Focusing on a boy who kills seven of his fellow students, Shriver tells a resonant story while framing the horrifying tableaux of teenage carnage as metaphors for the larger tragedy--the tragedy of a country where everything works, nobody starves, and anything can be bought but a sense of purpose.
Irina McGovern enjoys a quiet life in London with Lawrence Trainer, a smart, loyal, disciplined intellectual. Their relationship is rock solid--until the night Irina finds herself dying to kiss another man. This enchanting work depicts Irina's alternating futures with two very different men.
Set in contemporary Kenya, this novel explores the dynamics of a Western relationship in the Third World, between two people who on the one hand believe in love and its self-expression, and on the other fear the worst for the future of the human race. By the author of "Ordinary Decent Criminals".
A novel about an inheritance dispute in the American South. The McCreas are grown children of a renowned lawyer and his community-spirited wife - liberals whose exemplary behaviour their offspring decline to emulate. The parents' deaths leave the three heirs with a grand Reconstruction mansion.
Beautiful and charismatic, nineteen-year-old Checker Secretti is the most gifted and original drummer that the club-goers of Astoria, Queens, have ever heard. When he plays, conundrums seem to solve themselves, brilliant thoughts spring to mind, and couples fall in love. The members of his band, The Derailleurs, are passionately devoted to their ...
Every book-club member has felt the pressure to pick out a new title for the whole group to read and enjoy. Wouldn't it be great if there was a book that helped you to make that all-important decision and maintain your place of respect in the book club? Fear no more, "The Book Club Bible" is here to help, shining an illuminating light on to the ...
Estrin Lancaster has fled Philadelphia for a life of perpetual motion. Now, in Belfast, she revels more than she would like in the company of Ireland's most inflammatory wit, Farrell O'Phelan. Born into conflict, his acute mind is irredeemably twisted by his efforts to make sense of Ireland.
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Date Published: 03/11/1995
ISBN-13:9780571173488ISBN:0571173489
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Harper Collins Publisher
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780061233098ISBN:0061233099
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Harper Collins Publisher
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780061233098ISBN:0061233099
Description: New, Publisher overstock, may have small remainder mark. Excellent condition, never read, purchased from publisher as excess inventory. read more
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