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Log of the S.S. The Mrs Unguentine (Faber Editions)
Introduced by Julia Armfield
Häftad, 2027
130 kr
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INTRODUCED BY JULIA ARMFIELD'Strange and exhilarating . . . Virtuosic . . . Crawford makes something utterly, delightfully, memorably new' KATIE KITAMURAI sailed that ship. I sailed it every nautical inch of our marriage.A woman falls in love with a sailor: a biblically-bearded man who grows …
Garlic Testament
Seasons on a Small New Mexico Farm
Inbunden, 1998
246 kr
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From his New Mexico mountain home, award-winning author Stanley Crawford writes about growing garlic and selling it. The book is a favourite not only for its assemblage of garlic and farming lore but for what it tells us about how to live a satisfying life. This beloved book, first published in …
River in Winter
New and Selected Essays
Häftad, 2025
318 kr
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First time in paper, these essays are an extension of the author's previous books Mayordomo and A Garlic Testament.This book is like Stanley Crawford's floor. The floor began more than thirty years ago when Crawford moved his family to New Mexico after selling movie rights to his first novel. The …
Intimacy
A Novel
Häftad, 2016
234 kr
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In this melancholy novel about a man on the brink of suicide, Stanley Crawford allows readers to question what it really means to be close to a person. Intimacy follows an unnamed narrator planning his own death. His preparations become a trigger and occasion for him to revisit key moments in his …
Seed
A Novel
Häftad, 2015
234 kr
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In an age of contested values, Stanley Crawford’s wry Seed offers a sardonic exploration of the meaning of “values.” Curmudgeon Bill Starr’s end-of-life decisions illuminate the values that rule his life and his heirs’ and well as the material objects he and they perceive as having value.Seed is …
Seed
A Novel
E-bok, 2015
400 kr
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Seed is the story of Bill Starr’s final days. Childless but with a lifetime’s worth of possessions and a nearly infinite web of extended family, Bill endeavors to empty his house completely before he dies by summoning distant relatives to claim their inheritance. Many of his letters go unanswered, …
Intimacy
A Novel
E-bok, 2016
404 kr
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Intimacy is the story of an unnamed narrator ruminating on suicide. He reflects on the origins and significance of his material possessions, and on the seemingly inconsequential moments in his life, while he prepares to carry out his plans. In this melancholy novel about a man on the brink of …
Log of the S.S. The Mrs Unguentine
Häftad, 2025
205 kr
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Log of the S.S. The Mrs. Unguentine is a masterpiece of modern domestic life, a comic novel of closeness and difficulty, miscommunication and stubborn resolve. "Forty years ago I first linked up with Unguentine and we made love on twin-hulled catamarans, sails a-billow, bless the seas . . ."So …
Garlic Papers: A Small Garlic Farm in the Age of Global Vampires
Häftad, 2019
231 kr
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The compelling personal story at the heart of the Netflix documentary, "Garlic Breath."Readers who care about preserving local businesses will appreciate this new book by writer and garlic farm owner Stanley Crawford. In the fall of 2014, Crawford questioned US tariff exemptions for the country’s …
River in Winter
New and Selected Essays
Inbunden, 2003
202 kr
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Crawford's thoughtful and witty essays explore his experiences as a farmer, activist and observer in rural New Mexico. In his third non-fiction book he writes, among other topics, about the river which irrigates his land and the animals and plants which touch his life.
Canyon
A Novel
Häftad, 2015
250 kr
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Scotty’s family owns a lodge near their silver mine in the Colorado Rockies. Summers at the lodge are idyllic for Scotty and his cousin Mickey. The grown-ups are dealing with the complications of business and adult dysfunction, but the boys are more interested in the complications of puberty, …
Some Instructions to My Wife
Concerning the Upkeep of the House and Marriage, and to My Son and Daughter Concerning the Conduct of Their Childhood
Av Stanley Crawford, Crawford Stanley
Häftad, 1985
143 kr
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From "Putting Things Away" to "The Marriage Almanac" (not to mention the pedantic "Index," in itself a comic wonder), Stanley Crawford gives the married, the unmarried, and the formerly married a classic satire on all the sanctimonious marriage manuals ever produced. Starting with the complete …
Village: a novel
A novel
Inbunden, 2017
265 kr
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This rollicking ride through a single day in the ill-fated village of San Marcos will leave you reeling with laughter, even as you cringe at the misadventures of the hapless Porter Clapp and his pitiable wife, Steph; the jaundiced Onésimo Moro and his ever-watchful spouse, Isabel; and the rest of …
