in Grams: 467.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Bridge Works Publishing Co ,U.S. United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9781882593750
ISBN
9781882593750
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 22.90

Hardback. This book is the fourth in criminologist Rosemary Aubert's series featuring Ellis Portal, a disgraced former judge turned sleuth. A prequel to the earlier books, it is set in 1965 when Ellis Portal is 23 and a University of Toronto law student. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 150 x 25. Weight in Grams: 467.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Bridge Works Publishing Co ,U.S. United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9781882593736
ISBN
9781882593736
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 22.90

Hardback. Navy intelligence officer Neal Olen finds himself a pawn of both the author,a woman with whom he had an affair and who hopes to promote her book and the Navy eager to demonstrate zero tolerance of sex scandals. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 159 x 18. Weight in Grams: 367.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Bridge Works Publishing Co ,U.S. United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781882593590
ISBN
9781882593590
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.69

hardcover. This novel is an amusing, ironic tale of a contemporary Arab village elder, the family and political turmoil that engulf him, and his nightly discussions with an angel who helps him understand how our modern, fractious world got this way. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 150 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Bridgeworks United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9781882593514
ISBN
9781882593514
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 22.82

Paperback. In this moving first novel, a Korean-American family faces not only intergenerational cultural conflicts between immigrant parents and their Americanized daughters, but also the results of a terrible prophecy, made by a fortune-teller 20 years earlier to Chinhominey, the long-estranged grandmother. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 133 x 17. Weight in Grams: 263.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Bridge Works Publishing Co ,U.S. United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781882593491
ISBN
9781882593491
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 14.60

Paperback. House Work is the lyrical history of a family of five in working-class Pittsburgh. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 139 x 16. Weight in Grams: 240.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Bridge Works Publishing Co ,U.S. United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9781882593477
ISBN
9781882593477
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 14.60

Paperback. This first-person narrative of a baby boomer's mid-life crisis is set in Baton Rouge. Sorrow alternates with good-ol'-boy humor as the hero struggles over three consecutive days surrounding his 47th birthday to come to terms with grief, aging and the disappointments of a childless marriage. Num Pages: 186 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 132 x 14. Weight in Grams: 217.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Bridge Works Publishing Co ,U.S. United States
Number of pages
186
Condition
New
SKU
V9781882593460
ISBN
9781882593460
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 14.32

Hardback. A witty tale of marriage and midlife longing, as a taked-for-granted-wife pursues a fantasy love via e-mail. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 145 x 20. Weight in Grams: 372.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Bridge Works Publishing Co ,U.S. United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9781882593323
ISBN
9781882593323
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 21.60

Hardback. A story of love and loss, and the evolution of farm life as the 20th century unfolded, narrated by a feisty farm woman as she reflects on her life. Num Pages: 245 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 148 x 25. Weight in Grams: 444.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Bridge Works Publishing Co ,U.S. United States
Number of pages
245
Condition
New
SKU
V9781882593217
ISBN
9781882593217
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 22.31

hardcover. Surreal, existential love story set in Paris.Charming, cerebral.-Philadelphia Inquirer Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 150 x 17. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Bridgeworks United States
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
SKU
V9781882593026
ISBN
9781882593026
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 18.04

Paperback. First novel by a modern master of Southern fiction, this tale is reminiscent of Hardy's Return of the Native-set in rural twentieth-century Tennessee. Southern Classics Series. Series: Southern Classics. Num Pages: 383 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 207 x 138 x 24. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
J S Sanders and Company Incorporated United States
Number of pages
383
Condition
New
SKU
V9781879941182
ISBN
9781879941182
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.30

Paperback. "The Last Agrarian" portrays the history and character of the people of the mid-South through a history of his family, giving, in the words of critic J. A. Bryant, Jr., a "rendering of a bygone world that brings the ache of beauty remembered." Southern Classics Series. Series: Southern Classics. Num Pages: 303 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 137 x 19. Weight in Grams: 313.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
J S Sanders and Company Incorporated United States
Number of pages
303
Condition
New
SKU
V9781879941106
ISBN
9781879941106
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 14.91

Paperback. Fresh off his National Book Award win, Alexie delivers a heartbreaking and hilarious collection of stories that explores the precarious balance between self-preservation and external responsibility in art, family, and the world at large. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 143 x 15. Weight in Grams: 208.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802144898
ISBN
9780802144898
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.79

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Grove Press United Kingdom
Edition
First Trade Paper Edition
Number of pages
388
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802142061
ISBN
9780802142061
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 17.47

Paperback. Num Pages: 218 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 165 x 15. Weight in Grams: 290.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Avalon Travel Publishing United States
Edition
1st Pbk. Ed
Number of pages
218
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802134196
ISBN
9780802134196
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.84

Paperback. Ditch-crawling has no rules, just aesthetic principles, the most important thing is to travel lightly, leave no legacies, and try to make no sound at all. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 135 x 19. Weight in Grams: 313.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857547689
ISBN
9781857547689
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 19.05

Hardback. A collection of short stories that evoke the reality of the South Pacific: the story of a do-it-yourself murder mystery; an assassination attempt on the Queen; and a futuristic tale set in 1999. Several of these pieces were first collected as "The New Land", which won the 1990 Buckland Award. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 144 x 23. Weight in Grams: 447.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857540468
ISBN
9781857540468
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 25.45

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