Tolstoy wrote that happy families are alike and that each unhappy family is unhappy in a different way. In Watch Your Mouth, Daniel Handler takes "different" to a whole new level....
ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP "Send Us a Boy -- We'll Send You a Cowboy!" is the slogan of the Box Canyon Boys Camp. But for the nail biters, thumb suckers, and teeth grinders -- the cast-away offspring of parents who are busy travelling, being divorced, remarrying, and garnering fortunes -- it's just another place to ...more
Welcome to High Pines Summer Camp for Boys. There is hiking, swimming, canoeing--and a revolution led by General Frank. He promises change for the better, but little by little, he begins to change, and the revolution turns into a nightmare....
Eleven-year-old Alice Duncan has a problem: her body is, literally, growing up too fast. Gawky, innocent, and tongue-tied, Alice is taller than her teachers, with long, long legs and a voluptuous chest she refers to it as 'The Breasts.' One Pill Makes You Smaller brings to life the surreal experience of being a girl-stuck in a woman's body. Dierbec...more
David Macfarlane’s Summer Gone introduces a writer of incandescent literary skill and beautifully evokes the sometimes painful relationship between father and son.When Bay Newby is twelve he is sent north for the first time, and he falls in love with the life of ritual, beauty, and stark privilege of summer camp. Then the death of his baby sister...more
In a West Virginia forest in 1963, a group of children at summer camp enter a foreboding Eden and experience an unexpected rite of passage. Shelter is an astonishing portrayal of an American loss of innocence as witnessed by a mysterious drifter named Parson, two young sisters, Lenny and Alma, and a feral boy called Buddy. Together they come to und...more
Capturing the harsh realities of postwar Soviet life, a new novel by the author of Dreams of My Russian Summers follows the fortunes of two families, those of close friends Iakov Zinger and Peter Evdokimov, as they struggle to put together their shattered lives and dreams in the years following World War II.
"I'm as peaceful a man as you're likely to meet in America now, but this is about a death I may have caused. Not slowly over time by abuse or meanness but on a certain day and by ignorance, by plain lack of notice. Though it happened thirty-four years ago, and though I can't say it's haunted my mind that many nights lately, I suspect I can draw it ...more
A critically lauded novel traces the troubled inner life of a mentally ill twelve-year-old boy through the letters of his family, father, camp counselors, and psychiatrist, none of whom offers the solace he finds in a stuffed toy. A first novel. Reprint. 12,000 first printing. NYT.
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