A collection of three Charles Willeford thrillers. Cockfighter is set in the seamy underbelly of southern rural life in the USA; The Burnt Orange Heresy features an evil and complicated art-dealer; an…
Shelve Charles Willeford Omnibus: Pick Up/Burnt Orange Heresy/Cockfighter
A powerful novel about young people in a conflict-scarred land, struggling to replace the homes they have lost with the one they have created together.
Hidden away from a harsh outside world, five youn…
The Day of the Locust is a novel about Hollywood and its corrupting touch, about the American dream turned into a sun-drenched California nightmare. Nathanael West's Hollywood is not the glamorous "ho…
“City dwellers,” writes Wayne Grady, “are conditioned to look for ‘Nature’ outside the city: at the cottage, at summer camp, up north. Somewhere else.” Th…
Shelve Toronto the Wild: Field Notes of an Urban Naturalist
NYC. Height of Depression. The male Miss G columnist is weighted down by gloom. Obscene rhymes repeat, patterned after songs for children or mocking religion. His boss yells them in the office. In the…
Norval Morrisseau (1932–2007), Ojibway shaman-artist, drew his first sketches at age six in the sand on the shores of Lake Nipigon, and his first paintings were in cheap watercolour on birch bark and …
Shelve Norval Morrisseau: Man Changing into Thunderbird
