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9780307273536 | 1 edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, February 23, 2010), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: "Reality Hunger" is a manifesto for a burgeoning group of interrelated but unconnected artists who, living in an unbearably artificial world, are breaking ever larger chunks of 'reality' into their work.
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9780743247740 | Simon & Schuster, May 1, 2004, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: A sportswriter and author of Black Planet examines the way in which basketball players have become public heroes, focusing on such individuals as Ichiro Suzuki, Latrell Sprewell, and Hideki Matsui and exploring such topics as athlete tattoos, sports movie resurrection myths, and the recent influx of European players.
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9780803260320 | Bison Books, November 1, 2007, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Named one of the twenty-five best books of the year by the Seattle Times, 2004In Body Politic, David Shields looks at contemporary America and its mythology through the lens of professional and college sports.
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9789706909190 | Temas De Hoy, June 30, 2009, cover price $8.95
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9789703703630 | Temas De Hoy, June 30, 2009, cover price $13.95
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9780307268044 | 1 edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, February 5, 2008), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: The author offers a meditation on mortality as he chronicles his own life and that of his family from cradle to grave, integrating biological details with cultural history and criticism to furnish a portrait of human existence as revealed through a single family.
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9780307387967 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, February 10, 2009), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: New York Times bestseller Best Nonfiction Book of the Year, TimeOut Chicago Chosen by Artforum as one of the 25 best books of the year Best Reads of 2008, Salon Chosen as one of the twenty best nonfiction books of 2008, Seattle Times Chosen by Amazon as one of its Significant Seven for February 2008 and one of the 50 best books of the year Powell's Books New Favorite, Staff Pick BookSense Selection Finalist for the Washington State Book Award, 2009 Mesmerized and somewhat unnerved by his 97-year-old father's vitality and optimism, David Shields undertakes an original investigation of our flesh-and-blood existence, our mortal being.
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9780739359280 | 1 una edition (Random House, February 5, 2008), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Inspired by his elderly father's vitality and optimism, the author of Remote offers a personal meditation on mortality as he chronicles his own life and that of his family from cradle to grave, integrating biological details with cultural history and criticism, philosophical speculation, and quotations to furnish a portrait of human existence as revealed through a single family.
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9781593762193 | Soft Skull Pr, January 1, 2009, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: What does it mean to construct a self?
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9780941964678 | Bard College Center, December 1, 2008, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: As Cormac McCarthy wrote, "Death is the major issue in the world.
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9780609604526 | Crown Pub, November 1, 1999, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: A season-long study of the Seattle SuperSonics discusses the players, coaches, agents, games, fans, and the role of race in a sport dominated by African American athletes
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9780803293540 | Bison Books, December 1, 2006, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: The National Basketball Association is a place where white fans and black players enact virtually every racial issue and tension in U.
9780609806661 | Reprint edition (Three Rivers Pr, November 7, 2000), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: The acclaimed author of Remote and a lifelong basketball fan provides a season-long study of the Seattle Sonics, discussing the players, coaches, agents, games, fans, and the role of race in a sport dominated by African-American athletes.
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9780671525644 | Simon & Schuster, November 1, 1984, cover price $1.98 | About this edition: Ex-jock sportswriter Al Biederman, mired in a midwestern college town, dreaming of glories past and a fantasy future, finds hope and then a moral dilemma in Belvyn Menkus, a basketball phenomenon involved in a recruiting scandal
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9780803293175 | Bison Books, March 1, 2004, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Albert Biederman, pushing forty, is a sportswriter in River City, Iowa, where college basketball carries the town through the cold winter months.
9780440201793 | Reprint edition (Dell Pub Co, October 1, 1988), cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Ex-jock sportswriter Al Biederman, mired in a midwestern college town, dreaming of glories past and a fantasy future, finds hope and then a moral dilemma in Belvyn Menkus, a basketball phenomenon involved in a recruiting scandal
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9780299193645 | Univ of Wisconsin Pr, September 23, 2003, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: PEN/Revson Award, 1992In this truly one-of-a-kind book, the author/narrator--a representative, in extremis, of contemporary American obsession with beauty, celebrity, transmitted image--finds himself suspended, fascinated, in the remoteness of our wall-to-wall mediascape.
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9780743225786 | Simon & Schuster, May 1, 2002, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: In a unique, meditative autobiography, the author of Dead Language explores the nature of autobiography itself, using his life as the grist for delving into the art of literary self-exploration and memoir.
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9781401030278 | Xlibris Corp, December 1, 2001, cover price $22.99 | About this edition: David Shields has crafted a brutally honest novel of family, religion, and relationships.
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9780967870311 | Tni Books, August 1, 2001, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: Ichiro Suzuki, the rookie All-Star right fielder for the Seattle Mariners, has the sports world transfixed.
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9780394573885 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, April 1, 1989, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: In the face of many well-meaning, but often misguided attempts to cure him of his stutter, young Jeremy Zorn develops both an astonishing prowess as an athlete and a large vocabulary, and comes to understand the power of language
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9781555972745 | Reprint edition (Graywolf Pr, June 1, 1998), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Washington State Book Award, 1990 Silver Medal, Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards, 1990 From the moment his mother tries unsuccessfully to coax him into saying "Philadelphia," Jeremy Zorn's life is framed by his unwieldy attempts at articulation.
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9780679445913 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, February 1, 1996, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Presents fifty-two short writings--from family chronicle, to reportage, to personal essay--which explore the concept of remoteness in contemporary America's obsession with popular culture, celebrity, and media
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Product Description: "Shields's lucid prose succinctly illuminates the larger context of Jaffe's life. . . . It's even better at capturing the small picture."--Timothy Hunter, Cleveland Plain DealerIn Handbook for Drowning, Walter Jaffe grows up in a family obsessed with social justice; Walter fixates on his own mortality...read more
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9780517112595 | Random House Value Pub, September 1, 1993, cover price $3.99 | About this edition: "Shields's lucid prose succinctly illuminates the larger context of Jaffe's life.
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9780679401117 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, January 1, 1992, cover price $19.00 | About this edition: Interconnected stories deal with Walter, a young man trying to understand his parents, his ideals, and his emotions
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9780060975319 | Reprint edition (Perennial, January 1, 1993), cover price $10.00 | About this edition: "Shields's lucid prose succinctly illuminates the larger context of Jaffe's life.
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In the face of many well-meaning, but often misguided attempts to cure him of his stutter, young Jeremy Zorn develops both an astonishing prowess as an athlete and a large vocabulary, and comes to understand the power of language
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9780060972912 | Reprint edition (Harpercollins, April 1, 1990), cover price $11.00 | About this edition: In the face of many well-meaning, but often misguided attempts to cure him of his stutter, young Jeremy Zorn develops both an astonishing prowess as an athlete and a large vocabulary, and comes to understand the power of language
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