Hardcover with Dustjacket...HIS CONVICTION "WE ARE IN DEEP TROUBLE AS A NATION"...177 Pages

No Easy Victories,

Gardner,John

Harper&Row

The late novelist, critic, and teacher outlines a comprehensive course of education for the aspiring novelist, with an analysis of the undergraduate and graduate writing courses and provides practical advice on developing one's writing ability and earning a living as a novelist

On Becoming a Novelist

Literature & Fiction

Classics

Harpercollins

"Answers exactly the questions that a dedicated writing student would be most likely to ask . . . a miraculously detailed account of the creative process."--Anne Tyler, Baltimore Sun

Business & Money

Harper-perennial

British spymaster Herbie Kruger investigates his own spy network in East Berlin, the Telegraph Boys, for a double agent when one KGB officer commits suicide in East Germany and another defects

The Garden of Weapons

Romance

Contemporary

McGraw=Hill

Written at the height of Gardner's skill and the height of the Cold War.

The last trump

John Gardner, a teacher and writer by training, was a rare man, good with both words and tools. As Associate Curator of Small Craft at Mystic Seaport Museum from 1969 to 1995, he became the leading advocate and teacher of building small wooden boats. He sought out the best remaining examples of classic wooden boats. Then he measured them, drew them, researched their histories, and wrote out instructions so clear and complete that any amateur builder with modest talent and ambition could build a beautiful boat. And thousands have. This commemorative edition combines Building Classic Small Craft, Volume 1 and More Building Classic Small Craft, and also contains a selection of eulogies from Gardner's legions of fans. Here you'll find all the plans, measurements, and directions a reader needs to build any of 47 beautiful small boats for oar, sail, or motor, including dories, peapods, Whitehalls, Rangeley boats, wherries, Sea Bright skiffs, and more.

Building Classic Small Craft: Complete Plans and Instructions for 47 Boats

Engineering & Transportation

Transportation

Intl Marine Pub Co

"John Gardner's work has engaged and inspired more individuals connected with traditional small craft than will ever be counted."--WoodenBoat magazine "Deserves an honored place on the library shelf."--National Fisherman "Poses clear and impassioned means to go from the armchair to the open water via your own boat shop."--Sea History This big, handsome legacy volume contains all the plans, measurements, and directions needed to build any of 47 beautiful small boats for oar, sail, or motor.

Building Classic Small Craft : Complete Plans and Instructions for 47 Boats

International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press

Every Night's a Festival

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

Morrow & Co

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. New Directions is excited to reissue the Gardner classics, beginning with October Light, a complex relationship rendered in a down-to-earth narrative.October Light is one of John Gardner's masterworks. The penniless widow of a once-wealthy dentist, Sally Abbot now lives in the Vermont farmhouse of her older brother, 72-year-old James Page. Polar opposites in nearly every way, their clash of values turns a bitter corner when the exacting and resolute James takes a shotgun to his sister's color television set. After he locks Sally up in her room with the trashy "blockbuster" novel that has consumed her (and only apples to eat), the novel-within-the-novel becomes an echo chamber providing glimpses into the history of the family that spawned these bizarre, sad, and stubborn people. Gardner uses the turbulent siblings as a stepping-off point from which he expands upon the lives of their extended families, and the rural community that surrounds them. He also engages larger issues of how liberals and conservatives define themselves, and considers those moments when life transcends all their arguments.

October Light (Arena Books)

Arrow

Grendel

British & Irish

Ballantine

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No Easy Victories,

On Becoming a Novelist

On Becoming a Novelist

The Garden of Weapons

The last trump

Building Classic Small Craft: Complete Plans and Instructions for 47 Boats

Building Classic Small Craft : Complete Plans and Instructions for 47 Boats

Every Night's a Festival

October Light (Arena Books)

Grendel