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Disc: $17.75 Here is the entire text of Inflating a Dog, complete and unabridged, read by Eric Kraft.
The total time of the reading is nine hours.
The audio files are in the mp3 format; they can be played on a computer or transferred to an iPod or any other digital music player that can play the mp3 format.
“Raucous, wise, and great fun, this is simply not to be missed.”
Nancy Pearl, Booklist
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Print: $14.95 Adapted for the screen from the eighth volume of Peter Leroy’s memoirs, in which Peter struggles to win the affections of the toothsome Patti Fiorenza while keeping both his mother’s hopes and his mother’s boat afloat.
Ella Leroy dreams of escaping the dreary routine of her 1950s wife-and-mom life. Without telling her husband, she enlists her son Peter and his locally-notorious girlfriend Patti in a scheme to buy a run-down clamboat and re-invent it as an elegant cruising vessel for summer people in the bayside town of Babbington, Long Island. But after they’ve bought the boat, Peter discovers that it is slowly sinking.
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Hardcover Print: $38.00 “[What a Piece of Work I Am] centers on the sultry Ariane, who had been the town bad girl in the 1950s. Baring the sexual secrets and bizarre events of her past . . . Ariane pieces together a wild, fascinating tale based on her erotic history. Peter listens as Ariane, who is six years older and more worldly, recounts growing up lower-class and having sex with many boys while the good girls shunned and hounded her for it. He remembers vividly his own puppy love for this luscious older sister of his best friend, Raskol. . . . A rebel before her time, questing, daring yet bumbling in the back seats of guys’ cars, fearless to the point of foolishness, she remains resilient enough to pursue a twisting life’s odyssey that demonstrates her growing sophistication in matters of love and sex."
Mark Ciabattari, Washington Post Book World
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
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Print: $17.50 “[What a Piece of Work I Am] centers on the sultry Ariane, who had been the town bad girl in the 1950s. Baring the sexual secrets and bizarre events of her past . . . Ariane pieces together a wild, fascinating tale based on her erotic history. Peter listens as Ariane, who is six years older and more worldly, recounts growing up lower-class and having sex with many boys while the good girls shunned and hounded her for it. He remembers vividly his own puppy love for this luscious older sister of his best friend, Raskol. . . . A rebel before her time, questing, daring yet bumbling in the back seats of guys’ cars, fearless to the point of foolishness, she remains resilient enough to pursue a twisting life’s odyssey that demonstrates her growing sophistication in matters of love and sex."
Mark Ciabattari, Washington Post Book World
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
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Print: $14.95 ABOUT THE BOOK
In a time when many of us find ourselves asking "Where am I?" this slim book offers better answers than many weightier volumes.
There I Was presents a number of photographs taken by B. W. Beath, along with a brief but insightful text that captures the essential “message” that the images convey.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Bertram W. Beath, “BW” to those who know him best, is the alter ego of Matthew Barber, a boyhood friend of Peter Leroy, whose memoirs, The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy, are a voluminous work of fiction by Eric Kraft.
ABOUT THE LIMITED EDITION
There I Was will eventually be incorporated in a longer work. However, this standalone edition is limited to fewer than one hundred printed copies, of which three are designated proof copies and fewer than ninety-seven are for sale.
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Print: $17.95 ABOUT THE BOOK
Over cocktails in an opulent setting, two unnamed interlocutors discuss the difficulty of living in the present.
This intoxicating book captures that moment of hesitation and indecision that we have all experienced, when we stand on the brink of something new, wondering whether to take the plunge.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Bertram W. Beath, “BW” to those who know him best, is the alter ego of Matthew Barber, a boyhood friend of Peter Leroy, whose memoirs, The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy, are a voluminous work of fiction by Eric Kraft.
ABOUT THE LIMITED EDITION
Just Now, at Present will eventually be incorporated in a longer work. However, this standalone edition is limited to fewer than one hundred printed copies, of which two are designated proof copies and fewer than ninety-eight are for sale.
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Print: $17.50 ABOUT THE BOOK
Is there a place where we could go, a beautiful place where the pace is slow, a place where we could catch our breath, where we could stop and think? This seductive book presents such a place, but it presents it with a warning.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Bertram W. Beath, “BW” to those who know him best, is the alter ego of Matthew Barber, a boyhood friend of Peter Leroy, whose memoirs, The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy, are a voluminous work of fiction by Eric Kraft.
ABOUT THE LIMITED EDITION
In an Undisclosed Location will eventually be incorporated in a longer work. However, this standalone edition is limited to fewer than one hundred printed copies, of which two are designated proof copies and fewer than ninety-eight are for sale.
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Print: $14.50 ABOUT THE BOOK
If you were to wander through the marketplace of ideas, would the experience be like strolling through one of the arcades of Paris, or would you find that the ideas in the marketplace are like attractively packaged, cleverly marketed, branded and trademarked, seductive, beguiling, bedazzling, and befuddling toys?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Bertram W. Beath, “BW” to those who know him best, is the alter ego of Matthew Barber, a boyhood friend of Peter Leroy, whose memoirs, The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy, are a voluminous work of fiction by Eric Kraft.
ABOUT THE LIMITED EDITION
In the Marketplace of Ideas will eventually be incorporated in a longer work. However, this standalone edition is limited to fewer than one hundred printed copies, of which two are designated proof copies and fewer than ninety-eight are for sale.
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Print: $7.95 Peter Leroy explores his earliest memories, which involve a next-door neighbor with a shady occupation, a shapely blonde (a product of his imagination), six kittens and one red wagon, and his mother’s tumble from her lawn chair.
MY MOTHER TAKES A TUMBLE is included in LITTLE FOLLIES. However, it is also available on its own as a pocket-size paperback.
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Print: $7.95 Leroy considers the origins of his childhood pelecypodophobia (the fear of bivalve mollusks), meets the imaginary friend who will remain his best friend for life, memorizes the legends of his ancestors in the Leroy line (including Black Jacques Leroy, who “invented beer”), studies his father's nude photographs of family friend May Castle, and enjoys a moonlight swim with Margot and Martha, the Glynn twins, after which he concludes that clams do not bite.
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Print: $7.95 Leroy recalls his maternal grandfather’s attempt to build a shortwave radio, a project that begins with an article in Impractical Craftsman magazine promising "hour after interminable hour of baffling precision work." After many, many hours spent watching his grandfather labor at his basement workbench, Peter at last gets to put the earphones on, flip the switch, and twiddle the dials. Through the crackling and sussurous static he detects the sounds of love and lust, joy and sorrow, hope and loss.
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Print: $7.95 Leroy recalls a childhood journey of discovery that he made from the mouth of the Bolotomy River to its source, traveling with his best (and imaginary) friend Rodney “Raskol” Lodkochnikov. The journey begins with the work of turning a packing case (which Cap’n Andrew Leech intends to use, later, as a coffin) into a shallow-draft boat, it involves encounters with a philosophical vagrant and a gaggle of beautiful nymphs, and it ends with the metaphor of life as a river turned on its head.
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