FICTION / General from YJS BOXES OF BOOKS

Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon, a novel of large beauty and power, creates a magical world out of four generations of black life in America, a world we enter on the day of the birth of Macon Dead, Jr. (known as Milkman), son of the richest black family in a mid-western town; the day on which the lonely insurance man,… Read more about this item

The ever-surprising John Updike's twenty-second novel is a brilliant contemporary fiction that will surely be counted as one of his most powerful. It tells of eighteen-year-old Ahmad Ashmawy Mulloy and his devotion to Allah and the words of the Holy Qur'an, as expounded to him by a local mosque's imam.The son of an Irish-American mother and an Egyptian father who… Read more about this item

An alluring tour de force: a brilliant debut novel told with seamless authenticity and exquisite lyricism as the true confessions of one of Japan's most celebrated geisha. Speaking to us with the wisdom of age and in a voice at once haunting and startlingly immediate, Nitta Sayuri tells the story of her life as a geisha. Through her… Read more about this item

The Way West is a 1949 western novel by A. B. Guthrie, Jr. (descendant of a family that traveled west).[1] The novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1950. The book became the basis for a film starring Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum, and Richard Windmark. The Way West is an account of a wagon-train journey from Independence, Missouri, to Oregon… Read more about this item

Certain that the young black man who has confessed to a recent murder is covering for his drug-dealing half-brother, Striker, veteran cop Rocco Klein decides to make Striker's life a nightmare. By the author of The Wanderers. 100,000 first printing. $100,000 ad/promo. Houghton Mifflin, 05/02/1992, First Edition, unsure of printing, possibly third. Book in Near Mint condition, clean no soiling,… Read more about this item

Willa Cather: Early Novels and Stories The Troll Garden (stories) | O Pioneers! The Song of the Lark | My Ántonia | One of Ours. Edited by Sharon O'Brien "Willa Cather's early work has been assembled in another of the glorious Library of America volumes, this one beautifully edited and annotated by Sharon O'Brien…. Cather's writing, strong, sensitive, unmannered,… Read more about this item

Even before the novel was finished, some details were reported in the media. The novel has been described as Wolfe's take on "class, family, wealth, race, crime, sex, corruption and ambition in Miami, the city where America's future has arrived first."[] Racial anxieties were a key source of tension in The Bonfire of the Vanities—Back to Blood will similarly feature… Read more about this item

30 Selected Stories: This volume contains 30 of Maupassant's classic stories: Boule de Suif; In the Spring; The Graveyard Sisterhood; Madame Tellier's Establishment; A Ruse; An Old Man; Rust; Two Friends; The Jewels; The Conservatory; The Matter with André; My Uncle Jules; A Duel; The Convert; In the Bedroom; Regret; The decoration; The Piece of String; The Model; The Hand;… Read more about this item

Alfred A Knopf, New York (1938), Published February 28, 1938, Sixth printing. Book is clean, solid, bright and no markings. No DJ.. Originally published as Joseph Und Seine Bruder. Der dritte Roman: Joseph In agypten copyright 1936 by Berman Fisher verlag Ges. m. b. h., Vienna. Alfred A Knopf, New York (1938), Published February 28,… Read more about this item

"Look at the Birdie is a collection of fourteen previously unpublished short stories from one of the most original writers in all of American fiction. In this series of vignettes, written just as he was starting to find his comic voice, Kurt Vonnegut paints a warm, wise, and funny portrait of life in post-World War II America - a world… Read more about this item

In the afterglow of a clean triumph--her widely celebrated, Pulitzer Prize-winning best-seller, Beloved--Toni Morrison moves to even higher ground. This, her eagerly awaited new novel, Jazz, is spellbinding for the haunting passion of its profound love story, and for the bittersweet lyricism and refined sensuality of its powerful and elegant style.It is winter, barely three days into 1926, seven years… Read more about this item

Pirate Latitudes is an action adventure novel written by Michael Crichton. The book was published posthumously by HarperCollins on November 24, 2009. It is an adventure story concerning piracy in Jamaica in the 17th century. The novel stars the fictional privateer Captain Charles Hunter who, together with the governor of Jamaica, plots to raid a Spanish galleon for its treasure.… Read more about this item

Imagine a year without Christmas. No crowded malls, no corny office parties, no fruitcakes, no unwanted presents. That's just what Luther and Nora Krank have in mind when they decide that, just this once, they'll skip the holiday altogether. Theirs will be the only house on Hemlock Street without a rooftop Frosty; they won't be hosting their annual Christmas Eve… Read more about this item

Trying to Save Piggy Sneedcontains a dozen short works by John Irving, beginning with three memoirs--two of which (including an account of Mr. Irving's dinner with President Reagan at the White House) are new to American readers. The newest and longest of the memoirs, "The Imaginary Girlfriend," is the core of this collection.The middle section of the book is fiction.… Read more about this item

John Updike wrote about the lure of golf for five decades, from the first time he teed off at the age of twenty-five until his final rounds at the age of seventy-six. Golf Dreams collects the most memorable of his golf pieces, high-spirited evidence of his learning, playing, and living for the game. The camaraderie of golf, the perils of… Read more about this item

In Dubious Battle deals with a fruit-workers' strike in a California valley and the attempts of communists to organize, lead, and provide for the striking pickers. The central figure of the story is an activist for "the Party" (possibly the American Communist Party or the Industrial Workers of the World, although it is never specifically named in the novel) who is… Read more about this item

The House of Wu, one of the oldest and most revered in China, is thrown into an uproar by her decision, but Madame Wu will not be dissuaded and arranges for a young country girl to come take her place in bed. Elegant and detached, Madame Wu orchestrates this change as she manages everything in the extended household of more… Read more about this item

The John Day Company, 1949. FIRST EDITION, no other printings listed. The familiar rust brown boards with gilt embossed design to front board and spine containing the title. Very good condition in and out. The cast of characters is immense, mostly Chinese with a scattering of Americans and Europeans. The scenes alternate between New York and China, with a glimpse… Read more about this item

Stories affectiong young young people following World War I, as can only be told by Sara Cone Bryant.

Following the Second World War, a northern cannery combine negotiates for the purchase of a large tract of uncultivated Georgia farmland. The major portion of the land is owned by Julie Ann Warren and has already been optioned by her unscrupulous, draft dodging husband, Henry. Now the combine must also obtain two smaller plots - one owned by Henry's cousin… Read more about this item