Leonard Michaels, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $27.50 (403p) ISBN 978-0-374-12654-4
Though Michaels, who died in 2003 at the age of 70, is probably best known for his novel The Men's Club
(1981), these 38 stories attest to his skill as a short story writer. Readers coming to Michaels's work for the first time will find the
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Leonard Michaels, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $25 (204p) ISBN 978-0-374-14880-5
These essays, spare and elegant as Michaels alights on a range of subjects, follow the late writer's own precept: “I think we name ourselves, more or less, whenever we write, and thus tend always to write about ourselves.” This...
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Leonard Michaels, Author Mercury House $14.95 (238p) ISBN 978-1-56279-120-9
Cult literary author Michaels returns to the short story form with this set of 17: five from the '90s, two older works rewritten and nine reprinted from his celebrated collections, Going Places and I Would Have Saved Them If I Could. Michaels...
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Leonard Michaels, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $18.95 (162p) ISBN 978-0-374-26349-2
This collection of autobiographical fiction by the author of I Would Have Saved Them If I Could and Going Places (a 1969 National Book Award nominee) is an example of the current redefinition of what is published as fiction. Created in fragments of...
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Leonard Michaels, Author Mercury House $12 (160p) ISBN 978-1-56279-040-0
This slight, rambling collection of essays by the author of the novel The Men's Club will probably only be appreciated by his die-hard fans. Michaels praises Hemingway, Walt Frazier and Joe DiMaggio for their ``great style,'' which, he believes, is...
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Leonard Michaels, Author Riverhead Books $24.95 (214p) ISBN 978-1-57322-142-9
Widely praised as a novelist (The Men's Club) and writer of short fiction (I Would Have Saved Them If I Could), Michaels, in his private journals, undertakes a relentlessly candid exploration of the labyrinth of self. The central theme of his...
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