This is a love story and, like all Winterson's novels, a philosophical meditation, this time on the body: as the repository for our emotions and souls. The object is a married woman, Louise, and the narrator is her lover, gender undeclared. The affair intensifies beyond anything either of the lovers has ever known or hoped for. And as they dissect their passion and longing, Jeanette Winterson traces the topography of desire.

Written On The Body

Literature & Fiction

WINTERSON, JEANETTE

Contemporary

Vintage Contemporaries

Timmy and Chowderhead and Peg are lifeguards. They spend summers sitting in those tall chairs, smoking dope and staring at the waves, swatting insects, tormenting seagulls. Winters they work shit jobs like unloading trucks at Mickey's Deli. At night, winter and summer, they drink. Drink and get rowdy. Then there's Alex, the girl who gets away, not only from old boyfriend Timmy but also from "Rotaway"-on scholarship to a rich-kid's college in New England. One midsummer night when the four are reunited, tensions erupt in feats of daring and self-destruction during the wild, cathartic, near-sacred lifeguard ritual known as the Death Keg. Brilliantly capturing the restlessness and casual nihilism of working-class youth with no options, Jill Eisenstadt's acclaimed first novel startles in its power and originality, its depth of feeling, its bright and dark comic turns.

From Rockaway

Eisenstadt, Jill

British & Irish

A man and a woman, strangers to each other, residents of distant cities, have both called an adult party line. Finding each other's voice attractive, they soon switch to a private, "one-to-one" connection. Their seduction-through-conversation begins hesitantly and then becomes erotic.

BAKER, NICHOLSON

Altered States

Standing on a railway platform in a Swiss resort town, sensibly clad in his Burberry raincoat and walking shoes, a man thinks he may be looking at the woman for whom he ruined his life many years earlier. Alan Sherwood, a quiet English solicitor, remembers back to a time when he stepped briefly out of character to indulge in a liaison with Sarah Miller, an intriguing but heartless distant relative--only to find himself in a series of absurd situations that culminated in his marriage to Sarah's clinging, childlike friend Angela. With her compassionate portrait of a man who has paid a terrible price for his folly, Anita Brookner gives us a novel that it at once harrowing and humane. In the traditions of Henry James and Thomas Mann, Altered States is a beautifully rendered tale of loneliness, guilt, and erotic obsession. From the Trade Paperback edition.

BROOKNER, ANITA

Literary

The House on Mango Street

SANDRA CISNEROS

The chosen place is Bourneville, a remote, devastated part of a Caribbean island; the timeless people are its inhabitants—black, poor, inextricably linked to their past enslavement. When the advance team for an ambitious American research project arrives, the tense, ambivalent relationships that evolve, between natives and foreigners, black and whites, haves and have-nots, keenly dramatize the vicissitudes of power.   “An important and moving book . . . Marshall is as wise as she is bold, for in compromising neither her politics nor her understanding of people, she makes better sense of both.”—Village Voice

Chosen Place, the Timeless People

Marshall, Paule

Mohawk

[publisher: New York City, NY: Vintage Contemporaries, 1986] First Edition 1st Printing. 418 pages. Published in 1986. The author's debut novel. One of the most important American literary debuts of the last quarter of the 20th century. Text by Richard Russo. . Presents the author's cult debut novel. "I know of no novel in recent years so truly American, so fully peopled, so traditional without the merest nostalgia for novels or times that never were, or so ascendant. Singular and brilliant" (Bill Buford, GRANTA Magazine). A brilliant debut, this is a "must-have" title for Richard Russo collectors. This copy is prominently and beautifully signed in black fountain pen on the title page by Richard Russo. The First Hardcover Edition appeared in the United Kingdom in 1987 while the American hardcover did not appear until 2001,

Russo, Richard

As Dewayne Wellington, an experimental novelist, and Isshee Ayam, a radical feminist, collaborate on a novel, they reconcile their differences

Platitudes

Trey Ellis

Humor & Satire

This volume of previously uncollected work represents the final legacy of one of the great and truly American writers of our time. It includes five of Raymond Carver's early stories (including the first one he ever published), a fragment of an unpublished novel, poems that have previously appeared only in small-press editions, and all of his uncollected nonfiction. Included here as well is Carver's last essay, "Friendship" about a London reunion with Richard Ford and Tobias Wolff. Arranged chronologically, this book affords an intimate and comprehensive thirty-year vision of a great writer in the process of becoming himself.

No Heroics, Please: Uncollected Writings

RAYMOND CARVER

Short Stories & Anthologies

Bridge Of Sighs

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