Back cover: "Here are men who have looked into the eyes of war and who will never be able to look out of their own eyes the same way again. Here is the face of war as it has rarely been shown in literature. The final pages of the book will serve as metaphor for American tearing its own guts out, which is precisely what this country did in Vietnam. Kent Anderson will no doubt take heat for this book, but as a writer, I say, 'Welcome aboard. You're one of us.'"

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Back cover: "Talent has struck. Caveman Politics is gutty, powerfully written—from start to finish, my kind of novel. I have a feeling that this is a writer we'll hear from in the future. I send Mr. Atkinson my ultimate praise."

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Back cover: "If Elliot Baker is to be compared to other writers, he must be put into the demented, brilliant company of such men as J.P. Donleavy and Joseph Heller." [from the New York Times book review]

Blurb from back of the dust jacket: "Here is the whole sorry, tragic catastrophe that was our involvement in Vietnam. It is impossible for me to describe the power of this book. But I promise you what will perhaps be the most memorable reading experience of your life. It is also a view of the war and the boys who fought it that you will not find anywhere else. I cannot recommend this work too highly." [Blurb confirmed by Ken Lopez Bookseller]

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Front cover: "Compelling, memorable . . . one of the best reads I've had in years."

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Back cover: "As clean, precise, and satisfying as the bite of a good axe in oak on a cold morning. His knowledge of his subject is profound, and his compassion for the people who live in the pages of The Blind Corral is utterly moving. What a wonderful job of work this is."

Inside back flap, top: ". . . a brooding evocation of the late 60s and the early 70s that conjures in the mind and heart the shambles that these years represent."

Inside back flap, bottom: "Mezcal is also a lyrical meditation upon the ultimate strength of the land, specifically the desert Southwest, and how that ;and prevails and endures despite every effort of modern industry and development to rape and savage it in the name of progress. Mezcal lingers in the mind like as only the very best books manage to do."

Inside back flap: ". . . a brooding evocation of the late 60s and the early 70s that conjures in the mind and heart the shambles that these years represent . . . . Lingers in the mind like as only the very best books manage to do." for Bowden's novel Mezcal

"Rather like some perfect object one has come across in a wilderness."

[See Crews 1990 October 21 Book Reviews]

Algonquin hardcover and Vintage paperback editions available from Amazon Books.

"Larry Brown's work is exceptional by any standards."

Algonquin hardcover and Vintage paperback editions available from Amazon Books.

Front Porch paperback edition, November 1996.

Front cover: "Talent has struck." Second inside page: "Larry Brown's work is exceptional by any standards. Talent has struck."

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"Whatever he writes I will read."

Warner paperback edition available from Amazon Books.

"Kevin Canty is a storm of talent and this book of stories lingers in the mind as only the best fiction does. His imagination is a dark wood with wildlife in it. I cannot remember when I was so impressed by a first book by an unknown writer." Also blurbs by Joy Williams, Padgett Powell, Ann Beattie. Canty was a graduate student in the University of Florida writing program in the late 1980s.

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Back of jacket recycles blurbs from A Stranger.

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Back of jacket recycles blurbs from A Stranger.

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First inside page of paperback: "Lorenzo Carcaterra's labor, his pain, and above all, his compassion as a man has given us the great gift of Sleepers. I ended reading this incomparable book with my heart crushed and my eyes blinded by tears."

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Back cover: "Douglas Day's powers are formidable. Journey of the Wolf is without question the best-written novel I've read in a decade. I knew from the first paragraph that I was in the hands of a master. Everything Day touches comes immediately to life. Dust chokes us. The brutal rocky soil tears our feet. I loved the old man whose life and sense of decency inform this novel. I loved his conviction that a man's dignity insists that he seek the right moment and the right moment place for his death. His story unfolds toward the place with an inevitability that is at once profoundly sad and profoundly satisfying."

Inside cover: "Do yourself a favor, put your money down, and buy this honest and very funny book about bodybuilding, with all its kinks and twists and warts. Mr. Fussell, I congratulate you as a writer."

Back cover: "Talent has struck again. Laurence Gonzales's Jambeaux will steal the night from you. It did for me. I read it through in one sitting and when I closed the book I thought that those people who fear for the fate of the novel ought to go out and but Jambeaux and put their hearts at rest. The ultimate compliment I can pay any writer, I send to Mr. Gonzales: I'll read the next novel he writes."

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Back cover: "If you only buy one book this year, this is the one."

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Back cover: "Put your money down and take home High Steel, a novel of science fiction that lingers in the mind as only the best such writing does . . . One hell of a read."

Crews is one of several people credited by the authors for "support, aid, and inspiration."

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"This novel hangs in the memory like a fishhook." Grove paperback, published 1994.

[See Crews 1980 November 16 Book Reviews]

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Delta paperback edition. Front cover blurb: "A singular joy to read."

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Blurb from rear cover: "Here's a tale that starts in the gut but ultimately comes to live in the heart. I love the old man at the center of King of the Road. I love his courage, his spirit, and his determination to live his life listening only to the dictates of his own blood. Paul Hemphill is and has been for a long time one of the best reads in the country. Put your money down and pick this book up. You'll not be sorry."

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"William Hjortsberg is a powerful, memorable writer whose books have kept me up through more than one night. Nevermore is a storm of reading pleasure." [unconfirmed]

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Inside front cover: "William Hjortsberg writes fiction the way Leroy Jordan plays football—with controlled abandon—which is to say, with the abandon that only the greatest discipline can release."

Back cover: "Hillary Johnson's Physical Culture will peel you down to the quick and let you see what lives there. It is the single most shattering novel I've read since Jerzy Kosinski's The Painted Bird."

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Back cover: "Madison Jones is one of the country's great prose stylists. His ear is tone perfect. His eye for significant detail is that of a master. Last Things lingers in the mind as only fiction of the first water does. Here is a story that is funny and terrible and compelling and memorable. There is not a writer in America whose body of work I admire more than the work Madison Jones has done."

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Back cover: "Michael Knight's Divining Rod is the work of a man we will be reading for years and years to come. What a genuine voice. What a raging talent."

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Back cover: "Mike Magnuson hits the first page running, a torch in either hand, and by the time he has burned through to the other side, he has left a story that is beautiful and terrible and one that lingers in the mind and heart. This is my kind of story."

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"I have read all of these stories and there is not a bad one in the bunch. In a collection of this quality, perhaps, I should not single out one story for praise, but Padgett Powell's story nails it right to the wall. I will keep this collection by my bedside and read from it, more or less, each night. It is that good."

Available from the University Press of Florida.

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"[P]owerful and compelling."

Norton paperback edition available from Amazon Books.

Back cover: "This is a book that gives you back in spades whatever it demands of you. Here is a life. Here are the bones that hold the life. Here is the blood that holds and makes the life. Here is an honesty that will make you weep, laugh, grind your teeth and howl at the moon, all of it done—strange to say—with a joy as mysterious and unanswerable as the beating of your own heart. Come find out who you are: come read Keeper of the Moon." Also, blurbs by Roy Blount, Lee Smith, Clyde Edgerton, and Larry Brown.

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Front cover: "Not A Bad Man will make your head and heart sing."

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Back cover: "Philip Quinn Morris's novel Mussels has a voice and vision all its own. A compelling tale by a talent to watch. Buy the book; it does not disappoint."

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Back cover recycles blurb from Mussels: "A compelling tale by a talent to watch—Mussels has a voice and vision all its own."

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Back cover: "Edward Nagel's No Entry has moments of real brilliance. If you care anything at all for literature and hell for leather storytelling, put your money down and take this book home."

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Back cover: "These pages sing with an energy that is rare and wonderful. Janis Owens has found her voice in My Brother Michael, and that voice is strong and true and all her own. My sincere hope is that this book finds the audience is so richly deserves."

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Inside flap: "I was there. And this is it: Parris Island. In Making the Corps, Thomas Ricks renders the relationship that exists between the Marine Drill Instructor and the recruit as nobody else ever has. But perhaps his greatest contribution in this book is to examine in great detail the distrust—the war, even—that exists between the Corps and today's society. Making the Corps is a book that ought to be on the shelf of every American, and particularly on the shelf of every parent who has a child who may one day, for whatever reason, want to measure himself on Parris Island to see if he has the stuff to be a Marine for the rest of his life, even if he only serves one hitch."

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Single blurb on back cover: "Pride of the Bimbos is a strong, sad, funny book which marks the beginning of what will surely be a remarkable career. I send John Sayles the ultimate compliment for a writer: whatever he writes next I'll read."

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Blurb from top front flap fold: "First water." [Blurb confirmed by Ken Lopez Bookseller]

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Back cover. "Skellings is a fine inside cat. He can let language do. There are several around who can make language do, but only ones of the first water can let language do. That may be a fine distinction, but only fine distinctions count."

Back cover: "Here is a new novel by a new writer which is occasion for celebration. It is rare when a first novel is as memorable and compelling as In the Matter of Billy K. As only the best fiction does, it lingers in the mind and the heart after the last page is turned."

Back cover: "Not many come down the pike these days as fine as David Wagoner's The Road to Many a Wonder. The book is a joyous celebration of innocence and courage and I, for one, loved it."

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Back cover: "Robert Ward's novel Red Baker takes the abstraction 'unemployment' that we so easily bandy about and turns it into the blood and bone of people who are very much alive. Red Baker is a wrenching and highly rewarding experience. We are all in Robert Ward's debt for going the distance to write it."

From the inside cover: "A novel of conscience and consequence, Weep No More My Brother is the story of a man losing himself because he cannot deny the demands of his blood. It is an auspicious beginning for a young novelist from whom we have every right to expect equally fine stories in the future. I read Weep No More My Brother in a single sitting and found it a deeply felt story, one that is moving and satisfying." Blurbs also by John Ciardi, Reynolds Price, and Andrew Lytle.

"Charles Willeford renders the sport [of cockfighting] with such knowledge and attention to detail . . . that I had the almost inexpressible impression of being on my knees again beside the great cockfighting pits of the Southern circuit."

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Back cover: "What a marvel, what a mystery it is that by carefully detailing a monstrous death Hilma Wolitzer manages to create and sustain a tender and beautiful life. There are passages in this novel that move me as much as anything I've ever read. It deals with the single great theme of all literature: love and the absence of love."

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Blurb from lower part of front cover: "A remarkable first novel, the whole of which I read in a single, delightful sitting. God bless and keep the storytellers, those of the hard narrative line, spinning itself out in page after page of language solid and gamy as flesh. I salute Mr. Wyatt for being such a one. I champ at the bit waiting to see what he will give us next." [Blurb confirmed by Ken Lopez Bookseller]

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