Darryl Ponicsan

• 1975
• / General Fiction
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TOM MIX DIED FOR YOUR SINSA NOVEL BASED ON HIS LIFEHere is a brilliantly colorful evocation of the life and times of Tom Mix, as based on fact but told in fiction. The rodeo and ranching days, the movie stunts and the movie glamour, the private and p...

• Jan-1979
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• Dec-1984
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• May-2001
• / General Fiction
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Who lives in Andoshen, Pa.? Wards of Darryl Ponicsan'smemory and imagination: Shakey the Cop, Thunder Przwalski, the Reader at thecigar factory, Duncan, who once gave Willie Mosconi a good game, Kayo Mackey,said to be the only boy ever to hurt Gene T...

• Jun-2013
• / Literary
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The classic bestselling novels The Last Detail and Cinderella Liberty reprinted in a special Stairway Press edition with a new Foreword by the author. These classics of American literature represent a rich reading experience and are pithy, satirical ...

• Mar-2015
• / Suspense
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In this gripping novel, Beef Buddusky, who wanted no more than a one-day job when he entered the Salvation Army in Colorado Springs, finds himself swept up by an obsessive mother with a diabolical plot. Rootless and homesick for a family, he is manip...

• Sep-2017
• / General Fiction
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Darryl Ponicsan's debut novel THE LAST DETAIL was named one of the best of the year and widely acclaimed, catapulting him to fame when it was first published. The story of two career sailors assigned to escort a young seaman from Norfolk to the naval...

• Sep-2017
• / General Fiction
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Unlike other branches of the armed services, the Navy draws it police force from the ranks, as temporary duty called Shore Patrol. In this funny, bawdy, moving novel set during the height of the Vietnam War, two career sailors in transit in Norfolk, ...

• Aug-2019
• / Thriller
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We first meet John Baggs, YN 2, U.S. Navy, soaking his very sore backside in a sitz bath at sea, aboard the USS Begonia. This is Baggs' second enlistment. He's an unlikely sailor -- onetime physics major, possible minister -- but the Navy's a lot pre...

• Nov-2019
• / General Fiction
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From the author of The Last Detail and Last Flag Flying, a surreal comic novel in the tradition of Joseph Heller about movies, small-town politics, and a place between heaven and hell. Following a rewrite job in New York City, veteran screenwriter D....

• Nov-2024
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Darryl Ponicsán, author/screenwriter/artist, breaks new ground with this collection of 100 short-short stories. These captured moments-many deeply personal-are not vignettes or slices of life but fully realized short stories. The character persp...