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Cookbook author Rachel Samstat--out of analysis and seven months pregnant--discovers that her husband is into analysis and an affair, and suffers six weeks of intensive heartburn. When her husband announces that he is in love with another woman, Rachel, a noted cookbook author and TV personality, returns to New York and her wacky but loving family and friends to sort out her life.

Presents a fictional memoir, the first of an autobiographical trilogy, describing the profound failures of Exley's life -- professional, sexual, and personal. His attempts to find a place for himself in an unaccommodating world take him from the University of Southern California to Chicago -- where he meets the dangerously seductive, lovely Bunny Sue Allorgee -- to New York City's Greenwich Village saloons, and back to Watertown, his hometown in upstate...

A major collection of Carver's short stories, including seven new stories written shortly before the author's death in 1988. Spans twenty-five years of the author's writing career with both earlier works and original stories that explore betrayal, madness, and other reaches of human experience, in tales including "Intimacy" and "Boxes."

Interweaving stories tell of the evolving bond between practical, narrow-mainded Flo and her stepdaughter Rose, who manages to escape her small town life to achieve an equivocal success in the larger world.

Presentation of the challenges of the Sierra crossing on the Sacramento, CA to Reno, NV run through films made over three decades in all types of weather and with every type of train. Includes regional history as well as glimpses of contemporary situations.

From a writer long hailed by his peers, adored by the critics, and worshiped by readers everywhere comes a hard-hitting collection of both familiar and new fiction.