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"A daring first novel in the great picaresque tradition--both buoyant comedy and devastating satire--by the author of the best-selling story collection Say You're One of Them. Ekong Udousoro is a Nigerian editor undertaking a reckoning with the brutal recent history of his homeland by curating a collection of stories about the Biafran War. He is thrilled when a publishing fellowship gives him the opportunity to continue his work in Manhattan while...
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2023.
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xxvii, 466 pages ; 20 cm
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"Rona Jaffe's beloved novel of mid-century NYC women in the workplace that paved the way for the #MeToo movement and iconic cultural touchstones like Mad Men, now for the first time in Penguin Classics, in a 65th anniversary edition with an introduction by New Yorker staff writer Rachel Syme A Penguin Classic When Rona Jaffe's superb page-turner was first published in 1958, it changed contemporary fiction forever. Some readers were shocked, but millions...
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[2016]
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500 pages ; 24 cm.
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"From the author of the "thrilling" (The Christian Science Monitor) novel The Other Typist comes an evocative, multilayered story of ambition, success, and secrecy in 1950s New York. In 1958, Greenwich Village buzzes with beatniks, jazz clubs, and new ideas--the ideal spot for three ambitious young people to meet. Cliff Nelson, the son of a successful book editor, is convinced he's the next Kerouac, if only his father would notice. Eden Katz dreams...
25) West 57
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[2015]
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8 audio discs (10 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Meet Julie Chavan. Julie is trying to rescue the legendary New York publishing house WEST 57. Everyone else in her life is trying to rescue Julie-her mother, her ex-fiance, her ex-best friend, and even the ghost of her dead father. They all think they know what Julie needs.What Julie actually needs is a big bestseller for WEST 57, but her debut of the year's hottest book is spinning wildly out of control. Julie is dealing with a dead con artist, an...
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