Brief vignettes provide a collective perspective on the American woman, real and fictitious, her feelings, attitudes, and experiences

TO FEED THEIR HOPES

Literature & Fiction

Sanford, John

United States

University of Illinois Press

Now in his nineties and still writing as beautifully and dangerously and originally as ever, John Sanford is an American literary treasure - simply one of our most talented authors. A keen and incisive observation on the perilous and hilarious, absurd and appalling, Intruders in Paradise takes on the influential personalities that history has strewn across the Americas over the centuries and gives them their unfettered due. From Francisco Pizarro's chaplain, Valverde, to J. Edgar Hoover in a fetching frock; from the poignant voice of someone drowned on the Lusitania to the creative musings of Andy Warhol - Sanford burrows, as no other writer has, into the very souls of these quintessential characters and with his words engages them, powering them to vigorous and palpable life.

Intruders in Paradise

An extraordinary novel, told partly in verse, The People from Heaven takes place in 1943 in Warrensburg, New York, where Eli Bishop, a white shopkeeper, initiates a reign of terror on the populace following his rape of America Smith, a black woman. The author, John Sanford, is considered by many to be one of the finest little-known writers of the twentieth century. In his introduction, Alan Wald provides an overview of Sanford's career, his art, and his politics.

The People from Heaven (Radical Novel Reconsidered)

BOOK OF AMERICAN WOMEN

This selection from over 70 years of letters, collected and edited by Dan Giancola, helps define John Sanford's writing life and the ambition that fueled it. The letters chronicle his time spent in Europe during the Great Depression, in writing screenplays during Hollywood's Golden Age (including work with director Frank Capra scripting World War Two propaganda films), in managing life after having been blacklisted by the House Un-American Activities Committee, and in finding publishers for his 24 books. These letters offer a testament to perseverance and integrity; they show a writer unwilling to accede to publishers' demands that he alter his sui generis work. The letters feature walk-ons by T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, Joan Crawford and Franchot Tone, and Jean Muir. Here too are letters to his wife, Marguerite Roberts, Hollywood screenwriter, with whom Sanford shared his uncompromising, indefatigable efforts to publish his books as he envisioned them. Above all, these letters illustrate the life of a writer far removed-both geographically and philosophically-from the east coast publishing elite, a writer battling agents, publishers, and Communist Party pressure trying to tell him how and what to write. Finally, perhaps most importantly, these letters reveal the jocular and acerbic personality of a writer impatient with fools and shoddy writing but who always made time to praise and advise younger writers, such as Paul Mariani and Per Petterson. This is a book for anyone interested in 20th-century American literature or thinking of becoming a professional writer. Speaking in an Empty Room contains 222 of Sanford's letters, an introduction by editor Dan Giancola, and an afterword by Jack Mearns, professor of psychology at California State University, Fullerton, and author of John Sanford: An Annotated Bibliography (Oak Knoll Press, 2008).

Speaking in an Empty Room: The Selected Letters of John Sanford

Essays & Correspondence

Tough Poets Press

From the bestselling author of night prey and winter prey...an all-new Lucas Davenport thriller. Run for it... 
 It was raining when psychiatrist Andi Manette left the parent-teacher conference with her two young daughters, and she was distracted. She barely noticed the red van parked beside her, barely noticed the van door slide open as they dashed up to the car. The last thing she did notice was the hand reaching out for her and the voice from out of the past -- and then the three of them were gone. 
 Hours later, deputy chief Lucas Davenport stood in the parking lot, a blood-stained shoe in his hand, the ground stained pink around him, and knew that this would be one of the worst cases he'd ever been on. With an urgency born of dread, he presses the attack, while in an isolated farmhouse, Andi Manette does the same, summoning all her skills to battle an obsessed captor. She knows the man who has taken her and her daughters, knows there is a chink in his armor, if only she can find it. But for both her and Davenport, time is already running out. 
 John Sandford's novels have always been extraordinary for their harrowing twists, unforgettable characters, and crackling prose. But Mind Prey tops them all. It is the work of a true master.

Mind Prey

Simon & Schuster Audio

After a vicious bank robber dies in a shootout with police, her violent associates vow revenge, targeting the loved ones of the police officers involved, and it is up to Lucas Davenport to stop the nightmarish killings.

Sudden Prey

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Audioworks

Those entirely unfamiliar with the heavens can now learn about eighty-eight constellations-- from Andromeda to Virgo--in a detailed reference that features instructions on how to find them, full-color maps, and discussions of the mythology associated with each

Observing the Constellations

Science & Math

Astronomy & Space Science

Fireside

Nearly killed in a hit attempt, retired top hitwoman Clara Rinker goes into hiding, prompting Lucas Davenport, a one-time target of Clara's, to assist the FBI and DEA in tracking her down before her old bosses in the St. Louis mob and a Mexican drug lord get to her first.

Mortal Prey

Literary

G.P.Putnam's Sons

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TO FEED THEIR HOPES

Intruders in Paradise

The People from Heaven (Radical Novel Reconsidered)

BOOK OF AMERICAN WOMEN

Speaking in an Empty Room: The Selected Letters of John Sanford

Mind Prey

Sudden Prey

Observing the Constellations

Sudden Prey

Mortal Prey