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Babel Tower
By A. S Byatt, A. S. Byatt. 1996
In mid-1960s England, an unhappily married Frederica lives in a country manor isolated from her Cambridge friends. After she flees…
with her son to make a new life, she becomes the focus of a court case over custody of her son and involved in an obscenity case for her part in publishing a lurid novel. Strong languageThe virgin in the garden: A Novel (Vintage International)
By A. S Byatt, A. S. Byatt. 1992
A coming-of-age story set in 1953 England. Alternating chapters follow the lives of three Potter children: Stephanie, an atheist, marries…
the local curate; Frederica, an actress, falls in love with a playwright; and Marcus, who dabbles with psychic phenomena, goes mad. Strong language and descriptions of sexThe richer, the poorer: stories, sketches, and reminiscences
By Dorothy West. 1995
A collection of works by the last surviving member of the Harlem Renaissance. West includes her first short story, The…
Typewriter, written when she was seventeen, along with later stories and essays recounting everyday experiences: needing money, relating to family members, and coping with death. 1995Horace
By George Sand. 1995
Set in 1832 Paris during the time of the student rebellion, this story, written in the 1840s, was so scandalous…
that Sand's editor refused to publish it. The story involves Horace, a young law student up from the provinces, who is amazed at the opportunities Paris offers him; Marthe, a barmaid with whom Horace falls in love, yet almost ruins when he gets her pregnant; and the narrator, a medical student who befriends HoraceSee ya, Simon
By David Hill. 1992
Simon likes girls, weekends and enjoys mucking about and playing practical jokes. But what's different is that Simon has muscular…
dystrophy - he's in a wheelchair and doesn't have long to live. Simon's best friend, Nathan, tells the story of their last year together. Junior and senior high readers.The distinguished guest
By Sue Miller. 1995
Activist author Lily Maynard, in her eighties, is in failing health and must live with her son's family until she…
moves into a retirement community. Her acclaimed memoirs have brought her notoriety but also revealed her family's pain, which they must now face. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. c1995.Slowness
By Milan Kundera, Linda Asher. 1996
Two sexual encounters in the same French chateau take place two hundred years apart. Kundera uses the tales to contrast…
the deliberate pace of eighteenth-century France with contemporary frantic activity and to highlight the ability of memory to savour only what has been experienced at leisure. Includes strong language and sex. c1996. Uniform title: Lenteur.The Pushcart prize: best of the small presses, 1996 / XX (Pushcart Prize Ser.)
By Bill Henderson, Pushcart Prize Editors. 1995
Sixty selections of short fiction, essays, and poetry published first by noncommercial presses and magazines. This twentieth-anniversary edition features up-and-coming…
authors as well as such literary figures as John Updike and Joyce Carol Oates. Selections include a canto from Robert Pinsky's translation of Dante's "Inferno" and Eileen Pollack's "Milk." Descriptions of sex and some strong languageChildren of the alley
By Naguib Mahfouz, Peter Theroux, Najīb Maḥfūẓ. 1996
Originally written in 1959. The Nobel Prize-winning author spins a tale of the descendants of Gabalawi, a wealthy and powerful…
man. Outcasts of the family settle around the walls of the estate to form an "alley," which becomes the birthplace of Egypt. Outwardly, the story depicts the residents' struggles, weaknesses, successes, and failures. At a second level of meaning, it is an allegory of the spiritual history of humankind. Violence and some strong languageThe tenth insight: holding the vision
By James Redfield. 1996
In The Celestine Prophecy (DB 38075, BR 9732), the author experienced nine ancient spiritual insights. Now he searches for the…
tenth insight as he looks for his friend Charlene Billings, who has disappeared into the Appalachian Mountains. Some strong language. BestsellerRemembering Babylon
By David Malouf. 1993
In the mid-1840s, Gemmy Fairley, aged 13, is cast ashore in Australia and taken in by aborigines. Sixteen years later,…
he moves back into the world of European settlers and is sheltered by the McIvors. c1993.The grandmother's tale and selected stories
By R. K Narayan. 1994
Living in Madras, India, Narayan is known worldwide for his novels, short stories, travel writings and essays. Themes which are…
at once Indian and universal mark this collection of short stories and a novella written over a span of fifty years. They brim with Narayan's characteristic blend of tragicomic style and revelations about domestic detail. 1994.The first man
By Albert Camus, David Hapgood. 1995
In this fictionalized autobiographical work, withheld from publication for more than thirty years, Camus offers an impressionistic portrait of his…
childhood in Algeria and vivid characterizations of family members and friends. In the introduction Camus's daughter, Catherine, explains why the family delayed publication of the fragmented draft manuscript at the time of Camus's death in 1960. 1995. Uniform title: Premier homme.Gun, with occasional music
By Jonathan Lethem. 1994
Conrad Metcalf, a private inquisitor, works in a near-future Oakland, California. He is listening to a musical version of the…
news when he is approached by Orton Angwine. Orton has been accused of the murder of a prominent doctor, and he is totally out of karmic points. The next step for Orton is the deep freeze--unless Metcalf can help himThe stranger (Vintage International)
By Albert Camus, Joseph Laredo. 1994
An existential novel, set in Algiers, about a man who resists any commitment, rendering his life meaningless. He does not…
react to his mother's death nor to a killing he commits, and he becomes a placid prisoner convicted of murder. His own impending death, however, leads him to some realizationsA diving rock on the Hudson
By Henry Roth. 1994
Continues to follow Ira Stigman's struggle to shed his Jewish immigrant image. The now elderly Ira looks back at life…
in New York in the Roaring Twenties when his adolescent world often clashed with the Orthodox ways of his parents. Sequel to A Star Shines over Mt. Morris Park (DB 38626). Strong language and descriptions of sexOf love and other demons
By Gabriel García Márquez, Edith Grossman. 1995
Arabian nights and days
By Naguib Mahfouz, Denys Johnson-Davies, Najīb Maḥfūẓ. 1995
First published in Arabic in 1979, this novel draws on the classic The Thousand and One Nights for its fragmentary…
tales on themes of power, corruption, political protest, serial killings, and religious extremists in a medieval middle-eastern setting. The author is a winner of the Nobel Prize for LiteratureThe mother's recompense (Scribner library of contemporary classics)
By Edith Wharton. 1986
Socialite Kate Clephane abandons her husband and infant daughter, Anne, in New York and seeks refuge on the Riviera, where…
she remains for nearly twenty years. Then a telegram announces the death of her wealthy former mother-in-law and another from her daughter summons her back. Kate learns that Anne plans to marry Kate's old lover. Horrified, Kate gets advice against inflicting "sterile pain" and makes her decisions accordinglyThe wild palms
By William Faulkner. 1939
Faulkner takes us down two paths, apparently unconnected. The title story is about two lovers in an ultimately disastrous affair.…
In the other, "Old Man," a convict accidentally freed during a flood struggles to save himself and a pregnant woman whose fate has been thrust into his hands. The stories alternate and never touch, until the very end. c1939.