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The Swimmer: A prophetic modernist fable set in a fading Eden
Expanding on John Cheever’s enigmatic short story, and with a genuine movie star as their protagonist, Frank and Eleanor Perry created a haunting parable of the all–American good life and its discontents.

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The Diaries of John Quincy Adams 1779-1848 (boxed set)
The Essential Hamilton: Letters & Other Writings (paperback)
Shake It Up: Great American Writing on Rock and Pop from Elvis to Jay Z
Susan Sontag: Later Essays LOA N°292
Mary McCarthy: The Complete Fiction (boxed set)

Featured Writers

Writer of the Week John Quincy Adams
For almost seventy years Adams minutely recorded the events of his life, and of the life of his mind, in an unrivaled personal record of historical events from the Revolution to the Mexican War by a figure prominently involved in them.
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