Literature
BLESSED AS WE WERE: LATE SELECTED AND NEW POEMS, 2001-2018
Written by Stern, Gerald
"A sometimes comic, sometimes tragic visionary" (Edward Hirsch), Gerald Stern is an essential and unwavering presence in American poetry. Blessed as We Were distills the poet's characteristic bardic voice through the persistent presence of memory, whether buoyant or weighty, explored from Last Blue (2002) through Galaxy Love (2017).
VIRTUOSO
Written by Moskovich, Yelena
Jana was born in Prague shortly after the self-immolating Czech martyrs Jan Palach and Jan Zajic committed their ritual protestations against Soviet influence. As Communism began to crumble, Jana's unremarkable life becomes more remarkable when a precocious young girl named Zorka moves into the apartment building with her mother and sick father.
SOULS FOR SALE
Written by Hughes, Rupert
Rupert Hughes's Souls for Sale was a wildly successful Hollywood novel of the 1920s, which Hughes himself adapted for the screen in 1923. In it, Remember "Mem" Steddon is forced to move west after becoming pregnant, and on the way becomes involved in a film production taking place in the desert.
MOBY DICK: ILLUSTRATED BY GILBERT WILSON
500 pages, 150+ illustrations71/2 × 91/4 in. 19.05 × 23.495 cm.
NOTHING
Written by Kureishi, Hanif
"A punchy, disturbing fable."--Alex Clark, The Guardian Waldo, a fêted filmmaker, is confined by old age and ill health to his London apartment. Frail and frustrated, he is cared for by his lovely younger wife, Zee.
BLUES FOR OUTLAW HEARTS AND BROKEN WHORES
Written by Carlotto, Massimo
International secret police operations, drug trafficking, prostitution, and identity theft set the stage for the eternal struggle between Good and Evil.
OUR FATHERS
Written by Wait, Rebecca
Nobody knows why John Baird, a quiet family man, decided one day to pick up a shotgun and murder his wife and children. On the remote Scottish island of Skellag, violent crime is unheard of, and the killings sent shockwaves through this tiny community in which the Bairds were well-known and liked.
ENLIGHTENMENT OF THE GREENGAGE TREE
Written by Azar, Shokoofeh
From the pen of one of Iran's rising literary stars, The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree is a family story about the unbreakable connection between the living and the dead.
JUST AFTER THE WAVE
Written by Collette, Sandrine
A small boat, alone on the furious ocean. A family stranded on an island, battered by waves on all sides. A decision which looms, unavoidable, on the horizon.
SEA MONSTERS
Written by Aridjis, Chloe
"Aridjis is deft at conjuring the teenage swooniness that apprehends meaning below every surface. Like Sebald's or Cusk's, her haunted writing patrols its own omissions . . . The figure of the shipwreck looms large for Aridjis.
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