James Leo Herlihy

• Jun-1976
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The basis for the Oscar�"winning buddy film. “There is no questioning the rampant power achieved through shriveling, shattering scenes” (Kirkus Reviews).  Midnight Cowboy is considered by many to be one of the best American novels published...

• Sep-1990
• / General Fiction
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A teenage boy’s image of his older brother is shattered by tragedy in this “remarkable first novel” by the author of Midnight Cowboy (New York Herald Tribune Book Review).   Some families get a reputation for being strange, and so it is wi...

• Apr-2018
• / General Fiction
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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 aliena...

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By the author of Midnight Cowboy: A teenage girl runs away to the East Village in “one of the best and most convincing novels . . . of the Woodstock generation” (Publishers Weekly).   As she explains in her diary, seventeen-ye...

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From James Leo Herlihy (author of Midnight Cowboy) comes a series of grim yet insightful short stories in his first collection, The Sleep of Baby Filbertson. Both an examination of the darker themes of alienation and isolation and an elevation of ...

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The author of Midnight Cowboy delivers a short story collection about the yearnings of those who live on the margins: “Herlihy writes with an edge of iron” (Nelson Algren). In his second collection of short stories, James Leo Herlihy ex...