Where To Buy Joss and Gold by Shirley Geok-lin Lim At The Lowest Price?

Why Buy A Joss and Gold by Shirley Geok-lin Lim?
This probing first novel by critically acclaimed author Shirley Lim tells the haunting un-love story of an unlikely and very extended family-a fiercely independent Malayasian mother, an estranged American father, and the daughter they yet dont share. As Lims characters try and find a way back to their pasts and each other, they find themselves caught up in the larger tensions between East and West, women and men, freedom and responsibility.

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The Death of Bunny Munro A Novel by Nick Cave – Save 34% Today!

Why Buy A The Death of Bunny Munro A Novel by Nick Cave?

Set adrift by his wife’s suicide and struggling to keep a grip on reality, Bunny Munro does the only thing he can think of: with his young son in tow, he hits the road. To his son, waiting patiently in the car while his father peddles beauty wares and quickies to lonely housewives in the south of England, Bunny is a hero, larger than life. But Bunny himself, haunted by what might be his wife’s ghost, seems only dimly aware of his son’s existence.

When his bizarre trip shades into a final reckoning, when he can no longer be sure what is real and what is not, Bunny finally begins to recognize the love he feels for his son. And he sees that the revenants of his world—decrepit fathers, vengeful ghosts, jealous husbands and horned psychokillers—are lurking in the shadows, waiting to exact their toll.

At turns dark and humane, The Death of Bunny Munro is a tender portrait of the relationship between a boy and his father, with all the wit and enigma that fans will recognize as Nick Cave’s singular vision.

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A masterpiece of modern fiction?
This novel is bound to spark lots of different reactions because it is provocative and explicit and strange and dangerous and incredibly funny and genuinely challenging. But I hope that the beauty of the writing and the seriousness of the book’s moral dimensions are not overlooked because of the “controversial” aspects of the novel. For this second novel by Nick Cave is a major piece of literature that makes so much of what is being written today in this country look anodyne and flaccid.

At the emotional heart of this death trip of a ride is this extremely tender and movingly captured relationship between the Bunny Munro of the title and his nine year old son Bunny Junior. It has real depth and is utterly convicing and so when you do get to the end of the rollercoaster you feel literally spent.

But along the way you will experience some of the sharpest and funniest writing you are likely to find this year. Fans of Cave’s music will lap it up like cream (and the audio book which he has recorded with an accompanying soundtrack by him and fellow Bad Seed Warren Ellis) but it should also win over a lot of new fans because it is so damn good. The novel’s protoganist, the travelling salesman Bunny Munro, is an unforgettable and utterly flawed and tragic anti-hero that is going to live forever.

Rock on Mr Cave and thanks for writing such a stunning book. And please don’t leave it another twenty years before you give us a third novel!

Yes!!!
I am hoping that the audio book read by Nick Cave with music by him and Warren Ellis will convince him to record the whole of
his first book And the Ass Saw the Angel in audio format. That novel begs to be read out loud by THE MAN himself.
I have seen excerpts on the Bunny Munro site and I can’t wait to hear it in full.
It’s going to be glorious.

Thank you, Mr. Cave.
Now please don’t let 27 years elapse between your second and your third books!!

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The Heats On by Chester Himes – Save 10% Today!

Why Buy A The Heats On by Chester Himes?
From the start nothing goes right for Coffin Ed and Grave Digger Jones. Dead bodies are piling up faster than they can run, and Coffin Ed and Grave Digger seem to always be one step behind the cause of all the mayhem–$3 million worth of heroin and a simple albino called Pinky.

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Maybe the best in the series
I’ve been reading Himes’ stories about Gravedigger and Coffin Ed in order of when they were written (see Wikipedia, if you want a chronology), and this one may be the best yet. The bad guys are extra-eccentric and amoral. The streets are extra-gritty. Grave Digger and Coffin Ed are extra-alone in their fight against it all.

As usual, Himes is better at the first 95% of the story than he is in wrapping up the last 5%. As usual, female characters are, at best, conniving villains or throwaway props. The good stuff is so good that these quibbles hardly matter. I’m looking forward to the rest of the series.

aka : Come Back Charleston Blue
There are a few things you can depend on in Chester Himes’s great police procedurals featuring Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones : colorful characters, distinctive dialect, a fierce racial sensibility, and plenty of mayhem. Meanwhile, the stories are pleasantly devoid of the kind of self-analysis and interior monologue which clutter up so much of modern fiction, even crime fiction. The Heat’s On is something of an exception. Oh, there’s more than enough mayhem and what with a giant albino junkie, a hunchback dwarf, a pony-sized attack dog, a faith healer, and various and sundry other folk about, there’s certainly adequate local color.

But when, first, the detectives are suspended for treating the dwarf a tad too roughly (for instance, he dies in custody) and then Digger is shot and reported killed, Cotton Ed lets his slip show a little. He becomes a frenzied dynamo of barely contained brutality as he tears a steaming hot Harlem apart searching for the cache of heroin that led to the whole mess. This is a terrific entry in the series and is particularly interesting for Himes’s fearsome hostility towards the drug traffic which was blighting the inner-city even then. His attitude makes for an interesting contrast with the permissive modern attitude of many black leaders, who decry harsh prison sentences for drug dealers. It’s awfully hard to see Coffin Ed, Grave Digger, or Chester Himes arguing that pushers are victims of an unjust drug war.

GRADE : A

A violent yet poignant thriller
Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones are 2 of strongest characters and 2 of the toughest partners in crime fiction. However in this volume of the Himes series they play an almost secondary role. In spite of this I enjoyed the book as much as Cotton Comes to Harlem. Coffin Ed will go to extremes to revenge his partner as he unravels this mystery.

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Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man A Novel by Fannie Flagg – Save 22% Today!

Why Buy A Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man A Novel by Fannie Flagg?
In Fannie Flagg’s high-spirited first novel, we meet Daisy Fay Harper in the spring of 1952, where she’s “not doing much except sitting around waiting for the sixth grade.” When she leaves Shell Beach, Mississippi, in September 1959, she is packed up and ready for the Miss America Pageant, vowing “I won’t come back until I’m somebody.” But in our hearts she already is.

Sassy and irreverent from the get-go, Daisy Fay takes us on a rollicking journey through her formative years on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. There, at The End of the Road of the South, the family malt shop freezer holds unspeakable things, society maven Mrs. Dot hosts Junior Debutante meetings and shares inspired thoughts for the week (such as “sincerity is as valuable as radium”), and Daisy Fay’s Daddy hatches a quick-cash scheme that involves resurrecting his daughter from the dead in a carefully orchestrated miracle. Along the way, Daisy Fay does a lot of growing up, emerging as one of the most hilarious, appealing, and prized characters in modern fiction.

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Another Great Fannie Flagg Title
This is a terrific story. I am a Fannie Flagg fan. All her books are top-notch, and this story does not disappoint.

Daisy Fay and the Miracle man
I purchased this book for my daughter. She likes to read Fannie Flagg books. I would recommend her books to every one I know.

The Joys and Trials of Growing Up
This is another of Fannie Flaggs deeply delightful books. The rich characture development is so attention grabbing. What a joy to follow along through the eyes and words of a pre-teen on into adulthood. Another cast of zany oddfellows. I recommend this to young and older readers alike.

Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man
I absolutely adored this book. I describe it as the Funniest, Sad book I have ever read….It was so perfectly written, describing life in the late fifties….enjoyed reading about the Rainbow Girls…a group I was in, but had not thought of in years. Thanks, Fannie Flagg..I loved it!!!

Girl of the fiftes

A lifelong love…
I read this book back in 1992 when it first came out in paperback. I was eleven at the time. I can recall finishing it and immediately starting it again. I think I read it six times just that year. When I was eleven, I thought I WAS Daisy Fay. I pictured myself starring in the movie, which I knew was going to come out someday (why, why why why hasn’t it come out, 16 years later?). As a young girl, this book captured me in a way that the Babysitters Club or Sweet Valley never could (back then we didn’t have Harry Potter!). I even “performed” the first chapter (diary entry) for a class project.

Zoom forward to 2008. I have read this book a MINIMUM of once a year, every year, since I first read it. It is still my favorite book of all time, even with my current “style” of reading being quite different than Daisy Fay (my other favorite book is Steppenwolf – not exactly your DFATMM). Any time I am having a bad day, I know that I can go read Daisy Fay and immediately feel better. I’m 27 now, but sometimes I still feel like little miss Daisy Fay is my best friend.

While I am a fan of ALL Fannie Flagg books and characters, this one strikes me as the most heartfelt, warm, and genuine character that she has ever created. Daisy Fay is a quick read (even the slowest reader can get through it in a week – quick readers, bet on an afternoon), but aside from the ease of reading – it is a powerful, touching story of a goofy, awesome, hilarious, and outspoken girl – the girl we all love.

Thank you, Fannie Flagg, for filling my entire life with your fascinating and wonderful characters (especially my Daisy Fay).

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Manhattan Transfer: A Novel by John Dos Passos – Save 32% Today!

Why Buy A Manhattan Transfer: A Novel by John Dos Passos?
Considered by many to be John Dos Passoss greatest work, Manhattan Transfer is an expressionistic picture of New York (New York Times) in the 1920s that reveals the lives of wealthy power brokers and struggling immigrants alike. From Fourteenth Street to the Bowery, Delmonicos to the underbelly of the city waterfront, Dos Passos chronicles the lives of characters struggling to become a part of modernity before they are destroyed by it. More than seventy-five years after its first publication, Manhattan Transfer still stands as a novel of the very first importance (Sinclair Lewis). It is a masterpeice of modern fiction and a lasting tribute to the dual-edged nature of the American dream.

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A dizzying mosaic of a city
Manhattan Transfer is a book peopled by a crowd of characters, rich or poor, sad or happy, hopeful or hopeless, beautiful or ugly, bold or coward, each and everyone of them seemingly an archetype of the New Yorker, but none of them standing out from the gray, trampling, anonymous mass of New Yorkers. None stands out because all are engulfed, crushed and swallowed by the voracious monster who is the main, if not the only real, character in the novel: the City itself, with its glaring lights, its stifling smells, its deafening sounds, its never-ending pulsating pace.
In a style that revolutionized the art of writing by basing itself on the techniques of the movies, (short and brisk dialogues, no transitions, descriptions bursting in violent flashes), the writer managed to paint a dizzying mosaic of a city that, after ninety years, has not changed that much: the buildings may be taller, the cabs may be faster, but the people are the same, human, so human…

the rhythm of a city…
John Dos Passos (1896-1970) has tried to compose an artwork built of the stuff: NEW YORK, – and it works like a movie script – but written in a time (1925), in which the film industry did not yet have the tremendous technical and financially possibilities available as they owe today.

Dos Passos portrayed the movement, the speed, the unstoppable energy of this city. The title “MANHATTAN TRANSFER” deciphered in the scene as ELLEN sits in a subway and the rhythmic strides seem to sound like “MAN-Hattan TRANS__FER. MAN-Hattan TRANS__FER. MAN-Hattan TRANS__FER”.

ELLEN is on the way in an unhappy partnership, it does not succeed in time to redirect, like a leaf in the wind seems to be the tempo of the city. They are simply unstoppable followers of that tempo. This is also what Dos Passos as the most impressive overall wants to feature.

The fates of many are developing a high tempo – and apparently randomly, BUD, (at the beginning of the novel incoming in the New York harbor) jumps to the end of his life (and the novel) at the same place from the bridge into the water — no into a wedding party, just because a ship below him was passing in the same moment. Fortune and misfortune, random-like are mixed in this scene: happy wedding couple and a man, trying to commit suicide.

The milk man Gus McNiel is covered by an insurance payment to him as a victim of a rich man and self-conscious politicians, Congo Jack loses at first one leg during the war, but by extensive smuggling operations and continues he at least drives jovially in a Rolls-Royce.

Jimmy Herfst, butler of Congo Jack, is leaving at the end of the novel disillusioned with the city – others have adapted it. Dos Passos has characterized NEW YORK as normally painters do – of course using other techniques: Piet Mondrian painted at the end of his life against that colorful Big Apple chaos with stripes looking like a city-map of New York. The contemporary artist James Rizzi paints skyscrapers with human faces (Dos Passos compares in his novel the multi-ballet dancer ELLEN with multi-window skyscraper).

Television series like “SEX IN THE CITY” or musical events, like Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel performed in the Central Park, singing “NEW YORK, to that tall skyline I come, flyin in … ” – All those artworks try to explain NEW YORK as a focal point of modern life – and they do not focus the images of September eleven. I hope I will experience in my lifetime, that MANHATTAN TRANSFER once is a movie.

John Dos Passos himself (sometimes compared with James Joyce or Marcel Proust or compared with Hemingway and Gertrude Stein who were friends) – he has after the completion of his novel managed to organize a movie: 1935, “Devil Is a Woman” (The Spanish Dancer ) – With Marlene Dietrich …

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