Based on three years of research and reporting as well as 850interviews with sources, many of whom have never before spoken forpublication, Oprah is the first comprehensive biography ofone of the most influential, powerful, and admired public figuresof our time, by the most widely read biographer of our era. Anyonewho is a fan of Oprah Winfrey or who has followed her extraordinarylife and career will be fascinated and newly informed by theclosely observed, detailed, and well-rounded portrait of herprovided by Kitty Kelley’s exhaustively researched book. Readerswill come away with a greater appreciation of who Oprah really isbeyond her public persona and a fuller understanding of herimportant place in American cultural history.
A PRESIDENTIAL DYNASTY. AN ARAB TERRORIST ATTACK. DEMOCRACYUNDER SIEGE. Mario Puzo envisioned it all in his eerily prescient1991 novel, The Fourth K. President Francis Xavier Kennedy is elected to office, in largepart, thanks to the legacy of his forebears–good looks, privilege,wealth–and is the very embodiment of youthful optimism. Too soon,however, he is beaten down by the political process and, disabusedof his ideals, he becomes a leader totally unlike what he has beenbefore. When his daughter becomes a pawn in a brutal terrorist plot,Kennedy, who has obsessively kept alive the memory of his uncles’assassinations, activates all his power to retaliate in a series ofviolent measures. As the explosive events unfold, the world andthose closest to him look on with both awe and horror.
This original paperback brings together for the first time allof Donald Hall’s writing on Eagle Pond Farm, his ancestral home inNew Hampshire, where he visited his grandparents as a young boy andthen lived with his wife Jane Kenyon until her death. It includesthe entire, previously published Seasons at Eagle Pond and Here atEagle Pond; the poem “Daylilies on the Hill” from The Painted Bed;and several uncollected essays.
The private letters of Truman Capote, lovingly assembled herefor the first time by acclaimed Capote biographer Gerald Clarke,provide an intimate, unvarnished portrait of one of the twentiethcentury’s most colorful and fascinating literary figures. Capote was an inveterate letter writer. He wrote letters as hespoke: emphatically, spontaneously, and passionately. Spanning morethan four decades, his letters are the closest thing we have to aCapote autobiography, showing us the uncannily self-possessed na?fwho jumped headlong into the post—World War II New York literaryscene; the more mature Capote of the 1950s; the Capote of the early1960s, immersed in the research and writing of In Cold Blood; andCapote later in life, as things seemed to be unraveling. Withcameos by a veritable who’s who of twentieth century glitterati,Too Brief a Treat shines a spotlight on the life and times of anincomparable American writer.
Book De*ion efore The Godfather and The Last Don, there was Puzo's classicstory about the loves, crimes and struggles confronted by onefamily of New York City immigrants living in Hell's Kitchen. Freshfrom the farms in Italy, Lucia Santa struggles to hold her familytogether in a strange land. At turns poignant, comic and violent,and with a new preface by the author, The Fortunate Pilgrim isItalian-American fiction at its very best.
