Two men — Jay and Ben — sit in a Washington hotel room. Jay has called his old friend Ben there — to tell him why and how he wants to kill the President. Jay is a bit of a loser (he's lost his girlfriend, his job, and his car), generally...
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A new novel by bestselling author Nicholson Baker reintroduces feckless but hopeful hero Paul Chowder, whose struggle to get his life together is reflected in his steadfast desire to write a pop song, or a protest song, or both at...
Eddie Twyborn is bisexual and beautiful, the son of a Judge and a drunken mother. With his androgynous hero — Eudoxia/Eddie/Eadith Twyborn — and through his search for identity, for self-affirmation and love in its many forms, Patrick White...
In Mrs. Bridge, Evan S. Connell, a consummate storyteller, artfully crafts a portrait using the finest of details in everyday events and confrontations. With a surgeon’s skill, Connell cuts away the middle-class security blanket of uniformity to...
A previously unpublished novel from the winner of the 1973 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Two children are brought to a wild garden on the shores of Sydney Harbour to shelter from the Second World War. The boy's mother has died in the...
This is the story of two people living one life. Arthur and Waldo Brown were born twins and destined never to to grow away from each other. They spent their childhood together. Their youth together. Middle-age together. Retirement together. They...
Legends told of how the evil God Torak had coveted the power of the Orb of Aldur, until defeated in a final battle. But the prophecy spoke of a time when he would awake and again seek dominance over the world. Now the Orb has been stolen by a...
QUEEN VICTORIA A Personal...
When Sara Stanley, the Story Girl, returns to Carlisle to spend the winter with the King family, she comes up with a great...