This masterly volume comprises the best shorter fiction written by Just over the last 25 years. "The working life, the war, politics, love affairs, and marriage seem to be the waters in which my boats set sail," Just writes. Here is a generous selection of the work that has earned Just his reputation as "one of the most astute writers of American fiction."
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Fiction that for its ambition and insight is unique in American Letters." Boston Globe
"Masterpieces of balance, focus, and hidden order." The Chicago Tribune
"Masterpieces of balance, focus, and hidden order." The Chicago Tribune
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Ward Just is the author of fourteen previous novels, including the National book Award finalist Echo House and An Unfinished Season, winner of the Chicago Tribune’s Heartland Award. In a career that began as a war correspondent for Newsweek and the Washington Post, Just has lived and written in half a dozen countries, including Britain, France, and Vietnam. His characters often lead public lives as politicians, civil servants, soldiers, artists, and writers. It is the tension between public duty and private conscience that animates much of his fiction, including Forgetfulness. Just and his wife, Sarah Catchpole, divide their time between Martha’s Vineyard and Paris.
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WARD JUST is the author of fifteen previous novels, including the National Book Award finalist Echo House, A Dangerous Friend, winner of the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for fiction from the Society of American Historians, and An Unfinished Season, winner of the Chicago Tribune Heartland Award and a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize.
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MY FATHER, now dead, was mayor of Dement. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York, Hank Beers, State Department, United States, North Shore, Medal of Honor, Art Institute, Delmore Schwartz, White House, West Coast, Back Bay, Henry James, Hong Kong, Costa Brava, Hermann Goering, House of Representatives, Northeast Kingdom, Foreign Service, Peace Corps, Tom Lewis, Frank Greer, George Field, New Haven, Terry Harris, Anne of the Thousand Days New!
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MY FATHER, now dead, was mayor of Dement. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York, Hank Beers, State Department, United States, North Shore, Medal of Honor, Art Institute, Delmore Schwartz, White House, West Coast, Back Bay, Henry James, Hong Kong, Costa Brava, Hermann Goering, House of Representatives, Northeast Kingdom, Foreign Service, Peace Corps, Tom Lewis, Frank Greer, George Field, New Haven, Terry Harris, Anne of the Thousand Days New!
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- American Blues: 2 by Ward Just in Front Matter
- A Sentimental Education: The Story of a Young Man (Oxford World's Classics) by Gustave Flaubert on page 89
- North Carolina Disasters & Catastrophes! (Carole Marsh North Carolina Books) by Carole Marsh on page 73
- A Preface to Morals by Walter Lippmann on page 190
- Otto Dix (French and German Edition) by Rainer Beck on page 66
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- The American Ambassador: A Novel by Ward Just in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- An Unfinished Season: A Novel by Ward Just in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- An Unfinished Season: A Novel by Ward Just in Front Matter
- The Weather in Berlin: A Novel by Ward Just in Front Matter
- Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason by Nancy Pearl on page 136
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