A group of young fighters in the U.S. Air Corps awaits each day's dangerous combat by sharing their dreams and fears while creating new--and possibly short-lived--friendships

Paper Doll

Literature & Fiction

SHEPARD, Jim

Genre Fiction

Collins

WW2, 1st edition 1st prinFontana 1989 ting paperback, vg++, war in skies In stock shipped from our UK warehouse

Fontana

In this anthology twenty-six contemporary fiction writers and poets offer short essays on a single movie that inspired, seduced, horrified, or fascinated them, giving readers a rare glimpse of the writer's perspective on film.

Writers at the Movies: 26 Contemporary Authors Celebrate 26 Memorable Movies

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Harper-perennial

Joanie Mucherino and her eleven-year-old son, Todd, kill someone in a hit-and-run accident, and their decision to keep silent leads to transformed relationships and feelings of anguished guilt and silence. 10,000 first printing.

Kiss of the Wolf

United States

Harcourt

Trying to raise her eleven-year-old son after her husband abandons them, Joanie struggles with her intrusive Italian family and an amorous former flame until she accidentally kills an acquaintance in a hit-and-run accident. Reprint.

Kiss Of The Wolf

Mariner Books

Following his widely acclaimed Project X and Love and Hydrogen—“Here is the effect of these two books,” wrote the Chicago Tribune: “A reader finishes them buzzing with awe”—Jim Shepard now gives us his first entirely new collection in more than a decade. Like You’d Understand, Anyway reaches from Chernobyl to Bridgeport, with a host of narrators only Shepard could bring to pitch-perfect life. Among them: a middle-aged Aeschylus taking his place at Marathon, still vying for parental approval. A maddeningly indefatigable Victorian explorer hauling his expedition, whaleboat and all, through the Great Australian Desert in midsummer. The first woman in space and her cosmonaut lover, caught in the star-crossed orbits of their joint mission. Two Texas high school football players at the top of their food chain, soliciting their fathers’ attention by leveling everything before them on the field. And the rational and compassionate chief executioner of Paris, whose occupation, during the height of the Terror, eats away at all he holds dear. Brimming with irony, compassion, and withering humor, these eleven stories are at once eerily pertinent and dazzlingly exotic, and they showcase the work of a protean, prodigiously gifted writer at the height of his form. Reading Jim Shepard, according to Michael Chabon, “is like encountering our national literature in microcosm.”

Like You'd Understand, Anyway: Stories

KNOPF

Like You'd Understand, Anyway (Vintage Contemporaries)

Dramas & Plays

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Following Like You’d Understand, Anyway—awarded the Story Prize and a finalist for the National Book Award—Jim Shepard returns with an even more wildly diverse collection of astonishingly observant stories. Like an expert curator, he populates the vastness of human experience—from its bizarre fringes and lonely, breathtaking pinnacles to the hopelessly mediocre and desperately below average—with brilliant scientists, reluctant soldiers, workaholic artists, female explorers, depraved murderers, and deluded losers, all wholly convincing and utterly fascinating. A “black world” operative at Los Alamos isn’t allowed to tell his wife anything about his daily activities, but he can’t resist sharing her intimate confidences with his work buddy. A young Alpine researcher falls in love with the girlfriend of his brother, who was killed in an avalanche he believes he caused. An unlucky farm boy becomes the manservant of a French nobleman who’s as proud of his military service with Joan of Arc as he’s aroused by the slaughter of children. A free-spirited autodidact, grieving her lost sister, traces the ancient steps of a ruthless Middle Eastern sect and becomes the first Western woman to travel the Arabian deserts. From the inventor of the Godzilla epics to a miserable G.I. in New Guinea, each comes to realize that knowing better is never enough. Enthralling and unfailingly compassionate, You Think That’s Bad traverses centuries, continents, and social strata, but the joy and struggle that Shepard depicts with such devastating sensitivity—all the heartbreak, alienation, intimacy, and accomplishment—has a universal resonance.

You Think That's Bad: Stories

Following Like You’d Understand, Anyway—awarded the Story Prize and a finalist for the National Book Award—Jim Shepard returns with an even more wildly diverse collection of astonishingly observant stories. Like an expert curator, he populates the vastness of human experience—from its bizarre fringes and lonely, breathtaking pinnacles to the hopelessly mediocre and desperately below average—with brilliant scientists, reluctant soldiers, workaholic artists, female explorers, depraved murderers, and deluded losers, all wholly convincing and utterly fascinating.

You Think That's Bad (Vintage Contemporaries)

Albert Delp, an older herpetologist, shapes Karel Roeder's fascination with snakes and lizards; Leda, his enigmatic girlfriend, leads him ever deeper into proscribed areas of thought and speech.

Lights Out in the Reptile House

Avon/Books

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Paper Doll

Paper Doll

Writers at the Movies: 26 Contemporary Authors Celebrate 26 Memorable Movies

Kiss of the Wolf

Kiss Of The Wolf

Like You'd Understand, Anyway: Stories

Like You'd Understand, Anyway (Vintage Contemporaries)

You Think That's Bad: Stories

You Think That's Bad (Vintage Contemporaries)

Lights Out in the Reptile House