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My Young Life

A Novel

By: Frederic Tuten

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“A love song to a lost New York” (New York magazine) from novelist, essayist, and critic Frederic Tuten as he recalls his personal and artistic coming-of-age in 1950s New York City, a defining period that would set him on the course to becoming a writer. Born in the Bronx to a Sicilian mother and Southern father, Frederic Tuten always dreamed of being an artist. Determined to trade his neighborhood streets for the romantic avenues of Paris, he learned to paint and draw, falling in love with the process of putting a brush to canvas and the feeling it gave him. At fifteen, he decided to leave high school and pursue the bohemian life he’d read about in books. But, before he could, he would receive an extraordinary education right in his own backyard. “A stirring portrait…and a wonderfully raw story of city boy’s transformation into a writer” (Publishers Weekly), My Young Life reveals Tuten’s early formative years where he would discover the kind of life he wanted to lead. As he travels downtown for classes at the Art Students League, spends afternoons reading in Union Square, and discovers the vibrant scenes of downtown galleries and Lower East Side bars, Frederic finds himself a member of a new community of artists, gathering friends, influences—and many girlfriends—along the way. Frederic Tuten has had a remarkable life, writing books, traveling around the world, acting in and creating films, and even conducting summer workshops with Paul Bowles in Tangiers. Spanning two decades and bringing us from his family’s kitchen table in the Bronx to the cafes of Greenwich Village and back again, My Young Life is an intimate and enchanting portrait of an artist’s coming-of-age, set against one of the most exciting creative periods of our time—“so thrilling…so precise in presenting a young man’s preoccupation and occupation” (Steve Martin).

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Simon & Schuster

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1501194461

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9781501194467

Self Portraits: Fictions

By: Frederic Tuten

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Self Portraits: Fictions

By: Frederic Tuten

Inspired by the stories the author read to his possibly illiterate Sicilian grandmother as a child, these nested narratives are told by couples traveling through hallucinatory, romantic landscapes. As the traveler in "Self Portrait with Sicily" rides a train through the Bronx, boundaries between worlds, geography, and generations blur, transporting him through Sicily and the rural landscape of his Nonna. On a honeymoon in Spain, the narrator of "Self Portrait with Bullfight" decides that "forbearance" is the key to a lasting marriage and proceeds to try the patience of his new bride with a long-winded tale of the "frisson of rivalry" between two youths vying for the attentions of a Gypsy woman. In "Self Portrait with Cheese," an allegory about a family of bears that flees the circus only to languish, bored, in their freedom, offers a convoluted fable about the needs of artists. Tuten's (The Green Hour) polished stories of beauty, longing, and loss are relatable, yet strange enough that they constantly pique--Publisher's Weekly.

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249

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393079058

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9780393079050

The Green Hour

By: Frederic Tuten

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The Green Hour

By: Frederic Tuten

A powerful story that explores the modern dilemma of passion versus tranquillity.

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276

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393325334

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9780393325331

My Young Life

A Novel

By: Frederic Tuten

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The Adventures of Mao on the Long March

By: Frederic Tuten

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The Adventures of Mao on the Long March

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A revolutionary comic masterpiece, an icon of literature as American pop art, and a book unlike any other, The Adventures of Mao on the Long March breaks all frames.

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New Directions Publishing

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0811216322

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9780811216326

Self Portraits: Fictions

By: Frederic Tuten

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The Green Hour

By: Frederic Tuten

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A powerful story that explores the modern dilemma of passion versus tranquillity.

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Van Gogh's Bad Café

A Love Story

By: Frederic Tuten

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Van Gogh's Bad Café

A Love Story

By: Frederic Tuten

The painter van Gogh's mistress, Ursula, becomes lost on a shopping expedition and lands forward in time in present-day New York. She befriends Louis, an East Village photographer and together they explore the city, after which she takes Louis with her to the 19th Century to meet van Gogh.

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Black Classic Press

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1580730345

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9781580730341

The Adventures of Mao on the Long March

By: Frederic Tuten

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A revolutionary comic masterpiece, an icon of literature as American pop art, and a book unlike any other, The Adventures of Mao on the Long March breaks all frames.

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The Jummoo and Kashmir Territories

By: Frederic Drew

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The Jummoo and Kashmir Territories

By: Frederic Drew

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385236584

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Tintin in the New World

A Romance

By: Frederic Tuten

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Tintin in the New World

A Romance

By: Frederic Tuten

Acclaimed author Frederic Tuten boldly revives the well-loved character Tintin -- the eternally youthful protagonist from Belgian artist Herge's popular comic book series, The Adventures of Tintin -- and leads him into an adventure like none he has experienced before. Once again joined by Captain Haddock and his little dog Snowy, the intrepid world traveler Tintin embarks on a mysterious journey to Machu Picchu in Peru. But where danger and intrigue have met him before, this voyage brings new perils and enchantments.

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Black Classic Press

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1580730337

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Tintin in the New World

A Romance

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A Romance

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Book's by Frederic Tuten

My Young Life

My Young Life

Self Portraits: Fictions

Self Portraits: Fictions

The Green Hour

The Green Hour

My Young Life

My Young Life

The Adventures of Mao on the Long March

The Adventures of Mao on the Long March

Self Portraits: Fictions

Self Portraits: Fictions

The Green Hour

The Green Hour

Van Gogh's Bad Café

Van Gogh's Bad Café

The Adventures of Mao on the Long March

The Adventures of Mao on the Long March

The Jummoo and Kashmir Territories

The Jummoo and Kashmir Territories

Tintin in the New World

Tintin in the New World

Tintin in the New World

Tintin in the New World

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