Fyfield is a practicing attorney with a detailed knowledge of the law, courtroom, and criminal psychology. She packs her tale with cynical insights and unrelenting tension, and she writes compelling prose that sometimes purples but rarely goes over the top. View More...
This work of "fiction" from Naipaul is really a label-defying tapestry of elements, a fascinating, closely woven blend of history, character study, and autobiography. Naipaul's wonderfully vivid, lyrical descriptions of Trinidad, his homeland, reflect a mind whose every experience seems to have been carefully captured in amber. The theme that repeats throughout is the shifting nature of reality as it is refracted through the eyes and thoughts of those who shaped Trinidadian and South American colonial history -- and those who fumble for identity in its aftermath. Naipaul struggles to imagine a... View More...
8vo.1/4 brown calf/gilt. Marbled bd's & e.p's. Top edge gilt VG. Author associated with the pre- Raphaelite circle of artists and craftsmen fiction/binding View More...
An ambitious, absorbing saga of family and community relations, set in present-day New Mexico. The town of Persimmon, which lies just across the Rio Grande from the Mexican-American colony of Apura, is inhabited by such harmlessly distracted souls as 30ish Gay Schaefer and her adolescent daughter Rita; Gay's cousin Heart, a remote woman who's a recovering cancer patient; and Denny Redmon, the high-school basketball coach Gay dallies with-- and strings along-- while living apart from the husband whom she's never divorced and with whom she has frequently reunited. Apura houses more desperate an... View More...
Brand new, never used. In an opened original plastic bag. Brooklyn Pops Up celebrates the diverse borough of Brooklyn, New York, with pop-ups by the world's best illustrators and paper engineers. In this dimensional tour of Brooklyn icons you will visit: Brooklyn Children by Maurice Sendak; Brooklyn Brownstones by David A. Carter and Tor Lokvig , Grand Army Plaza & Brooklyn Public Library by Bruce Foster; Brooklyn Museum of Art & Brooklyn Children's Museum by Robert Sabuda; Brooklyn Botanic Garden by Ken Wilson-Max and Keith Finch; Prospect Park & the Carousel by Biruta Akerbergs Hansen; B... View More...
The stories in For the Relief of Unbearable Urges are powerfully inventive and often haunting, steeped in the weight of Jewish history and in the customs of Orthodox life. But it is in the largeness of their spirit-- a spirit that finds in doubt a doorway to faith, that sees in despair a chance for the heart to deepen--and in the wisdom that so prodigiously transcends the author's twenty-eight years, that these stories are truly remarkable. Nathan Englander envisions a group of Polish Jews herded toward a train bound for Auschwitz and in a deft imaginative twist turns them into acrobats tumbli... View More...
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Winner of the Lannan Literary Fiction Award Winner of the Guardian Fiction Award In 1940 a boy bursts from the mud of a war-torn Polish city, where he has buried himself to hide from the soldiers who murdered his family. His name is Jakob Beer. He is only seven years old. And although by all rights he should have shared the fate of the other Jews in his village, he has not only survived but been rescued by a Greek geologist, who does not recognize the boy as human until he begins to cry. With this electrifying image, Anne Michaels ushers us into ... View More...
The year is 1837 and ex-convict Jack Maggs has returned illegally to London from Australia. Installing himself in the household of a genteel grocer, he attracts the attention of a cross-section of society. Saucy Mercy Larkin wants him for a mate. Writer Tobias Oates wants to possess his soul through hypnosis. Maggs, a figure both frightening and mysteriously compelling, is so in thrall to the notion of a gentlemanly class that he's risked his life to come back to his torturers. His task is to shed his false consciousness and understand that his true destiny lies in Australia. View More...
Signed, limited advance reader's copy in a publishers slipcase. Last Orders is a captivating tale of English working-class families in the four decades following WW II. When Jack Dodds dies suddenly of cancer after years of running a butcher shop in London, he leaves a strange request-- namely, that his ashes be scattered off Margate pier into the sea. And who could better be suited to fulfill this wish than his three oldest drinking buddies-- insurance man Ray, vegetable seller Lenny, and undertaker Vic, all of whom, like Jack himself, fought also as soldiers or sailors in the long-ago world... View More...
Porter Wren, a tabloid columnist specializing in the human face of death, has climbed to success in part by subverting a real talent for exposing corruption in the city. He has two precious kids, and is married to one of New York's best surgeons, but none of that seems to matter when beautiful Caroline Crowley approaches him at a party. He finds her mesmerizing and the story she tells of her husband, an acclaimed filmmaker whose body turned up in a building being demolished and whose murder remains unsolved, fascinating. Porter wants more of the story and of her; the next day she takes him to... View More...
Smiley delivers a tour de force, a satire of university life that leaves no aspect of contemporary academia unscathed. The setting is a large midwestern agricultural college known as Moo U., whose faculty and students Smiley depicts with sophisticated humor, turning a gimlet eye on the hypocrisy, egomania, prejudice and self-delusion that flourish on campus-and also reflect society at large. Everybody at Moo U. has an agenda: academic, sexual, social, economic, political and philosophical. Among the more egregious types that Smiley portrays are Dr. Lionel Gift, an intellectual whore who calls... View More...
With great narrative inventiveness and emotional amplitude, Allan Gurganus gives us artistic Manhattan in the wild 1980s, where young artists--refugees from the middle class--hurl themselves into playful work and serious fun. Our guide is Hartley Mims Jr., a Southerner whose native knack for happiness might thwart his literary ambitions. Through his eyes we encounter the composer Robert Christian Gustafson, an Iowa preacher's son whose good looks constitute both a mythic draw and a major limitation, and Angelina "Alabama" Byrnes, a failed deb, five feet tall but bristling with outsized talent... View More...
Hugely acclaimed in Great Britain, where it was awarded the Guardian Fiction Prize and short-listed for the Booker, Seamus Deane's first novel is a mesmerizing story of childhood set against the violence of Northern Ireland in the 1940s and 1950s. The boy narrator grows up haunted by a truth he both wants and does not want to discover. The matter: a deadly betrayal, unspoken and unspeakable, born of political enmity. As the boy listens through the silence that surrounds him, the truth spreads like a stain until it engulfs him and his family. And as he listens, and watches, the world of legend... View More...
A modern-day Armenian American girl, Seta Loon finds herself caught between her grandmother, a survivor of the Turkish massacre of Armenians, and her mother, and struggling with her own feelings of conflict and alienation. View More...
Over a period of some thirty-five years, Le Fanu produced some of the best - and most influential - weird tales ever written. In these volumes, collecting together all of Le Fanu's short supernatural fiction, editor Jim Rockhill has arranged the stories in chronological order, so that the author's growing skills as a storyteller can readily be seen. Schalken the Painter and Others covers the period between 1838 - when Le Fanu's first supernatural tale, 'The Ghost and the Bone-Setter', appeared in the Dublin University Magazine - and 1861, which saw publication of 'Ultor De Lacy'. Strange Ev... View More...
One of 250 copies SIGNED & NUMBERED, of the FIRST EDITION in a slipcase - no dust jacket as issued; SIGNED by both Wiesel and the artist, Podwal. Both the book and the slipcase are in excellent condition. The books begins, "I owe this legend to an old beggar." It came from his uncle, who got it from his maternal grandfather, who heard it from his Master, the Rebbe Ephraim, "who was said to have possessed the powers of Yehudah Loew, the celebrated Rebbe of Prague, but to have refused to use them for fear of blundering. And also because he claimed that the Lord, blessed be His name, ought to sav... View More...
"An amazing literary feat and a masterpiece of storytelling. Once again, Bharati Mukherjee prove she is one of our foremost writers, with the literary muscles to weave both the future and the past into a tale that is singularly intelligent and provocative." --AMY TAN This is the remarkable story of Hannah Easton, a unique woman born in the American colonies in 1670, "a person undreamed of in Puritan society." Inquisitive, vital and awake to her own possibilities, Hannah travels to Mughal, India, with her husband, and English trader. There, she sets her own course, "translating" herself into th... View More...
It is a Thursday evening. After work Martin Blom drives to the supermarket to buy some groceries. As he walks back to his car a shot rings out... When he wakes up he is blind. His neurosurgeon, Bruno Visser, tells him that his loss of sight is permanent and that he must expect to experience shock, depression, self-pity, even suicidal thoughts before his rehabilitation is complete. But it doesn't work out quite like that. And one spring evening, while Martin is practicing in the clinic gardens with his new white cane, something miraculous happens. View More...
"Character is destiny," wrote Heraclitus- and in this collection of four unforgettable stories, we meet people struggling to understand themselves and the unexpected turns their lives have taken. In "Accountant," a quintessential company man becomes obsessed with the phenomenal success of a reckless childhood friend. "Batorsag and Szerelem" tells the story of a boy's fascination with the mysterious life and invented language of his brother, a math prodigy. In "City of Broken Hearts," a divorced father tries to fathom the patterns of modern relationships. And in "The Palace Thief," a history te... View More...
1st ed., Uncorrected Proof. Signed. For Anne Rice fans -- "Violin" tells the story of 2 charismatic figures bound to each other thru a passionate commitment to music as a means of rapture, seduction, and liberation. At the novel's center: Triana and the demonic fiddler, Stefan, a tormented ghost who begins to prey upon her, using his magic violin to draw her into a state of madness. Triana sets out to resist Stefan, and the struggle thrusts them both into a terrifying supernatural realm. "Violin" is classic writing by Anne Rice- with history, drama, and romantic intensity. Excellent collectibl... View More...
