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The Black Geese: A Baba Yaga Story From Russia
Amazon.com Review: Baba Yaga's black geese steal children--everyone in the village fears them. So when young Elena discovers that her baby brother is missing, she knows she must rescue him from the evil Baba Yaga's forest lair. On her way, she runs [... more]
$14.95
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Boys and Girls Forever: Children's Classics from ...
Your favorite childhood books, deconstructed!: I just finished this, and loved it, loved it, loved it! Alison Lurie, besides being a great novelist, teaches Children's Literature at Cornell. This book "deconstructs" classics such as Little [... more]
$16.00
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Familiar Spirits: A Memoir of James Merrill and David ...
Amazon.com Review: Written with her characteristic grace, novelist Alison Lurie's memoir of her friendship with the poet James Merrill and his companion David Jackson offers more than reminiscences, though these are tender, frank, and perceptive. Lurie [... more]
$13.00
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Don't Tell the Grown-Ups: The Subversive Power of ...
solid examination of classic children's literature: In this excellent overview, Lurie points out the subtle ways that many classic children's authors such as Barrie, Burnett, Milne, Nesbit, and Carroll embedded social criticism within their stories. [... more]
$16.99
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Foreign Affairs
Delicious Transatlantic Confection: A funny and humane novel -- one might call it a domestic comedy if it's theme weren't transatlantic in the Jamesian tradition. "Foreign Affairs" gently balances the "affairs" of two Americans, [... more]
$12.50
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Familiar Spirits: A Memoir of James Merrill and David ...
Amazon.com Review: Written with her characteristic grace, novelist Alison Lurie's memoir of her friendship with the poet James Merrill and his companion David Jackson offers more than reminiscences, though these are tender, frank, and perceptive. Lurie [... more]
$22.95
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Love and Friendship
Reader in Seattle: I began reading Ms. Lurie's collection with her most recent "The Last Resort", which I enjoyed. I then decided to read preceding books like "The Nowhere City" and then "Love and Friendship". Nowhere City [... more]
$12.00
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Real People
"Fiction is condensed reality...": When writers write about writing, the results are usually very interesting. Think of Calvino's "If On A Winter's Night a Traveler", Byatt's "Possession", Roth's "The Ghost Writer", [... more]
$12.00
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The Last Resort: A Novel
Amazon.com Review: The Last Resort finds Alison Lurie in top, trenchant form following a 10-year hiatus from fiction. "Without sex and death," the author wrote in Don't Tell the Grown-Ups, "humans may become as angels." Suffice it to [... more]
$13.00
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Imaginary Friends
A sharp & witty portrait of the foibles of academics.: As a sociologist who teaches just the sort of research of which Lurie writes, of course I've always cherished this book, & I've followed its publishing history (it was originally furnished [... more]
$13.00
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The Language of Clothes
Absolutely Fascinating!: I can't wait to go out and buy this book, which I read in hardcover from the library. It is very well researched and illustrated and discusses clothes and fashions from long ago up till today. And not just fashions and how they [... more]
$22.50
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Italy: The Best Travel Writing from the New York Times
Great Gift: I got this beautiful book for two dear friends, brilliant musicians, who will be traveling to Italy soon. They were entranced, and have thanked me several times, saying the book makes them feel "as if we are already in Italy." [... more]
$50.00
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