Chez Chance

Chez Chance
Author: Jay Gummerman
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 226
Release: 1997-10-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780520210806

"...Unhappy in his native St. Louis, disaffected paraplegic Frank Eastman returns to L.A., where six months before, working as a tree-cutter for the phone company, he suffered the fall from a top a rat-infested palm tree that caused his paralysis. Fed up with the condescension of his well-meaning sister and full of bitter insights into the empty lifestyles of "enabled" people, Frank moves into the seedy Tradewinds motel, in the shadow of Disney's magic kingdom. There, among a shady cast of eccentrics and fellow malcontents, Frank wrestles with the implications of his personal predicament and with the conflicting, sometimes hallucinatory, realities of this strange milieu..."--Publishers Weekly, www.amazon.com.

New York Magazine

New York Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 216
Release: 1989-05-01
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ISBN:

New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.

Brain Work

Brain Work
Author: Michael Guista
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2005
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780618546725

With a blend of curiosity and sensitivity reminiscent of the work of Oliver Sachs, Guista's emotionally adept, psychologically acute debut collection of short stories explores the vast mysteries of the human mind and the fascinating intricacies of the soul.

Orange Coast Magazine

Orange Coast Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 178
Release: 1991-04
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Orange Coast Magazine is the oldest continuously published lifestyle magazine in the region, bringing together Orange County¹s most affluent coastal communities through smart, fun, and timely editorial content, as well as compelling photographs and design. Each issue features an award-winning blend of celebrity and newsmaker profiles, service journalism, and authoritative articles on dining, fashion, home design, and travel. As Orange County¹s only paid subscription lifestyle magazine with circulation figures guaranteed by the Audit Bureau of Circulation, Orange Coast is the definitive guidebook into the county¹s luxe lifestyle.

Now Read this

Now Read this
Author: Nancy Pearl
Publisher:
Total Pages: 460
Release: 1999
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

Offers an annotated listing of 1,000 acclaimed or award-winning novels, each with a plot summary, indication of suitability for a discussion group, list of subject headings, and recommendations for similar titles.

All Stories are True

All Stories are True
Author: John Edgar Wideman
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 164
Release: 1993
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Set mainly in the Pittsburgh district of Homewood, these 10 stories depict African Americans from all walks of life--ancestors, family, and lovers caught in the vortex of American history and haunted by their own particular demons. "(Wideman is) one of our very finest writers, period".--New Republic.

Landscape with Traveler

Landscape with Traveler
Author: Barry Gifford
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 164
Release: 1993
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780679737490

From the acclaimed author of Wild at Heart and Night People comes an innovative and exquisitely nuanced work written in the form of a classical Japanese "pillow book"--a collection of short tales grouped around a central theme. The result is an almost Zen-like tour through--and beyond--the realm of the senses.

Sirens

Sirens
Author: Stephen Willard Pett
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 424
Release: 1990
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

In startling, often brutal prose, Stephen Pett marks his fiction debut with the story of Carlos Cade: a young, down-and-out outlaw in Salt Lake City with an obsessive drive for revenge on a childhood playmate.