"The third and fourth novel in John Updike's acclaimed quartetof Rabbit books-now in one marvelous volume."RABBIT IS RICHWinnerof the American Book Award andthe National Book Critics CircleAward "Dazzlingly reaffirms Updike's place as master chronicler ofthe spiritual maladies and very earthly pleasure of theMiddle-American male."-"Vogue ""A splendid achievement "-"The NewYork Times "RABBIT AT RESTWinner of the Pulitzer Prize andtheNational Book Critics Circle Award "Brilliant . . . It must beread. It is the best novel about America to come out of America fora very, very long time."-"The Washington Post Book World" "Powerful. . . John Updike with his precision's prose and his intimatelyattentive yet cold eye is a master."-"The New York Times BookReview"
The surprise New York Times bestseller, from an author who delivers American storytelling at its best. The story of marriage, family, and forgiveness that has become not just a bestseller but an instant classic Their story begins with one letter on their wedding night, a letter from the groom, promising to write his bride every week for as long they both shall live. Thirty-nine years later, Jack and Laurel Cooper die in each others arms. And when their grown children return to the family B&B to arrange the funeral, they discover thousands of letters. The letters they read tell of surprising joys and sorrows. They also hint at a shocking family secret and ultimately force the children to confront a life-changing moment of truth
Drawing from decades of work, travel, and research in Russia,Robert Alexander re-creates the tragic, perennially fascinatingstory of the final days of Russian monarchs Nicholas and Alexandraas seen through the eyes of the Romanov's young kitchen boy,Leonka.
A delightfully pointed m?lange of fictional pieces from one ofthe world’s most acclaimed and incisive authors, The Tent isa sparkling addition to Margaret Atwood’s always masterfulwork.Here Atwood pushes form once again, with meditations onwarlords, pet heaven, and aging homemakers. She gives a sly peptalk to the ambitious young; writes about the disconcertingexperience of looking at old photos of ourselves; and examines theboons and banes of orphanhood. Accompanied by her own playfulillustrations, Atwood’s droll humor and keen insight make eachpiece full of clarity and grace. Prescient and personal, delectableand tart, The Tent reflects one of our wittiest authors ather best.
"An uproarious, sprawling masterpiece by a grand Yiddishstoryteller." -O, The Oprah Magazine Translated in full for the first time, one hundred years afterits original publication, the acclaimed epic love story set in thecolorful world of the Yiddish theater. Wandering Stars spans tenyears and two continents, relating the adventures of Reizel andLeibel, young shtetl dwellers in late nineteenth-century Russia whofall under the spell of a traveling acting company. Together theyrun away from home to become entertainers themselves, and then tourseparately around Europe, ultimately reuniting in New York.Wandering Stars is an engrossing romance, a great New York story,and an anthem for the magic of the theater.
Hailed as a classic upon its first publication in 1934, TheValleys of the Assassins firmly established Freya Stark as oneof her generation's most intrepid explorers. The book chroniclesher travels into Luristan, the mountainous terrain nestled betweenIraq and present-day Iran, often with only a single guide and on ashoestring budget. Stark writes engagingly of the nomadic peoples who inhabit theregion's valleys and brings to life the stories of the ancientkingdoms of the Middle East, including that of the Lords of Alamut,a band of hashish-eating terrorists whose stronghold in the ElburzMountains Stark was the first to document for the RoyalGeographical Society. Her account is at once a highly readabletravel narrative and a richly drawn, sympathetic portrait of apeople told from their own compelling point of view. This edition includes a new Introduction by Jane FletcherGeniesse, Stark's biographer.
When the Good Friday peace accords are shattered by threesavage acts of terrorism, Northern Ireland is blown back into thedepths of conflict. And after his father-in-law is nominated tobecome the new American ambassador to London, retired CIA agentMichael Osbourne is drawn back into the game. He soon discoversthat his father-in-law is marked for execution. And that he himselfis once again in the crosshairs of a killer known as October, oneof the most merciless assassins the world has ever known...
For fifty years, Anna Schlemmer has refused to talk about herlife in Germany during World War II. Her daughter, Trudy, was onlythree when she and her mother were liberated by an American soldierand went to live with him in Minnesota. Trudy's sole evidence ofthe past is an old photograph: a family portrait showing Anna,Trudy, and a Nazi officer, the Obersturmfuhrer of Buchenwald. Driven by the guilt of her heritage, Trudy, now a professor ofGerman history, begins investigating the past and finally unearthsthe dramatic and heartbreaking truth of her mother's life. Combining a passionate, doomed love story, a vivid evocation oflife during the war, and a poignant mother/daughter drama, ThoseWho Save Us is a profound exploration of what we endure tosurvive and the legacy of shame.
Prefaced by the famous "Atlantic Monthly" essay of the samename, in which he argues the virtues of the hard-boiled detectivenovel, this collection mostly drawn from stories he wrote for thepulps demonstrates Chandler's imaginative, entertaining facilitywith the form.
A dead man is brought back to life so he can support hisfamily in "The Happy Man"; occasionally he slips into a zombielikestate while his soul is tortured in Hell. In "Vanilla Dunk," futurebasketball players are given the skills of old-time stars likeMichael Jordan and Wilt Chamberlain. And in "Forever, Said theDuck," stored computer personalities scheme to break free of theirowners. In these and other stories in this striking collection,Jonathan Lethem, author of "The Fortress of Solitude" and"Motherless Brooklyn," draws the reader ever more deeply into hisstrange, unforgettable world--a trip from which there may be noeasy return.
A terrorist plot in London leads Israeli spy Gabriel Allon ona desperate search for a kidnapped woman, in a race against timethat will compromise Allonas own conscienceaand life...
"The best novel to come out of America-or England-for ageneration." -V.S. Pritchett, The New York Review of Books In this unique noir masterpiece by the incomparable Saul Bellow,a young man is sucked into the mysterious, heat-filled vortex ofNew York City. Asa Leventhal, a temporary bachelor with his wifeaway on a visit to her mother, attempts to find relief from aGotham heat wave, only to be accosted in the park by adown-at-the-heels stranger who accuses Leventhal of ruining hislife. Unable to shake the stranger loose, Leventhal is led by hisown self-doubts and suspicions into a nightmare of paranoia andfear.
The New York Times bestseller and Booker Prize contender that"delivers...a ghost story that creeps up your spine" (SeattleTimes). One post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, Dr. Faraday is calledto a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family forover two centuries, the Georgian house, once impressive andhandsome, is now in decline. Its owners-mother, son, anddaughter-are struggling to keep pace with a changing society, aswell as with conflicts of their own. But are the Ayreses haunted bysomething more sinister than a dying way of life? Little does Dr.Faraday know how closely, and how terrifyingly, their story isabout to become intimately entwined with his.
Orwell draws on his years of experience in India to tell thisstory of the waning days of British imperialism. A handful ofEnglishmen living in a settlement in Burma congregate in theEuropean Club, drink whiskey, and argue over an impending order toadmit a token Asian.
Amazon Best of the Month, August 2010: "The awful thing about life is this:" says Octave to the Marquis in Renoir's Rules of the Game. "Everyone has his reasons." That could be a motto for novelists as well, few more so than Jonathan Franzen, who seems less concerned with creating merely likeable characters than ones who are fully alive, in all their self-justifying complexity. Freedom is his fourth novel, and, yes, his first in nine years since The Corrections. Happy to say, it's very much a match for that great book, a wrenching, funny, and forgiving portrait of a Midwestern family (from St. Paul this time, rather than the fictional St. Jude). Patty and Walter Berglund find each other early: a pretty jock, focused on the court and a little lost off it, and a stolid budding lawyer, besotted with her and almost burdened by his integrity. They make a family and a life together, and, over time, slowly lose track of each other. Their stories align at times with Big Issues--among them mountaintop removal, war pro
Fatherland is set in an alternative world where Hitler has wonthe Second World War. It is April 1964 and one week before Hitler's75th birthday. Xavier March, a detective of the Kriminalpolizei, iscalled out to investigate the discovery of a dead body in a lakenear Berlin's most prestigious suburb. As March discovers theidentity of the body, he uncovers signs of a conspiracy that couldgo to the very top of the German Reich. And, with the Gestapo justone step behind, March, together with an American journalist, iscaught up in a race to discover and reveal the truth -- a truththat has already killed, a truth that could topple governments, atruth that will change history. "From the Paperback edition."
"The first and second novels in John Updike's acclaimedquartet of Rabbit books-now in one marvelous volume."RABBIT, RUN"Brilliant and poignant . . . By his compassion, clarity ofinsight, and crystal-bright prose, Updike] makes Rabbit's sorrowhis and out own."-"The Washington Post ""Precise, graceful,stunning, he is an athlete of words and images. He is also animpeccable observer of thoughts and feelings."-"The Village Voice"RABBIT REDUX " 'Great in love, in art, boldness, freedom, wisdom,kindness, exceedingly rich in intelligence, wit, imagination, andfeeling-a great and beautiful thing . . .' these hyperboles (quotedfrom a letter written long ago by Thomas Mann) come to mind afterreading John Updike's "Rabbit Redux."-The New York Times BookReview""""Updike owns a rare verbal genius, a gifted intelligenceand a sense of tragedy made bearable by wit. . . . Amasterpiece."-"Time"
Brand New Book with Free Worldwide Delivery. This is a storyof heroism, love, honour, loyalty and betrayal, reaching from theoffice of the Hat Creek Cattle Company of the Rio Grande to theheart and the wilderness of the American West. This book won thePulitzer Prize.
Alienated from society, Harry Hailer is the Steppenwolf:wild,strange and shy. His despair and desire for death draw himintoan enchanted Faustian underworld. Through a series ofshadowyencounters - romantic, freakish and savage by turn -Hailer beginsto rediscover the lost dreams of his youth. Adopted by the sixties' counterculture,Steppenwolf captured the mood of a disaffected generation that wasbeginning to question everything.
A couple of missing wives—one a rich man's and one a poorman's—become the objects of Marlowe's investigation. One of themmay have gotten a Mexican divorce and married a gigolo and theother may be dead. Marlowe's not sure he cares about either one,but he's not paid to care.
In this "ingenious" novel (New York Times) by "one of Europe'smost original and remarkable writers" (Los Angeles Times), aproofreader's deliberate slip opens the door to romance-andconfounds the facts of Portugal's past. Translated by GiovanniPontiero.
Daniel silva has hit the top with his new gabriel allonnovel... A #1 "New York Times" bestseller The death of a journalistleads Israeli spy Gabriel Allon to Russia, where he finds that, interms of spycraft, even "he" has something to learn if he wants toprevent a former KGB colonel from delivering Russia's mostsophisticated weapons to al-Qaeda.
