Second only to Slaughterhouse-Five of Vonnegut's canon in its prominence and influence, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1965) presents Eliot Rosewater, an itinerant, semi-crazed millionaire wandering th…
A critical overview of the work features the writings of Terry Southern, William S. Doxey, Jerome Klinkowitz, Richard Giannone, John L. Simons, James Lundquist, and other scholars.
- After the bomb, Da…
Shelve Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle (Modern Critical Interpretations)
Under the rigid guidance of the Conclave; an order of holy men seeking to bring back the glory of the time of the gods, the Order of the Inquisition and their Prekhauten Guard divisions the seven hund…
Shelve Dreams of Winter (A Forgotten Gods Tale #1)
The last "Indian War" was fought against Native American children in the dormitories and classrooms of government boarding schools. Only by removing Indian children from their homes for extended perio…
Shelve Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875-1928
It’s the year 641 since humanity was formed in Eden, and after Eve passes away, Adam is the only man left on earth who remembers everything from the begi…
Shelve Eden: Biblical Fiction of the World's First Family
Welcome to Clay Point, Louisiana, home to not-so-average Joes, and Nonie Broussard, a feisty Cajun and trouble magnet. After losing her job when the Garmin factory shuts down, Nonie is left with major…
Hickum Looney is determined to win Soaps for Life's annual sales contest - and this year he has an edge. Looney has found that ideal customer: the proverbial little old lady, who swallows all his patt…
Simon Wagstaff is the Space Wanderer, a seeker of truth and electric banjo player who narrowly escapes the Deluge that destroys Earth when he happens upon an abandoned Chinese spaceship, the Hwang Ho.…
A New York Times bestselling historian of early Christianity takes on two of the most gripping questions of human existence: where did the ideas of heaven and hell come from, and why do they endure?
Wh…
Shelve Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife
Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence and wild humor, The Crying of Lot 49 opens as Oedipa Maas discovers that she has been made executrix of a former lover's estate. The pe…
When Dr. Stockmann discovers that the water in the small Norwegian town in which he is the resident physician has been contaminated, he does what any responsible citizen would do: reports it to the au…
Shelve An Enemy of the People: An Adaptation of the Play by Henrik Ibsen
In seventeenth-century London, thirteen years after the plague and twelve years after the Great Fire, the restoration of King Charles II has dulled the memory of Cromwell's puritan rule, yet fear and …
Shelve The Popish Midwife: A tale of high treason, prejudice and betrayal
Ci sono pochi posti nel mondo dove il divario tra quello che crediamo di sapere e quello che sappiamo è tanto ampio quanto nel caso degli Stati Uniti. L'influenza statunitense nei nostri consumi è cos…
Shelve Questa è l'America. Storie per capire il presente degli Stati Uniti e il nostro futuro
Marocco ha quattordici anni e vive con il padre a Soccavo, un quartiere di Napoli. La madre li ha abbandonati qualche anno prima, senza dare più notizie di sé, e lui vive quell’assenza come una ferita…
The acclaimed author of "A People's History of the United States" (more than 200,000 copies sold) presents an honest and piercing look at American political ideology."A shotgun blast of revisionism th…
Shelve Declarations of Independence: Cross-Examining American Ideology
Still Life with Woodpecker is a sort of a love story that takes place inside a pack of Camel cigarettes. It reveals the purpose of the moon, explains the difference between criminals and outlaws, exam…
Blood Meridian is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Wild West…
Shelve Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
"Report on the Barnhouse Effect" is an adaptation of a Kurt Vonnegut short story that was part of the collection Welcome to the Monkey House. It originally appeared in 1950 in Collier's Weekly. It is …
Scar Lover is a miraculous, true-to-the-bone story of love and redemption, at once a classic southern novel and purely, unmistakably, Harry Crews.Running from a past that has scarred and blamed him, a…
From dust jacket notes: "From the back streets of Baltimore where he hustled as a kid, through the jazz clubs of Chicago in the raw and roaring twenties, to the Cotton Club, Hollywood, Paris, and beyo…
Dean Jocelin has a vision: that God has chosen him to erect a great spire on his cathedral. His mason anxiously advises against it, for the old cathedral was built without foundations. Nevertheless, t…
(Book). Mixerman is a recording engineer working with a famous producer on the debut album of an unknown band with a giant recording budget. Mixerman is supposed to be writing about recording techniqu…
Glen Runciter está muerto. ¿O lo están todos los demás? Lo que es seguro es que alguien ha muerto en una explosión organizada por los competidores de Runciter. De hecho, sus empleados asisten a un fun…
This is a humourous and ultimately moving novel about sex, drugs, and Shakespeare. It tells the story of struggling UC Santa Cruz student Willie Shakespeare Greenberg who is trying to write his thesis…
Milano, 2002. Molti misteri s’intrecciano sotto la Madonnina. Tutto comincia quando un noto avvocato viene assassinato in pieno giorno nella centralissima piazza dei Mercanti: prima di morire, però, l…
