Eric Kraft, Author . Picador USA $25 (336p) ISBN 978-0-312-28804-4
A tinted review in adult Forecasts indicates a book that's of exceptional importance to our readers, but hasn't received a starred or boxed review.INFLATING A DOGEric Kraft. Picador USA, $25 (256p) ISBN 0-312-28804-2Kraft's eighth...
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Eric Kraft, Author . St. Martin's $23.95 (245p) ISBN 978-0-312-31882-6
In his 10th novel featuring the irrepressible Peter Leroy, Kraft steers his engaging protagonist into the thickets of freelance writing as Leroy attempts to fund a series of unusual adventures by helping others write their memoirs. Leroy lives in...
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Eric Kraft, Author . St. Martin's $23.95 (205p) ISBN 978-0-312-31884-0
This addition to Kraft's well-received body of work (Passionate Spectator
, etc.) serves as the premier installment of the Flying trilogy and features the ever-engaging Peter Leroy. Upon hearing rumors that his Long Island hometown is being...
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Eric Kraft, Author . St. Martin's $23.95 (242p) ISBN 978-0-312-36374-1
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his fanciful novel, the second volume in Kraft's Flying trilogy (begun with 2006's Taking Off
) describes Peter Leroy's solo cross-country “flight” at age 14 on a homemade aerocycle that only got airborne once, when it...
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Eric Kraft, Author . Picador $16 (581p) ISBN 978-0-312-42872-3
This chunky paperback collects Flying Home
, the final installment to Kraft's Flying trilogy, along with its predecessors to give readers the full, nutty story of Peter Leroy's solo cross-country “aerocycle” flight 50 years ago.
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Eric Kraft, Author Crown Publishers $15 (181p) ISBN 978-0-517-58544-3
Fans of Kraft's Peter Leroy series ( Little Follies ) will unequivocally delight in this latest installment of Peter's adventures growing up in post-WW II Babbington, the ``clam capital of America.'' Readers unfamiliar with this masterful...
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Eric Kraft, Author Crown Publishers $17.95 (310p) ISBN 978-0-517-55941-3
Fans of Kraft's serial novel The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences and Observations of Peter Leroy will send up a cheer at their hero's return and his rollicking, fond story about his grandparents and their secret passion. Known as Gumma and
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Eric Kraft, Author Crown Publishers $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-517-57233-7
With the protagonist of this novel, 43-year-old Matthew Barber, a recently divorced toy company executive who's also an undercover restaurant critic, Kraft examines a more constricted world than he did in the effervescent Herb 'n' Lorna. Matthew...
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Eric Kraft, Author Crown Publishers $22 (275p) ISBN 978-0-517-59612-8
This new chapter in Kraft's Peter Leroy series, set in post WW II Babbington, Long Island, is a mazy, metafictional tale centered around Leroy's imaginary adolescent crush, the sultry, elusive and histrionic Ariane ``Tootsie'' Lodkochnikov. The...
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Eric Kraft, Author Picador USA $13 (420p) ISBN 978-0-312-11928-7
In an acclaimed collection of nine novellas and a novel detail, Kraft details the early years of Peter Leroy, his perennial protagonist and alter ego. (Mar.)
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Eric Kraft, Author Picador USA $11 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-13211-8
Kraft's perennial protagonist, Peter Leroy, introduces his imaginary love interest, a bar girl and acting hopeful whose life story is an array of playful narratives imagined by Leroy. (June)
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Eric Kraft, Author Plume Books $8.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-525-48513-1
``Fans of Kraft's serial novel The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences and Observations of Peter Leroy will send up a cheer at their hero's return and his rollicking, fond story'' about his grandparents and their secret passion--erotic arts...
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Eric Kraft, Author Crown Publishers $20 (179p) ISBN 978-0-517-59614-2
Peter Leroy, hotel owner in the town of Babbington, Long Island (``clam capital of America''), offers further marvelously appealing recollections of his boyhood misadventures of the mid-1950s. Readers unfamiliar with the earlier Leroy novels (What a
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