Blending elements of tall tale and wordplay, this zany Wild West saga follows three cowhands and their faithful canine companion as they race across high mountains and through deep canyons in pursuit of the one that got away.

The One That Got Away

Everett, Percival L.

Children's Books

Clarion Books

Facing problems at home and on the field, Craig Suder, third baseman for the Seattle Mariners, embarks on a madcap quest accompanied by a sassy nine-year-old runaway and an elephant named Renoir

Suder

Literature & Fiction

United States

Viking Adult

Hailed by the New York Times as "both a treatise and a romp," a bold and brilliant novel of a man coming to terms with himself.
Now in paperback, this provocative tale within a tale details the life of avant-garde novelist and college professor Thelonious "Monk" Ellison. Monk, frustrated with his dismal book sales, composes a fierce parody of exploitative ghetto literature entitled My Pafology, which is greeted by critics as the work of a great new voice and garners him the success that he covets. Monk's impending struggle with his moral principles emerges as a revolutionary and riotous indictment of race and publishing in America.

Erasure: A Novel

Literary

Hyperion Books

Craig Suder, third baseman for the Seattle Mariners, is in a terrible slump. He’s batting below .200 at the plate, and even worse in bed with his wife; and he secretly fears he’s inherited his mother’s insanity. Ordered to take a midseason rest, Suder instead takes his record of Charlie Parker’s “Ornithology,” his record player, and his new saxophone and flees, negotiating his way through madcap adventures and flashbacks to childhood (“If you folks believed more strongly in God, maybe you wouldn’t be colored”). Pursued by a raging dope dealer, saddled with a mishandled elephant and an abused little white girl, he manages in the end to fly free, both transcending and inspired by the pull of so much life.

Suder: A Novel (Voices of the South)

LSU Press

Retired Virginia obstetrician John Livesey, recently widowed and discouraged by the world's crumbling morals, meets a man who has just performed an unnecessary cesarean section on his wife so as to be the one to deliver their child. Though initially appalled by the act, Livesey finds himself recalling it later when he learns a friend is dying of cancer, when his affair with a younger woman ends in disillusionment, and when, during an extended visit to his son and his family in Oregon, he realizes his daughter-in-law's unborn baby does not belong to her husband. Coming to admire the calm directness with which the man took matters of life and death into his own hands, Livesey begins to reconsider what he values and what he will protect.

Cutting Lisa (Voices of the South)

Louisiana State Univ Pr

In Slut's Hole, Wyoming, recently returned Vietnam veteran David Larson forms a posse to find Butch, a seven-year-old Vietnamese war orphan, and the severely retarded son of Sixbury, a one-legged, widow-lady sheep rancher

Walk Me to the Distance

Ticknor & Fields

John Livesey, a recently retired Virginia obstetrician, spends a summer on the Oregon coast with his son's family, discovers the truth about his daughter-in-law's baby, and tries to resist the temptation to play God

Cutting Lisa

In the far distant future, Alice Achitophel, a government clerk, discovers that as the last woman alive who is not sterile, she poses a threat to the government

Zulus

Permanent Pr Pub Co

For Her Dark Skin

Owl Creek Pr

So Much Blue

Highbridge Co

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