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  • Passionate Spectator
    Eric Kraft
    In Passionate Spectator, memoirist Peter Leroy and his wife, Albertine, are living in Manhattan-by the skin of their teeth. Casting about for a source of income, Peter purchases a book from a homeless street corner peddler, Creative Self-Promotion for Taxidermists, hoping he can adapt its techniques to promote his fledgling business: Memoirs While You Wait, a writing service de...
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    19,67 €

  • Inflating a Dog (trade paperback)
    Eric Kraft
    Peter Leroy struggles to win the affections of the toothsome Patti Fiorenza while keeping his mother?s hopes and his mother?s boat afloat.Ella Leroy dreams of escaping the dreary routine of her 1950s wife-and-mom life. Without telling her husband, she enlists her son Peter and his locally-notorious girlfriend Patti in a scheme to buy a run-down clamboat and re-invent it as an e...
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  • Leaving Small?s Hotel
    Eric Kraft
    Small?s Hotel, on a little island off Long Island, is where Peter and his wife, Albertine, have spent most of their adult lives. Albertine runs the hotel while Peter works quietly on his memoirs, but the future of the hotel, and of every gift Peter dreams of giving Albertine, is in jeopardy.What Peter does to save the hotel, his marriage, and possibly his life involves storytel...
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    22,87 €

  • At Home with the Glynns (trade paperback)
    Eric Kraft
    Peter Leroy receives his sexual initiation at the hands of the Glynn twins, becomes a sketch doctor, listens to many tales about the night the Nevsky mansion burned, learns the value of hope, and discovers the love of his life. As is usual with Peter’s recollections, we are never certain where memory ends and imagination begins?but we are certain that we are reading the work of...
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    17,43 €

  • What a Piece of Work I Am (trade paperback)
    Eric Kraft
    Ò[What a Piece of Work I Am] centers on the sultry Ariane, who had been the town bad girl in the 1950s. Baring the sexual secrets and bizarre events of her past . . . Ariane pieces together a wild, fascinating tale based on her erotic history. Peter listens as Ariane, who is six years older and more worldly, recounts growing up lower-class and having sex with many boys while th...
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    22,92 €

  • Where Do You Stop? (trade paperback)
    Eric Kraft
    Peter Leroy finally completes a junior-high-school science assignment, thirty years late, exploring along the way quantum physics, entropy, epistemology, principles of uncertainty and discontinuity, a range of lifeÕs Big Questions, and his memories of his intoxicating science teacher, Miss Rheingold.''A magical, funny, healing journey.''Publishers Weekly (starred review)''Warm ...
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    17,40 €

  • Reservations Recommended (trade paperback)
    Eric Kraft
    Peter Leroy constructs a plausible adult life for his grade school chum Matthew Barber, now living in Boston, where he is vice-president of a toy company by day, but becomes Bertram W. Beath, restaurant reviewer, when the sun goes down.Reservations Recommended is a satire of the critical mind; a dark commentary on contemporary culture; a story of midlife crisis; a morality play...
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    23,08 €

  • Albertine’s Overcoat
    Eric Kraft
    Peter Leroy is in danger of becoming an arrogant, insufferable little egoist. Then something happens that saves him. He falls in love with Albertine Gaudet.That is the end of egoism-and the start of one of literature’s great romances.Peter doesn’t merely tell the story of his wooing and winning Albertine. He interweaves that story with an account of the troubles that beset him ...
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    17,23 €

  • Herb ÕnÕ Lorna
    Eric Kraft
    On the surface, Herb and LornaÕs story seems like an American myth: small-town origins, Jazz Age romance, Depression trials, and postwar prosperity. By the 1950s, they seem to be a typically sunny American couple. Herb sells Studebakers to the citizens of Babbington, a Long Island seaside town, and Lorna is his cheerfully coy and clever wife. However, after Herb and Lorna have ...
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    22,88 €

  • Little Follies (trade paperback)
    Eric Kraft
    'Clever, anecdotal, suspenseful, and funny.'      Anna Shapiro, The New Yorker To read a sample, click ''Preview'' below the cover image. Peter Leroy explores one of his earliest memories (his mother's tumble from her lawn chair); probes the root causes of his childhood pelecypodophobia (fear of bivalve mollusks, particularly clams); navigates the upper reaches of the Bo...
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    29,47 €

  • The Young Tars
    Eric Kraft
    Peter Leroy recalls an episode from his grade-school years, an episode that he would really rather forget, one of the dark, gritty bits that one finds at the bottom of the chowder bowl of life. It involves the Young Tars, an organization originally intended to raise the morale of students at the new Babbington Central Upper Elementary School, and the treacherous Mr. Summers, a ...
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    11,87 €

  • Call Me Larry
    Eric Kraft
    Peter Leroy recalls his childhood affection for the Larry Peters series of adventure books. As a boy, he entered the world of the books so completely that he went from wanting to be Larry Peters to believing, sometimes, that he was. As Larry, he relished the company of his wisecracking sister Lucy and his square-jawed and capable pal, Rocky King. Later, when he had become a gro...
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    11,85 €

  • The Girl with the White Fur Muff
    Eric Kraft
    Peter Leroy recalls the trouble that ensued when a well-meaning teacher appointed him director of Babbington’s annual fourth-grade production of King Lear. Three of his classmates wanted the role of Lear’s loving daughter, Cordelia, and each had her strategy for ensuring that she got it. Clarissa Bud, the girl with the white fur muff, used sweetness and charm; Veronica McCall u...
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    11,80 €

  • Life on the Bolotomy
    Eric Kraft
    Peter Leroy recalls a childhood journey of discovery that he made from the mouth of the Bolotomy River to its source, traveling with his best (and imaginary) friend Rodney 'Raskol' Lodkochnikov. The journey begins with the work of turning a packing case (which Cap’n Andrew Leech intends to use, later, as a coffin) into a shallow-draft boat, it involves encounters with a philoso...
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    11,80 €

  • Do Clams Bite?
    Eric Kraft
    Leroy considers the origins of his childhood pelecypodophobia (the fear of bivalve mollusks), meets the imaginary friend who will remain his best friend for life, memorizes the legends of his ancestors in the Leroy line (including Black Jacques Leroy, who 'invented beer'), studies his father’s nude photographs of family friend May Castle, and enjoys a moonlight swim with Margot...
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    11,78 €

  • Passionate Spectator
    Eric Kraft
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    16,52 €