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From the moment Karen Blixen arrived in Kenya in 1914 to managea coffee plantation, her heart belonged to Africa. Drawn to the intense colours and ravishing landscapes, Blixen spent herhappiest years on the farm, and her experiences and friendshipswith the people around her are vividly recalled in thesememoirs.Out of Africa is the story of a remarkable andunconventional woman, and of a way of life that has vanished forever.
The inspiration for the major motion picture starring BradPitt and Cate Blanchettaplus eighteen other stories by the belovedauthor of "The Great Gatsby" IN THE TITLE STORY, a baby born in1860 begins life as an old man and proceeds to age backward. F.Scott Fizgerald hinted at this kind of inversion when he called hisera aa generation grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought,all faiths in man shaken.a Perhaps nowhere in American fiction hasthis aLost Generationa been more vividly preserved than inFitzgeraldas short fiction. Spanning the early twentieth-centuryAmerican landscape, this original collection captures, withFitzgeraldas signature blend of enchantment and disillusionment,America during the Jazz Age.
A behind-the-scenes, intensley-researched look at the blue-bloodscandal that has riveted not just New York but the world. When thebeloved Mrs. Astor's only child Anthony Marshall was indicted oncharges of looting her estate, the story was covered by the entirenational press corps as well as newspapers way beyond our borders.The fate of Brooke Astor, the endearing philanthropist with astoried name who gave away nearly $200 million to the city--and didso with incomparable class and style--has generated headlines eversince the story broke in 2006 that her grandson Philip had sued hisfather alleging mistreatment of Brooke.
Tertuliano Maximo Afonso is a divorced, depressed historyteacher. To lift his spirits, a colleague suggests he rent acertain video. Tertuliano watches the film, unimpressed. But duringthe night, when he is awakened by noises in his apartment, he goesinto the living room to find that the VCR is replaying the video.He watches in astonishment as a man who looks exactly like him-or,more specifically, exactly like he did five years before,mustachioed and fuller in the face-appears on the screen. He sleepsbadly. Against his better judgment, Tertuliano decides to pursuehis double. As he roots out the man's identity, what begins as awhimsical story becomes a "wonderfully twisted meditation onidentity and individuality" (The Boston Globe). Saramago displayshis remarkable talent in this haunting tale of appearance versusreality.
Dr. Alfred Jones is a henpecked, slightly pompous middle-agedscientist at the National Centre for Fisheries Excellence in Londonwhen he is approached by a mysterious sheikh about an outlandishplan to introduce the sport of salmon fishing into the Yemen. Dr.Jones refuses, but the project, however scientifically absurd,catches the eye of British politicians, who pressure him to work onit. His diaries of the Yemen Salmon Project, from beginning toglorious, tragic end, form the narrative backbone of this novel;interspersed throughout are government memos, e-mails, letters, andinterview tran*s that deftly capture the absurdity ofbureaucratic dysfunction.With a wickedly wonderful cast ofcharacters--including a weasel-like spin doctor, a missing soldierand his intrepid fiancee, and Dr. Jones's own devilish wife--SalmonFishing in the Yemen is the whimsical story of an unlikely hero whodiscovers true love, finds himself first a pawn and then a victimof political spin, and learns to believe in the impossible.
Written during 1951-52, this novel was an underground legendby the time it was finally published in 1972. Written in anexperimental form, Kerouac created the ultimate account of hisvoyages with Neal Cassady, which he captured in a different formfor On the Road.
