Unabridged: Classics, Adventure, Suspense
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| JOHN KENNEDY TOOLE | A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES - "A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head. The green earflaps, full of large ears and uncut hair and the fine bristles that grew in the ears themselves, stuck out on either side like turn signals indicating two directions at once." So enters one of the most memorable characters in recent American fiction.
This story bursts with wholly original characters, denizens of New Orleans' lower depths, incredibly true-to-life dialogue, and the zaniest series of high and low comic adventures... What a delight, what a roaring, rollicking, footstomping wonder this book is! I laughed until my sides ached, and then I laughed on."-Henry Kisor, Chicago Sun-Times
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| PAUL THEROUX | THE PILLARS OF HERCULES (part 1) - The difference between a tourist and a traveler is that the tourist knows where he is going. On this trip of exploration to the Mediterranean coast Theroux found himself in unfamiliar villages on untraveled roads, acquiring unexpected companions and sleeping in an assortment of hotels from fleabags to Hiltons. | Y
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| PAUL THEROUX | THE PILLARS OF HERCULES (part 2) - His pictures are those of a wanderer with a sharp eye and an informed intelligence. With him, we see a Mediterranean coast ... from Gibraltar to Greece to Morocco ... that only an adventurous few know, as exotic and tumultuous now as it has been for thousands of years.
"Imaginative, luminous, brilliantly focused." | Y
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| JOHN UPDIKE (© 1960) | RABBIT RUN - Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom is a 26-year-old former high-school athletic star who is disillusioned with his life- an unfulfilling job and a rocky marriage. Realizing that the rest of his small town life will never measure up to the glory days of his teenage years, he decides to run. He runs from place to place and relationship to relationship until he reaches the end of the road and has to turn back. Considered to be one of the defining books of the twentieth century, there are three sequels - RABBIT REDUX, RABBIT IS RICH, and RABBIT AT REST that continue the story of Rabbit in the succeeding decades of his life.
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| JOHN UPDIKE (© 1971) | RABBIT REDUX - The year is 1969, the end of a revolutionary decade, when men walked the moon and controversies raged over the Vietnam War, civil rights, women's liberation, morality and its decline. A liberated Rabbit Angstrom loses his wife to a hotshot used car salesman dripping with Vitalis and acquires a menage that includes his teenage son, a spaced-out white chick, and an evangelical black man. Rabbit lives a life that is bent, a normal life refracted in a funhouse mirror. He courts complications, all the more bizarre for their believability.
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| JOHN UPDIKE (© 1981) | RABBIT IS RICH - John Updike continues to probe the yearning frustrations and pain of suburban America in this third encounter with the Angstroms, Harry (Rabbit), Janice and their son Nelson.
Rabbit, basically decent but no intellectual, is ten years down the road from RABBIT REDUX. Updike's hero, now a middle-aged Toyota dealer, still seeks peace and contentment -- items not standard equipment in his life.
RABBIT IS RICH won the literary Triple Crown: the Pulitzer prize, American Book Award and a commendatory scroll from the National Book Critics Circle. "For Updike is now indisputable at the top of his craft. No one else using the English language over the past 2 1/2 decades has written so well in so may ways as he." (Time)
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| JOHN UPDIKE (© 1990) | RABBIT AT REST - John Updike's fourth and final novel about an ex-basketball player finds Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom with heart trouble, a Florida condo and a second grandchild. He searches for joy in the latter two events but finds little.
Through the winter, spring and summer of 1989, as a debt-ridden, AIDS-plagued America looks the other way, Rabbit explores the bleak terrain of middle age, looking for reasons to live.
"In chronicling Rabbit's life, Updike has set his unmistakable stamp on the last four decades of this century. If this novel is in some respects elegy to Rabbit's bewildered existence, it is also a poignant, humorous guidebook to the aborted American dream." (Publisher's Source)
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| JOHN UPDIKE (© 1996) | THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK - Three former wives living in the late sixties in a small Rhode Island town are also witches. For example, if Alexandra wants the beach to herself, a simple whipped-up thunderstorm does the trick nicely, and tennis games are made more challenging by balls that transform into frogs. The three become very intrigued at the appearance of the man who just moved into the old Lenox mansion down the street: one Darryl Van Horne from Manhattan. (The triumvirate's interest quickly leads to a menage a quatre in Van Horne's humongous teak bathtub.)
After a murder/suicide brings a fourth -- and younger -- female into the equation, tensions rise even further, especially when the new girl moves in with Van Horne. Updike's prose is masterful as usual. Never plot-heavy, attention is rewarded with a deeper understanding of the characters and the sense that one could walk through one of his fictional towns and know the surroundings by sight.
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| KURT VONNEGUT, JR. (© 1969) | WELCOME TO THE MONKEY HOUSE - Welcome To The Monkey House is a collection of Kurt Vonnueguts shorter works. Originally printed in publications as diverse as The Magazine of Fantasy and Science fiction and The Atlantic Monthly, what these superb stories share is Vonnegut's audacious sense of humor and extraordinary range of creative vision.
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| KURT VONNEGUT, JR. (© 1961) | SLAPSTICK / MOTHER NIGHT - Slapstick has its foundation in the author's reationship with his sister. His sardonic humor permeates this tale of Eliza and Wilbur Swain who live in a future time and share a joint mind wihich they conceal as long as they can. Mother Night relates to war crime "confessions" of Howard W. Campbell, Jr., and American by birth, a Nazi by reputation and a former U.S. Counter-intelligence agent in fact. Vonnegut's moral: We are what we pretend to be, so be carful of pretense." (BK: Vonnegut's problem: He always pretended to be an asshole.) | Y
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| DONALD E. WESTLAKE | DON'T ASK - Dortmunder hs a promising job offer -- to heist a bone. Not just any bone, mind you, it's the femur of a sixten-year-old girl, killed eight hundred years ago, eaten by her family, and made a saint in the Catholic Church. Now two European counties are fighting like, well, like dogs over a bone. And Dortnmunder's in for some diplomatic headaches and competing offers from other interested parties. Between art dealers, ambassadors, and greedy prelates, he has his hands full. If only he could find an easier way to make a dishonest living! (8th in Dortmunder series) | Y
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| TOM WOLFE (© 1976) | MAUVE GLOVES & MADMEN, CLUTTER & VINE - When an author's canon includes such masterpieces as "The Bonfire of the Vanities" and "The Right Stuff," it is easy to overlook his lesser-known, albeit no less brilliant, earlier work. "Mauve Gloves and Madmen, Clutter and Vine" includes a handful of Wolfe's classic essays from the mid-1970s, including the title piece (which close Wolfe readers will notice he reprised in a "Bonfire" passage),"The Me Decade," and the hilarious "Street Fighters." Any Wolfe fan looking for something to nibble on while they await the long-overdue "A Man In Full" will thoroughly enjoy this book.
"When are the 1970's going to begin?" ran the joke during the l976 presidential bid. In these stories and essays Wolfe meets the question head-on -- even providing the label "The Me Decade".
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| HERMAN WOUK | THE CAINE MUTINY - Wouk's superb writing and deft characterization make this the most exciting sea story since MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY. This story of rebellion on a WW II minesweeper won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and is among the most widely read of American novels. "It reveals how men are tested, exposed, and developed under the long routine of war." (Atlantic)
Born in New York City in 1915, Wouk was educated at Columbia, and began his writing career at the age of 19.
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| HERMAN WOUK | THE HOPE (part 1) - Like no other novelist at work today, Herman Wouk has managed to capture the sweep of history in novels rich in character and alive with drama. In The Hope, which opens in 1948 and culminates in the miraculous triumph of 1967's Six-Day War, Wouk plunges the reader into the story of a nation struggling for its birth and then its survival. As the tale resumes in The Glory, Wouk portrays the young nation once again pushed to the brink of annihilation-and sets the stage for today's ongoing struggle for peace.
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| HERMAN WOUK | THE HOPE (part 2) - Taking us from the Sinai to the Jerusalem, from dust-choking battles to the Entebbe raid, from Camp David to the inner lives of such historical figures as Golda Meir, Moshe Dayan, and Anwar Sadat, these extraordinary novels have the authenticity and authority of Wouk's finest fiction-and together strike a resounding chord of hope for all humanity. | Y
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| JUDITH TARR (© 1995) | PILLAR OF FIRE - This is a monumental novel of Ancient Egypt-of the turbulent years of the reigns of the Pharaoh Akhenaten and his successors. The long history of Ancient Egypt has no more mysterious reign than that of Akhenaten, disciple of the One God, the Aten. akhenaten abolished the worship of all other gods in Egypt and built a city devoted to the Aten, ruling for a decade of increasing civil unrest. Without a son of his own, he was forced to accept his brother, Smenkhkare, as co-pharaoh. Akhenaten died mysteriously and was hurriedly buried, and the young boy-king Tutankhaten became co-pharaoh with Smenkhkare. Within a few months, much of the royal family was dead of plague, and Tutankhaten took the name by which he is known to history: Tutankhamon.
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| JUDITH TARR | THE EAGLE'S DAUGHTER - This is the delightfully intimate story of the tenth-century Byzantine princess, Theophano, wife of Otto II, the Holy Roman Emperor. When her husband was killed in battle, Theophano became Regent for her infant son, Otto III, and ruled the Holy Roman Empire for a decade. The novel's rousing climax is one of the great Dark Ages wars of succession, when Theophano's son became a pawn in the hands of the Frankish king.
A rigorously accurate historical novel, The Eagle's Daughter is also a lush romance-a tale of Theophano's Aunt Aspasia's very dangerous love affair with Otto the Great's Moorish physician. Aspasia was a royal princess in her own right, a widow who was companion and advisor to Theophano. Through her eyes the listener sees the contrast between the surviving Byzantine Empire and the re-emerging Western Empire.
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| JUDITH TARR | THRONE OF ISIS - Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, heir to the throne won by Alexander the Great: she was the most powerful woman of the ancient Mediterranean, and the only person standing between Rome and its dominion over the world. She was wife to Julius Caesar and bore his only son. After his death she took Mark Antony, Caesar's greatest general, as lover and consort-and as her partner in a vast political enterprise. Together they strove to unite Egypt and Rome under one throne.
History tells of Cleopatra's war with Rome, her political skills, and her devotion to Egypt. Shakespeare tells of the tragic love affair. But inThrone OF ISIS, Judith Tarr shows us an extraordinary woman wielding the power to which she was born. Here is the Cleopatra who took the throne of Egypt and held it despite Rome for nearly thirty years. This is the woman who spoke twelve languages, studied philosophy and arts, and could debate with the greatest scholars and orators of the age. Here is the woman who fell in love with a man she meant to use. And here is historical fiction at its best. | Y
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| SCOTT TUROW | THE LAWS OF OUR FATHERS (part 1) - The action begins with the perplexing murder of the former wife of a state senator in a gang-controlled housing project (was this an ambush gone awry? a carefully hatched plan in which the victim's hapless son was an unwitting accomplice to a scheming former husband?). It ends up as a politically explosive case in the courtroom of Judge Sonia "Sonny" Klonsky, who was a major character in Turow's previous novel, The Burden of Proof, and appears here as a central figure in a volatile mix of personalities who share a common past. The case also draws to the courtroom Sonny's long-ago boyfriend, Seth Weissman, now a newspaper columnist, wayward husband, and grieving father; his boyhood friend, Hobie Tuttle, now a brilliant and angry defense attorney; and a host of others who were connected to each other during the era of Vietnam protests. The dust of the past stirs, and the tumult of the revolutionary 1960s reverberates through the present-day courtroom.
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| SCOTT TUROW | THE LAWS OF OUR FATHERS (part 2) - In a novel as full of twists and turns as this one, the language of the mean streets is not the only thing Turow got right -- nor the only risk he took. He manages to capture, for example, the blend of the weird and the wacky that characterized much of the 1960s -- as in the story of how Seth Weissman avoided the draft. According to Turow, who relates the story with obvious glee, he was still hesitant about this particular plot development when he went to visit the writer Frederick Busch at Colgate in New York state. "I read a little bit from the book, and he asked me what happened next. When I told him Seth engineers his own kidnapping, I could see that gleam that comes into another novelist's eye when heÕs thinking 'Oh, goddamit, I wish I'd thought of that.' That's when I decided the idea had possibilities."
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| EVELYN WAUGH (© 1944) | BRIDESHEAD REVISITED - As a comic writer, satirist, master of English prose, Evelyn Waugh has been admired more than any other novelist of his generation. Of his many achievements BRIDESHEAD REVISITED is most acclaimed.
BRIDESHEAD REVISITED is the story of the aristocratic Marchmain family. Rich, beautiful and fatally charming, they struggle with inherited weariness, generational fatigue. Sebastian and Julia, of the youngest generation, are vivid and palpable. Their pain is ours, their dilemmas engage us and we share in their fate.
The novel, a symbol of England and her decline, mirrors upper-class decadence at Oxford in the 1920s, the abdication of responsibility in the 1930s. It has become shorthand for a fantasy era of titled elegance, dead-end hedonism and fatuous wit.
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| TOM WILLARD | BUFFALO SOLDIERS - This is the first of the Black Sabre Chronicles, which depicts the military service of Augustus Sharps, one of the 'Buffalo Soldiers', in which Sharps excellence as a soldier and skill with a sabre elevates him to the rank of Sergant Major in the 10th Cavalry. His adventures span the years from his duty with General Custer to the charge up San Juan Hill. | Y
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| TOM WILLARD | THE SABLE DOUGHBOYS - One volume of The Black Sabre Chronicles at a time, this volume takes the story into the First World War, where Adrian and David Sharps become officer candidates in the army's first Negro officer training program. | Y
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| STUART WOODS (© 1996) | DIRT - For Amanda Dart, gossip columnist, the tables have turned. When someone starts faxing details of her affair with a well-known businessman to national opinion-makers, Amanda hires Stone Barrington, lawyer and P.I., to find the faxer. But as the faxes grow more scathing and expose the sins of others in the gossip trade, panic sets in. Barrington has to work fast. If he doesn't, the most respected society folks might do anything -- even kill -- to clear their names.
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| STUART WOODS (© 1997) | DEAD IN THE WATER - Manhattan attorney Stone Barrington is back in this suspense-packed tale of death in the Caribbean. Stone has barely arrived in St. Marks on a sailing vacation when beautiful Allison Manning sails into the harbor, entirely alone on a large yacht. The problem is this: When she set out from the other side of the Atlantic, she was in the company of her husband. For the authorities in St. Marks, where the death penalty is still in effect, this looks like a clear case of foul play. But Stone Barrington has faith in Allison's innocence and will put everything on the line to defend her and steer her clear of media feeding-frenzies and vengeful local politics. DEAD IN THE WATER is a roller-coaster ride filled with the ingenious plot twists that have made Stuart Woods an international sensation. | Y
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| HERMAN WOUK | WAR AND REMEMBERANCE (part 1) - Prologue to War and Remembrance was the Winds of War, first published in 1971. The earlier book took Pug Henry, a Navy Captain, and his family up to Pearl Harbor. This book carries the story on up to Hiroshima. Follows the various members of the Henry family as they become involved in the events preceeding America's involvement in World War II and captures all the drama, romance, heroism, and tragedy of the Second World War-and that constitute Wouk's crowning achievement
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| HERMAN WOUK | WAR AND REMEMBERANCE (part 2) - More than history and much more than a novel, War and Remembrance has a purpose, a theme, and a message. Its purpose is to show "Either war is finished, or we are." Its theme is that light triumphs over dark; good over evil. | Y
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| HERMAN WOUK | WAR AND REMEMBERANCE (part 3) - Wherever the machinery of WWII grinds lives together or hurls them apart ... Mr. Wouk takes us there ... A journey of extaordinary emotional riches." | Y
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