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A seventeen-year-old teenager, Bella Swan, moved from Phoenix to Forks, Washington to live with her father. She meets a boy, named Edward, who, after much internet research, she discovers is a vampire. Once Edward gets over being a vampire and Bella a human, their worlds collide. Although everybody else thinks that its weird that Edward […]
A short, sleek novel of encounters set in Tokyo during the witching hours between midnight and dawn, and every bit as gripping as Haruki Murakami??s masterworks The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Kafka on the Shore. At its center are two sisters??Eri, a fashion model slumbering her way into oblivion, and Mari, a young student soon […]
Phillip, the last unwed Quinn brother, must juggle his high-powered advertising job and his newfound family duty of helping to care for his young adopted brother, Seth. When Dr. Sybill Griffin shows up in the sleepy town of St. Christopher, Phillip makes room in his hectic schedule for the mysterious woman who stirs his senses […]
The red tent is the place where women gathered during their cycles of birthing, menses, and even illness. Like the conversations and mysteries held within this feminine tent, this sweeping piece of fiction offers an insiders look at the daily life of a biblical sorority of mothers and wives and their one and only daughter, […]
The imaginative characters and innovative story structure made Ken Keseys debut novel ripe for commentary. Take a closer look at One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, which also enjoyed critical success as a play and a film. The title, Ken Keseys One Flew Over Cuckoos Nest, part of Chelsea House Publishers Modern Critical Interpretations series, […]
If youve ever paid off one credit card with another, thrown out a bill before opening it, or convinced yourself that buying at a two-for-one sale is like making money, then this silly, appealing novel is for you. In the opening pages of Confessions of a Shopaholic, recent college graduate Rebecca Bloomwood is offered a […]
Alice WalkeraCelie is a poor black woman whose letters tell the story of 20 years of her life, beginning at age 14 when she is being abused and raped by her father and attempting to protect her sister from the same fate, and continuing over the course of her marriage to “Mister,” a brutal man […]
Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghetto nerd. From his home in New Jersey, where he lives with his old-world mother and rebellious sister, Oscar dreams of becoming the Dominican J. R. R. Tolkien and, most of all, of finding love. But he may never get what […]
Haunting and harrowing, as beautiful as it is disturbing, The English Patient tells the story of the entanglement of four damaged lives in an Italian monastery as World War II ends. The exhausted nurse, Hana; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the wary sapper, Kip: each is haunted by the riddle of the English patient, the nameless, […]
First published in 1985, The Cider House Rules is John Irvings sixth novel. Set in rural Maine in the first half of this century, it tells the story of Dr. Wilbur Larch–saint and obstetrician, founder and director of the orphanage in the town of St. Clouds, ether addict and abortionist. It is also the story […]
The rediscovery and rejuvenation of Richard Yatess 1961 novel Revolutionary Road is due in large part to its continuing emotional and moral resonance for an early 21st-century readership. April and Frank Wheeler are a young, ostensibly thriving couple living with their two children in a prosperous Connecticut suburb in the mid-1950s. However, like the characters […]
Like most of Richard Russos earlier novels, Empire Falls is a tale of blue-collar life, which itself increasingly resembles a kind of high-wire act performed without the benefit of any middle-class safety nets. This time, though, the author has widened his scope, producing a comic and compelling ensemble piece. There is, to be sure, a […]
Published to extraordinary acclaim, The Inheritance of Loss heralds Kiran Desai as one of our most insightful novelists. She illuminates the pain of exile and the ambiguities of postcolonialism with a tapestry of colorful characters: an embittered old judge; Sai, his sixteen-year-old orphaned granddaughter; a chatty cook; and the cook??s son, Biju, who is hopscotching […]
In 1981, Marilynne Robinson wrote Housekeeping, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award and became a modern classic. Since then, she has written two pieces of nonfiction: Mother Country and The Death of Adam. With Gilead, we have, at last, another work of fiction. As with The Great Fire, Shirley Hazzardss return, 22 years after The Transit […]
Maggie Concannon is a glassmaker whose exquisite works are more than mere objects of beauty: they are reflections of her own true nature. One man has seen the soul in her art, and vows to help this complex woman build a lucrative career. When gallery owner Rogan Sweeney comes to Maggies isolated studio, her heart […]
Song of Solomon is a novel by Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning American author Toni Morrison. The Swedish Academy cited this book when awarding Morrison the 1993 Nobel Prize in literature. The novel follows the life of Macon “Milkman” Dead III, an African-American man living in Michigan, from birth to adulthood. The main theme is Milkmans […]