Michael Ventura, Author Spring Publications $21 (0p) ISBN 978-0-88214-361-3
In an antidogmatic, mordant but ultimately humanistic voice, the versatile Ventura ( Shadow-Dancing in the USA ) grapples with American culture in these essays, most of which were first published in the L.A. Weekly . A series of essays on religion...
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Michael Ventura, Author Simon & Schuster $19.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-671-62373-9
Checking into honky-tonks from Louisiana to Texas to Mexico, this raunchy, overwritten first novel captures the pulse of the musician's rootless life, an amorphous series of gigs, motels, cheap highs and cosmic sex on the run. Pianist Jesse Wales,...
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Michael Ventura, Author Simon & Schuster $20.5 (255p) ISBN 978-0-671-89222-7
Creatively juxtaposing human emotional traumas with the natural tribulations of animals, this enthralling meditative tale finds life lessons in a man's struggle with sanity and his efforts to redefine himself-with the help of (among others) chimps,...
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Michael Ventura, Author Henry Holt & Company $22.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8050-3738-8
The Chairman of the Board acts as both metaphor and player in Ventura's intense, dark-hued new novel (after The Zoo Where You're Fed to God). Small-time Las Vegas PI Michael Rose is the son of an old-time Sicilian Mafia enforcer who mysteriously...
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Michael Ventura, Author, Ventura, Author Jeremy P. Tarcher $14.95 (232p) ISBN 978-0-87477-372-9
Ventura, an award-winning L.A. Weekly columnist, ranges widely over modern American life in this provocative collection of critical essays. Writing in the tradition of ""new cosmology'' thinkers such as Robert Bly and William Irwin Thompson, Ventura
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