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Dobyns, Stephen After Shocks / Near Escapes
New York, New York, U.S.A. Viking Pr 1991 0670839140 / 9780670839148 Hard Cover Fine Fine
Near-new condition. Remainder mark on bottom. NO price clippings - NO remainder marks or price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $19.95. 278 pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. - From The Critics Publishers Weekly With precision and force, poet and novelist Dobyns ( Body Traffic ; A Boat Off the Coast ) depicts the effects on one family of the earthquakes in Chile in 1960. Lucy Recabarren, a divorced, 38-year-old piano teacher living with her daughter in Santiago, looks back on the experience, whose emotional aftershocks continue to resonate in her life. Lucy is eight years old when the cataclysm occurs and her world falls apart. Her father dies, and she, her mother and two brothers, along with many cousins, aunts and uncles, flee to her grandmother's nearby farm. As tremors continue for weeks, family members find different ways of coping with unsettledness. One spinster aunt wears a wedding dress day and night; an uncle eats incessantly; another aunt--closely watched by the children--begins to flirt with her husband's brother, precipitating shifts within the family more seismic than those wrought by the quake. Infused with grief, Lucy's perceptions center around her grandmother's belief--and hope--that the entire family will soon enter heaven together. With generous imagination and carefully observed details, Dobyns sustains the delicate, sorrowful tone of Lucy's attempts to understand what was really lost in the chaos 30 years before. (June) Library Journal In his 13th novel, Dobyns provides graphic descriptions of the earthquakes that struck Chile in 1980 and analyzes their lingering effects on eight-year-old Lucy Droppelman's family. Three generations of Lucy's relatives gather at her grandmother's farmhouse seeking safety, but passions that erupt there prove to be as destructive as the earth tremors. Now 38 and recovering from a painful divorce, Lucy recalls the quake experience as a time of initiation when she saw a frustrated aunt flirt with her husband's brother, an uncle accumulate black-market profits, and a spinster great-aunt dress in a wedding gown to become Death's bride. Dobyns creates an extended family that is engaging in spite of its flaws. His sustained use of the quake as a metaphor for inevitable change is highly effective.-- Albert E. Wilhelm, Tennessee Technological Univ., Cookeville
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Dobyns, Stephen Boy in the Water
New York, New York, U.S.A. Henry Holt & Company 1999 0805060200 / 9780805060201 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine
Near-new condition - Appears unread. Stated First Edition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Tight spine - Bright pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. 406 pages. A masterful psychological thriller, from the author of The Church of Dead Girls. Another bucolic fall in northern New Hampshire, and the semester is under way at Bishop's Hill Academy. But this year the start of school has been less than tranquil. The new headmaster, Jim Hawthorne, has liberal ideas that the staff find far from welcome. He's also determined to do something about the long "tradition" of permanent loans to faculty of shovels, saws, even cars, from the school's supplies. Eloquent as he is on the subject of honor, rumor has it he's only taken this job to escape his past. And Hawthorne isn't the only uneasy newcomer. There's Jessica, a former stripper at fifteen, and Frank LeBrun, a replacement cook who's a bit too quick with a dirty joke. All three have secrets to conceal, memories to suppress. Serene on the surface, the ivy-clad, tree-lined campus gives few clues to the school's history of special privileges, petty corruptions, and hidden allegiances. But as autumn advances, the affable smiles and pretenses of virtue wear thin. And as winter closes in, students, teachers, and staff get an education in savagery and murder. With his customary uncanny awareness of the intricacies of human nature, the acclaimed author of The Church of Dead Girls once again probes the daily life of an ordinary community to reveal the depths of good and evil.
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Dobyns, Stephen Saratoga Bestiary: A Charlie Bradshaw Mystery
New York, New York, U.S.A. Viking Press 1988 0670820245 / 9780670820245 Hard Cover Fine Near-Fine
Near-new condition. Price inside dustcover: $16.95 - NO remainder marks or price clippings. Dustcover shows slight wear (NO tears) - Book is in Fine Condition. Tight spine - Bright pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. 256 pages - What's Super Bowl Sunday without a little gambling party in Saratoga Springs? By bedtime, private detective Charlie Bradshaw's a busy man. The bash has been robbed, Charlie hasn't recovered a stolen painting and a grocer lies dead behind his cash register. The names of five heavy gamblers promise to hold the key to the murder...and maybe much more. Charlie's investigation veers toward terror as it twists through a netherworld of unpleasant surprises. "Dobyns is a graceful, assured writer with felicity of word and phrase. His characters spring to life, and he captures the charm of Saratoga Springs, both past and present." (The Washington Post)
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Dobyns, Stephen Saratoga Haunting: A Charlie Bradshaw Mystery
New York, New York, U.S.A. Viking Press 1993 0670845817 / 9780670845811 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine
Near-new condition - NO price clippings - Small remainder mark on bottom of book - Stated First Printing - Price inside dustcover: $19.00 - 207 pages - It's been years since Charlie Bradshaw traded in his badge and a steady paycheck for the hard-scrabble but independent life of a private eye, but his past is catching up with him - with a vengeance. A man he was responsible for convicting twenty years ago has been paroled from prison and seems to be out to get him, if the death threats Charlie has been receiving are any indication. As if that weren't enough, another of Charlie's old cases is proving that sometimes secrets refuse to stay buried. When the site of what used to be Jacko's Pool Hall is bulldozed to make way for the public library, the skeleton of a woman believed to have escaped to South America with embezzled funds literally comes to the surface. Although he's been off the force for ages, he feels morally obliged to solve the case. To top it all off, his irreplaceable, irrepressible girlfriend, Janey Burris, wants a commitment. With his trademark humor, Stephen Dobyns sets Charlie to deciphering the past while staying alive in the present amid what is truly a cast of "characters," Saratoga-style - epitomized by his eccentric friend Victor Plotz and the ailing Maximum Tubbs. Between the excavation of the past and the soul-searching of the present, the solutions to the mysteries of the human heart turn out to be just as satisfying as the unraveling of this deliciously complicated plot.
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