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Over but the Shoutin'
Rick Bragg, paperback, $11.20...you save $2.80!
This memoir by Pulitzer-prize winner and New York Times columnist
Rick Bragg will thrill you. At times heartbreaking, at others
raucous and full of humor, Rick Bragg paints a picture of growing up in
the south that should be on everyone's bookshelf. A gifted and
natural storyteller, Rick Bragg can draw you into to a story like very
few others. After reading this one you'll want to call your Mother
and thank her for everything she did for you. Get it today!
Endurance:
Shackleton's Incredible Voyage,
Alfred Lansing, paperback, $10.36...you save $2.59!
After
reading this book you'll think twice before complaining that you're
tired, hungry, or cold! If you like true-life survival stories
like
Into Thin Air and The
Perfect Storm, you will love this book. The struggle these
explorers went through makes modern expeditions to the poles or to the
tops of mountains, with all their satellite navigation, Gore-tex,
cell-phones and sno-cats, seem almost like cheating. Read it and
then try not to tell your friends and family about it...it's
impossible!
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what Amazon.com had to say...
In
the summer of 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton set off aboard the Endurance
bound for the South Atlantic. The goal of his expedition was to cross
the Antarctic overland, but more than a year later, and still half a
continent away from the intended base, the Endurance was trapped
in ice and eventually was crushed. For five months Shackleton and his
crew survived on drifting ice packs in one of the most savage regions of
the world before they were finally able to set sail again in one of the
ship's lifeboats. Alfred Lansing's Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible
Voyage is a white-knuckle account of this astounding odyssey.
Through
the diaries of team members and interviews with survivors, Lansing
reconstructs the months of terror and hardship the Endurance crew
suffered. In October of 1915, there "were no helicopters, no
Weasels, no Sno-Cats, no suitable planes. Thus their plight was naked
and terrifying in its simplicity. If they were to get out--they had to
get themselves out." How Shackleton did indeed get them out without
the loss of a single life is at the heart of Lansing's magnificent
true-life adventure tale.
 The
Sportswriter , Richard Ford, $9.60...you save $2.40
Literary
Fiction and Classics Editor's Recommended Book
It's
hard to imagine a book illuminating the texture of everyday life more
brilliantly, or capturing the truth of human emotions more honestly,
than Ford does in his account of an alienated scribe in the New Jersey
suburbs. Frank Bascombe, Ford's protagonist, clings to his almost
villainous despair in a way that Walker Percy's men don't, but the book
is heavily influenced by Ford's fellow southerner nonetheless. Read this
and you're ready for Ford's Pulitzer Prize-winning sequel, Independence
Day.
Ninety-Two
in the Shade,
Thomas McGuane, paperback, $9.60...you save $2.40!
New York Times Review
Tiring of the company of junkies and burn-outs, Thomas Skelton goes home
to Key West to take up a more wholesome life. But things fester in
America's utter South. And Skelton's plans to become a skiff guide in
the shining blue subtropical waters place him on a collision course with
Nichol Dance, who has risen to the crest of the profession by dint of
infallible instincts and a reputation for homicide. Out of their deadly
rivalry, Thomas McGuane has constructed a novel with the impetus of a
thriller and the heartbroken humor that is his distinct contribution to
American prose.
Emperor
of the Air,
Stories, Ethan Canin, paperback, $10.40...you save
$2.60!
This book, first published in 1991, is an amazing collection of
stories. Canin was still in his twenties when he wrote these
pieces, but he writes with the talent and wisdom well beyond his years.
Full of subtle drama and wonderful characters and a beautiful, fluid
style, this book is one of our top ten story collections from this
decade. Incidentally, Canin's other collection,
The
Palace Thief,
is also in our top ten!
 The
Pugilist At Rest
Thom Jones, paperback, $9.56...you save $2.39!
Amazon.com
Amazon.com
Thom Jones's first collection of stories is a revelation. In prose that
sounds like nobody else, Jones channels a variety of distinctively
different voices, from the lustful book editor of "Unchain My
Heart" to the epileptic, amnesiac adman of the Dostoevskian fable
"A White Horse." There's not a miss among these tales, but two
in particular stand out: the title story, about a boxer and Vietnam vet
who has plumbed the vicious depths of his own soul, and the almost
unbearably intense chronicle of a woman fighting a losing battle with
cancer, "I Want to Live!" "The world is replete with
badness," says the aging fighter of "A Pugilist at Rest";
yet, as the narrator of "I Want to Live!" discovers, there is
nothing stronger than the human will to go on, to persist--even
in the face of the hell that exists right here on earth. It's not all
gloom, doom, and napalm, however. There's also the surreal, Gogol-esque
humor of "The Black Lights," in which the pysch-ward
protagonist insists his only problem is epilepsy, yet hallucinates a
giant, shuddering rabbit caught under his bed at night ("It's that
rabbit on the Br'er Rabbit molasses jar. That rabbit with buckles on his
shoes! Bow tie. Yaller teeth! Yaller! Yaller!") Then, too, Jones
creates images of startling, surreal clarity amid the horror, like the
dying lieutenant who remains on one knee even after being shot,
"his remaining arm extended out to the enemy, palm upward in the
soulful, heartrending gesture of Al Jolson doing a rendition of
'Mammy.'" Take a decidedly grim world-view, add a dose of
existential slapstick, some Schopenhauer, an encyclopedic knowledge of
pharmaceuticals, and a soundtrack by the Doors, and you have what may be
the darkest, funniest, most urgent fictional debut in years. --Mary
Park
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