"By age 50, Maria Leonard Olsen had drunk her way out of her 25-year marriage. She had, against advice, put all her eggs in the motherhood basket, willfully derailing her successful law career. As teenagers, her precious children did not need her in the hands-on way they previou…
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The picture of Dorian Gray
by Wilde, Oscar
fromOxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
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A lush, cautionary tale of a life of vileness and deception or a loving portrait of the aesthetic impulse run rampant? Why not both? After Basil Hallward paints a beautiful, young man's portrait, his subject's frivolous wish that the picture change and he remain the same comes t…
The sibling society
by Bly, Robert, Christiansen, Jennifer, Moline Public Library (Ill.)
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Where have all the grown-ups gone? [In this book, the author] offers a dramatic reinterpretation of trends as diverse as corporate downsizing and the collapse of the American family. With a vision that encompasses politics, economics, and psychology as well as the ancient storie…
At the close of the twentieth century, adults have regressed toward adolescence while adolescents refuse to become adults. Respect for elders has given way to the furious competition of peers or siblings who strive not to be good or great but to be famous. Community has been sup…