ISBN: 9781878448897 - henry of atlantic city (9 Ergebnisse)

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Zustand: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

hardcover. Zustand: Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 1st. 8vo, 249 pp., Signed by the author on the title page.

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDLiterature & Fiction. Fine in fine dust jacket. Later printing.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. Denver: MacMurray Beck (1999). First edition. First printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A clean, tight copy. Comes with mylar dust jacket cover. Shipped in well-padded box. Smoke-free shop. Defect-free. 0.0.

Hardcover. Zustand: Like New. First Edition. First Edition, 2nd Printing. Not price-clipped. Published by Macmurray and Beck, 1999. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is like new with author signature on title page. Dust jacket is like new.100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Author signature to title page, else fine. BP/Fiction/Signed Books. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Uncorrected proof copy signed to the title page by the author. Tape or label residue to front o/w clen, unmarked proof copy. Scarce as such. TM/Proofs. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. First Printing [Stated]. Format is approximately 5.25 inches by 8 inches. [6], 249, [1] pages. Signed by the author on the half title page. Frederick Reuss is the author of Horace Afoot, Henry of Atlantic City, and The Wasties. Frederick Reuss has emerged as a writer of unusual, off-kilter novels that place odd characters in ordinary settings that seem incapable of comprehending them. Frederick Reuss provides the reader with an endearing hero. It's a six-year-old Gnostic with a photographic memory. Henry is being reared - at least intermittently - by gamblers, thieves, whores, and priests in one of America's most notorious sin cities. But from time to time, he seems to believe that he's living as a saint in fifth century Byzantium. Frederick Reuss's novel describes the labyrinthine terrain in which we shape our identities and search for meaning. Young henry places his questions into a distant and possibly wiser world. For some reason, the stories of ancient Byzantium help Henry make sense of his absurd - and sometimes dangerous - existence. Henry of Atlantic City is an ironic, funny, and heart rending account of the ways we become our own saviors by choosing what to believe. In Henry of Atlantic City, Reuss presents a six-year-old oddity who has memorized the Gnostic Gospels and believes himself to be a saint living in fifth-century Byzantium. More prosaically, Henry is the son of a Caesar's Palace security officer who has skipped out after embezzling millions of dollars from his employer, leaving the boy to make his way in a world of abusive, hostile, or simply confounded adults. For Henry, the two worlds join together, so that a local mobster becomes the Emperor Justinian, cars turn into chariots, and the casino becomes the actual Caesar's Palace. As Henry travels around, he encounters priests and prostitutes, thieves and police officers, none of whom seem to accept his sainthoodâ"or to shake his certainty that he is nonetheless indeed a saint, as an invisible angel assures him. "Along the way, Reuss shows us . . . the dark philosophical and psychological labyrinths in which we search for glimmers of ourselves," according to Booklist reviewer Veronica Scrol. A Publishers Weekly reviewer wrote, "Reuss achieves a brilliant pathos, reminding us that at any age, 'loneliness is the most meaningless treasure in existence.'" For a Kirkus Reviews contributor, "this ambitious fictionâ"blending a child's search for love and certainty with a restless examination of the nature of faithâ"is often profoundly moving. It is also further evidence that Reuss is one of our most unpredictable and original novelists.". Lee Anderson (Author photograph), and Steve Sint ( (illustrator). …