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  Norwood: Library Edition

  by Charles Portis

  This is the second installment in Overlook's planned four-volume series of Portis reissues. Portis made his debut into the book world with this 1966 first novel, which many insist is his best. LJ's reviewer found the book more character- than plot-driven but nonetheless enjoyed it. (LJ 8/66) Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  Drop Edge of Yonder

  by Rudolph Wurlitzer

  Time Out New York 's #1 Best Book of 2008. "<A> funny, inquisitive novel <that> asks readers to re-examine their ideas of the Western frontier and personal freedom." —Jeffrey Trachtenberg, Wall Street Journal "May be the most hallucinogenic western you'll ever catch in the movie house of your mind's eye." —Erik Davis, Bookforum "A picaresque American Book of the Dead ... in the tradition... (more)
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  The Dog of the South

  by Charles Portis

  From Arkansas down to New Mexico and eventually leading to Honduras, a man is on the hunt for his wife who is following her first husband by a trail of credit card receipts.