Items related to The Duke of Deception

The Duke of Deception - Hardcover

 
9780394410524: The Duke of Deception
View all copies of this ISBN edition:
 
 
Duke Wolff was a flawless specimen of the American clubman -- a product of Yale and the OSS, a one-time fighter pilot turned aviation engineer. Duke Wolff was a failure who flunked out of a series of undistinguished schools, was passed up for military service, and supported himself with desperately improvised scams, exploiting employers, wives, and, finally, his own son.
In The Duke of Deception, Geoffrey Wolff unravels the enigma of this Gatsbyesque figure, a bad man who somehow was also a very good father, an inveterate liar who falsified everything but love.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

Review:
Abundant with the complexities and contradictions of family sympathy...First-rate autobiography, conscientious and intimate....It is as lucid and complicated...as a good novel."
-- John Irving, The New York Times Book Review


"An enormously moving story of familial love and hate and coming-of-age...No man can finish this book without resolving to take stock of his relationship with his own father....The claim on the reader is very large indeed."
-- Newsday
"Beautifully written...rich in anecdote...resonant with conflicting emotions, from adoration to anger, from gratitude to guilt, from pride to pity."
-- Village Voice

About the Author:
An acclaimed novelist, essayist, biographer, and critic, Geoffrey Wolff is a prominent voice in contemporary American literature. Educated at Cambridge and at Princeton, from which he graduated summa cum laude, he is Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, where he was the Director of the Graduate Fiction Program from 1995 to 2006. Previously, he served on the faculties of Istanbul University and Princeton University and has been a book editor at the Washington Post and Newsweek. He is the author of six novels, including The Age of Consent (Knopf, 1995), set in a close-knit utopian community in upstate New York, and The Final Club (Knopf, 1990), about secretive social networks at Princeton. His nonfiction books include Black Sun (Random House, 1976), on the short-lived avant-garde poet Harry Crosby; The Art of Burning Bridges: A Life of John O Hara (Knopf, 2003), a literary biography of the American fiction writer; The Duke of Deception (Random House, 1979), a memoir that was a runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize; The Edge of Maine (National Geographic, 2005), a rich portrayal of the salty, sea-pounded, and seasonally gentrified Maine coast; and The Hard Way Around: The Passages of Joshua Slocum (Knopf 2010), a biography of the legendary icon of adventure. He received the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1994 and his honors also include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. During 2007, he was a Fellow of the American Academy in Berlin. He lives in Bath, Maine with his family."

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

  • PublisherRandom House
  • Publication date1979
  • ISBN 10 0394410521
  • ISBN 13 9780394410524
  • BindingHardcover
  • Rating

Shipping: £ 22.19
From U.S.A. to United Kingdom

Destination, rates & speeds

Add to Basket

Other Popular Editions of the Same Title

9780679727521: The Duke of Deception: Memories of My Father

Featured Edition

ISBN 10:  ISBN 13:  9780679727521
Publisher: Vintage Books, 1990
Softcover

  • 9780425046609: Duke Of Deception

    Berkley, 1980
    Softcover

  • 9780099800309: The Duke of Deception: Memoir of the Author's Father

    Vintage, 1990
    Softcover

  • 9781568493640: The Duke of Deception : Memories of My Father

    Buccan..., 1994
    Hardcover

  • 9780140096088: The Duke of Deception: Memories of my Father

    Penguin, 1986
    Softcover

Top Search Results from the AbeBooks Marketplace

Stock Image

Wolff, Geoffrey
Published by Random House (1979)
ISBN 10: 0394410521 ISBN 13: 9780394410524
New Hardcover Quantity: 1
Seller:
GoldenWavesOfBooks
(Fayetteville, TX, U.S.A.)

Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. New. Fast Shipping and good customer service. Seller Inventory # Holz_New_0394410521

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
£ 37.49
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: £ 22.19
From U.S.A. to United Kingdom
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Wolff, Geoffrey
Published by Random House (1979)
ISBN 10: 0394410521 ISBN 13: 9780394410524
New Hardcover Quantity: 1
Seller:
Grumpys Fine Books
(Tijeras, NM, U.S.A.)

Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. Prompt service guaranteed. Seller Inventory # Clean0394410521

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
£ 35.94
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: £ 23.78
From U.S.A. to United Kingdom
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Wolff, Geoffrey
Published by Random House (1979)
ISBN 10: 0394410521 ISBN 13: 9780394410524
New Hardcover Quantity: 1
Seller:
GoldBooks
(Austin, TX, U.S.A.)

Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed. Seller Inventory # think0394410521

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
£ 35.46
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: £ 24.57
From U.S.A. to United Kingdom
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Wolff, Geoffrey
Published by Random House (1979)
ISBN 10: 0394410521 ISBN 13: 9780394410524
New Hardcover Quantity: 1
Seller:
Front Cover Books
(Denver, CO, U.S.A.)

Book Description Condition: new. Seller Inventory # FrontCover0394410521

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
£ 37.05
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: £ 24.17
From U.S.A. to United Kingdom
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Wolff, Geoffrey
Published by Random House (1979)
ISBN 10: 0394410521 ISBN 13: 9780394410524
New Hardcover Quantity: 1
Seller:
Wizard Books
(Long Beach, CA, U.S.A.)

Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. New. Seller Inventory # Wizard0394410521

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
£ 38.39
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: £ 24.17
From U.S.A. to United Kingdom
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Wolff, Geoffrey
Published by Random House (1979)
ISBN 10: 0394410521 ISBN 13: 9780394410524
New Hardcover Quantity: 1
Seller:
LibraryMercantile
(Humble, TX, U.S.A.)

Book Description Condition: new. Seller Inventory # newMercantile_0394410521

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
£ 39.07
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: £ 24.57
From U.S.A. to United Kingdom
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Wolff, Geoffrey
Published by Random House (1979)
ISBN 10: 0394410521 ISBN 13: 9780394410524
New Hardcover Quantity: 1
Seller:
Books Unplugged
(Amherst, NY, U.S.A.)

Book Description Condition: New. Buy with confidence! Book is in new, never-used condition. Seller Inventory # bk0394410521xvz189zvxnew

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
£ 56.45
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: £ 12.68
From U.S.A. to United Kingdom
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Wolff, Geoffrey
Published by Random House (1979)
ISBN 10: 0394410521 ISBN 13: 9780394410524
New Hardcover Quantity: 1
Seller:
GridFreed
(North Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.)

Book Description hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!. Seller Inventory # 100-22298

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
£ 39.80
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: £ 34.87
From U.S.A. to United Kingdom
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Wolff, Geoffrey
Published by Random House (1979)
ISBN 10: 0394410521 ISBN 13: 9780394410524
New Hardcover Quantity: 1
Seller:
BennettBooksLtd
(LOS ANGELES, CA, U.S.A.)

Book Description Condition: New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 1.35. Seller Inventory # Q-0394410521

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
£ 51.76
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: £ 34.87
From U.S.A. to United Kingdom
Destination, rates & speeds