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That Awful Mess on the via Meru - Carlo Emilio Gadda; Italo Calvi
Review“The experimental masterpiece modern Italian literature has long been awaiting.… There is a kinship to Joyce, especially in Gadda’s inspired outbursts of comic invective, his... -
Sweet Thunder_ The Life and Tim - Wil Haygood
Review"Haygood's book is certainly one of the best biographies of a boxer ever written . . . an important contribution to both sports literature and African American studies."-Gera... -
Rules of Deception - Christopher Reich
Amazon.com ReviewLee Child on Rules of Deception _Lee Child has crafted one of literature's most popular anti-heroes in the form of Jack Reacher, the iconic... -
Romancing Miss Bronte_ A Novel - Juliet Gael
SUMMARY: Juliet Gael was raised in the Midwest and obtained her M.A. in French literature before pursuing graduate film studies at USC and English literature at UCLA in Los Angeles... -
Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
EDITORIAL REVIEW: ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP The acclaimed tale of a shipwrecked Englishman who finds himself stranded on an island off the coast of S... -
Prodigal Summer - Barbara Kingsolver
Amazon.com ReviewThere is no one in contemporary literature quite like Barbara Kingsolver. Her dialogue sparkles with sassy wit and earthy poetry; her descriptions are rooted in da... -
Old School - Tobias Wolff
Amazon.com ReviewTobias Wolff's Old School is at once a celebration of literature and delicate hymn to a lost innocence of American life and art. Set in a New England prep school .... -
Mother night - Kurt Vonnegut
SUMMARY: Kurt Vonnegut is a master of contemporary American literature. His black humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured America’s attention in The Siren... -
Kokoro - Natsume Soseki
SUMMARY: "Kokoro" is one of the classics of Japanese literature. Soseki introduces readers to the Japanese modern culture and its effect on the young generation of that time. Autho... -
Jane Bites Back_ A Novel - Michael Thomas Ford; Ellen Weis
Two hundred years after her death, Jane Austen is still surrounded by the literature she loves--but now it's because she's the owner of Flyleaf Books in a sleepy college town in Up...