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  • She Took My Arm As If She Loved Me

    A Novel

    de Herbert Gold ...
    Tracker of lost memories and lost souls, the veteran San Francisco private eye Dan Kasdan manages, along his way from the 1960s to the 1990s, to find Priscilla, the love of his life, only to lose her. Kasdan, urged on by Priscilla, also finds himself entangled with Karim, the sleek pornographer and drug dealer who insists that only Dan is the right person to handle his transfers of cash and drugs ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Daughter Mine

    A Novel

    de Herbert Gold ...
    Dan Shaper, bachelor, translator for the San Francisco courts, is a man who has worn the same raincoat for fifteen years, eats the same breakfast in the same coffeeshop every morning, occasionally sees a few long-time men friends and vaguely regrets a handful of former women lovers. In the sixties and seventies, Shaper was where the action was, (San Francisco, where else?) and joined in the ... Leer más

    Antes $12.99 USD Ahora $2.99 USD

  • Not Dead Yet

    A Feisty Bohemian Explores the Art of Growing Old

    de Herbert Gold ...
    An upbeat memoir to savor and admire, Still Alive! proves that in your later years you can still be going strong . . . and having fun! Old age is a shipwreck,” Charles de Gaulle once observed. Not so, says Herb Gold in this lively, often hilarious memoir of his first seven decades. He is clearly enjoying every moment to its fullest. This is a book about how time overtakes us, how reminiscence, ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Haiti: Best Nightmare on Earth

    de Herbert Gold ...
    Five decades ago, award-winning author Herbert Gold traveled to Haiti on a Caribbean version of the Fulbright Scholarship. The journey proved to be a turning point in his life. Fifty years later, his attachment to the tiny Caribbean nation-his second home-remains as passionate and powerful as ever. Now, in Best Nightmare on Earth, he explores the secret life of this vibrant, volatile, violent land ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • The Magic Will

    Stories and Essays

    de Herbert Gold ...
    "In the course of an impressive career as a writer, Herbert Gold has demonstrated many gifts, among them his talent for mak-ing high drama of ordinary events, ordinary people." -Chicago Tribune Book World"Gold...has a sharp eye for detail."-The Washington Times Magazine"Not just a good book, but a great one."-Daily Mail (London)"Herbert Gold... gives his stories a wry, bright air of wonder...he is ... Leer más

    $32.99 USD

  • The Age of Happy Problems

    de Herbert Gold ...
    In his first book of non-fiction, originally published in 1962, Herbert Gold explores some not-so-happy problems confronting people in an age of "mass destruction, mass inertia, mass everything." While acknowledging that we live in a time of utmost global significance-war on an enormous scale was a reality of the twentieth century and continues to threaten, unadulterated evil has exhibited itself ... Leer más

    $45.99 USD

  • The Man Who Was Not With It

    de Herbert Gold ...
    The Man Who Was Not With It is the story of young Bud Williams and his safari southward to Florida. On the way, he is abruptly confronted with the con men, addicts, and freaks, and the bruised innocence, of carnival and nightclub life. ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • Haiti

    The God of Tough Places, the Lord of Burnt Men

    de Herbert Gold, Richard Frechette ...
    As a priest and a physician, Richard Frechette has known the body, heart, and soul of people in the most anguishing of circumstances. He has carried out his double ministry over the past twenty-five years in settings of extreme poverty, violence, social upheaval, and natural disasters. This personal experience of tough realities has been at once a descent into chaos and an ascent into compassion, ... Leer más

    $65.99 USD

  • Places Lost and Found

    Travel Essays from the Hudson Review

    de Dick Davis, Joseph Bennett, Guy Davenport, Alice Bloom, C. B. Cox, Charles W. Millard, Paul Moore Jr., Robert S. Clark, John P. Sisk, C. S. Giscombe, Lynda McDonnell, Madison Smartt Bell, Diana Webster, Jacqueline W. Brown, Hilary Spurling, Frederick Brown, Brooke Allen, Herbert Gold, Christian N. Desrosiers, Antonio Muñoz Molina, Martina Broner, Laurie Olin, David Mason, Jenny Erpenbeck, Susan Bernofsky, A. E. Stallings ...
    The Hudson Review has always had an international focus. Travel and reports from abroad have figured prominently in the journal, including essays on exotic and picturesque locales, as well as accounts from war-torn areas and the experiences of exiles. Many of these are pilgrimages; others are harrowing memoirs. What unites even the most devastating of these accounts are intellectual curiosity and ... Leer más

    $28.79 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Why I Like This Story

    de Jackson R. Bryer, Diana Wagman, Doris Betts, Doris Grumbach, E. Annie Proulx, Edmund Keeley, Edward Kelsey Moore, Elizabeth Spencer, Ellen Douglas, Elliot Ackerman0, Frederick Busch1, A. R. Gurney2, George Garrett3, Herbert Gold4, Howard Norman5, Jack Greer6, Jane Hamilton7, Jill McCorkle8, Joan Silber9, Joanna Scott0, Joyce Kornblatt1, Alan Cheuse2, Julia Alvarez3, Julia Glass4, Kao Kalia Yang5, Kate Christensen6, Lee K. Abbott7, Leslie Pietrzyk8, Mako Yoshikawa9, Mary Kay Zuravleff0, Mary Lee Settle1, Maud Casey2, Alice McDermott3, Molly Giles4, Nicholas Delbanco5, Olga Grushin6, Pamela Erens7, R. H. W. Dillard8, Richard Bausch9, Rilla Askew0, Rion Amilcar Scott1, Sabina Murray2, Susan Coll3, Andre Dubus4, William H. Gass5, Andrea Barrett6, Ann Beattie7, Beverly Lowry8, Clarence Major9 ...
    On the assumption that John Updike was correct when he asserted, in a 1978 letter to Joyce Carol Oates, that "Nobody can read like a writer," Why I Like This Story presents brief essays by forty-eight leading American writers on their favorite American short stories, explaining why they like them. The essays, which are personal, not scholarly, not only tell us much about the story selected, they ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Gold Rush Manliness

    Race and Gender on the Pacific Slope

    de Christopher Herbert ...
    Series series Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Series in Western History and Biography
    The mid-nineteenth-century gold rushes bring to mind raucous mining camps and slapped-together cities populated by carousing miners, gamblers, and prostitutes. Yet many of the white men who went to the gold fields were products of the Victorian era: educated men who valued morality and order. Examining the closely linked gold rushes in California and British Columbia, historian Christopher Herbert ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • German Nazi Gold Swiss Banking Reichsbank Tungsten War Material Purchase George Herbert Walker Bush CIA Zapata Oil Skull & Bones Dresser Industries Prescott Bush Connection

    Corruption, #53

    de William C. Lewis ...
    Series Libro 53 - Corruption
    Read in this informative book how laundered gold that was stolen from concentration camp victims by the Nazis was deposited in Swiss banks so that Hitler's war machine could purchase the war material Tungsten from Spain. Read about how Spanish fascist dictator Francisco Franco would not allow Germany to put this stolen gold in his nation's banks but bought the stolen Gold from Switzerland after ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD