A group of young people are searching for meaning in a dark world. The Course, a religious movement led by a charismatic priest, seem to offer everything they have been looking for: a community of bright, thoughtful, beautiful people. But as they...
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Extravagant, absurd, and self-aware, The Revolutionaries Try Again plays out against the lost decade of Ecuador's austerity and the stymied idealism of three childhood friends — an expat, a bureaucrat, and a playwright — who are as sure about...
This is a story of an ambitious and beautiful woman who is looking for a millionaire and a ruthless tycoon who is looking for a mistress. It stretches from the quiet Norfolk countryside across the ocean to the New York of the roaring...
After traveling through Europe for two years, Scully and his wife Jennifer wind up in Ireland, and on a mystical whim of Jennifer's, buy an old farmhouse which stands in the shadow of a castle. While Scully spends weeks alone renovating the old...
Shortlisted for the 1998 Los Angeles Times Book Award in Fiction: "Stunning and strange. . Sebald has done what every writer dreams of doing. . The book is like a dream you want to last forever. . It glows with the radiance and resilience of the...
The Rise & Fall of Great Powers begins in a dusty bookshop. What follows is an abduction, heated political debate, glimpses into strangers’ homes, and travel around the globe. It’s a novel of curious personalities, mystery, and lots of...
The Risk...
(c) Christopher Evans 1983, 1997
This story first appeared in Lands of Never edited by Maxim Jakubowski (Unwin Paperbacks,...
Trevor Ferguson, one of Canada s most acclaimed writers, returns with "The River Burns," his long-awaited new novel. "The River Burns" tells the story of a small town in crisis, the mistakes people make, and the courage it takes to heal a community...
A River Runs Through It
Like Ishmael, the narrator of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, the omniscient teller of Alice Hoffman's The River King has a profound affinity for water. Unlike Ishmael, whose story ends tragically, this narrator, and we, her...