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English
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This is the story of two American women in the derelict Central American nation of Boca Grande. Grace Strasser-Mendana controls much of the country's wealth and knows virtually all of its secrets; Charlotte Douglas knows far too little. "Immaculate of history, innocent of politics," she has come to Boca Grande vaguely and vainly hoping to be reunited with her fugitive daughter. As imagined by Didion, her fate is at once utterly particular and fearfully...
Author
Language
English
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"A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Play It as It Lays captures the mood of an entire generation, the ennui of contemporary society reflected in spare prose that blisters and haunts the reader. Set in a place beyond good and evil-literally in Hollywood, Las Vegas, and the barren wastes of the Mojave Desert, but figuratively in the landscape of an arid soul-it remains more than three decades after its original publication a profoundly...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1996
Edition
1st trade ed.
Physical Desc
227 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A woman journalist quits her job on a Washington paper to look after her father, living on a Caribbean island where he smuggles guns to rebels in Central America. When he falls sick, she takes over.
5) Run river
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1994
Edition
1st Vintage International ed.
Physical Desc
264 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Everett McClellan and his wife, Lily, the great-grandchildren of California pioneers, become involved in murder and betrayal.
6) Travel tales
Series
Publisher
The Symphony Space
Pub. Date
p2007
Physical Desc
3 sound discs (ca. 3 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A narration of short stories previously broadcasted on public radio stations.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Presents a stark portrayal of life among a group of heroin addicts who hang out at Sherman Square or "Needle Park" in New York City. Played against this setting is a low-key love story between Bobby, a small-time thief and addict, and Helen, a homeless girl abandoned by her lover after an illegal abortion.
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English
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Rock star John Norman Howard has noticed that his career has begun to decline. Too many years of concerts, bad managers and life on the road have made him cynical. Then he meets the innocent, pure and very talented singer Esther Hoffman. John shows Esther the way to stardom while forsaking his own career. As they fall in love, her success only makes his decline even more apparent.
Publisher
Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Widescreen and full screen presentations.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 108 min.) : digital, col.; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A 1940s Los Angeles detective hounds his monsignor brother about a pious pimp's tie to grisly murder.
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