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In Ann Harleman's remarkable debut collection, men and women of extraordinary passions look for and sometimes find the hidden heart of ordinary life. Testing themselves and each other, they search for ways to connect. Understanding, says the troubled voyeur-narrator of Imaginary Colors, is the booby prize; these characters go for experience. Reckless explorers of inner space, they try the limits of their lives.A gravely ill woman seeks forgiveness from her grown-up daughters for an adulterous past which she does not really regret. A boy watches anxiouslyOCoand enviouslyOCowhile his brother flaunts an interracial love affair in front of their dangerous father. In strike-torn Warsaw during the rise of Solidarity, an American professor and his Polish housekeeper reach toward each other from their respective cages of loneliness. A girl's determined pursuit of her first sexual experience brings her more, and less, than she bargained for.Harleman combines a clear eye with a generous heart, revealing her characters-misguided, selfish, loving, braveOCothrough a compassionate, often humorous probing of their inner and outer worlds. In It Was Humdrum a system analyst hires a detective to find the mother who left him as an infant, while his young wife leaves him daily for afternoon trysts with her Puerto Rican lover. A woman assaulted by a teenage gang escapes physically unharmed but forever changed. The past overtakes a woman who has married for love, not of her husband, but of his small daughter. A greeting card poet pursued by stereotyped images of happiness flees from the woman he loves and the brother he never knew he had.The supple language of these twelve storiesOCowise, funny, delighting in the sensuousOComakes us feel the beauty and terror of a fully lived life. Harleman's characters, whether they succeed or fail, show us the way to a deeper exploration of our own lives.a"
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Librería: Blue Vase Books, Interlochen, MI, Estados Unidos de America
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Librería: Housing Works Online Bookstore, New York, NY, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: Very Good. Minimal wear to cover. Pages clean and binding tight. Shelfwear. Bumped edges. Hardcover. Nº de ref. del artículo: EF1-03133
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Librería: Irish Booksellers, Portland, ME, Estados Unidos de America
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Librería: Black Falcon Books, Wellesley, MA, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. First Edition. First printing, full number line. The author's debut collection won the 1993 John Simmons Short Fiction Award. The book is unmarked; slight spine slant; corners sharp, tail of spine bumped. The dust jacket is not priced; edgewear at spine ends and corners; Brodart protected. Nº de ref. del artículo: 002673
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Librería: Dan Pope Books, West Hartford, CT, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: As New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: As New. 1st Edition. University of Iowa Press, 1994. First edition, first printing. Hardbound. A tight, clean, unread copy, without flaws of any kind. Never opened. Short story award winner, selected by Francine Prose. Author's first book. A perfect, unread copy. F4000. Signed by Author(s). Nº de ref. del artículo: 7143
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Librería: Craig Hokenson Bookseller, Dallas, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine+. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine+. First Edition. John Simmons Short Fiction Award; nice unread signed copy, but rem. mark bottom edge. Signed by Author(s). Nº de ref. del artículo: 5237
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Librería: biblioboy, North Providence, RI, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. First Edition. First edition of the author's first collection [which won the 1993 John Simmons Short Fiction Award selected by Francine Prose]. This copy has been inscribed and signed, and then signed again, by the author on the title page. Collects 12 stories. including a two-page list of Other Iowa Short Fiction Award and John Simmons Short Fiction Award Winners. Near Fine copy [very light bumping to one lower corner] in Near Fine Dust Wrapper [lower corner creasing to the front flap] bx 123 Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Nº de ref. del artículo: 66854
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