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“clancy sigal”

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  • A Woman of Uncertain Character

    The Amorous and Radical Adventures of My Mother Jennie (Who Always Wanted to Be a Respectable Jewish Mom) by Her Bastard Son

    by Clancy Sigal ...
    This tale of a Russian immigrant is a "gripping and gritty memoir [and] a eulogy for a combative, self-conscious, often violent American working class" ( Los Angeles Times) .Jennie Persily, with her fiery red hair, buxom figure, and bohemian spirit, is a strong-willed fighter for justice and a passionate lover. A Russian-Jewish émigré who organizes unions in the sweatshops and on the mean streets ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Zone of the Interior

    A Novel

    by Clancy Sigal ...
    A riotously funny saga of institutional insanity, based on the author's association with the notorious psychiatrist R. D. LaingDespite massive literary success, Sidney Bell feels perpetually unsatisfied and suffers unexplained physical ailments. Desperate to straighten out his twisted life, anxiety-ridden Sid seeks help from experimental psychiatrist Dr. Willie Last, whose therapeutic methods ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Going Away

    A Report, a Memoir

    by Clancy Sigal ...
    National Book Award Finalist: This autobiographical road-trip novel exploring life and politics in the 1950s became "an underground bestseller" ( The Village Voice).The year is 1956, and a blacklisted Hollywood agent sets off on a cross-country adventure from Los Angeles to New York City. Along the way—stopping at bars, all-night restaurants, and gas stations—the twenty-nine-year-old narrator, at ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Secret Defector

    A Novel

    by Clancy Sigal ...
    A passionately realized novel about an affair between a wandering American and cutting-edge female novelistClancy Sigal's fourth novel centers on expatriate Gus Black, a freethinker who moves to England in search of a new life. He absorbs the native culture by plunging into its dark corners. Amid the upheavals, he lands a job at Vogue, consorting with models like Twiggy and Jean Shrimpton, and ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Weekend in Dinlock

    A Novel

    by Clancy Sigal ...
    A soulful tour de force of the world of coal miners in Yorkshire, a way of life like no otherIn this psychologically astute novel set in the boisterous South Yorkshire mining town of Dinlock, Davie, a young miner, paints to ease the mental and physical pain of digging coal, on his knees, two thousand feet underground. Sigal creates through Davie a microcosmic portrait of this backbreaking work, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Black Sunset

    Hollywood Sex, Lies, Glamour, Betrayal and Raging Egos

    by Clancy Sigal ...
    This a hilarious memoir of Clancy Sigal’s escapades as a young Hollywood agent on the Sunset Strip, peddling writers and actors in a blacklist-crazed golden age” movie industry of the 1950s. Atom bomb tests light up the night sky, and everyone is either naming names or getting named in the McCarthy witch hunt. By day a fast-talking salesman, at night he’s the point person of a small circle of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Glasgow Belongs to Me

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    by Richard Russo, Joyce Carol Oates, Neil Gaiman, Lee Child, Mary Higgins Clark ...
    A provocative, unprecedented anthology featuring original short stories on what it means to be an American from thirty bestselling and award-winning authors with an introduction by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen: “This chorus of brilliant voices articulating the shape and texture of contemporary America makes for necessary reading” (Lauren Groff, author of Fates and Furies).When ... Read more

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  • Do Ants Have Arseholes?

    ...and 101 other bloody ridiculous questions

    by Jon Butler, Bruno Vincent ...
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  • The Hanging Shed

    by Gordon Ferris ...
    Series Book 1 - Douglas Brodie series
    A read-it-in-one-sitting, action-packed, gritty, and atmospheric crime novel set on the tough streets of 1946 GlasgowThe last time Douglas Brodie came home it was 1942 and he was a dashing young warrior in a kilt. Now, the war is over, but victory's wine has soured and Brodie's back in Scotland to try and save childhood friend Hugh Donovan from the gallows. Everyone thought Hugh was dead, shot ... Read more

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