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PHILIP ROTH: NOVELS 2001-2007 (LOA #236): THE DYING ANIMAL / THE PLOT AGAINST AMERICA / EXIT GHOST
Written by Roth, Philip
The definitive Philip Roth edition continues with three novels written in his late sixties and early seventies. The Dying Animal (2001) marks the final return of David Kepesh from The Breast (1972) and The Professor of Desire (1977).
BLACK HAWK DOWN: A STORY OF MODERN WAR
Written by Bowden, Mark
Already a classic of war reporting and now reissued as a Grove Press paperback, Black Hawk Down is Mark Bowden's brilliant account of the longest sustained firefight involving American troops since the Vietnam War.
BUTT
Written by Self, Will
When Tom Brodzinksi tries to give up smoking, he inadvertently sets off a chain of events that threaten to upset the tenuous balance of peace in a not-too-distant land. When he flips the butt of his final cigarette off the balcony of his vacation apart-ment, it lands on elderly Reggie Lincoln, lounging on the balcony below.
COMMON SENSE, THE CRISIS, & OTHER WRITINGS FROM THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: A LIBRARY OF AMERICA PAPERBACK CLASSIC (REVISED)
Written by Paine, Thomas
An authoritative collection of Thomas Paine's essential American writings--including the landmark Revolutionary War pamphlet Common Sense After a life of obscurity and failure in England, Thomas Paine came to America in 1774 at age 37.
LOVE MACHINE
Written by Susann, Jacqueline
In a time when steak, vodka, and Benzedrine were the three main staples of a healthy diet, when high-powered executives called each other baby and movie stars wore wigs to bed, network tycoons had a name for the TV set: they called it the love machine.
COMPLICATED SHADOWS: THE LIFE AND MUSIC OF ELVIS COSTELLO
Written by Thomson, Graeme
Elvis Costello is undoubtedly one of the most important and challenging musicians of the last thirty years. Complicated Shadows paints a detailed portrait of an intensely private, complex, and creatively restless individual.
ITALIAN NEIGHBORS
Written by Parks, Tim
In this deliciously seductive account of an Italian neighborhood with a statue of the Virgin at one end of the street, a derelict bottle factory at the other, and a wealth of exotic flora and fauna in between, acclaimed novelist Tim Parks celebrates ten years of living with his wife, Rita, in Verona, Italy.
BALTASAR AND BLIMUNDA
Written by Saramago, José
From José Saramago, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Baltasar and Blimunda is a "brilliant...enchanting novel" (The New York Times Book Review) of romance, deceit, religion, and magic set in eighteenth-century Portugal at the height of the Inquisition.
GAUGUIN
Written by Thomson, Belinda
Making extensive use of new research and material, Belinda Thomson's incisive text gives a comprehensive and accessible account of the life and work of one of the most original artists of the late nineteenth century.
ARTEMISIA
Written by Lapierre, Alexandra
An international best-seller, Alexandra Lapierre's Artemisia sweeps us through the streets once frequented by Caravaggio, Velasquez, and Van Dyck and into the studios of artists who used their daggers as efficiently as their brushes. Born in the early 1600s when artists were the celebrities of the day, Artemisia was apprenticed to her father, the artist Orazio Gentileschi, at an early age.
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