Quinn, a mystery writer, becomes involved in a puzzling case; Blue is hired by White to spy on Black; and Fanshawe, a gifted novelist, disappears, leaving his family and work behind, in an omnibus edition containing three interconnected novels--City of Glass, Ghosts, and The Locked Room.
A collection of personal writings by the author of Running with Scissors and Dry features the author's observations on such topics as a contest of wills with a deranged cleaning lady, the emotional side of killing a rodent in one's home, and the brief fame that accompanies starring in a commercial. Reader's Guide available. Reprint.
The author of Sellevision describes his bizarre coming-of-age years after his adoption by his mother's psychiatrist, during which he witnessed such misadventures as a fake suicide attempt, a pedophile's life in a barn, and front-lawn family/patient sleepovers.
Sparrow is an English translation of Giovanni Verga's Storia di una capinera. Written in the summer of 1869 and set in Risorgimento Sicily, it is one of Verga's first novels. Maria, the protagonist, is a young novice, put into the convent by her family after the death of her mother. She is about to take her religious vows when her community i...more
It was to Lucania, a desolate land in southern Italy, that Carlo Levi—a doctor, painter, philosopher, and man of letters—was confined as a political prisoner because of his opposition to Italy’s Fascist government at the start of the Ethiopian war in 1935. While there, Levi reflected on the harsh landscape and its inhabitants, peasants who li...more
"Not since Albert Camus has there been such an eloquent spokesman for man." --The New York Times Book ReviewThe publication of Day restores Elie Wiesel’s original title to the novel initially published in English as The Accident and clearly establishes it as the powerful conclusion to the author’s classic trilogy of Holocaust literature, which ...more
Set in Colombia in the 1980s--during the heyday of the Medellín drug empire--this novel begins when its protagonist, the eponymous Rosario Tijeras, lies dying in a hospital after being shot. A femme fatale who is also a ruthless hit-woman, Rosario began killing after she was raped, and went on to work for her mob-affiliated brother. The story is na...more
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