Joe is a young man on the run during the Great Depression. A late-summer night finds him alone and shivering beside a railroad track in the Adirondack mountains when a private railcar passes. Brightly lit windows reveal well-dressed men at a table and, in another compartment, a …
The hero of this dazzling novel by American master E. L. Doctorow is Joe, a young man on the run in the depths of the Great Depression. A late-summer night finds him alone and shivering beside a railroad track in the Adirondack mountains when a private railcar passes.
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from China Mi?ville?s Embassytown. What William Gibson did for science fiction, China Mi?ville has done for fantasy, shattering old paradigms with fiercely imaginative works of startling, often shocking, intensity. Now from this brilliant …
What William Gibson did for science fiction, China Miéville has done for fantasy, shattering old paradigms with fiercely imaginative works of startling, often shocking, intensity. Now from this brilliant young writer comes a groundbreaking collection of stories, many of them pre…
This is Samuel Beckett's first novel and "literary landmark" (St. Petersburg Times)-a savory introduction to the Nobel Prize-winning author. Written in the summer of 1932, when the twenty-six-year-old Beckett was poor and struggling to make ends meet, Dream of Fair to Middling W…
Dream of fair to middling women: a novel
by Beckett, Samuel, O'Brien, Eoin, Fournier, Edith
Describes the youth and early manhood of Lawrence Beavman, only son of an old Jewish family in Montreal, who achieves literary fame as a college student and does penance in the form of manual labor.
Describes the youth and early manhood of Lawrence Beavman, only son of an old Jewish family in Montreal, who achieves literary fame as a college student and does penance in the form of manual labor.
"Based on the popular blog, Books of Adam is a hilarious collection of essays about one young man's attempt to get his life together."--
The son of a poor rural priest becomes an acolyte at the Temple of the Golden Pavilion. Mizoguchi had built up an image of ideal beauty in his mind based on this Golden Pavilion; this ideal image causes him to feel disappointed in any supposed form of beauty, even the actual phy…
Mizoguchi, an acolyte at a Buddhist temple in Kyoto who also suffers from a childhood stutter, struggles to overcome his obsession with the beauty of the Golden Temple.
A young man, having suffered a childhood trauma, becomes an acolyte at a famous temple in Kyoto.
The son of a poor rural priest becomes an acolyte at the Temple of the Golden Pavilion. Mizoguchi had built up an image of ideal beauty in his mind based on this Golden Pavilion; this ideal image causes him to feel disappointed in any supposed form of beauty, even the actual phy…
Der junge Tsukuru Tazaki ist Teil einer Clique von fünf Freunden, deren Mitglieder alle eine Farbe im Namen tragen. Nur Tsukuru fällt aus dem Rahmen und empfindet sich - auch im übertragenen Sinne - als farblos, denn anders als seine Freunde hat er keine besonderen Eigenheiten o…
Scott Pilgrim's life is fantastic. He's 23 years old, in a rock band, between jobs, and dating a cute high school girl. Everything's awesome until a seriously mind-blowing delivery girl named Ramona Flowers enters his life.