Bret Ellis, the narrator of Lunar Park, is a writer whose first novel Less Than Zero catapulted him to international stardom while he was still in college. In the years that followed he found himself adrift in a world of wealth, drugs, and fame,...
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Humanity is only at the very beginning of the path of studying the universe. The carefree merry man Lupo Devega, idly wasting time, accidentally encounters an alien on the city embankment. The guy does not care about the universal problems and...
An attempt to portray the horror of certain men's brutal sexual domination of women, this novel by the German author of "The Piano Teacher" tells the story of Gerti, a woman who turns in revulsion from her husband to a younger man, only to...
No artist has been more ruthlessly driven by his creative urge, nor more isolated by it from most ordinary sources of human happiness, than Vincent Van Gogh. A painter of genius, his life was an incessant struggle against poverty, discouragement,...
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"Reality's got a hole in it." That's what runs through Michael Blasco's head when he discovers that he has the uncanny ability to bring his fantasies to life in this wacky, inspired third novel by Ryman (Was). The...
Czarodziejskie lustro kupione w tajemniczym sklepie pana Grymsa odbija dziwny świat, który kusi i niepokoi trzynastoletnią Agatę. Zwodnicze lustro wciąga najpierw jej ukochanego psa Kusego i tym samym zmusza Agatę, by...
`Luzmila`, el relato que da t?tulo al libro, es el preferido por Alvaro Pombo. Constituye la primera formulaci?n de un viejo asunto: la bondad de una persona. Luzmila, la protagonista, es un personaje de muy pobre desarrollo intelectual, dotado...
Lyrics Alley is the evocative story of an affluent Sudanese family shaken by the shifting powers in their country and the near-tragedy that threatens the legacy they've built for decades.
Their fortune threatened by shifting powers in Sudan and...
Lysistrata paced restlessly in the garden, nervously plucking at leaves. It had been seven months since she had seen her husband, Lycon — since he had left her to go off to war. Seven months of lonely days and empty nights — of aching heart and...