Jay Parini

• Apr-1988
• / General Fiction
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Fifteen-year-old Sammy di Cantini, resident of a mining region of Pennsylvania, is determined to rise above his class, falls disastrously in love with a Protestant, and visits his Mafia brother in New York where he becomes involved in impossible stru...

• Jul-1990
• / Literary
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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREStarring Helen Mirren, Christopher Plummer, & James McAvoyIn 1910, Count Leo Tolstoy, the most famous writer in the world, is caught in the struggle between his devoted wife and an equally devoted acolyte over the m...

• Aug-1992
• / General Fiction
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A college professor obsessed with writing an epic poem about the journey of Christopher Columbus finally gets a grant and takes his family to the Dominican Republic where Columbus first saw inhabitants of the New World. 35,000 first printing. $35,000...

• May-1997
• / General Fiction
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The acclaimed and now-classic biographical novel of Walter Benjamin's last days--adapted into screenplay by Jay Parini. It is 1940. For the past decade, Walter Benjamin--the German-Jewish critic and philosopher--has been writing his masterpiece in a ...

• Dec-1998
• / Erotica
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• Mar-2002
• / General Fiction
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When Alex Massolini's brother is killed in Vietnam, he drops out of Columbia University and leaves his conservative family behind for Capri to become secretary to Rupert Grant, a famous British novelist and poet who dominates the island like a latter...

• Nov-2010
• / Historical
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As The Passages of H. M. opens, we see, through the eyes of his long-suffering wife Lizzie, an aging, angry, and drunken Herman Melville wreaking domestic havoc in his unhappy New York home. He is decades past his flourishing career as a writer of b...

• Nov-2010
• / Historical
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• May-2014
• / General Fiction
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poems on coal mining and the hard coal region of Pennsylvania...

• Apr-2019
• / Historical
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From the author of the international bestseller The Last Station, a superb historical novel of the Apostle Paul, whose tireless and epic preaching of the message of Jesus brought Christianity into existence and changed human history forever. In th...