MacDonald Harris

• Jun-1977
• / General Fiction
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As in the best of Jules Verne or Albert Sanchez Pinol, The Balloonist is a gripping and surreal yarn, chilling and comic by turn, that brilliantly reinvents the Arctic adventure.

It is July 1897, at the northernmost reach of the inhabited wor...

• 1982
• / General Fiction
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It is 1980’s Los Angeles. Alys, a wealthy young dilettante accepts the invitation of a stranger to “get you into pictures” and suddenly finds himself behind the movie screen in the black-and-white world of the Silents-a Hollywood precisely as i...

• Jan-1984
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• May-1987
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• Jul-1990
• / Suspense
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From Simon & Schuster, Hemingway's Suitcase is MacDonald Harris' novel about a writer claiming to have a suitcase containing a part of a novel and 20 or so novels by the great Ernest Hemingway.Nils-Frederik Glas, a talented eccentric, succeeds in pub...

• Apr-1993
• / General Fiction
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Velda Venn, an unsophisticated yet powerfully sexual woman, gradually subverts a wealthy gallery owner's life when she is hired as his housekeeper. By the author of Hemingway's Suitcase. 20,000 first printing. Tour....

• Sep-2013
• / General Fiction
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MacDonald Harris's only hitherto unpublished novel is set in the 1920's against a backdrop of airships, mysticism, erotic love and a Europe that is picking itself up after WW1. The League of Nations is a giant airship constructed by the same German f...

• Feb-2014
• / Thriller
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In the picturesque, isolated French village of Conques stands the Abbey of Sainte Foy. The church houses a priceless medieval treasure whose centerpiece is a magnificent, three-foot-high statue of the holy martyr Sainte Foy, bejeweled and covered wit...

• Sep-2015
• / Historical
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An ambitious novel by one of America's foremost fiction writers, rediscovered and with an introduction by Michael Chabon. A delightful literary rediscovery by the National Book Award-nominated Macdonald Harris, HERMA is the colorful, fanciful, and...

• Dec-2017
• / General Fiction
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It is August of 1945. An American submarine, silent and hidden, moves toward the darkened coast of an island. On board are an odd quartet: Gus, a commander who was once a student of religion; Angelo, a skilled navigator who conceals his secret almost...

• Apr-2024
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A merchant seaman is the sole survivor when his ship is sunk in a battle in the South Pacific. Badly burned, he is stripped of every shred of identity and cast into the sea, naked, faceless, nameless. Rescued and lying in a Pearl Harbor hospital, he ...

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