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Fall 2001 Titles

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Gambler's Fallacy

Gambler's Fallacy

Judith Cowan

Crammed with verbal felicities, electric with incident, this collection will delight those who enjoyed More Than Life Itself (1994) and will enchant those who are encountering her work for the first time.

sewn paper, 6x9, 200 pages
Fiction/Stories / August 2001
ISBN 0-88984-225-6
$19.95
 


Facsimiles of Time

Facsimiles of Time

Eric Ormsby

What was Franz Kafka doing at a ski resort in the last years of his life and what did he do there besides tobogganing? How is Pat Lowther's posthumous reputation as a poet connected with the brutal circumstances of her murder? These and other mysteries are explored in the 17 elegant essays that make up Eric Ormby's new book.

sewn paper, 6x9, 224 pages
Literary Criticism / November 2001
ISBN 0-88984-226-4
$22.95


Dr. Swarthmore

Dr. Swarthmore

Alexander Scala

`It's rural Indiana in the year 1900, and the laughs come thick and fast as Dr. Swarthmore, a clergyman with a cigar fetish, attempts to sell doomsday to his fellow Hoosiers at fifty cents per doom.'

sewn paper, 6x9, 136 pages
Fiction/Humorous / September 2001
ISBN 0-88984-228-0
$18.95


Pittsburgh Stories

Pittsburgh Stories

Clark Blaise

Pittsburgh Stories contains such familiar Blaise standards as `Grids and Doglegs' and `The Seizure' but also offers entirely new uncollected stories such as `Sitting Shiva with Cousin Benny' and `The Waffle Maker' which reveal Blaise at the height of his powers.

sewn paper, 6x9, 160 pages
Fiction/Short Stories / October 2001
ISBN 0-88984-227-2
$18.95


The Lover's Progress

The Lover's Progress

David Solway

Motivated by William Hogarth's example, David Solway tells the story of a representative figure, a lover, of our own anarchic era which is in some ways very similar to the dissolute and ostentatious period the painter anatomized in the eighteenth century.

sewn paper, 6x9, 76 pages
Poetry / September 2001
ISBN 0-88984-229-9
$14.95

 

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