Ward Just

• Mar-1978
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Jonathan Yardley called A Family Trust "his longest, his most ambitious and his best a book with serious purposes that manages to entertain at the same timerich in carefully observed details, in quick, sharp perceptions that reveal more than one at f...

• Sep-1979
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• Oct-1982
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"Not many people can write splendid fiction about the inner workings of the American political state. In fact, Ward Just is the only one I can think of." ―Boston Globe

In this novel of political intrigue, Pulitzer Prize finalist Ward Just ...

• Jun-1984
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• Sep-1984
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Stringer is a civilian intelligence agent who is teamed up with a very "Army" West Point captain on a guerilla mission to locate and destroy an enemy supply convoy in Vietnam. He is a failed newspaperman and a dropout from two colleges and one marria...

• Feb-1990
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Publisher Liza Bennington's success with Style, the world's most popular fashion magazine, is threatened by a power struggle with her arch-enemy, Fritz Jacob, and by the group of flatterers and backstabbers who surrround her...

• Apr-1990
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This masterly volume comprises the best shorter fiction written by Just over the last 25 years. The working life, the war, politics, love affairs, and marriage seem to be the waters in which my boats set sail, Just writes. Here is a generous selectio...

• Apr-1990
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This masterly volumn contains the best shorter fiction written by Just over the last 25 years. "The working life, the war, politics, love affairs, and marriage seem to be the waters in which my boat sets sail," Just writes. He is intimately at home...

• Jun-1990
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A young pollster named Jack Gance becomes a savvy Washington political insider and eventually a U.S. senator - but not without paying the usual dues, which turns out to be a dirty business. Gance wastes his love on married women, but ultimately learn...

• May-1994
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• May-1997
• / Literary
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Here is Ward Just's masterpiece -- an epic chronicle of three generations of Washington power brokers and the womenfolk who loved them (except when they didn't)....

• May-1999
• / Suspense
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Well-meaning American civilians make an attempt at nation-building during the Vietnam War, in this “powerful” novel by a National Book Award finalist (Newsweek). Named one of the Best Books of the Year by Time and the Los Angeles Times   In ...

• May-1999
• / Suspense
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Unable to rid his mind of the brutal shooting deaths of a group of Englishmen by German soldiers shortly after World War II, German citizen Sydney van Damm abandons his homeland for Paris and becomes involved in an unscrupulous scam. Reprint....

• Sep-2001
• / Literary
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The acclaimed author of A Dangerous Friend explores his signature concerns-the moral dilemmas of journalism, law, and public life, and the limits of love-in a new play and previously uncollected fiction.

Lowell Limpett is a journalist at the end o...

• Jun-2002
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A New York Times Notable Book: “An elegantly written, strikingly intelligent novel” about wrestling with the past and the future in a reunified Germany (Newsday). Shot in Germany in the late 1960s, Dix Greenwood’s first film, Summer, 1921, is r...

• Jun-2002
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"Ward Just took time off from the editorial page of The Washington Post to write his first novel, A Soldier of the Revolution, the story of a young man who is sent to South America to work for an Ameri"...

• Jun-2003
• / Thriller
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“A gripping international thriller” about a Foreign Service officer -- and the son who turns to terrorism to spite him (Los Angeles Times). William North Jr. inherited his father’s keen political instincts and passion for justice. But the last ...

• Jul-2004
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A young man comes of age in Eisenhower-era Chicago in this “stunning” Pulitzer Prize Finalist novel by the author of Echo House (USA Today).In An Unfinished Season, Ward Just evokes a city, an epoch, and a shift in ideals through the story of nin...

• Sep-2006
• / General Fiction
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Thomas Railles, an American expatriate and former "odd-jobber" for the CIA, is a successful painter living with his beloved wife, Florette, in a small village in the Pyrenees. On an ordinary autumn day, Florette goes for a walk in the hills and is ki...

• Jul-2009
• / General Fiction
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One of the most astute writers of American fiction" (New York Times Book Review) delivers the resonant story of Alec Malone, a senator's son who rejects the family business of politics for a career as a newspaper photographer. Alec and his Swiss wife...

• Mar-2011
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Tommy Ogden, a Gatsbyesque character living in a mansion outside robber-baron-era Chicago, declines to give his wife the money to commission a bust of herself from the French master Rodin and announces instead his intention to endow a boys school. Og...

• Apr-2014
• / General Fiction
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Harry Sanders is a young foreign service officer in 1960s Indochina when a dangerous and clandestine meeting with insurgents -- ending in quiet disaster -- and a brief but passionate encounter with Sieglinde, a young German woman, alter the course of...

• Oct-2016
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From an American master comes another “beautifully languid, emotionally intense tale” (Entertainment Weekly), this time of a newspaper editor’s fateful decision to expose a small-town fugitive. Ned Ayres, the son of a judge in an Indiana tow...