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The Executioner's Song - Norman Mailer
SUMMARY:Winner of the 1980 Pulitzer PrizeIn what is arguably his greatest book, America's most heroically ambitious writer followsthe short, blighted career of Gary Gilmore,... -
The Clothes Have No Emperor_ A - Paul Slansky
SUMMARY: A political humorist's caustically hilarious month-by-month archive of the 1980s includes memorable photographs, newspaper headlines, press clippings, pop quizzes, outrage... -
Sophie's Choice - William Styron
"Styron's most impressive performance. . . . Belongs on that small shelf reserved for American masterpieces." —Washington Post Book World Winner of the 1980 National Book Award, So... -
Senor Nice - Howard Marks
SUMMARY: The long-awaited and hugely-entertaining sequel toMr. Nice. During the mid-1980s, Howard Marks had forty-three aliases, eighty-nine phone lines and companies trading throu... -
Rivethead - Ben Hamper
From Publishers WeeklyIn a voice often as powerful as the riveting gun he wielded in the 1970s and '80s in a Flint, Mich., General Motors assembly plant, Hamper nails down the excr... -
Poe - Peter Ackroyd
"Peter Ackroyd's life of Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49) opens with his end, his final days. No one knows what happened between the moment when friends saw him off on the steamboat to Ba... -
N or M_ - Agatha Christie
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Volume 38 in the Agatha Christie Collection (1941) Limited edition of 800 copies worldwide It is World War II, and while the RA... -
My Year Inside Radical Islam_ A - Daveed Gartenstein-Ross
From Publishers WeeklyBorn into a spiritually ambiguous family (his parents are nonpracticing Jews who follow the "Infinite Way"), Gartenstein-Ross grew up in the 1980s, in Ashland... -
Led Zeppelin and Philosophy_ Al - Scott Calef
Led Zeppelin, who bestrode the world of rock like a colossus, have continually grown in popularity and influence since their official winding up in 1980. They exasperated critic... -
Jack_ Secret Vengeance - F. Paul Wilson
Review“Wilson deftly keeps interest high with well-drawn characterizations, modulating the thrills with details of day-to-day life in the early 1980s. Cracking good fun for teens.”...