The Hair of Harold Roux

The Hair of Harold Roux

Author: Thomas Williams

Publisher: Hardscrabble Books

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780874517019

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In fiction one plays a strange game with ugliness and fear.


Powdered Eggs

Powdered Eggs

Author: Charles Simmons

Publisher: Open Road Media

Published: 2014-02-04

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 1480467545

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DIVDIVA young writer-to-be embarks on a comic coming-of-age journey through the crushing mediocrity of work, the vagaries of fate, and the mysteries of sex/divDIV A confused and conflicted but not altogether angry young man shares his observations, disappointments, rants, and sexual desires in a revealing series of letters to an unnamed friend. Our hero wants to be a writer, but is stuck doing mind-numbing work for an unscrupulous encyclopedia publisher. He muddles through two engagements, one to a bright-eyed Catholic virgin, the other to a woman pregnant with another man’s child. And the Great American Novel he is writing—about a man named Austin who is becoming invisible—may be a bit too much for the reading public to handle. But as long as he’s got his friends (like Jose, who is determined to bed and wed his cousin Rita the nun), his health (no thanks to the medical establishment that killed his father), and his libido, everything should turn out okay./divDIV Winner of the William Faulkner Foundation Award for notable first novel—more outrageous than Catcher in the Rye and more scandalous than Portnoy’s Complaint—Charles Simmons’s Powdered Eggs is an unforgettable view of young American life through an amusingly jaundiced eye./divDIV/div/div


The Hair of Harold Roux

The Hair of Harold Roux

Author: Thomas Williams

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2011-06-07

Total Pages: 399

ISBN-13: 160819583X

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Aaron Benham, an English professor, writes a novel that mirrors his own experiences in a college town after the Second World War.


Dog Soldiers

Dog Soldiers

Author: Robert Stone

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 1997-04-02

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 0547524161

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In Saigon during the waning days of the Vietnam War, a small-time journalist named John Converse thinks he'll find action - and profit - by getting involved in a big-time drug deal. But back in the States, things go horribly wrong for him. Dog Soldiers perfectly captures the underground mood of America in the 1970s, when amateur drug dealers and hippies encountered profiteering cops and professional killers—and the price of survival was dangerously high.


The Woman in the Woods

The Woman in the Woods

Author: Ann Joslin Williams

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13:

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Woman in the Woods is the winner of the 2005 Spokane Prize for Short Fiction.


Bastard Out of Carolina

Bastard Out of Carolina

Author: Dorothy Allison

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2005-09-06

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 1101007176

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A profound portrait of family dynamics in the rural South and “an essential novel” (The New Yorker) “As close to flawless as any reader could ask for . . . The living language [Allison] has created is as exact and innovative as the language of To Kill a Mockingbird and The Catcher in the Rye.” —The New York Times Book Review The publication of Dorothy Allison’s Bastard Out of Carolina was a landmark event that won the author a National Book Award nomination and launched her into the literary spotlight. Critics have likened Allison to Harper Lee, naming her the first writer of her generation to dramatize the lives and language of poor whites in the South. Since its appearance, the novel has inspired an award-winning film and has been banned from libraries and classrooms, championed by fans, and defended by critics. Greenville County, South Carolina, is a wild, lush place that is home to the Boatwright family—a tight-knit clan of rough-hewn, hard-drinking men who shoot up each other’s trucks, and indomitable women who get married young and age too quickly. At the heart of this story is Ruth Anne Boatwright, known simply as Bone, a bastard child who observes the world around her with a mercilessly keen perspective. When her stepfather Daddy Glen, “cold as death, mean as a snake,” becomes increasingly more vicious toward her, Bone finds herself caught in a family triangle that tests the loyalty of her mother, Anney—and leads to a final, harrowing encounter from which there can be no turning back.


The Death of the Detective

The Death of the Detective

Author: Mark Smith

Publisher: Northwestern University Press

Published: 2007-01-11

Total Pages: 605

ISBN-13: 0810123878

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A madman is on the loose in the city. On the verge of psychic collapse, detective Arnold Magnuson follows clues in the murder's wake - through the Chicago of society clubs and nightclubs and the city of hoods and Mafia - through interrogations, lies and improvised stories, moving closer to a culprit who begins to feel alarmingly like himself.


J R

J R

Author: William Gaddis

Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers

Published: 1975

Total Pages: 744

ISBN-13:

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At the center of this hugely comic tale of "free enterprise" America stands JR--an eleven-year-old capitalist, eagerly following the example of the grasping world around him. Operating through pay phones and post-office money orders, JR inadvertently parlays a shipment of Navy surplus picnic forks, a defaulted bond issue, and a single share of common stock into a vast paper empire embracing timber, mineral and natural gas rights, publishing, and a brewery. At once a novel of epic comedy and a biting satire of the American dream, JR displays the style and extraordinary inventiveness that has made Gaddis one of the most acclaimed writers of our time.


Nightmares & Dreamscapes

Nightmares & Dreamscapes

Author: Stephen King

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2017-10-31

Total Pages: 992

ISBN-13: 1501192035

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Collection of 23 short stories--from classic horror to vampire thrillers, imitations of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Raymond Chandler, a teleplay, and a non-fiction bonus, a heartfelt little piece on Little League baseball.


House of Sand and Fog

House of Sand and Fog

Author: Andre Dubus

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 460

ISBN-13: 0393046974

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The Oprah Book Club selection for November 2000.