Lucy Jarrett is at a crossroads in her life, still haunted by her fathers unresolved death a decade earlier. She returns to her hometown in Upstate New York, The Lake of Dreams, and, late one night, she cracks the lock of a window seat and discovers a collection of objects. They appear to be idle […]
Steve Dark is in retirement. Two years ago, as a member of elite crime squad Special Circs, he came close to putting an end to a psychopaths killing spree. But not close enough. In revenge, the killer destroyed Darks family. Dark quit, vowing that hed never go back. Hed seen enough carnage and death. But […]
End of a Mission, written in 1968, finds Heinrich Boll trying to come to terms with his countrys monstrous past in an investigation of an inexplicable crime and an even more absurd trial. Told to rack up mileage on a jeep to prepare it for inspection, a soldier drives it home–and burns it in the […]
A precious, priceless book-from the foreword by Alice Walker “An entire society is limned in the pages of this book…. The power ofDaughter of Earth lies in the erotic heat which informs every page of the book, erotic in the original Greek sense of life force.”-Vivian Gornick,The Village Voice Suggested for course use in: U.S. […]
Anne Enright is a dazzling writer of international stature and one of Ireland??s most singular voices. Now she delivers The Gathering, a moving, evocative portrait of a large Irish family and a shot of fresh blood into the Irish literary tradition, combining the lyricism of the old with the shock of the new. The nine […]
Where Shall We Go This Summer is an intense story of a sensitive young wife torn between the desire to abandon the boredom and hypocrisy of her middle class and ostensibly comfortable existance, and the realisation that the bonds that tie her to it cannot easily be broken.
Set in the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence, a young man finds himself caught between desire and conventional morality. With a sharp, probing imagination, James Baldwins now-classic narrative delves into the mystery of loving and creates a moving, highly controversial story of death and passion that reveals the unspoken complexities of the […]
To understand a people you must live among them for 40 days. This is an Arabic proverb that author Tamalyn Dallal took to heart as she set out to find out who the Muslim people are and what their realities are like. Ms. Dallal gave up her glamorous South Beach lifestyle and didnt tell anyone […]
When Babbitt was first published in 1922, fans gleefully hailed its scathing portrait of a crass, materialistic nation; critics denounced it as an unfair skewering of the American businessman. Sparking heated literary debate, Babbitt became a controversial classic, securing Sinclair Lewis??s place as one of America??s preeminent social commentators. Businessman George F. Babbitt loves the […]
The tragedy of the Compson family features some of the most memorable characters in literature: beautiful, rebellious Caddy; the manchild Benjy; haunted, neurotic Quentin; Jason, the brutal cynic; and Dilsey, their black servant. Their lives fragmented and harrowed by history and legacy, the character??s voices and actions mesh to create what is arguably Faulkner??s masterpiece […]