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After her wildly successful story collection,
THE GIRL`S GUIDE TO HUNTING AND FISHING, Melissa Banks returns with a novel about a young woman who could be an outtake from THE GIRL`S GUIDE: Sophie Applebaum, whose life is chronicled from adolescence to fortysomething. Sophie is looking for love, and also for the meaning of life, and in the process of trying to find both, she works at a variety of jobs, goes on too many blind dates, considers the pros and cons of being an observant Jew, negotiates the ever-changing dynamics of her family--and provides a great deal of entertainment for the reader.
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Joyce's celebrated short-story sequence provides a vivid and disturbing picture of early 20th-century Dublin and its inhabitants, whom Joyce saw as trapped in a repressed and stultifying environment. The stories are divided into five types: childhood, adolescence, marriage, maturity, and various aspects of public life, including politics. They embody Joyce's belief in the value of what he called epiphanies--insights into life that can be compared to the religious concept of the Epiphany, and that Joyce believed art can provide via the transformation of mundane events. The last story, The Dead--the brilliant and moving dissection of a failed marriage--actually takes place on the Feast of the Epiphany.
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In its 47 printings, Up the Down Staircase has sold more than 6 million copies, has been translated into 16 languages, and made into a prize-winning motion picture. This funny and touching story of a committed, idealistic high school teacher is now availble in trade paperback, with a new introduction by the author.
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Bonnie leaves her bankrupt husband and takes the first job of her life at age 50. Hired to run a program for the jobless female workers at a local mill that has closed, she gets involved in their lives and takes comfort from the similarity of their stories to hers, and from the support and affection this troubled group of women provides.
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