A modernist masterwork that has more in common with films than traditional novels, John Dos Passos' Manhattan Transfer includes an introduction by Jay McInerney in Penguin Modern Classics.
In this experimental trilogy, Dos Passos uses "camera eye" and "newsreel" sections to create a fragmented atmosphere. Through the testimony of numerous characters, fictional and historical figures, he builds up a composite picture of American society.
John Fante is a lost gem of American literature and the man who was credited by Charles Bukowski as the inspiration for him to start writing. In a life that spanned 74 years, Fante wrote several great novels, such as Ask the Dust.
The Brotherhood of the Grape is vintage Fante, brimming with love, death, violence and religion.Writing with great passion, Fante powerfully describes the damage that family can wreak upon us all.
Possessing a style of deceptive simplicity, emotional immediacy and tremendous psychological point, among the novels, short stories and screenplays that complete his career, Fante's crowning accomplishment is the Arturo Bandini tetralogy.
Withdrawn, uneducated and unloved, Frederick collects butterflies and takes photographs. He is obsessed with a beautiful stranger, the art student Miranda.
Charles Smithson,a respectable engaged man,meets Sarah Woodruff as she stands on the Cobb at Lyme Regis,staring out to sea.Charles falls in love, but Sarah is a digraced woman,and their romance will defy all the stifling conventions of the Victorian age.
John Galsworthy's magnificent, well-loved "Forsyte Saga" traces the changing fortunes of the wealthy Forsyte dynasty through fifty years of material triumph and emotional disaster.
In this second part of John Galworthy's trilogy of love, power, money and family feuding, a new generation has arrived to divide the Forsyte clan with society scandals and conflicting passions.
John Grisham takes you into the heart of America s Deep South with a collection of stories connected by the life and crimes of Ford County: a place of harsh beauty where broken dreams and final wishes converge.
Rick Dockery was the third-string quarterback for the Cleveland Browns. In the AFC Championship game, to the surprise and dismay of virtually everyone, Rick actually got into the game.