James Leo Herlihy
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As she explains in her diary, seventeen-year-old Gloria Random is running away from her Midwest childhood home. It's the fall of 1969, and her best friend John has been called up for the draft. It's time to escape the Big Finger, and their mundane lives.
Renaming themselves Witch and Roy, they head to New York City in search of Witch's biological father. Landing in the East Village, they fall into an underground world of mysticism, drugs, and free...
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Some families get a reputation for being strange, and so it is with the Williamses of Seminary Street. The father, once an outspoken socialist, now keeps to his rocks glass. The mother has a reputation for scaring children. But the older son, named Berry-berry, is the most whispered-about of them all. A traveling vagabond, he's known for his cleft chin, loose morals, and streaks of violence.
Then there's sixteen-year-old Clinton, who spends his...
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Joe Buck, un joven e ingenuo tejano, decide dejar atrás un pasado sin salida y encontrar una vida rebosante de glamour en Nueva York. La ciudad, por supuesto, resulta ser un lugar mucho más difícil de conquistar de lo que esperaba, y pronto ve comprometido su sueño. La dura caída de Buck a la realidad y su relación con un estafador callejero lisiado, Ratso, forman el núcleo emocional de la novela, y la improbable pareja es uno de los retratos...
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In his second collection of short stories, James Leo Herlihy explores a landscape at the fringes of society. Drawn with his signature humor and deft dialogue, Herlihy's characters search for the fragments of meaning that have gone missing from their lives. In the titular story, Mary Ellen McClure's unfulfilled, trailer park life is driven to the breaking point when she suspects her husband of having an affair. But when a Ouija board gives her the...
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English
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This short story collection by the acclaimed author of Midnight Cowboy explores the desperate lives of outsiders with unflinching insight.
In his first collection of short fiction, James Leo Herlihy examines the experiences of alienation and isolation while elevating the oddities and quirks that make up human nature. These seven tales tackle the anxieties of fragile people and get to the heart of a world inhabited by perennial outsiders.
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MGM Home Entertainment
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English
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Joe Buck moves to New York from Texas to make his fortune servicing women. Instead, he's conned into partnering up with small-time huslter Ratso Rizzo. Living together on the tattered edges of society, these two outcasts develop an unlikely bond that helps them transcend their cruel existence.
10) Midnight cowboy
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Criterion collection volume 925
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The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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Two small-time hustlers whose powerful friendship transcends the gritty realities of big-city life and their own unfulfilled dreams.
11) All fall down
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Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
©2009
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English
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A brilliant cast brings to life this penetrating portrait of a dissolute wanderer and his idolizing young brother.
