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Elaine Risley, a painter, returns to Toronto to find herselfoverwhelmed by her past. Memories of childhood - unbearablebetrayals and cruelties - surface relentlessly, forcing her toconfront the spectre of Cordelia, once her best friend andtormentor, who has haunted her for forty years. 'Not since GrahamGreene has a novelist captured so forcefully the relationshipbetween school bully and victim...Atwood's games are played,exquisitely, by little girls' LISTENER An exceptional novel fromthe winner of the 2000 Booker Prize
In this classic novel Richard Yates, hailed as a preeminentchronicler of the American condition and author of the acclaimed"Revolutionary Road, " weaves a masterful, unflinching tale of twofamilies brought together by chance, desperation, and desire. EvanShepard was born with good looks, bad luck, and a love for the openro But it was on one such drive, with his father from rural LongIsland into lower Manhattan, that Evan's life would be changedforever. When their car breaks down on a Greenwich Village street,Evan's father presses a random doorbell, looking for a telephone.Within hours, two families--sharing equally complex and addledhistories--will come together. There will be flirtation. There willbe a marriage. There will be a child, a new home... But as Evanmoves further into the uncharted land of manhood, as the women andmen around him come into focus, he faces roads not taken and ajourney not made--in Richard Yates' haunting exploration of humanrestlessness, family secrets, and a future shaped by them b
"The best way to understand Pasternak's achievementinDoctorZh/vago is to see it in terms of this great Russianliterarytradition, as a fairy tale, not so much of good and evil asof opposing forces and needs in human destiny and historythat cannever be reconciled... [Zhivago is] a figure whoembodies theprinciple of life itself, the principle that contradicts everyabstraction of revolutionary politics."
The acclaimed author of A Good Day to Die and Warlock haswritten a screenplay to be directed by Edward Zwick, starringAnthony Hopkins, Brad Pitt, and Aidan Quinn, and scheduled forrelease October 7th from Tristar pictures.
“A stirring tribute to the valor of Marines in Vietnam.” (Nathaniel Fick, New York Times bestselling author of One BulletAway) Thursday, October 12, 1967: Marine Lance Corporal Kevin Cahill stepped onto a trail deep inthe remote Hai Lang National Forest in South Vietnam. FollowingCahill were the Marines of Charlie Company, First Battalion, FirstMarines, First Marine Division. They would find hell on earth underthe jungle canopy. Ambushed, surrounded, outnumbered, out-gunned,and quickly running low on ammunition, the marines of OperationMedina fought toe-to-toe with a ferocious, determinedopponent. Based on extensive interviews with survivors of Operation Medina,as well as with the friends and families of the men who didn’t makeit back, Lions of Medina takes readers through the tragedy andtriumphs of war, and into the heart of a close-knit group ofwarriors who fought, bled, and died together, and the spirit ofloyalty and camaraderie that binds them to this da
