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Written by an accomplished American writer who has lived in Italy for several decades, this debut novel addresses issues of expatriation and immigration, prostitution and exploitation, from the Third World to the First, set within the microcosm of late-20th century Florence, that city which is both symbolically and literally the jewel of the Italian Renaissance. It is a novel where the common humanity of the characters is found in new and radi...

Two characters, a reclusive professor of psychiatry and a brilliant, erratic student, are thrown together by circumstances beyond their control. Each has a theory of mind, gradually revealed and put to the test as a result of their interactions and conversations, as well as their encounters with a number of unusual characters: sideshow performers, an escape artist, three eccentric philosophers, and others. Like "The Plague" by Albert Camus, He...

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In this engrossing, humorous, but deceptively important novel, the psychiatrist-author takes on the subject of romance in its many forms: falling in love, the beauty of the world, memory, and the creative impulse for good and evil. The main character, a successful and bored romance writer, is suddenly thrust into an emotional tailspin which leads to adventures worthy of Don Quixote and a dramatic and satisfying conclusion.

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The title of the book refers to its content and thrust: relevant moral dilemmas presented as fictional tales. In the title story, the character Philosophie comes down from her mountain retreat to help a city which has gone morally astray. She finds that her innocent nudity is not welcome, and discovers a way to utilize clothing in order to further her task. With a beautifully minimalist prose style, Folsom's writing conveys similarities to Kaf...

Walter Anderson is recognized as one of the major American watercolorists -- a select group that includes John Singer Sergent, Winslow Homer, Arthur Demuth, and John Marin. This book presents 17 of Walter Anderson's pen and ink drawings of pelicans as well as an essay by Anderson on his time spent roughing it on Louisiana's Chandeleur Islands amongst the pelican communities he had come to study and draw. His daughter, Mary Anderson Pickard, ad...

One needn't be a soldier to appreciate the sentiments and emotions captured in Charles Fasanaro's work on the Vietnam experience -- only human. In 1968, Charles Fasanaro interrupted his graduate studies in chemistry to work at training dogs to detect trip wires and land mines. His job took him to Fort Gordon, Georgia where he taught these methods to the 25th Infantry Division, 60th Infantry Platoon, Scout Dog. Because of his friendship and con...

In each of the three novellas an unnamed energy threatens to erupt. In "Gastarbeiter" a young man's honor compels him to take the wheel of a gigantic eighteen-wheeler for the first time in his life. "You can drive unless you don't think you can, " are the words of the experienced driver before he hands over and falls asleep, and the young man's spirit is tested to the limit. "Tourist Attraction" is about a Jordanian salesman who sells more ony...

By the author of Working Stiff, this collection of eleven short stories rips into Rustbowl Detroit with John Richards' usual switchblade precision, humor and an hallucinatory prose. The stories in The Pigeon Factory are accompanied by fourteen photographs by Ralph Norris which fit the stories and place like a glove.

In a tour de force of literary detection and scholarship, Jeanne Howes has conclusively proven that shortly after Herman Melville's return from the South Pacific in 1844 an anonymous book published in Manhattan, Redburn: or the Schoolmaster of a Morning, is his first book. Early scholars pondered whether this book might have been written by Melville but dismissed it since not enough was then known about Melville's life and writings. Serious sc...

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Have you ever been bored and wished something exciting would happen? I bet you have! Hector was too until something magical came crashing through his bedroom window and changed everything!!! Join him in this funny, strange and colourful adventure with the nutty Magic Detector Inspector to discover the magical secrets of The Magic Detector.... 'When life deals an awful blow just lift your leg and let one go!' *With the added potential bonus of ...

Paul Bowles (1910￿ 1999) was one of the most paradoxical literary talents of his century, a sophisticated New York writer and composer who lived a half-century in Morocco, a man who fled the western world that acclaimed him. Paul Bowles, Magic and Morocco is an extended homage, a memoir of a friendship, and an examination of more than a half-century's influence of North African magic on Bowles's sensibilities and fictions. Allen Hibbard, a sch...

Jill Johnston has written a magisterial biography of her father, the English bellfounder Cyril F. Johnston (1884-1950), an homage to his life and the craft of bellfounding. During his time, he developed such a passion for his vocation that, almost single-handedly, he turned it into a profession celebre. Exemplars of his triumphs are the Laura Spelman Rockefeller 72-bell Carillon at Riverside Church in New York City, and the Peace Tower 53-bell...