Refine your search:
D.B.C Pierre ✔X Hilary Mantel Rushdie, Salman ✔X
- 3
-
The Remains of the Day
Amazon.com — Features: ISBN13: 9780679731726 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Amazon.com Review The novel's narrator, Stevens, is a perfect English butler who tries to give his narrow existence form and meaning through the self ...More…
-
The Satanic Verses
Amazon.com — Amazon.com Review No book in modern times has matched the uproar sparked by Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses, which earned its author a death sentence. Furor aside, it is a marvelously erudite study of good and evil, a feast of language served up ...More…
-
Quartet in Autumn
Amazon.com — Amazon.com Review Quartet in Autumn is one of the books Pym wrote during the 15 years when no one would publish her, and perhaps the same kind of balance between hopelessness and inner strength helped shape this novel's story about four friends in an ...More…
-
Sacred Hunger
Amazon.com — Greed , power and the forces that counteract them Barry Unsworth's historic novel that won the Booker Prize is an exceptional literary accomplishment and well worth the prize. The word 'vast' would be a good way to describe the novel since it ...More…
-
Briefing for a Descent into Hell
Amazon.com — Either you "get it" or you "don't"...I think I "got it". This book, along with William Styron's "Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness" and a keen interest in Jung and his archetypal analysis of reality and ...More…
-
Reading in the Dark: A Novel
Amazon.com — Amazon.com Review The Derry of poet Seamus Deane's first novel, Reading in the Dark is a perilous place. Ghosts haunt the stairwells of apartment buildings, a curse follows two families down through the generations, close friends turn out to be police ...More…
-
Morality Play
Amazon.com — Great combination of history and imagination! Somewhere in England, 14th century. Nicholas, a monk on the lam, hooks up with a theatrical road company that's barely making the rent performing its repertoire of old chestnuts. (Small wonder, when one of ...More…
-
Hotel World
Amazon.com — Amazon.com Review Five disparate voices inhabit Ali Smith's dreamlike, mesmerizing Hotel World, set in the luxurious anonymity of the Global Hotel, in an unnamed northern English city. The disembodied yet interconnected characters include Sara, a 19 ...More…
-
Quarantine: A Novel
Amazon.com — Amazon.com Review The story of Jesus's 40 days in the wilderness is surely among the most celebrated and widely diffused narratives in Western culture. Why, then, would Jim Crace choose to retell it in strictly naturalistic, non-miraculous terms? The ...More…
-
Number9Dream
Amazon.com — Amazon.com Review David Mitchell's second novel, Number9Dream, tells the story of Eiji Miyake, a young man negotiating a hypermodern and dangerous Tokyo to meet for the first time his secretive and powerful father. Naïve and fresh from the Japanese ...More…
-
Shame: A Novel
Amazon.com — Another inexorable dance between fiction and reality... This, Rushdie's third novel, explores the universal theme of shame in the context of an - somewhat imaginary but simultaneously all too real - Islamic society. The characters swim up to their ...More…
-
Staying On: A Novel (Phoenix Fiction Series)
Amazon.com — may even get you to tackle the Raj Quartet If, like me, you've been meaning to read The Raj Quartet, but have been daunted by it's gargantuan bulk, this shorter sequel offers an ideal entree to Paul Scott's Anglo-Indian world. Here he takes ...More…