Harry Mark Petrakis

• Jan-1978
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• Aug-1983
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At the turn of the century, Manolis sails from his native Crete to revenge the murder of his elder brother and finds in America a passionately loving but married woman, a priest who tries to keep him from revenge, and the guilty killer...

• May-1990
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When last seen in Petrakis's earlier novel, "A Dream of Kings," Leonidas Matsoukas was the vigorous proponent of wildly creative get-rich-quick schemes; a passionately loving husband, father, and sometime philanderer; an incorrigible gambler; a might...

• Jun-1990
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At the heart of this New York Times best-selling novel, we find Leonidas Matsoukas, operator of the Pindar Counseling Service (solutions provided for all problems of life and love); proponent of wildly creative get-rich-quick schemes; passionately lo...

• Oct-2000
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In 1919 Nick Dandolos arrived in Chicago from Greece, pursuing the American dream. Instead, tempted into a high-stakes game of cards, he is driven to humiliation and defeat. From these depths he begins his painstaking mastery of the skills of gamblin...

• Oct-2000
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"Every man's life is an Odyssey: it does not matter if the body remains rooted in one place. For it is the heart and spirit that journey to Ithaca."Those words from Father Marlas, parish priest to Kostas Volakis, embody the theme of this novel, which...

• Jun-2003
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The newest novel from acclaimed storyteller Harry Mark Petrakis, Twilight of the Ice is a dramatic tale of revelation and redemption set against the backdrop of the 1950s Chicago rail yards. In a classic yarn expertly balancing the realistic with ...

• Mar-2006
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The first collection of the short stories of Harry Mark Petrakis was nominated for a National book Award in Fiction, establishing him as a master of the form. Revealing commentaries by the author introduce each story in this collection.In The Passing...

• May-2007
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From the ageless elements of great drama-love and hate, fear and home, war and vengeance, Petrakis has spun a modern classic. IN THE LAND OF MORNING centers around two love affairs, one youthful and poetic, the other a seething, sensual mature love t...

• Dec-2008
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In 1821, in the geographically small but culturally and historically rich country of Greece, a revolution began to overturn four terrible centuries of slavery the Greeks had endured under the Ottoman Turks. Harry Mark Petrakis's historical novel T...

• Dec-2008
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Thirty-one years after masterful storyteller and prolific author Harry Mark Petrakis wrote the historical novel The Hour of the Bell -- set in the first year of Greece's war of independence from the Turkish Empire -- he now carries the narrative f...

• Feb-2011
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In its play of voices reminiscent of the Winesburg, Ohio of Sherwood Anderson, this sequence of tales from a Greek village is at once tragic, moving, and poetic. The linked stories in which the inhabitants of the village of Fanaron in central Greece ...

• Nov-2011
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Legends of Glory and Other Stories contains a novella and eight short stories by award-winning author Harry Mark Petrakis. In a departure from his previous, highly regarded work, Petrakis offers a fresh perspective in the novella "Legends of...

• Feb-2012
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In 'The Orchards of Ithaca,' celebrated Chicago novelist Harry Mark Petrakis enhances his vigorous naturalism with humor, charm, and revelation. From the street-level vantage point of Orestes Panos, a prosperous restaurateur on the eve of his fiftiet...

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Master story-teller Harry Mark Petrakis reads three of his stories on this audiocassette. In "The Journal of a Wife Beater," an insufferable male chauvinist discovers, to his horror and bodily peril, that his wife is younger, stronger and even more v...