Jaimy Gordon

• 1974
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This is the third edition of one of the finest comic novels to appear in the last half century, a book that has been compared with the very best of Flann OÂ'Brien, Angela Carter, and Witold Gombrowicz. Appearing first in 1974, Shamp of the City-Solo ...

• Jan-1979
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• May-1990
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Avant-garde writer Gordon ( Circumspections from an Equestrian Statue ), here charts the madcap, trouble-prone, often raucous adventures of quixotic Jane Turner, aged 22 in the 1960s setting. The novel opens with Jane plotting to shoot Philip, her se...

• 2000
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A Los Angeles Times Best Book or the Year National Book Award Winner Jaimy Gordon’s bold and daring coming of age novel combines the teenaged angst of Catcher in the Rye with the humor and tragedy of Girl, Interrupted.  Ursie Koderer know...

• Dec-2010
• / Literary
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Thoroughbred horse trainer Tommy Hansel has a scheme to rescue his failing operation by shipping four unclassed horses to Indian Mound Downs, run them in cheap claimers at long odds, and then get out fast before anyone notices. The problem is, at thi...