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  | | Daddy's Money(1st Edition) A Memoir of Farm and Family by Jo Mcdougall, Hilary Masters Paperback, 184 Pages, Published 2011 by University Of Arkansas Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55728-967-4, ISBN: 1-55728-967-0 "Jo McDougall brings a poet's sensibility to memoir. Recounting five generations of Delta rice farmers, through family archives and oral histories, she traces how the clan made their way into the fabric of America, beginning with her Belgian-immigrant grandfather, a pioneer rice farmer on the Arkansas Delta at the turn of the twentieth century. As John Grisham has for a 1950s Arkansas cotton farm, McDougall illuminates an Arkansas rice f ..." |
 | | Home Is the Exile by Hilary Masters 288 Pages, Published 2015 by Open Road Media ISBN-13: 978-1-5040-2340-5, ISBN: 1-5040-2340-4 "Susanna Pell has leaned toward him, a confidential proximity. “What will you choose?” She comes even closer for the secret to be passed. “What?” “From the mansion?” “I haven't the slightest idea. I may not take anything.” “Oh, but you must. You must take something.” His disinterest is about to ruin her party. “Take me with you, please. I've always wanted to poke around Aunt Peg's secret places in that house— and that's what you'll ..." |
 | | In Rooms of Memory Essays (American Lives) by Hilary Masters Paperback, 264 Pages, Published 2012 by University Of Nebraska Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8032-4002-5, ISBN: 0-8032-4002-3 "This mature, exquisite collection of personal essays by Hilary Masters offers a rare pleasure. Here are meditations and reflections distilled in fine prose from a long and varied life—musings that, in the distinguished tradition of essays carried on since the days of Montaigne, articulate the piquant insights of the writer’s experience. In this collection, one of the most illustrious contemporary essayists transfigures incidents and obs ..." |
 | | Post(1st Edition) A Fable by Hilary Masters Paperback, 275 Pages, Published 2011 by Bkmk Press At The University Of Missouri-Kansas City ISBN-13: 978-1-886157-75-0, ISBN: 1-886157-75-8 "Fiction. Manhattan has been turned into the Perpetual Parking Plaza in an effort to thwart terrorism. The culprit is Kimball Lyon, New York's late governor. There are plenty of objections to his ruinous urban redevelopment. A hapless special investigator, B. Smith (who constantly reintroduces himself as I, B. Smith), trying to search out the rebels, ends up at a crumbling Civil War-era castle in the middle of the Hudson River where he f ..." |
 | | In Rooms of Memory Essays (American Lives) by Hilary Masters Hardcover, 260 Pages, Published 2009 by Univ Of Nebraska Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-8032-2271-7, ISBN: 0-8032-2271-8 "This mature, exquisite collection of personal essays by Hilary Masters offers a rare pleasure. Here are meditations and reflections distilled in fine prose from a long and varied life—musings that, in the distinguished tradition of essays carried on since the days of Montaigne, articulate the piquant insights of the writer’s experience. In this collection, one of the most illustrious contemporary essayists transfigures incidents and obs ..." |
 | | How the Indians Buried Their Dead(1st Edition) Stories by Hilary Masters Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2009 by Southern Methodist Univ. ISBN-13: 978-0-87074-557-7, ISBN: 0-87074-557-3 "The fourteen stories in Masters?s third collection are set in New England, upstate New York, and various European locales. They range from a late-blooming romance between two shoeshine booth operators to uninvited mourners crashing the funerals of people they don?t know, from a felon-turned-chef watching his son sample his savory meatloaf to a dual tale involving two unlikely murderers. " |
 | | American Lives In Rooms of Memory : Essays by Hilary Masters 243 Pages, Published 2009 by U Of Nebraska Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8032-2615-9, ISBN: 0-8032-2615-2 "Montaigne's tower is only open to the public for a few hours once a week on Wednesdays, and I have arrived on Tuesday, the last day of April. At the hotel de ville in Castillon-la-Bataille, I was given directions to St. Michele de Montaigne, the ..." |
 | | Elegy for Sam Emerson(1st Edition) by Hilary Masters Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2006 by Smu Press ISBN-13: 978-0-87074-507-2, ISBN: 0-87074-507-7 "Set in pre-9/11 Pittsburgh, Elegy for Sam Emerson commemorates a past that will abruptly end as the novel follows the fortunes of Sam Emerson, proprietor of an upscale Mount Washington restaurant with stunning views of the three rivers below. Middle-aged and nostalgic, Sam Emerson ruminates on his unconventional childhood as he faces the prospect of life without his much younger lover, and at the same time, deals with disposing of his m ..." |
 | | Shadows on a Wall Juan O'Gorman and the Mural in Pátzcuaro by Hilary Masters 160 Pages, Published 2005 by University Of Pittsburgh Pre ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-7094-1, ISBN: 0-8229-7094-5 "Juan O'Gorman and the Mural in Pátzcuaro Hilary Masters. thinks. The saber scar near his nose stands ... E.J. Kaufmann's intense involvement with the civic and cultural development of Pittsburgh made no difference to her. At the moment he is obsessed with finding ... Kaufmann had also asked scholars at Carnegie Tech to devise some method by which retail clerks could be trained to be more proficient and even happier in their profici ..." |
 | | Shadows On A Wall(1st Edition) Juan O’Gorman and the Mural in Patzcuaro by Hilary Masters Hardcover, 130 Pages, Published 2005 by University Of Pittsburgh Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-4260-3, ISBN: 0-8229-4260-7 "Novelist and essayist Hilary Masters recreates a moment in 1940s Pittsburgh when circumstances, ideology, and a passion for the arts collided to produce a masterpiece in another part of the world. E. J. Kaufmann, the so-called "merchant prince" who commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater, was a man whose hunger for beauty included women as well as architecture. He had transformed his family's department store into an art deco sho ..." |
 | | In Montaigne's Tower Essays by Hilary Masters Hardcover, 167 Pages, Published 2000 by University Of Missouri Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8262-1262-7, ISBN: 0-8262-1262-X |
 | | In Montaigne s Tower (Paperback) by Hilary Masters Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2000 by University Of Missouri Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8262-1266-5, ISBN: 0-8262-1266-2 |
 | | Strickland by Hilary Masters Pasta Dura, Published 1997 by Coyne & Chenoweth ISBN-13: 978-0-941038-03-4, ISBN: 0-941038-03-3 "Voice-over specialist and newscaster Carrol Strickland tries to escape his Vietnam memories on his upstate New York farm." |
 | | Cooper(2nd Edition) by Hilary Masters Hardcover, 248 Pages, Published 1997 by Coyne & Chenoweth ISBN-13: 978-0-941038-08-9, ISBN: 0-941038-08-4 "The story of a man who runs a used magazine store in upstate New York, his poet wife and their retarded son. The romance of flight is a subtext." |
 | | Home Is the Exile(1st Edition) by Hilary Masters Hardcover, 286 Pages, Published 1996 by Permanent Pr Pub Co ISBN-13: 978-1-877946-73-8, ISBN: 1-877946-73-7 "The interwoven lives of two men, 30 years apart." |
 | | Success ** Signed ** New and Selected Stories(1st Edition) by Hilary Masters Hardcover, 205 Pages, Published 1992 by St Martins Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-312-07090-8, ISBN: 0-312-07090-X "Sixteen stories deal memories of the past, strandings, the search for home, and secret longings and desires" |
 | | Hammertown Tales by Hilary Masters 128 Pages, Published 1991 ISBN-13: 978-0-941038-02-7, ISBN: 0-941038-02-5 |
 | | Clemmons by Hilary Masters Hardcover, Published 1991 by Coyne & Chenoweth ISBN-13: 978-0-941038-05-8, ISBN: 0-941038-05-X |
 | | Strickland(1st Edition) A Romance by Hilary Masters, St. Martin's Press Hardcover, 340 Pages, Published 1989 by St Martins Press ISBN-13: 978-0-312-03484-9, ISBN: 0-312-03484-9 "Carroll Strickland, a widower troubled by his memories of Vietnam, becomes interested in Robin Endicott, a young woman with a mysterious past" |
 | | Cooper(1st Edition) by Hilary Masters Hardcover, 248 Pages, Published 1987 by St Martins Press ISBN-13: 978-0-312-00011-0, ISBN: 0-312-00011-1 "The story of a man who runs a used magazine store in upstate New York, his poet wife and their retarded son. The romance of flight is a subtext." |
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