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Author
Series
New York trilogy (Paul Auster) volume 1
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
1987.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Reservoir follows an unexceptional man in an exceptional time. We see our present-day pandemic world and New York City through the eyes of a former Wall Street veteran, Ridley, as he, in his enforced quarantined solitude, looks back upon his life. He examines his wins, his failures, the gnawing questions-his career, his divorce, his estranged daughter-and wonders what it all means and who he really is. Sitting and brooding night after night,...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
A reissue of the National Book Award finalist Mary Gaitskill's debut collection, Bad Behavior--powerful stories about dislocation, longing, and desire which depict a disenchanted and rebellious urban fringe generation that is searching for human connection. Now a classic: Bad Behavior made critical waves when it first published, heralding Gaitskill's arrival on the literary scene and her establishment as one of the sharpest, erotically charged, and...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
City of glass: A writer of a detective stories becomes embroiled in a complex and puzzling series of events, beginning with a call from a stranger in the middle of the night asking for the author.
Ghosts: Introduces Blue, a private dectective hired to watch a man named Black, who, as he becomes intermeshed into a haunting and claustrophobic game of hide-and-seek is lured into the very trap he created.
The locked room: The nameless hero journeys...
Author
Publisher
Delphinium Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"This dark, propulsive novel, the crowning masterwork by the 92-year-old Caldwell, takes place during 1992, when AIDS was still an incurable scourge and death casualties were every day events. One cold winter night, when the artist, Dempsey Coates, is on the way home to her loft, she encounters a several alarm blaze, water jetting every which way from hydrants, and ends up offering several fireman a place to get warm. One of them is Johnny Donegan,...
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