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Union Dues

A Novel

By John Sayles

Union Dues is a sprawling classic of American radicalism. It tells the story of a father and his runaway son whose destinies movingly collide.

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Los Gusanos


By John Sayles

The long-awaited reissue of the first novel by acclaimed filmmaker and writer John Sayles. Set in Miami in 1981, Los Gusanos is the vivid and moving account of one extended family's life in Cuba and the United States. Sayles introduces us to a memorable range of characters--young, old, black and white--all of whom are struggling to make a new life in exile while haunted by the memories of Cuba.

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Dillinger in Hollywood

Short Stories

By John Sayles

Before John Sayles was an Oscar-nominated screenwriter and director, he was an award-winning writer of fiction, praised by the Washington Post as "one of our most exciting and accomplished young writers." This is Sayles's first short story collection in twenty-five years.

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Pride of the Bimbos


By John Sayles

Pride of the Bimbos is John Sayles's madcap, poignant and hilarious first novel. It tells the story of a circus sideshow softball team, the Brooklyn Bimbos, who play in drag in shabby small towns across the South.

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