The Widow's Children
Paula Fox, Andrea Barrett / Paperback / Published October 1999
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First published in 1976, The Widow's Children, with its unpalatable family wistfully gnashing at one another, has long defied critical description. Now that it's been rereleased, with a fine new introduction by Andrea Barrett, it's time again for readers to approach this spare--yet unsparing--novel. Approach with something like terror, or at least a tremulous respect, for Paula Fox's tale of one family's massive, various history awes with its marvelous compression. We learn these people inside and out in just one evening. Divided into seven chapters ("Drinks," "Corridor," "Restaurant," "The Me...
The Voyage of the Narwhal: A NovelAndrea Barrett / Paperback / Published September 1999
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In Andrea Barrett's extraordinary novel of Arctic and personal exploration, maps are deceitful, ice all-powerful, and reputation more important than truth or human lives. When the Narwhal sets sail from Philadelphia in May 1855, its ostensible goal is to find the crew of a long-vanished expedition--or at least their relics--and be home before winter. Of course, if the men can chart new coasts and stock up on specimens en route, so much the better. And then there's the keen prospect of selling their story, fraught with danger and discovery, to a public thirsting for excitement. Zeke Voorhees, t...
The Voyage of the Narwhal [ABRIDGED]
Andrea Barrett, Peter Riegert (Narrator) / Audio Cassette / Published September 1999
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"Powerful...The Voyage of the Narwahl is an adventure story in the way that Conrad's Lord Jim and The Nigger of the Narcissus are adventure stories: the story's extreme conditions and harrowing experiences, which make for such gripping reading, are actually moral and spiritual tests that strip away the characters' public masks and expose their innermost drives and fears."
The Voyage of the Narwhal (Thorndike Large Print Basic Series) [LARGE PRINT]
Andrea Barrett / Hardcover / Published March 1999
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A major novel by the author of "Ship Fever", winner of the 1996 National Book Award for fiction. Part adventure, part love story, this unforgettable novel captures a crucial moment in the history of exploration. Combining fact and fiction, the story focuses on Erasmus Darwin Wells, a 19th-century scholar/naturalist and his expedition to search for an open polar sea. NPR feature.
Prize Stories, the Best of 1998; The O. Henry AwardsLarry Dark(Editor), et al / Paperback / Published October 1998
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Every year since 1918, the editors of the O. Henry Awards have selected the best of the previous year's short fiction. The 1998 anthology contains 20 prizewinning stories, three of which have been specially honored by jurors Andrea Barrett, Mary Gaitskill, and Rick Moody. It's a fascinating and diverse collection, more adventurous than its rival, Best American Short Stories , but like that series it provides an edifying look at the state of American short fiction. As it turns out, rumors of the form's death have been greatly exaggerated. For starters, we have first prize winner Lorrie Moore's ...
The Voyage of the NarwhalAndrea Barrett / Hardcover / Published September 1998
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Lucid StarsAndrea Barrett / Paperback / Published February 1997
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From the 1996 National Book Award-winning author of Ship Fever and Other Stories. What begins as a classic boy-meets-girl tale in 1955 becomes something far different when marriage and two children do not bring a family closer together. Lucid Stars is the moving story of how one family learns to survive by becoming a planetary system that just happens to be missing its sun.
Ship Fever (Norton Paperback Fiction)Andrea Barrett / Paperback / Published December 1996
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Her work stands out for its sheer intelligence....The overall effect is quietly dazzling.
Ship Fever and Other StoriesAndrea Barrett / Hardcover / Published January 1996
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The Forms of WaterAndrea Barrett / Paperback / Published August 1994
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At the age of 80, Brendan Auberon has one wish: to see his 200 acres of wooded ridge overlooking what was Paradise Valley before the villages were drowned to provide water for Boston. When he tricks his nephew into highjacking the nursing home van and taking him there, Brendan's family thinks he's been kidnapped.
The Middle KingdomAndrea Barrett, Jane Rosenman (Editor) / Paperback / Published March 1992
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A woman attending an international science conference falls forever out of love with her husband and very much in love with China and its magnificent culture. Reprint."
The Diabetic's Brand Name Food Exchange HandbookClara G. Schneider, et al / Paperback / Published November 1991
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For the millions of diabetics and others who must follow a food exchange diet. Using the revised American Diabetes Association exchanges, this highly acclaimed book "opens supermarket shelves . . . to anyone who must follow a Food Exchange diet."--Journal of the American Dietetic Association.
Secret HarmoniesAndrea Barrett, Jane Rosenman (Editor) / Paperback / Published March 1991
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To coincide with the release of her new novel The Middle Kingdom, here is Barrett's second novel available in paperback. Hailed as "remarkably touching" (The Los Angeles Times), this is a portrait of people struggling to make sense of their lives in the rural hills of western Massachusettes.
Andrea Barrett / Unknown Binding / Published September 1988
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From the 1996 National Book Award-winning author of Ship Fever and Other Stories. What begins as a classic boy-meets-girl tale in 1955 becomes something far different when marriage and two children do not bring a family closer together. Lucid Stars is the moving story of how one family learns to survive by becoming a planetary system that just happens to be missing its sun.