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First Edition Club Books: 1998


December (1998)

Triage
Triage
by Scott Anderson
New York: Scribner (1998)

In this hypnotically beautiful debut novel, Mark, a young war photographer, returns to New York after being slightly injured in a Third World brushfire war. He had spent a few frightening days in the... (more)

November (1998)

Tomcat In Love
Tomcat In Love
New York: Broadway Books (1998)

A combination of Ichabod Crane and Abe Lincoln, Thomas Chippering is living the real American love story. His ex-wife, the faithless Lorna Sue, left him for a suntanned tycoon in Tampa. Chippering's... (more)

November (1998)

The Road Home
The Road Home
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press (1998)

The sequel to Harrison's bestselling "Dalva", written ten years ago, and a magnificent story of the American West, "The Road Home" tells the story of a family drenched in... (more)

October (1998)

Truth
Truth
Chapel Hill: Algonquin (1998)

Now that she has outlived those who might have objected to her telling four family secrets, Ellen Douglas does just that. A novelist revered for her storytelling, here she crosses over into the... (more)

September (1998)

Summer of Deliverance
Summer of Deliverance
New York: Simon and Schuster (1998)

One of the literary geniuses of his generation, James Dickey produced his art and lived his life with a ferocious passion. He was a heavy drinker, a destructive husband and father, a poet of grace... (more)

August (1998)

On The Occasion of my Last Afternoon
On The Occasion of my Last Afternoon
New York: Penguin Putnam (1998)

In the year 1900--on the afternoon she suspects might be the last in her long, eventful life--Emma Garnet Tate Lowell sets down on paper what came before, determined to make an honest account of it.... (more)

July (1998)

Where The Sea Used To Be
Where The Sea Used To Be
New York: Houghton Mifflin (1998)

The first full-length novel by one of our finest fiction writers, Where the Sea Used to Be tells the story of a struggle between a father and his daughter for the souls of two men - his proteges, her... (more)

June (1998)

Midnight Magic
Midnight Magic
Hopewell, NJ: ECCO (1998)

A disabled trucker builds his dream house from Lincoln Logs. A woman returns from having a mastectomy to find the flea-market trader she loves imprisoned for selling stolen goods. A recent divorcee... (more)

May (1998)

Night Dogs
Night Dogs
New York: Penguin Putnam (1998)

Hanson, the Vietnam-vet hero of "Sympathy for the Devil", is now a Portland, Oregon, cop assigned to the inner city, where, in the summer of 1975, the easy availability of drugs and guns is... (more)

April (1998)

Damascus Gate
Damascus Gate
New York: Houghton Mifflin (1998)

Jerusalem: where earth meets heaven, home to seekers and heretics, hustlers and madmen, dreamers and the faithful of every persuasion. In this holiest and most fractious city, where religion and... (more)

March (1998)

Deep Green Sea
Deep Green Sea
New York: Henry Holt (1998)

In "The Deep Green Sea," Robert Olen Butler has created a memorable and incandescent love story between a contemporary Vietnamese woman orphaned in 1975, when Saigon finally fell to the... (more)

February (1998)

The Ghosts of Medgar Evers
The Ghosts of Medgar Evers
New York: Random House (1998)

Willie Morris brings together the harsh realities of race and the magical illusions of Hollywood in an unusual book about the making of the movie Ghosts of Mississippi and its more complicated... (more)

February (1998)

The Street Lawyer
The Street Lawyer
New York: Doubleday (1998)


January (1998)

Truman Capote
Truman Capote
New York: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday (1998)

Using the oral-biography style that made his "Edie" (with Jean Stein) a bestseller, George Plimpton has blended the voices of Capote's lovers, detractors, acquaintances, and colleagues into... (more)