Robert James Waller, Author . Shaye Areheart $24.95 (281p) ISBN 978-0-307-20994-8
A mysterious loner tries to find love and peace of mind in rural South Dakota in Waller's latest, a tepid, unfocused novel that begins when a handsome, independent drifter, Carlisle McMillan, arrives in the tiny town of Salamander. McMillan is...
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Robert James Waller, Author . Crown/Shaye Areheart $21 (158p) ISBN 978-0-307-20996-2
Waller, of The Bridges of Madison County
fame, takes readers to the unforgiving terrain of south Texas in his 10th novel. Seventy-seven-year-old Winchell Dear has made a good life for himself as an honest poker player, including acquiring his 45,000
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Robert James Waller, Author Warner Books Inc $25 (208p) ISBN 978-0-446-51653-2
Only little old ladies with blue permed hair need be wary of Waller's second foray into fiction: this time around, his saccharine tale of middle-aged lovers gets to sex scenes right away. When Michael Tillman, an Iowa economics professor with a...
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Robert James Waller, Author, Waller, Author Warner Books Inc $30 (192p) ISBN 978-0-446-51652-5
Quietly powerful and thoroughly credible, Waller's first novel (he previously wrote two books of essays) describes the profound love between a photographer and an Iowa farmer's wife who, together for only four days, never lose their feelings for...
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Robert James Waller, Author, Bill Silag, Foreword by Warner Books Inc $30 (192p) ISBN 978-0-446-51798-0
Waller, whose novels The Bridges of Madison County and Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend are current bestsellers, here offers 19 essays previously published in the Des Moines Register between 1983 and 1989 and in two book collections. As he acknowledges,...
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Robert James Waller, Author, Bill Silag, Foreword by Warner Books $16.99 (172p) ISBN 978-0-446-67102-6
Waller, whose The Bridges of Madison County has been on PW's bestseller list since August 1992, offers 19 essays about love, life and death, written between 1983 and 1989. (July)
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Robert James Waller, Author, James Waller, Author Warner Books Inc $28 (260p) ISBN 978-0-446-51858-1
The lead sentence of Waller's potential bestseller is a first line that may turn up in quizzes, though not of the literary variety. ``When this nameless piece a' shit tore off Linda Lobo's G-string instead of sticking money in it... Texas Jack...
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Robert James Waller, Author, James Waller, Author Warner Books Inc $26 (228p) ISBN 978-0-446-51747-8
Lighting out for new territory but going badly astray, Waller (Border Music) mixes his usual conceits with the outlines of a thriller. Looking for inspiration and a cheap place to live off his dwindling royalty check, over-the-hill writer Danny...
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