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Previous Picks: 1993
Devil Knows You’re Dead $40.00
New York, NY: William Morrow (1993)
With riveting noir drama and unrelenting suspense, the Edgar Award-winning author of A Dance at the Slaughterhouse creates another compelling Scudder novel. Matt's investigation into the death of a yuppie lawyer launches him on an unintended voyage of self-discovery.
To The White Sea $75.00
New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin (1993)
In this gripping first-person narrative, the bestselling author of Deliverance tells about an American gunner's efforts to stay alive in Tokyo during the last months of WWII. As he treks north, his journey becomes more than an escape--it escalates into a violent odyssey of self-discovery and an exploration of the primal nature of war and man.
Tidewater Morning $65.00
New York, NY: Random House (1993)
In this brilliant collection of "long short stories," the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Sophie's Choice returns to the coastal Virginia setting of his first novels. Through the eyes of a man recollecting three episodes from his youth, William Styron explores with new eloquence death, loss, war, and racism.
Body & Soul $75.00
New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin (1993)
Pulsing with sound and rhythm, this story, set in New York in the 1940s, brilliantly evokes the life of a child prodigy whose genius pulls him out of squalor and into the drawing rooms of the rich and a gilt-edged marriage.
Pronto $35.00
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New York, NY: Delacorte (1993)
The feds want Miami bookmaker Harry Arno to squeal on his wiseguy boss. So they're putting word out on the street that Arno's skimming profits from "Jimmy Cap" Capotorto -- which he is, but everybody does it. He was planning to retire to Italy someday anyway, so Harry figures now's a good time to get lost. U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens knows Harry's tricky -- the bookie ditched him once in an airport while in the marshal's custody -- but not careful. So Raylan's determined to find the fugitive's Italian hideaway before a cold-blooded Sicilian "Zip" does and whacks Arno for fun. After all, it's a "pride thing..".and it might even put Raylan in good stead with Harry's sexy ex-stripper girlfriend Joyce.
New York Days $350.00
New York, NY: Little & Brown (1993)
Fine in dust jacket.
In the critically acclaimed "New York Days, " Willie Morris recalls his triumphant, exciting, and ultimately devastating years as the youngest ever editor-in-chief of "Harper's," America's oldest magazine, when he was at the center of the nation's stunning cosmos of writing, publishing, politics, and the arts. "New York Days" captures the spirit of the 60s: the dazzling parties, the fervent intellectualism, and the sense of slowly decaying idealism as the country plunged deeper into a tragic war and intensifying social chaos. In the midst of this scene is Willie Morris, exalted, exhilarated, and eventually almost consumed by his brilliant, electric, enervating New York days.