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    <![CDATA[You: Or the Invention of Memory]]>
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    <![CDATA[With each new novel, post-modern legend Jonathan Baumbach subtly reimagines the shape of the wheel. In his latest, YOU, subtitled, Or the Invention of Memory, the narrator remembers or imagines or invents the story of a not easily defined relationship with a complex and variable woman known in the novel only as You.  The style will captivate, needing no explanation as to why Baumbach s novels continue to connect with a wide variety of readers.    You are warily approaching the first sentence of my new novel, not wanting to be taken unaware, or not wanting to be plunged into something from which there is no perceptible exit or perhaps both at once, separate and inseparable concerns.  The opening sentence, with your unspoken consent, has edged its way into the barely remembered past.]]>
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  </authors>  <published>2007</published>
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    <![CDATA[B: A Novel]]>
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  <average_rating>4.33</average_rating>
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    <![CDATA[Who is B? The novel that takes his initial offers 14 ways of looking at Baumbach's poet-protagonist, an intellectual's Bukowski, 14 narrative variations on the distorting mirror, calling into question the validity, even the importance, of truth in memory.]]>
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  </authors>  <published>2002</published>
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    <![CDATA[On the Way to My Father's Funeral: New and Selected Stories]]>
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  <ratings_count>9</ratings_count>
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    <![CDATA[Here are thirteen new stories and Baumbach's selected, which have appeared in such diverse compilations as Full Court: A Literary Anthology of Basketball, On the Couch: Great American Stories About Therapy, Transgressions: The Iowa Anthology of Innovative Fiction, Byrne's Book of Great Pool Stories, Show Me a Hero: Great Contemporary Stories about Sports, The Best American Short Stories, and The O. Henry Prize Stories--collected together for the first time. Whether they star a mild-mannered psychologist with a fondness for female patients or a King Kong-like giant ape with a human-sized penis or a female patient with a fondness for mild-mannered psychologists, Baumbach consistently reinvents traditional character-type and the traditional story.]]>
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    <ratings_count>63</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>16</text_reviews_count>
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  </authors>  <published>2005</published>
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        <book>
  <id type="integer">746477</id>
  <isbn>0932511082</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780932511089</isbn13>
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    <![CDATA[The Life and Times of Major Fiction]]>
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  <average_rating>3.00</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>5</ratings_count>
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    <![CDATA[The fourteen stories that make up Jonathan Baumbach's eighth book of fiction deal with parents, children, love, basketball, billiards, reading, marriage, divorce-the essentials of everyday life which, though the author's unique strategy of narrative, come to the reader in unexpected ways.  Combining comedy and nightmare, these stories distinguish themselves by the charge of their imaginative life, their concern with language, and the play and replay of their form. &quot;Familiar Games&quot; describes a one-on-one basketball game between a 12-year-old boy and his mother, a match that evokes a childhood memory of sexual mystery; &quot;Passion?&quot; concerns the disrepair of a marriage that has presented itself to friends and the world as ideal; &quot;Children of Divorced Parents&quot; centers on the problematic career of a film maker who, after several failed marriages, continues to pursue the illusion of first love; and the title story, &quot;The Life and Times of Major Fiction,&quot; investigates the mysterious career of a literary confidence man, an impassioned lover of good books, whose life is itself a pastiche of the plots of major fictions. ]]>
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    <average_rating>3.68</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>63</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>16</text_reviews_count>
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  </authors>  <published>1987</published>
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        <book>
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  <title>
    <![CDATA[Babble]]>
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  <average_rating>4.33</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>3</ratings_count>
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    <![CDATA[]]>
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    <average_rating>3.68</average_rating>
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    <text_reviews_count>16</text_reviews_count>
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  </authors>  <published>1976</published>
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        <book>
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    <![CDATA[Reruns]]>
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  <average_rating>3.67</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>3</ratings_count>
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    <![CDATA[]]>
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    <id>395313</id>
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    <average_rating>3.68</average_rating>
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    <text_reviews_count>16</text_reviews_count>
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  </authors>  <published>1974</published>
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        <book>
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    <![CDATA[Seven Wives]]>
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  <average_rating>2.67</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>3</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[A postmodern romance from the author of Separate Hours and The  Life and Times of Major Fiction.]]>
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    <average_rating>3.68</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>63</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>16</text_reviews_count>
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  </authors>  <published>1994</published>
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  <title>
    <![CDATA[Moderns and Contemporaries: Twelve Masters of the Short Story]]>
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  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/746483.Moderns_and_Contemporaries_Twelve_Masters_of_the_Short_Story</link>
  <average_rating>5.00</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>1</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[]]>
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    <author>
    <id>395313</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Jonathan Baumbach]]></name>
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    <average_rating>3.68</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>63</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>16</text_reviews_count>
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  </authors>  <published>1977</published>
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        <book>
  <id type="integer">746485</id>
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  <isbn13>9781573660372</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">1</text_reviews_count>
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    <![CDATA[D-Tours]]>
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  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/746485.D_Tours</link>
  <average_rating>2.00</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>2</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[]]>
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<authors>
    <author>
    <id>395313</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Jonathan Baumbach]]></name>
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    <average_rating>3.68</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>63</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>16</text_reviews_count>
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  </authors>  <published>1998</published>
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        <book>
  <id type="integer">1109077</id>
  <isbn>0914590561</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780914590569</isbn13>
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    <![CDATA[Chez Charlotte and Emily]]>
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  <average_rating>3.00</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>1</ratings_count>
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    <![CDATA[Imagine a bookish man named Francis D., swimming at a public beach in Cape Cod, who drifts out beyond his depth.  Imagine that he doesn't drown, that the tide carries him to a private cove where he is rescued by two mysterious young women named Charlotte and Emily.  Imagine then that Francis leaves behind his former humdrum life-his formidable wife and teenage daughter-and embarks on a series of violent and erotic adventures, as dream-like as reels of film. Imagine at the same time that a man named Joshua Quartz is telling his silent wife, Genevieve, the story of Francis's adventures, that they have little other communication, that the story is a way of keeping contact between husband and wife alive.  Imagine that at some point Genevieve tells her own story, within and without Joshua's account.  Baumbach's characters make occasional connections, make love and war, in the disguises of metaphor.  If the main action is dream-like or fantastic, the real world is always at the window looking in.]]>
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    <average_rating>3.68</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>63</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>16</text_reviews_count>
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  </authors>  <published>1979</published>
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    <![CDATA[A Man to Conjure With]]>
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  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2287682.A_Man_to_Conjure_With</link>
  <average_rating>3.00</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>1</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[]]>
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    <author>
    <id>395313</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Jonathan Baumbach]]></name>
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    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/395313.Jonathan_Baumbach]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.68</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>63</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>16</text_reviews_count>
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  </authors>  <published>1965</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">746482</id>
  <isbn>0252007840</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780252007842</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">0</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[The Return of Service: Stories]]>
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  <image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/746482.The_Return_of_Service_Stories</link>
  <average_rating>3.00</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>1</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[]]>
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<authors>
    <author>
    <id>395313</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Jonathan Baumbach]]></name>
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    <average_rating>3.68</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>63</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>16</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>1990</published>
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        <book>
  <id type="integer">1109078</id>
  <isbn>0914590677</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780914590675</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">0</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[My Father More or Less]]>
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  <image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg</small_image_url>
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  <average_rating>2.00</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>1</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[Morris Dickstein wrote (in Harper's) of Jonathan Baumbach's previous novel that it &quot;beautifully explores the relationship between what we image and who we are.&quot;  My Father More or Less, which deals with the confrontation between an aggrieved 18 year old boy and his estranged novelist-turned-screenwriter father, is a continuing exploration of the fiction making capacities of the imagination. ]]>
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    <id>395313</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Jonathan Baumbach]]></name>
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    <average_rating>3.68</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>63</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>16</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>1982</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">1219186</id>
  <isbn>0914590375</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780914590378</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">0</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[Statements 2: New Fiction]]>
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  <image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1219186.Statements_2_New_Fiction</link>
  <average_rating>0.0</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>0</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[Short fiction, including contributions from Robert Coover, Steve  katz, Clarence Major, and Ursule Molinaro.]]>
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    <author>
    <id>395313</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Jonathan Baumbach]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1236692835p5/395313.jpg]]></image_url>
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    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/395313.Jonathan_Baumbach]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.68</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>63</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>16</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>1977</published>
</book>

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    <![CDATA[Separate Hours]]>
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    <![CDATA[A disturbingly honest, elegantly imagined unveiling of the way truth becomes elusive in a long-term relationship, Separate Hours is a love story about the betrayal of love. Yuri and Adrienne Tipton, both psychotherapists, conduct their separate practices in a shared basement office in an upper Westside New York brownstone.  They also share a ten-year-old daughter, a too-comfortable life, an apparently happy marriage, and a connectedness that blurs the edges of their separate identities. Who is telling the real truth?  Can either of the novel's narrators be taken at their word?  Adrienne and Yuri tell the story of their life together (and apart), trying to make sense of the darkly irrational.  When Adrienne claims that in a movie of their lives, she would be the more sympathetic character, the novel, to test her premise, gives us a possible scenario for the movie. In the further quixotic pursuit of clarity, the novel turns Yuri and Adrienne's marriage into a case study prepared for a psychoanalytic journal.  Separate Hours zeroes in on their marriage and the few things outside that come close enough to get caught in its tentacles.  For all the novel's comic elements, it underlying vision is dark. From the moment of Yuri and Adrienne's initial meeting, they embrace the conflict.  Although they appear to understand what drives them, their behavior for the most part is blindly compulsive and deathbent.  Self-knowledge has little impact of how they live their lives. Baumbach's seventh novel examines a postmodern marriage in crisis, as if it were a &quot;patient etherized upon a table.&quot; ]]>
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    <![CDATA[The Landscape of Nightmare: Studies in the Contemporary American Novel]]>
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    <![CDATA[]]>
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    <![CDATA[Fiction International 15.2]]>
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    <![CDATA[This edition of Fiction International features fiction, nonfiction, reviews, and art from a variety of writers, poets and artists.]]>
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