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(0)Herman Raucher
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Publication Date
2015
Language
English
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The international bestselling author of Summer of '42 delivers a darkly comic love story. "A strange and moving tale with a shocker climax" (The Boston Globe). Tiger is a nineteen-year-old runaway who comes to the big city to start anew. There she meets Luther, a quirky con artist with charm to burn. Together they pull small scams and petty crimes on the populace of New York in the 1970s, making their money and falling in love. But a con artist is...
Author
Publication Date
2015
Language
English
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Description
Austin Fletcher, a disturbed young Vietnam War vet, is willed a small house deep in the woods of northern Maine. He comes to own it by the generosity of a brother-in-arms-a fellow soldier and confidante, Maynard Whittier, killed in action by a wayward mortar shell. The rugged landscape of Maine is an intoxicating blend of claustrophobic interiors and endless frozen wastelands. Little by little, the mysterious force in the house asserts itself until...
Author
Publication Date
2015
Language
English
Description
From the international bestselling author of the classic Summer of '42. Ben is the writer who can't seem to make it; Ginnie is the dancer who can't seem to miss. In 1951, they are two scared kids in love-determined to hold onto each other no matter what. Together the world is theirs for the asking. In the exhilarating landscape of 1950s show biz, from the neon glamour of the New York stage to the starry glitter of Hollywood, they have love and success-pure,...
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Publication Date
2020
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1942, Hermie is fifteen. He is wildly obsessed with sex, and passionately in love with an "older woman" of twenty-two, whose husband is overseas and at war. Ambling through Nantucket Island with his friends, Hermie's indelible narration chronicles his frantic efforts to become a man, especially one worthy of the lovely Dorothy, as well as his glorious and heartbreaking initiation into sex.
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