Ron Carlson

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Alabama

Working together on a summer construction project high in the Rocky Mountains, drifter Arthur Key, shiftless Ronnie Panelli, and foreman Darwin Gallegos reveal details about their pasts and beliefs in cautious and profound ways.

Five Skies

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Pennsylvania

Working together on a summer construction project high in the Rocky Mountains, drifter Arthur Key, shiftless Ronnie Panelli, and foreman Darwin Gallegos reveal details about their pasts and beliefs in cautious and profound ways. Reprint.

Ohio

Light shelf wear, no rips or tears, faint folds in corner as pictured. 

Texas

A Novel

A rancher and his wife face a conflict over his actions to preserve his family land. What was planned as a final trip together causes them to see their marriage in a new light.

The Signal

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Virginia

Selected Stories

A collection of tales about men and women who hold on to optimism when things do not work out as planned includes the stories of a nineteen-year-old who experiences an unsettling sexual awakening, a man who accuses Bigfoot of stealing his wife, and a father who attempts to manufacture Christmas authenticity by throwing manure on his roof. Original. 15,000 first printing.

Kind of Flying

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First paperback edition.  1984. Signed on title page in 2000. Very good condition.

Arizona

“Ron Carlson’s novel is in the coming-of-age tradition, with the contemporary attributes of humor and cool. . . . I liked Larry for his unpretentiousness, his wry, caring angle on experience.” —New York Times In this tender, comic novel, Larry Boosinger—graduate student, writer, garage attendant, escaped convict (and perhaps a person)—has one foot in late adolescence while he searches frantically for a place to put the other. Beset by illusions, attracted by paradoxes, Larry carries on his allegorical fistfight with life. He operates in a movie-created world where attempts are made at perfection. Enamored of the romantic ideals of old movies, popular songs, and his own personal hero, F. Scott Fitzgerald, he seeks experience that will match his expectations.

Betrayed by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Mississippi

Slight ripe on cover. Everything else is great 

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California

From a widely admired author, a poignant novel about homecoming, friendship, growing up, and growing old for fans of Richard Ford and Richard Russo

In this finely wrought portrait of western American life, Ron Carlson takes us to the small town of Oakpine, Wyoming, and into the lives of four men trying to make peace with who they are in the world.

In high school, these men were in a band. One of them, Jimmy, left Oakpine for New York City after the tragic death of his brother. A successful novelist, he has returned thirty years later, in 1999--because he is dying.
With Carlson's characteristic grace, we learn what has become of these friends and the different directions of their lives. Craig and Frank never left; Mason, a top lawyer in Denver, is back in town to fix up and sell his parents' house. Now that they are reunited, getting the band back together might be the most important thing they can do.

Return to Oakpine is a generous, tender look at friendship, family, and the roads not taken, by a writer at the peak of his craft.

Return to Oakpine

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Missouri

Twelve-year-old Larry spends the summer before junior high school with his best friends, Witt and Rafferty, playing different forms of baseball and discovering the secrets of the universe.

The Speed of Light

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Has a sticker inside the cover. But otherwise perfect.

Illinois

Nebraska

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