Peter feels helpless, blaming himself for not being able to protect his wife, Gabrielle, when they disturb a burglary. Lost in a coma for two months, a bedside vigil is nearing an end as death beckons to keep them apart forever. The real world is...
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JOHN KENNEDY TOOLE -- who won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for his best-selling comic masterpiece A Confederacy of Dunces -- wrote The Neon Bible for a literary contest at the age of sixteen. The manuscript languished in a drawer and became the...
The corridors and committee rooms of Whitehall are the setting for the ninth in the Strangers and Brothers series. They are also home to the manipulation of political power. Roger Quaife wages his ban-the-bomb campaign from his seat in the Cabinet...
An unforgettable novel of an American suburb devastated by a fiendish madman — the most ambitious and important work yet by “the 21st century answer to William Burroughs” (Publishers Weekly).
Blake Butler’s fiction has dazzled readers...
A novel of colonialism and revolution, death, sexual violence and political and spiritual...
Philip K. Dick, In Milton Lumky Territory, written 1958-59, first published 1985.
Bruce Stevens is a young buyer for a big discount house when he meets the recently divorced Susan Faine. She suggests that he might like to manage her ailing...
"It is hard to imagine anything more chilling and profound than Kundera’s apparent lightheartedness." – Elizabeth Pochoda
IN this dark farce of a novel, set in an old-fashioned Central Euroepean spa town, eight characters are swept up in an...
Nadine Gordimer's first novel, published in 1953, tells the story of Helen Shaw, daughter of white middle-class parents in a small gold-mining town in South Africa. As Helen comes of age, so does her awareness grow of the African life around her....