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	1	Schwartz, John Burnham Bicycle Days: A Novel Summit Books May 1, 1989 0-671-66600-2 / 9780671666002 Hardcover VG+/VG Fresh out of Yale, Alec Stern spends a summer working in an American comput er company's Tokyo offices. Schwartz, a 23-year-old Harvard grad, vividly s ets the scene of his promising if overly self-absorbed debut novel. Alec's romance with a 33-year-old Japanese woman, Kawashima, is the highlight of h is stay. Through flashbacks to his boyhood in New York City, we learn that he came to the Orient partly to wipe the slate clean, to escape memories of his parents' divorce and his bitter fights with his older brother Mark. Bu t Mark's unexpected appearance in Tokyo, combined with the death of Kawashi ma's aged grandfather, jolt Alec out of his Shangri-La. Schwartz has a good ear for the humorous misunderstandings and cultural differences that often arise in Japanese-American interactions. Unfolding in 40 vignettes sketche d in a lean, almost mimimalist style, the diary-like narrative evokes a med ley of sights and experiences with which Western readers can readily identi fy--a view of Mount Fuji, pachinko (pinball) parlors, the tea ceremony, cop ing with subways, Japanese family customs, shopping in department stores an d fish markets. Price: 600.00 JPY
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	2	Schwartz, John Burnham Reservation Road Vintage 2007 0-307-38832-8 / 9780307388322 Paperback Very Good "I wasn't rich, but my life was secure. That had always been its fundamenta l premise," observes Ethan Learner, an English professor at a small college in Connecticut. Moments later, his 10-year-old son, Josh, is killed by a h it-and-run driver, inaugurating a novel of terrible beauty that charts the progress of grief with concerto-like precision. For Ethan, his wife, Grace, and their daughter, Emma, Josh becomes both a cold absence and a constant, haunting, unfulfilled promise. For Dwight the driver who killed Josh the e vent stands as more evidence of a significantly flawed life. Dwight is no c artoon villain; with a son, an ex-wife and a history of sudden violence, he 's like a lesser Ethan a poor father who, through incompetence, has killed another man's son. Price: 450.00 JPY
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