Who is Adolf? Who is she? Big, hairy and hot for revenge. When an Englishman called The Prince carries off her favourite niece, Chick, the heat gets hotter. Aunt Adolf has her own reason for being mad at men. Like God, she makes prophecies ('a baldness on his head!') and ominously quotes the Psalms ('Put not your trust in Princes'). Like the devil, she carries nuts in her handbag. Like Mary, she gets down on her knees and washes her sister Pinball's feet. Adolf and Pinball on one side of the Atlantic; The Prince and Chick on the other; a big dirty bathtub of an ocean between them. Adolf and Pinball curse the gods and The Prince ("chop him in pieces as for the pot"). Adolf and Pinball rock and rage and prophesy, but what can they DO? Wave chickens in the air and rock back and forth. Not much. Until one day Adolf has had enough. Adolf's Revenge is an anti-fairy tale about powerlessness and its cultural and historical roots; it is also about good old-fashioned revenge; sweet to dream, not so easy to effect...

Adolf's Revenge

Alexander, Lynne

Literature & Fiction

Little,Brown & Co

Resonating bodies

Macmillan Co.

For six months, Lynne Alexander worked as writer-in-residence at St John's Hospice in Lancashire. In this book, the patients' poems tell of their lives with courage, humour and spirit. This book affirms both life and the redemptive qualities of writing. The author also wrote "Safe Houses".

Now I Can Tell

Beesley, Ian

Poetry

Pan/Macmillan

Safe Houses

Gerda, the former mistress of both Adolf Eichmann and Raoul Wallenberg, a Hungarian Jew whose once great beauty is fading in a Brooklyn apartment, Rella, her ugly and gullible daughter, and Jack, an upstairs neighbor, share an extraordinary past

Dell

Gerda, the former mistress of both Adolf Eichmann and Raoul Wallenberg, a Hungarian Jew whose once great beauty is fading in a Brooklyn apartment, Rella, her ugly and gullible daughter, and Jack, an upstairs neighbor, share an extraordinary past

United States

Atheneum

Nicholas, an internationally renowned musician, holds fast to the precious viola de gamba--named Rose--that has served him throughout his career and wrestles with the embittering entanglements he has known

Resonating Bodies

Alice James spends most of her short life in bed. Henry calls it her solution to the `practical problem of life', and William is too busy and too far away to pay much attention. Her lifelong companion, Katharine Loring, is a constant support, but in the midst of coping with Alice's pain and frustration, the two women are faced with the shock of discovering Henry has made use of them in his fiction. Alice's witty voice rises vividly from the page as she casts an acerbic eye on the characters who populate her life and on the tensions between Katharine and Henry in this compelling fictional memoir.

The Sister: A Novel Based on the Life of Alice James

Literary

Sandstone Press Ltd

Alice James spends most of her short life in bed. Henry calls it her solution to the `practical problem of life', and William is too busy and too far away to pay much attention. Her lifelong companion, Katharine Loring, is a constant support, but in the midst of coping with Alice's pain and frustration, the two women are faced with the shock of discovering Henry has made use of them in his fiction. Alice's witty voice rises vividly from the page as she casts an acerbic eye on the characters who populate her life and on the tensions between Katharine and Henry in this compelling fictional memoir.

The Sister

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Adolf's Revenge

Resonating bodies

Now I Can Tell

Safe Houses

Safe Houses

Resonating Bodies

The Sister: A Novel Based on the Life of Alice James

The Sister