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Product Description: Leonard Michaels was a writer of unfailing emotional honesty. His memoirs, originally scattered through his story collections, are among the most thrilling evocations of growing up in the New York of the 1950s and ’60s—and of continuing to grow up, in the cultural turmoil of the ’70s and ’80s, as a writer, teacher, lover, and reader...read more
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Hardcover:

9780374148805 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, June 23, 2009, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: NONFICTION FROM “ONE OF THE STRONGEST AND MOST ARRESTING PROSE TALENTS OF HIS GENERATION” (LARRY MCMURTRY) Leonard Michaels was a writer of unfailing emotional honesty.

Paperback:

9780374532260 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, June 22, 2010, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Leonard Michaels was a writer of unfailing emotional honesty.

Miscellaneous:

9781429933247 | 1 edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, February 15, 2010), cover price $12.99

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Product Description: Seven men, friends and strangers, gather in a house in Berkeley. They intend to start a men’s club, the purpose of which isn’t immediately clear to any of them; but very quickly they discover a powerful and passionate desire to talk...read more
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9780374207823 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, March 1, 1981, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Seven men, friends and strangers gathered to form a men's club, become engaged in a progressively revealing encounter, stripping away their masks and uncovering the violence, lusts, miseries, and loves that lie beneath

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9780374208196, titled "The Men's Club" | Farrar Straus & Giroux, July 8, 2008, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: Seven men, friends and strangers, gather in a house in Berkeley.
9781562790394, titled "The Men's Club" | Exp sub edition (Mercury House, June 1, 1993), cover price $10.00 | About this edition: Seven men, friends and strangers gathered to form a men's club, become engaged in a progressively revealing encounter, stripping away their masks and uncovering the violence, lusts, miseries, and loves that lie beneath

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Product Description: “Leonard Michaels’s stories stand alongside those of his best Jewish contemporaries—Grace Paley and Philip Roth.” —Mona Simpson, The New York Times Book Review “Leonard Michaels was an original . . . with a concise, pungent and pyrotechnic style that tolerated no flab...read more
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9780374126544 | Reprint edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, May 29, 2007), cover price $26.00 | About this edition: The late author's short fiction, from his debut in 1969 to his uncollected last stories that have been unavailable since they appeared in print in publications such as The New Yorker, are brought together in a collection that includes works from Going Places.

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9780374531294 | Reprint edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, July 8, 2008), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: “Leonard Michaels’s stories stand alongside those of his best Jewish contemporaries—Grace Paley and Philip Roth.

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A young Manhattan couple struggles to survive in the early 1960s when they get caught up in drugs, sexual fantasias, paranoia, and self-destructive violence.
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9780374271077 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, May 29, 2007, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: A young Manhattan couple struggles to survive in the early 1960s when they get caught up in drugs, sexual fantasias, paranoia, and self-destructive violence.

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Product Description: This three-CD collection features more best-loved selections from National Public Radio's Selected Shorts, an award-winning series of classic and contemporary short fiction read by acclaimed actors and recorded live at Peter Norton Symphony Space in New York City...read more
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9780971921825 | Unabridged edition (Symphony Space, April 1, 2005), cover price $28.00 | About this edition: This three-CD collection features more best-loved selections from National Public Radio's Selected Shorts, an award-winning series of classic and contemporary short fiction read by acclaimed actors and recorded live at Peter Norton Symphony Space in New York City.

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The critically acclaimed author of The Men's Club shares a collection of observations, meditations, and confidences drawn from more than thirty years of journals that capture the inner world of a man struggling to balance his diverse roles as husband, friend, lover, father, and writer. Reprint.
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9781573221429 | Riverhead Books, June 1, 1999, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The author shares a collection of observations, meditations, and confidences drawn from more than thirty years of journals that capture the inner world of a man struggling to balance his diverse roles as husband, friend, lover, father, and writer

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9781573228190 | Reissue edition (Riverhead Books, July 1, 2000), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: The critically acclaimed author of The Men's Club shares a collection of observations, meditations, and confidences drawn from more than thirty years of journals that capture the inner world of a man struggling to balance his diverse roles as husband, friend, lover, father, and writer.

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Product Description: Michaels, one of the most highly regarded contemporary American literary figures and widely read by the discerning public, has long been regarded as a master of the short story. His stature can only be enhanced by this gathering of the best of his previous work as well as new stories, all of them written within the period of the early 1960s to the 1990s...read more
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9781562791209 | Mercury House, April 1, 2000, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Michaels, one of the most highly regarded contemporary American literary figures and widely read by the discerning public, has long been regarded as a master of the short story.

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Product Description: Elegantly illustrated and attractively designed, a collection of brief, witty and insightful observations on cats and their idiosyncracies by an acclaimed writer makes a unique keepsake for feline fanciers. Lit Guild Feat Alt.
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9781573220132 | Putnam Pub Group, October 1, 1995, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Elegantly illustrated and attractively designed, a collection of brief, witty and insightful observations on cats and their idiosyncracies by an acclaimed writer makes a unique keepsake for feline fanciers.

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9781573225663 | Riverhead Books, November 1, 1996, cover price $8.00 | About this edition: Elegantly illustrated and attractively designed, a collection of brief, witty and insightful observations on cats and their idiosyncracies by an acclaimed writer makes a unique keepsake for feline fanciers.

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Product Description: Conceived as a novelistic journey through the worlds of California, West of the West offers a vivid and diverse collection of writings on the state where extremes of every sort are dramatically evident in the weather, geography, and people...read more
By Leonard Michaels (editor), David Reid and Raquel Scherr (editor)
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9780520201644 | Reprint edition (Univ of California Pr, February 1, 1995), cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Conceived as a novelistic journey through the worlds of California, West of the West offers a vivid and diverse collection of writings on the state where extremes of every sort are dramatically evident in the weather, geography, and people.

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Essays discuss the author's parents, Jewish immigrants from Poland, his experiences as a busboy at a Catskill resort, relationships, literature as a topic of conversation, professional basketball, and other subjects
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9781562790400 | Mercury House, June 1, 1993, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Essays discuss the author's parents, Jewish immigrants from Poland, his experiences as a busboy at a Catskill resort, relationships, literature as a topic of conversation, professional basketball, and other subjects

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A fictional rendition of the author's own marriage focuses on the cultural revolution of the sixties
By Sylvia Bloch (illustrator) and Leonard Michaels
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9781562790295 | Mercury House, September 1, 1992, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: A fictional rendition of the author's own marriage focuses on the cultural revolution of the sixties

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Gathers selections from fiction and nonfiction about California by M.F.K. Fisher, Tom Wolfe, Octavio Paz, Jack Kerouac, Czeslaw Milosz, Gore Vidal, and Aldous Huxley
By Leonard Michaels (editor), David Reid and Raquel Scherr (editor)
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9780060973643 | Reprint edition (Harpercollins, March 1, 1991), cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Gathers selections from fiction and nonfiction about California by M.

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A collection of autobiographical fiction focuses on the themes of expectation, the shocks of maturity and reconciliation with personal limits, and the poignant events and painful lessons of the past
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9780374263492 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, August 1, 1990, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: A collection of autobiographical fiction focuses on the themes of expectation, the shocks of maturity and reconciliation with personal limits, and the poignant events and painful lessons of the past

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Product Description: "Sprawling, uncoordinated, uneven, noisy, and appealing," wrote one reviewer of the first edition of this book, published on 1 January 1980. "The language is in rude health," wrote another.Exactly a decade later, here is the book anew, with the same editors but with fifty fresh contributors writing essays and poems that engage our language today...read more
By Leonard Michaels (editor) and Christopher B. Ricks (editor)
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9780520059061 | Univ of California Pr, April 1, 1990, cover price $48.00 | About this edition: "Sprawling, uncoordinated, uneven, noisy, and appealing," wrote one reviewer of the first edition of this book, published on 1 January 1980.

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By Leonard Michaels (editor)
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9780933277816 | Ploughshares Books, July 1, 1986, cover price $9.95

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Thirteen stories focus on both unexpected and carefully planned visions and versions of sexual experience and erotic thought in the uncertain, often impersonal contemporary city
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9780374517137 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, October 1, 1982, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Thirteen stories focus on both unexpected and carefully planned visions and versions of sexual experience and erotic thought in the uncertain, often impersonal contemporary city

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9780374517113 | Reissue edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, September 1, 1982), cover price $6.95

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Considers a wide range of topics related to contemporary language
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9780520037632 | Univ of California Pr, December 1, 1979, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Considers a wide range of topics related to contemporary language

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