The coming of age of ten-year-old Trygve Napoli, a Norwegian immigrant, is a struggle for emotional survival in the alien territory of 1943 Los Angeles

The Year of the Zinc Penny

DEMARINIS, Rick

Literature & Fiction

Harpercollins

A collection of stories about modern life in America features characters struggling to maintain their grip on sanity despite the ravages of depression, boredom, illness, middle age, and a faltering economy

The Voice of America: Stories

Perennial

This surrealistic Black comedy centers around a household in the town of Far Cry, whose members include Jack, a confused teenager; La Donna, Jack's sexy, brilliant, Einstein-adoring sister; and Jade, his sensous, exotic-looking mother

The Burning Women of Far Cry

Literary

Penguin??Books

Dust jacket design by Fred Marcellino. His third book. The story of an old man who meets a Genie in the last year of his life.

Cinder

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

AVON.

Year of the Zinc Penny

United States

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

Ozzie Santee, an eighteen-year-old high school graduate in 1953 California, falls in love with Colleen Vogel, daughter of San Diego's most successful undertaker

The Mortician's Apprentice

"De Marinis is a wizard shaking to its literary roots the short-story genre."? Matthew Gilbert, Boston Globe Rick DeMarinis possesses a power and an originality unique in contemporary American fiction. The Coming Triumph of the Free World, his second story collection, puts his flamboyant gifts on display: an amazing verbal energy, a blackly comic vision of the world as an immense booby trap, and a technical virtuosity that modulates from down-and-dirty realism to fractured fable to surreal and searing visions of madness.

The Coming Triumph of the Free World: Stories

Short Stories & Anthologies

W.W.Norton&Company

A Lovely Monster, The Adventures of Claude Rains and Dr. Tellenbeck , An outrageous Novel of Artificial Life and Supernatural Sex beyond Frankenstein's wildest dreams.

A Lovely Monster: The adventures of Claude Rains and Dr. Tellenbeck

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The Year of the Zinc Penny

The Voice of America: Stories

The Burning Women of Far Cry

Cinder

Cinder

Year of the Zinc Penny

The Voice of America: Stories

The Mortician's Apprentice

The Coming Triumph of the Free World: Stories

A Lovely Monster: The adventures of Claude Rains and Dr. Tellenbeck