Here are the swift pace, the hard, crisp prose, the almost unbearably tense dramatic situations which are typical of James Cain. But here also are a deeper view of life, a bigger subject, and a group of characters closer to the average reader’s...
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Édouard Levé delivered the manuscript for his final book, Suicide, just a few days before he took his own life.
Suicide cannot be read as simply another novel—it is, in a sense, the author’s own oblique, public...
Efficient, professional, and without apology, Lily Mansfield is a hired assassin, working as a contract agent for the CIA. Her targets are the powerful and corrupt, those who can't be touched by the law. Now, after 18 years of service, Lily has...
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When the unconventional Durrell family can no longer endure the damp, gray English climate, they do what any sensible family would do: sell their house and relocate to the sunny Greek isle of Corfu. My Family and Other Animals was intended to...
Jason Marshall's life on Earth's orbital twin was a constant struggle. Woman's slave, landless fugitive to warrior captain, but if he could win victory in the heat of battle against overwhelming odds, he would gain a warriors honours — a homeland...
Автор: Labonté Richard , Duplechan Larry
Серия: Best Gay Erotica
Язык: английский
Год: 2011
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Called “consistently outstanding” by the Lambda Book Review and cited for “glorious approaches to gay male sexual writing,” by the Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review, Richard Labonté’s Best Gay Erotica series sets and raises the bar in the...
Class does make a difference in the lives and futures of American children. Drawing on in-depth observations of black and white middle-class, working-class, and poor families, Unequal Childhoods explores this fact, offering a picture of childhood...
Some have said that this book will become a classic. Indeed, it should be so considered. But much will depend on whether or not scholars will dismiss it as lacking uniqueness and innovation, and whether or not non-professionals will invest the...